DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS-02 JANUARY
2015
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1) NITI AAYOG TO REPLACE PLANNING
COMMISSION
Ø The NarendraModi government has decided to replace the
65-year-old Planning Commission with a body called NITI AAYOG (National Institution for Transforming India) which will
serve as a think tank of the government.
Ø The body will provide the government relevant strategic and
technical advice on key policy matters.
Ø One of the objectives of the NITI AAYOG is to ensure that the
interests of national security are incorporated in economic strategy and
policy.
Composition
·
The Prime
Minister will be the chairman of the new body.
·
New body will have avice
chairman and a CEO
·
It will have 5-full-time
and 2- part-time members.
Ø National
development Council which used to approves five year plans have been abolished
as well.
EXPECTED QUESTIONS:
1. Which among the following
organization has been replaced by ‘NITI
Aayog’
a.
National Develop Council
b.
Planning Commission
c.
National Security Advisory
d.
National Economic Advisor
2) SAIYID HAMID PASSED AWAY
Ø An
educationist, reformist, author and the tallest figure in Muslim Academia,
passed away.
Ø He
was the last surviving ICS officer in India.
Ø Satyendranath
Tagore was first Indian to Join ICS.
EXPECTED QUESTIONS:
1.
Who
among the following was last surviving ICS officer who died recently:
a.
Saiyid Hamid
b.
Abdul Hamid
c.
MamnoonHussain
d.
Aga Khan
3) STORM ‘JAGMI’ HITS
PHILLIPINES
Ø Tropical
strom ‘ Jagmi’ hits Phillipines
EXPECTED QUESTIONS:
1.
Which
among the following country has been hit by a tropical strom ‘Jagmi’:
a.
Indonesia
b.
Brunei
c.
Philippines
d.
Thailand
4) UNION GOVERNMENT BLOCKED 32
WEBSITES
Ø Union
Government has blocked 32 websites for carrying views and spreading banned
terrorist outfit Islamic state of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) propaganda.
Ø They
were blocked by Department of Telecom
EXPECTED QUESTIONS:
1.
How
many websites have been banned by Union Government for security reasons:
a.
30
b.
32
c.
34
d.
40
5) M.SATHIYARATHY APPOINTED AS
DIRECTOR GENERAL DGCA:
Ø M.Sathiyarathybecomes
first women to be appointed as Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
Ø She
will succeed Prabhat Kumar.
Ø DGCA-
DGCA is India’s regulatory body of Civil Aviation.
6) NATIONAL JUDICIAL
APPOINTMENTS COMMISSION GET PRESIDENT’S ASSENT:
Ø President
Pranab Mukherjee has given assent to (NJAC) bill, 2014 that seeks to scrap the
collegium system of appointing judges to higher judiciary.
Ø This
assent comes after 121st constitution amendment bill, 2014 was
ratified by 16 state legislature.
Ø NJAC
Commission:
·
Chief Justice of India
·
Two Senior Judges
·
Two Eminent Personalities
·
Law Minister
EXPECTED QUESTIONS:
1.
Which
amendment of the constitution of India deals with National Judicial Appointment
Commission:
a.
120th
b.
124th
c.
122th
d.
121th
7) MARS MISSION COMPLETES 100 DAYS
Ø India’s
first interplanetary mission MOM completes 100 days
Ø The
Mars orbiter was launched on Nov 5, 2014 aboard ISRO’s PSLV C25 from
Sriharikota.
Ø India
becomes fourth Country to reach at Mars after US, Russia and European Space
agency and first to enter mars orbit in first attempt.
Ø This
is the cheapest and farthest mission of Indian Space Research Organization.
EXPECTED QUESTIONS:
1.
Which
among the following ISRO’s mission has completed 100 days today:
a.
Chandrayan
b.
Manglayaan
c.
Venus
d.
Saturn
