DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 11 FEBRUARY
2015
NATIONAL
1) AAP SWEEPS DELHI ELECTIONS
Ø
AamAadmi Party won
67 out of the 70 Assembly seats in Delhi.
Ø
BJP could manage
only 3 seats where as Congress could not manage even a single seat.
Ø
This type of
majority to a single party is seen only the second time after Sikkim, where all
32 seats were won by Sikkim Democratic Party in 2009.
2) SALE OF NON-PDS KEROSENE DEREGULATED
Ø
Union Government
on Tuesday freed the sale of market priced kerosene form regulatory control.
Ø
This step is taken
to check black-marketing of the fuel sold through the PDS.
Ø
Subsidized
Kerosene sold through PDS is blue in color where as market priced fuel is
colorless.
Ø
PDS – Public
Distribution System
EXPECTED QUESTION FROM THIS CURRENT AFFAIRS NEWS
1.
Union Government has recently deregulated the sale of which product.
a. Wheat
b. Kerosene
c. Rice
d. Cereals
INTERNATIONAL
1) AMARTYA SEN BECOMES 1ST
PERSON TO WIN NEW UK AWARD
Ø Eminent Indian Economist and Nobel Prize
winner AmartyaSen becomes the first person to win Newly established Award in UK.
Ø AmartyaSen was declared as the winner of the
inaugural Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize.
Ø Sen won this Award in Recognition of his work
on Welfare economics.
Ø
Sen won Nobel prize for
Economics in 1998
EXPECTED QUESTION FROM THIS CURRENT
AFFAIRS NEWS
1.
Who won the new UK award
a. AmartyaSen
b. Dame Liz forgan
c. Sachin Tendulkar
d. Eric Betzig
BUSINESS
1)
FACEBOOK TIES UP WITH RELIANCE COMMUNICATION
Ø FB has tied up with RCOM offering its subscribers for free access to
social networking site and around 40 general information websites .
Ø Tie-up is for a new app known as Internet .org service.
Ø India will be the first country in Asia to get Facebook’s Internet .org
service.
2)
ICICI LAUNCHES ‘POCKETS’
Ø ICICI bank launches a new digital service, ‘POCKETS’.
Ø Non-customers of ICICI bank can download e-wallet from Google playstore..
Ø It allows to instantly send money to any e-mail id, mobile number,
friends on face book and bank account.
Ø For non-customers , limit of transaction is Rs. 10,000.
EXPECTED QUESTION FROM THIS CURRENT AFFAIRS NEWS
1.
Which bank launched digital service, ‘POCKETS’
a. SBI
b. Axis
c. ICICI
d. HDFC
