DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS: 7 OCT 2015
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1.’SERGEY
KARJAKIN’ GRABBED 2015 WORLD CUP CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
i. Sergey
Karjakin of Russia has won 2015 World Cup Chess Championship held at Baku,
Azerbaijan.
ii. Sergey
Karjakin defeated Peter Svidler by 6-4 score.
iii. He
holds the record for being world’s youngest Chess Grandmaster at the age young
of 12 years and 7 months.
2. ‘TAKAAKI
KAJITA AND ARTHUR B. MCDONALD’ HAVE JOINTLY WON THE 2015 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS
i. Takaaki
Kajita of Japan and Arthur B. McDonald of Canada have jointly won the
prestigious 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.
ii. They are
selected for their key contributions to experiments showing that neutrinos
change identities. They individually have discovered neutrino oscillations and
shown that neutrinos have mass.
3. ‘INS
ASTRADHARANI’ INDUCTED INTO INDIAN NAVY
i. INS
Astradharani was inducted into Indian Navy at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
ii. It is
Indian‘s first indigenously- built Torpedo launch and recovery vessel.
iii. It has replaced
INS Astravahini which was decommissioned from India Navy in July, 2015.
4.
‘PRAVASI BHARATIYA DIVAS CONFERENCE 2016’ TO BE HELD IN NEW DELHI
i. The
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Conference 2016 will be held in New Delhi from 8
January to 10 January 2016.
ii. The objective
of the conference is developing a new paradigm for engagement with the Diaspora
over the next decade.
5. ‘JACK
DORSEY’ APPOINTED AS NEW PERMANENT CEO OF TWITTER
i. Twitter
has appointed Jack Dorsey as permanent CEO for second time.
ii. He will
replace Dick Costolo who had resigned in June, 2015.
ii. With
this new appointment he will cease to be chairman of the board of Twitter but
will continue to serve as a member of the board.
iii. Twitter
is an online social networking service.
6.’CHINA’
GRABBED 2015 FIBA ASIAN BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
i. China
grabbed the International Basketball Federation Asia Championship by defeating
the Philippines in the final.
ii. The
victory of FIBA Asian Basketball Championship has made china’s qualification
for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
7. ‘WORLD
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK REPORT’ RELEASED BY IMF
i.
International Monetary Fund released
World Economic Outlook report titled
‘Adjusting to Lower Commodity Prices’
ii. India’s
growth is expected to strengthen from 7.3 percent 2015 and last year to 7.5
percent in 2016.
iii. Global
growth is projected to decline from 3.4 percent in 2014 to 3.1 percent in 2015,
before picking up to 3.6 percent in 2016
iv. According
to report inflation in India, is expected to decline further in 2015,
reflecting the fall in global oil and agricultural commodity prices.
8. RBI
RELAXED NORMS OF FPI INVESTMENT IN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
i. The
Reserve Bank of India5 relaxed the norms of Foreign Portfolio Investors of
government debt.
ii. It also
announced higher investment limits in rupee terms in government securities with
a view to bring in an additional 1.2 lakh crore rupees by March 2018.
iii. These
directions were issued under sections 10(4) and 11(1) of the Foreign Exchange
Management Act, 1999.
