DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS:
4 JAN 2016
(Daily News
India)
1. INDIA
WON 2015 SAFF FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
i.
India has won the 2015 South Asian Football Federation championship for record
seventh time.
ii.India
defeated Afghanistan by 2-1 goal score.
iii.Earlier
India had won the SAFF Football Championship in year 1993, 1997, 1999, 2005,
2009 and 2011.
iv.SAFF
is known as South Asian Football Federation.
v.It
was started in 1993 and participated by 8 countries including: Bangladesh,
Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.
2.
MOUNTAINEER ARUNIMA SINHA SCALES MOUNT ACONCAGUA IN ARGENTINA
i.
India’s mountaineer Arunima Sinha has successfully climbed Mount Aconcagua in
Argentina as part of her Mission 7 Summits.
ii.she
created World record by becoming First Female amputee to climb 5 Mountains of
the World.
iii.Mt.
Aconcagua is the highest mountain outside Asia and is also known as second
Everest.
iv.
Earlier she made the world record by becoming first female amputee mountaineer
to climb the Mount Everest.
v.
Arunima had lost her left leg in a train accident in 2011 after she was pushed
out of a running train by robbers
3. UNION
GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED SETTING UP OF CCL SPORTS UNIVERSITY IN JHARKHAND
i.Union
Minister of State for Power,Coal, New
and Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal announced setting up of CCL Sports University
in Jharkhand.
ii.The
university will have a capacity of 1400 students and 15 sports academies.
iii.Central
Coalfield Limited is a subsidiary of Coal India Limited, an undertaking of the
Union Ministry of Coal.
4. UNION
CABINET GAVE EX-POST FACTO APPROVAL FOR MOU ON BRICS NETWORK UNIVERSITY
i.
The Union Cabinet has given ex-post facto approval for signing of Memorandum of
Understanding among BRICS countries on BRICS Network University.
ii.It
will help countries in developing cooperation among the BRICS nations for the
purpose of increasing scientific research, higher education and information
exchange.
iii.In
November 2015 the negotiations were held on the MoU during the 3rd BRICS
Education Ministers meeting and Senior Officials meeting held in Mosco, Russia.
5. INDIA
SUCCESSFULLY TEST-FIRED INDIGENOUSLY DEVELOPED MBRL PINAKA II AT POKHRAN
i.
India has successfully test-fired Pinaka II multi barrel rocket launcher
System.
ii.The
trials were conducted at Pokhran in Rajasthan.
iii.Pinaka
is an unguided rocket system and capable of neutralising large areas with rapid
salvos.
iv.Range
of Pinaka II is 40 km.
6. UNION
GOVERNMENT TO START LPG-LIKE DBT SCHEME FOR KEROSENE FROM 1 APRIL 2016
i.
The Union Government decided to start a LPG-like direct benefit transfer scheme
for kerosene.
ii.The
scheme will be started from 1st April 2016.
iii.The
scheme will be implemented in 26 districts of eight states including
Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh , Rajasthan,Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh,
Maharashtra and Punjab.
iv.Under
this scheme, people will buy kerosene at market rate, but will get subsidy
directly in their bank accounts.
