DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS: 7 JULY 2016
(Daily News India)
1. TRAI
LAUNCHES AN APP TO TRACK MOBILE DATA SPEED
i. The
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is going to improve ‘quality of service’
rules for mobile data, including the average data speed for operators.
ii. It also
launched a mobile app named TRAI Myspeed App for measuring real-time internet
speeds that consumers get.
iii. The
application will show mobile data speed of each operator in a given area on
real time basis.
2. PRESIDENT
OF INDIA INAUGURATES SWAMI VIVEKANAND SABHAGAR
i. The
President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has inaugurated Swami Vivekanand
Sabhagar at Kathak Kendra of Sangeet Natak Akademi in New Delhi.
ii. He
dedicated the Swami Vivekanand Sabhagar to all the gurus, students and
disciples of Kathak.
3. RAJASTHAN
BECOMES FIRST STATE TO INTRODUCE MINIMUM WAGES FOR PART-TIME WORKERS
i. Rajasthan
has become the first state in the country to introduce minimum wages for
part-time workers.
ii.Now it is mandatory to pay 50 per cent of the
prescribed a day minimum wage to a person who works for less than four hours in
a day.
4. WORLD
FAMOUS RATH YATRA OF LORD JAGANNATH BEGINS
i. The world
famous Rath Yatra or chariot festival of Lord Jagannath has begun today in
Puri, Odisha.
ii. Rath
Yatra marks is an annual celebration of the journey of Lord Jagannath.
iii. The
celebration ends after nine days later with Bahuda Yatra or returns journey to
their temple which will take place on the 14th of this month.
5.
CABINET RESHUFFLED
i.The list of new portfolios of minsters:
a. Venkaiah Naidu: Ministry of Information &
Broadcasting
b.Ananth Kumar:
Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
c. Prakash Javdekar: Ministry of Human Resource
Development
d.Ravi Shankar
Prasad: Ministry of Law & Justice
e. Narendra Singh Tomar: Ministry of Rural
Development
f. Ministry
Smriti Zubin Irani: Ministry of Textiles Ministers of State
g. Vijay Goel: Ministry of Youth Affairs &
Sports (Independent Charge)
h.Piyush
Goyal: Ministry of Mines (Independent Charge)
i. Anil Madhav Dave: Ministry of Environment,
Forest and Climate Change
j. Ramdas
Athawale: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
k. Rajen Gohain: Ministry of Railways
l. Jayant
Sinha: Ministry of Civil Aviation
6. INDIA
RANKS 91ST IN 2016 NETWORKED READINESS INDEX
i. India was
placed at 91st position in the 2016 Networked Readiness Index.
ii.It
measures countries’ success in creating the necessary conditions for a
transition to a digitised economy and society.
iii.The list
is topped by Singapore followed by
Finland , Sweden, Norway, United States .
7. SBI LAUNCHES SBI MINGLE,
A SOCIAL MEDIA BANKING PLATFORM
i. India’s largest
lender State Bank of India recently had launched SBI Mingle, a social media
banking platform for Facebook and Twitter users.
ii. The SBI
Mingle will allow SBI’s customers to access various banking services via these
social platforms.
iii.To avail
services from this platform customers will have to register for it through a
simple one time registration process using either their social account number
or their ATM/Debit Card details.
CURRENT AFFAIRS GK QUIZ BASED ON TODAY’S NEWS
1. WHICH
MOBILE APP IS LAUNCHED BY TRAI TO TRACK MOBILE DATA SPEED?
(a) My speed
App
(b)
Userspeed App
(c)
Averagespeed App
(d)
Qualityspeed App.
2. INDIA WAS
RANKED AT 91ST POSITION IN NETWORK READINESS INDEX; IT WAS TOPPED BY
WHICH COUNTRY?
(a)
Singapore
(b) Finland
(c) Paris
(d) Norway
3. NAME THE
SOCIAL MEDIA BANKING PLATFORM APP LAUNCHED BY SBI?
(a) Life
(b) Buddy
(c) Mingle
(d) Elite
4. WHO HAS
BEEN APPOINTED AS MINISTER OF PARLIAMANTARY AFFAIRS?
(a) Venkaih
Naudu
(b) Ananth
Kumar
(c) Vijay
Goel
(d) Jayant
Sinha
5. WHICH
STATE INTRODUCE MINIMUM WAGES FOR PART TIME WORKERS?
(a)
Rajasthan
(b) Punjab
(c) Andhra
Pradesh
(d)
Maharashtra
ANSWER:-
1)
A 2) A 3) C 4) B 5) A
