DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 1ST DEC 2016
(Daily News India)
1. GOA TO
BECOME INDIA’S FIRST CASHLESS STATE
i. The
Indian state of Goa prepares itself to become the first state to operate
cashless in the country from 31 December 2016.
ii. This
announcement was made by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, during a rally at Sankhali
iii. The
plan includes making even small vendors selling perishable goods accustomed to
mobile payment
2. LT GEN
AK BHAT APPOINTED NEW DGMO
i.
Lt-General A K Bhatt was appointed as the Director-General of Military
Operations .
ii. Lt-Gen
Bhatt will succeed Lt-General Ranbir Singh.
3. SUSAN
KIEFEL BECOMES FIRST WOMAN APPOINTED AS HIGH COURT CHIEF JUSTICE
i. Susan
Kiefel has been named Australia's first female High Court chief justice –
ending 113 years of men leading the nation's highest court.
4. UTKARSH
MICRO FINANCE GETS FINAL NOD TO SET UP SMALL FINANCE BANK
i. Varanasi-based
micro-finance institution Utkarsh Micro Finance has received the final license from
The Reserve Bank of India to start operations as Small Finance Bank .
ii. In
October 2015, Utkarsh Micro Finance had got the "in-principle"
approval to set up SFB as per the guidelines issued by the RBI.
5. PLANE
CARRYING BRAZILIAN FOOTBALLERS CRASHES IN COLOMBIA
i. A
chartered plane with 81 people on board, including members of Brazilian
football club Chapecoense, crashed in Colombia with all of them feared dead.
ii. The
plane was travelling from Bolivia to MedellÃn, where the team was scheduled to
play the Copa Sudamericana's final.
6. DICTIONARY.COM’S
2016 WORD OF THE YEAR IS XENOPHOBIA
i. The
website Dictionary.com named the word 'Xenophobia' as the Word of the Year for
2016.
ii.
According to Dictionary.com, there was a massive surge in lookups for the word
'Xenophobia' that was larger than any of the peaks seen in 2016.
iii. This
rise in lookups was connected to attacks on foreign workers and overall rising
xenophobia in South Africa.
7. ARGENTINA WON THEIR FIRST EVER DAVIS CUP
i. Argentina
has won its maiden Davis Cup title after defeating Croatia in the final.
ii. The
Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis.
iii. It is
run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested annually between
teams
