DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 11 DEC 2017
(DAILY NEWS INDIA)
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1. RUSSIA-INDIA-CHINA FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET BEGINS IN DELHI
i. Foreign Ministers of Russia, India, and China are holding a
trilateral meeting in New Delhi. The meeting is expected to review global and
regional issues of mutual interest as well as discuss trilateral exchanges and
activities.
ii. The External Affairs Minister will have separate bilateral
meetings with her Russian and Chinese counterparts. Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Wang Yi have arrived in
New Delhi.
2. CHINA STARTS WORLD'S BIGGEST FLOATING SOLAR PROJECT
i. A unit of China Three Gorges Corp. is building a 1 billion yuan
($151 million) floating solar power plant, the world’s biggest, in the nation’s
eastern province of Anhui. China Three Gorges New Energy Co. started building
the 150-megawatt project in July and part of the plant was connected to the
grid.
ii. The project features panels fixed to floats on the surface of
a lake that formed after a coal mine collapsed, according to the unit. The
entire facility is expected to come online by May 2018.
3. INDIA INX GETS SEBI GO-AHEAD FOR LISTING OF DEBT SECURITIES
i. BSE's India International Exchange has received approval from
the capital market regulator SEBI on the framework for the listing of debt
securities.
ii. The move will enable Indian and foreign issuers to issue
masala bonds, Eurobonds, and foreign currency bonds from India INX at
International Financial Service Centre at Gujarat International Finance Tech
for the first time.
4. UMA SHANKAR APPOINTED RBI EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
i. Uma Shankar, chief general manager in charge of the Reserve
Bank of India's financial inclusion and development department has taken over
as executive director in the central bank.
ii. Shankar has been elevated after Meena Hemchandra the executive
director in charge of the central bank's supervision department retired
recently.
5. UTTARAKHAND GOVERNMENT MAKES LED BULBS COMPULSORY IN ALL
GOVERNMENT OFFICES
i. The state government of Uttarakhand has taken a new initiative
for energy conservation by making it compulsory for all government offices to
install LED bulbs.
ii. The move is expected to reduce the consumption of electricity
in offices and civic areas. All the District Magistrates and Head of
Departments have been directed to strictly follow the orders, following
sanctions by the state cabinet. The purchase of sodium vapour lamps and
incandescent lamps by all the state departments has also been banned.
6. MARUTI SUZUKI REPLACES SBI AS 6TH MOST VALUABLE INDIAN FIRM
i. India's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki became India's sixth
most valued firm, crossing India's largest lender State Bank of India.
ii. Maruti Suzuki's market capitalization stood at Rs 2.73
trillion, marginally ahead of SBI's market value of Rs 2.70 trillion. Reliance
Industries is the country's most valued company with a market value of Rs 5.83
trillion, followed by TCS, HDFC Bank, ITC and Hindustan Unilever.
7. GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES DOOR-TO-DOOR CAMPAIGN AGAINST TB
i. The Government of India has launched a door-to-door campaign
for 15-days in the country for early diagnosis, detection and treatment of tuberculosis
to eliminate the disease.
ii. The health ministry has initiated this campaign along the
lines of its anti-polio drive, which fetched very good result for India and
successfully eliminated this disease from the country.
iii. Under it, the health department workers, Accredited Social
Health Activists and TB supervisors will make door-to-door visits to find TB
patients and give them free medical treatment till they are cured.
8. PRADEEP SINGH KHAROLA TAKES OVER AS AIR INDIA CMD
i. Senior IAS officer Pradeep Singh Kharola took charge as the
Chairman and Managing Director of Air India. Kharola assumed charge from Rajiv
Bansal.
ii. He was the managing director of Bangalore Metro Rail
Corporation Ltd since February 2015.
9. RAHUL GANDHI ELECTED INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS PRESIDENT
i. The Indian National Congress announced that Rahul Gandhi has
been elected as its new President, taking over from his mother Sonia Gandhi. He
is the 16th President of Congress since Independence.
ii. Rahul was declared the party President after no other
candidate filed a nomination to contest the presidential elections.
10. INDIA BEAT GERMANY, WIN BRONZE AT HOCKEY WORLD LEAGUE FINAL
i. India defeated Germany 2-1 in the Hockey World League Final to
grab the bronze medal at the event, in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. SV Sunil and
Harmanpreet Singh scored for the world number six Indian side.
ii. The world's fifth-ranked side Germany was without any
substitutes as seven of their players were unavailable for the match either due
to injury or high fever. For India’s success, Odisha government presented each
player a cheque of Rs 10 lakh.
11. PIONEER OF DNA FINGERPRINTING LALJI SINGH PASSES AWAY
i. Lalji Singh, a pioneer of DNA fingerprinting technology in
India and former Vice-Chancellor of Benares Hindu University, BHU (2011 to
2014), passed away at the age of 70.
ii. Lalji Singh and his team developed the indigenous probe that
was first applied to settle paternity disputes in the late 1980s at the Centre
for Cellular and Molecular Biology Hyderabad.
12. VETERAN JOURNALIST SUKHARANJAN SENGUPTA PASSES AWAY
i. Veteran journalist Sukharanjan Sengupta died due to old
age-related health problems. He was 85.
ii. Sengupta had worked for Bengali dailies Jugantar and Ananda
Bazar Patrika in his long career spanning over six decades.
13. INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN DAY OBSERVED GLOBALLY
i. International Mountain Day was observed across the world on 11
December 2017 with the theme ‘Mountains under pressure: climate, hunger and
migration’.
ii. The day provides an occasion to highlight how climate, hunger
and migration are affecting highlands and to ensure that sustainable mountain
development is integrated into the 2030 Agenda and in the implementation of the
Paris Agreement.
OBJECTIVE
QUESTIONS BASED ON TODAY’S NEWS
Q1. UNION GOVERNMENT HAS LAUNCHED DOOR-TO-DOOR CAMPAIGN AGAINST
WHICH LIFE-THREATENING DISEASE?
a) HIV/AIDS
b) TB
c) Diabetes
d) Cancer
Q2. WHICH STATE GOVERNMENT HAS MADE IT COMPULSORY FOR ALL
GOVERNMENT OFFICES TO INSTALL LED BULBS?
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Gujarat
c) Himachal Pradesh
d) Uttarakhand
Q3. SUKHARANJAN SENGUPTA, WHO PASSED AWAY RECENTLY, WAS
ASSOCIATED WITH WHICH FIELD?
a) Journalism
b) Politics
c) Law
d) Film Industry
Q4. LALJI SINGH, THE FATHER OF INDIAN DNA FINGERPRINTING HAS
PASSED AWAY. HE HAILED FROM WHICH STATE?
a) Karnataka
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Odisha
d) Kerala
ANSWERS:
1 - B 2 - D 3 - A 4
- B
