DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 10 APR 2018
(DAILY NEWS INDIA)
1.
JITURAI AND MEHULIGHOSH BREAKS CWG
RECORD
i. Jitu Rai broke the games record to claim the
gold medal by some distance in men's 10m air pistol, at the ongoing 21st
Commonwealth Games.
ii. OmPrakashMitharval bagged bronze in the same
event.
iii. India's 17-year-old shooter MehuliGhosh set a
Commonwealth Games joint record to win silver in the women's 10m Air Rifle
event.
iv. India's 25-year-old shooter ApurviChandela won
a bronze medal in the same event.
2.
INDIA WIN BADMINTON TEAM GOLD FOR 1ST
TIME IN CWG HISTORY
i. India clinched their first-ever badminton mixed
team event gold in Commonwealth Games history after defeating defending
champions Malaysia 3-1 in the final at Gold Coast.
ii. India's previous best performance in mixed team
event at CWG was a silver-medal finish in the 2010 edition.
iii.SainaNehwal and KidambiSrikanth represented
India in singles' matches of the five-member team event.
3.
WEIGHTLIFTER PUNAMYADAV WINS 5TH GOLD
FOR INDIA
i. India’s weightlifter PunamYadav won gold in the
Women’s 69kg weightlifting category.
ii. This was India’s fifth gold medal in the
ongoing games.
iii.Venkat Rahul Ragala earned India the fourth
Gold medal after lifting 338 kilograms in the Men’s 85 kg category.
4.
INDIAN WOMEN’S TT TEAM WINS GOLD
i. India has bagged three more Gold, one Silver and
two bronze medals at the 21st Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.
Indian women’s Table Tennis team won their first
ever Gold Medal defeating Singapore.
ii.
ManikaBatra led Table tennis team’s victory was historic as Singapore
had never lost since 2002.
5.
CONFERENCE ON WATER, ENVIRONMENT AND
CLIMATE CHANGE BEGINS IN NEPAL
i. An international conference on ‘Water,
Environment and Climate Change: Knowledge Sharing and Partnership’ started in
Kathmandu, Nepal.
ii. The basic objective of the conference is to
bring together professionals, government and non-government institutions to
discuss and deliberate on challenges related to water and environmental issues.
i. Indian shooter Heena Sidhu set Commonwealth
Games record to win gold in women's 25m pistol shooting event.
ii.This is Sidhu's second medal at CWG 2018, after
winning silver in women's 10m air pistol.
iii. Another Indian shooter Annu Singh came sixth
in the same event.
OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS BASED ON
TODAY’S NEWS
Q1.
NAME THE EVENT IN WHICH INDIAN SHOOTER HEENA SIDHU SET COMMONWEALTH GAMES
RECORD TO WIN
GOLD.
(a) 10m Air Pistol Event
(b) Double Trap Event
(c) 50m Pistol Event
(d) 25m Pistol
Event
Q2.
INDIAN SHOOTER SHREYASI SINGH WON THE WOMEN'S GOLD IN A SHOOT-OFF AFTER SCORING
96 POINTS TO
TAKE INDIA'S GOLD MEDAL TALLY AT THE 21ST COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2018 TO 12.
(a) 10m Pistol Event
(b) Double Trap Event
(c) 50m Rifle Event
(d) 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
Q3.
IN WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTRY, AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ‘WATER,
ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE
CHANGE: KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND PARTNERSHIP’ WAS HELD RECENTLY?
(a) Bangladesh
(b) Bhutan
(c) Nepal
(d) China
ANSWERS:
1-D 2-B 3-C
