DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 8TH DEC 2016
(Daily News India)
1. DONALD
TRUMP NAMED TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR 2016
i. The TIME
magazine has named US President-elect Donald Trump as Person of the Year 2016
and called him the President of the 'Divided States of America'.
ii. The magazine
cited his role for the stunning victory in the US Presidential election.
iii. Prime Minister
Narendra Modi was among the 11 candidates shortlisted by Time for its annual
honour.
iv. Meanwhile, Modi
won the online readers' poll conducted by Time magazine for Person of the Year
2016, the second time he emerged winner of the reader's choice poll.
2. TRUMP
SELECTS IOWA GOVERNOR BRANSTAD AS U.S. ENVOY TO CHINA
i. U.S.
President-elect Donald Trump has selected Iowa Governor Terry Branstad as his
incoming government's ambassador to China. "Branstad has a tremendous
understanding of China and the Chinese people and is someone who very much
impressed the President-elect.
ii. Terry Edward
Branstad is an American politician who is the 42nd Governor of Iowa, in office
since January 2011. Branstad was also the state's 39th governor from 1983 to
1999, and he was president of Des Moines University from 2003 to 2009.
3. NABARD
TO PROVIDE RS. 120 CR TO BANKS FOR SETTING UP POS DEVICES IN VILLAGES
i. The National
Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
on 08 December said it will extend support aggregating about Rs. 120
crore to banks for deployment of two Point-of-Sale devices per village in one lakh villages
having a population of up to 10,000.
ii. The move is
aimed at taking rural India closer towards cashless payment systems.