DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS: 7 NOV 2015
(Daily News India)
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1. NAVTEJ
SINGH SARNA APPOINTED AS INDIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER TO UNITED KINGDOM
i. Navtej Singh Sarna appointed as Indian High Commissioner to
United Kingdom.
ii. Earlier he was in the Ministry of
External Affairs looking after country’s diplomatic affairs with the UK and
other European nations.
iii. He has also served as Indian
Ambassador to Israel.
2.'INDIA
IN SHANGHAI’ CULTURAL WEEK INAUGURATED AT SHANGHAI
i. ‘India in Shanghai’ cultural week
was inaugurated at China Shanghai International Arts Festival at the Shanghai
Grand Theatre in china.
ii. The festival began on 16 October
and will continue till 16 November 2015.
iii. The Purpose of India Culture Week
is to have a better understanding of India among Chinese people.
iv. ‘Visit India Year in China’ is a
tag given to year 2015 to encourage more Chinese tourists to travel to India.
3. UNION GOVERNMENT
TO IMPOSE 0.5% SWACHH BHARAT CESS ON ALL SERVICES
i. Union Ministry of Finance decided to
impose 0.5 percent Swachh Bharat Cess on all taxable services.
ii. It will be levied in addition to
the 14 percent service tax.
iii. The amount collected from this
will be used to support Swachh Bharat initiative.
iv. The Union Government is planning to
spend around 134000 crore rupees by 2019 to construct 11 crore 11 lakh toilets
in the country under Swachh Bharat Mission.
4. UNITED
NATIONS CELEBRATED 70 YEARS OF ITS ESTABLISHMENT
i. United Nations celebrated 70 years
of its establishment on 24 October 2015.
ii. To mark this historic occasion, a
special Annual General Assembly was held at its headquarters in New York.
iii. The United Nation was formed on 24
October 1945 with an aim to maintain international peace and security and
achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an
economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character.
5. RBI
ISSUED GUIDELINES FOR INTERNET BANKING FOR COOPERATIVE BANKS
i. Reserve Bank of India issued
guidlines on Internet Banking for all licensed cooperative banks including
Urban Cooperative Banks, Cooperative Banks and Districts Co-operative Banks.
ii. These guidelines relate to Internet
Banking facility and Internet Banking with Transaction facility.
iv. All licensed Urban Cooperative
Banks, Cooperative Banks and Districts Co-operative Banks which have
implemented Core Banking Solution and migrated to Internet Protocol Version 6
may offer Internet Banking facility to their customers, without prior approval
of RBI.
6. 21ST
INCOFYRA TO BE HELD IN BENGALURU IN 2016
i. The 21st International Conference on
Frontiers in Yoga Research and its Applications will be held at Prashanti
Kutiram, Bengaluru.
ii. The event will began from 3 to 7
January in 2016.
iii. The theme of the conference is ‘Yoga
in Integrated Healthcare Systems’
iv. The conference targets to promote
the research findings in the field of medicine, Dialectology, Cardiology and
Mental Health.
