DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS: 27 MAY 2016
(Daily News India)
1.
CABINET GIVES EX-POST FACTO APPROVAL TO THE MOU BETWEEN INDIA AND JAPAN
i. The Union
Cabinet has given ex-post facto approval to the MoU between Indian and Japan
for promoting sustainable, stable and low-carbon thermal power development in
India.
ii. The MoU
will help India to address issues and barriers in promoting sustainable stable
and low-carbon thermal power development.
2. ISLAMIC BANKING TO DEBUT IN GUJARAT
i. Saudi
Arabia based Islamic Development Bank is going to open its first branch in
India at Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
ii. Its a
part of MoU between EXIM Bank and IDB during PM Narendra Modi visit to UAE in
April 2016.
iii. IDB will
also make investments in small and medium enterprises of Gujarat.
iv. IDB's
main objective is to bost the economic development and social progress of
member countries as well as the Muslim community in accordance with principles
of Shariah law.
3. WORLD
LEADERS STARTED G7 TALKS WITH ECONOMY IN FOCUS
i. The World leaders started two days of G7 talks in Japan.
ii. They discussed about the declining global economy, terrorism
and refugees crisis and China's controversial maritime claims,.
ii. Heads of
state and government from the United States,france, Britain, Germany, Italy,
Canada and host Japan participated in the meet.
4. SANIA
MIRZA, BOPANNA AND PAES WON AT FRENCH OPEN
i. Sania
Mirza and Martina Hingis won French open after defeating Daria Kasatkina and
Alexandra Panova.
ii. Rohan
Bopanna and Florin Mergea defeated
Stephane Robert and Alexandre Sidorenko to won the event.
iii. Leander
Paes and Marcin Matkowski defeated Aliaksandr Bury and Denis Istomin to won the
French open.
5. INDIA
FIFTH LARGEST PRODUCER OF E-WASTE
i. As per
recent study conducted by Assocham-KPMG, India has emerged as the world’s fifth
largest electronic waste producer.
ii. India
discards roughly 18.5 lakh tonnes of e-waste each year.
iii. India
being world’s second largest mobile market with more than 100 crore mobile
phones in circulation.
iv. Every
year 25 percent of mobiles end up in e-waste annually.
6.
PINARAYI VIJAYAN SWORN IN AS KERALA CM
i. Communist
Party of India(M) leader Pinarayi Vijayan has taken oath as the CM of Kerala.
ii. He has
been elected to the state assembly five times and won this year's election from
Dharmadam constituency by a margin of 36,000 votes.
7. UNION
HRD MINISTRY TO LAUNCH ASMITA, STUDENT TRACKING SYSTEM
i. The Union
Ministry of Human Resource Development is going to launch ASMITA, a student
tracking system programme.
ii. ASMITA
stands for All School Monitoring Individual Tracing Analysis will be launched
under Shala Asmita Yojana .
iii. It aims
to track the educational journey of school students from Class I to Class XII
across the 15 lakhs private and government schools in the country.
iv. It will
be a online database which will carry information of student attendance and
enrolment, learning outcomes, mid-day meal service and infrastructural
facilities among others.
8. WORLD
FIRST HUMANITARIAN SUMMIT HELD AT ISTANBUL,
i. The
first-ever World Humanitarian Summit was held in Istanbul from 23 to 24th May
ii. The
conferenece held first time after World War II.
iii. The
summit was inaugurated by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
iv. The
purpose of summit to improve the humanitarian responses to crises such as
a. preventing
and ending conflict
b. respecting
the rules of war
c. achieving
gender equality
CURRENT AFFAIRS GK QUIZ BASED ON TODAY’S NEWS
1. IN
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING CITY OF INDIA, SAUDI ARABIA BASED ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT
BANK IS GOING TO OPENS ITS FIRST BRANCH?
a. Ahemdabad
, Gujarat
b.
GandhiNagar, Gujrat
c. Mumbai,
Maharashtra
d. New Delhi
2. WHICH
OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTRY IS NOT A MEMBER OF “G-7”?
a. Japan
b. United
States
c. Germany
d. Denmark
3. THE
FAMOUS PLAYERS OF TENNIS “DARIA KASATKINA” & “ALEXANDRA PANOVA” BELONG TO WHICH
COUNTRY?
a. Spain
b.
Switzerland
c. Russia
d. Canada
4. THE
NEW CM OF KERELA “PINARAYI VIJAYAN” HAS BEEN REPLACED BY WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING
PERSON?
a. V.S
Achuthanandan
b. Oommen Chandy
c. AK Antony
d. E.K
Nayanar
5. UNDER
WHICH SCHEME “ASMIT” HAS BEEN LAUNCHED?
a. SAY
b. BAY
c. PMJDY
d. none of
these
6. WHO IS
THE PRESENT UNION MINISTER OF HRD MINISTER?
a. Meneka
Gandhai
b. Sushma
Swaraj
c. Smiriti
Irani
d. Smiriti
Shah
7. WHERE “WORLD FIRST HUMANITARIAN SUMMIT” HELD?
a. Tehran
b. Istanbul
c.
Washington D.C
d. Chile
8. WHO
INAUGURATED “WORLD HUMANITARIAN SUMMIT”?
a.
Ban-Ki-Moon
b. Brack
Obama
c. Queen
Elizabeth
d. Xi-
Jinping
ANSWERS:
1. A 2.
D 3. C 4.
B 5. A 6.
C 7. B 8.
A
