DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 27TH OCT 2016
(Daily News India)
1. NEW
ZEALAND TO PLAY ‘CONSTRUCTIVE’ ROLE ON NSG
i. New Zealand PM John Key is on his
visit to India a meeting was to discuss on India becoming a member of the
Nuclear Suppliers Group.
ii. New Zealand is part of a group
called the New Agenda for Coalition which promotes the NPT and pushes for
nuclear disarmament worldwide.
iii. The New Agenda Coalition is a group of middle power countries seeking
to build an international consensus to make progress on nuclear disarmament, as
legally called for in the nuclear NPT.
iv. It was formed in 1998.
2. NADIA
MURAD AND LAMIYA AJI BASHAR WINNERS OF 2016 SAKHAROV PRIZE
i. Two Yazidi women, Nadia Murad Basee
and Lamiya Aji Bashar have won Europe's top human rights award, the Sakharov
prize.
ii. They escaped from the engulfed of Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria in Iraq,
iii. Nadia Murad Basee Taha appointed
UNODC Goodwill Ambassador
3. UNION
GOVERNMENT CONSTITUTES MUNIALAPPA COMMITTEE TO MONITOR BIRD FLU SITUATION
i. The Union Agricultural Ministry has
constituted a High-Level Committee to monitor the bird flu situation and help
state governments take steps to contain the disease.
ii. The High-Level Committee will be
headed by Joint Commissioner in the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairy and
Fisheries Munialappa.
iii. The committee was constituted
after mortality among the birds in National Zoological Park, Delhi NCR and
other parts of the country due to Avian Influenza Virus was found.
4.
ONE-MAN JUDICIAL COMMITTEE ON OROP SUBMITS REPORT TO DEFENCE MINISTER
i. The one-man judicial committee on
One Rank One Pension set up by the Union
Government, has submitted its report to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar.
ii. The Union had appointed the
committee under the Chairmanship of retired Chief Justice of Patna High Court L
Narasimha Reddy in December 2015.
iii. It was tasked to look into the
anomalies arising out of implementation of OROP.
iv. The OROP scheme aims to provide
ex-servicemen of same rank and same length of service uniform pension regardless
of date of retirement.
5. ‘ONE
INDIA’ PUSH FOR EASE OF BUSINESS
i. The Centre government is working
with State governments to introduce a ‘One India’ concept, the most ambitious
‘ease of doing business’ initiative so far.
ii. The ‘one-form-one-portal’ model is
aimed at attracting huge investments.
iii. Under this model the processes
will be simplified to an extent where investors will need to fill only a single
e-form for investing and doing business anywhere in India.
iv. The proposed concept will make it
easy for investors to even change plans midway and shift projects to different
locations in India where it is easier to do business.
6. INDIA
AND SOUTH KOREA SIGN REVISED DOUBLE TAXATION AVOIDANCE AGREEMENT
i. India and South Korea signed a
revised Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement for the avoidance of double taxation and the
prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income.
ii. The Provisions of the new DTAA will
have effect in India in respect of income derived in fiscal years beginning on
or after 1 April 2017.
iii. It provides for source based
taxation of capital gains arising from alienation of shares comprising more
than 5 percent of share capital.
CURRENT AFFAIRS GK QUIZ BASED
ON TODAY’S NEWS
Q1. WHO
HAS CHAIRED THE COMMITTEE WHICH SUBMITTED ITS REPORT ON OROP?
a) Justice L
Narasimha Reddy b) Justice A P Shah
c) Deepak Mohanty d) M B Shah
Q2. WHO IS THE DEFENCE MINISTER OF INDIA?
a) Shri Suresh
Prabhu b) Shri Ramvilas
Paswan
c) Shri Manohar
Parrikar d) Shri Nitin Jairam
Gadkari
Q3. WHICH COMMITTEE HAS BEEN CONSTITUTED TO
MONITOR BIRD FLU SITUATION?
a) Munialappa
committee b) G N Bajpai committee
c) KV Kamath
committee d) Anant Mashelkar
committee
Q4. INDIA HAS SIGNED AN AGREEMENT ON THE
PREVENTION OF FISCAL EVASION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES ON INCOME ALONG
WITH WHICH COUNTRY?
a) Sri Lanka b) Russia
c) China d) South Korea
Q5. NAME
THE TWO YAZIDI WOMEN, WHO HAVE GOT SELECTED FOR THE EUROPE’S TOP HUMAN RIGHTS
AWARD, THE 2016 SAKHAROV PRIZE?
a) Raif Badawi and
Denis Mukwege
b) Malala Yousafzai
and Raif Badawi
c) Nadia Murad and
Lamiya Aji Bashar
d) Denis Mukwege
and Nadia Murad
Q6. INDIA
AND NEW ZEALAND HAVE AGREED TO STRENGTHEN SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION
AGAINST TERROR AND RADICALISATION INCLUDING IN THE SPHERE OF CYBER SECURITY.
WHO IS THE PRESENT PRIME MINISTER OF NEW ZEALAND?
a) Justin Trudeau b) Theresa May
c) Michel Temer d) John Key
ANSWERS:
1- A 2-
C 3- A 4-
D 5- C 6-
D
