DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 6TH NOV 2016
(Daily News India)
1. BUDDHA
MAHOTSAVA KICKS OFF IN ARUNACHAL PRADESH
i. The three day Buddha Mahotsava celebration started in Arunachal
Pradesh on November 4.
ii. It was organised by the District Administration of
West Kameng to promote tourism in the state.
iii. The festival commemorates the life and teachings of
Lord Gautama Buddha.Hundreds of Buddhist monks playing cymbals and drums are
present at the festival.
2. ECONOMY
LIKELY TO GROW AT 7.6 PER CENT IN 2016-17: NCAER
i. Economic think-tank NCAER has pegged India’s GDP
growth at 7.6% for 2016-17.
ii. The manufacturing sector is giving positive signals
with Purchasers’ Managers Index, Index of Industrial Production for core
sectors.
iii. The Monetary Policy Committee has also forecasted a
7.6% growth.
vi. The National Council of Applied Economic Research
(NCAER) is one of India’s oldest economic think-tank set up in 1956.
3. ANDY
MURRAY BECAME WORLD NUMBER ONE AFTER RAONIC WITHDRAWS FROM PARIS MASTERS
i. Britain’s Andy Murray became the new world number one
player.
ii. Murray move to the top of the rankings for the first
time in his career after replacing long-time incumbent Novak Djokovic.
iii. Djokovic had been No 1 since June 2014.
4. VICE
PRESIDENT M. HAMID ANSARI RELEASES THE BOOK ‘AN ERA OF DARKNESS: THE BRITISH
EMPIRE IN INDIA
i. Vice President of India, M. Hamid Ansari released book
‘An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India’ authored by Dr. Shashi
Tharoor.
ii. The book explain about British rule in India was
effectively and regularly supplemented by “famine, forced migration and
brutality” – the ‘three examples of why British rule over India was despotic
and anything but enlightened’.
5. ACTOR
RANVEER NAMED INDIAN AMBASSADOR FOR SWITZERLAND TOURISM
i. Bollywood Actor Ranveer Sing was named the first
Indian ambassador for promoting 2017 Switzerland Tourism’s campaign- “Nature
wants you back“.
ii. He was in a long vacation in Switzerland three months
back.
The currency of Switzerland is Swiss franc and Capital is
Bern.
6. PM
NARENDRA MODI TO INAUGURATE PETROTECH 2016
i. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 12th
edition of International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition “Petrotech-2016”
in New Delhi on 5 December 2016.
ii. The 2016 theme of the day is “Hydrocarbons to fuel
the future – Choices and Challenges”.
iii. It is Asia’s largest oil and gas event.
CURRENT AFFAIRS GK QUIZ BASED
ON TODAY’S NEWS
Q1. THE THREE DAY BUDDHA MAHOTSAVA CELEBRATION IS
STARTED IN WHICH STATE?
a) Gujrat
b) Arunanchal Pradesh
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Maharashtra
Q2. WHO BECAME NEW WORLD NO 1 AFTER MILOS
RAONIC'S WITHDRAWAL FROM PARIS MASTERS' SEMIS?
a) Novak Djokovic
b) Andy Roddick
c) Roger Federer
d) Andy Murray
Q3. ‘PETROTECH’ IS ASIA’S LARGEST OIL AND GAS
EVENT, WHICH TAKES PLACE EVERY OTHER YEAR. IT IS ORGANISED BY?
a) Saudi Arabia
b) Iran
c) India
d) UAE
Q4. WHO IS AUTHOR OF THE BOOK ‘AN ERA OF
DARKNESS: THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN INDIA?
a) Dr. Shashi Tharoor
b) Arundhati Roy
c) Amitav Ghosh
d) Salman Rushdie
Q5. WHO IS NAMED INDIAN AMBASSADOR FOR
SWITZERLAND TOURISM?
a) Ranbir Kapoor
b) Ranveer Singh
c) Akshay Kumar
d) Fawad Khan
ANSWERS:
1- B 2- D 3- C 4-
A 5- B
