DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 18TH DEC 2016
(Daily News India)
1. INDIA,
TAJIKISTAN SIGN FOUR AGREEMENTS TO STRENGTHEN COOPERATION TO ADDRESS ISSUE OF
TERRORISM
i. India and Tajikistan have signed four agreements in areas including
on double taxation avoidance, money laundering and counter-terrorism.
ii. PM Narendra Modi and visiting President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon
witnessed the exchange of MoUs in New Delhi.
2. RAJIV
JAIN AND AK DHASMANA NAMED NEXT DIRECTOR OF IB AND RAW
i. Jharkhand cadre IPS officer Rajiv Jain was appointed as the new chief
of Intelligence Bureau while Anil Dhasmana will head external intelligence
agency Research and Analysis Wing
ii. Both the officers will have tenure of two years.
3. LT GEN
BIPIN RAWAT AND B.S DHANOA TO BE NEXT INDIAN ARMY CHIEF AND IAF CHIEF
i. Lt General Bipin Rawat will be the new Chief of Army Staff, while Air
Marshal BS Dhanoa, the next Chief of Air Staff.
ii. Lt. Gen Rawat will replace General Dalbir Singh Suhag.
iii. Air Marshal Dhanoa will replace Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha.
4.
ODISHA: GOVT SETS TARGET FOR CONSTRUCTION OF 1000 KM CONCRETE ROAD
i. Odisha government has decided to construct more 2,000 kilometre of
cement concrete roads under the Gopabandhu Gramin Yojana in rural areas by
March 2017.
ii. The State government has allocated 1,000 crore rupees for the
Gopabandhu Gramin Yojana in the current year’s Budget. The sanctioned funds
will be utilised in 30 districts of the State for for road construction and
drinking water facilities in rural areas.
5. STATE
BANK MOBICASH MOBILE WALLET LAUNCHED
i. Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Arun Jaitley and Minister
of State for Communications and Minster of State for Railways Manoj Sinha has
jointly launched State Bank MobiCash Mobile Wallet, a product by SBI and BSNL.
6.
HIMACHAL PRADESH: SIXTH IN INDIA TO ATTAIN 100% AADHAAR SATURATION
i. Himachal Pradesh has become the sixth State/UT in the Country and achieved
100 percent Aadhar saturation on the basis of population of year 2015.
ii. Earlier, Delhi, Telangana, Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh have
achieved this milestone.
7. RBI
LOWERS CHARGES ON DEBIT CARD PAYMENTS TO PROMOTE DIGITAL TRANSACTIONS
i. In order to incentivize greater adoption of digital payment methods,
the RBI has announced special measures to be adopted between 1st January 2017
and 31st March 2017.
ii. In another notification, RBI has asked banks and prepaid payment
instrument issuing entities not to levy any charges for transactions upto 1000
rupees that are settled using IMPS, USSD based *99# and UPI systems.
iii. RBI has advised banks to cap the Merchant Discount Rates for debit
card transactions upto 1000 rupees at 0.25% of the transaction value. For
transactions between 1000 and 2000 rupees, the merchant charges shall be capped
at 0.5% of the transaction value.
OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS BASED
ON TODAY’S NEWS
Q1. WITH WHICH
COUNTRY INDIA SIGNED 4 AGREEMENTS TO BOOST BILATERAL COOPERATION ON 18 DECEMBER
2016?
a) South Korea
b) Japan
c) China
d) Tajikistan
Q2. WHO
HAS BEEN APPOINTED AS THE NEW CHIEF OF INTELLIGENCE BUREAU?
a) Dineshwar Sharma
b) B.P Singh
c) Rajiv Jain
d) Rajinder Khanna
Q3. WHO
HAS BEEN SELECTED AS THE NEW CHIEF OF INDIA’S EXTERNAL INTELLIGENCE AGENGY RAW?
a) Anil Dhasmana
b) Pulkit Sharma
c) Rajinder Khanna
d) Dineshwar Sharma
Q4. STATE
BANK MOBICASH MOBILE WALLET WAS LAUNCHED IN DECEMBER 2016. STATE BANK OF INDIA
LAUNCHED MOBICASH IN COLLABORATION WITH WHICH TELECOM GIANT?
a) Reliance Jio
b) Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd
c) Vodafone
d) Airtel
Q5. WHO
HAS BEEN APPOINTED AS THE NEW CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF?
a) Praveen Bakshi
b) Lt Gen S K Sinha
c) Gen A S Vaidya
d) Bipin Rawat
Q6. NAME
THE NEWLY APPOINTED CHIEF OF INDIAN AIR FORCE.
a) P M Hariz.
b) S K Sinha
c) B.S Dhanoa
d) A.S Vaidya
Q7. WHICH STATE BECAME SIXTH IN INDIA TO ATTAIN 100% AADHAAR
SATURATION?
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Himanchal Pradesh
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Uttarakhand
ANSWER:
1 - D 2 - C 3 - A 4 - B 5
– D 6 – C 7 - B
