DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 5TH DEC 2016
(Daily News India)
Shared By: WWW.DailyGk.IN
1. WORLD’S LARGEST BIRD
FESTIVAL IN AGRA
i. UP Eco-tourism
has organized a three-day international festival on birds at the National
Chambal Sanctuary in the Bah tehsil, Agra.
ii The main of the
event is to promote eco-tourism in Uttar Pradesh and to declare it as an
international bird watching destination.
2. INTERNATIONAL DAY OF
PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES OBSERVED-3RD DECEMBER
i. The theme for the day is ‘Achieving 17 Goals for the Future We Want’.
ii. IDPD is an international observance promoted by the
United Nations since 1992.
iii. Earlier it was called the International Day of Disabled
Persons.
3. NICO
ROSBERG ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT
i. Formula One Player Nico Rosberg announced his
retirement after he grabbed his first-ever F1 World Champion title in the
season’s final race at Abu Dhabi.
ii. He belong to
Britain.
4. INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S
PEACE PRIZE
i. Kehkashan Basu,
a 16-year-old UAE-based Indian teenager won the International Children’s Peace
Prize for her work towards climate justice and combating environmental
degradation.
ii. The International
Children’s Peace Prize is an annual award, which is conferred to those children
who fight courageously for children’s rights.
iii. Kehkashan Basu
founded Green Hope at the age of
twelve.
5. INDIA,
QATAR SIGNED FOUR AGREEMENTS ON VISA AND CYBERSPACE
i. India and Qatar
signed four agreements to boost the bilateral relations between the two
nations.
ii. The agreements
were signed at New Delhi during visit of Prime Minister of Qatar Sheikh Abdullah bin
Nasser Bin Khalifa Al Thani.
iii. An agreement to
allows holders of diplomatic, special and official passport of the two
countries to visa-free travel between the two countries.
6. HAILAKANDI FIRST DISTRICT IN ASSAM TO MAKE CASHLESS
PAYMENT
i.
Assam’s Hailakandi district becomes the
first district in the state to pay wages to tea garden workers through bank
accounts.
7. INDIA
WON 2016 WOMEN'S ASIA CUP CRICKET
i. Indian women’s
cricket team defeated Pakistan to win the 2016 Asia Cup T20 at Bangkok,
Thailand.
a.
Player of the Series: Mithali Raj
(India)
b.
Most runs in the Series: 220 by Mithali
Raj (India)
c.
Most wickets in the Series: 12 by Sana
Mir (Pakistan)
CURRENT AFFAIRS GK QUIZ BASED
ON TODAY’S NEWS
1. WHO IS
THE RECEIVER OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S PEACE PRIZE 2016?
a) Malala Yousafzai
b) Abraham MKeita
c) Neha Gupta
d) Kehkashan Basu
2. WHICH
FORMULA ONE PLAYER ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE SPORT?
a) Fernando Alonso
b) Nico Rosberg
c) Lewis Hamilton
d) Sebastian Vettel
3. THE
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S PEACE PRIZE 2016 BELONGS TO WHICH
COUNTRY?
a) Nepal
b) India
c) Bangladesh
d) Pakistan
4. WHAT
WAS THE THEME OF THE 2016 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES?
a) Decent Work for
Persons with Disabilities
b) Arts, Culture
and Independent Living
c) Achieving 17
Goals for the Future We Want
d) Inclusion
matters: access and empowerment for people of all abilities
5. WHICH
DISTRICT BECOME FIRST DISTRICT IN ASSAM TO MAKE CASHLESS PAYMENT?
a) Hailakandi
b) Karimganj
c) Lakhimpur
d) Dibrugarh
ANSWER:
1
– D 2 – B 3 – B
4 - C 5 - A
