DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 5TH FEB 2017
(Daily News India)
1. KIREN
RIJIJU INAUGURATES PROGRAMME ON ‘INNER STRENGTH AND DISASTER RESILIENCE’
i. Kiren
Rijiju, Minister of State for Home Affairs inaugurated the programme on ‘Inner
Strength and Disaster Resilience’ in New Delhi. The programme was organised by
National Disaster Response Force.
ii. The
Minister stressed NDRF force to focus on mental fitness along with physical
fitness.
iii.NDRF is
India’s professional emergency force to tackle disaster.
iv .NDRF has
so far saved more than 5 million lives. It also educates people on how to
tackle disasters.
2. TATA
MOTORS LAUNCHES NEW SUB-BRAND TAMO AS AN INCUBATOR TO DEVELOP FUTURISTIC
VEHICLES
i. Automotive
manufacturing company Tata Motors has come up with an innovative plan to
strengthen its market share in the country. It is set to expand its passenger
vehicle manufacturing segment by creating a new sub-brand under the name TAMO
which will act as a start-up to develop new and innovative products.
ii. TAMO
will involve partnership with global start-ups and technology companies to have
access to trends, innovations for developing new technologies and business
models to design exciting future products and services.
iii. It aims
to be among the top three passenger vehicle companies in India by 2019.
iv. Tata
Motors is also set to reduce its current 6 platforms to 2 vehicle platforms
that will be used for manufacturing all the Tata cars using common design and
components thus saving procurement time and cost and reduce complexities.
vii. The
platforms would be based on Advance Modular Platform) architecture. It will
allow the firm to develop multiple body types like sport utility vehicles,
multi-purpose vehicles, compact cars and compact SUVs at lower costs and short
notice.
3. IDFC
MD VIKRAM LIMAYE NAMED NEW CEO & MD OF NATIONAL STOCK EXCHANGE
i. Managing
Director of IDFC, Vikram Limaye has been named as the new Managing Director
& CEO of the National Stock Exchange.
ii. The
position was lying vacant after Chitra Ramakrishna quit the exchange citing
personal reasons. Thus the stock exchange set up a 4-member panel to look for
the next MD of the bourse.
iii. Limaye
would be the 1st NSE CEO from outside the founding team that set up the
exchange in the 1990s.
4. NOTED
ECONOMIST SANJEEV SANYAL APPOINTED PRINCIPAL ECONOMIC ADVISER
i. Economist
Sanjeev Sanyal has been appointed as the Principal Economic Adviser in the
Ministry of Finance by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.
ii. Sanjeev
Sanyal, former Global Strategist and MD of Deutsche Bank will serve as the
Principal Economic Adviser in the Department of Economic Affairs.
iii. He will
serve as the 2nd in command in the economic division of the finance ministry
currently led by the chief economic adviser in the finance ministry Arvind
Subramanian.
iv. Sanyal
has been appointed on contract for a 3-year period from the date of assumption
of charge of the post or until further orders.
5. UIDAI
SHUTS DOWN 50 FRAUD SITES OFFERING AADHAAR SERVICES
i. The
Unique Identification Authority of India has dismissed 12 websites and 12
mobile applications available on Google Play store that were offering
Aadhaar-related services illegally.
ii. The
authorities have been directed to further shut down 26 websites and mobile
applications.
iii. The
decision comes after some websites and app were providing unauthorized Aadhaar
related services such as providing status of Aadhaar generation, downloading
online Aadhaar card, PVC Aadhaar Card etc., to residents.
iv. UIDAI
responded that it did not authorize any of these mobile applications or
websites to extend any Aadhaar related services on its behalf and seeks to take
stringent action against them.
6. WORLD
CANCER DAY: FEBRUARY 4, 2017
i. The World
Cancer Day is celebrated annually on February 4 to raise awareness of cancer
and to encourage its prevention, detection and treatment.
ii. The
theme of 2017 World Cancer Day was We Can, I Can.
iii. A
special 3 year campaign has been designed from 2016-2018 to explore ways how
everyone collectively or as individuals can do their part to reduce the global
burden of cancer.
iv. The day
was started by Union for International Cancer Control to support the goals of
the World Cancer Declaration, written in 2008.
v. The main
aim of the day was to ensure that illness, sickness and deaths due to cancer
are reduced significantly by 2020.
OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS BASED
ON TODAY’S NEWS
Q1. IN
WHICH CITY, THE PROGRAMME ON ‘INNER STRENGTH AND DISASTER RESILIENCE’
INAUGURATED BY KIREN RIJIJU HAD BEEN ORGANIZED?
a) Amritsar
b) Mumbai
c) Pune
d) New Delhi
Q2. WHICH
AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING COMPANY HAS LAUNCHED TAMO AS ITS SUB-BRAND AND A
STARTUP TO DEVELOP FUTURISTIC VEHICLES?
a) Mahindra & Mahindra Limited
b) Tata Motors
c) Maruti Suzuki
d) Bajaj Auto Limited
Q3. HOW
MANY FRAUD WEBSITES AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN BY THE UIDAI
FOR OFFERING ILLEGAL AADHAAR RELATED SERVICES?
a) 50
b) 62
c) 20
d) 45
Q4. WHO
HAS BEEN NAMED AS THE NEW MD & CEO OF THE NATIONAL STOCK EXCHANGE?
a) Pawan Sinha
b) Vishwajeet Rathore
c) Vikram Limaye
d) J.K. Garg
Q5. WHO
HAS BEEN SWORN IN AS THE PRINCIPAL ECONOMIC ADVISER IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE
BY THE APPOINTMENTS COMMITTEE OF THE CABINET?
a) Manjeet Singh
b) Sanjeev Sanyal
c) Atul Sengupta
d) Ravindra Das
ANSWERS:
1 - D 2
- B 3 - A 4 - C 5 - B
