DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 17 JULY 2017
(DAILY NEWS INDIA)
1.
GOVT LAUNCHES GST TRAINING PROGRAMME
i. The government has
launched a GST training programme to skill around 2 lakh youths in six months
and to handle tax compliance issues like invoice making.
ii. The people would be
trained under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana. It will be implemented in 14 states and in
the next 6 months, 2 lakh people will
GST get complete training about GST.
iii. The new GST training
programme helps businesses in areas such as registration and calculation of tax
liability under the new tax regime.
iv. The ministry also
launched a national portal for assessors and trainers besides 51 new PMKVY
centres. Now, the total number of PMKVY centres has increased to 200.
v. To mark the 2nd
anniversary of Skill India mission the ministry has inaugurated the training
course at 100 centres in the country.
2.
MATUNGA BECOMES INDIA’S FIRST RAILWAY STATION RUN BY WOMEN
i. In a bid to empower
women, Central Railway has appointed all women staff at suburban Matunga
railway station, thereby making it India’s 1st railway station run by women. A
formal event to mark all women railway station will be held soon.
ii. A total of 30 women
staffers, including 11 booking clerks, 5 Railway Protection Force personnel, 7
ticket checkers are working under the supervision of station manager Mamta
Kulkarni since last two weeks.
iii. Matunga railway station,
which is located in central Mumbai, gets a huge number of student population as
a lot of colleges are located in the area.
i. Samsung Pay and
MobiKwik enable one-tap payment solution for e-wallet users. According to the
digital payments firm MobiKwik wallet is now integrated with Samsung Pay Mini
to enable one-tap payments at more than 1.4 million MobiKwik-powered merchants
across the country.
ii. The government has
also introduced a number of schemes to promote adoption of e-payment methods
like mobile wallets, debit/credit cards and Unified Payment Interface.
iii. Samsung Pay, the
mobile payments service of the world’s largest handset maker was launched in
India in March 2017. It allows users to just tap and pay using the debit/credit
cards and wallets stored on their mobile devices.
iv. Currently, Samsung
Pay is available for users of devices like Samsung S8, Samsung S7 Edge, S7, J7
Max and J7 Pro among others.
v. More than 55 million
and 1.4 million merchants will benefit from this association.
4.
INDONESIA RENAMING PART OF SOUTH CHINA SEA AS NORTH NATUNA SEA
i. Indonesia has become
the latest Southeast Asian nation to rename South China Sea as North Natuna
Sea.
ii. Indonesia will refer
to the northern areas of its exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea as
the North Natuna Sea. At a press conference in Jakarta, Deputy Minister for
Marine Sovereignty ArifHavas Oegroseno disclosed a new map with the renamed territory.
iii. The part of the
renamed area falls in China’s “nine-dash line” waters extending hundreds of
miles to the south and east of China’s island province Hainan.
iv. In 2011, the
Philippines renamed the waters as the “West Philippine Sea”.
v. The Deputy of Maritime
Sovereignty at the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Arif Havas Oegroseno, noted
the northern side of its exclusive economic zone was the site of oil and gas
activity.
5.
IIFA AWARDS 2017: NEERJA WINS BEST FILM, SHAHID-ALIA WIN BEST ACTOR AND ACTRESS
i. IIFA Awards 2017,
officially known as 18th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony was
held at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, USA.
ii. Shahid Kapoor won the
Best Actor Award for playing Tommy Singh, a Punjabi rockstar struggling with a
drug addiction in the film ‘Udta Punjab’.
iii. Alia Bhatt won the
Best Actress Award for playing the role of a migrant girl trapped in a drug
lord’s house in film ‘Udta Punjab’.
iv. ‘Neerja’ won the Best
Film Award, while ‘Pink’ director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury won the award for
Best Director.
6.
HARINDER PAL SANDHU WINS VICTORIAN OPEN SQUASH TITLE
i. India’s Harinder Pal
Sandhu won a Victorian Open squash title, in Melbourne.
ii. Harindar won a 2nd
title in two weeks and beat Rex Hedrick of Australia. Third -Seeded Sandhu, who
had won the South Australian Open, last week has won his fourth title of the
year.
7.
FORMER SIKKIM CM NAR BAHADUR BHANDARI PASSES AWAY
i. Former three – term
chief ministers of Sikkim, Nar Bahadur Bhandari died at the age of 77.
ii. Bhandari was an
obscure school teacher. He became the chief minister of Sikkim for the first
time in 1979 on a Janata Parishad ticket and then again in 1984 and 1989 on a
Sikkim Sangram Parishad ticket.
iii. The founder of the
SSP and he remained the party president. He was also a former president of
Sikkim Pradesh Congress Committee.
8.
“KATIE PRICE UNVEILS NEW NOVEL “”PLAYING WITH FIRE”
i. Katie Price has
disclosed the cover for her next novel “Playing With Fire“, which will be
available later this year.
ii. The novel has a story
of a 27-year-old events manager named Indigo, who falls for restaurant
entrepreneur Connor after she is tasked with planning the opening of his new
Shoreditch night club.
iii. It will be out on
19th October.
OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS BASED
ON TODAY’S NEWS
Q1.
GOVERNMENT LAUNCHED A GOODS AND SERVICES TAX TRAINING PROGRAMME TO SKILL AROUND
HOW MANY YOUTHS IN SIX MONTHS TO HANDLE TAX COMPLIANCE ISSUES LIKE INVOICE
MAKING?
a) 2 lakh youths
b) 3 lakh youths
c) 5 lakh youths
d) 7 lakh youths
Q2.
WHICH AMONG THE FOLLOWING RAILWAY STATION IN MUMBAI HAS BECOME INDIA’S 1ST
RAILWAY STATION RUN BY WOMEN?
a) Andheri Railway Station
b) Matunga Railway Station
c) Vashi Railway Station
d) Kalyan Railway Station
Q3.
WHICH AMONG THE FOLLOWING COUNTRY RENAMED THE NORTHERN REACHES OF ITS EXCLUSIVE
ECONOMIC ZONE IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA AS THE NORTH NATUNA SEA?
a) Japan
b) South Korea
c) Indonesia
d) Philippines
Q4.
NAR BAHADUR BHANDARI, WHO PASSED AWAY RECENTLY, WAS THE FORMER CHIEF MINISTER
OF?
a)
Arunachal Pradesh
b) Tripura
c) Sikkim
d) Manipur
Q5.
WHICH DIGITAL PAYMENTS COMPANY HAS ENTERED INTO PARTNERSHIP WITH SAMSUNG PAY,
UNDER WHICH CONSUMERS WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE PAYMENTS WITH A SINGLE TAP USING
SELECT SAMSUNG HANDSETS?
a) Freecharge
b) MobiKwik
c) PayUMoney
d) Paytm
ANSWERS:
