DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 9TH DEC 2016
(Daily News India)
1. HARRY
POTTER TOPS AMAZON'S BEST-SELLING BOOKS OF 2016
i. Amazon
has announced Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as the best-selling book of
2016.
ii. The
playscript by JK Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, was also named this
year's 'Most Wished For' and 'Most Gifted' book.
2. US
DESIGNATES INDIA AS MAJOR DEFENCE PARTNER
i. India and
the United States vowed to expand the bilateral defence cooperation.
ii. Outgoing
American defence secretary Ashton Carter met his counterpart Manohar Parrikar
in New Delhi for the record-breaking seventh time.
iii. He
termed New Delhi as a "major defence partner".
3. TWO
BANKS OF ABU DHABI TO MERGE AS THE BIGGEST BANK IN GULF NATION
i.
Stockholders of the National Bank of Abu Dhabi and First Gulf Bank on December
7, 2016, approved to merge into the biggest bank of all Gulf Countries with an
asset of $ 178 billion.
ii. After
the merger the combined company will be named as NBAD.
iii. The FGB
shareholders will receive 1.254 NBAD shares for each FGB share they hold and
FGB stockholders will own 52% of the new bank.