Current Affairs 9th December 2016
NATIONAL
- Naidu inaugurates 4th Bi-Annual Photo Exhibition in Delhi
- Prasar Bharati archives sales counter inaugurated at Akashwani Bhawan
- Lok Sabha passes second Supplementary Demands for Grants for Budget 2016 -17
- Cabinet approves EC’s proposal to buy new EVMs Gov
- Indian Army launches app to reach out to veterans
- Telangana govt to provide banking services to 5,000 villages
- Govt asks banks to install additional 10 lakh POS to promote digital transactions
INTERNATIONAL
- India-UK Conference on Ease of Doing Business inaugurated in Delhi
- India-Arab partnership conference to be held in Muscat, Oman
- UK PM Theresa May wins vote in Parliament backing her timetable for Brexit
BANKING NEWS
- Mobile banking service SIMsePAY launched in Arunachal Pradesh
- Reserve Bank of India leaves repo rate unchanged at 6.25%
- RXIL gets RBI nod for 1st trade receivables exchange platform
BUSINESS NEWS
- IOC, BPCL, HPCL join hands to set up India’s biggest oil refinery
AGREEMENTS & MoUs
- Indian Army, in collaboration with College & Institute launch Swacch Bharat Abhiyan
- Mahila E-haat ties up with India Post, SBI
APPOINTMENTS
- PR Sreejesh takes charge as Goalkeeping Coach of India Under-21 hockey team
- Trump selects Iowa Governor Branstad as U.S. envoy to China
- Justice Mian Saqib Nisar appointed next Chief Justice of Pakistan
AWARDS
- ML BAGS CII NATIONAL QUALITY AWARD By Abhijeet Padhi
- TIME magazine named US President-elect Donald Trump as Person of the Year 2016
- Google parent Alphabet named company of the year by Fortune
- Karnataka Bank gets award
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- Microsoft launches solutions for SMEs
SPORTS NEWS
- Michael Jordan highest-paid athlete of all time: Forbes
- MCC World Cricket Committee recommends law changing thickness of edge of depth of bat
