CURRENT AFFAIRS 29/11/2017
CURRENT
AFFAIRS 29/11/2017
i. A
new Payments Bank 'Paytm Payments Bank' was formally launched at the hands of
the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. Currently, India has four Payments Bank
including Paytm Payments Bank. The other three operational ones are Airtel
Payments Bank, India Post Payments Bank and Fino Payments Bank.
ii. A
payments bank is a differentiated bank. A customer can open a savings bank
account in them and have deposits of upto Rs. 1 lakh. These banks cannot
however lend money to their customers.
i. The
festival concluded with the world premiere of Indo-Argentinian co-production
"Thinking of Him", directed by Pablo Cesar. The closing ceremony was
attended by Goa Chief Minister, Manohar Parikkar, Union Minister Smriti Irani.
ii. The
legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan was honoured with the Indian film personality
of the year Award at the glittering Closing Ceremony. The award was presented
by Union Minister Smirit Irani and Akshay Kumar.
i. Russia
will assist India to set up a national crisis management centre in the country
to handle disaster and other emergency situations.
ii. This
was agreed during a meeting between Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh and
Russian Minister for Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov in Moscow. Both
sides agreed that EMERCOM of Russia would cooperate with India in the
establishment of the National Crisis Management Centre (NCMC) in India.
i. The
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has asked companies to put
in place a proper plan to recall food products from markets, if found
unsafe.
ii. FSSAI
has issued detailed guidelines on recall of food products and stated that the
purpose is to help food business operators (FBOs) frame a proper recall plan
and implement them when the situation demand.
i. Five
more Russian competitors from the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, including two
gold medallists, have been banned for life over anti-doping rule violations by
International Olympic Committee (IOC).
ii. Dmitrii
Trunenkov and Aleksei Negodailo, both in the gold-medal winning four-man
bobsleigh team, plus biathlon relay silver medalists Yana Romanova and Olga
Vilukhina, who also won silver in the 7.5 kilometers event. Sergei Chudinov,
who came fifth in the men's individual skeleton, was also disqualified for
doping breaches.
i. Jet
Airways and Air France-KLM announced a partnership to route more traffic
through Europe and on to North America, in a potential challenge to Gulf
carrier Etihad Airways that is a shareholder in Jet.
ii. The
agreement also includes Delta Air Lines, with which Air France KLM has an
existing partnership.
i. Bitcoin
rose above the symbolic $10,000 threshold for the first time, bringing its rise
for the year to date to more than 900 per cent. The price of the cryptocurrency
edged above $10,000 on Coinbase, the largest dollar denominated bitcoin
exchange, which gave the latest price as $10,052 in Asia.
ii. Bloomberg
data gave the intraday high as $10,058 before easing to $9,999.Bitcoin was
trading at around $1,000 dollars at the beginning of 2017.
i. Robin
Campillo’s French film 120 Beats Per Minute, about a passionate fight against
indifference towards AIDS, won the prestigious Golden Peacock award for best
film at the controversy-ridden 48th International Film Festival of India. The
film’s actor Nahuel Perez Biscayart won the Silver Peacock in the best actor
male category.
ii. Malayalam
film Take Off, which is loosely based on the evacuation of nurses from Kerala,
who were stranded in Iraq’s Tikrit in 2014, won two awards at the festival’s
Indian Panorama section, winning Silver Peacocks for best direction (Mahesh
Narayanan) and best actor female (Parvathy). Actor Amitabh Bachchan was also
presented the Indian film personality of the year award.
i. Myanmar's
de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been stripped of the Freedom of Oxford
award over her "inaction" in handling the raging Rohingya refugee
crisis and turning a "blind eye to violence" in the country that
forced over 600,000 people to flee to Bangladesh.
ii. Oxford
City Council in London voted unanimously to permanently remove the honour given
to 72-year-old Suu Kyi in 1997.
i. The
Hyderabad Metro Rail opened for public with the passengers describing their
first-time travel by it as a “convenient, comfortable and awesome experience“.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the first phase of the elevated
Hyderabad Metro Rail project at the Miyapur station.
ii. The
metro rail commenced its operations between Miyapur and Nagole, having a total
distance of 30 kms and 24 stations, the concessionaire, L&T Metro Rail
(Hyderabad) Ltd.
i. The
Chhattisgarh Government has imposed a ban on the bursting of firecrackers in
six of its cities, including the state capital Raipur, ahead of the wedding
season from December 1st to January 31st. According to the statement issued by
the State Environment Conservation Board, the decision has been taken to
control the pollution, which increases during winters due to the direction of
the wind.
ii. Besides
Raipur, other cities, which have been banned from bursting firecrackers, include
Bilaspur, Bhilai, Durg, Raigarh and Korba.
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