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Daily G.K. - Top Stories

08 Feb 2017

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Bomb Blast at Afghanistan Top Court

  • An attacker, wearing a suicide vest, targeted a bus carrying judicial personnel as they were leaving work for the day.
  • At least 20 people were killed and 41 injured in a suicide bomb attack.
  • No group has claimed responsibility yet, but the Taliban have in the past targeted government judicial workers since the execution of six convicted insurgents last May.

Sri Lanka Backs Maritime Silk Road Project

  • Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena assured full support to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping's ambitious Maritime Silk Road project.
  • As per Sirisena, the project will open a new era of relations between the two countries.
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ENVIRONMENT

Britain’s Most Significant Sites are Ruining

  • As per reports, climate change is wrecking some of Britain’s most significant sites, from Wordsworth’s Gardens in Cumbria to the White Cliffs on England’s south coast.
  • Floods and erosion are damaging historic places, while warmer temperatures are seeing salmon vanishing from famous rivers and birds no longer visiting important wetlands.
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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

Winding Up of United Breweries Ordered

  • Karnataka High Court ordered winding up of United Breweries Holding Limited in a case relating to recovery of dues from Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher Airlines.
  • Mallya's now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines owes over Rs. 9,000 crore in loan to the SBI-led consortium of 17 banks.
  • UBHL holds 11.46 percent stake in United Breweries and 2.9 percent stake in United Spirits.
  • Karnataka HC gave the order following plea filed by SBI, BNP Paribas and others for recovering their dues from Mallya.

PSU Banks to Join BHIM

  • According to the National Payments Corporation of India, all Public Sector Banks are expected to join the Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) app for digital payments by the end of February.
  • The BHIM app enables digital transactions using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and has been downloaded by 13.8 million users by the end of January.

LIC Picks Up 2% in ITC

  • The government sold about 2% of the 11.12% it held in ITC for Rs. 6,690 crore.
  • The stake was bought by life insurance major LIC.
  • After the latest deal, LIC will hold 16.32% in the tobacco-to-FMCG major.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS

Shiv Sena's New Face in Gujarat Assembly Polls

  • Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray announced that Hardik Patel would be his party's face in Gujarat Assembly Elections.
  • Shiv Sena's decision comes just ahead of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections which will take place later this month.
  • Shiv Sena and BJP are fighting the civic polls separately.

Karnal Singh Gets Two-year Fixed Term

  • Enforcement Directorate chief Karnal Singh, who was due to retire in August this year, has been given a fixed tenure of two years following a Supreme Court.
  • Singh was in October last appointed as ED Director.
  • The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has approved the two-year fixed tenure for him and it will be effective from October 27, 2016.
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