CURRENT AFFAIRS DATE:-16/12/2016 IN GUJARATI BY EDUSAFAR.
CURRENT AFFAIRS DATE:-16/12/2016 IN GUJARATI BY EDUSAFAR.
This Indian artist is featured in two categories of the initial Oscar nomination list for the 89th annual academy awards- AR Rahman
• This e-commerce company has introduced its unlimited ad-free online streaming service in India – Amazon
• This song from film, ‘Pele: Birth of a Legend’, has featured in the initial list of Oscar nomination for Best Original Song category- Ginga
• The Home Ministry has asked users to delete these apps for security reasons- Top Gun, Mpjunkie, Bdjunkie and Talking Frog
• Union Government recently approved MoU between ISRO and which international agency to use Land Remote Sensing Satellite Data- United States Geological Survey (USGS)
• Company that tied up with Union Government for online River Water and Air Quality Monitoring (WAQM) systems- Intel
• Person conferred with the Golden Jubilee Lifetime Achievement Award by the Sports Journalists’ Association of Mumbai- Sunil Gavaskar
• Pulkit Trivedi was appointed as Industry Director of- Facebook India
• Donald Trump appointed her as a member of the Strategic and Policy Forum – Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo
• The Union Government is planning to develop 60 solar cities across the country. The population criteria for inclusion of a city in this project is - Between 50000 and 50 lakh
• He was adjudged as the World’s most powerful person by Forbes for 2016 – Vladimir Putin
• India’s Prime Minster Narendra Modi’s position in the 2016 Forbes World’s Most Powerful People List is – 9th position
• The FCRA license of this NGO was cancelled by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs for violating the laws - Greenpeace India
• Sarbananda Sonowal, the Chief Minister of Assam inaugurated a Solar Battery Station at Bindhakata Tengapukhuri village in – Dibrugarh
• The US Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.
25 percent, only the second increase in a decade and first in - 2016.
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