30th December 2016 Important Daily Current Affairs

Daily Current Affairs of 30th December 2016

International Current Affairs

The Beipanjiang Bridge in southwest China is now open to traffic.
- It is the highest bridge in the world at 1,854 feet.
- The 1,341-metre-long bridge, soars over a river and connects the Guizhou and Yunnan mountainous provinces.
Colombian lawmakers have approved an amnesty law to protect Marxist FARC rebels from prosecution for minor crimes committed during the country's 52-year civil war.
- The law is one of the contentious parts of a peace deal signed between the government and rebel forces, and will not pardon people who have been accused of human rights violations or war crimes.

Banking & Economic Affairs

50-day deadline to deposit old 500 and 1000 rupee notes in banks ends today.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched a mobile payments application called BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money), in the honour of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar.
- Compatible with all Android phones, the app has a maximum limit of ₹10,000 per transaction and ₹20,000 within 24 hours.
E-commerce major Amazon has launched a new platform named 'Sell as Individual' that lets users sell used goods in their city on paying a fixed amount of fee.
- Currently being operated in Bengaluru, users need to share pictures and details of the products on Amazon's website and the company will provide doorstep pick-up, packing, and delivery of their goods.
Technology major Apple will reportedly start manufacturing or assembling iPhones in Bengaluru from April 2017.
- Manufacturing locally will make Apple products cheaper in India and help the company open retail stores in the country, where products are currently sold through resellers.
National capital Delhi has registered the highest per capita income among all states and union territories of the country, during 2015-16 at about ₹2,80,000.
- Delhi's per capita income is over three times the national average.
- It is followed by Chandigarh and Sikkim with per capita incomes of ₹2,42,386 and ₹2,27,465, respectively.

Awards & Honors

A newly discovered Hawaiian coral reef fish has become the 9th creature to be named after US President Barack Obama.
- Identified as Tosanoides obama, the fish was discovered during an expedition inside Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in Hawaii.
- Apart from the fish, the US President also has a spider, a lizard and a bird named after him.Books & Authors

Filmmaker Karan Johar will launch his biography, 'An Unsuitable Boy', in January 2017.
- Co-authored by Karan and Poonam Saxena, it will be published by Penguin Random House.

New Appointments

The Defence Ministry today appointed Navy Chief Sunil Lanba as the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff committee (COSC).
- The COSC post is given to the senior-most of the service chiefs.
- Lanba received the baton from the outgoing Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha in a ceremony at Defence Ministry in New Delhi.

This is the end of today's Daily Current Affairs session friends. Good Day :)