3rd January 2017 Important Daily Current Affairs

Daily Current Affairs of 3rd January 2017

International Current Affairs

Finland became the first country in Europe to trial a project to pay unemployed citizens a basic monthly income of €560 (around ₹40,000), in a move to reduce poverty and boost employment.
The Chinese navy today confirmed that its sole aircraft carrier Liaoning conducted military drills and helicopter exercises in "complex sea conditions" in the South China Sea.
- China has termed the drills a routine exercise within international law.
- This comes days after Taiwan claimed the carrier had passed south of the island amid rising tensions between the two countries.
India has ranked third among the countries offering the highest average annual salary to expatriates, according to HSBC Holdings data.
- Switzerland topped the list with an average salary of $188,275 a year.

National Current Affairs

The 14th annual overseas Indians' gathering called "Pravasi Bharatiya Divas" will be held in Bengaluru from January 7-9.
- This will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi,.
- Note : The convention has traditionally been held on January 9 to commemorate the return of Mahatma Gandhi as 'Pravasi' from South Africa to India.
Rajasthan government is going to distribute contraceptives and vanity kits to newly married couples in 14 districts where Total Fertility Rate (TFR) is high.
- The kit would contain condoms, oral contraceptives, pregnancy testing kits and a vanity pouch with things like nail cutter, towels and bindis.
- Note : TFR is the average number of children born per woman during her reproductive life.
The ongoing All India Police Equestrian Championship and Mounted Police Duty Meet has been named after the deceased police horse Shaktiman.
- Shaktiman was injured in an attack by BJP MLA Ganesh Joshi in Dehradun and died a few weeks later.

New Appointments

Anshu Jain, the former co-CEO of Germany’s largest lender Deutsche Bank has now joined smaller financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald.
- Jain will bring decades of work experience in the financial services industry and will join Cantor CEO Howard Lutnick.

Karnataka State Minister for Cooperation HS Mahadeva Prasad (58) passed away .
- He was a five-term member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.

Banking & Economic Affairs

HDFC bank has launched a chatbot service called 'OnChat' to allow users to make payments through Facebook Messenger.
- The chatbot will allow users to recharge their phones, pay electricity and DTH bills, and even book Uber and Ola taxis.
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) today received approval from markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for its Initial Public Offering (IPO).
- With this IPO, the stock exchange expects to raise over ₹1,200 crore.
- BSE had filed a draft prospectus for the IPO in September, seeking to list its shares on National Stock Exchange (NSE).
To remove dependency on banks, Paytm has added Unified Payment Interface (UPI) support to its app allowing users to transfer money to their digital wallet with their UPI id.
- Developed by the government-backed corporation, the UPI framework for online transactions supports at least 27 banks.
- This comes a week after SBI disabled the option to transfer money to Paytm.

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