4th December 2017 Events - Important Daily Current Affairs

Daily Current Affairs of 4th December 2017

International Current Affairs

South Korea and United States have launched Vigilant Ace, their largest-ever joint aerial drills.
- The exercise comes after North Korea tested Hwasong-15, its most advanced and powerful Inter Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) as part of its weapons programme.

National Current Affairs

The Indian Navy Day is being observed today.
- India observe this day on 4th December to commemorate the launch of Operation Trident against Pakistan's naval headquarters during the 1971 Indo-Pak War.
The Telangana Government is going to set up the World’s first Information and Technology (IT) Campus for differently-abled persons (Divyangs) in state capital Hyderabad.
The Madhya Pradesh Assembly has unanimously passed a bill that imposes death penalty for convicts in rape and gangrape cases involving girls aged 12 years or below.
The 11th Annual MedTech Summit of Biodesign Programme was held in New Delhi.
- It was inaugurated by Minister of Science & Technology, Earth Sciences and Environment, Forests & Climate Change Dr. Harsh Vardhan.
- The summit was organised by Department of Biotechnology (DBT) under the Bio Design Programme and was attended by leaders of government organisations, academia, medical device industry, start-ups, hospitals, design, business and engineering institutes from Australia, Finland, Canada, India, Germany, Japan, Singapore, UK and USA.

Awards & Honors

Kolkata-based driver Dipak Das will be felicitated with the Manush Sanman award for not honking in the past 18 years.
The 23d Star Screen Awards were concluded in Mumbai last night. The annual film awards show, which recognises the best of talent in Hindi films, saw in attendance who's who of Bollywood. Here is the complete winners list.
- Star Screen Awards 2017 winners
- Best Film (Critics) - Newton
- Best Director - Nitesh Tiwari (Dangal)
- Best Actress (Critics) - Vidya Balan (Tumhari Sulu)
- Best Actress - Konkona Sen Sharma (Lipstick Under My Burkha)
- Best Actor (Critics) - Rajkummar Rao (Newton)
- Best Actor - Irrfan Khan (Hindi Medium)
- Best Supporting Actor - Rajkummar Rao (Bareilly Ki Barfi)
- Best Supporting Actor (Female) - Neha Dhupia (Tumhari Sulu)
- Best Dialogues - Nitesh Tiwari and Shreyas Jain (Bareilly Ki Barfi)
- Best Sound Design - Shahjith Koyeri (Rangoon)
- Best Background Score - Pritam (Dangal)
- Best Lyrics - Amitabh Bhattacharya (Dangal)
- Best Music Director - Pritam (Dangal)
- Best Editing - Ballu Saluja (Dangal)
- Best Debut Director - Suresh Triveni (Tumhari Sulu)
- Best Playback Singer - Arijit Singh (Raees - Zaalima and Jagga Jasoos)
- Best Playback Singer - Shashaa Tirupati (Kanha - Shubh Mangal Savdhaan)
- Best Choreographer - Shiamak Davar (Ullu Ka Pattha - Jagga Jasoos)
- Best Action - Sham Kaushal (Dangal and Daddy)

Science & Technology

The Indian government has launched a nasal foreign body removal device titled Noxeno.
- Noxeno was developed by a Bangalore based start-up , InnAccel Technologies Private Limited.
- Note : Noxeno is first dedicated tool for anterior Nasal Foreign Body (NFB) removal.
China today launched a land exploration satellite into a preset orbit.
- Launched from China's Gansu Province, the satellite has been designed for remote sensing exploration of land resources.

Banking, Business & Economic Affairs

Paytm Payments Bank today rolled out Paytm FASTag to enable electronic toll fee collection on highways across India without having to stop.
- The tag, linked to a Paytm account, uses Radio-Frequency Identification Technology (RFID) to automatically deduct toll charges.
- Important Note : The government made 'FASTag' mandatory on every new vehicle sold from December 1.

Sports Current Affairs

Indian archer Deepika Kumari has won Bronze medal at Indoor Archer World Cup Stage 2 at Bangkok by defeating Sayana Tsyrempilova of Russia.

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