Current Affairs Update – 30 December, 2016

Hello and welcome to exampundit. Here are the important Current Affairs of 30 December, 2016. These are important for the upcoming IPPB PO Mains, NIACL AO Mains and RBI Assistant Mains 2016-17.

• Chinese infrastructure and
  construction major, Pacific Construction Group (CPCG), has signed a memorandum
  of understanding (MoU) with the Gujarat Government’s iNDEXTb to invest $ 5.5
  billion (approx Rs. 37,000 crore) for developing infrastructure facilities in
  the State.
• The MoU was signed by Pacific
  Construction Group Chairman Yan Hao and iNDEXTb Managing Director Rajkumar
  Beniwal in the presence of Gujarat Chief Minister, Vijay Rupani, in
  Gandhinagar.
• The Chinese company is keen to
  invest in the areas of infrastructure sector, knowledge sharing, education
  innovations, GIFT City and iCreate through the MoU. Pacific Construction Group
  is positioned among the world’s top 100 construction companies.
• A government statement said that
  Pacific Construction Group will be provided all support in connection with the
  necessary permissions, infrastructure facilities and incentives to implement
  its projects under the MoU.

• Bank of Baroda (BoB) has inked a
  Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Heritage Foods (HFL) to provide dairy
  loans to farmers through the lender’s branches across the country. BoB and HFL
  will work jointly to provide dairy loans to the farmers which will benefit them
  in increasing their productivity and earnings under allied activities.
• Heritage Foods is in the business
  of procurement, processing and sale of milk and milk products.
• Bank of Baroda is a pioneer in
  various customer centric initiatives in the Indian banking sector. The Bank
  offers products and services such as deposits, loans, credit & debit cards,
  demat services, remittances, ECS (electronic clearing services), government
  business, etc.

• The Centre has appointed Archana
  Nigam as the next Controller General of Accounts in the Finance Ministry.
• Prior to this appointment, Nigam
  was involved in the critical task of setting up of the accounting framework for
  the GST regime to be launched by Government in next financial year.
• Nigam, who is expected to assume
  charge as CGA on Monday, has been appointed in the place of M.J.Joseph, who is
  to superannuate on Saturday.

• J P Nadda, Union Minister for
  Health & Family Welfare and Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister of Human
  Resource Development, on 29 December 2016 launched Swachh Swasth Sarvatra in
  New Delhi.
• The programme was launched to
  commemorate Good Governance Day. It is a joint initiative of the Ministry of
  Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation to
  achieve better health outcomes through improved sanitation and increased
  awareness and healthy lifestyles.

• The Swachh Swasth Sarvatra is a
  part of the Union Government’s flagship Swachh Bharat Mission.
• The initiative is focused on the
  twin objectives of constructing toilets and enabling behavioural change along
  with achieving open defecation-free India by 2019.
• The initiative incorporates three
  components.

• Venezuela’s oldest daily
  newspaper, El Impulso, a sharp critic of President Nicolas Maduro, is halting
  production because of a paper shortage, its publisher said today.
• Founded in 1904, the paper will
  suspend publication from Saturday because the state company charged with
  importing paper has stopped delivering its orders, publisher Carlos Eduardo
  Carmona said.
• The paper’s editor-in-chief, Juan
  Carmona, told AFP it would give employees a holiday through mid-January.
• If no paper is received by then,
  the company will shut its print edition and maintain only its website — but
  will not back off its critical line on the socialist government, he said.
• El Impulso is a regional paper
  based in the western city of Barquisimeto.

• China on 28 December 2016
  successfully launched two high-resolution remote sensing satellites SuperView-1
  01 and SuperView-1 02 with an aim to get commercial images.
• These satellites were launched
  on-board of Long March 2D rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in
  Shanxi Province.
• These satellites will provide
  commercial images at 0.5-meter resolution.
• They will be used for scientific
  purposes as well as on a commercial basis.

• China in the last week of
  December 2016 commenced operations of Shanghai-Kunming line, one of the world’s
  longest high-speed railways.
• The link joins the prosperous
  eastern coast to the less-developed southwestern part of the country.
• The launch of the
  Shanghai-Kunming line signifies that China’s high-speed rail grid has taken
  shape and connects almost all provinces on the Chinese mainland.
• The line is a part of the China
  Railway High-speed’s system of high-speed rail corridors, beginning in Shanghai
  and ending in Kunming.

• Beipanjiang Bridge, the world’s
  highest bridge that connects the province of Guizhou and Yunnan in the remote
  mountainous part of China was opened to traffic on 29 December 2016. The bridge
  spans 1850 feet (564 meters) above a gorge over the Beipan River.
• Build at an expense of about USD
  146.7 million dollars Beipanjiang Bridge will help in reducing the road travel
  time between Xuianwei to Liupanshui from five hours to two.
• As per reports, the bridge
  surpassed the 1837-foot-tall Sidu River Bridge for its world record title.

• Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds,
  mother of actress Carrie Fisher, passed away on 28 December 2016 following a
  brief illness. She was 84.
• Her death came just one day after
  the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher, who died on 27 December 2016 following
  a heart attack.

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