Current Affairs 09th December 2016 | General Awareness 09th December 2016

City police team conducts search in Facebook’s Mumbai office

It is in connection with a derogatory post against Kateel temple

A team of Mangaluru city police with assistance from Mumbai police carried out searches in the office of Facebook in Mumbai in connection with a case related to a derogatory post against Kateel Sri Durgaparameshwari Temple.

Kateel Sri Durgaparameshwari Temple.

The temple is situated on an islet in the middle of the sacred river Nandini.

Fort in Kalaburagi holds the world’s largest cannon?

The Bara Gazi Toph measures 29 ft in length,with a circumference of 7.6 ft

• The Bara Gazi Toph (cannon) located atop the 14th century fort in Kalaburagi is probably the largest cannon in the world. The fort was built by the founder of the Bahmani Sultanate, Sultan Allauddin Hasan Bahman Shah, between 1327 and 1424.
• Cannon mounted on the fort was 29 ft in length, with a circumference of 7.6 ft.

Largest cannon in the world.

Tsar Cannon in Russia

A more muscular rice variety takes on wheat

Bengaluru researchers raise a high-protein strain that could help diabetics.

• A rice variety that packs more protein to match wheat has been released by Karnataka’s University of Agricultural Sciences-Bengaluru.
• The rice strain, which offers an option to those who are not comfortable switching over to wheat for supplementary protein, is now available for commercial cultivation.

12 to 13

Percent of protein content in this rice variety.

COURT-MLA

BSP MLA gets life term in murder case

• BSP MLA B L Kushwaha was on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here in connection with a murder case of 2002.
• The additional district judge also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 and handed out similar sentence to Kushwaha’s gunman Satyendra Singh.

Rs 10,000

The additional district judge also imposed a fine

Modi highlights long-term gains

Highlighted in the debate in Parliament

• As debate in Parliament on demonetisation remained inconclusive for the 16th day on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to assert that “short-term pain” would be outweighed by “long-term gains.”
• He also said the country had a “historic opportunity” to embrace cashless payment

Yagna

• Corruption
• Terrorism
• Black money

Postal SP wanted in money exchange fraud surrenders

Masterminded the nearly Rs.3 crore money exchange fraud

• K. Sudheer Babu, Superintendent of Post Offices, Hyderabad city division, who was absconding since last week surrendered before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
• Babu, who masterminded the nearly Rs.3 crore money exchange fraud in three post-offices, has also been suspended by the Postal Department for unauthorised absence from office.

Abbreviation

CBI – Central Bureau of Investigation.

Disruption of Parliament is not democracy: President

To transact business rather than disrupting House proceedings

• As Parliament stayed disrupted for two weeks over demonetisation, President Pranab Mukherjee had a sharp message for Parliamentarians: transact business rather than disrupting House proceedings.
• He was delivering the fourth Defence Estates Day lecture on the topic of Electoral Reforms for a Stronger Democracy

3 D’s in Democracy

• Debate
• Dissension
• Decision

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