Current Affairs 24th December 2016 | General Awareness 24th December 2016

Babus, mantris let down Naidu on digital test

Digital transactions as suggested by him at Collectors’ conference

• As the proverb ‘Old habits die hard’ goes, the bureaucrats have not changed their attitude.
• Few of those attending the Collectors’ conference, indeed scrupulously followed the suggestion of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to perform at least one or two digital transactions and report back to him.

One transactions

Top brass and ministers to go shopping and perform at least one digital transactions.

Cashless and worry-free in A.P.

Kakuturivaripalem uses phones, PoS machines for essentials

• It may be a rarity, but a once unbanked village in Andhra Pradesh’s Prakasam district has gone cashless, with all of its 2,209 residents adopting bank accounts and mobile phones.
• All families in sleepy Kakuturivaripalem, 30 km from here, use bank accounts, RuPay cards and phones to transact and make payments to milk suppliers and Kirana stores equipped with electronic Point of Sale (e-POS) machines.

Two villages for Cashless transaction

• K. Pallepallem
• Dwarapaudi

Moon race: Team Indus to carry Japanese rival’s rover

TeamIndus of Bengaluru and Hakuto, the team of Japanaese startup ispace Inc

• There has been an unprecedented tie-up between two rival private space novices — both competing to land on Moon. Team Indus of Bengaluru and Hakuto, the team of Japanaese startup space Inc., have signed a ‘rideshare’ agreement.
• TeamIndus’s spacecraft will be launched on ISRO’s PSLV rocket on December 28, 2017, Hakuto’s 4 kg robotic rover will be carried on Team Indus’s 600 kg spacecraft.

TeamIndus

The team is led by Rahul Narayan, a Delhi-based IT professional.

Delhi L-G springs a surprise, quits

Will stay in office till successor is appointed

The decision of Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung to put in his papers caught not only the State and Central governments but even his own staff by surprise with officials insisting that they had no inkling that he would do so till they were asked to convey his decision to the press through an official statement here.

July 2013.

Mr. Jung took over as the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi from Tejendra Khanna.

City records 2nd highest Dec. temperature

Sizzling at a maximum temperature of 31 degrees Celsius

• The woollens came off, with the city sizzling at a maximum temperature of 31 degrees Celsius, the second highest temperature in December ever.
• The city recorded 30.9 degrees Celsius on December 14, 2015.

26.5 degrees C

The average mean maximum temperature for December.

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