Current Affairs -2016 December - 10 to 16 (Chapter-04)

Current Affairs -2016
December - 10 to 16
(Chapter-04)

46.Who has been chosen by the Canada’s Government, as the first women to be featured on the new Canadian $ 10 currency note,

effective from 2018?

Viola Desmond

47.The Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) is scheduled to be held from 16 December to 23 December 2016 in

Goa

48. Who was sworn-in as the UN Secretary General in December 2016?

Antonio Guterres

49.Government of India has decided to print plastic currency notes. What type of plastic is this?

Polymer substrate

50.which company of India bagged the contract to convert Sardar Patel Stadium to world’s biggest cricket stadium?

Larsen & Turbo (L&T)

51. Where was the sixth edition of Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (APMCHUD) held recently?

New Delhi

52.Which state recently approved the recommendations of the seventh pay commission? The recommendations were approved ahead of

elections that are scheduled to be held in 2017.

Uttar Pradesh

53.Name the first Indian to win a medal at the Mr. Olympia amateur event?

Iqbal Sayed

54.The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has appointed whom as the integrity ambassador?

Saina Nehwal

55.How much amount has been pledged by India to contribute to the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for the year 2016-17?

$500,000

56.Pakistan and Russia held their first ever consultation on 14th December at which city?

Islamabad

57.Which space agency successfully launched a Kounotori 6 (HTV-6) spacecraft on December 9, 2016, to deliver a space junk collector technology into orbit?

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

58.International Mountains Day is observed on

December 11

59.Name the state that on 11 December 2016 launched Narmada Seva Yatra with an aim to turn it pollution free. 

Madhya Pradesh

60.Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has issued an advisory banning the use of which material for wrapping and packaging of food items?

Newspaper
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