14th December 2016 Important Daily Current Affairs

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Dear Great Ambitionists, here are today's (14th December 2016) Important Current Affairs updates. Happy Reading :)

Daily Current Affairs of 14th December 2016

International Current Affairs

• Israel today got the first two of its 50 F-35 stealth fighter jets from US-based company Lockheed Martin.
• With this Israel became the first country after the US to get the warplanes. 
• The 9th edition of exercise INDRA NAVY, an annual bilateral maritime exercise between Indian Navy and Russian Navy began in the Bay of Bengal today. 
• Aim of INDRA NAVY-16 : to increase inter-operability amongst the two navies and develop common understanding and procedures for maritime security operations.
• The exercise will be held in two phases. They are, 
• Harbour Phase : will be held from 14 to 18 December 2016
• Sea Phase : will be held from 19 to 21 December 2016

National Current Affairs

• Today (14th December) is National Energy Conservation Day.
  
  • This day is observed in India to make people aware about the importance of energy as well as saving or conserving the more energy by using less energy.
  • Important Points to Note :
  • The Energy Conservation Act in India was executed by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) in the year 2001.
  • The Bureau of Energy Efficiency is a constitutional body which comes under Government of India and helps in the development of policies and strategies in order to reduce the energy use.
• Gujarat tops the list of states in distribution of LED bulbs as part of country-wide campaign for reducing power consumption.
• Gujarat has distributed 2.70 crore LED bulbs till December 12 from the date of its launch earlier this year.
• Maharashtra, ranked second, has distributed over 2 crore LED bulbs so far.
• The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, which will replace the Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995, was passed in the Rajya Sabha today. 
• The legislation, which has brought in a total of 119 amendments, had been pending in the Parliament's Upper House since February 2014. 
• This new bill has recognized 21 disabilities (the previous Act identified only seven disabilities).
• After making Aadhaar mandatory for JEE-Mains, the engineering entrance exam, the government is planning to link Aadhaar with exams like CAT, NEET and NET from the year 2017. 
• The CBSE Class XII board examinations may also see Aadhaar playing a role.
• During these exams, a biometric attendance system using fingerprint recognition will be used for identity verification.
• The 6th edition of Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (APMCHUD) began in New Delhi.
• It was inaugurated by Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu. 
• The three days conference seeks to address issues ranging from crowded city centres to peripheral expansion, metropolitan based urban population growth, megacities and urban corridors etc.
• The National Green Tribunal today banned the sale and use of glass-coated thread, including Chinese manjha, used to fly kites in India.

Business & Economic Affairs

• Reliance Industries Chairman and India's richest person Mukesh Ambani and Tata Sons Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata with Bill Gates, Jack Ma and other billionaires have created a $1 billion fund to invest in clean energy. 
• Called the Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the fund will invest the sum to fight climate change through innovation in clean energy over the next 20 years.

Awards & Honors

• A study conducted by Mumbai-based consultancy company Final Mile on the trafficking of sex workers from West Bengal to Mumbai has won the ESOMAR excellence award for the best paper. 
• The study found that most of the girls are sent to the city by their fathers, who are misled into believing that their daughters will get employment or get married.
• Actors Shahid Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor have been named the hottest vegetarians of 2016 by animal rights organisation PETA India.
• Actor Chris Evans has been named 'Hollywood's Best Actor For The Buck In 2016' by Forbes for the second time. 
• His movies returned an average $135.80 at the box office for every $1 he was paid owing to his nominal fees. 
• Note : Chris Pratt was the second Hollywood actor with the best returns while Scarlett Johansson ranked third on this list.

New Appointments

• Malaysia today installed its 15th king, Sultan Muhammad V, in a ceremony marked by honour guards and Islamic prayers in the national palace in Kuala Lumpur. 
• Note : The ruler of Malaysia is changed every five years between rulers of its nine states.
• Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal has been named an 'Integrity Ambassador' by the Badminton World Federation to promote "clean, fair and honourable sport." 

Science & Technology

• Google has announced that it will replace Adobe Flash Player content with HTML5 as the default option on its Chrome browser, over the next two months. 
• This means that unless a website has an HTML5 content player, the Flash content will not display, and users will have to enable Flash manually on a site-by-site basis.
• Augmented reality mobile game Pokémon Go officially launched in India today, nearly five months after it was rolled out in the US. 
• The game was launched in India by its developer Niantic in partnership with Reliance Jio.

Sports Current Affairs

• Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu was honoured with the Most Improved Player of the Year award by Badminton World Federation today. 
• In 2016, Sindhu won her maiden Superseries title and also qualified for the World Superseries Finals for the first time. 
• Sindhu started 2016 as 12th ranked and achieved her career-best rank of 7 in December.
• Opener Smriti Mandhana is the lone Indian in ICC's first-ever women's team of the year. 
• Mandhana, who is the second Indian to play in Australia's Women's Big Bash League, made 320 runs in eight ODIs and 286 in 17 T20Is this year. 
• Two-time Olympian and World Championships' bronze medalist Shiva Thapa won a Gold medal at the National Boxing Championships, his first in the lightweight (60 kg) category, in Guwahati today.

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