3rd January 2017 Important Daily Current Affairs

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Dear Great Ambitionists, here are today's (3rd January 2017) Important Current Affairs updates. Happy Reading :)

Daily Current Affairs of 3rd January 2017

International Current Affairs

• Finland became the first country in Europe to trial a project to pay unemployed citizens a basic monthly income of €560 (around ₹40,000), in a move to reduce poverty and boost employment.
• The Chinese navy today confirmed that its sole aircraft carrier Liaoning conducted military drills and helicopter exercises in "complex sea conditions" in the South China Sea. 
• China has termed the drills a routine exercise within international law. 
• This comes days after Taiwan claimed the carrier had passed south of the island amid rising tensions between the two countries.
  
• India has ranked third among the countries offering the highest average annual salary to expatriates, according to HSBC Holdings data. 
• Switzerland topped the list with an average salary of $188,275 a year.

National Current Affairs

• The 14th annual overseas Indians' gathering called "Pravasi Bharatiya Divas" will be held in Bengaluru from January 7-9.
• This will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi,.
• Note : The convention has traditionally been held on January 9 to commemorate the return of Mahatma Gandhi as 'Pravasi' from South Africa to India.
• Rajasthan government is going to distribute contraceptives and vanity kits to newly married couples in 14 districts where Total Fertility Rate (TFR) is high. 
• The kit would contain condoms, oral contraceptives, pregnancy testing kits and a vanity pouch with things like nail cutter, towels and bindis.
• Note : TFR is the average number of children born per woman during her reproductive life.
• The ongoing All India Police Equestrian Championship and Mounted Police Duty Meet has been named after the deceased police horse Shaktiman. 
• Shaktiman was injured in an attack by BJP MLA Ganesh Joshi in Dehradun and died a few weeks later. 

New Appointments

• Anshu Jain, the former co-CEO of Germany’s largest lender Deutsche Bank has now joined smaller financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald.
• Jain will bring decades of work experience in the financial services industry and will join Cantor CEO Howard Lutnick.

Deaths

• Karnataka State Minister for Cooperation HS Mahadeva Prasad (58) passed away .
• He was a five-term member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. 

Banking & Economic Affairs

• HDFC bank has launched a chatbot service called 'OnChat' to allow users to make payments through Facebook Messenger. 
• The chatbot will allow users to recharge their phones, pay electricity and DTH bills, and even book Uber and Ola taxis.
• Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) today received approval from markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for its Initial Public Offering (IPO). 
• With this IPO, the stock exchange expects to raise over ₹1,200 crore.
• BSE had filed a draft prospectus for the IPO in September, seeking to list its shares on National Stock Exchange (NSE).
• To remove dependency on banks, Paytm has added Unified Payment Interface (UPI) support to its app allowing users to transfer money to their digital wallet with their UPI id. 
• Developed by the government-backed corporation, the UPI framework for online transactions supports at least 27 banks. 
• This comes a week after SBI disabled the option to transfer money to Paytm.

This is the end of today's Daily Current Affairs session friends. Good Day :)

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