Yak Seventh May 2017 Of Import Daily Electrical Flow Affairs

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Daily Current Affairs of seventh May 2017

International Current Affairs

• Russia has blocked access to Chinese social media app WeChat for failing to give its contact details to country's communications watchdog. 
• Note : Last year, Russian Federation blocked U.S. social networking site LinkedIn for violating a law that requires information of Russian citizens to live on stored on Russian servers.
  

National Current Affairs

• Aiming to cease VIP civilisation inward the state, the Andhra Pradesh government today banned the utilisation of Blue beacons on cars belonging to dignitaries.
• According to the novel order, exclusively emergency and disaster administration vehicles will live on permitted to utilisation bluish beacons.
• Note : These beacons are by in addition to large used past times law in addition to IAS officers.

Awards & Honors

• Child purpose instrumentalist Sunny Pawar, who featured inward the Oscar-nominated cinema 'Lion', has been named the 'Rising Star' at the 7th Annual Asian Awards.
• Rajgauri Pawar, a 12-year-old Indian-origin daughter from England, has scored 162 points in the Mensa IQ test, 2 points higher than geniuses Albert Einstein in addition to Stephen Hawking.
• SS Rajamouli-directed painting 'Baahubali 2: The Conclusion' has larn the 1st always Indian painting to achieve ₹1,000 crore earnings milestone.

New Appointments

• The Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, today elected Ismail Haniyeh as the novel leader of its political wing.
• Haniyeh volition supersede Qatar-based veteran leader Khaled Meshaal, who had been inward accuse of the political fly for the past times 10 years.
• 3 Indian-origin scientists convey been elected fellows of the Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific university inward continuous existence.
• The scientists are :
• Krishna Chatterjee (University of Cambridge)
• Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford) 
• Subhash Khot (New York University)

Banking, Business & Economic Affairs

• India now ranks tertiary globally inward number of startup incubators in addition to accelerators.
• China is at the hap followed past times the US.

New English linguistic communication Word of the Day

• The fright of beingness without a mobile telephone is known equally nomophobia.
• Nomophobia is brusk cast for 'no-mobile-phone-phobia'. 
• People who endure from the phobia ofttimes experience anxious when they run out of battery or balance, lose their telephone or convey no network coverage. 
• Note : This term in addition to phobia was start identified inward 2008.

Sports Current Affairs

• The Indian cricket squad has received the greenish signal to participate inward the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy after BCCI's Special General Meeting today.
• India volition laid about their motion against Islamic Republic of Pakistan on June 4, amongst the squad for the tournament to live on announced on Monday. 
• Note : Previously, the BCCI was reportedly mulling on pulling out of the tournament.
• Mumbai Indians pacer Lasith Malinga has larn the first bowler to consummate 150 wickets inward the IPL.
• He reached the landmark during the stand upward for against Delhi Daredevils today, inward which he claimed 2 wickets.

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