DAILY G.A UPDATE : 08-12-2016
1. New Zealander to head UN mission in South Sudan
David Shearer, member of New Zealand's parliament has been nominated to head of the UN Mission in South Sudan.
2. Justice Saqib Nisar appointed as new chief justice of Pakistan
President Mamnoon Hussain appointed Justice Saqib Nisar as the new chief justice of Pakistan.
Nisar, the most senior judge of the Supreme Court, will replace chief justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali who retires on December 31.
Earlier this year, when Jamali went for pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, Nisar had served as the Acting Chief Justice.
Nisar was born on January 18, 1954 in Lahore and obtained an undergraduate degree in law from University of Punjab.
In 1982, Justice Nisar became an advocate of the High Court and advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 1994. He was then elevated as the Judge of the High Court in 1998 and of the Supreme Court in 2010.
Nisar has also worked as a part-time lecturer at Punjab Law College and Pakistan College of Law, where he taught Civil Procedure Code and the Constitution.
Outgoing Justice Jamali served for 15 months after he was appointed in September 2015.
3. Donald Trump is Time magazines Person of the Year 2016
US President-elect Donald Trump was named by Time magazine as its Person of the Year 2016 for his stunning victory in the presidential polls, describing him as "President of the Divided States of America".
Trump was chosen by Time editors for the annual honour from among world leaders, artists, corporate tycoons and path-breaking organisations as the person who had the greatest influence, for better or worse, on the events of the year.
Trump, who has appeared on various covers of Time magazine, will now be on its cover as Person of the Year, with the sub-headline President of the Divided States of America.
The first runner-up is Trumps rival in the presidential elections and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who Time said made history for three decades as an advocate, a First Lady, a Senator, and a Secretary of State, but she will now be remembered as much for what she didn't do as what she did.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the 11 candidates shortlisted by Time for its annual honour.
Modi won the online reader’s poll conducted by Time magazine for Person of the Year 2016, the second time he emerged winner of the reader’s choice poll.
4. IOC, BPCL, HPCL sign deal to set up India's biggest oil refinery
Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corp signed a pact to build India's biggest oil refinery at a cost of $30 billion on the west coast.
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