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• The Jamaican athlete and the sprint king, Usain Bolt has been awarded the 2016 IAAF World Athlete of the Year Award in the male category for the sixth time.
• Alma Ayana, the Ethiopian athlete won the same ward for the year 2016 in the women category.
• Usain Bolt earlier won the same award in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013.
• Bolt has won gold in 100 meters, 200 meters and 4x100 meters at the Rio Olympics 2016.

• At present, Sharad Arvind Bobde is the 47^th Chief Justice of India.
• Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar was the Chief Justice of India in February 2017.
• Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar was appointed as the Chief Justice of India on January 4, 2017, till August 27, 2017, by the then President of India, Pranab Mukherjee.

• Abidali Neemuchwala is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Wipro Group.
• He is an Indian-American business executive, also the managing director (MD) of Wipro since February 2016.
• He holds an engineering degree in Electronics and Communication from National Institute of Technology, Raipur and a master's degree in Industrial Management from the IIT Bombay.
• Rishad Premji is Chairman of Wipro Group.

• Chandragupta Maurya overthrew Dhana Nanda to take over the reins of the Magadha Empire.
• Dhana Nanda was the contemporary of Alexander the Great who invaded India in 326 BCE.
• India's first subcontinental empire came after the establishment of the kingdom of Magadha.
• Chandragupta Maurya established the Mauryan empire in the Magadha Kingdom. Kautilya was the mentor of Chandragupta Maurya.

In his later years, Chandragupta Maurya became a Jain Monk.

• A physical balance is an example of a lever.
• A lever is a physical device used to translate the application point of a force by a distance.
• A lever is a device consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed fulcrum. The level used in Physical balances is pivoted at the centre of gravity of the beam and hence are very accurate to calculate the weight on both sides of the scale.
• Lever has been in practice from the ancient period for simple balance scale. There are other levels used such as spanners, screwdrivers.
• The law of lever was proven by Archimedes using geometric reasoning.

• All executive actions and functions of the Government of India shall be expressed to be taken in the name of the President.
• The President shall make rules for the more convenient transaction of the business of the Government of India, and the allocation among Ministers of the said business.
• The validity of such orders and rules authenticated by the President of India cannot be questioned on the ground.

The correct answer is option 2 i.e., Malik Muhammad Jayasi

Key Points

• Malik Muhammad Jayasi wrote the medieval-era epic poem Padmavat.
• It was written in the Hindustani language of Awadhi, but the original script of Padmavat is in the Persian Nastaʿlīq script.
• It is an allegorical fictional story about the Delhi Sultan Alauddin Khalji's desire for the gorgeous Padmavati, the Queen of Chittor.

• As per the data released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a United Nations agency, Brazil has the largest inventory of cattle in the world.
• India is on the second rank followed by China while the USA is on the fourth rank having the largest cattle inventory in the world.
• Globally, around more than 100 countries have cattle over 1 million head.

• Bhutan was the first country to invent the idea of "Gross National Happiness" (GNH) to use happiness as a measure of good governance.
• The phrase was first coined by the 4^th King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck in 1972 when he declared, “Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product.”
• Since its inception, Bhutan considers GNH in its economic and social policy and set a benchmark tool for other countries of the world.

• The Jungle Book has won the 70^th British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award in the Best Special Visual Effects category.
• The 70^th BAFTA awards ceremony was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom.
• La La Land with five awards won the most awards at the events.
• BAFTA award was founded by the British Film Academy in 1947.