DAILY GK 9 SEPT 2019

DAILY GK 9 SEPT 2019

1)       National Youth Summit 2019

ü  The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind has inaugurated the National Youth Summit 2019 held in New Delhi.It was organized by Youth Awakening Mission

2)       Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $ 200 million loan to upgrade about 2,100 kilometers of rural roads to all-weather standards in Maharashtra.

3)       19th Annual Asian Achievers Awards 2019

ü  The founder and Chairman of Vedanta Resources Limited, Anil Agarwal (65) has been given the lifetime achievement award at the 19^th  Annual Asian Achievers Awards 2019.

4)       Vijay Kumar Chopra elected as Chairman of PTI.

ü  Vijay Kumar Chopra, who is the Chief Editor of the Punjab Kesari Group of newspapers, was elected Chairman of PTI succeeding N Ravi, publisher and former Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu.

ü  Also Vineet Jain were elected as Vice Chairman of PTI.

5)       ISRO lost Contact with Vikram Lander

ü  The communication from Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander to ISRO  ground station was lost before its soft landing on the south pole of the Moon. The contact was lost when the lander was 2.1km away from the surface of the moon.

ü  Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22, 2019, from GSLV Mk-III, nicknamed ‘Bahubali’ from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.Project consisted of 3 components namely the Orbiter, the Lander ‘Vikram’, and the Rover Pragyan (27kg).

6)       BKSP  successfully won U17 Girls Subroto Cup

ü  Bangladesh Krida Shiksha Prothishtan (BKSP) has successfully retained the 60^th edition of the Under 17 Girls Subroto Cup International Football 2019 title by defeating Neelamani English School, Manipur with 4-0 scores in the final held in Ambedkar Stadium in New Delhi.

7)       Nehru Trophy for the year 2019

ü  Snakeboat Nadubhagam Chundan  clinched the 67th Edition of the Nehru Trophy 2019 in the boat race held at the Punnamada Lake in Alappuzha, Kerala.

8)       Ram Jethmalani, Senior lawyer, and a former union law minister has passed away at his home in Delhi after suffering from prolonged illness. He was 95.

9)       International Literacy Day (ILD) was observed on September 8, 2019 with the theme ‘Literacy and Multilingualism’.