DAILY GK 8 SEPT 2019

DAILY GK 8 SEPT

1)       First ‘Make in India’ Metro Coach

ü  PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the first Metro Coach in Mumbai under the ‘Make in India’ initiative at Mumbai. He also launched Rs.19,000 crore worth metro projects..

2)       Akash missile project for Air Force

ü  To strengthen the Indian Air Force (IAF), the central government has approved the procurement of 6 squadrons of indigenous Akash Air Defense missile for the Air Force at a cost of Rs 5,000 crore. They will be deployed along the borders with Pakistan and China.

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DAILY GK 7 SEPT 2019

DAILY GK 7 SEPT 2019

1.    IoE Status By The HRD Ministry

ü Ministry of Human Resource & Development (MHRD) awarded Institute of Eminence (IoE) status to a total of 5 institutions, and Letter of Intent (LoI) for granting the IoE to 5 private universities, based on the recommendation of the University Grants Commission(UGC).

ü They are as follows IoE

1.    Delhi University, (DU- New Delhi)

2.    Banaras Hindu University, (BHU-Varanasi- Uttar Pradesh)

3.    University of Hyderabad,(UoH- Telangana)

4.    Indian Institute of Technology- Madras, (IIT-M- Tamilnadu)

5.    IIT-Kharagpur, (IIT-Kgp- West Bengal)

ü LoI:

1.    Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham University, (Coimbatore,Tamil Nadu)

2.    Vellore Institute of technology, (VIT-Tamilnadu)

3.    JamiaHamdard University, (New Delhi)

4.    Kalinga Institute of Industrial ,Technology(KIIT-Odisha)

5.    Bharti Institute of Public Policy, (Mohali, Punjab)

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DAILY GK 4 SEPT 2019

DAILY GK 4 SEPT 2019

1)       WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia’

ü  Dr. Harsh Vardhan inaugurated the ‘72nd Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia’ in New Delhi

ü  Dr PoonamKhetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region were present.

2)       First ASEAN-U.S. Maritime Exercise

ü  The United States (US) and 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries began their first Asean-US Maritime Exercise (AUMX) at the Sattahip Naval Base in Thailand.

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DAILY GK 3 SEPT 2019

DAILY GK 3 SEPT 2019

1)       India’s longest electrified rail tunnel

ü  Vice President of India inaugurated the longest electrified railway tunnel (6.7km) between Cherlopalli and Rapuru in Andhra Pradesh.

2)       New logo of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC)

ü  The Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting (I&B), Shri Prakash Javadekar has unveiled the new logo and certificate design of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).

ü  The design of the new logo has been designed by designer Rohit Devgan in collaboration with the technical support team of National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL).

3)       CGHS Bhawan inaugurated

ü  Dr Harsh Vardhan inaugurated the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) Bhawan in R K Puram in New Delhi.

ü  CGHS services should be made available in 100 cities by 2022. Under Ayushman Bharat, 150000 Health and Wellness Centres are planned to come up by 2022.

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DAILY GK 1, 2 SEPTEMBER 2019

DAILY GK 1, 2 SEPTEMBER 2019

1.        Global Happiness Survey

ü  “Global Happiness Survey” is conducted by Ipsos

ü  India is ranked 9th with 77% on happiness index among 28 global markets.

ü  Australia & Canada topped the Survey.

2.        India will overtake China as importer of coking coal

ü  As per Fitch Solutions Macro Research, India will overtake China as the largest importer of coking coal by 2025. China also roughly produced two-thirds of global coking coal.

3.        SBI’s MD Anshula Kant Resigned

ü  She is now  appointment as the MD and Chief Financial Officer(CFO) of World Bank Group.

4.        IPS Vivek Kumar Johri takes over as Director-General of BSF

5.        India clinched SAFF U-15 Championship 2019

ü The India Under-15 team has defeated Nepal with 7-0 score in the final of the SAFF (South Asian Football Federation) U-15 Championship 2019 held in Kalyani Stadium, West Bengal.

6.        36th National Games

ü  The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) decided that 36^th  National Games will be held in Goa from October 20 – November 4, 2020.

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DAILY GK 31 AUGUST 2019

DAILY GK 31 AUGUST 2019

1)       ADB going to provide $12 Billion to India

ü  Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Mr. Takehiko Nakao announced  $12 billion to India over the next 3 years (2020-22) in support of new flagship initiatives.

2)       Community Radio Sammelan

ü  The 7th Community Radio Sammelan 2019 was held in New Delhi.

ü  The theme of this year’s Sammelan is ‘Community Radio for SDGs’ (Sustainable Development Goals).

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DAILY GK 29 August 2019

DAILY GK 29 August 2019

1.       IIP to covert Plastic waste into diesel

·        The Union Minister of Science and Technology Shri Harsh Vardhan, inaugurated a plant at the Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, that converts plastic waste into diesel.

2.       World’s first ever facial BSID launched

·       India launched the world’s first ever Biometric Seafarer Identity Document (BSID) which captures the facial biometric data of seafarers.

·        BSID project was formed in collaboration with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Mumbai.

3.       CoP of CITES held in Geneva

·       The 18^th meeting of Conference of the Parties (CoP18) of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was held in Geneva, Switzerland.

·       183 CITES member nations participated in the meeting.

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DAILY GK 28 AUGUST 2019

DAILY GK 28 AUGUST 2019

1)   National Digital Library of India

• Under the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT), Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) launched the National Digital Library of India project.
• National Digital Library has been integrated with Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance (UMANG) App.

2) Narendra Modi’s Visit to France, UAE and Bahrain

     Visit to France

·        MoU signed by India with France: Implementing arrangement between Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and CNES France for Joint Maritime Domain Awareness.

·        PM addressed the Indian community at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

·        He also met his French counterpart Edouard Philippe.

     Visit to United Arab Emirates (UAE)

·        PM Narendra Modi launched RuPay card in Abu Dhabi. India has already launched the RuPay card in Singapore and Bhutan.

·        PM Modi claimed that the UAE can help India in achieving its ambitious dream of achieving a $5 trillion economy by 2024-25.

·        UAE honoured PM Narendra Modi with highest civilian award ‘Order Of Zayed’

·        Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Abu Dhabi crown prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan jointly released a commemorative stamp of Mahatma Gandhi ahead of his 150th birth anniversary.

     Visit to Bahrain

·        Prime Minister Narendra Modi was honoured with “The King Hamad Order of the Renaissance.”

·        PM launched the $4.2 million redevelopment project of the 200-year-old Lord Sri Krishna temple in Manama.

3   G7 Summit 2019
The 45^th G7 Summit for the year 2019 was held in Biarritz, France from 24 to 26 August, 2019. The next G7 Summit (46^th) for the year 2020 will be held in the United States.

     About G7

• The Core G7 Members countries are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States and European Union.
• Invited Guests countries were Australia, Burkina Faso, Chile, Egypt, India, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Spain.
• World leaders at the G7 summit in France pledged to spend a total amount of $22 million to fight the raging wildfires in the Amazon in South America that are threatening the world’s biggest rainforest.

2)   China and Pakistan joint exercise ‘Shaheen-VIII’

·        The air forces of China and Pakistan began joint exercise Labelled  ‘Shaheen-VIII’ in the Chinese city of Holton, close to Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir(J&K).

3)   Canara Bank OTP for ATM cash withdrawals

·        Canara Bank, has launched India’s first one-time password (OTP) facility for ATM withdrawals over Rs.10,000 in a day.

4)   World’s first floating nuclear reactor

• The world’s first floating nuclear reactor Akademik Lomonosov was launched by Russia and had set up on a 5000 km journey to northeastern Siberia.
• Owned by Rosatom(Russian state nuclear energy corporation), the work for the nuclear reactor began in 2006 &  is expected to start its operation by the end of 2019.

5)   Arun Jaitley Stadium

• The governing body of Cricket activities, the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) has decided to rename the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi as Arun Jaitley Stadium in the memory of the cricket body’s former president who passed away on August 24, 2019.

6)   2019 British MotoGP race

• Spain born motorcycle racer Alex Rins of Suzuki motors won the 2019 GoPro British Grand Prix MotoGP race at Silverstone circuit, United Kingdom(UK) overthrowing Honda’s Marc Marquez to second place.

7)   India’s first woman DGP passed away

• India’s first woman DGP, Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya, passed away in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She was born in Himachal Pradesh.She was the second woman IPS officer of India after Kiran Bedi.
• She was appointed the DGP of Uttarakhand in the year 2004.
  
  

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DAILY GK 22 AUG 2019

DAILY GK 22 AUG 2019

1. INDIAN PRESIDENT LAUNCHES PLANTATION DRIVE IN NEW DELHI

✔The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind planted Maulsari sapling in the Rashtrapati Bhavan Estate (New Delhi). It was done as part of the ‘Van Mahotsav’ celebrations.

✔The President’s Secretariat, will be planting 3,252 trees and 2,962 shrubs for the next few weeks in the President’s Estate which is spread over 330 acres, as part of this Van Mahotsav drive.

2. ‘HOUSING FOR ALL’ WILL BE ACHIEVED 2 YEARS IN ADVANCE BY 2020: HARDEEP SINGH PURI

✔Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri stated that the central Government is committed to achieve its target of providing ‘Housing for all’ under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana in two years before the deadline by 2020.

✔The central government decided to build 1.12 crore houses by 2022, of these around 84 lakh houses have been sanctioned to date & the remaining will be sanctioned by the end of 2019.

✔As per the estimation, about 600 million people would be residing in cities by 2030, the year in which India is expected to meet the sustainable development goals set by the UN (United Nations).

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DAILY GK 12 AUG 2019

DAILY GK 12 AUG 2019

1. DEFENCE MINISTRY EXTENDS BENEFITS OF CHILD CARE LEAVE TO SINGLE MALE SERVICE PERSONNEL

✔Defence Minister of India, Rajnath Singh has approved the extension of Child Care Leave benefits to single male service personnel and further, the minimum period of CCL has been reduced to 5 days instead of 15 days.

✔Till now, women officers of defence forces are given up to 15 days to care for children up to the age of 22, with a 40 % disability. Not only female employees but now Single male service personnel also will be given 5 days leave from the earlier limit of 15 days to care for their children (irrespective of age).

2. MSCI ADDED HDFC LIFE INSURANCE TO ITS GLOBAL STANDARD INDEX

✔Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc, One of the world’s biggest index compilers, has added HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd. to its Global Standard Index and removed Union Bank of India from its India Smallcap Index.

✔After the announcement, the stocks of HDFC Life gained more than 5 % intraday to hit a record high of Rs 545 & the shares of Union Bank corrected 2 % at Rs 62.40.

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DAILY GK 9 AUG 2019

DAILY GK 9 AUG 2019

1. IIT MADRAS PARTNERS WITH NIOT FOR OCEAN WAVE ELECTRICITY HARNESSING

✔The Indian Institute of Technology Madras partnered with National Institute of Ocean Technology to harness electricity from ocean waves. Both institutions will together develop turbines that can harness the power of ocean waves to generate electricity.

✔The research is being headed at IIT Madras. The partnership is aimed at meeting renewable energy and climate change objectives of the government of India.

2. PAPUA NEW GUINEA HAS THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF ‘LIVING’ LANGUAGES IN THE WORLD, INDIA RANKS 4TH

✔Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea, Country in Oceania tops the list with 840 living languages, while India ranks 4th position with 453.

✔The other nations in the top 5 positions include Indonesia (2nd ) with 710 living languages and Nigeria (3rd with 524) and US (United States) came 5th with 335.

✔The year 2019 is designated as United Nations’ International Year of Indigenous Languages with the aim to enhace native tongues in 5 major areas which includes,

• Creation of favourable conditions for knowledge-sharing and dissemination of good practices with regards to indigenous languages.
• Increasing understanding, reconciliation and international cooperation
• Integration of indigenous languages into standard setting
• Empowerment through capacity building.
• Growth and development via elaboration of new knowledge

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DAILY GK 6 AUG 2019

DAILY GK 6 AUG 2019

1. CENTRE TO REPEAL OF ARTICLE 370 AND 35A THAT GRANTS SPECIAL STATUS TO J&K

✔Government announced to repeal Article 370 [except the first clause 370 (1)] and Article 35A which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).

✔Union Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill, 2019 in Rajya Sabha which seeks to bifurcate the state of Jammu and Kashmir into 2 Union territories – J&K a Union Territory with Legislature, and Ladakh Union Territory without Legislature.

✔President Ram Nath Kovind in “concurrence” with the “Jammu and Kashmir government” promulgated Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 2019 which states that provisions of the Indian Constitution are applicable in the state. It comes into force “at once”, and shall supersede the Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 1954.

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