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 45th G7 Summit for the year 2019 was held
in Biarritz, France from 24 to 26 August, 2019. The next G7
Summit (46th) 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.
