DAILY GK 29 MARCH 2019
1. INDIA’S
POVERTY RATE REDUCED AS PER GLOBAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX 2018
✔According
to global Multidimensional Poverty Index, India’s poverty rate has shown a
drastic decrease in 10 years, from 55% to 28%.
✔Apart
from the huge progress, India is still a home to the highest number of MPI poor
comprising 364 million poor in 2015-16.
✔More
than half of the India’s multidimensional poor (196 million) are from the four
states viz. Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh while Delhi,
Kerala and Goa have lowest multidimensional poverty.
2. SINGAPORE
AIRPORT NAMED WORLD’S BEST AVIATION HUB FOR THE SEVENTH TIME
✔Skytrax
World Airport Awards named Singapore’s Changi Airport as the the world’s best
aviation hub for the 7th time in a row, while Indira Gandhi International
Airport, New Delhi climbed 8 places to rank at 59th Position.
✔Tokyo
International Airport was ranked at the 2nd sport whereas Incheon International
Airport ranked at the 3rd spot.
3. ADANI
PORT BECOMES THE FIRST INDIAN PORT OPERATOR TO ACHIEVE A NEW RECORD OF HANDLE
200 MILLION TONNES CARGO MOVEMENT
✔Adani
Port and Special Economic Zone, a part of Gautam Adani-led Adani Group becomes
the first Indian port operator to achieve a new record of handle 200 million
tonnes cargo movement in 2018-19.
✔Adani
Port and Special Economic Zone has 10 ports and terminals including Mundra,
Dahej, Kandla and Hazira in Gujarat, Dhamra in Odisha, Mormugao in Goa,
Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, and Kattupalli and Ennore in Chennai, all this
represents 24 percent of the country’s total port capacity.
✔Also,
it has set an aim to double growth up to 400 MT by 2025.
4. YOSHUA
BENGIO, GEOFFREY HINTON, AND YANN LECUN CONFERRED WITH TURING AWARD, THE NOBEL
PRIZE OF COMPUTING
✔Regarded
as “Godfathers of AI”, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun, have
been recognized with Nobel Prize of computing, Turing Award 2018.
5. NOBEL
PRIZE RECIPIENT AMARTYA SEN HONOURED WITH OXFORD UNIVERSITY’S BODLEY AWARD
✔Nobel
Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has been honoured with the prestigious
Bodley Medal, the highest honour bestowed by the University of Oxford’s
world-famous Bodleian Libraries for his contribution in literature, culture,
science, and communication.
✔The
other winners of the Bodley Medal are Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo
Ishiguro, physicist Stephen Hawking, novelist Hilary Mantel and inventor of the
World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee.
6. ISRAELIS
CAVE EXPLORERS UNVEILED ‘WORLD’S LONGEST SALT CAVE’
✔The
Israeli cave explorers discovered the world’s longest cave named Malham near
the Dead sea, beating the record-holder in Iran.
✔The
cave is spread in an area of 10 kilometers (6.25 miles) and it runs through the
Israel’s largest mountain, Mount Sodom and spills out to the southwest corner
of the adjacent Dead Sea.
