DAILY GK 22 MAY 2019
1. WORLD
BANK AND CBA JOINED HANDS FOR WORLD’S FIRST BLOCKCHAIN BOND TRANSACTION
✔International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development in partnership with Commonwealth Bank
of Australia enabled recording of secondary market bond trading using
blockchain technology. With this, Bond-i
become the first bond whose issuance and trading is recorded on a blockchain
platform.
2. RBI
DIRECTED BIGGER NBFCS TO APPOINT CHIEF RISK OFFICER
✔The
Reserve Bank of India has directed Non-Banking Finance Companies which have
assets over Rs 5000 crore to appoint a chief risk officer. The rationale behind
this direction is to improve standards of risk management practices of NBFCs.
3. UNESCO
INCORPORATED INDIAN PART OF KAILASH MANSAROVAR IN TENTATIVE LIST OF WORLD
HERITAGE SITES
✔United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization incorporated Indian
part of Kailash Mansarovar popularly known as Mount Kailash in the tentative
list of World Heritage Sites.
4. SARAY
KHUMALO BECAME THE FIRST BLACK AFRICAN WOMAN TO CONQUER MT. EVEREST
✔In
2003, South African park ranger Sibusiso Vilane became the first black person
to reach the top of Mount Everest.
5. JOKO
WIDODO RE-ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF INDONESIA FOR THE SECOND TERM
✔Indonesia’s
president Joko Widodo has been re-elected for the second term by winning 55.5%
of the vote casted. He defeated his rival Prabowo Subianto.
✔Joko
Widodo belongs to PDI-P, political party.
6. WORLD
GETS THE REDEFINED UNITS OF MEASUREMENT OF KILOGRAM, KELVIN, MOLE AND AMPERE
IMPLEMENTED ON WORLD METROLOGY DAY – 20 MAY
✔A
resolution to redefine 4 out of 7 base units was passed by the representatives
of 60 countries at the General Conference on Weights and Measures of the
International Bureau of Weights and Measures, Paris in 2018.
7. MAY
21: NATIONAL ANTI-TERRORISM DAY
✔University
Grants Commission has asked all university in the country to observe May 21 as
Anti-terrorism Day. This day is celebrated as an Anti-terrorism Day because on
the same day in 1991, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a woman
operative LTTE.
