DAILY GK 10 JUNE 2019
1. ESTONIA,
NIGER, ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES, TUNISIA, VIETNAM ELECTED TO UNSC AS
NON-PERMANENT MEMBERS
✔Estonia,
Niger, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam were elected to
United Nations Security Council as Non-permanent Members for a 2-year term
beginning January 1, 2020.
✔The
Security Council has 15 members – 5 permanent members namely China, France,
Russian Federation, the United Kingdom & the United States and 10
non-permanent members who are elected for two-year terms by the General
Assembly.
✔At
present, 10 non-permanent members are Belgium, Cte d’Ivoire, Dominican
Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Germany, Indonesia, Kuwait, Peru, Poland and South
Africa.
2. WORLD’S
MOST PUNCTUAL AIRLINE TAG WON BY SRILANKAN AIRLINES
✔Sri
Lanka’s state-run Srilankan Airlines has been named the world’s most punctual
airline by flight data analysis company Flightstats.com.
✔This
is the second consecutive time in less than 12 months that Sri Lankan has
achieved this milestone.
✔LATAM
Airlines was in second place, All Nippon Airways was in third place.
3. TATA
MUTUAL FUND LAUNCHED INDIA’S FIRST MUTUAL FUND SIDE POCKET
✔Tata
Mutual Fund launched the side-pocketing (segregated portfolio) option to set
aside its troubled investment in Dewan Housing Finance Limited.
✔They
were created for 3 schemes namely Tata Corporate Bond Fund, Tata Medium Term
Fund and Tata Treasury Advantage Fund.
4. E-MONEY
SHARE IN INDIA’S PAYMENT SYSTEMS REACHES 21.5%: RBI
✔According
to new report “Benchmarking India’s Payment Systems” released by RBI stated
that the share of e-Money in India’s payment systems raise to 21.5 per cent in
2017 from 0.8 per cent in 2012.
✔India
was next to Japan and the US in 2017 with respect to e-Money transactions of Rs
3,459 million.
✔India
has 26 per cent of online transactions using e-Money, next only to China.
5. RBI
RELAXED LEVERAGE RATIO FOR BANKS TO 3.5%
✔The
Reserve Bank of India relaxed the Leverage Ratio for banks to 3.5%. This is
done to help them in order to expand their lending activities. The LR is
reduced to 4% for Domestic Systemically Important Banks.
✔LR
is defined under Basel-III norms, Tier 1 Capital as a percentage of the bank’s
exposure.
6. ANDHRA
PRADESH CM APPOINTS 5 DEPUTY CMS IN CABINET
✔Andhra
Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy appointed 5 Deputy CMs in a full
25-member Cabinet,one each from Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Backward
Classes, Minority and Kapu communities.
✔The
5 Deputy CMs- Pamula Pushpa Sreevani, Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose, Alla Kali
Krishna Srinivas, L Narayana Swamy and AmzathBashatook oath at a ceremony held
near the State Secretariat in Velagapudi, Amravati.
