DAILY GK 10 JULY 2019

DAILY GK 10 JULY

1. TWO NEW HEAVY-LIFT CHINOOK HELICOPTERS FOR IAF ARRIVED AT THE MUNDRA PORT, GUJARAT

✔Boeing, American aerospace company, informed the arrival of 2 new heavy-lift CH-47F (I) Chinooks helicopters for the Indian Air Force at the Mundra port in Gujarat.

✔The CH-47 Chinook, advanced multi-mission helicopter, has unsurpassed ability to deliver heavy payloads to high altitudes. It is suitable for operations in the high Himalayas.

✔It was battle-tested in diverse, extreme conditions throughout the world and has proven capability to operate in the wide range of conditions.

2. RBI BOARD HAS FINALIZED A THREE- YEAR ROADMAP ‘UTKARSH 2022’ TO IMPROVE REGULATION & SUPERVISION

✔India’s central bank, Reserve Bank of India has finalized a three-year road map for medium-term objective named “Utkarsh 2022” for strengthening regulation, supervision of the central bank in a meeting in New Delhi.

✔The strategy is that the central bank’s proactive role to avoid any other Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Servicesdebt default issue in the future.

✔An internal committee of RBI was formed under former Deputy Governor Viral Acharya, to identify issues that needed to be addressed over the next three years.

3. KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS SWORN IN AS THE NEW PRIME MINISTER OF GREECE

✔Kyriakos Mitsotakis, of New Democratic Party was sworn-in as the new Prime Minister of Greece.

4. REAL ESTATE GROUPS CAPITALAND LIMITED COMPLETES $8 BN ACQUISITION OF ASCENDAS-SINGBRIDGE

✔Asia’s largest real estate companies CapitaLand Limited completed acquisition worth of US$8 billion (singapore$11 billion)Ascendas-Singbridge Pte. Ltd.

✔This acquisition is one of Asia’s largest diversified real estate groups with 123 billion Singapore dollars Asset Under Management.

✔The expansion will put CapitaLand’s(manages 8 listed REITs and business trusts as well as over 20 private funds) assets below $ 100 billion by 2020, placing it among the world’s top 10 real estate investment managers, and turning it into a manager of three largest Real Estate Investment Trusts.

5. ‘MERI FASAL MERA BYORA’ PORTAL FOR FARMERS LAUNCHED BY HARYANA GOVERNMENT

✔The Chief Minister of Haryana Government Manohar Lal Khattar has launched online portal named “Mer iFasal Mera Byora” (https://www.fasalhry.in/ )for farmers to directly avail crop related benefits of state government schemes after self -reporting their land and crop-related details.

✔The farmers who will register on the portal required to upload information like the name of crop sown, area under cultivation, cropping month, bank account number and mobile number at Common Service Centresor Atal Seva Kendras or with the help of Village Level Entrepreneurs by end of July.

✔It will enable farmers to avail the subsidy on agriculture implements easily & make damage assessment during natural calamities and disbursal of relief in cases of crop damage easier and other financial assistance under different schemes.

✔The state government will get the accurate data of area and name of crop cultivated in various parts of the state and it is a step forward towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of doubling the farmer’s income by 2022.