DAILY GK 20 JULY 2019
1. INDIA
TO BE FREE OF TUBERCULOSIS BY 2025
✔Prime
Minister Narendra Modi asked the parliamentarians take up a social cause or an
issue of human sensitivity as a mission.
✔India
has fixed a deadline of 2025 for eradicating tuberculosis against the global
deadline of 2030. He stressed on the need to eradicate them.
✔Union
Health Ministry signed a MoU with the Ministries of Defence, Railways and
Ayurveda, AYUSH to eliminate TB from India by 2025 in the presence of Minister
of State for Health Ashwini K Choubey and Minister of AYUSH Shripad Nayak.
2. ADB
LOWERS INDIA’S FY2020 GDP GROWTH FORECAST TO 7%
✔According
to ‘Asian Development Outlook 2019, India’s GDP growth expected to grow by 7%
in 2019 (FY-Fiscal Year 2020).
✔Growth
is expected to increase again to 7.2% in FY21, helped by recent reforms to
improve the business climate, strengthen banks and relieve agrarian distress.
✔Due
to the manufacturing and agriculture sectors witnessed slowing down over the
past year, Fitch also decreases India’s GDP growth forecast for FY20, to 6.6%
from 6.8 %.
3. INDIA’S
CURRENT ACCOUNT BALANCE DEFICIT SHOOTS UP TO $68 BILLION IN 2018-19: IMF
✔According
to the International Monetary Fund, India’s current account balance deficit
rose to $68 billion in 2018-19 from $49 billion in 2017-18.
✔India’s
Net International Investment Position has marginally improved with the deficit
comes down from $438 billion in 2017-18 to $431 billion in 2018-19.
✔India’s
overall international reserves stood at $411.9 billion at the end of March 2019
from $12.5 billion in March 2018.
✔India’s
low per capita income, favorable growth prospects, demographic trends, and
development are the reason for CA deficits.
4. SAARC
FILM FESTIVAL 2019 HELD AT THE NATIONAL FILM CORPORATION CINEMA HALL, COLOMBO,
SRI LANKA
✔The
9th Edition of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Film Festival
for the year 2019 was held at the National Film Corporation Cinema Hall,
Colombo, Sri Lanka.
✔Indian
entries bagged 6 awards.
- Nagarkirtan,
a Bengali film, was awarded the Best Feature Film.
- Best
Director Award was conferred to Kaushik Ganguly for Nagarkirtan.
- Riddhi
Sen won the best actor award and Prabuddha Bannerjee bagged Best Original
Score for Nagarkirtan.
- Best
Short Film Award was conferred to Na Bole Wo Haram directed by Nitish
Patan.
- Special
Jury Award for Direction and Story was conferred to ‘Walking with the
Wind’, by Praveen Morchhale.
5. “TATA”
BECOMES INDIA’S MOST VALUABLE BRAND FOR 2019: BRAND FINANCE INDIA 100 2019 REPORT
✔According
to the ,“Brand Finance India 100 2019”, report “Tata” has become India’s most
valuable brand for the second straight year in 2019 with the brand value of
$19.6 billion followed by LIC (2nd )with $7.3 billion and Infosys (3rd )$6.5
billion.
✔The
brand value of Tata increased to 37% with $19.6 billion, the highest in the top
25 compared to $14.23 billion in 2018.
6. COMMONWEALTH
WEIGHTLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIP 2019- OVERVIEW, INDIA TOPPED THE MEDAL TALLY IN THE
CHAMPIONSHIP
✔Commonwealth
Weightlifting Championships held in Apia, Samoa. The championship was held
across three categories — senior, junior and youth.
✔India
topped the medal tally by winning 35 medals across three categories viz 22
golds, 10 silvers and 3 bronze medals in all categories.
✔India
also broke a total of 22 records in all 3 age groups in World, Asian,
Commonwealth and National level as well as set a new junior record at
Commonwealth and National level.
✔Indian
weightlifter Ajay Singh created a new Commonwealth record in the clean and jerk
category by lifting more than double his body weight.
7. SACHIN
TENDULKAR BECAME THE 6TH INDIAN TO BE INDUCTED INTO ICC HALL OF FAME
✔Indian
cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was inducted into International Cricket Council’s Hall
of Fame along with South African pace legend Allan Donald and Australian woman cricketer
Cathryn Fitzpatrick.
✔With
this, Tendulkar became the 6th Indian cricketer to be inducted into ICC’s Hall
of Fame after Bishen Singh Bedi, Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar, Anil Kumble and
Rahul Dravid.
8. ARJUN
BHATI OF INDIA WON JUNIOR WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP 2019
✔Arjun
Bhati of India won Future Champions Golf Callaway Junior World Golf
Championship 2019 by defeating Taiwan’s Jeremy Chen in Palm Desert, California.
✔He
was followed by Jeremy Chen and New Zealand’s Joshua Bai at second and third
positions.
9. ZIMBABWE
CRICKET SUSPENDED BY ICC WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT
✔Zimbabwe
cricket has been suspended by the International Cricket Council with immediate
effect after it breached the ICC Constitution by failing to provide free and
democratic elections and ensuring that there is no government interference in
its administration.
✔With
this suspension, Zimbabwe Cricket will be frozen and representative teams from
Zimbabwe will not be allowed to participate in any ICC tournaments.