DAILY GK 17 SEPT 2019
1.
Asia Society Game Changers
Award
ü Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Chhaya Sharma who
led the investigation of the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape was selected for the 2019 Asia Society Game Changers Award along
with six others by Asia
Society, which is a leading educational organization.
2.
IBSF World Billiards
Championship 2019
ü
India’s top billiards and snooker player, Pankaj Advani has
won the 22nd world title of his career with the fourth consecutive IBSF (International Billiards & Snooker
Federation) World Billiards title 2019 in Mandalay, Myanmar.
ü
Advani won the final with 6–2 scores against
Nay Thway Oo of Myanmar.
3.
Western Asia Youth and Junior
Chess Championship 2019
ü Western Asian Youth and Junior Chess Championships 2019 was held at Tivoli Grand Resort Hotel, New Delhi.
It was organized by Delhi Chess Association (DCA).
4.
World Basketball Championship
2019
ü Spain defeated
Argentina to win the18th
Men’s FIBA (Federation Internationale de Basketball ) World Basketball
Championship 2019 in the final played Wukesong Sports
Arena in Beijing,
China.
5.
World record at the
Copenhagen Half Marathon 2019
ü Kenya‘s Geoffrey Kamworor,
finished the Copenhagen
Half Marathon 2019 in men’s category at 58min 01sec, 17 seconds
created a new world record.
6.
International Day for the Preservation
of the Ozone Layer-16 Sept
ü The International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
observed annually on September
16 . This day marks the drafting of the Montreal Protocol signed by 28 nations in Montreal, Canada on
substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, in 1987.
ü The theme for the year 2019 is “32 Years and Healing”. The year 2019 marked
the 25th World Ozone
Day celebrations.
7.
“Lata Mangeshkar Award” for
the year 2019-20
ü Veteran
music director Usha
Khanna, aged 78, has been awarded the Maharashtra
government’s “Lata
Mangeshkar Award” for the year 2019-20.