DAILY GK 9 SEPT 2019
1) National Youth Summit 2019
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The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind has
inaugurated the National
Youth Summit 2019 held in New Delhi.It was
organized by Youth
Awakening Mission
2) Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $ 200 million loan
to upgrade about 2,100 kilometers of rural roads to all-weather
standards in Maharashtra.
3) 19th Annual Asian Achievers Awards 2019
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The founder and Chairman of Vedanta
Resources Limited, Anil Agarwal (65) has been given
the lifetime achievement award at the 19th
Annual Asian Achievers Awards 2019.
4) Vijay Kumar Chopra elected as Chairman of PTI.
ü Vijay Kumar Chopra, who is the Chief Editor of the Punjab Kesari Group of newspapers, was
elected Chairman of PTI succeeding N
Ravi, publisher and former Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu.
ü Also Vineet Jain were elected as Vice Chairman of PTI.
5) ISRO lost Contact with Vikram Lander
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The communication from Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander to
ISRO ground station was lost before its
soft landing on the south pole of the Moon. The contact was lost when the
lander was 2.1km away
from the surface of the moon.
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Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22, 2019, from GSLV
Mk-III, nicknamed ‘Bahubali’ from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in
Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.Project consisted of 3 components namely the
Orbiter, the Lander ‘Vikram’, and the Rover Pragyan (27kg).
6) BKSP successfully won U17 Girls
Subroto Cup
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Bangladesh Krida Shiksha Prothishtan (BKSP) has
successfully retained the 60th edition
of the Under 17 Girls Subroto Cup International Football 2019 title
by defeating Neelamani English School, Manipur with 4-0 scores in the final
held in Ambedkar Stadium in New
Delhi.
7) Nehru Trophy for the year 2019
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Snakeboat Nadubhagam
Chundan clinched the 67th Edition of the Nehru Trophy 2019 in
the boat race held at the Punnamada
Lake in Alappuzha,
Kerala.
8) Ram Jethmalani, Senior lawyer, and a
former union law minister has passed away at his home in Delhi after
suffering from prolonged illness. He was 95.
9) International Literacy
Day (ILD) was observed on September 8, 2019 with the theme ‘Literacy and Multilingualism’.
