DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS: 19TH,20th DEC
2019
1. Fmhas set Rs 1.1 lakh
crore monthly GST collection target
ü Ministry
of Finance(MoF) has set Rs 1.1 trillion monthly GST (Goods
and Services Tax) target for the remaining four months of the fiscal year(FY
2019-20) and asked tax officials to step up efforts to achieve the goal.
2. Annual report of
ombudsman Schemes for the year 2018-19
ü
According
to the annual Report of Ombudsman Schemes for 2018-19,released by Reserve Bank of India(RBI),the
volume of complaints received by its 21 Offices of Banking Ombudsman
(OBOs) has increased to 1,95,901 complaints in 2018-19 (Fiscal year-FY 19), up
by 19.75% (or 32,311 complaints) from the previous year (2017-18), that
accounted 1,63,590.
3. NDB commits $100 million
to India’s NIIF
ü New Development Bank
(NDB) has agreed to provide $100
million to India’s National Investment and Infrastructure Fund’s (NIIF) Fund
of Funds(FoF), that aims to raise about $1 billion to invest in up to 10
private equity funds managed by fund managers in India.
4. ‘India Cyber Cop of the
Year’ 2019
ü B.P Raju, Deputy superintendent , CBI won ‘India
Cyber Cop of the Year 2019’ award given by NASSCOM (National Association of
Software and Services Companies)-DSCI (Data
Security Council of India) in the Annual
Information Security Summit (AISS) held at Gurugram. He received
the award for cracking a fraud case in an online entrance exam conducted by an
engineering college in Rajasthan.
5. UWW’s ‘Junior Freestyle
Wrestler of the Year’
ü The
World Championships silver medallist Deepak Punia(86Kg freestyle
category) has named as the 2019 ‘Junior Freestyle Wrestler of the
Year‘ by United World Wrestling (UWW). Punia is the first Indian
wrestler in 18 years to win a junior world title at the Junior World
Championships held in Tallinn, Estonia in August 2019.
6. International migrants
day-December 18,2019
ü The theme for the year
2019 “We Together.”
In 2019, the number of migrants globally reached an estimated 272 million,
51 million more than in 2010.
7. Minorities Right Day in
India-18 December 2019
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