DAILY GK 19 APRIL 2019
1. SAUDI
ARABIA IS GOING TO HOST G20 SUMMIT IN RIYADH IN NOVEMBER 2020
✔Saudi
Arabia will host G20 summit in November 2020 in Riyadh. This will be the first
G20 meeting in the Arab world and the 15th meeting of the G20.
✔The
G20 Summit is formally known as the ‘Summit on Financial Markets and the World
Economy’. The group of these 20 countries account for 85% of the world’s GDP
and two-thirds of the world population.
2. NORWAY
TOPPED AND INDIA RANKED 140TH IN WORLD PRESS FREEDOM INDEX 2019
✔World
Press Freedom Index 2019 is topped by Norway ,followed by Finland and India
drops down by two positions (138th rank in 2018) to be ranked 140th out of 180
countries in 2019.
✔The
reason for decrease in India’s rank is because of at least six Indian
journalists being killed in last one year.
3. LGBTQ
RIGHTS LAWYER ARUNDHATI KATJU, MENAKA GURUSWAMY AMONG TIME’S 100 MOST
INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE LIST
✔TIME
Magazine has released 100’s most influential people list in which Reliance
Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, public interest litigators Arundhati Katju
and Menaka Guruswamy who fought the legal battle for LGBTQ rights are among
Indians have been named.
✔Arundhati
Katju and Menaka Guruswamy Lawyer Pioneers ranked at 9th place. Mukesh
Ambani ranked at 13th rank.
4. NEPAL
CARRIED OUT ITS FIRST SATELLITE “NEPALISAT-1” INTO SPACE
✔Nepal
has launched its first satellite “NepaliSat-1″ into space by CygnusNG11 mission
by NASA in Virginia, USA. This satellite will be carried to the International
space station as a cargo.
✔The
satellite is launched to gather detailed geographical information of the
Himalayan nation.
5. SRI
LANKA’S 1ST SATELLITE ‘RAAVANA-1’ LAUNCHED INTO SPACE
✔Sri
Lanka launched its first satellite ‘Raavana-1’ weighing 1.05 kg into space from
the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on
Virginia’s East Shore.
✔The
camera mission of Raavana 1 is to take pictures of Sri Lanka and its
neighbouring countries.
✔Raavana
1’s Lora Demonstration Mission would be able to data download next satellites.
6. INTERNATIONAL
HOCKEY FEDERATION IMPOSES FINE OF 1,70,000 EUROS ON PAKISTAN HOCKEY FEDERATION
FOR DISRESPECTING PRO LEAGUE COMMITMENTS
✔The
International Hockey Federation has imposed a fine of 170,000 Euros on Pakistan
Hockey Federation for not honouring the Pro League commitments and has given
PHF time-limit till 20th June, on failure of which PHF would have to pay double
the penalty.
✔The
PHF was fined because it did not send the national team for the Pro League
matches in Argentina, Australia and New Zealand.
7. PERU’S
FORMER PRESIDENT ALAN GARCIA KILLS HIMSELF TO AVOID ARREST
✔Alan
garcia, who served two terms as Peru’s president, from 1985 to 1990 and from
2006 to 2011 killed himself.
✔He
shot himself in his bedroom at his home in Lima, as police waited outside his
door to take him to jail over bribery allegations with Brazelian construction
company odebrecht.
