DAILY GK 22 JULY 2019
1. E-POSTAL
BALLOT REGISTERED 60.14% TURNOUT IN 2019 LOK SABHA ELECTIONS
✔Using
the Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System, out of the 18,02,646
service electors, 10,84,266 e-postal ballots were received indicating 60.14%
turnout in Lok Sabha elections 2019.
✔Persons
working in paramilitary forces, the military and government officials deployed
in diplomatic missions outside India are classified as Service Voters.
✔It
was introduced by the Election Commission of India for Lok Sabha elections 2019
with the motto “no voter to be left behind”.
2. AMITA
PRASAD TAKES CHARGE AS ‘INLAND WATERWAYS’ AUTHORITY CHIEF AND AK JHA TO LEAD
NPC
✔Amita
Prasad has been appointed as chairperson of Inland Waterways Authority of India
Ministry of Shipping, in the rank and pay of secretary.
✔She
replaces Shri Jalaj Shrivastava.
✔Prasad
is currently serving as Director-General, National Productivity Council,
Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce
& Industry.
✔She
also served as additional secretary in Ministry of statistics and programming.
✔Arun
Kumar Jha, 1985 batch Indian Economic Service officer, has been appointed as
National Productivity Council, Department for Promotion of Industry and
Internal Trade, as its Director-General.
✔He
replaces Amita Prasad.
3. SILICON
VALLEY OF INDIA, BENGALURU TOPS “MOST DIGITISED CITIES” LIST: RAZORPAY REPORT
2019
✔Bengaluru
got the top position in the list of “most digitised cities” in the April-June
2019 quarter accounting for highest card payments.
✔Bengaluru
is followed by Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, and Delhi.
✔The
top five digitised states are Karnataka, Maharashtra, New Delhi, Tamil Nadu,
and Andhra Pradesh.
4. G7
FINANCE MINISTERS AGREE ON A PLAN FOR TAXING GIGANTIC DIGITAL COMPANIES
✔In
the event of G7 finance ministers meeting in France, all fully supported
two-pillar taxation for large tech companies to be adopted by 2020.
✔They
agreed on a plan for taxing digital companies such as Facebook and Google,
Amazon should be taxed in the countries in which they make money, even without
any physical presence in the country.
✔The
plan would have to be further developed by the G20 group of top 20 economies
and then implemented under the aegis of the Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development.
5. BENJAMIN
NETANYAHU MAKES HISTORY AS BECOMES LONGEST-SERVING ISRAELI PM
✔Benjamin
Netanyahu has become Israel‘s longest-serving prime minister, surpassing the
record of David Ben-Gurion, country’s
founding father, and first leader.
✔In
1996, he won his first election, becoming Israel’s youngest-ever Prime Minister
at the age of 46.
6. KOSOVO
PM RESIGNS AFTER HAGUE WAR COURT SUMMONS
✔Ramush
Haradinaj, prime minister of Kosovo, Serbia’s southern province has stepped
down from his post after he was summoned for questioning as a suspect by the
Kosovo Specialist Chambers in the Hague investigating crimes against ethnic
Serbs during and after the country’s 1998-99 war.
✔Kosovo
unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008 and it is recognized by
the US and most of the West, but not by
Serbia and its allies Russia and China.
