DAILY GK 25 JULY 2019
1.
12TH EDITION OF THE GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX FOR THE YEAR 2019
✔Union
Minister of Commerce & Industry and Railways, Piyush Goyal launched the
12th Edition of the Global Innovation Index for the year 2019 in New Delhi.
✔The
theme of the 2019 GII is “Creating
Healthy Lives – The Future of Medical Innovation”.
✔The
event was co-hosted by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal
Trade of Ministry of Commerce and Industry, in collaboration with the WIPO and
CII.
✔India
was ranked 52nd in 2019.
✔Switzerland
topped the list.
2. IMF
LOWERS INDIA’S GROWTH FORECAST FOR 2019-20 TO 7% FROM 7.3%
✔According
to the IMF’s the latest update of WEO report 2019, India’s GDP growth expected
to grow by 7% in 2019 and 7.2% in 2020.
✔It
scales down its outlook for both the years due to a broad-based slowdown in
consumption and investment demand in India.
✔IMF
also cuts global growth projection by 10bps (Basis point) to 3.2% for 2019 and
3.5 percent in 2020 due to US tariff sanctions, Brexit related uncertainty.
✔World
Bank projected India’s GDP growth rate remained at 7.5 percent for the next
three financial year.
3. RBI
LAUNCHES A MEDIUM-TERM STRATEGY FRAMEWORK “UTKARSH 2022”
✔India’s
central banking institution, RBI launched “Utkarsh 2022”, central bank’s
medium-term strategy framework (2019-22), in line with evolving macroeconomic
environment.
✔It
has launched the framework to achieve excellence in the performance of
statutory and other functions, strengthening the trust of citizens and other
institutions in the RBI, enhanced relevance and significance in national and
global roles, best-in-class and environment-friendly digital as well as
physical infrastructure, and innovative, dynamic and skilled human resources.
✔RBI
will also periodically monitor the implementation and progress via its
sub-committee.
4.
MOHUN BAGAN RATNA AWARD 2019 TO BE CONFERRED TO KESHAV DUTT & PRASUN BANERJEE
✔Keshav
Dutt, two-time Olympic gold medallist in hockey and Prasun Banerjee, former
Indian football captain, will be awarded the ‘Mohun Bagan Ratna’ for the year
2019.
✔Keshav
Dutt is one of the oldest surviving hockey Olympians of India. He represented
India in the 1948 London Games, where India won the first gold post-Independence.
He won his second Olympic gold in Helsinki, Finland 1952.
- Best
Football Player for the season 2018-19 Arijit
Bagui
- India’s
hat-trick hero of 2019 ICC World Cup Mohammed
Shami
- Lifetime
Achievement Award Ashok
Chatterjee (Footballer)
5. THE
INDIAN ARMY APPOINTED NARAVANE AS ITS NEW VICE CHIEF
✔Lieutenant
General Manoj Mukund Naravane has been appointed as the next vice chief of the
army staff in the Indian Army.
✔He
succeeds Lieutenant General D. Anbu who is retiring next month.
✔Lt-Gen.P.
Singh will take over as General officer commanding-in-chief, Western Army
command.
✔Current
director general of military operations Lieutenant General Anil Chauhan will
replace Lt-Gen M.M. Naravane in the eastern command.
✔Current
director general of military training Lt-Gen. A.S. Kler has been appointed as
General Officer Commanding-in-chief of the South Western Command succeeding
Lt-Gen. Cherish Matheson.
✔Lt-Gen.I.S.
Ghuman will take charge of Lucknow based central command from Lt-Gen. Abhay
Krishna.
6.
KISHEN NARSI APPOINTED AS ASBC CHAIRMAN
✔Former
All-India University champion boxer Kishen Mangaldas Narsi has been appointed
as the Chairman of Asian Boxing Confederation’s competitions commission.
7.
KARNATAKA CM HD KUMARASWAMY SUBMITS RESIGNATION TO THE GOVERNOR
✔The
Chief Minister of Karnataka H D Kumaraswamy of Janata Dal (Secular) submitted
the resignation to the Governor Vajubhai Vala after the Congress-Janata Dal
(Secular) coalition government lost majority in Karnataka Assembly.
8.
ISRO TO LAUNCH INDIA’S 1ST SOLAR MISSION ADITYA-L1 IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2020
✔The
Indian Space Research Organisation has announced that it will launch its first
solar mission Aditya-L1 in the first half of 2020. It will be the first
dedicated scientific mission to study Sun’s corona.
✔It
aims to put Aditya-L1 satellite(800-kg) into a halo orbit around Lagrangian
point L1 of Sun and Earth system. The L1 point is situated at a distance of
about 1.5 million km from earth.
9.
BANGLADESH DEVELOPS AN ALTERNATIVE FOR PLASTIC FROM JUTE- “SONALI”
✔A
team of scientists working for Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation have developed
a method to convert Jute fibre into low cost Biodegradable cellulose sheets.
✔It
is named as “Sonali” – the Bengali
word for “golden” bags. It is biodegradable after three months buried in soil
and can also be recycled.
✔India
is the biggest producer of jute in the world, followed by Bangladesh.
10.
DEJAN PAPIC APPOINTED AS INDIA’S TABLE TENNIS HEAD COACH
✔The
Table Tennis Federation of India appointed Dejan Papicas of Canada as the head
coach of the Indian table tennis team. He has signed a one-year contract which
was offered by the Sports Authority of India.
✔He
will be in charge through the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
✔He
will be paid $7000 per month and his contract will be up for renewal after the
Olympics.
11.
FORMER CHINESE PREMIER LI PENG, KNOWN AS THE “BUTCHER OF BEIJING” PASSED AWAY
✔Former
Chinese Premier Li Peng, best known for announcing martial law during the 1989
Tiananmen protests, has died.
✔He
served as China’s 4th Premier from 1987 to 1998 and held several posts in the Communist
Party.
✔He
was also the former chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing
Committee.
12.
AAYKAR DIWAS 2019: JULY 24
✔The
Central Board of Direct Taxes and all field offices celebrated the 159th Aaykar
Diwas on 24 july at New Delhi.
✔The
department launched ‘Kardaata e-Sahyog Abhiyaan’ to assist and support
taxpayers and other stakeholders to help them to e-file their returns and
discharge other tax-related obligations.
✔The
day is celebrated since the Income tax was introduced for the first time in
India on July 24, 1860, by James Wilson.
