DAILY GK: 3 DEC 2020
1. INDIA’S 1ST 100 OCTANE PETROL,
‘XP-100’ DEVELOPED BY IOC
• Ministry of Petroleum and Natural
gas(MOP&NG) Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the India’s first 100
Octane Petrol also known as XP 100 manufactured by Indian Oil Corporation(IOC).
• XP 100, the premium grade petrol is
manufactured at IOC’s Mathura refinery in Uttar Pradesh, and will be rolled out
in two Phases at selected Petrol stations.
• Phase1(10 cities)– Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida,
Agra, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Pune and Ahmedabad
2. 1ST VIRTUAL AADI MAHOTSAV IN
MADHYA PRADESH
• Cabinet Minister of Tribal Affairs, Arjun
Munda launched the first ever virtual edition of Aadi Mahotsav, at Madhya
Pradesh.
• Aadi Mahostav also known as National
Tribal festival is conducted to promote the tribal, products, culture thereby
increasing Tribal income.
• Festival is Jointly organised by the
Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India and Tribal Cooperative
Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED).
3. AMUL BECOMES WORLD’S 8TH LARGEST
MILK PROCESSOR
• According to The International Farm
Comparison Network (IFCN) Dairy Processors Report 2020 (Biennial), Amul (Anand
Milk Union Limited) a brand of dairy cooperative major Gujarat Cooperative Milk
Marketing Federation (GCMMF) emerged as the 8th Largest Milk Processor globally
in the list of Top 20.
• The rankings are based on the parameters
of Milk Intake per annum.
Rank Company Milk
Intake
1 Dairy
Farmers of America (DFA) (USA) 29 Billion Kg
2 Fonterra
(New Zealand) 21.9 Billion Kg
3 Lactalis
(France) 20
Billion Kg
4. MOST AFFECTED COUNTRY IN THE
WORLD DUE TO TERRORISM IN 2019
• According to the 8th Edition of ‘Global
Terrorism Index (GTI) 2020: Measuring the Impact of Terrorism’ released by
Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), India with a score of 7.353 is the
8th Most Affected Country in the World due to Terrorism in 2019.
• Afghanistan (9.592), Iraq (8.682) &
Nigeria (8.314) are top 3 countries which are the most affected by Terrorism.
• GTI is a complete analysis of impact of
terrorism for 163 countries covering 99.7% of the World’s Population.
• Qatar (0.014) took the 133rd Rank followed
by Uzbekistan (0.010) in the 134th Rank and around 29 Countries (score of
0.000) took the 135th Rank which means they are Least Affected Countries or
Face No Impact due to Terrorism.
5. ”PNB LENS-THE LENDING SOLUTION”
• Punjab National Bank (PNB) developed and
launched ‘PNB LenS-The Lending
Solution’, an IT(Information Technology) based lending solution for loan management.
• To increase the speed and maintain
accuracy in online processing of loans and sanctioning of credit proposals.
6. ADITYA VIKRAM BIRLA KALA SHIKHAR
PURASKAR 2020
• Veteran Bollywood Actor Naseeruddin Shah
was honoured with the Aditya Vikram Birla Kala Shikhar Puraskar 2020 at the
Sangit Kala Kendra Awards virtual function.
• He was awarded in the category theatre.
• Sangit Kala Kendra instituted this award
in 1966, in memory of its Founder President, the Late Shri Aditya Vikram Birla.
• The award comprises- Cash award of Rs 2.0
lakhs, a memento and a scroll of honour.
7. TWO DICTIONARY COMPANIES SELECT
“PANDEMIC” AS WORD OF THE YEAR
• Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com two of
the most popular dictionary companies for the first time have chosen a common
word “Pandemic” as Word of the Year.
• Once the World Health Organisation (WHO)
announced COVID-19 as pandemic in early March, 2020 the word continuously
peaked in the most searched list.
• The announcement was made right after the
Oxford Languages issued a 16-page report explaining the urgency to the role of
Lexicographer.
8. WORLD’S OLDEST NANOSTRUCTURES
FOUND
• Scientists have discovered the oldest
known human-made nano-materials in the “unique black coatings” of ancient
pottery shards dated to 600 BC that were unearthed from an archeological site
in Keeladi, Tamil Nadu.
• The research was published in the journal
Scientific Reports and the findings have been documented in a paper published
in “Nature”.
• In accordance with the research these
coatings are made of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) which have enabled the layer to
last more than 2600 years.
• It should be noted that this discovery has
succeeded the old known carbon nanostructure that was found in the Damascus
blades from the 16th-18th century.
• Notably the technique used in the Damascus
blades was also made in India.
9. INDIA’S 1ST LUXURY CRUISE
SERVICE
• The ‘Ramayan Cruise Service’ is to be
launched on Saryu river (Ghagra/National Waterways-40) in Ayodhya, Uttar
Pradesh.
• It is India’s 1st luxury Cruise service on
the Saryu river.
• It aims to give an attractive experience to devotees with one-of-its-kind
spiritual journeys while cruising through the famous ghats of the holy river
Saryu.
