DAILY GK 26 JUNE 2019
1.
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT MOVE TO SET UP KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRAS TO DOUBLE FARMERS’
INCOME BY 2022
✔The
Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar announced
that central Government has decided to use digital technology in rural India to
double farmers’ income by the year 2022.
✔The
Government has set up 713 Krishi Vigyan Kendras and 684 Agricultural Technology
Management Agencies at district level in the country for dissemination of
technologies among the farming community.
✔Artificial
Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, and Block Chair Technology, Internet of
Things, etc are the technologies which will be used.
2. RBI
LAUNCHES NEW COMPLAINTS PORTAL FOR FILING ONLINE COMPLAINTS AGAINST BANKS,
NBFCS
✔The
Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das has launched a Complaint
Management System for lodging complaints against banks and NBFCs on its
website. The online portal aims at improving customer experience in timely
redressal of grievances.
✔The
public can use the portal (https://cms.rbi.org.in), to lodge complaints against
any regulated entity with a public interface such as commercial banks, urban
cooperative banks, Non-Banking Financial Companies which would be directed to
the appropriate office of the Ombudsman/Regional Office of the RBI.
3.
RACHNA KHAIRA OF THE TRIBUNE WON REDINK AWARD FOR ‘JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR 2019’
FOR AADHAAR EXPOSE
✔Rachna
Khaira of The Tribune News Service won RedInk Award for ‘Journalist of the Year
2019’. The award was bestowed for her expose on the functioning of the Unique
Identification Authority of India and its Aadhaar data cache held in 2018.
✔The
RedInk ‘Star Mumbai Reporter’ award for 2019 was given to Mid-Day reporter
Ranjeet Jadhav.
4.
WIND AND SOLAR TO DELIVER HALF THE WORLD’S POWER BY THE YEAR 2050: BNEF REPORT
✔According
to Bloomberg NEF, Wind and solar power are the new power in two-thirds of
countries around the world and they will make up almost half of the electricity
system by 2050.
✔The
electricity demand set to increase 62 percent, which in turn will attract $13.3
trillion in new investment, of which wind will take $5.3 trillion and solar
will take $4.2 trillion.
✔Wind
and solar grow from 7 percent to 48 percent by 2050, while, coal in the global
power mix will plunge from 37 percent to 12 percent by 2050.
✔Europe
will take the lead to decarbonize its grid, with 92% of its electricity supply
in 2050.
5.
VETERAN ACTOR ANUPAM KHER PENS AN AUTO-BIOGRAPHY “LESSONS LIFE TAUGHT ME,
UNKNOWINGLY”
✔Veteran
Actor Anupam Kher has penned an Auto-Biography titled “Lessons Life Taught Me, Unknowingly”.
✔The
book will be published by Penguin Random House.
✔Kher
is the winner of two National awards, eight Filmfare awards and a BAFTA
nomination. He is a recipient of the Padma Shree Award in 2004 and Padma
Bhushan Award in 2016.
