DAILY GK 20 AUG 2019
1. PRESIDENT
RAM NATH GOVIND INAUGURATES BUNKER MUSEUM AT RAJ BHAVAN
✔The
president of India, Shri Ram Nath Govind inaugurated the 15,000 square feet
underground bunker museum at Raj Bhavan (Governor’s government house) in
Mumbai.
✔The
president also unveiled the foundation stone for the reconstruction of Jal
Bhushan. It is the Governor’s office-cum-residential building with a history of
nearly 200 years.
2. GUJARAT
TO GET COUNTRY’S FIRST INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
✔As
a boost to the chemical industry in the country, Gujarat is to get the
country’s first Central Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology. The
CICET would be built either at Ahmedabad or Surat.
✔A
plastic Waste Management Centre in Ahmedabad is to be set up to find out
solutions to systematic segregation and recycling of plastic waste.
✔A
skill development centre will start functioning at Bhavnagar, Gujarat.
✔Another
campus, Central Institute of Plastic Engineering & Technology is to be set
up at a cost of ₹54crore in Valsad, Gujarat for the benefit of tribal students
and the plastic industry.
3. PRIME
MINISTER NARENDRA MODI’S VISIT TO BHUTAN
✔The
Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi made a State Visit to Bhutan, at
the invitation of Prime Minister of Bhutan Dr. Lotay Tshering.
✔PM
inaugurated the Mangdechhu hydroelectric power plant, one of the major projects
under Bhutan’s initiative to generate 10,000 MW hydropower by 2020 with the
Indian government’s support. It is estimated to generate 2,923 GWh of
electricity.
✔Both
leaders jointly inaugurated the Ground Earth Station and SATCOM network, developed
with assistance from Indian Space Research Organization for utilization of
South Asia Satellite in Bhutan.
✔PM
launched RuPay Card in Bhutan by making a purchase at Simtokha Dzong which
functions as a monastic and administrative centre and is one of the oldest
dzongs in Bhutan.
4. PAYTM
PROMOTED CFO MADHUR DEORA AS ITS PRESIDENT
✔Indian
largest digital wallet company, Paytm has promoted its CFO Madhu Deora as
President of the company.
✔prior
to this, he has served as Managing Director in Citigroup’s investment banking
business in New York, London, and Mumbai.
5. INDIA
IS THE TOP EMITTER OF SULFUR DIOXIDE (SO2) IN THE WORLD: GREENPEACE
✔According
to a data released by a non-governmental environmental organization,
Greenpeace, India is the world’s top emitter of anthropogenic sulphur
dioxide(SO2) in the world with more than
15% of all the SO2 hotspots, tracked by NASA’s Ozone Monitoring Instrument
satellite.
✔Singrauli
in Madhya Pradesh, Neyveli, and Chennai in Tamil Nadu, Talcher and Jharsuguda
in Odisha, Korba in Chhattisgarh, Kutch in Gujarat, Ramagundam in Telangana and
Chandrapur and Koradi in Maharashtra are the major SO2 hotspots in India.
✔Norilsk
smelter complex in Russia is the largest SO2 emission hotspot in the world,
followed by China, Mexico, Zagroz (Iran) and
Kriel in Mpumalanga province (South Africa).
6. MUMBAI
TO HOST 2019 WORLD YOUTH CHESS MEET
✔The
2019 World Youth chess championship is to be held in Mumbai under the aegis of
All-India Chess Federation and organised by the All-Marathi chess Association.
✔World’s
second youngest GrandMaster R.Pragganandhaa(14) from Chennai and Nagpur’s Divya
Deshmukh will take part in the event.
✔Players
from 62 countries including Russia, America, France, Italy and Azerbaijan have
confirmed their participation.
7. AUSTRALIAN
CRICKETER MARNUS LABUSCHAGNE BECOMES FIRST CONCUSSION SUBSTITUTE
✔Australian
player Marnus Labuschagne has become the 1st Concussion Substitute player in
the history of International cricket. A Concussion Replacement Request is the
notification made to the ICC Match Referee in accordance with the process set
out by ICC. The Team Medical Representative is the individual designated for
the assessment of any head or neck injury sustained by a player.
✔A
Concussion Replacement is a player who takes the place of a player who has been
replaced for the remainder of the match. The player will be selected from the
list of nominated players provided by that team whose player was injured and
will take a full part in the match.
✔In
Ashes Series 2019, Steve Smith was ruled out of the last day of the 2nd Ashes
Test match at Lord’s due to concussion. Marnus Labuschagne replaced Smith on
the last day of the Lord’s Test.
8.
WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY DAY: AUGUST 19, 2019
✔World
photography day was celebrated across the world on 19 August.
✔The
aim of this day is to encourage people to express their feelings, emotions and
social thinking through their photography skills.
✔The
date of August 19 was chosen to commemorate the invention of the Daguerreotype,
a photographic process developed by Frenchmen Louis Daguerre and Joseph Nicephore
Niepce in 1837.
9.
WORLD HUMANITARIAN DAY: AUGUST 19, 2019
✔The
world humanitarian day 2019 was observed on August 19, 2019. The day was
observed to pay tribute to aid workers who risk their lives for humanitarian
services.
✔The
Campaign for the 2019 World Humanitarian Day is ‘Women Humanitarians’. It aims to draw attention towards the work
of women in crises throughout the world.
✔This
day marks the death of then Special Representative of Secretary-General to
Iraq, Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 of his colleagues who were killed in the
bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad.
