DAILY GK 21 AUG 2019
1. MOU
BETWEEN INDIA & MALDIVES ON TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME FOR
MALDIVIAN CIVIL SERVANTS OPERATIONALISED
✔The
Memorandum of Understanding between India and Maldives on Training and Capacity
Building Programme for Maldivian Civil Servants was operationalised
✔National
Center for Good Governance, India and the Civil Services Commission of Maldives
had signed an MoU which envisaged capacity building activities for 1000 Civil
Servants of Maldives at the National Centre for Good Governance over the next 5
years.
✔India
will be the nodal institution for designing customized training modules and its
implementation taking into account the requirements of the Civil Service
Commission of Maldives.
2. INDIAN-AMERICAN
TEEN NAVNEETH MURALI WINS 2019 SOUTH ASIAN SPELLING BEE COMPETITION
✔Navneeth
Murali, an Indian-American teenager from New Jersey, has won the 2019 South Asian
Spelling Bee contest. The prize money for this contest is USD 3,000.
✔The
South Asian Spelling Bee is an annual spelling bee platform in the US for
children of South Asian descent. The competition is open to any student at or
below the age of 14, who has at least one parent or grandparent who is of South
Asian descent, or whose lineage can be traced to Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and/or Sri Lanka.
3. RAVINDER
TAKKAR APPOINTED AS THE NEW CEO OF VODAFONE INDIA REPLACING BALESH SHARMA
✔The
Board of Vodafone India, has appointed Ravinder Takkar as the new MD and CEO
with immediate effect.
✔Takkar
replaces CEO Balesh Sharma, who has stepped down citing personal reasons.
4. FORMER
AUSTRALIAN FAST BOWLER MITCHELL JOHNSON HAS BEEN MADE AN HONORARY LIFE MEMBER
OF MCC
✔Former
Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has been elected as an Honorary Life
Member of the MCC, the custodian of the rules of cricket, during the second
Test against Australia and England.
✔Johnson
took 313 wickets for Australia in 73 Tests at an average of 28.40.
5. BCCI
ANNOUNCES REDUCTION IN BAN PERIOD TO 7 YEARS ENDING IN 2020 FOR CRICKETER S
SREESANTH
✔BCCI
Ombudsman DK Jain has ordered for the reduction in the ban of Indian cricketer
S. Sreesanth, who was alleged in match fixing scandal in 2013. His ban period is now lowered to 7 year by
the Supreme Court which will end by september 2020.
6.
WORLD MOSQUITO DAY: 20 AUGUST, 2019
✔The
World Mosquito Day is observed on 20 August, 2019 to raise awareness about the
diseases caused by the female mosquitoes.
✔This
day is an honor of British doctor Sir Ronald Ross’s groundbreaking discovery in
1897 that female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans.
✔They
spread diseases like malaria, West Nile virus, dengue, chikungunya, Zika among
human beings.
