DAILY GK 8 SEPT
1) First ‘Make in India’ Metro Coach
ü PM Narendra Modi
inaugurated the first Metro Coach in Mumbai under the ‘Make in
India’ initiative at Mumbai. He also launched Rs.19,000 crore worth
metro projects..
2) Akash missile project for Air Force
ü To strengthen the Indian Air Force (IAF),
the central government has approved the procurement of 6 squadrons of
indigenous Akash Air
Defense missile for the Air Force at a cost of Rs 5,000 crore. They
will be deployed along the borders with Pakistan and China.
3) SLINEX 2019- Indo-Lanka maritime exercise
ü 9th edition of joint
maritime naval exercise between India and Srilanka named SLINEX 2019 has commenced in the port of
Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
4) South Asian Parliamentarian conference for Children
ü
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) at the Colombo city
conducted South Asian
Parliamentarian Conference on Children Rights Convention.
5) UPI transactions reached 918 million
ü
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has released a
data on the new record created by Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions that
reached an overall high of 918
million transactions worth Rs 1.54 lakh crore by
the end of August, 2019 .
ü
UPI is a real time payment system connecting multiple
bank accounts in a single mobile application. Owned by NPCI, it caters to the
Peer to Peer system.
6) Retail loan in 59 minutes
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All 19
public sector banks (PSB) including State Bank of
India(SBI), Punjab National Bank (PNB), Bank of Baroda (BOB) have initiated
in-principle retail
loan approval for customers availing housing and personal
loans under the online lending platform ‘PSB Loans in 59 Minutes’.
7) CBSE & Microsoft - Capacity building of teachers
ü
CBSE has joined hands with Microsoft to
incorporate cloud-based technology in high school teachers’ capacity building programs and
teaching.
8) The International Cricket Council (ICC)
appointed Jonathan
Hall as its General
Counsel and Company
Secretary.
9) “Rohit4Rhinos campaign”
ü Rohit Sharma is launching “Rohit4Rhinos campaign” in
partnership with WWF
India and Animal
Planet (wildlife channel) to spread awareness about the
need for conservation of one-horned rhinos.
10) Pakistan’s former cricketer Abdul Qadir passed
away at the age of 63 due to cardiac arrest.
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