DAILY GK 13 OCT 2019
1.
‘India
Sports Summit – Fitness: $10 Billion Opportunity’
ü The ‘India Sports Summit- Fitness: $10
Billion Opportunity’ was inaugurated by the Union Minister
for Sports & Youth Affairs Mr
Kiren Rijiju in New Delhi.
ü Indian shooter Heena
Sidhu, Khelo India athletes Esow Alben (cycling) and Esha Singh (Shooting) were
felicitated for their achievements.Also
India is striving to get Kabaddi a place in the Olympics in
2024.
2. India’ s 1st Garbage Cafe
ü Chhattisgarh state Health Minister T S Singhdeo has
inaugurated India’s 1st
‘Garbage Cafe’ with the tagline ‘More the waste better the
taste’ in Ambikapur of Surguja district. The
concept of this cafe is that ragpickers and the homeless will collect plastic
waste, and in return, the municipal corporation will offer them food.
ü Also Ambikapur has clichéd
the title of the 2nd cleanest city in India after Indore,
Madhya Pradesh.
3. C40 world mayors Summit 2019
ü
Climate Leadership Group C40, the group
of major international cities held its 7th edition of
C40 world mayors Summit 2019 at Copenhagen, Denmark with
the aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve climate resilience.
ü
Kolkata state
Government has received the prestigious “6th C40 Cities
Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards 2019 ” for the city’s green
mobility at C40 World Mayor Summit.
4.
Brand Finance Nation Brands 2019
ü
Brand Finance Nation Brands 2019 was
released by Brand Finance in which India was
ranked 7th from 9th rank of 2018 with 18.7% growth
in brand value to $2,562 bn. The list was topped by the United
States of America (USA) with 7.2% growth in brand value to $27,751
bn.
5. Astronaut Alexei Leonov passes
away
ü Russian astronaut Alexei
Leonov, who walked for the first time in space in 1965, died in
Moscow, Russia after a long illness. In
Voskhod 2 mission(1965) Leonov walked for 12 minutes and nine
seconds.
6. World arthritis day-October
12, 2019
ü The theme of this day
for 2019 is “Time2Work”.
Arthritis is an inflammatory condition causing pain and stiffness in joints.
7. World migratory bird day-October
12, 2019
ü
The Theme for
2019 is “Protect Birds: Be
the Solution to Plastic Pollution”.
