DAILY GK 9 OCT 2019
1. National
e-Assessment Scheme
ü Revenue Secretary Ajay
Bhushan Pandey who is also the Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of Unique
Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) inaugurated National
e-Assessment Scheme (NeAS) in New Delhi. This e-Assessment would
benefit the Income Tax(IT) department in imparting efficiency, transparency,
accountability in the assessment process.
2. Swiss banks account details to
GOI
ü India has got the first details of accounts of Indian citizens in Swiss banks under
the new regular system of automatic
exchange of information (AEOI).
3. 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics
ü The Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS) decided to award
the Nobel Prize in
Physics 2019 “for contributions to our understanding of
the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos”. The first half
of the prize was awarded to James
Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical
cosmology” and the other half to Michel
Mayor and Didier
Queloz, “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a
solar-type star”.
4. Fortune’s 2019 “40 Under 40
list”
ü Indian-origin Arjun Bansal (35) and Ankiti Bose (27) have
made it to Fortune’s
2019 “40 Under 40 Global List”. Arjun is the Vice
President of AI lab of Intel. Ankiti is the CEO and co-founder of the fashion
platform Zilingo.
5. Asia Environmental Enforcement
Award
ü Ramesh Pandey honoured with Asia Environmental Enforcement Award 2019 by
the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) at the United Nations
Conference Centre (UNCC) in Bangkok, Thailand .
6. Book- “Becoming: A Guided
Journal for Discovering Your Voice”
ü Michelle Obama‘s second book titled “Becoming: A Guided Journal for
Discovering Your Voice” is set to release.It is published
by Clarkson Potter.
7. Indian Air Force Day-october 8
ü IAF celebrated its 87th anniversary
on Air Force Day at
Hindon Air Base in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.
