DAILY GK: 15 JAN 2020
1.
‘SAHYOG-KAIJIN’ EXERCISE
ü Japan Coast Guard (JCG) Ship ‘Echigo PLH08’ has
arrived Chennai on a five-day goodwill visit and it will participate in
the 19th edition
of Annual Joint Exercise ‘Sahyog-Kaijin’ with the Indian Coast Guard (ICG)
off in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
2.
CHILD
MORTALITY REPORT OF UN
ü United
Nations(UN) inter agency group for child mortality has produced a report titled
“Levels and Trends in Child Mortality”. As per this report India is
among 5 countries where in 2018, the mortality of girls under the
age of 5 exceeds that of the boys. Half of all under-5 deaths
in 2018 occurred in the following five countries: India, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo(DRC) and Ethiopia.
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S.No
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Category
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State
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1
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State with
largest gender gap
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Jharkhand.
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2
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State with
highest newborn deaths
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Uttar Pradesh.
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3
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State with
highest under 5 mortality rate
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Madhya Pradesh.
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4
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State with least
under 5 mortality rate
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Kerala.
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3.
FIRST
WOMAN PARADE ADJUTANT FOR REPUBLIC DAY
ü Captain Tania Shergill, an officer with Army’s Corps of Signals,
will be the first woman parade adjutant for the Republic Day (26th January)
parade of 2020. A parade adjutant is responsible for the parade.In the
2019 Republic Day parade, Captain BhavnaKasturi was the first women officer
who led an all-men contingent.
4.
GLOBAL
CHILD PRODIGY AWARD
ü Yoga Champion Ishwar Sharma,10 years old schoolboy (UK resident)
originally from Mysore, under 11-yoga champion from the UK, has been honoured
with the Global Child Prodigy Award 2020 for achievements in spiritual
discipline yoga.
ü Global Prodigy Award honours child
prodigies from across 45 countries under 30 different categories such as
palaeontology, choreography, biking, fitness and martial arts etc.
5.
NEW DG
OF CRPF
ü IPS Officer A P Maheshwari appointed
as Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) by the
Appointments Committee of the Cabinet. In 1939 it is named as Crown
Representatives Police (CRP) and later in 1949 it is named as the Central
Reserve Police Force (CRPF). It is under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
6.
FOURTH
DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF RBI
ü
Michael Patra has been appointed as Deputy Governor of the
RBI. After the resignation of Viral V Acharya the post was lying vacant from July
2019. He will be the fourth Deputy Governor of the RBI appointed for a period
of three
years. Prior to this he was working as an Executive Director of RBI
7.
SURVEYOR
GENERAL OF INDIA
ü Appointment Committee of Cabinet (ACC)
approved the re-appointment proposal of Lt General Girish Kumar as the
Surveyor General of India in Survey of India, the national survey and mapping
organization of the country, for a period of one year on contract basis w.e.f.
January 1, 2020.The surveyor General of India is the head of the Department of
Survey of India, a Department which comes under the Ministry of Science and Technology of
Government of India.
8.
H9N2
VIRUS
ü Scientists
of the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, Maharashtra have
detected the 1st case of H9N2 virus ,a rare
subtype of influenza virus A, in a 17-month-old boy in Maharashtra. It is a rare variant of the virus, which
causes human influenza as well as bird flu. These viruses, found exclusively in
wild birds, could potentially play a major role in the worldwide emergence of influenza.In
humans, the first case of H9N2 virus infection occurred in Hong Kong in 1998.
9.
INDIA
FINISH 2019 AS NUMBER ONE IN SHOOTING
ü According to International Shooting Sport
Federation (ISSF), India is the top Shooting Nation in the World with
21 gold, 6 silver, and 3 bronze. India secured first position in all the
Rifle-pistol World Cups and Finals in the year.
China is at the second position with 11 gold, 15 silver and 18 bronze.
China is at the second position with 11 gold, 15 silver and 18 bronze.
10.
MOST
INSPIRING SPORTING EVENT OF LAST 20 YEARS
ü Sachin Tendulkar has been nominated in
Laureas’s list for the most inspiring sporting event in the last twenty
years.Apart from Tendulkar, England’s Andrew Flintoff is the only other
cricketer to feature in the list.
