DAILY GK 18 JAN 2020
1.
Exercise ‘Winged Raider’
ü Indian
Army(IA) conducted its biggest airborne
exercise ‘Winged Raider’. The exercise comprised of more than 500
soldiers of Special Forces troops in the northeastern theatre and involved all
kinds of air transport platforms of the Indian Air Force (IAF).
2.
India’s first model sports villages
ü Two
villages namely Bahadurpur and Kheri Veran of
Uttar Pradesh (UP) has set to become India’s first ‘Model Sports villages’
as a part of Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad, UP ‘Adarsh
Khel Gram’ program in association with NGO‘ Sports: A Way of Life’ to
evolve sports culture and increase sports literacy in the country.
3.
Science Film festival 2020
ü 5th edition
of the Science Film Festival of India, SCI- FFI 2020 held
at Panaji, Goa. A special workshop was conducted by Indian
Institute of Technology- Bombay(IIT-B) in the title “Million SoUL” and provided
training on solar lamps.
4.
World Future Energy Summit 2020
ü 10th edition
of World Future Energy Summit (WFES)2020 hosted by Masdar renewable
energy company, was held at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre in Abu
Dhabi, United Arab Emirates(UAE).Theme “Rethinking Global
Consumption, Production, and Investment”.
ü Also
3rd edition of the Climate
Innovations Exchange, ‘CLIX’ in short and the Future Sustainability Summit
was also held in Abu Dhabi.
5.
‘Vajra platform’ to make payments fast &
secure
ü National
Payments Corporation of India (NPCI),an
umbrella organisation for operating retail payments has launched blockchain
technology based “Vajra Platform” to make payments fast &
secure.
ü The
new platform Vajra, which is based on the Distributed Ledger Technology
(DLT),has been designed with the aim to offer automatic clearing and
settlement of payments on NPCI products such as unified payments interface
(UPI) and Rupay card & will significantly reduce the need for manual
reconciliation.
6.
Mangeshkar Award for 2017 & 2018
ü Suman
Kalyanpur was chosen for the 2017
National Lata Mangeshkar Award of the state govt. of Madhya Pradesh(MP)
while Indian Music composer Kuldeep Singh has been chosen for
the same Mangeshkar award for the year 2018.
.
7.
Queen’s Counsel for courts of England
& Wales
ü Indian
Senior Advocate Harish Salve has been appointed the Queen’s
counsel for the courts of England and Wales.
ü The
title of Queen’s Counsel QC is awarded to those who have
demonstrated particular skill and expertise in the conduct of advocacy.
8.
Road Safety Committee
ü Supreme
Court appoint one of its retired judges Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre as
the Chairman of the committee on road safety since the panel’s current head Justice
K.S.P. Radhakrishnan expressed his difficulty in continuing the position.
9.
S-400 Air Defence Systems
ü Russia has
announced to deliver 5 units of S-400 air defence systems
to India by 2025 while its production has already begun.India
and Russia signed a deal of $5.43 billion for
the procurement of these S-400 systems during the 19th edition of India-Russia
Annual Bilateral Summit held in New Delhi in 2018.
ü S-400
is manufactured by Almaz-Antey and has been in service in
Russia since 2007.
