DAILY GK 30 DEC 2019
1. Netherlands
scrapping its nickname ‘Holland’
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As a part of €200,000 tourism rebranding, the
Netherlands has officially announced to drop the nickname ‘Holland’ from
January 2020. Even the Netherlands’ Board of Tourism and Conventions is
also scrapping its symbol featuring a tulip, the national
flower, and the word “Holland” and replacing it with a new logo that has an
orange tulip and the initials “NL.”
2. No
MDR charges on payment via RuPay
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Union Finance Minister(FM) Nirmala
Sitharaman launched an online auction platform named “eBkray”
in New Delhi inorder to increase transparency in auctioning of assets attached
by banks. eBkray is linked with Indian Banks Auctions Mortgaged Properties
Information (IBAPI) portal.
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As on December 27, 2019 over 35,000
properties were uploaded by PSBs. These PSBs have attached assets worth ₹2.3
lakh crore in the last three fiscal years.
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The Indian Banks Auctions Mortgaged
Properties Information (IBAPI) portal is an initiative of Indian
Banks Association (IBA) under the Department of Financial Services (DFS) of the
Ministry of Finance (MoF).
3. RBI’s
20th FSR report
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According to the 20th edition
of the Financial Stability Report (FSR) 2019 released by RBI, India’s
financial system remains stable despite the recession.
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After the capital market regulator SEBI
(Securities and Exchange Board of India) imposed a fine of Rs 25 lakh each on
the major Credit rating agencies (CRA) -CARE and ICRA,
the RBI has also taken a dig at these agencies by strongly
criticizing them for allowing low-rated companies to do “rating shopping“(where
rating agencies giving good ratings to companies with poor ratings within 3
months).
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According to the report, frauds worth
Rs 1.13 lakh crore have been registered in banks in the 1st half of
the current financial year 2019-20 (H1 FY20), which is the highest
amount of bank fraud so far.
4. 11th
CEBR’s report
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United Kingdom(UK)-based Centre for Economics
and Business Research (CEBR) released its 11th annual report titled ‘World
Economic League Table 2020′(WELT 2020). According to the report, India is
expected to overtake Germany as the fourth-largest economy
in the world by 2026. It also estimated that India will
overtake Japan as the third-largest economy by 2034.
5. India’s
1st Chief of Defence Staff
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Bipin Rawat has
been appointed as India’s 1st Chief of Defence Staff(CDS). The CDS is
a 4-star single-point military adviser to the government’s
defence ministry as suggested by the Kargil Review Committee in 1999 headed by
K. Subrahmanyam.
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The CDS will also head all tri-services
institutions such as the National Defence Academy in Pune, Maharashtra, College
of Defence Management in Secunderabad, Telangana and the National Defence
College in Delhi.
6.
Hemant Soren sworn in as CM of Jharkhand
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Hemant Soren sworn in as the 11th Chief
Minister of Jharkhand at the oath taking ceremony took place at Morabadi Ground
in Ranchi for the second term. He is succeeding Mr. Raghubar Das.He is the
president of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), a political party in Jharkhand.
7. Algeria’s
New PM
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Algeria’s President
Abdelmadjid Tebboune has announced Abdelaziz Djerad as
the Prime Minister of the country.Djerad succeeds Noureddine
Bedouia as the new PM.
8. Deputy
CM of Maharashtra
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Ajit Pawar was sworn in as Maharashtra’s
deputy chief minister in Mumbai, for the second time in two months. Earlier he
had sworn-in as deputy CM on November 23 along with BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis but
had resigned in less than 80 hours.
9. Seema
banned by NADA
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Indian Weightlifter Seema,
has been banned for 4-years by National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA),the
national organisation responsible for monitoring the doping control program in
sports, for a doping violation.
10. FIDE
Women’s World Rapid Chess Championship
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Koneru Humpy from
Andhra Pradesh, became FIDE Women’s World Rapid Champion for
the year 2019 by defeating China’s Lei Tingjie in Armageddon
(chess penalty shoot-out) in the finals held at Moscow, Russia .
The men’s World Rapid Championship 2019 title was won by Norway’s Magnus Carlsen.
The men’s World Rapid Championship 2019 title was won by Norway’s Magnus Carlsen.
11. Mujeeb
Ur Rahman(Bangladesh) becomes the youngest bowler to take 100 T20 wickets
