DAILY GK 4 FEB 2020
1.
IHME Report
ü According
to a recent report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation(IHME), 14% of under
5 years of age deaths in India occurred mainly due to
pneumonia. This accounted for approximately 1,27,000 deaths annually where the
figure was around 1,78,000 in 2013.
2.
‘Central banker of the year 2020
ü The Banker
magazine, a British English-language monthly financial affairs
publication has named RBI governor Shaktikanta Das as the ‘Central
Banker of the Year 2020’, Asia-Pacific for encouraging growth and
balancing the economy.
ü Apart
from this, the announcement of the title of Global Central Banker
award 2020 has been given to Jorgovanka Tabakovi ,
the head of the National Bank of Serbia.
3.
Mathrubhumi book of the year award
ü Eminent Hindi
poet-novelist Vinod Kumar Shukla has won the 1st Mathrubhumi
Book of the Year award 2020 for his translated book ‘Blue Is Like
Blue’, which deal with common people and their daily struggles.
4.
Kishore Kumar Samman 2018
ü Bollywood actor Waheeda
Rehman was selected for the National Kishore Kumar Samman of
the Madhya Pradesh(MP) government for the year 2018.
5.
BAFTA film award
ü 73rd British
Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)Awards 2020 ceremony,
popularly referred to as BAFTA Awards 2019 was held in London, United
Kingdom. It honours the best national and foreign films of 2019.
ü First
World War drama ‘1917’ won the Best Film award, which was directed by Sam
Mendes.The film 1917 won 7 awards including best picture & director for Sam
Mendes, the 1st time he has been honoured for direction by the
British academy.
6.
HAL to make advanced armed UAVs
ü Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited (HAL), an Indian state-owned aerospace and
defence company will sign a partnership pact with Israel Aerospace
Industries (IAI) at the DefExpo 2020 to manufacture advanced Unmanned
Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAVs) in India for the 1st time.
7.
World Cancer Day 2020-February 4
ü The
theme of WCD from 2019-21 is “I am and I will”.
8.
Goodwill Ambassador of India at Tokyo
Olympics
ü Indian
Olympic Association(IOA) has invited BCCI President Sourav Ganguly to become
the Goodwill Ambassador of the Indian contingent at the Tokyo Olympics Games
2020.
