DAILY GK 8 FEB 2020
1. Ease
of Living Index and Municipal Performance Index 2019
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Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs
(MoHUA), has launched, two Assessment Frameworks, viz. Ease of Living
Index (EoLI) and Municipal Performance Index (MPI) 2019 to
assess quality of life of citizens in 100 Smart Cities and 14 other Million
Plus Cities.
2. Hyderabad
Metro Rail becomes Country’s 2nd Largest Operational Metro
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CM K.Chandrashekhar Rao flagged
off new Metro line from Jubilee Bus Station (JBS) to Mahatma
Gandhi Bus Station (MGBS) connecting twin cities if Hyderabad and
Secunderabad, and the stretch covering of 11-kms (Kilometers) becomes India’s
2nd largest Metro Rail Network of total operational distance of 69.2kms, only
next to Delhi Metro Rail Network having an operational distance of 231kms.
3. LPG
coverage reached 96.9 %
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Dharmendra Pradhan, a
total of about 27.5 crore LPG (Liquefied petroleum gas) or
cooking gas connections in India & out of this, 8 crore connections have
been provided under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) scheme.
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Also the LPG coverage has reached 96.9
% as of January 1,2020.
4. UN $30mn
for humanitarian operations in syria
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Syria’s Idlib province has received
additional USD 30 million for the humanitarian operations from United Nations’
(UN) Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF).
5. Financial
Literacy Week (FLW) 2020
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RBI is
going to conduct the Financial Literacy Week (FLW) 2020 from February
10 – February 14, 2020 based on the theme “Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)”.
6. ADB
approved $2 million fund to combat nCoV
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Asian Development Bank(ADB) has
approved to sponsor $2 million as funding to combat the
outbreak of novel coronavirus (nCoV). Under the funding, regional
technical assistance will be provided in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar,
Thailand, and Vietnam.
7. World’s
1st bulletproof helmet that can stop AK-47 firing
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Major Anoop Mishra has developed
the world’s 1st bulletproof helmet which
can stop an AK-47 bullet round from a distance of as less as 10 meters. The
helmet is developed under the Indian Army’s “Abhedya” project.
8. Mukyamantri
Parivar Samridhi Yojana
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CM Manohar Lal Khattar launched Mukyamantri
Parivar Samridhi Yojana scheme on the mark of successful 100 days of
the present Haryana state government. The scheme is about providing financial
assistance of Rs.6000 to the families below the poverty line.
9. Kudumbashree
hotels to serve meals at Rs 25
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Kerala’s Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac
has unveiled an initiative of setting up 1,000 ‘Kudumbashree’ hotels to provide
subsidised Kerala meals at Rs 25. In this regard, a budget hotel in each of the
1034 local bodies will be set up.
10. Bodo
Peace Accord
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PM Narendra Modi has attended the rally
at Kokrajhar in Assam to celebrate the signing of the
Tripartite Bodo Agreement, which was signed between the Centre, Assam
Government and the banned Assam-based insurgent group National Democratic Front
of Bodoland (NDFB) on 27th January 2020.
