DAILY GK 22 SEPT. 2020
1. 9 HIGHWAY PROJECTS WORTH RS 14, 528 CRORES IN
BIHAR
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PM Narendra Modi laid the Foundation Stone for
Nine Highway Projects worth Rs 14, 528 Crores in Bihar through video
conference.
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The
project includes making six-lane highways, and three bridges on rivers.
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He also
laid foundation of ‘Har Gaon Optical Fibre Cable’ for Internet Services to connect all villages
of Bihar.
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“Har Gaon Optical Fibre Cable” project , under this about six lakh villages
would be provided internet services through optical fibre cable in 1,000 days.
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This
includes all 45,945 villages in Bihar.
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It will
be executed by the Department of Telecom, Ministry of Electronics &
Information Technology and Common Service Centres (CSC).
2.
INDIA LAUNCHES FIRST EVER CARGO FERRY VESSEL “MCP LINZ” TO MALDIVES
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Minister
of State for shipping, Mansukh Mandaviya and Minister of Transport and Civil
Aviation of Maldives, Aishath Nahula jointly launched the First Ever
Direct Cargo Ferry Service between India and Maldives.
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It is
considered to be the new connectivity effort has begun in Indian Ocean Region.
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India
provided a financial assistance of US$250
million(Indian Rupees of around 1837 crores) at favourable
terms to the Government of Maldives
3.
DMUC TRAINS TO NEPAL RAILWAYS
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Konkan Railways (operated
by Konkan Railway Corporation) handed over two modern Diesel-Electric Multiple
Unit (DMUC) trains to Nepal Railways for the Jaynagar-Kurtha
Broad Gauge Line.
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The
Rails will run between Jaynagar (Bihar) and Kurtha in Dhanusa district from
December, 2020.
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The
Trains have been manufactured by Integrated Coach Factory, Chennai with
modern amenities and latest AC-AC Propulsion Technology.
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They
were procured by Nepal’s Railway Department for a price of 84
Crore 65 Lakhs Nepali Rupees.
4.
INDIA’S NOMINAL GDP TO GROW BY 19% IN FY22
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Krishnamurthy
Subramanian, chief economic advisor in the finance ministry, Government of
India informed that as per the estimate of finance ministry, India’s
nominal Gross Domestic Product(GDP) is expected to
grow by 19% in FY22(2021-22) on a low base.
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NK
Singh, chairman of Fifteenth Finance Commission (FFC) stated that this estimate
is a bit moderate when compared with some estimates received from experts.
5.
NARENDRA MODI WON THE IG NOBEL PRIZE 2020
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Narendra
Modi, Prime Minister of India won
the Medical Education Prize of Ig Nobel Prize 2020 at the 30th First Nobel
Prize Ceremony over virtual platform.
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Modi
became the 2nd Prime Minister from India to win the Ig Nobel
Prize after Atal Bihari Vajpayee who won the 1998 Peace award for “Aggressively
peaceful explosion of atomic bombs”.
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The
government of India and Pakistan won the Ig Nobel Prize 2020 for peace for
“having their diplomats surreptitiously ring each other’s doorbells in the
middle of the night, and then run away before anyone had a chance to answer the
door.”
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India’s 1st CRISPR COVID-19 test, ‘FELUDA’
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Drug
Controller General of India (DCGI) has given regulatory
approval for the commercial launch of ‘FELUDA’( FNCAS9
Editor-Limited Uniform Detection Assay), India’s 1st CRISPR (Clustered
Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) test.
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It is
developed by the scientist of CSIR-IGIB (Council of Scientific
and Industrial Research -Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology).
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As per
the agreement as signed by Tata Sons Private Limited
and CSIR-IGIB in May, 2020, Tata group will manufacture it.
