Daily Current Affairs Update August-17 2017
1. The 6th session of India-Turkmenistan Inter-Governmental Commission (IGC) on Trade, Economic, Scientific & Technological Cooperation was held in New Delhi on August 14, 2017.
#Turkmenistan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov
Turkmenistan:
Capital: Ashgabat
Currency: Turkmenistan manat
Current President: Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
2. President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia put an end to Colombia’s 50-year conflict with FARC guerrillas as the last truckloads of decommissioned weapons rolled away to be melted down finally over
3. City Union Bank is going to offer instant credit cards and customers can generate a credit card online.
City Union Bank
Founded: 1904
HQ: Kumbakonam ,Tamil Nadu
MD&CEO: Dr. N. Kamakodi
4.Space X has successfully launched Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) Spaceborne Computer towards the International Space Station using Falcon 9 rocket.
5. Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have developed a 3D cardiac tissue patch using silk protein membranes seeded with heart muscle cells
6. A new species of a 100-million- year-old damselfly discovered in Myanmar has been named in honour of famed British broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough.
7. US-based Rice University researchers have found a new tectonic plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean off Ecuador’s coast.
It is named after a Colombian island, the Malpelo plate is the 57th plate to be discovered and the first in nearly a decade.
8. Tennis Player Rafael Nadal return to the number one spot in ATP ranking after 3 years.
9. India Men’s Hockey team has defeated world No. 4 Netherlands by 2-1 to win the series.
10. India has won 10 medals, including two gold medals in the 6th Golden Glove women’s Boxing Tournament at Vojvodina, Serbia.
Serbia
Capital: Belgrade
11. 2017 IAAF World Championships was the 16th edition of the IAAF World Championships, and was held in London from 4th to 13th August 2017.
Mascot of 2017 IAAF World Championships was an anthropomorphic hedgehog named Hero the Hedgehog, and for the Para Athletics the mascot was Whizbee the Bee.
U.S. topped 2017 IAAF World Championships claiming 30 total medals.
12. Actor Shanmuga sundaram, who has appeared in a number of Tamil movies in character and supporting roles, died.
13. The Union Cabinet has approved raising extra budgetary resources up to 9,020 crore rupees for Long Term Irrigation Fund in 2017-18 under Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY). According to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the amount will be raised by NABARD through Bonds.
14. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the proposal of Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) for the strategic disinvestment
DIPAM is headed by Shri Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister of India
15.Karnataka Bank Ltd has ventured into social media by opening its official pages in social networking sites such as FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube
16. Karur Vysya Bank rolled out an Aadhaar Enrollment Centre at its Nelson Manickam Road Branch in Chennai.
Karur Vysya Bank headquarters in Karur, Tamil Nadu.
17. Anil Ambani’s Reliance Infrastructure-controlled Reliance Defence and Engineering is changing its name to Reliance Naval and Engineering Ltd (RNEL)
18. Ridesharing app Uber has launched a business to business model called "Uber for Business " to enable new use cases like daily commute, late-night rides home from work, between-office transportation
19. Karur Vysya Bank Ltd has informed BSE that the Reserve Bank of India has accorded their approval for the appointment of Shri P R Seshadri as Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of the Bank for a period of three years from the date of his taking charge
20. To ensure hassle-free benefits to farmers under Interest Subvention Scheme, the Reserve Bank of India has advised banks to make Aadhaar linkage mandatory for availing short-term crop loans up to Rs 3 lakh in 2017-18.
21. Real Madrid defeated Barcelona in the second leg of the 2017 Spanish Super Cup to seal the win at the Bernabeu, Spain.
22. The Union Cabinet approved proposal to complete the balance works of North Koel Reservoir Project in Bihar, stalled since 1993.
23. The Union Government has inked US $24.64 million Grant Agreement from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) of the World Bank for Ecosystem Service Improvement Project.
24. The United States has named Pakistan based Kashmiri terrorist outfit Hizbul Mujahideen as a “Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO)”.
25. According to the census report, released by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) the population estimation of Asian elephant in India is around 27,312.
The census was conducted between March and May 2017 by the Asian Nature Conservation Foundation (ANCF) at the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru)
According to the report, Karnataka has the highest number of elephants (6049), followed by Assam (5719) and Kerala (3054).
26. Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), under the Ministry of Power, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) for distribution of energy efficient appliances under the flagship Unnat Jeevan by Affordable LEDs and appliances for All (UJALA) scheme.
27. In order to facilitate the availability of FASTags for Electronic Toll Collection, NHAI has taken two revolutionary steps in consultation with RBI and NPCI. These include online sale of FASTags and offline sale through Common Services Centre (CSC) near toll plazas.
28. The Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (I/C), Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh said that a North Eastern Cultural and Information Centre will be set up in Delhi soon.
29. Young Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen clinched the Bulgaria Open International Series title after notching up a hard-fought win over Croatia’s Zvonimir Durkinjak in the men’s singles final in Sofia, Bulgaria.
30. Indian Air Force embarked upon an all women camel expedition along with Border Security Force from Utarlai (Barmer, Rajasthan) to Attari (Amritsar, Punjab)
31. The main building of the Uttarakhand secretariat will be named after former President A P J Abdul Kalam, an official release said. An announcement to this effect was made by Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Independence Day.
32.The US-based Marconi Society has announced its Lifetime Achievement Award to Indian-born Stanford University professor Thomas Kailath, .
33. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman orders reopening of the border with Qatar to give Qatari pilgrims an easy pass to carry out their annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
34. The Energy Efficiency Services Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with three state-owned oil marketing companies for the distribution of energy-efficient appliances through petrol pumps across India.
35. This dinosaur reportedly fills the huge gap between two of the major dinosaur groups- plant-eating herbivores and carnivores- Chilesaurus
36. RBI in its notification said that farmers can avail short-term loans up to this amount at subsidised interest rate of 7 per cent that could go down to 4 per cent on prompt repayment – Rs 3 Lakh
37. Renowned poet who passed away recently and was known for his poem 'Madras Central' - Vijay Nambisan
38. New vistas in the Indo-USA relationship will begin with the arrival of the first shipment of American crude oil to India by the end of September this year.
It is the first lot of two million barrels costing $100 million, is a part of expected bilateral oil trade to $2 billion
39. Dr. Mamta Suri has taken charge of Executive Director of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI).
Dr. Suri was serving as Chief General Manager, Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India before assuming the charge.
40. New Zealand will host ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2018.
41. The union government will conduct its first country-wide assessment of learning achievements on November 13 in which over 30 lakh school studentsof Classes III, V and VIII in 35,000 government schools will participate.
42. Ramandeep Singh and Chinglensana Singh Kangujam struck twice to guide the Indian men’s hockey team to a sensational 4-3 win over Austria in their final encounter of the Europe Tour.
43. Fiat Chrysler will join an alliance led by BMW to develop self-driving cars, intensifying a race by carmakers and technology companies to develop “Robotaxis” which can be called up via smartphone and paid for by the minute.
44. Deepika Padukone has dropped out of Forbes magazines World’s Highest-Paid Actresses 2017 list, which is led by Hollywood actress Emma Stone.
45. Govt has banned exports of gold jewellery, medallions & other articles with purity above 22 carats to check round tripping of precious metal.
#Turkmenistan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov
Turkmenistan:
Capital: Ashgabat
Currency: Turkmenistan manat
Current President: Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
2. President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia put an end to Colombia’s 50-year conflict with FARC guerrillas as the last truckloads of decommissioned weapons rolled away to be melted down finally over
3. City Union Bank is going to offer instant credit cards and customers can generate a credit card online.
City Union Bank
Founded: 1904
HQ: Kumbakonam ,Tamil Nadu
MD&CEO: Dr. N. Kamakodi
4.Space X has successfully launched Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) Spaceborne Computer towards the International Space Station using Falcon 9 rocket.
5. Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have developed a 3D cardiac tissue patch using silk protein membranes seeded with heart muscle cells
6. A new species of a 100-million- year-old damselfly discovered in Myanmar has been named in honour of famed British broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough.
7. US-based Rice University researchers have found a new tectonic plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean off Ecuador’s coast.
It is named after a Colombian island, the Malpelo plate is the 57th plate to be discovered and the first in nearly a decade.
8. Tennis Player Rafael Nadal return to the number one spot in ATP ranking after 3 years.
9. India Men’s Hockey team has defeated world No. 4 Netherlands by 2-1 to win the series.
10. India has won 10 medals, including two gold medals in the 6th Golden Glove women’s Boxing Tournament at Vojvodina, Serbia.
Serbia
Capital: Belgrade
11. 2017 IAAF World Championships was the 16th edition of the IAAF World Championships, and was held in London from 4th to 13th August 2017.
Mascot of 2017 IAAF World Championships was an anthropomorphic hedgehog named Hero the Hedgehog, and for the Para Athletics the mascot was Whizbee the Bee.
U.S. topped 2017 IAAF World Championships claiming 30 total medals.
12. Actor Shanmuga sundaram, who has appeared in a number of Tamil movies in character and supporting roles, died.
13. The Union Cabinet has approved raising extra budgetary resources up to 9,020 crore rupees for Long Term Irrigation Fund in 2017-18 under Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY). According to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the amount will be raised by NABARD through Bonds.
14. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the proposal of Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) for the strategic disinvestment
DIPAM is headed by Shri Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister of India
15.Karnataka Bank Ltd has ventured into social media by opening its official pages in social networking sites such as FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube
#Karnataka Bank Headquarters in Mangaluru.
Mahabaleshwara MS, MD and CEO of the bank.16. Karur Vysya Bank rolled out an Aadhaar Enrollment Centre at its Nelson Manickam Road Branch in Chennai.
Karur Vysya Bank headquarters in Karur, Tamil Nadu.
17. Anil Ambani’s Reliance Infrastructure-controlled Reliance Defence and Engineering is changing its name to Reliance Naval and Engineering Ltd (RNEL)
18. Ridesharing app Uber has launched a business to business model called "Uber for Business " to enable new use cases like daily commute, late-night rides home from work, between-office transportation
19. Karur Vysya Bank Ltd has informed BSE that the Reserve Bank of India has accorded their approval for the appointment of Shri P R Seshadri as Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of the Bank for a period of three years from the date of his taking charge
20. To ensure hassle-free benefits to farmers under Interest Subvention Scheme, the Reserve Bank of India has advised banks to make Aadhaar linkage mandatory for availing short-term crop loans up to Rs 3 lakh in 2017-18.
21. Real Madrid defeated Barcelona in the second leg of the 2017 Spanish Super Cup to seal the win at the Bernabeu, Spain.
22. The Union Cabinet approved proposal to complete the balance works of North Koel Reservoir Project in Bihar, stalled since 1993.
23. The Union Government has inked US $24.64 million Grant Agreement from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) of the World Bank for Ecosystem Service Improvement Project.
24. The United States has named Pakistan based Kashmiri terrorist outfit Hizbul Mujahideen as a “Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO)”.
25. According to the census report, released by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) the population estimation of Asian elephant in India is around 27,312.
The census was conducted between March and May 2017 by the Asian Nature Conservation Foundation (ANCF) at the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru)
According to the report, Karnataka has the highest number of elephants (6049), followed by Assam (5719) and Kerala (3054).
26. Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), under the Ministry of Power, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) for distribution of energy efficient appliances under the flagship Unnat Jeevan by Affordable LEDs and appliances for All (UJALA) scheme.
27. In order to facilitate the availability of FASTags for Electronic Toll Collection, NHAI has taken two revolutionary steps in consultation with RBI and NPCI. These include online sale of FASTags and offline sale through Common Services Centre (CSC) near toll plazas.
28. The Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (I/C), Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh said that a North Eastern Cultural and Information Centre will be set up in Delhi soon.
29. Young Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen clinched the Bulgaria Open International Series title after notching up a hard-fought win over Croatia’s Zvonimir Durkinjak in the men’s singles final in Sofia, Bulgaria.
30. Indian Air Force embarked upon an all women camel expedition along with Border Security Force from Utarlai (Barmer, Rajasthan) to Attari (Amritsar, Punjab)
31. The main building of the Uttarakhand secretariat will be named after former President A P J Abdul Kalam, an official release said. An announcement to this effect was made by Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Independence Day.
32.The US-based Marconi Society has announced its Lifetime Achievement Award to Indian-born Stanford University professor Thomas Kailath, .
33. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman orders reopening of the border with Qatar to give Qatari pilgrims an easy pass to carry out their annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
34. The Energy Efficiency Services Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with three state-owned oil marketing companies for the distribution of energy-efficient appliances through petrol pumps across India.
35. This dinosaur reportedly fills the huge gap between two of the major dinosaur groups- plant-eating herbivores and carnivores- Chilesaurus
36. RBI in its notification said that farmers can avail short-term loans up to this amount at subsidised interest rate of 7 per cent that could go down to 4 per cent on prompt repayment – Rs 3 Lakh
37. Renowned poet who passed away recently and was known for his poem 'Madras Central' - Vijay Nambisan
38. New vistas in the Indo-USA relationship will begin with the arrival of the first shipment of American crude oil to India by the end of September this year.
It is the first lot of two million barrels costing $100 million, is a part of expected bilateral oil trade to $2 billion
39. Dr. Mamta Suri has taken charge of Executive Director of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI).
Dr. Suri was serving as Chief General Manager, Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India before assuming the charge.
40. New Zealand will host ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2018.
41. The union government will conduct its first country-wide assessment of learning achievements on November 13 in which over 30 lakh school studentsof Classes III, V and VIII in 35,000 government schools will participate.
42. Ramandeep Singh and Chinglensana Singh Kangujam struck twice to guide the Indian men’s hockey team to a sensational 4-3 win over Austria in their final encounter of the Europe Tour.
43. Fiat Chrysler will join an alliance led by BMW to develop self-driving cars, intensifying a race by carmakers and technology companies to develop “Robotaxis” which can be called up via smartphone and paid for by the minute.
44. Deepika Padukone has dropped out of Forbes magazines World’s Highest-Paid Actresses 2017 list, which is led by Hollywood actress Emma Stone.
45. Govt has banned exports of gold jewellery, medallions & other articles with purity above 22 carats to check round tripping of precious metal.
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