Daily Current Affairs Update September-20 2017
2. China has issued a commemorative stamp in honour of the world’s largest radio telescope located in Guizhou province
3. The Foreign Ministerial meeting among India Foreign Minister, US Secretary of State Tillerson and Japanese FM Kono held in New York.
4. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced to invest USD 50 million (about Rs 320 crore) in realty firm Mahindra Lifespace Developers industrial park projects.
5. Ms.Raquel Dodge became the first woman General Prosecutor of Brazil, in Brasilia.
6. Twitter a Micro-blogging website has appointed Indian-born Sriram Krishnan as Senior Director of Product
7. Pune NGO “Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP)” for women farmers wins UN Equator Prize
8. HP Inc India launched its new, all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) system HP ElitePOS at the “India Retail Forum 2017″ event, in Mumbai.
9. Ana Carrasco of Spain became the first female to win an individual World Championship motorbike race, in Portugal.
10. The Union Cabinet has given its approval for rationalization/merger and modernization of 17 Government of India Presses (GIPs)/Units into 5 Government of India Presses (GIPs) at Rashtrapati Bhavan, Minto Road, and Mayapuri, New Delhi; Nashik, Maharashtra and Temple Street, Kolkata, West Bengal.
11. Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, reached the value of $1 trillion for the first time.
12. Three Indian entrepreneurial legends, Ratan Tata, Lakshmi Mittal and Vinod Khosla have been included in Forbes’s special list of the world’s ‘100 Greatest Living Business Minds.
13. India Appoints Ajay Bisaria New High Commissioner to Pakistan.
14. Tata Steel and Thyssenkrupp of Germany have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in a deal that is poised to create one of Europe's largest steel companies
15. The Indian cricket board, BCCI has nominated Mahendra Singh Dhoni for the country's third highest civilian award - the Padma Bhushan, for his contribution to the game.
16. Scientists for first time have observed Optical polarisation phenomenon (polarised light emitted by rapidly rotating stars) after it was predicted by Indian astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 70 years ago.
17. Commemorative coins of Rs 100 and Rs 10 denomination were released on the occasion of 101st Birth Centenary of noted Carnatic musician Dr. MS Subbulakshmi by Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu.
18. The world is running out of antibiotics: WHO Report
19. Puducherry to ban plastic of less than 51 microns
20. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has paved the way for the NH-34 stretch of the PMO’s ambitious Chardham highway widening project, that will connect Uttarakhand’s holy sites, as it disposed of a plea that alleged that the project was violating provisions of Bhagirathi eco-sensitive zone.
21. Anupriya Patel inaugurates 10th Medical Technology Conference in New Delhi:
22. The Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Kiren Rijiju attended the first National Canine Seminar organized by National Security Guard (NSG), in NSG Campus, Manesar (Gurugram), Haryana
23. Airbus’ Perlan 2 aircraft has made history this week, setting a new world altitude record for gliding.
The aircraft soared to an incredible 52,000 feet over the Patagonia region of Argentina, without the support of an engine.
24. The WHO has released its first tranche of emergency funding of $175,000 to provide lifesaving healthcare to the ‘vulnerable population’ in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar.
- Though the World Health Organisation (WHO) did not specifically mention the Rohingya refugees, over 410,000 of them have arrived in Cox’s Bazar since August 25 after escaping Myanmar’s military crackdown.
25. India ranked third among the countries that have faced the most natural disasters in the last half century, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said pleading for unwavering international action on climate change.
- The United States, followed by China, India, the Philippines and Indonesia, have experienced the most disasters since 1995.
26. Tata Steel has in association with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) launched an initiative to create awareness about environment issues in school campuses in Odisha’s Jajpur district.
- They started the first series of workshops for the students at their Sukinda Chromite Mine (SCM) in Jajpur under the “Green School Project”.
27. India TV chairman and editor-in- chief Rajat Sharma will be the new president of the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) for 2017-18.
28. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Wednesday slashed mobile termination charges (MTC) by 57% to 6 paise per minute with effect from October 1
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