Daily Current Affairs Update September-08 2017

1. The Gujarat government has signed a MoU with Google India for ‘Digital Gujarat’ movement under ‘Digital India’.

2. Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L) and Yes Bank has tied up with the purpose of spreading climatic awareness

3. Viveck Goenka, Chairman and Managing Director of the Express Group elected as a Chairman of Press Trust of India and N. Ravi, a former Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu daily is elected as a Vice-Chairman.

4. Astronomers have discovered a pulsar spinning at more than 42,000 revolutions per minute. It is thesecond-fastest Spinning Pulsar identified so far.

5.  The 51st International Literacy Day is being celebrated on 8th September at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The theme announced by UNESCO is `Literacy in a digital world.

6. The Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises has extended the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (FAME)-India scheme by six months to promote electric and hybrid vehicles
it has been extended by another six months up to March 31, 2018.

7. The Indian Army has finalised plan to induct women in military police. The plan is seen as major step towards breaking gender barriers in force.

8. India has refused to be a part of Bali Declaration adopted at conclusion of World Parliamentary Forum on Sustainable Development held in Bali, Indonesia to show of solidarity with Myanmar.
It was not adopted because it carried “inappropriate” reference to violence in Rakhine State from where 1,25,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh

9. Kiren Rijiju, the Union Minister of State for Home, has launched BSF Half Marathon online registration portal “www.marathon.bsf.gov.in” at a function in New Delhi on September 7, 2017

10. The Union government has set up an online service facility that can be used by importers and exporters to resolve all foreign trade-related issues. The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), which comes under Ministry of Commerce, has asked all exporters and importers to use the system – Contact@DGFT – for resolution of their matters

11. Indian weightlifters Sivalingam Sathish Kumar and Ragala Venkat Rahul have qualified for 2018 Commonwealth Games after winning a gold medal each in their respective weight divisions at the 2017 Commonwealth Senior (men & women) Weightlifting Championships in Gold Coast, Australia.

12. The Across Barriers-International Business Women’s Summit (ABIBWS) will be organized by the South Asian Women Development Forum (SAWDF) at Kathmandu in Nepal from September 11. 

13. Satish Kumar, the decorated West Bengal wrestler, has been awarded Rs 25 lakh as compensation by the Delhi court for being wrongly restrained from taking part in the 14th Asian Games-2002 at Busan in South Korea

14. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has launched Gyankunj e-class project on the occasion of Teachers day on September 5, 2017. 

15. The Gujarat Government and Gujarat Milk Marketing Federation-Amul have recently signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to save the children of anganwadi from malnutrition. 

16. Johnson & Johnson India has announced that new and adoptive fathers would be entitled to eight weeks of paid leave during the first year of birth or adoption

17. The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced a fine of USD 225 million on Pakistan’s Habib Bank Limited (HBL) and its New York branch for failure to comply with New York laws and regulations designed illicit financial transactions


18. India’s Sonam 43 kilogram weight category wins Gold in Cadet World Wrestling Championship.


19. The Union Government planned to Rs 3,700-crore plan in an attempt to cover nearly 5.5 lakh villages with Wi-Fi facility by March 2019.

20. Nagaland starts implementing Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) beginning from the current financial year.

21. Black money worth 4,900 crore rupees disclosed by 21 thousand people under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojna (PMGKY), the stash money declaration window announced by the government post demonetization.

 

22. SpaceX has launched the Air Force’s super-secret space shuttle.

SpaceX

• CEO: Elon Musk
• Headquarters: Hawthorne, California, United States

23. SBI Life Insurance has received approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India for an IPO of up to Rs 8,400 crore

24. Markets regulator SEBI imposed a penalty of Rs 2,423 crore on PACL and its four directors for illegal mobilisation of funds from the public.

25. Payment bank Paytm can now sell life insurance, health and general insurance products. The Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has granted corporate agency license for One97 Communications, the parent of Paytm

Paytm

• CEO: Vijay Shekhar Sharma

26. Mongolian lawmakers have voted to dismiss the Prime Minister and his Cabinet for alleged incompetence and corruption related to the signing of government contracts with companies linked to three Cabinet members.

27. After causing havoc in many Caribbean islands including Haiti, Hurricane Irma is all set to move towards Florida and expected to reach there within two days.

28. The country’s current account deficit is likely to widen to 3 per cent in the second quarter of 2017 due to sharp deterioration in trade deficit-NOMURA

29. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced to grant gratis (no-cost) visa to all the citizens of Myanmar who want to visit India.

30. The three-day International Innovation Fair 2017, hosted by the Andhra Pradesh Innovation Society. On the eve of the three-day event, representatives from 30 countries would participate in the event being held in the State for the first time after bifurcation.

31. The Modi Government's flagship scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY), has resulted in generation of 1.68 crore incremental jobs in the first two years since its launch, a SKOCH Group report has revealed.

32. The country’s third largest software services firm Wipro has bagged a five-year deal from global stainless steel maker Outokumpu.

33.Shramik Annapoorna Yojana (Construction Workers' Meal Scheme), under which each registered worker is provided a plateful of food for a mere Rs 10 with is launched by the Gujarat government providing a hefty subsidy of Rs 19 per meal.

34. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based chatbot ‘Eva’ – built for HDFC Bank by Bengaluru-based Senseforth AI Research – has successfully addressed over 2.7 million customer queries in six months to become the country’s largest banking chatbot.