DAILY GK UPDATES 20TH SEPTEMBER 2016

DAILY GK UPDATES 20TH SEPTEMBER 2016

 

NATIONAL UPDATES:

1. India successfully test fires surface to surface air missile: India has successfully test-fired its new, long-range surface-to-air missile jointly developed with Israel from a defence base off Odisha coast. The missile was launched from a mobile launcher at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur.

 

2. Punjabi version of PM Narendra Modi’s website launched: People can now visit the PM Modi's website in the Punjabi language at the URL www.pmindia.gov.in/pa. The website which was initially started in English and Hindi is now accessible in nine regional languages - Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, Telugu and Punjabi.

 

3. Param-Ishan supercomputer unveiled at IIT Guwahati: The high-performance “Param-Ishan” has computing speed of 250 teraFLOPS and capacity of 300 tera bites (TB).

 

4. Railways to launch Yatri Mitra for differently-abled: The Ministry of Railways has announced the launch of ‘Yatri Mitra Seva’, through Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to provide wheelchair-cum-porter services for the differently-abled, elderly and ailing passengers at major railway stations.

 

5. India’s GDP to grow by 8% over next few years: Standard & Poor's (S&P) Global Ratings has forecasted a "relatively high quality and steroid-free" GDP growth of 8% for India over the next few years.

6. Facebook appoints Anand Chandrasekaran in a strategic role for its Messenger app.

 

7. Jubilant FoodWorks CEO Ajay Kaul resigns.

 

8. BSE ties up with Twitter to provide live stock updates: Investors can now track BSE updates real-time on Twitter by following the official Bombay Stock Exchange account.

 

INTERNATIONAL UPDATES:

1. Vladimir Putin’s big win: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party won a huge victory in the country’s parliamentary election. Putin’s party had won 54% of the vote in elections for the Duma, the lower house of parliament.

 

2. First Indian music-dance festival starts in Australia: The 10-week long festival “Confluence: Festival of India” was inaugurated by Union Tourism and Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma in Sydney, Australia.

OTHER UPDATES:

FINANCE/BANKING:​

1. Vijaya Bank rolls out three new apps: The new IT products, according to Kishore Sansi, Managing Director and CEO of Vijaya Bank, are: VPAYQWIK, Vijaya *99# and V-eConnect+.

 

2. ADB approves $631 million loan for Vizag-Chennai industrial corridor: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $ 631 million loan to develop the proposed Vishakhapatnam- Chennai industrial corridor, the first such along a coastline in India.

 

3. SS Mallikarjuna Rao appointed as the new Executive Director of Syndicate Bank.

 

SPORTS:

4. Deaf Shooter Priyesha Deshmukh wins bronze in World Championship: Investors can now track BSE updates real-time on Twitter by following the official Bombay Stock Exchange account.