Friday, 22 April 2016

Daily GK Update: 22nd April


• A Buddhist temple in Beijing Longquan developed a robot monk named Xian’er, 2 feet tall that chant Buddhist mantras.

• Small Industry Development Bank of India (SIDBI) sanctioned Rs 1000 crore for 30 venture fund for early age start-up.

• Radhika Apte becomes the 1st Indian actress to win award at The Tribeca 2016 Award for “Madly” based short film directed by Anurag Kashyap “Clean Shaven”.

• Center release Rs 842 cr for drought hit state Karnataka and flood hit state Arunachal Pradesh and Pondicherry.

• India becomes world’s ranked 1st FDI destination beating China in 2015. A total of $63 billion FDI comes to India. Other country ranked after India are China, Indonesia, Mexico and Brazil.

• NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant today said that India needs to grow at 10% to become a $10 trillion economy and by these able to end poverty by 2032.

• American singer songwriter Prince Rogers Nelson died at the age of 57.

• 22nd April is celebrated as the Earth Day today across the globe. It was first celebrated in 1970.

• Harriet Tubman will become the face on US Currency and thus she also becomes the 1st African-American to be the face of US currency.

• Tata Consultancy Service (TCS) featured in Top 50 lists by TIMES in the category of “Top Employer for Women in UK”.

• TCS and Vistara Airline signed an agreement in IT deployment.

• International Seminar on Wheat Production is scheduled to be happened in Panaji, Goa from 17th July.

• Union Minister of Science and Technology inaugurated India’s 1st Cellulosic Alcohol Technology Demonstration Plant in Uttarakhand.

• Manipur to observe 23rd April as the Khongjom Day to tribute to the brave sons of Manipur for scarifying and President Pranab Mukherjee will attend the function.

• Govt of India as renamed the Department of Disinvestment as the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM).

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