Wednesday, 27 April 2016

Daily GK Update: 27th April


• President Pranab Mukherjee leaves for 2 nation tour to Papua New Guinea and New Zealand.

• Badminton player Nandu Natekar becomes the 1st non-cricketer to be included in Cricket Club of India (CCI).

• Mr K Ashok Kumar, Phd scholar in IIT Kharagpur won International Plant Nutrition Scholar Award 2016.

• China launched a sounding rocket named Kunpeng-1B to conduct research in country’s Hainan Province.

• BPCL get green signal to set up LPG Plant in West Bengal for Rs 694 crore.

• Patanjali Ayurved will set up 6 manufacturing unit in Assam, MP, UP, Maharashtra, Haryana and Uttarakhand for total of Rs 1150 crore.

• Japanese auto maker Isuzu Motors set up plant in Andhra Pradesh worth Rs 3000 crore.

• National Monument Authority today launched an app NOAPS Web Portal developed by ISRO in collaboration with Ministry of Tourism.

• Kerala govt launched an operation named “Operation Sulaimani” to eradicate poverty in Kozhikode district.

• Govt will sell 11.36% stake of NHPC to raise Rs 2700 crore.

• To strengthen safety measure in Rail network Railway ministry will set up a safety fund of Rs 1 lakh crore named “Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh”.

• Govt will spend Rs 553 crore to tackle pollution over the next 5 years from 2016-17.

• Singapore’s largest bank DBS Bank unveiled India’s 1st mobile only bank in India named “Digibank”.

• Union govt will set up nuclear plant in UP, Punjab, Haryana and Uttarakhand. 

• Germany will invest 1 billion euro in e-Car platform to increase its number.

• Govt imposed anti-dumping duty on 3 Chinese firm named ZTE Corp, Huawei and Alcatel-Lucent.

• Tibetans re elected Lobsang Sangay as the political and spiritual leader.

• A 20-foot Nelson Mandela statue was unveiled in Palestine.

• A notice of service tax worth Rs 75 crore slapped on SEBI between 2012-15.

• FDI in India increase up to 37% after the launch of Make In India.

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