Daily GK Update : 3rd May

• Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated and insurance scheme named Chandranna Bima Yojana for working class people on May Day with a investment of Rs 132 crore.

• Union govt launched MICE initiative which is actually “Meeting, Incentives, Conference and Exhibition” for up gradation of tourism sector in India.

• Department of Science and Technology supported Zone startup will set up empoWer for woman entrepreneur who are building technology venture.

• Apollo Hospital signed deal with Osler Health for research in chronic disease.

• Three Indian scientists become Royal Society Fellow, London. They are Sriram Ramaswamy (Director TIFR Centre, Hyderabad), Biochemist Ramanujam Hedge, Applied mathematician Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan(Harvard University).

• Dilip Tuli appointed as the Senior VP of Housing.com

• Rohit Sharma appointed as the Brand Ambassador of the famous Swiss watch brand Hublot Watch.

• Former Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) president Balraj Madhok died at 96.

• “No Time to Pause” a book written by Pavithra Ramesh released.

• BCCI nominated Virat Kohli for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and Ajinkya Rahane for Arjuna Award.

• After Abhinav Bindra and Salman Khan, Sachin Tendulkar is appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador for India at Rio Olympic 2016.

• Bharati Retail appointed Kishore Biyani as the MD.

• An Indian Harmeet Kaur Dhillon appointed in a key position of Republican Party of USA.

• BHEL commissioned a 600 MW thermal power plant in MP.

• Google acquired Synergyse , a start-up founded by Toronto based Indian Varun Malhotra.

• World Press Freedom Day, 2016 celebrated across the world on 3rd May, 2016 with a theme of “Access to information and fundamental freedom-It’s Your Right”.

• Telangana govt launched Kaleshwaran Irrigation Project in the state to connect Godavari River for irrigation purpose.

• Spice Park to be set up in Nizamabad, Telangana worth Rs 31 crore.

• MoU signed between Ministry of Railway and Forest department of Haryana and Punjab for plantation of tress alongside Railway track and railway land boundary.

Daily GK Update: 1st & 2nd May

• 1st of May is celebrated as the International Worker’s Day across the World with a theme of “Celebrating the International Labor Movement”.

• PM Modi launched Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana in Ballia, UP which will felicitate 5 crore LPG cylinder worth 8000 crore spending to below-poverty-line people and poor woman for 3 years.

• PM Modi launched country’s 1st solar powered e-Boat at Assi Ghat, river Ganga in Varanasi, UP.

• Govt declared that along with Sanskrit all 4 south language Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Odiya.

• India and New Zealand signed agreement for direct Air service between two countries.

• Paytm tied up with Wipro for payment banks to deal with anti money laundering and payment bank business IT service.

• GBI and Airtel tied up for a partnership for operating in West Asia.

• Wipro launched 1st all-woman IT Park in Saudi Arabia.

• Andhra Pradesh will become 1st open defection free state in India by 2nd October, 2016.

• Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ministry ruled Real Estate Act effect from 1st May, 2016 after a long 8 years.

• Hanle, Ladakh is nominated as one of place where world’s largest Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) can be set up. India holds 10% in this project along with China, Japan, Canada and USA.

• Indian naval ship INS Airavat reached at ADMM Plus (ASEAN Defense Minister Plus Meeting) Naval Exercise to take part which will going to be conducted in Brunei and Singapore.

• List published by Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Union Intellectual Property Office stated that India ranked 5th in export of forge (fake) goods trade where China is ranked 1st with 63% share in worldwide fake goods trade. Top countries affected by fake goods are-USA, Italy, France, Switzerland, Japan.

• An Indian American journalist Neela Benerjee receives Edgar A Poe Award by President Barack Obama for journalism ethics.

• Indian navy’s 1st Scorpene class stleath submarine INS Kalavari starts trial.

• Indian Archery Team won 1 silver, 2 bronze in Archery World Cup held in Shanghai, China.

• Pro boxer of India Vijender Singh won his 5th consecutive match.

• Anil Ambani owned Reliance Defense captured 15 new defense license.

• A 625 acre campus of IIT will be set up at Jagti, Nagrota, J&K.

• Australian Craig Wright declared himself as the founder of virtual currency system Bitcoin. He developed it with a pseudo name “Satoshi Nakamoto”.

• IAS officer Ajay Mittal appointed as the Information & Broadcasting secretary of India.

• Nico Rosberg of Mercedes won Russian Grand Prix.

• Aam Admi Party founding member Ilyas Azmi quit the part for lack of inner democracy within the party.

• According to e-learning site Coursera after USA and China India is the 3rd largest e-learning country with 1.3 million registered users.

• UK born New Zealand citizen William Trubridge created a world record in free diving by plunging 122 meter in Deans Blue Hole in Bahamas.

• Leicester City forward Jamie Vardy named player of the year by Football Writers Association

• Health care start-up Practo hired former InMobi CFO Manish Dugar.

• Indian racer Gaurav Gill won Whangarei International Rally 2016.

• Indian origin US based squash player Vikram Malhotra won PSA Charlotte Open. 

• China replaced all business tax and replaced it with VAT in 4 sector- real estate, construction, finance and consumer service.

• Canada based biochemist created world’s smallest thermometer from DNA and its size is 20000 times smaller than human hair.

• Amritsar based Golden Temple launched “free Wi-Fi” for the devotees.

• Gujarat govt said that 300 Smart Villages to be developed in the state.

• Axar Patel, bowler of IPL team King XI Punjab took 1st Hat-trick of IPL 2016.