Tuesday, 3 May 2016

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.

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