Daily GK Updates - 12th July, 2015

DAILY GK UPDATES - 12TH JULY, 2015

NATIONAL UPDATES:

I. Big Bazaar ties up with MobiKwik for mobile wallet service: Kishore Biyani’sBigbazaar ties ups with mobile payments platform MobiKwik to allow the retail firm’s customers to pay  for purchases using the mobile wallet facility.

II. US Taxi hailing app Uber Technologies to accept payments through credit cards.

III. Union Minister of Science and Technology inaugurated the 12^th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (ISAES) at Goa.

IV. Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha has left on a four day visit to South Africa during which he will hold talks with senior military leadership there and discuss a wide range of issues on enhancing bilateral defence ties.

V. India has included Japan for its forthcoming Malabar Naval Exercise with the US in the Bay of Bengal.

INTERNATIONAL UPDATES:

I. NASA picks Sunita Williams for 1^st commercial space vehicles: Indian origin Sunita Williams is among 4 ‘veteran’astronauts picked by NASA to fly the 1^st commercial space vehicles, a part of the space agency’s ambitious plan to put a man on Mars by 2030.

II. Lord Bilimoria appointed as President of UKCISA: NRI entrepreneur Lord Karan Bilimoria has been appointed as the president of the UK Council for International Student affairs.

III. Land Exchange Deal: Till now, not many people have expressed the wish to go to Bangladesh as 80% of the survey gets complete. The full survey will complete by July 16.

IV. India and Kyrgyzstan to hold annual joint military exercise to combat terrorism and extremism.

V. Malala Yusufzai turned 18 and told the world leaders that they are failing Syrian Children.

VI. China’s National capital Beijing has announced plans to restrict population to 23 million to curb traffic woes.

  

OTHER UPDATES:

FINANCE/BANKING:

I. NABARD has set a target of providing Rs. 30,000 crore as credit to farmers for irrigation over the next three years.

SPORTS:

II. Sania Mirza (IND) and Martina Hingis (SUI) beat Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) and Elena Vesnina (RUS) to claim their 1^st ever Wimbledon title together: SaniaMirza becomes the 1^st Indian women to win a Grand Slam.

III. India crush Zimbabwe by 62 runs to seal ODI series 2-0.

IV. Top seeded SauravGhoshal and JoshnaCinappabagged Men’s and Women’s titles respectively at the 63^rd National Senior Squash Championship that was held at Thiruvanathpuram.

AWARDS:

V. ‘Budhha in a Traffic Jam’ wins best original screenplay award at Madrid Film Festival.

OBITUARIES:

VI. Former Tamil Nadu minister and AIADMK MLA ChendurPandian passed away.

VII. Cricket South Africa mourned the death Indian origin veteran cricketer Sam Bulbulia.