Daily GK Updates - 18th November, 2015

NATIONAL UPDATES:

1. Kiren Rijju conferred with Disaster Risk Reduction Asia Champion honour by United Nations: The honour was conferred by Margarete Wahlstrom, Special Representative of the United States Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction, during the inaugural session of the Asia Leaders’ Meeting towards implementation of the Sendai Framework for DRR in Asia.

2. PM Modi concluded his two nation tour to UK and Turkey.

3. Intel’s ‘Ed KadamUnnati Ki Aur’ begins in Telangana village: Chip-maker intel has rolled out its ‘Ekkadamunnatikiaur’ programme towards rural digitisation in 10 states from Nadimpalle village in Telangana.

4. Delhi to host the 1^st International Qawwali Festival 2016: It will host the 1^st International Qawwali Festival 2016 titled ‘TaaliHo’ that is scheduled to be held from 12 February 2016 to 14 February 2016.

5. Competition Commission of India (CCI) slaps Rs 258 cr penalty on Jet Airways, IndiGo and SpiceJet.

INTERNATIONAL UPDATES:

1. Tianhe-2: World’s powerful Supercomputer for the sixth consecutive time: China’s Tianhe-2 Supercomputer has emerged as the world’s most powerful supercomputer system for the sixth consecutive time. It was unveiled in 46^th edition of Top 500 list of supercomputers.

2. India, China agreed to deepen defence ties, maintain peace at LAC: Both the countries decided to deepen bilateral defence ties and maintain peace and tranquillity at the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

3. Kosmos 2510, the first satellite of EKS (Tundra) system, launched by Russia: This new generation satellite is designed to restore Moscow’s capability to detect, track and identify worldwide missile launches from space.

OTHER UPDATES:

OBITUARIES:

1. India Red Cross Society Secretary General SP Agarwal died at the age of 70.