Daily GK Updates - 4th December, 2015

NATIONAL UPDATES

           1.  DECEMBER 04 – NAVY DAY:

Indian Navy Day is observed on December 4 every year to commemorate Operation Trident’s commencement, as part of the 1971 Indo-Pak war. The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee has extended greetings and felicitations to all members of the Indian Navy and their families on the occasion of Navy Day 2015.

           

           2. FIRST INDIAN INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE FESTIVAL BEGINS AT IIT- DELHI:

The first India International Science Festival (IISF) has begun at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi campus. It has been organised by Union Ministry of Science and Technology. The IISF is expected to be the country’s biggest ever Technology and Industrial Expo.

           3. LOK SABHA  PASS BILL TO ESTABLISHED BIS AS NATIONAL STANDARDS BODY:

The Lok Sabha has passed a bill that provides for establishing Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) as the National Standards Body of India and enable the government to bring more products, systems and services under ambit of standardisation.

4.          HIMACHAL PRADESH BECAME FIRST STATE TO LAUNCH ROTAVIRUS VACCINATION PROJECT:

The vaccine will help in controlling the child mortality rate (under five years of age) due to diarrhoea. Rotavirus vaccines are administered orally to infants in three dose course at ages of six, ten and fourteen weeks and are part of Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP). The project was launched by the state Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh at Dharamsala in Kangra district. Singh administered the Rotavirus drops to children aged under five years.

5.   YOUTUBE OPEN FIRST VIDEO PRODUCTION IN INDIA:

  YouTube along with Subhash Ghai-owned film school Whistling Woods International, has opened its first video production studio in the country. Called YouTube Spaces, it has similar collaborations in Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, New York City, Sao Paulo, Paris and Berlin. The company said that the “watch-time” of its content in India was growing at 80 per cent on a year-on-year basis while the content uploaded to India has grown by 90 per cent.

INTERNATIONAL UPDATES:

      1. VEGA ROCKETBLAST OFF WITH GRAVITY - HUNTING SATELLITE:

A Vega rocket bearing a European prototype satellite blasted into space on a           mission to search for ripples in space and across time, a phenomenon predicted   but never proven by physicist Albert Einstein 100 years ago. The trailblazing       Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, or LISA, spacecraft will spend about six   months testing a technique to detect ripples in space and across time.

OTHER UPDATES:

SPORTS:

     1.  SAINA NOMINATEED FOR BWF WOMEN PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD:

     Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal has been nominated for the Woman Player of the Year Award of the Badminton World Federation. Saina, currently ranked number two, will vie for the coveted honour along with world number one Carolina Marin of Spain, 2014 winner Zhao Yunlei of China and another Chinese Bao Yixin. 

  

BANKING & ECONOMY:      

2.     NTC SIGNED INTEGRITY FOR TRANSPRENCY INTERNATIONAL INDIA:

National Textile Corporation Limited (NTC Ltd) became the 51st Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) and 49th Central PSU to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Transparency International India (TII) for adopting Integrity Pact (IP).

3.     GOI RELEASE POSTAGE STAMPS TO MARK CENTENARY YEAR

OF ZSI:

GOI has released a commemorative postage stamp to mark the Centenary year of Zoological Survey of India (ZSI). The postage stamp was released by Union Communication and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in the presence of Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi. They also released publications of ZSI- The Centenary Souvenir, Centenary Directory and a Glorious 100

AWARDS:

      4.     ADIDAS INDIA’S WON PRESTIGIOUS INBA AWARDS:

Pulin Kumar, group senior legal and compliance director of Adidas India, has been conferred with the Indian National Bar Association’s General Counsel of the year 2015 – Retail Award. Former law minister and senior lawyer Ram Jethmalani presented the award to Kumar at a ceremony on November.