Daily GK Updates- 6th February, 2016

NATIONAL UPDATES:

1. Labour Ministry signed agreements with organisations engaged in employment and career activities: The agreements were signed to exploit the potential of the National Career Service (NCS) project. The MoUs signed with Uber, Quikr, Monster, Tech Mahindra, Babajobs, India Staffing Federation, Buzzmatic Ventures and GoldFish will help in widening the scope and scale of the project. 

2. Mahindra AMC received SEBI nod for Mutual Fund business.

3. Pranab Mukherjee reviews Indian naval fleet at IFR 2016: A fleet review is a ceremonial inspection of naval warships by the supreme commander of the armed forces, the President of India. Around 50 navies and 24 foreign ships are participating in the International Fleet Review, the second to be held by India and the largest military exercise hosted by the country so far.

4. Union Government to set up National Organic Farming Research Institute in Sikkim.

5. Indian social worker Renana Jhabvala to be on UN Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment.

6. Union Government approved Heritage development projects for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana: Union Ministry of Urban Development approved projects worth over 12 crore rupees for improving tourist infrastructure in heritage places of Amravati in Andhra Pradesh and Warangal in Telangana. Amravati and Warangal are among the 12 cities included in the Heritage Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) for improving the social, cultural and economic ecosystems.

7. India ratified convention on supplementary compensation for nuclear damage: India’s Permanent Representative in IAEA, Vienna Rajiva Misra submitted its Instrument of Ratification of the Convention of Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC), 1997 to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at Vienna, Austria.

8. MoU on Health and School Renovation between India and Sri Lanka signed during the 9^th Session of India-Sri Lank Joint Commission held in Sri Lanka.

9. ICICI Academy aims to impart skills training to one lakh youth by 2017.

INTERNATIONAL UPDATES:

1. Indian origin Singaporean Vishal Mehta appointed as the President of the newly-formed International Grown Diamond Association (IGDA).

OTHER UPDATES:

FINANCE/BANKING:

1. Corporation Bank inks pact with Universal Sompo General Insurance Company Ltd for providing accident death coverage to its savings account holders.

SPORTS:

2. Virat Kohli replaces Aaron Finch as No.1 Batsman in T20 Internationals.

OBITUARIES:

3. Cartoonist Sudhir Tailang died of brain cancer at the age of 56.

4. NASA Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the lunar module pilot on Apollo 14 who was also the sixth man to walk on the moon died at the age of 85.