Daily GK Updates - 9th June, 2016

NATIONAL UPDATES:

1. India ranked 141 on Global Peace Index: India has been ranked 141 on the 2016 Global Peace Index, falling behind countries like Burundi and Serbia on the 163-country list. India was ranked 143 on last year’s list. Meanwhile, Iceland was named the world’s most peaceful country.

2. India becomes the third largest oil consumer: According to recently released BP Statistical Review of World Energy, India has surpassed Japan to become the world’s third largest oil consumer.

3. ADB approves $100 million loan for irrigation system in TN: Asian Development Bank has approved a USD 100 million (around Rs 660 crores) loan to strengthen a key irrigation system and improve water management in the Vennar sub-basin of Cauvery Delta in Tamil Nadu.

4. Naresh Goyal re-elected to the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Board of Governors.

5. P Rama Mohan Rao appointed as the new Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu.

6. G Kalyanakrishnan took over as the new Chief Executive for Nuclear Fuel Complex.

INTERNATIONAL UPDATES:

1. World Bank cuts global growth forecast to 2.4%: The World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim has slashed the global growth forecast of 2016 by 0.5% to 2.4%.

2. Pakistan tops in 2016 Malware Infection Index: Pakistan has topped the list of 19 countries figuring in the 2016 Malware Infection Index (MII) in the Asia-Pacific region.

3. International Monetary Fund approved 1.5 billion US dollar loan to Sri Lanka.

4. Thailand becomes the first Asian country to eliminate mother to child HIV as per a report released by WHO.

5. Names of 4 new Periodic Table elements announced: The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has announced the names proposed for the new elements, whose discovery helped complete the seventh row of the Periodic Table in December last year. The names proposed for the elements with atomic numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118 were Nihonium (Nh), Moscovium (Mc), Tennessine (Ts) and Oganesson (Og) respectively.

6. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree awarding the Order of Friendship to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban-ki-moon.

OTHER UPDATES:

SPORTS:

1. Maria Sharapova banned for two years over doping by the International Tennis Federation.

OBITUARIES:

2. Former Kerala Assembly Speaker T S John passed away.

3. Veteran Journalist K K Katyal passed away in Delhi at the age of 88.

BOOKS AND AUTHORS:

4. Book titled ‘The Unseen Indira Gandhi’ authored by Dr K P Mathur released.