Current Affairs 06 December 2019

Current Affairs 06 December 2019

State News

1. India’s 1st HAM project in “Sewerage Sector” inaugurated in Haridwar.

·         Union Minister for Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat inaugurated the 14 MLD sewage treatment plant (STP) in Sarai village near Haridwar in the presences of Sweden’s King Carls XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia.

·         The Sarai STP is “the first-ever project in the country on a hybrid annuity PPP model (HAM)”.

·         34 STPs are being built in Uttarakhand at a cost of Rs 1,144 crore, besides crematoria and ghats on the Ganga. Of these, 23 have been completed.

·         Once all the STPs become operational, there will be “considerable improvement in the water quality of Ganga,”.

2. Avantee mega Food Park inaugurated in MP’s Dewas

·         The Union Minister for food processing inaugurated Avantee mega Food Park in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh.

·         This first foods park of central India is spread overs 51 acres and has been constructed at a costs of abouts 150 crore rupees.

·         About 5 thousand locals peoples will gets employments from this Mega Foods Parks. Processing of soybean, gram, wheats and others grains and vegetables wills be done in the park.

·         Warehouses will also be opened in Indore, Ujjain, Dhar and Agar in the next phases.

3. CPPIB to invest $600 mn via National Investment and Infrastructure Fund

·         The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) of India and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) have agreed for CPPIB to invest up to $600 million through the NIIF Master Fund.

·         The agreements includes a commitments of $150 millions in the NIIF’s Masters Funds and co-investments rights of up to $450 M.

·         The NIIF Masters Funds invests equity capitals in cores infrastructures sectors in India, with a focus on transportations, energy and urbans infrastructures.

4. BlackBuck partners with IDFC Bank, Yes Bank to offer free FASTags to truckers

·         The Online trucking platforms BlackBucks has partnered with privates lenders IDFC Banks and Yes Bank to provides FASTags to trucks owners free of costs.

·         Trucks owners can orders FASTags on BlackBuck’s Boss Apps, a digital services platforms exclusively for trucks fleets owners, and it will be delivered at theirs doorstep free of costs until December 31, 2019.

·         The initiative is expected to help over 3 million trucks in India become FASTag compliant.

5. “Shilpa Shetty App” wins in 2k19 Google Play Awars.

·         Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty’s fitness app “Shilpa Shetty App” has been awarded Google Play’s Best Apps of 2019.

·         The app was awarded in the category of ‘Personal Growth’.

Defence

6. Exercise INDRA 2019

·         Exercises INDRA 2019 a joints, tri-services exercises between India and Russia will be conducted in India from 10-19 Decembers 2019 simultaneously at Babina (near Jhansi), Pune, and Goa.

·         The contingents of both countries will share expertise and their professional experience.

·         The esprit-de-corps and goodwill shall be the key areas during the exercise which will facilitate the further strengthening of bonds between the defence forces of India and Russia.

·         The INDRA series of exercises began in 2003 and the Firsts joints Tri-Services Exercises was conducted in 2017, It will be a historic occasion for two of the world’s greatest Armed Forces to joins hands and successfully conducts an exercises of this magnitudes with professionalism, to imbibes the bests practices from each others, jointly evolves and drills to defeats the scourge of terrors unders the United Nation mandates.

Static/Current Takeaways Important For RRB NTPC/SSC CGL:

·         Vladimir Putin is President of Russia country.

·         Moscow is the capital city of Russia country.

·         The Russian ruble is the currency Russia country.

Summit and Conferences

7. NATO Summits 2k19 in Watford, United Kingdom.s

·         The United Kingdom(UK) hosted two days organised 2019 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Summit in London.

·         The year 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the summit. It was attended by NATO leaders and chaired by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.

·         The purpose of the summits was to makes the heads of states and heads of governments of NATO members countries to evaluates and provides strategic directions for Alliances activitie.

Static/Current Takeaways Important For RRB NTPC/SSC CGL:

·         Member countries of NATO: 29; Founded:  4 April 1949.

·         Headquarters: Brussels, Belgium.

8. Piyush Goyal inaugurates 3rd edition of National Public Procurement Conclave.

·         Commerce and Industry Minister inaugurated the 3rd edition of National Public Procurement Conclave in New Delhi.

·         The conclave has been organized by Government e-Marketplace, GeM in association with Confederation of Indian Industry.

·         GeM epitomizes the speed, skill and scale which is essential in an e-marketplace platform.

·         GeM rests on the three pillars of openness, fairness and inclusiveness and is a symbol of a truly transparent e-marketplace.

Static/Current Takeaways Important For RRB NTPC/SSC CGL:

Union Commerce and Industry Minister: Piyush Goyal.

Banking

9. RBI releases “Guidelines for ‘on tap’ Licensing of SFB in the Private Sector”.

·         The Reserve Bank of India released guidelines for ‘on tap’ Licensing of Small Finance Banks in the Private Sector.

·         Now payments banks willing to convert themselves into small finance banks (SFBs) can apply for such a licence only after 5 years of operations.

·         Existing payments banks (PBs), which are controlled by residents and have completed five years of operations, are also eligible for conversion into small finance banks after complying with all legals and regulatory requirements of various authoritie and if they conforms to theses guideline.

·         The licensing window will be open on-tap. The minimums capitals for setting up an SFB has beens mandated at ₹200 crores.  adding for primary (urbans) co-operatives banks (UCB). which wishs to becomes SFBs, the initials requirements of nets worths will be ₹100 crores, which will have to be increased to ₹200 crores within five year from the dates of commencements of business.

·         SFBs will be given scheduled banks status immediately upon commencements of operation.

10.  Static/Currents Takeaways Importants For IBPS SO 2019:

·         RBI 25th Governors: Shaktikant Das; Headquarters: Mumbai; Founded: 1 April 1935, Kolkata.

Economy

11. 1st times India’s forex reserves cross $450 billion

·         The country’s foreign exchange reserves crossed the $450-billion marks for the firsts times evers on the backs of strong inflows which enabled the centrals banks to buy dollars froms the markets, thus checking any sharp appreciations of the rupee.

·         India’s foreign exchanges reserves weres at $451.7 billion on December 3, 2019, an increases of $38.8 billion overs end-March 2019.

·         The Reserves Banks has always maintained thats it intervenes in the foreign exchanges markets to curb volatility and does not targets a particulars levels of the exchanges rates.

12. HDFC ERGO launches my:healths Woman Suraksha policy

·         HDFC ERGO generals insurances company, India’s third-largest non-life insurances providers in the privates sectors, has launched “my: health Woman Suraksha policy”, a comprehensives medicals insurances schemes specially designed for womens.

·         The my:health Woman Suraksha policy is specially designed to covers women againsts numerous illnesses and contingencies. they may faces during theirs lifetimes, thereby providing financials aids in cases of medicals contingencies.

·         The benefits includes fitness discounts at renewals. specially designed preventives healths check-ups afters every renewals and wellness services likes health coaching. nutritions and weights managements services, discounts at pharmacies, etc.

·         It also provides counselling on stress managements, pregnancy cares, work-lifess balances, etc which is much needed by today’s new age women.

·         This policy is offered to women betweens 18-65 years of age and offers a sums insured ranging from Rs. 1 lakh to 1 crore.

13. Static/Current Takeaways Importants For IBPS SO 2019:

·         HDFC ERGO MD & CEO: Ritesh Kumar; Founded: 2002.

·         HDFC ERGO Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Books and author

14. IIT researchers to create ‘Gandhipedia’.

·         The National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) and IIT (Indian Institutes of Technology) Gandhinagar and Kharagpur, have joined hands to develop Gandhipedia, an online repository of books, letters and speeches written by Mahatma Gandhi, to commemorate his 150th birth anniversary.

·         The entire project will be done with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

·         In the first phase, over 40 books written by Mahatma Gandhi will be digitised and indexed and their portions which are to be completed by March 2020, and the remaining four phases will be worked on till March 2024.

·         The books wills be useds to reconstructs the socials networks of the Mahatma, including thoses who had influenced hims and peoples whoms he had inspires.

·         The aim of Gandhipedia is to reconstruct and remember the inspiring works of Mahatma Gandhi.

15. Static/Current Takeaways Important For RRB NTPC/SSC CGL:

·         National Council of Science Museums Director-General: A. D. Choudhury.

·         Founded: 4 April 1978; Headquarters: Kolkata, India.

·         Parent Organization: Ministry of Culture.

16. ‘Borderman’ yearly magazine released by Nityanand Rai

·         The yearly magazine called ‘Borderman’ was released by Nityanand Rai, Minister of State for Home Affairs on the occasion of 55th raising day of BSF (Border Security Force) organized by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

·         The 55th raising day of BSF (Border Security Force) was celebrated on the 1st of December 2019.

Miscellaneous

17. Roger Federer’s face to go on Swiss coin

·         Tennis legend Roger Federer will becomes the first living persons in Switzerland to haves a coin minted in his honours.

·         The Federals Mints, Swissmint, has created a 20-franc silver coin bearing Federer’s images.

·         It’s the first times in its history thats Swissmint has created a commemoratives coins to honours a living persons.

16. Nations pays homages to Dr. BR Ambedkar on his 64th Mahaparinirvan Diwas.

·         The nation is paying homage to Bharat Ratna Dr BR Ambedkar on his 64th Mahaparinirvan Diwas (death anniversary) on 6 December.

·         He was popularly known as Babasaheb Ambedkar and everyone knows that he was one of the architects of the Indian Constitution.

·         He was a very well-known political leader. eminents jurists, Buddhists activists, philosophers, anthropologists, historians, orator, writers, economists, scholars and editors, too.

·         He is a leader who dedicated his life to eradicating social inequality in India.

By:-Navjeevan Kr