Daily GK Updates: 18th Sept 2014 1. Chinese President Xi Jinping appointed Le Yucheng as Chinas new Ambassador to India. 2. Academy Award-nominated actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio has been designated the United Nations Messenger of Peace by UN chief Ban Ki-moon, with a special focus on climate change. 3. The government launched an electronic toll collection (ETC) programme in the country under the brand name FASTag.According to the Ministry of Road and Highways, ETC entails payment of highway tolls electronically without needing to halt the vehicle at the toll plazas. 4. The International Economic Association (IEA) appointed Kaushik Basu as president-elect of the association beginning September 2014. 5. Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed former McKinsey India Chairman Adil Zainulbhai as the Chairman of Quality Council of India (QCI). He will serve Quality Council of India for a period of three years from the date of assumption of charge. 6. The first Industrial Park under the Memorandum of Understanding signed between India and China will be set up in Vadodara district. 7. United Arab Emirates has signed three agreements with the United Nations World Food Program, WFP, offering 31 million US dollars worth of humanitarian aid for the Syrian refugees. This assistance will benefit about 8 lakh, 80 thousand Syrians. UAE has committed around 60 million dollars at the International donor conference on Syria, held in Kuwait in January this year. 8. Microsoft Corp acquired the Swedish video game company Mojang for 2.5 billion US dollars. With this acquisition, Microsoft aims to lure young audience into its mobile world 9. Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp acquired healthcare IT services provider TriZetto Corp for 2.7 billion US dollars. The acquisition is aimed at boosting the healthcare business of Cognizant. 10. Goa became a permanent venue for the International Film Festival of India (IFFI). 11. India slipped eights places to be ranked 158th in the latest FIFA rankings headed by World Champions Germany. 12. Researchers at the University of Missouri have created a long-lasting and more efficient nuclear battery that could be used as a source of reliable energy in automobiles and space flight. The battery uses a radioactive isotope called strontium-90 that boosts electrochemical energy in a water-based solution.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 05:07:04 +0000
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