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11 June 2019
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11 June 2019
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11 June 2019
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11 June 2019
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11 June 2019
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ऑयल इंडिया लिमिटेड के खाते में 12 ब्लॉक
डायरेक्टरेट जनरल ऑफ हाइड्रोकार्बन्स (डीजीएच) द्वारा 32 तेल व गैस ब्लॉक की नवीनतम नीलामी की गई है जिसमें सबसे ज्यादा 12 ब्लॉक सरकारी कंपनी ऑयल इंडिया लिमिटेड (ओआइएल) के खाते में आ रहे हैं। इस नीलामी के अनुसार सरकारी कंपनी ऑयल एंड नेचुरल गैस कॉरपोरेशन (ओएनजीसी) तथा निजी क्षेत्र की वेदांता लिमिटेड को नौ-नौ तेल व गैस ब्लॉक मिलना तय है। वहीं शेष एक ब्लॉक रिलायंस इंडस्ट्रीज लिमिटेड और उसकी ब्रिटिश सहयोगी बीपी पीएलसी के हिस्से में आ रहा है।
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants-hindi/20496-12-6
#OilIndiaLimited #DGH #ONGC #OIL #AnilAgarwal #CCEA #OALP

दिग्गज साहित्यकार गिरीश कर्नाड का निधन
बॉलीवुड के जानेमाने अभिनेता, कन्नड़ साहित्यकार और निर्देशक गिरीश कर्नाड (Girish Karnad) का 81 साल की उम्र में निधन हो गया। कर्नाड लंबे समय से बिमार थे। उन्हें कई बार अस्पताल में भी भर्ती करवाया गया था। 10 जून 2019 को सुबह उन्होंने बेंगलुरु के अस्पताल में आखिरी सांस ली। गिरीश कर्नाड के निधन से बॉलिवुड जगत में शोक की लहर है। गिरीश कर्नाड को पद्मश्री, पद्मभूषण पुरस्कार से सम्मानित किया जा चुका था।
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants-hindi/20495-2019-06-11-03-25-12
#GirishKarnad #Veteranliterary #PadmaBhushanAward #PMModi #Bangalore

Inter Creditor Agreement
The Sashakt Committee has recommended that the existing Inter-Creditor Agreement (ICA) to incorporate the revised voting threshold and other changes for decision making stipulated by the Reserve Bank of India. In a statement it said that this will enable expeditious implementation of the new framework on stressed assets.
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#ICA #IBA #RBI #NBFCs #RajnishKumar #BLRA #SashaktCommittee

China’s rare earths exports fall
Rare earth exports by China, the world's dominant producer, fell 16% in May from a month earlier amid an increased focus on the raw materials due to the Sino-U.S. trade war, although the drop was in line with usual trading.
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#China #REM #REE #tradewar #military #IUPAC

India as partner to counter trade headwinds
China on 10 June 2019 invited India to join a budding international effort to counter headwinds of “trade protectionism and unilateralism” and brainstorm ways to address “bullying practices of the United States”.
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#India #SCO #ZhangHanhui #XiJinping #NarendraModi

Tokayev elected Kazakhstan president
Kazakhstan's interim president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, chosen successor of veteran ruler Nursultan Nazarbayev who retains sweeping powers, has won a snap presidential election with nearly 71% of the vote. Nazarbayev, who ruled oil producer Kazakhstan for almost three decades, handpicked the 66-year-old career diplomat as his successor when he stepped down in March.
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#Kazakhstan #Tokayev #NursultanNazarbayev #Europe

Asset quality review of NBFCs ruled out
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said that there was no proposal to conduct an asset quality review (AQR) of non-bank finance companies that are facing a credit squeeze since the collapse of infrastructure financier IL&FS in August last year.
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#NBFCs #RBI #ShaktikantaDas #AQR #NPAs #AFI #FICCI

Largest SO2 emitter in world
India is the world’s largest emitter of anthropogenic sulphur dioxide, which is produced from coal burning, and greatly contributes to air pollution, a study claimed on August 19. According to an analysis of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) data released by environmental NGO Greenpeace on August 19, India has more than 15% of all anthropogenic sulphur dioxide (SO2) hotspots in the world detected by the OMI (Ozone Monitoring Instrument) satellite.
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#SO2 #NASA #OMI #NGO #Chhattisgarh #satellite #WHO

Stable cyclocarbon ring of 18 carbon atoms
A team of scientists from Oxford University and IBM Research successfully created cyclo[18]carbon (C18), the smallest cyclocarbon made from 18 carbon atoms, which is predicted to be a thermodynamically stable carbon ring.
Read More: http://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21259-stable-cyclocarbon-ring-of-18-carbon-atoms
#C18 #cyclocarbon #NaCl #IBM #American #Association #C24O6

MCC Honourary Life Member
Former Australian pace spearhead Mitchell Johnson has been elected as an Honorary Life Member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), custodians of the game’s laws. The club made the announcement on 18 August 2019, at Lord’s, during the second Ashes Test between Australia and England which ended in a draw.
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#MCC #HonouraryLifeMember #WorldCup #blownaway #Australia

LOI of Chandrayaan-2
Almost 30 days after it was launched, the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft on 20 August 2019 moved into the lunar orbit, and started going around the moon, in preparation for a landing on September 7. Chandrayaan-2, launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on July 22, is India’s first lander mission to the moon.
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#LOI #Chandrayaan2 #spacecraft #India #Earth #IST #GSLVMkIII

DRR requirement for NBFCs and HFCs
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has amended the Companies (Share Capital & Debentures) Rules by removing Debenture Redemption Reserve (DRR) requirement for Listed Companies, NCFCs and HFCs.
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#DRR #NBFCs #HFCs #NirmalaSitharaman #NHB #Budget

A Panel report on Corporate tax
A government panel has recommended cutting the corporate tax rate to 25% from 30% for all companies and scrapping surcharges on tax payments, an official said on 20 August 2019, part of a major overhaul of the six-decades old tax act.
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#Corporatetax #AkhileshRanjan #COGS #NirmalaSitharaman #IncomeTaxAct

Co-origination pact lend to MSMEs
The troubled shadow banks are not yet out of the woods and the largest lender SBI has stitched a co-origination agreement to finance small businesses--which used to be a major customer-base for the crippled financiers.
Read More: http://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21275-co-origination-pact-lend-to-msmes
#MSMEs #SBI #RBI #NBFCs #ReserveBank #agreement

DRDO hands over design of MMR
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) handed over the design of Mobile Metallic Ramp (MMR) to the Indian Army at a ceremony held at DRDO Bhawan. With load bearing capacity of 70 metric ton (MT), the MMR has been designed and developed by DRDO’s premier research laboratory.
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#DRDO #MMR #MT #CFEES #TDEs #DSO #DTDP #Bhawan #IndianArmy

Chandrayaan-2 enters 2nd Lunar orbit
The second Lunar orbit manoeuvre for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was successfully completed on 21 August 2019, said India Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
According to ISRO, the orbit manoeuvre began at 12.50 p.m. and took 1,228 seconds to complete. The orbit achieved is 118 km X 4,412 km. All spacecraft parameters are normal.
Read More: http://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21273-chandrayaan-2-enters-2nd-lunar-orbit
#Chandrayaan2 #spacecraft #ISRO #Vikram #GSLVMkIII #Lunar #orbit

Compliance report to FATF
Pakistan has submitted compliance report on its 27-point action plan to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), as three separate evaluations currently in progress will determine the country's possible exit from the grey list of the anti-money laundering watchdog by October.
Read More: http://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21272-compliance-report-to-fatf
#FATF #Australia #APG #Pakistan #BaqirReza #Bangkok #ImranKhan

Rocky exoplanet of Moon or Mercury
Scientists at NASA have achieved to get a rare glimpse of the conditions on the surface of a rocky exoplanet orbiting a star beyond the Sun. Using the data of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have detected the light from the planet LHS 3844b, which is located 48.6 lightyears away from the Earth.
Read More: http://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21271-rocky-exoplanet-of-moon-or-mercury
#Moon #Mercury #NASA #JPL #TESS #LHS #Mdwarf #planet

WTO-compliant remission of tax scheme
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 13 March 2020 approved a World Trade Organisation (WTO)-compliant scheme for reimbursement of taxes and duties to exporters.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/23106-wto-compliant-remission-of-tax-scheme.html
#WTO #taxscheme #GST #RoDTEP #MEIS

Guidelines for Ind AS
The Reserve Bank on 13 March 2020 came out with regulatory guidelines for implementation of Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) by non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) while preparing their financial results.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/23105-guidelines-for-ind-as.html
#Guidelines #IndAS #NBFCs #ARCs #ACB

Centre declares coronavirus as 'notified disaster'
In the wake of spurt in cases of coronavirus pandemic in the country, the Ministry of Home Affairs on 14 March 2020 decided to treat Covid-19 as a "notified disaster".
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/23104-centre-declares-coronavirus-as-notified-disaster.html
#coronavirus #notifieddisaster #SDRF #WHO

Community transmission of Covid-19
To rule out community transmission of Covid-19, over a thousand samples of influenza- or pneumonia-like illnesses, taken from patients without any travel history or contact with infected persons, would now also be tested for coronavirus every week.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/23103-community-transmission-of-covid-19.html
#Communitytransmission #Covid19 #DHR-ICMR #coronavirus

Syrian children in need due to war: UN
The UN children’s organization UNICEF issued a plea on 13 March 2020 to support Syrian children as the war in Syria nears the start of its 10th year. A child dies every 10 hours as a result of the war, the organization said.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/23102-syrian-children-in-need-due-to-war-un.html
#UN #war #UNICEF #Syrianchildren #BasharAssad