Daily Current Affairs Update of 8 April 2015 | General Knowledge
Daily Current Affairs Update of 8 April 2015 | General Knowledge
1.
Reserve Bank left interest rates unchanged in its annual monetary
policy due to increased food prices after unseasonable rains in various
parts of the country. The repo rate, at which the Reserve Bank of India
lends to banks, has been retained at 7.50 percent. The cash reserve
ratio for banks has also been kept unchanged at 4 percent.
2. Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) has bagged the prestigious Golden Peacock National Quality Award for the year 2015. The award highlights the best in class quality process that have been build up at DIAL over the years, which have brought significant results and many awards and accolades.
3. Sri Lanka and Pakistan signed
six Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs). The six agreements signed will
intensify cooperation in the fields of disaster management, sports,
shipping, cooperation in atomic energy for socio-economic development,
anti-narcotics and academic cooperation.
4. India Post, the postal department of Govt. of India closed its 135-year old Money Order (MO) service. The Money Order service, which provided pan-India door-delivery of funds to a payee from over 155,000 post offices, was an integral part of the department since 1880. India Post is now focusing on 2 postal remittance services Electronic Money Order (eMO) and Instant Money Order (iMO).
5. Nepal's government appointed
senior leader of Nepali Congress and former minister Deep Kumar Upadhyay
as its next ambassador to India, ending a three-year period without an
envoy in New Delhi. President Ram Baran Yadav appointed Upadhyay on the
recommendations of the cabinet, along with Arjun Kumar Karki as
ambassador to the US.
6. Rajeev Shukla was appointed the new chairman of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Governing Council. Former Union minister and Congress leader Shukla was the IPL chairman till 2013 when he resigned from the post in the aftermath of the IPL 'spot-fixing' scandal.
7. The Union Govt. has asked
banks and insurers to develop a common infotech module by 30 June 2015
to facilitate rolling out of three new social security schemes announced
in the Union Budget of 2015-16. These three schemes are Atal Pension
Yojana, the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana and the Pradhan Mantri
Jeeven Jyoti Bima Yojana. Atal Pension Yojana is the pension scheme,
Pradhan Mantri Jeeven Jyoti Bima Yojana is the life insurance scheme
while Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana is non-life insurance scheme.
8. Defence Minister Manohar Parikkar launched the first indigenously-built Scorpene submarine at the Mazagaon Dockyard Ltd. The Scorpene is part of the ambitious ‘Project-75’ of Indian Navy's submarine programme, undertaken with French collaboration, which will include six such vessels joining the fleet over the next few years.
9. In a concerted effort to
tackle the menace of air pollution, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
launched India's first Air Quality Index. The index will be operational
in 10 Indian cities to start with. The air quality index will inform the
public about the level of pollution in the air on a daily basis in
real-time.
10. Online fashion retailer Myntra is now moving to an app-only strategy by shutting down its desktop website. It will shut down its website on 1st of May. Myntra was acquired by Flipkart last year for a sum of Rs. 2,000 crores.
