Current Affairs 18th September 2019 Daily GK updates quiz

Exp.The Spain men’s national basketball team has won the 2019 men’s FIBA World Basketball Championship in Beijing, China. In the final, they defeated Argentina with a score of  95-75.

Exp.Mayank Vaid from Himachal Pradesh has become the 44th person in the world and first Indian to complete the ‘Enduroman – Arch to Arc’ — a triathlon from England to France which is considered to be one of the toughest endurance competitions in the world. He is also the first Asian person to complete this triathlon in solo capacity. Vaid also broke the record for the shortest time taken to complete the triathlon — involving running, swimming and cycling — in 50 hours and 24 minutes.

Exp.Wing Commander Anjali Singh  has become the India’s first female Indian Armed Forces (IAF) Officer to be posted as a military diplomat in any of the Indian missions abroad. She joined the Indian Embassy in Russia as the Deputy Air Attache. Singh is an aeronautical engineer who served with fighter squadrons during her 17-year military career. An air attache is an Air Force officer who is part of a diplomatic mission and  typically represents the chief of his home air force in the foreign country where he or she serves.

Exp.The pictorial  book titled “Turbulence & Triumph: The Modi Years” has been jointly authored by Rahul Agarwal and Bharathi S Pradhan. It traces the journey of Narendra Modi from his days as a young boy from Vadnagar in Gujarat to New Delhi’s 7, Lok Kalyan Marg as the 14th prime minister of India. It is replete with anecdotes from family, friends, colleagues, associates, testimonials of leaders from India and the world across party lines.

Exp. The US swimmer Sarah Thomas became the first person to swim across the English Channel four times non-stop in a 54-hour feat of endurance.

Exp.Moti Bagh, a documentary film based on the struggle of a farmer in a remote Uttarakhand village, has been nominated for the Oscars.

Exp. Kerala signs a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Maldives to strengthen cancer care in the island nation.

Exp. Wing Commander Anjali Singh has joined the Indian Embassy in Russia as the Deputy Air Attache and become India’s first female military diplomat to be posted in any of the Indian missions abroad.

Exp. The 5th International Ramayan Festival organized by Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), in New Delhi.

Exp. Nirmal Chandra Dandriyal directed the documentary on the struggle of a farmer in a remote Uttarakhand village and the documentary was also nominated for the Oscars recently.