Daily Current Affairs : 31st January 2020 |Daily GK update Quiz

Exp. Telangana  has emerged as the best performing state in promoting inclusive and sustainable economic growth and decent work for all on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) India Index 2019, according to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India.

Exp. Union Government aims to achieve objective of Housing for All by 2022 under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Grameen.

A total of over one crore 50 lakh rural houses have been completed in the last five years.

Exp. Nagoba Jatara is a tribal festival held in Keslapur village, Inderavelly Mandal Adilabad district, Telangana, India. It is the second biggest tribal carnival and celebrated by Mesaram clan of Gond tribes for 10 days. Tribal people from Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh belonging to the Mesram clan offer prayers at the festival.

Exp. World Health Organization has declared an international emergency over the novel coronavirus from China.

It is a rarely used designation that could lead to improved international coordination in tackling the disease.

There have been five global health emergencies since 2005,

Swine flu in 2009

Polio in 2014

Ebola in 2014

Zika in 2016

Ebola in 2019

Exp. The Economic Survey 2019-20 projects India’s economy to grow in the range of 6-6.5% in the next financial year (2020-21), while asking the government to use its strong mandate to deliver expeditiously on reforms.

Exp. The government on January 31 revised downwards the economic growth rate for 2018-19 to 6.1% from 6.8% estimated earlier, mainly due to deceleration in mining, manufacturing and farm sectors.

About India’s forecasting FY 2020

RBI forecasted-5%

Moody -4.9%   

ADB- 5.1%

World Bank -5%

Exp. Google on 29th January announced a $1 million grant for global non-profit organisation Internews that will launch a new initiative to promote news literacy among the Indian public.

The funding is part of Google.org’s broader, $10 million commitment to media literacy, in collaboration with the Google News Initiative (GNI).

Exp. Indian-origin technology executive Arvind Krishna has been elected Chief Executive Officer of American IT giant IBM after a “world-class succession process”, succeeding Virginia Rometty.

Exp. Indian women’s team captain Rani Rampal on 30th January became the first-ever hockey player worldwide to win the prestigious ‘World Games Athlete of the Year’ award.

The World Games announced the winner on 30th January after 20 days of polling by sports fans worldwide.

Exp. The ninth edition of joint military training exercise between India-Bangladesh — SAMPRITI-IX will be conducted at Umroi, Meghalaya from February 3 to February 16.