VisionIAS
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1) Andhra Pradesh government launches ‘Nadu-Nedu’ scheme
•The decision to switch over to the English medium in government schools has been taken to uplift the marginalised section of society.
2) Nitin Gadkari Inaugurates Khadi Pavilion at I.I.T.F
3) Jair Bolsonaro to be chief guest at Republic Day 2020
4) New signal fish discovered off Kerala coast
5) FIFA names Arsene Wenger as global football development chief
•Wenger made the English Club Arsenal one of the strongest football clubs in Europe, winning three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups and taking his team to the 2006 Champions League final. He also won the French league in 1987 with Monaco, adding the French Cup four years later before departing for Japan in 1995.
6) CCI approves merger of the BNP Paribas (BNPP) and the Baroda (BOB) Mutual Fund
•The Proposed Combination relates to the merger of the BNP Paribas Mutual Fund and the BOB Mutual Fund. The Parties propose to amalgamate (i) BOB Asset Management Company (AMC) into BNPP AMC; (ii) BNPP Trustee Company (TC) into BOB TC; (iii) After the merger, BNPP AMC and BOB TC will be the surviving entities.
7) CSIR-IMTECH signs MOU with IIT Bombay for collaborative research
•The objective of this collaboration is to carry out state of the art research in areas of healthcare especially in projects and mission where both the institutes can significantly complement each other. Both the institutes shall benefit immensely through this partnership as it will facilitate the exchange of faculty and students for the purpose of research, teaching, development and implementation of collaborative research projects, professional development programs, and capacity-building efforts.
8) Indian Scholar Ravi Prakash won BRICS-Young Innovator Prize 2019
•The technology can be used for chilling milk from the point of production by bringing down the temperature of raw milk from 37C to 7C within 30 minutes using nano-fluid based phase change materials.
9) Robert De Niro to be conferred with SAG Life Achievement award
10) Lt. Cdr. Karabi Gogoi posted as Assistant Naval Attache in Moscow
•Lt. Cdr. Gogoi was commissioned into the Navy in 2010 and is currently posted at Karwar. India has over 100 Defence Attaches or Defence Advisors posted at missions across the world with all three Service Attaches posted at important missions.
11) Nilam Sawhney appointed as Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary
12) India-U.S. tri-services exercise Tiger Triumph begins
•This kind of training is expected to build the capacity of both the U.S. and Indian participants as well as improving their ability to operate together.
13) Bangladesh tops business bribery risk in South Asia
•TRACE is a US-based organisation which provides ranking to various countries in terms of the risk of bribery companies face in doing business in those countries. The Trace Bribery Matrix evaluates the countries under 4 parameters i.e. business interaction with the government, anti-bribery deterrence, transparency and civil society oversight.
14) Moody lowers India’s GDP growth forecast to 5.6 per cent for 2019