1.The Chhattisgarh police for the 1st time has inducted women commandos in the District Reserve Guard, it's frontline anti-Naxal force. The 30 women squad called, 'Danteshwari Ladake', was inducted in the state's Naxal-hit Dantewada district.Danteshwari Ladake’ implies fighters of Goddess Danteshwari.
2.Acc. To RBI, Banks need to expand their global banking relationship and shift towards globally accepted trade finance instruments instead of indigenous instruments (such as LoU/ LoC).LoC-Letter of Credit.LoU-Letter of Undertaking
3.Singapore’s parliament passed laws targeting “fake news” that will allow authorities to order social media sites to put warnings next to posts, the former consider false, and even get them taken down. Such companies can face judicial action.Singapore dollar ( SGD) is the official currency of Singapore.
4.Qantas has operated world’s 1st zero waste commercial flight named QF739 from Sydney to Adelaide which disposed all waste through compost/recycle. It planned to eliminate 100 million single-use plastics by the end of 2020 & to reduce 75% of waste by 2021.Qantas Domestic CEO-Andrew David
5.Amul will be the principal sponsor of Afghanistan cricket team in the coming ICC World Cup.
This is the third time that Amul is sponsoring a cricket team in the World Cup.It had associated with New Zealand and Holland teams in earlier World Cup tournaments.ICC World Cup 2019- to be hosted by England and Wales.
6.K S Radhakrishnan, former Supreme Court Judge, has been appointed as a member of the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal, London. He will render his services as a member of the Tribunal for a period of four years from 2019-2023.He has served as CJIs of Gujarat and J&K Highcourts.
7.To help nations ensure secure voting, Microsoft unveiled "ElectionGuard".It will enable end-to-end verification of elections, open results to 3rd party organisations for validation, and allow individual voters to confirm their votes were correctly counted.Microsoft CEO-Satya Nadela
8.Indian Army is observing 2019, as the ‘Year of Next of Kin’ & plans to reach out to relatives of battle casualties, ex-servicemen & serving soldiers to inform them of entitled financial benefits, welfare schemes & help resolve pension related issues.Chief of Indian Army- General Bipin Rawat
9.IndiaRatings & Research (Ind-Ra), rating agency followed its peer ICRA-NSE and downgraded YES Bank which could increase the bank’s cost of market borrowings and will add pressure on it to raise equity which may have to be done at a discount .NSE- National Stock Exchange
10.Renowned Sikh historian & the first chronicler of India's partition Kirpal Singh passed away at the age of 95 in Chandigarh.His last work was aimed at “fixing the responsibility” of the Indo-Pak partition tragedy.Chandigarh is the capital of Punjab and Haryana.
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