Daily Current Affairs for 17th & 18th Sep 2017 (English)
1. PV
Sindhu became the first Indian shuttler to win
the BWF Korean Open Super Series by defeating Nozomi
Okuhara (Japan) held in Seoul, South Korea. The Men’s Single
title was grabbed by Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (Indonesia).
Men’s doubles title: Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen , Women’s Double Title:
Huang Yaqiong and Yu Xiaohan. Mixed Doubles Title : Praveen Jordan
and Debby Susanto
2. The GST Network
(GSTN) has reopened
composition scheme window facility for small taxpayers with
turnover of up to Rs.75 lakh to opt for composition scheme,
which offers easy compliance for business as returns are to be filed only
quarterly. The window will be open for those taxpayers who have migrated from
earlier excise, service tax or VAT regime as well as for the newly registered
taxpayers.
3. A joint military
training exercise Yudh Abhyas 2017, (13th edition) was
held at Joint Base Lewis McChord, Washington between India
and United States. In this edition of exercise, armies of both countries
honed tactical skills in counter-insurgency and counter-terrorist operations
(CICT ops) under UN charter. Yudh Abhyas is annual bilateral military exercise,
alternately held by the two countries.
4. The 69th Annual
Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony honouring best US prime time television programming
was held at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California.
The Winners are
Outstanding Comedy Series: Veep Outstanding Drama
Series: The Handmaid’s Tale (first web series to win) Outstanding
Variety Talk Series: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Outstanding
Variety Sketch Series: Saturday Night Live Outstanding Limited
Series: Big Little Lies Outstanding Television Movie: Black
Mirror (“San Junipero”) Outstanding Reality-Competition Program: The
Voice Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Donald Glover
as Earnest “Earn” Marks on Atlanta Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy
Series: Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer on Veep Outstanding
Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Sterling K. Brown as Randall Pearson on
This Is Us Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Elisabeth
Moss as June Osborne / Offred on The Handmaid’s Tale Outstanding Lead
Actor in a Limited Series or Movie: Riz Ahmed as Nasir
“Naz” Khan on The Night Of. Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited
Series or Movie: Nicole Kidman as Celeste Wright on Big Little Lies Outstanding
Directing for a Comedy Series: Atlanta (Episode: “B.A.N.”), Directed
by Donald Glover Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series: The
Handmaid’s Tale (Episode: “Offred”), Directed by Reed Morano Outstanding
Directing for a Variety Series: Saturday Night Live (Episode: “Host:
Jimmy Fallon”), Directed by Don Roy King Outstanding Directing for a
Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special: Big Little Lies, Directed
by Jean-Marc Vallée. Outstanding Writing for a Comedy
Series: Master of None (Episode: “Thanksgiving”), Written by Aziz
Ansari and Lena Waithe.Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series: The
Handmaid’s Tale (Episode: “Offred”), Written by Bruce Miller Outstanding
Writing for a Variety Series: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Outstanding
Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special: Black Mirror
(Episode: “San Junipero”), Written by Charlie Brooker.
5. Sardar Sarovar Dam
(Narmada dam project) at Kevadia, Gujarat was dedicated to the nation by
PM Modi on his 67th birthday Sardar Sarovar Dam is the highest
dam ever built in India and second biggest concrete
gravity dam in world in terms of volume after Grand Coulee Dam in US.
The dam has length of 1.2 kms and depth of 163 metres. Its height was recently
raised to 138.68 metres, enabling usable water storage of 4.73 million acre
feet (MAF). The Sardar Sarovar Dam project was vision of India’s first deputy
Prime Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to arrest excess flow of water from
Narmada River into Arabian Sea. The foundation stone of project was laid out by
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on April 5, 1961. Four Indian states, Gujarat, Madhya
Pradesh, Maharastra and Rajasthan will receive water and electricity supplied
from the dam.
6. Tech Giant Google’s
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) based digital payment service Tez (meaning
fast in Hindi) was launched by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in New
Delhi. With this, Google become latest international giant to enter into
India’s fast growing digital payment ecosystem. The app can be used to pay for
movie tickets, utility bills, and make other transactions online. It supports
several local languages including Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi,
Tamil and Telugu and will work with 55 banks. Google Tez is
standalone payments application, available on Android and iOS.
7. Sashastra Seema Bal
(SSB), the paramilitary
force that guards India’s borders with Bhutan and Nepal,
its full-fledged intelligence wing has launched by the Union Ministry. The
intelligence wing will gather actionable information in a bid to enhance
operational efficiency. It will have 650 field and staff agents to gather
actionable information.
8. Mercedes Araoz was appointed
as the new Prime Minister of Peru by President Pedro Pablo
Kuczynski.
9. Senior IPS office Y
C Modi was appointed as the New Director General of
National Investigation Agency (NIA). He will replace Sharad Kumar who
is going to retire on 30th Oct,2017.
10. Welfare and
Rehabilitation Board App (WARB App) for grievance redressal of retired CAPF’s
and Assam Rifles Personnel was launched by the Union Home Minister Rajnath
Singh.
11. Assam State
Government has announced setting up of a well equipped skill
city with a capacity of 10000 training seats in the state.
Announcement !
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