Current Affairs: Daily GK Update 21th August 2017
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Daily GK Update 21th August 2017
National
- Smriti Irani has inaugurated Jharkhand’s first textiles manufacturing and export unit ‘Orient Craft Ltd’.
2.Nestle India has tied up with Amazon India for the launch of its new Nutrilicious range of Maggi Noodles.
3.Under project Navika Sagar Parikrama, a team of women officers of the Indian Navy would circumnavigate the globe on an Indian-built sail boat INSV Tarini. This is the first ever Indian circumnavigation of the globe by an all-women crew.
4.India and US have established new two-by-two (2 by 2) ministerial dialogue to enhance strategic coordination between them and maintaining peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.
International
5. The first regional centre of the New Development Bank, set up by India and other BRICS nations, was officially opened by South African President Jacob Zuma and the bank’s Indian head K V Kamath in South Africa.
6.British scientists have developed the worlds smallest surgical robot which could transform daily operations for tens of thousands of patients.
Banking & Finance
8. The country’s largest lender, SBI, accounts for over 27 per cent of the total amount owed to public sector banks by willful defaulters. As many as 1,762 wilful defaulters owed SBI Rs 25,104 crore.
Sports
9.American Tennis Player Serena Williams has topped the Forbes’ list of highest paid female athletes of 2017 with $27 million earnings .