Current Affairs: Daily GK Update 14 September 2017

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Current Affairs: Daily GK Update 14 September 2017

National

1.Hindi Diwas Celebrated on September 14 every year.

2.India’s first State of art virology laboratory at Dr Anjali Chatterjee Regional Research Institute for Homoeopathy in Kolkata was inaugurated by Shripad Yesso Naik, Union Minister of State for AYUSH.

3.Karnataka is the first state to roll out an Electric Vehicle and Energy Storage Policy

4.Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe laid the foundation stone of the 508-km long Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail in Ahmedabad.

5.India has been placed at a low 103 rank, the lowest among BRICS economies, on the World Economic Forum’s Global Human Capital Index. The list has been topped by Norway.

Appoinments

6.The Secretary-General of UN Antonio Guterres has appointed the outgoing president of the General Assembly, Peter Thomson as the first special envoy for the oceans.

7.Mahendra Pratap Mall was appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) Ltd.

8.M. Nagaraja Sarma has been appointed the chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) of the United India Insurance Co. Ltd.

Sports

9.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has formally announced that Paris has been awarded the 2024 summer Olympics and Los Angeles has been given the 2028 edition.

Awards

10.Vijaya Bank has bagged the first prize under the Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar (Region C) for the year 2016-17