Current Affairs: Daily GK Update 16 September 2017

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Current Affairs: Daily GK Update 16 September 2017

National

1. India’s first Centre for Animal Law has been established at the city-based NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad, Telangana.

2.The Government of India signed a loan deal worth $76 million with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for a project to upgrade the environment management plan at Alang-Sosiya ship recycling yards.

3.President Ram Nath Kovind launched a nation-wide campaign Swachhata Hi Sewa from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.He will administer nation-wide Swachhta Hi Seva pledge initiating parallel action in all the two lakh 50 thousand plus Gram Panchayats and cities in India.

4. Suzuki Motor will invest more than Rs 1,150 crore along with Japanese partners Toshiba and Denso to set up India’s first lithium-ion battery facility in Gujarat.

International

5.The International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer is observed globally on 16 September every year.  The theme for 2017 is ‘Caring for all life under the sun’.

Banking & Finance

6. India’s second largest private sector bank HDFC Bank topped the list of the country’s top 50 brands according to a report released by marketing and advertising conglomerate WPP Plc and Kantar Millward Brown.  Airtel is at 2nd spot and State Bank of India is at 3rd.

Awards

7. Bollywood star Salman Khan received a Global Diversity Award at Britain’s House of Commons.

8.The Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) has been awarded National level Rajbhasha Keerti Award for the third consecutive year.