Monday, 18 September 2017
Daily Current Affair - 16th Sep. 2017
1. Toshhi and Nungshi will be the brand ambassador of Adventure Sports in Uttarakhand:
Another achievement has been added in the name of the world's seven highest peak mountaineering Mountaineer twin sisters Nungshi and Tashi Malik, including the Everest. Nungshi-Tashi, the maker of many recordings in mountaineering, has created a brand ambassador for mountaineering equipment, American firm Mountain Hardwire. For the first time in India and the whole of South Asia, the company has made its Ambassador.
Columbia Sports's proprietary Haq Wall Mountain Hardwire Company is located in San Francisco. The company makes world-class high altitude gear. In May, the company had negotiated with mountaineers twin sisters Nungshi-Tashi, Uttarakhand.
2. Babri Masjid case’s chief litigant Mahant Bhaskar Das is dead:
Mahant Bhaskar Das, the chief litigant in the Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri Masjid case and the sarpanch mahant (chief priest) of the Nirmohi Akhada in Ayodhya, died on Saturday. He was 89. With his death, both the chief litigants in the case from the Hindu and Muslim sides have passed away. Hashim Ansari, the oldest litigant in the case, died at the age of 95 in July 2016. Though Ansari and Bhaskar Das were rival litigants, the close and cordial friendship between them was just famous as their status of being litigants.
3.President Ram Nath Kovind launches ‘Swachhta Hi Seva’ sanitation campaign:
Taking the central government’s ambitious cleanliness drive to a higher trajectory, President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday kicked off the fortnight-long ‘Swachhta Hi Seva’ (Cleanliness is Service) campaign from Uttar Pradesh. The campaign, aimed at highlighting the Narendra Modi government’s flagship cleanliness initiative ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’, was launched from Ishwari Ganj village near at Kanpur.
4. India at 103 rank on Global Human Capital Index; Norway on top:
India has been placed at a low 103 rank, the lowest among BRICS economies, on the WEF's Global Human Capital Index, which has been topped by Norway. India also ranks "among the lowest in the world" when it comes to the employment gender gap, but has fared well when it comes to development of skills needed for the future with a rank of 65 out of total 130 countries surveyed. The list compiled by Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF) takes into account "the knowledge and skills people possess that enable them to create value in the global economic system" to measure the 'human capital' rank of a country. India was ranked 105th on this list last year, while Finland was on the top which has pushed by Norway to second place this year.
5. Sharapova reflects on Serena rivalry in new autobiography:
In her new book, "Unstoppable: My Life So Far," Sharapova says it was not only her victory, but the fact that she overheard Williams weeping afterwards in the locker room that ensured the American would always find a way to elevate her game in their future contests.
4. India at 103 rank on Global Human Capital Index; Norway on top:
India has been placed at a low 103 rank, the lowest among BRICS economies, on the WEF's Global Human Capital Index, which has been topped by Norway. India also ranks "among the lowest in the world" when it comes to the employment gender gap, but has fared well when it comes to development of skills needed for the future with a rank of 65 out of total 130 countries surveyed. The list compiled by Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF) takes into account "the knowledge and skills people possess that enable them to create value in the global economic system" to measure the 'human capital' rank of a country. India was ranked 105th on this list last year, while Finland was on the top which has pushed by Norway to second place this year.
5. Sharapova reflects on Serena rivalry in new autobiography:
In her new book, "Unstoppable: My Life So Far," Sharapova says it was not only her victory, but the fact that she overheard Williams weeping afterwards in the locker room that ensured the American would always find a way to elevate her game in their future contests.
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