CURRENT GK DAILY

Indian film ‘Period. End of Sentence’ made it to Oscars shortlist

• Period. End of Sentence’ has made it to the Oscar shortlist in the Documentary Short  Subject category.

• Award winning filmmaker Rayka Zehtabchi directed the short film.

• This is a film about women in India fighting against the deeply rooted stigma of  menstruation and delving upon the work of  real-life ‘Pad Man’ Arunachalam  Muruganantham.

• A total of 104 films had originally qualified in  the category.

India’s entry for the Foreign Language Film Category, Village Rockstars is out of the Oscar race.

Madhavi Divan appointed as additional Solicitor General

                 

• The central government has appointed advocate Madhavi Goradia Divan as additional solicitor general (ASG) in the Supreme Court.

• She will hold office till June 30, 2020.

• She is the third woman to be appointed as ASG in the apex court.

• Senior lawyer Indira Jaising was the first woman ASG. Pinky Anand, the second woman lawyer to hold the post, is still in office.

  Additional Solicitor General of India is a law officer of India and is the third ranking lawyer of    the Government of India. The headquarters of Additional Solicitor-General may be at New  Delhi or Mumbai or Chennai or Allahabad as the Government of India may specify from time totime. ASG is governed by Law Officers (Conditions of Service) Rules, 1987. The post of ASG is not created by the Constitution of India

37th Senior National Rowing Championship begins in Pune

• The 37th Senior National RowingChampionship began in the Army Rowing Node in Pune.

• Around 500 rowers and coaches from various  rowing associations across the country are  taking part in the Championship.

• The Rowers for the World Championships-2019 will be selected from this event.

• World Championship -2019 is the first qualifying Championship for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

PM Modi launched various development projects in Maharashtra

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched infrastructure and housing projects worth about Rs 41,000 crore in Maharashtra.

• During his day-long visit to the state, Prime Minister Modi laid the foundation stone for two important metro corridors at a public meeting in Kalyan (Thane-Bhiwandi-Kalyan Metro and the Dahisar-Mira-Bhayander Metro).

• Prime Minister also launched mass housing scheme worth 18,000 crore rupees which offers around 90,000 affordable homes for economically weaker sections under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY).

• Prime Minister Modi also visited Raj Bhavan in Mumbai to release a book titled “Timeless Laxman”, based on the famous cartoonist, RK Laxman.

Uday Shankar elected as Vice President Of FICCI

• Star India’s Chairman and CEO Uday

•  Shankar has been elected Vice

  President of Federation of Indian Chambers of

  Commerce and Industry (FICCI) for 2018-19.(FICCI)

• He was recently appointed Star and Disney

  India’s Chairman and President of The Walt

  Disney Company Asia Pacific.

• Shankar is the first-ever Indian media and

  entertainment executive to assume the

  leadership position in a national industry

  chamber.

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry

                   Established in 1927

                     HQ – New Delhi

                President - Sandip Somany

Assam govt approves debt relief scheme for farmers

• The Assam government has approved debt relief scheme for the farmers of the state.

• The decision was taken in a cabinet meeting held in Guwahati headed by Chief Minister  Sarbanand Sonowal.

• The state cabinet decided to waive 25 percent of loan amount to the farmers.

• However the maximum relief per farmer would be capped at 25 thousand rupees.

• The cabinet also decided that a farmer could avail a Kisan Credit Card (KCC) loan at zero

  percent interest.

• The Cabinet also approved a farmers incentive scheme, under which 10 thousand rupees would be given to farmers having bad debts for taking loan under KCC.