Current Affairs: Daily GK Update 06th November 2017

• It was in 2004 when the Indian women’s team had clinched the Asia Cup trophy by beating Japan 1-0.
• The Championship was held in Kakamigahara, Japan.

ii. Out of these, 448 schemes under MGNREGA involved Rs 21.90 crore and 199 schemes under 14th Finance Commission have an outlay of Rs 2.67 crore, it added.

• Majuli is a river island in the Brahmaputra River, Assam.
• It is India’s first island district and world’s largest river island.
• Jagdish Mukhi is the Present Governor of Assam.

ii. Under the scheme of SPARSH (Scholarship for Promotion of Aptitude & Research in Stamps as a Hobby), it is proposed to award annual scholarships to children of Standard VI to IX having good academic record and also pursuing Philately as a hobby. The amount of Scholarship will be Rs. 6000/- per annum @ Rs. 500/- per month. 

• Philately is the hobby of collection and study of Postage stamps.

ii. CDQ is a heat recovery system to cool hot coke from coke ovens. It is one of the best energy-efficient and environment-friendly facility in steel production where hot coke removed from coke ovens at a temperature of around 1,000 degree Celsius is cooled and kept dry with the inert gas.

• Natarajan Chandrasekaran is the Chairman of TATA Steels.

ii. The week-long famous fair on an area of 30 acres on the river bank will continue till November 10. It got the nod from east zone bench of National Green Tribunal for the second time this year.

• Naveen Patnaik is the CM of Odisha.
• S. C. Jamir is the Present Governor of Odisha.

ii. She is an Indian telecom service officer of the 1979 batch and an alumnus of IIT Madras.

• She also bagged the distinguished woman engineers award by the Institute of Engineers.
• Prior to joining, she served BSNL as Chief General Manager, Tamil Nadu Circle.

ii. The MoU was signed by Managing Director of Patanjali, Acharya Balkrishna and Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the Union Cabinet Minister of Food Processing in the Government of India.

• Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the Union Cabinet Minister of Food Processing
• The World Food India 2017 is organised at Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan and was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• Patanjali climbed to 19th in the Forbes magazine’s Annual India Rich List 2017.

ii. With this new feature in the ICICI Bank’s Money2India app, an NRI customer can instantly initiate a remittance to his/her existing payees in India with just a simple voice command to Apple’s virtual voice assistant, Siri, on their iPhone/iPad. 

• Chanda Kochhar is the MD & CEO of ICICI Bank.
• ICICI Bank Headquarters in Mumbai.
• India’s largest private sector bank by consolidated assets.
• It is first-of-its-kind cross-border remittance service by a bank in the country.

ii. The five-day forum was inaugurated by the President of Egypt Mr Abdelfateh El Sisi. The Forum aims to provide a platform to the youth from all over the globe to engage with the key global policymakers.

• Cairo is the capital of Egypt.
• Egyptian pound is the currency of Egypt.

ii. It is Aditi’s third LET win in less than 12 months.

• Aditi Ashok has also won the Hero Indian Open and Qatar Ladies Open in 2016.

• Study notes of banking awareness for IBPS Exam 2017
• More questions of banking awareness for bank exams