Current Affairs: Daily GK Update 20th September 2017

• Delegates from all seven nations of the ‘Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation’ (BIMSTEC) grouping will be present.
• BIMSTEC – namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand
• 17th BIMSTEC Senior Officials Meeting was held in Kathmandu, Nepal in February 2017.

ii. These 5 Presses will be redeveloped and modernized by monetization of their surplus land. Modernisation of the Presses will enable them to undertake important confidential, urgent and multi-color printing work of the Central Government Offices all over the country.

i. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat announced the appointment of actor Akshay Kumar as the brand ambassador of the Swachh Bharat Mission in the state.

• Dehradun is the Capital of Uttarakhand.
• Krishan Kant Paul is the Governor of Uttarakhand.

i. Three Indian entrepreneurial legends, Ratan Tata, Lakshmi Mittal and Vinod Khosla have been included in Forbes’s special list of the world’s ‘100 Greatest Living Business Minds.

• Forbes magazine was founded 100 years ago on September 17, 1917, by B.C. Forbes.

• The capital of China is Beijing. 
• President of China is Xi Jinping.

ii. They will form a 50:50 joint venture to create a powerful No. 2 in the European steel market. The merger will lead to substantial cost savings for both steel players. 

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Natarajan Chandrasekaran is the Chairman of Tata Steel. 
• Dr. Heinrich Hiesinger is the CEO of Thyssenkrupp.

ii. A senior BCCI official confirmed that the Board has only sent one name for the Padma awards this year and it was a unanimous decision to nominate India’s most successful captain.

• Dhoni is already a recipient of the prestigious Arjuna, Rajeev Gandhi Khel Ratna, and the Padma Shri award.

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