Current Affairs: Daily GK Update 25th August 2017

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Nilekani served as Infosys’s CEO from 2002 to 2007.
• Infosys is country’s no. 2 software services exporter.

ii. With this tie-up, the company is in a strong position to consolidate its presence in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. The tie-up will further increase the insurance penetration in the region. 

• G Sreeram is the Managing Director and CEO of Dhanlaxmi Bank.

ii. The proposed initiative is the first-of-its-kind in the country as it is a “multi-variate” one that takes into consideration various factors beyond the conventional supply-demand equation while forecasting the prices for crops. It will examine a slew of related factors including weather, rainfall and external factors that impact market behaviour.

• Siddaramaiah is the CM of Karnataka.
• Vajubhai Vala is the Present Governor of Karnataka.

ii. The van was flagged off by Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. The van will provide Aadhaar enrolment service at door step in Delhi area.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Shri J Satyanarayana (Part Time) is the Chairman of UIDAI.
• UIDAI stands for Unique Identification Authority of India.

ii. The book is a collection of essays and speeches during his stint as Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor. The book will hit stores on 4 September, exactly a year after he quit as the RBI governor.

• He co-authored Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists with Luigi Zingales and wrote Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, for which he was awarded the Financial Times-Goldman Sachs prize for best business book.

ii. Commerce Minister expressed happiness on the formation of an Uzbek India Trading House at Delhi as a Joint Venture Company.

• The Capital of Uzbekistan is Tashkent.
• Shavkat Mirziyoyev is the president of Uzbekistan.

ii. Every year about 1500 musicians, military men and other artists from around 40 countries perform at the “Spasskaya Tower”. The Festival is duly considered one of the largest international events in Russia and attracts tremendous response of the general public.

• Moscow is the Capital of Russia.
• Vladimir Putin is the Present President of Russia.

ii. De Brum was also the Pacific nation’s climate ambassador.

• Majuro is the capital of Marshall Islands.

ii. Sengupta was 101 years old. He got his first break in 1938 when he joined Film Corporation of India in Kolkata (then Calcutta) as an assistant cameraman. His first film as a full-time cinematographer was in Purbaraag directed by Ardhendu Mukherjee in 1946.

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