Daily GK Updates: 30th August 2014 1. India, Japan sign MoU to develop Varanasi into ‘smart city’. 2. President confers National Sports Awards to eminent sportspersons. Note: i. Arjuna, Dronacharya and Dhyan Chand Awardees receive statuettes, citations and cash prize of 5 lakh rupees each, whereas recipients of Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar were given Trophies. ii. No sportsperson was selected for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award this year. 3. Public sector Indian Bank will revise the interest rate on foreign currency non-resident (banking) term deposits from tomorrow. 4. Malaysia and India will soon review their economic cooperation pact, signed in 2011, to chart out ways to enhance and diversify trade further, the Indian High Commissioner to Malaysia, T S Tirumurti, has said. 5. Noted historian Bipin Chandra died today at his residence after prolonged illness. He was 86. 6. US actor Harry Belafonte to receive Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Oscar Award. 7. India on 29 August 2014 signed loan agreement with World Bank for Mizoram State Roads Project (MSRP II). As per the agreement, soft loan window of World Bank, International Development Agency (IDA) will provide assistance of 107 million US dollars for the Project. 8. The city of Chennai celebrated its landmark anniversary during August 2014. 375th landmark anniversary is this. 9. 2nd Summer Youth Olympics concluded at China’s Nanjing city on 28 August 2014. China country topped the medals tally at these games 10. Narendra Modi arrived at Japan country on 30 August 2014 on his first bilateral foreign visit outside South Asia after becoming Prime Minister.
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:15:32 +0000
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