Daily Current Affairs 6 January 2020: Your guide for daily General Knowledge Preparation
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This post contains important current affairs of 6 January 2020. It includes all Major National, International, Business and Sports related current affairs of 6 January 2020. A brief explanation of every current affair is provided to further enhance your general knowledge. Once you have gone through these current affairs we would recommend to you to try 6 January 2020 Current affairs test.
National News
1. New Emerging and Strategic Technologies (NEST)
- Ministry of External affairs has set-up New Emerging and Strategic Technologies (NEST).
- The NEST will work to increase investment coordination among the states of the country and also with the foreign countries.
- Union Minister of External Affairs: Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
2. Disha Special Officers
- Andhra Pradesh Government has appointed IAS official Dr Kritika Shukla and IPS official M Deepika as Special Officers for implementing the Andhra Pradesh Disha Act 2019.
- Andhra Pradesh: Governor: Biswabhusan Harichandan || Chief minister: Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
3. Global Bihar Excellence Awards 2019
- Piyuus Jaiswal was awarded the Global Bihar Excellence Award 2019.
- Piyuus Jaiswal was recently awarded the humanitarian award with the Global Peace Excellence Humanitarian Award 2019 on the occasion of International Human Day.
- Governor of Bihar: Phagu Chauhan || Chief Minister: Nitish Kumar.
4. Mukhyamantri Karmachari Swasthya Bima Yojana
- Madhya Pradesh Government has started a health insurance scheme called Mukhyamantri Karmachari Swasthya Bima Yojana.
- Every Government employee and their families eligible for medical treatment worth Rs 5 lakh annually.
International News
1. 2020 Year of Nurse and Midwife
- World Health Organization has designated the year 2020 as the ‘Year of Nurse and Midwife’.
- It is done in the honour of 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale,
- WHO Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland || Director general: TedrosAdhanom.
2. Esmail Qaani as new Commander of Iran
- Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei named Esmail Qaani to replace Qasem Soleimani as its commander.
- Qasem Soleimani was killed in a pre-dawn US strike in Baghdad.
- Iran Capital: Tehran || Currency of Iran: Rial || President of Iran: Hassan Rouhani.
Business News
1. Kerala Real Estate Regulatory Authority (K-RERA)
- Chief Minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan launched the Kerala Real Estate Regulatory Authority (K-RERA).
- The main aim to boost the confidence of customers and bring in more transparency in the real estate sector.
2. CSC inks with Paytm Payments Bank
- Common Service Centres (CSC) e-Governance Services India has signed an MoU with Paytm Payments Bank for sale of FASTags.
- CEO of Common Service Centres (CSC): Dinesh Tyagi.
- CEO of Paytm Payments Bank Ltd: Satish Kumar Gupta.
3. Arogya Sanjeevani Policy
- Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India has asked all Health and General Insurers to mandatory offer product to cover the basic health needs of users by offering them the minimum of Rs 1 lakh and the maximum sum-insured of Rs 5 lakh.
- The product shall be named ‘Arogya Sanjeevani Policy’ followed by the insurer’s name.
Sports News
1. Table Tennis Player Manav Thakkar
- Indian Table Tennis Player Manav Thakkar became world no.1 in the latest International Table Tennis Federation rankings in the Under-21 men’s singles category.
- President of ITTF: Thomas Weikert || Headquarters of ITTF: Lausanne, Switzerland.
2. Commonwealth Games Shooting and Archery Events
- Sports Ministry has given ‘in-principle’ approval to holding the Commonwealth Games shooting and archery events in India.
- Both the events will be held under the aegis of the Commonwealth Games Friendship Program in March 2022.
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