Daily GK Potion – 1st and 2nd February 2015
- Agni-V, India’s 1st ICBM, fired successfully from canister
- India’s first intercontinental ballistic missile Agni V was test fired successfully.
- The 5,000-km Agni-V was successfully tested for the first time in its canister-launch version, which will give the armed forces the requisite operational flexibility to swiftly transport and fire the ballistic missile from anywhere they want.
- 18th National e-governance awards declared
- Excellence in Government Process Re-engineering:
Gold: Directorate of Income Tax
Silver: Finance Department, Government of West Bengal
- Outstanding Performance in Citizen-Centric Service
Gold: Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India
Silver: Department of Women Development and Social Welfare , Govt. of West Bengal
- Innovative Use of Technology in e-Governance
Gold: Office of the Commissioner of Police, Surat, Gujarat
Silver: Office of Chief Electorate Officer, Bihar and National Informatics’ Centre, Bihar
- Incremental Innovations in existing Projects
Gold: Department of Agriculture, Govt. of Tamil Nadu
Silver: Industries Department, Industries Commissionerate, Gujarat
- Best District Level Initiative in Citizen-Centric Service Delivery through ICT
Gold: Mandya District Police, Home Department, Karnataka
Silver: District Reasi, Jammu and Kashmir
- Innovative use of GIS Technology in e-Governance
Gold: Chhattisgarh infotech and biotech Promotion Society (CHiPS), Deptt. of Information Technology, Chhattisgarh
Silver: Central Silk Board, Ministry of Textiles Government of India, Bangalore, Karnataka
- Innovative use of Mobile Technology in e-Governance
Gold: Karnataka Public Works, Ports & Inland Water Transport Department, Project Implementation Unit, State Highway Development Project.
Silver: Madhya Pradesh Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Co. Ltd. (Govt. of MP Undertaking) Bhopal
- Specific Sectoral Award
Gold: Rural Development Department, Govt. of Bihar & National Informatics’ Centre, Bihar for project SAMVIDA
Silver: Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai
- Innovative use of ICT by Central Government PSUs
Gold: nformation Technology and Services Deptt. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
- Innovative Use of ICT by State Government PSUs/Cooperatives /Federations/Societies
Gold: State Child Protection Committee, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Silver: Tamil Nadu Minerals Limited, Tamil Nadu
- Outstanding e-Governance Initiative by Academic and Research Institutions
Gold: Department of Economics, St. Teresa’s College, Kerala
- Use of ICT for Development by Non-Government Institutions
Gold: Financial Inclusion, Tata Consultancy Services
Silver: KUHSAL-A CREDAI Pune Metro Initiative
- Australia beat England in tri-nation tournament final
- Glenn Maxwell scored 95 and took 4-46 Sunday to spur Australia to a 112-run win over England in the final of the one-day international tri-series.
- Maxwell led Australia to 278-8 as it batted first after losing the toss.
- It bowled out England for 166
- India and China jointly launched Visit India Year in China
- India and China on 2 February 2015 jointly launched the Visit India Year in China in Beijing during the visit of Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to China.
- The initiative is aimed at enhancing the flow of tourists from China to India and to strengthen the people to people bond.
- Reliance Industries Limited teams up with SBI for payments bank licence
- Looking to foray into banking business, Reliance Industries has teamed up with state-run behemoth SBI to apply for a payments bank licence.
- RIL and SBI put in a joint application to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up a payment bank that can offer services such as remittances and deposits but not loans.
- SBI will hold 30 per cent in the joint venture. RIL will be the promoter and hold the balance 70 per cent.
- Aditya Birla, Future apply for payments bank licenses
- Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd (ABRL.NS) and retailer Future Group were among the first big names to apply for licenses to run so-called payments banks.
- Today was the deadline for the application.
- HIV treatment to be linked to Aadhaar
- Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) Treatment for HIV/AIDS infection will now be linked to Aadhaar.
- Even those coming for HIV infection testing will have to produce their Aadhaar cards.
- This is to avoid duplication of patients going to several ART Centres for testing.