Daily GK Potion – 20th January 2015
- ONGC retain Savio Cup title
- Defending champions Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) once again underlined their supremacy by recording an authoritative 63-53 win against Indian Overseas Bank in the men’s final of the Rs. 5 lakh prize money 10th Savio Cup All-India Basketball Tournament.
- Filmmaker Pahlaj Nihalani new censor board chief
- Filmmaker Pahlaj Nihalani appointed as chairperson of the censor board.
- The government also reconstituted the board appointing nine others as members including BJP leader Vani Tripathi Tikoo and filmmakers Ashoke Pandit and Chandra Prakash Dwivedi.
- Other eminent persons who have been named as members are film writer Mihir Bhuta, Syed Abdul Bari, Ramesh Patange, actor George Baker, actor-filmmaker Jeevitha and actor-playwright S Ve Shekhar.
- Nihalani has produced films like “Aankhen”, “Talaash: The Hunt Begins …” and “Shola Aur Shabnam”.
- India, South Africa ink pact for developing youth enterprises
- The National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) today signed an agreement of cooperation with Black Business Council for developing youth-owned enterprises in South Africa.
- Ayonika Paul, Annu Raj Singh win gold in shooting meet
- Ayonika Paul of Railways and Maharashtra’s Annu Raj Singh won a gold medal each in their respective events at the 4th Gun for Glory Shooting Championship.
- Ayonika bagged the medal in 10m Rifle Women and Annu Raj Singh won it in 10m Pistol Women at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Balewadi.
- India’s growth to reach 6.3% in 2016: UN report
- India will see a gradual growth acceleration with its GDP expected to reach 5.9 percent this year and 6.3 percent in 2016, the UN report said.
- “India’s economy expanded by an estimated 5.4 percent in 2014, an improvement from growth of 5 percent recorded in 2013, but still significantly below the 8 percent pace of the pre-crisis period,” said the United Nations World Economic Situation and Prospects 2015 (WESP) report.
- Singapore’s GIC to invest Rs 1,020 crore in Bandhan Financial Services
- Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC is investing 10.2 billion rupees ($165.5 million) in India’s Bandhan Financial Services, which is setting up one of the country’s two newest banks.
- The company will get a total equity investment of 16 billion rupees, including 5.8 billion rupees from existing investor IFC.
TCS ends RIL’s 23-year run as most profitable firm
- After 23 years, India has a new numero uno when it comes to net profit. Information technology major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) posted a net profit of Rs 5,328 crore for the quarter ended December, overtaking long-standing champion Reliance Industries Ltd.
- It is the first time that an IT company has topped the profit charts.