Current affairs notes on 09/08/2018

1.The Indian women chess team has clinched the gold in the Blitz event at the Asian Nations Chess Cup 2018 at Hamadan, Iran on August 3. It's India's first gold-medal finish at the event since 2014. 

2.State Bank of India launched a payments machine called MOPAD. The full form of MOPAD is Multi Option Payment Acceptance Device. It is a Point of Sale (PoS) terminal that will allow to facilitate transactions from cards to QR code based payments. 

3.An eighth-century stone sculpture of Goddess Durga and a third century limestone sculpture 'Head of a Male Deity' will be returned to India by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest museum in the US. The stone sculpture of Durga Mahishasuramardini was donated to the museum in 2015.

4.A facial recognition system using artificial intelligence will be used at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Tokyo Olympics will be the first games to have this kind of security system using facial recognition technology. 

5.UN (United Nations) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has chosen former two time Chilean President Michelle Bachelet to be new UN high commissioner for human rights. she is the first director of UN Women, the UN agency promoting gender equality worldwide.

6.NDA candidate Harivansh Narayan Singh has been elected as the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha on 9th August 2018. The post of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman was lying vacant since the retirement of P J Kurien on July 1, 2018.

7.The 4th edition of National Handloom Day (NHD-2018) is celebrated every year in India on August 7 to honour Indian handloom weavers and celebrate the rich cultural legacy of handlooms in the country. The handloom industry is one of the largest cottage industries in India.

8.UNESCO has included Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve (KBR) Sikkim in the list of World Network of Biosphere Reserve (WNBR) at the 30th Session of the Man and Biosphere International Coordinating Council (ICC) in Palembang, Indonesia. It has now become the India’s 11th internationally designated Biosphere Reserve.

9.Ministry of Commerce & Industry has launched Niryat Mitra – mobile App.It provides wide range of information required to undertake international trade right from the policy provisions for export and import, applicable GST rate, available export incentives etc.

10.The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is being observed across the world on August 9, 2018. Theme for the year is ‘Indigenous peoples’ migration and movement’.


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