Banking Digest 30 July 2018

National

• Theme of Conference of Vice-Chancellors organized on July 26-28 - Research and Innovation.
• India’s first in-phone guide - Go whatsThat.
• India’s first National Skill Training Institute (NSTI) which is exclusively for women at - Mohali, Punjab. 
• This state implement Pranam Scheme to ensure that govt staff take care of their parents & physically challenged siblings – Assam.
• Indigenised multi-fuel engines for powering T-90 Bhisma Tank - V92S2 (1,000 HP).
• 2nd Conference of Young Superintendent of Police being organized at – New Delhi.
• Software to detect plagiarism in research, would be provided to all universities free of cost - Turnitin.

International

• This Assamese film won best movie award at the 3rd Love International Film Festival in Los Angeles - Xhoihobote Dhemalite.
• India will provide advance warning of floods to country - Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand.
• New strain of Ebola virus discovered in Sierra Leone named – Bombali.  

Banking

• First time this State-owned company is going to take up gold mining in India in Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh - NMDC Limited. 
• According to official data, Nearly this percent of 17.79 lakh companies registered in the country were active in India at the end of June-18 – 66%.

Sports

• New Goalkeeper coach of the Chennai FC team of Indian Super League - Kevin Hitchcock (Britain).

Person in News

• Name of The world's oldest 117-year-old person , who died recently - Chiyo Miyako (Japanese).

General knowledge

• World Meteorological Organization (WMO) headquarters - Geneva (Switzerland).
• World Meteorological Organization (WMO) established in the year - 1873.
• Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) established in the year - 1875.
• BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) formed in the year - 2006.