Banking & SSC 21st Jan Imp Current Affairs 2020

IAF Inducts its First Squadron of Sukhoi-30 MKI aircraft Equipped with BrahMos missiles at its airbase in Thanjavur (TN); Named ‘Tigersharks’ 222 Squadron
Andhra Pradesh to have 3 Capitals: Visakhapatnam: Government Capital, Kurnool: judicial Capital and Amaravati: Legislative Capital
Former Congress Haryana MLA and ex-Rajya Sabha MP Shamsher Singh Surjewala Dies at 87

World’s 2,153 Billionaires have more wealth than the 4.6 Billion People who make up 60% of the planet’s Population, said NGO Oxfam in its ‘Time to Care ‘Report
Number of International Tourist arrivals became 1.5 billion in 2019 (Four percentt more than 2018): Madrid-primarily based UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organisation)
IMF Revises Downwards Growth estimate for International Financial system in 2019 to 2.9% from 3% in its World Economic Outlook (WEO) Report
India Ranked 76th out of 82 nations on WEF’s Social Mobility Index Topped Denmark
Berlin Summit on Libya Fails to Initiate talks among the warring parties — strongman Khalifa Haftar and the Head of Tripoli’s UN-recognized govt Fayez al-Sarraj

DPIIT (Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade) Launches paperless licensing manner for petroleum provider Stations
IMF lowers India’s Economic Growth Estimate in 2019-20 to 4.8% from 6.1% in its World Economic Outlook (WEO) report
Challa Sreenivasulu Setty Appointed as Managing director of SBI for a period of 3 years
SC Accepts Centre’s proposal to take over management control of Real estate company Unitech
Ashish Garg Elected President of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI)

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