Current Affairs Quiz: January 18, 2020

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The Chief Executive of Microsoft Corporation, Satya Nadella recently announced that the company has set a new ambition to address climate change and promised to remove the carbon emissions the company has made.
Microsoft has planned to cut more than half of carbon emissions across its supply chain by 2030. The plan also includes the creation of a “Climate Innovation Fund,” which will invest $1 billion for developing technologies to remove carbon. The company aims to remove the entire direct and indirect carbon emissions it had made since 1975 (founding year of Microsoft), by 2050.

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Indian Highways Management Company, incorporated by National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), has recently introduced the ‘Missed Call Alert Facility’ to check the FASTag balance of the users.
The toll-free number ‘8884333331’ will be available throughout the day. The users of FASTags, who have registered their mobile numbers with NHAI Prepaid wallet, can give a missed call to the number, to check their FASTag balance. The prepaid payment can be done through the My FASTag App, which can be linked to the NHAI wallet or to the Savings account of 13 banks.

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The second Tejas Express in the Mumbai- Ahmedabad route was recently flagged off from Ahmedabad by the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Vijay Rupani. The commercial run is expected to start on January 18 and it will run in the route for all days of the week except Thursday.
Tejas Express is a semi-high speed and fully air-conditioned train, which is run by the wholly owned subsidiary of Indian Railways, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). The first Tejas Express between New Delhi and Lucknow was inaugurated in October 2019. For Tejas Express, IRCTC follows a dynamic pricing scheme and it pays compensation to the customers on train delays.

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The United Nation’s World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) report was recently released. As per the report, the UN projects the GDP growth of India in the current fiscal year to be 5.7 %. The UN also predicted that the GDP growth rate of the next fiscal year will rise to 6.6%.
In the WESP report of 2019, the UN had predicted India’s growth rate to be 7.6% for the current fiscal year, which has now been lowered to 5.7%. As per the recent report, East Asia continues to be the world’s fastest growing region and the largest contributor to global growth. The report also predicted that the global growth would dip to 1.8 per cent this year.

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The 1st edition of Krishi Manthan is being held at Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Krishi Manthan is the Asia’s largest “Food-Agri-business-Rural Development” Summit. It is organized by the Food and Agri Business Committee of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. It is a platform for Business, industry, academia, policymakers and other stakeholders to share their knowledge and expertise.
It is a 2-day event where more than 1,500 delegates including students, working professionals from Food, Agriculture and allied sectors would be participating.