Daily GK Digest #2

 09/01/2021

• All women pilot team of Air India flew over the north pole on the world's longest air route and the flight from san fransico reached Bangalore on January 9, 2021.
• Jumbotail, an online wholesale marketplace for food and grocery products has raised $14.2 million in its latest round of funding.
• National Highway Authority of India is planning to raise Rs. 1 Lakh crore through monetisation of highways under the toll-operate-transport in the next five years.
• Mountain View Developers and three other individuals have been restricted from accessing the securities market for six months by SEBI for unfair trading activities.
• Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has signed a pact with the national highways authority of India that it will set up solar projects, energy-efficient LED lighting and EV charging stations at NHAI establishments.
• Institutes if Eminence got the approval to open foreign campuses.
• Reliance Infrastructure has completed the sale of its entire 74 percent stake in PKTCL to India Grid Trust for Rs 900 crores.
• RBI will conduct a Variable Rate Reverse Repo auction on 15th Jan 2021 for a notified amount of two lakh crore rupees.
• The Assam government has decided to gift khadi clothes to state employees as a mark of respect to Mahatma Gandhi.
• Punjab government has declared the whole state 'Controlled Area' on view of the outbreak of Avian Influenza Bird Flu affecting birds including poultry in the neighboring states.