GK Update: 21th september, 2016 (English)
By; D.K Choudhary
India successfully test-fires surface-to-air missile

ii. The missile was launched from a mobile launcher at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur.
Punjabi version of PM Narendra Modi’s website launched
i. People can now visit the PM Modi’s website in the Punjabi language at the URL www.pmindia.gov.in/pa.
ii. The website which was initially started in English and Hindi, is now accessible in nine regional languages – Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, Telugu and Punjabi.
Param-Ishan supercomputer unveiled at IIT Guwahati

ii. The website which was initially started in English and Hindi, is now accessible in nine regional languages – Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, Telugu and Punjabi.
Param-Ishan supercomputer unveiled at IIT Guwahati
ii. The high-performance “Param-Ishan” has computing speed of 250 teraFLOPS and capacity of 300 tera bites (TB).
Railways to launch Yatri Mitra for differently-abled

Vladimir Putin’s Big Win

ii. Putin’s party had won 54% of the vote in elections for the Duma, the lower house of parliament.
China, Russia conducted joint naval exercises Joint Sea-2016
ii. The 8-day exercises would highlight marine corps units in “live-fire drills, sea crossing and island landing operations and island defense.
First Indian music-dance festival starts in Australia

India’s GDP to grow by 8% over next few yrs: S&P

ii. This would be backed by a broadening consumption base.
Vijaya Bank rolls out 3 new apps
ii. The new IT products, according to Kishore Sansi, Managing Director and CEO of Vijaya Bank, are: VPAYQWIK, Vijaya *99# and V-eConnect+.
ADB approves $631 million loan for Vizag-Chennai industrial corridor
i. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $ 631 million loan to develop the proposed Vishakhapatnam- Chennai industrial corridor, the first such along a coastline in India.
ii. Part of the larger East Coast Economic Corridor (ECEC) that will extend 2,500 km from Kolkata in West Bengal and Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, the government expects the project to bring manufacturing and export industries to India’s east coast.

ii. Part of the larger East Coast Economic Corridor (ECEC) that will extend 2,500 km from Kolkata in West Bengal and Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, the government expects the project to bring manufacturing and export industries to India’s east coast.
New ED for Syndicate Bank
i. SS Mallikarjuna Rao has taken charge as executive director of Syndicate Bank. Prior to joining the bank, Rao was General Manager and CFO of Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC), looking after alternate delivery channels, marketing and publicity.
Facebook appoints Anand Chandrasekaran for its Messenger app

ii. Chandrasekaran, who served as the senior director of mobile and search products at Yahoo between 2011 and 2014.
Jubilant FoodWorks CEO Ajay Kaul resigns
ii. However, Kaul will continue in his current role till March 2017.
BSE ties up with Twitter to provide live stock updates
i. Investors can now track BSE updates real-time on Twitter by following the official Bombay Stock Exchange account.
ii. The investors can now get live updates of BSE Sensex levels, stock prices and opening and closing figures of Sensex companies.
Deaf shooter Priyesha Deshmukh wins bronze in World Championship

ii. She won bronze in the 10m air rifle category and it was her maiden international participation.