Daily GK Update: 30th October 2017

1. Kidambi Srikanth wins men's singles French Open badminton title

• India’s shuttler Kidambi Srikanth (8th seeded) lifted the men's singles title of the French Open Super series badminton in Paris, France.
• Srikanth defeated Kenta Nishimoto (Japan) 21-14, 21-13 in the final.
• This is his fourth title (earlier Denmark Open, Indonesia Open and Australia Open) in the fifth super series final.
• Greysia POLL and Apriyani Rahayu won the Women's doubles title, defeating Lee Sottee and SHIN Seung Chen 21-17, 21-15.
• The Mixed Doubles title went to Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana NATSIR who beat Zheng Siwei and Chen.

2. India beat New Zealand by 6 runs in 3rd ODI to take series 2-1

• India beat New Zealand by six runs in the third and final one-day international (ODI) Cricket, in Kanpur to take the series 2-1.
• Rohit Sharma has been named Man of the Match while winning captain Virat Kohli won Man of the Series award.
• India set up the total of 337 for six in their 50 overs, with New Zealand replying with 331 for seven.
• Now, India and New Zealand will also play three Twenty20 matches.

3. Bopanna wins Erste Open, Myneni-Prashanth clinch Vietnam Open trophy

• Rohan Bopanna has won the Erste Open title in Vienna with Pablo Cuevas while the team of Saketh Myneni and Vijay Sundar Prashanth clinched the Vietnam Open trophy at the Ho Chi Minh City.
• Unseeded Bopanna and Cuevas beat Sam Querrey and Marcelo Demoliner 7-6, 6-7, 11-9.              
• Earlier, Rohan Bopanna has won the Chennai Open with Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Monte Carlo Masters with Cuevas.
• Myneni and Vijay Prashanth beat the Japanese combination of Go Soeda and Ben Mclachlan 7-6, 7-6 in the summit clash.

4. Piyush Goyal & Jharkhand CM inaugurates 3 days Jharkhand Mining Show

• The Union Minister Piyush Goyal and Chief Minister of Jharkhand Raghubar Das have inaugurated a three -day "Jharkhand Mining Show" at Prabhat Tara ground in Ranchi.
• There are proposals for auctioning of 23 mines during this period.
• More than two thousand delegates have enrolled for this show.

5. PM of Italy Paolo Gentiloni to meet PM Modi today

• Today, The Prime Minister of Italy Paolo Gentiloni meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and hold a delegation level talks.
• The visit is aimed at strengthening the bilateral political and economic relations between the two countries.
• Over 600 Italian companies are active in India covering various sectors such as fashion, garments, textile and textile machinery, automotive, automotive components industry, infrastructure, energy, and insurance.

6. SIDBI Revamps Portal for Easy Credit Access

• Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) has revamped its portal “www.udyamimitra.in” to provide easy access to credit and hand-holding services for micro small medium enterprises (MSME).
• The portal is mobile-enabled and provides a self-assessment module.
• It sends various information on registered MSMEs from time to time and also allows loan applications to be perused and picked up by multiple lenders.

7. Govt extends date to claim GST transition credit till Nov 30

• The union govt. has extended the deadline for businesses to claim credit of transitional stock in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime till 30th of next month.
•  TRAN-1 is to be filed by those businesses that are keen to claim credit for taxes paid before the launch of GST on 1st July.
• It also allowed businesses to revise the form once in case of any discrepancy.
• The Central Board of Excise and Customs had ordered a scrutiny of all such claims above 1 crore rupees.

8. Railways to invest over 150 billion Dollar create one million jobs in 5 years

• According to the Railways Minister Piyush Goyal, Railway is looking to invest over 150 billion Dollar over the next five years which would help create one million additional jobs.
• Ministry was also compressing the time taken for complete electrification of rail lines to four years from the earlier plan of 10 years, which would help cut costs by around 30 per cent for the loss-making Railways.
• This electrification initiative would help save the national transporter around 10 thousand crore rupees per annum on fuel bill.

9. Pakistan to host next Asian Cricket Council Emerging Nations Cup in April

• According to the Pakistan will host the next Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Emerging Nations Cup in April next year.
• Six ACC teams including five full members will play in the tournament.

Note:

• In March 2009, Militants had attacked the Sri Lankan team in Lahore which led to international teams refusing to tour Pakistan and the PCB was forced to hold its home series away from home in the UAE.

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