24th August 2018 Current Affairs

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HAL becomes 1st PSU to transact on TReDS: RXIL

The Receivables Exchange of India (RXIL) announced that Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) has become the first public sector enterprise to make a transaction on the “TReDS platform”.
TReDS is an online electronic institutional mechanism for facilitating the financing of trade receivables of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) through multiple financiers.

The maximum number of cyber attacks on official Indian websites are from China, US and Russia, with 35% of attacks coming from China.
After China, the most cyber attacks come from the USA (17%), Russia (15%), Pakistan (9%), Canada (7%) and Germany (5%).
The report comes from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), which analysed cyber attacks from April-June 2018.
CERT-In is the nodal agency which deals with cyber security threats like hacking and phishing.

Indian rowers Sawarn Singh, Dattu Bhokanal, Om Prakash and Sukhmeet Singh won the men’s Quadruple Sculls to win India’s fifth gold medal at the Asian Games 2018.
The medal is only the second ever gold medal for India in the rowing competition in Asian Games history.
India now has a total of 21 medals at the 2018 Asian Games.

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has become the first Indian company to cross the Rs 8 trillion mark in market capitalization.
The company achieved this after its shares surged 37%.
RIL share prices rose 1.31% to hit a record high of Rs1,262.50.

The Maharashtra government has appointed Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon as the brand ambassador of the city-based Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP).
The announcement was made by Maharashtra Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar.
The actress and the minister met to discuss the 13 crore tree-plantation drive and her contribution to help achieve a greener Maharashtra.
The aim is to create awareness about the state forest department’s many initiatives.