General Qacts - 12/09/2018

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  • The currency of Argentina is PESO.
  • PARIWARTAN - Power Asset Revival Through the Warehousing and Rehabilitation is an Asset Restructuring Company(ARC). Once started, lenders will take out stressed assets from the liquidation route under NCLT  and bring them under the asset restructuring route. Borrowers, Power PSUs, banks, and NTPC will be stakeholders in ARC and conduct operations and management.
  • India's first World Skill Center is at Odisha.
  • Knesset is the legislature of Israel.
  • National Film Archives of India is located at Pune.
  • Block Time: Total time taken from the moment an aircraft first moves for the purpose of taking off until the moment it finally comes to rest at the end of the flight.
  • ASHA - Accredited Social Health Activists.
  • First, ever military exercise under BIMSTEC will be held at Pune with the name MILEX 18.
  • Center for Wind Energy Technologies (C-WET) established in 1998 has now been restructured as National Institute of Wind Energy under MNRE.
  • Credit Guarantee Scheme for MSMEs is run by Small Industries Bank of India (SDBI).
  • India's first missile tracking ship has been built by Hindustan Shipyard Ltd. It has been built for National Technical Research Organisation(NTRO) the technical intelligence agency working directly under the supervision of the PM and NSA. It will be named after induction into the navy, as of now, it is called as VC11184.