Current Affairs One-Liner: 1st October 2020

• IDBI becomes first bank to have document embedding feature with Letter of Credit (LC)/Bank Guarantee (BG) messages over SFMS (Structured Financial Messaging System) platform of IFTAS (Indian Financial Technology and Allied Services).
• Static Part: 
• HQ of IDBI Bank: Mumbai
• MD and CEO of IDBI Bank: Rajesh Sharma 
• Tagline of IDBI Bank: Banking for all, Aao Sochein Bada
• HQ of IFTAS (Wholly-owned subsidiary of RBI): Mumbai
• India successfully conducted a test firing of surface-to-surface supersonic cruise missile BrahMos at Balasore, Odisha. 

• Sanitation Literacy Campaign: It will be undertaken by NABARD in Karnataka. The campaign will be conducted to promote ‘WASH’ (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene). 
• Important Days and Themes: 1st Oct 2020: International Day of Older Persons
• Theme for 2020: Pandemics: Do they change how we address age and ageing?
• Obituaries: Dr. G S Amur: He was writer and critic by profession.
• Defence Minister launched DISC-4, iDEXFauji Initiative and PMA Guidelines
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2020
• NITI Aayog and Embassy of Netherland signs SoI
• ‘IB-eNote’, a Green Tech Initiative & ‘Ind Guru’, an E-learning Platform
• ‘Digital Suraksha Group Insurance’- Flipkart and Bajaj Allianz

Questions: 

Q.1 Who among the following to undertake Sanitation Literacy Campaign in Karnataka?
a. Karnataka Bank
b. IIT Dharwad
c. NABARD
d. SBI

Q.2 When is International Day of Older Persons observed?
a. 1st Oct
b. 2nd Oct
c. 3rd Oct
d. 4th Oct