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Daily News Analysis for IAS / UPSC (23rd May, 2016)

May 23, 2016 by Admin Leave a Comment



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National News

artificial propagation programme of mahseer fish for conservation

  • an artificial propagation programme for its rehabilitation and conservation.
  • Himachal Pradesh has set aside Rs 6 croreat Machhial near Jogindernagar town in Mandi district to rear the mahseer.
  • Himachal Pradesh fisheries department observed that the stength of the golden mahseer is lessening due to various causes, including construction of dams, barrages, pollution etc.

 

Govt constitutes IEPF Authority

  • bid to strengthen the framework for safeguarding the interest of investors union
  • move comes under the Companies Act, 2013that would be used for multiple purposes
  • that includes to distribute disgorged amount depositors ambit that have suffered lossesdue to wrongful acts by other entities.

 

Gujarat CM launches ‘Smart Village’ program

  • state government will select 300 villages for Smart Village program that will get 80 lakh to 2 crorerupees cash assistance to improve public facilities in the villages.
  • will felicitate villages that have 100 percent completion of toilets.

 

6,000 Gujarat villages become open defecation free

  • 6,000 villagesin the state becomes open defecation free under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
  • state have built more than 50 lakh toilets acrossGujarat in the last two years.
  • 30 talukas in the state now have 100 per cent toilet facility.

 

International

2016 Women Economic Forum (WEF) hosted by India

  • Theme: “Women: Uplifting and Uniting the World”
  • Sessions: 408 sessions on 28 themeslike business, technology, entrepreneurship, industry, health, travel, spirituality, peace, diplomacy, security, conflict resolution, personal leadership, innovation, research

 

G7 finance summit held in Japan

  • To give fillip for balancing the growth of the global economy amid the slowing down of the Chinese economy and those of other emerging countries.
  • First such meeting where macroeconomic challenges urged and seek ways to inspire growth and check instability in markets by pooling together macroeconomic agendas.
  • Japan, the US, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada are the G7 countries.
  • G7 countries represent more than 64% of the netglobal wealth ($263 trillion).

 

Gaya-model lantern in Colombo

  • The lantern is an additional attraction this year as it has been modelled on the “stupa” at the Mahabodhi temple in Gaya, Bihar.
  • Mahabodhi temple, one of the oldest brick structures in eastern India, was declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO in June 2002.
  • one of the four holy sites related to the life of Buddha.

 

Business and Economy

World Bank announced Pandemic Insurance plan to mobilize funds

  • Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility will generate global and national responses to disease outbreaks that threaten large population after the 2014 Ebola Disaster in West Africa
  • Aim is to organize fundsquickly against virulent disease outbreaks
  • Combination of disaster insurance and bonds

 

HSBC to halve branches in India

  • HSBC will halve the number of branch in India to 26 from the present 50 and keeping focus on retail banking over digital channels
  • Branch Shut will lead to over 300 employees being affectedalso less than one per cent of its total workforce of over 33,000 people.
  • Branches that are being closed service less than 10% ofits Indian customers

 

People in News

Anurag Thakur becomes youngest BCCI president

  • Replacement in respect of President was chosen by Senior BCCI Vice president KC Khanna headed the Special General Meeting
  • Previous President: Shashank Manohar

 

Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi appointed as Lt Governor of Puducherry

  • country’s first woman to serve as IPS was put under the additional charge of Lt Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Island.
  • Bedi is the first woman to join the Indian Police Service(IPS) in 1972.
  • Bedi contested the 2015 Delhi Assembly election as the BJP’s Chief Ministerial candidate

 

Government promotes 4 general managers as directors at general insurers

  • GIC Re and Hoda at United India Insurance, K K Rao at Oriental Insurance, P Venkatramaiah of National Insurance Company and Segar Sampath Kumar at New India Assurance have been promoted.
  • Centre also created one more post of whole-time director at the country’s sole reinsurerGIC Re

 

Sudhakar Rao steps down as USL’s Independent Director

  • former Chief Secretary of Karnataka, was appointed as an Additional Director of the USL in 2013.

 

World’s Oldest Olympic champion Sandor Tarics dies

  • He was the team member of the Hungarian waterpolo team
  • gave triumph to its side in the Berlin Olympics in 1936, pushing Germany into second place.
  • earned recognition in the USA as a designer of earthquake-proof building technologies.
  • gave attendance to the 2012 London Olympicsas the oldest living champion.

 

Science and Technology

New form of light discovered

  • Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have discovered a new form of light that go against predicted qualities of light
  • Earlier, findings says that the angular momentum could only be a multiple of a number called Planck’s constant
  • New findings details a new form of light with an angular momentum of just half Planck’s constant.

 

Water staircases in seas proposed

  • Possible mechanism by which the upper layers of the Arctic Ocean warm up, causing the ice to melt.
  • Water staircases are step like variations of density of water due to step like changes in temperature and salinity.

 

India successfully launches reusable launch vehicle RLV-TD

  • the Reusable Launch-Vehicle – Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) is the first time that ISRO launches an indigenous space craft with delta wings.
  • test launch is considered a significant step in India’s space endeavor. 

 

Sports

Mohun Bagan beats Aizawl FC 5-0

  • a record 5-0 marginto regain the title after eight years, at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in Kolkata.
  • Mizoram strikerJeje Lalpekhlua became the most prolific Indian striker, He scored eight goals, including a hat-trick in the contest

 

Ashwin retains No. 2 spot in Test bowlers ranking

Rank Bowler Batsman All Rounders
1 Stuart Broad Steve Smith R Ashwin
2 R. Ashwin Joe Root Shakib Al Hasan
3 James Anderson Kane Williamson Stuart Broad
4 Yasir Shah Hashim Amla Ben Stokes
5 Dayle Steyn Younus Khan Vernon Philander

 

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