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Daily G.K. - Top Stories

04 May 2017

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

China building its own Wikipedia

China has hired more than 20,000 people to build the country’s online version of an encylopaedia to compete with Wikipedia. The Chinese Wikipedia will be launched in 2018  and will feature 300,000 entries at about 1,000 words each. It will be created by select scholars from state-run universities unlike the original Wikipedia, which can be edited by anyone. 

Unrest as Maduro Seeks New Constitution

People blocked streets in Caracas with broken concrete, twisted metal and flaming piles of trash, to protest the socialist President’s bid to rewrite the Constitution. The barricades came a day after President Nicolas Maduro signed a decree to begin the process of rewriting the charter.

Essay of a Migrant worker goes Viral

A domestic help’s essay on her life and travails as a migrant worker in Beijing has made her the hottest new writer in China, with hundreds of thousands of web users commenting and sharing her work. I am Fan Yusu, written by Fan, was posted on a literary website and literally became an overnight sensation. In easy, colloquial language, she describes three decades of her life - migrating from a village to Beijing, raising two daughters, and working at the palatial house of a rich man’s mistress. Even the state media, including People’s Daily, reviewed it. In 2014, Fan enrolled in a literary class organised among migrant workers in Picun. 

 
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ENVIRONMENT

Solar System 2.0 Found 10 Light Years Away

A planetary system located just 10.5 light years away is remarkably similar to our solar system, scientists have found. The system is a prime location to research how planets form around stars like our Sun. Located in the southern hemisphere of the constellation Eridanus, the star Epsilon Eridani (eps Eri) , is closest planetary system around a star similar to the Early sun. 

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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

 Revised Emoluments for Armed Forces by 7th Pay Commission

The government notifed the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) with revised emoluments for the three armed forces, while addressing a few core anomalies and leaving out some for resolution later on. The pending ones include non- functional upgrade (NFU), higher military Service Pay ( MSP) for Junior Commissioned officers ( JCOs). The 7th CPC has clubbed the MSP of JCOs and jawans at Rs. 5200. The demand is to have it at Rs. 10,000 for JCOs. The pay matrix had been extended from 24 to 40 stages; the index of rationalisation of pay for Lieutenant Colonels and Colonels will be fixed at the ratio of 2.67, instead of 2.57; and Pay protection for Major Generals. The benefit of the proposed modification will be available with effect from January 1, 2016. 

MakeMyTrip to Raise $330m via Share Sales

Online travel firm MakeMyTrip said that it will raise $330m (over Rs 2115 crore) through share sale to investors as well as to Ctrip and Naspers’s arm MIH Internet, to fund expansion.

Honda Unseats Bajaj at No.2 Bike-Maker

Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India has upstaged Bajaj Auto to become the No.2 bike maker in April, which has also pushed it within a striking distance of overtaking market leader Hero as the largest two-wheeler maker. 

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS

BSF Museum to Display Pistol of Martyr

In a move that will go a long way in promoting tourism in this border town, the BSF will soon bring and put on display the pistol used by freedom fighter Shaheed Bhagat Singh to kill British officer John Saunders in 1928, at its new set-up museum situated on the Indo- Pakistan Joint Check Post, Hussaniwala.  The museum is situated close to National Martyrs Memorial, Hussaniwala, where the gallant heroes of the freedom struggle - Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev - were unceremoniously cremated by the British. The weapon was found at BSF’s Central School of Weapons and Tactics museum at Indore. 

University Textbook Board on its last breath

The Punjab State University Textbook Board , which was started to realise Mahatma Gandhi’s dream to disseminate knowledge in native languages, is on its last breath. 

Established in 1970 for scientific development of Punjabi, the board is now struggling with seven employees, including one stenographer, two assistants and a driver. According to the employees, the decline started in 1977 in the post- emergency period. The board once had 40 employees. Sometime ago, the office of the board was shifted to Patiala from Chandigarh, and all its resources were given to Language department.

National Award Youth Policy Amended

The Ministry of Youth Affairs announced amendments to its more than three-decade-old policy on National Youth awards (NYA) by broad-basing the selection process and specifying fields of work for considering credentials and claims of aspirants. The number of awards in the “voluntary organisation category” has been increased from the present one to 10. The cash prize under the “individual category” has also been enhanced from the present Rs. 40,000 to Rs. 50,000 each. 

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