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Daily G.K. - Top Stories

22 Jan 2019

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

British PM unveils Plan B

  •  British Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled her Brexit Plan B on Monday - and it looks a lot like Plan A.
  • May launched a mission to resuscitate her rejected deal, setting out plans to get it approved by Parliament after securing changes from the EU to a contentious Irish border measure.
  • British lawmakers last week dealt the deal a resounding defeat, and EU leaders insist they won't renegotiate it.
  • The UK government launched a phone app to allow 3.5 million EU nationals to apply to stay after Brexit - receiving a mixed reception from immigrants increasingly concerned about their fate.
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ENVIRONMENT

Chaturangi Glacier Recedes due to Climate Variability

  •  Chaturangi glacier, a tributary of the Gangotri glacier, is retreating at a "considerable rate" and may vanish in the future, according to a research paper accepted to be published in the Current Science journal's February edition.
  • The retreating glacier is another example of the impact of climate change and, according to one of the study's contributors, affects water flow in the Ganga, fed by the Gangotri.
  • The study by scientists from GB Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment and Sustainable Development and the Centre for Earth Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) uses satellite data from 1989 to 2016 and kinematic GPS, to arrive at the retreating rate of the glacier. 

China to Cut Everest Climbers

  •  China will cut the number of climbers attempting to scale Mount Everest from the north by one-third this year as part of plans for a major clean-up on the world's highest peak.
  • The total number of climbers seeking to summit the world's highest peak at 8,850 metres from the north will be limited to less than 300 and the climbing season restricted to spring.
  • The clean-up efforts will include the recovery of the bodies of climbers who died at more than 8,000 metres up the mountain.
  • China has set up stations to sort, recycle and break down garbage from the mountain, which includes cans, plastic bags, stove equipment, tents and oxygen tanks.
  • On the Nepalese side, mountaineering expedition organisers have begun sending huge trash bags with climbers during the spring climbing season to collect trash that then can be winched by helicopters back to the base camp.
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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

China's Slowest Growth in 28 Years

  •  China's GDP grew at 6.6 per cent in 2018, its slowest rate since 1990,  stoking fears about the impact of sluggish growth in the world's second largest economy on the world as Beijing grappled with the effects of the trade war with the US. 
  • Signs of further cooling in China, which has generated nearly a third of global growth in recent years, are stoking worries about risks to the world economy and are weighing on profits for the firms ranging from Apple to big carmakers.
  • Fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) grew at the slowest pace since the global financial crisis, easing to 6.4 per cent from 6.5 per cent in the third quarter, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed.
  • That left full-year growth at 6.6 per cent, the slowest rate of expansion China has seen since 1990. 

Google Hit with 50mn Euro Data Consent Fine

  •  France's data watchdog has announced a fine of 50 million euros ($57 million) for US search giant Google, using EU's strict General Data Protection Regulation for the first time.
  • Google was fined for failing to provide transparent and easily accessible information on its data consent policies. 

IMF Revises Down Global Growth Projections

  •  The IMF lowered its global growth projections for 2019 and 2020 to 3.5% and 3.6%, respectively, citing slowdown in several advanced economies around the world more rapidly than previously anticipated.
  • The revised global growth rates are 0.2 and 0.1% point below the IMF's previous projections made three months ago.
  • According to the IMF, Global growth in 2018 is estimated to be 3.7%, as it was last fall, but signs of a slowdown in the second half of 2018 have led to downward revisions for several economies.
  • Weakness in the second half of 2018 will carry over to coming quarters, with global growth projected to decline to 3.5% in 2019 before picking up slightly to 3.6% in 2020.
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SPORTS

Anand Scores Crushing Victory

  •  Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand scored a crushing victory over Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan in the eighth round to share the lead with Norway's Magnus Carlsen in the Tata Steel chess tournament.
  • Having outclassed Vladimir Kramnik of Russia with black in the previous round, Anand, a five times winner here, continued his demolition act and grounded Mamedyarov, currently the world No. 3. 
  • The Indian ace took his tally to 5.5 points out of a possible eight, and is matched only by reigning world champion Carlsen, who played a fine game to beat Hungary's Richard Rapport.

ICC Test Rankings

  •  A maiden Test series triumph in Australia saw both the Indian cricket team and its skipper Virat Kohli consolidate their respective pole positions in the latest ICC Test rankings.
  • India, with 116 points, stayed as the No.1 ranked Test team while skipper Kohli (922 points) was 25 points clear of second ranked New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson (897).
  • Cheteshwar Pujara after his dream series Down Under is ranked third among the batsmen while young Turk Rishabh Pant has entered the top-20 with a career-best 17th rank.
  • In the bowlers' list, Kagiso Rabada still topped the chart while Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja are the best-ranked Indians at fifth and ninth places respectively. Fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has climbed to 15th spot with 711 points.
  • England will have to win their upcoming three-match series against the West Indies, in order to retain third position in the rankings while Australia and Sri Lanka will vie for important points in their two-match series starting a day later.
  • A 3-0 sweep will lift England to 109 points but they will remain behind India and South Africa while the West Indies will remain in eighth position irrespective of how the matches pans out.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS

Museum on Netaji Bose at Red Fort

  • A new digitised museum that brings to the fore some unknown and interesting facts about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, as a narrative from his childhood days, to the trials of the personnel of the Indian National Army (INA) — a force Bose had put together to fight the British — is ready for inauguration at Red Fort in the national capital.
  • The museum is slated to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 23, on the occasion of the 123rd birth anniversary of Bose.
  • The first floor of the Red Fort barracks, on which the museum is built, is the place from where soldiers of the INA were court martialed and tried by the British. The trials started on November 5, 1945, and continued till January 3,1946.
  • Four barracks at the Red Fort have been converted into museums for visitors. Besides the museum on Bose, three more museums, including one on the 1857 Revolt, the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, and contemporary paintings, have come up.
  • There is also a redesigned museum named Azadi Ke Deewane.
  • The Red Fort Complex is managed directly by the ASI, which is also responsible for the protection of all national heritage sites in India and Indian cultural properties classified as World Heritage Sites.
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DEFENCE

New Command Structure for ITBP

  •  The Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP), mandated for the peacetime management of the border with China, will have a new command structure from April 1, with the force's border guarding elements being segregated into two commands, one for the western theatre and the other for the eastern theatre.
  • According to instructions issued by the ITBP Directorate General, the Western Command and the Eastern Command will comprise two Frontier Headquarters each.
  • A frontier, headed by an officer of the rank of IG will have three Sector Headquarters, headed by a Deputy Inspector General and comprising three to four battalions under them.
  • A command will be headed by an officer of the rank of Additional Director General (ADG). The positioning of officers for these posts would be done once the pending cadre review is finalised.
  • In addition, an ADG posted at force headquarters in Delhi will exercise control over the Bhopal-based Central frontier and some other establishments. Consequently, Western Command will have 25 battalions and Eastern Command 19 battalions, and ADG, Delhi, 12 battalions and four specialist battalions under their command.
  • At present, the force is divided into five frontiers that report directly to the Force Headquarters, along with other training, logistic and administrative establishments, through an Additional Director General based in Delhi.
  • The ITBP has a total strength of 56 service battalions and four specialist battalions, of which 32 are deployed in border-guarding duties, 11 in internal security and eight in anti-Naxal operations.
  • The Western Command will control the Dehradun-based Northern Frontier comprising of Shimla, Dehradun and Bareilly sectors and the North-West Frontier, presently at Chandigarh, that comprises Srinagar and Ladakh sectors.
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PERSONS IN NEWS

Kamala Harris to Run for White House

  •  Kamala Harris, the Democratic senator from California, announced her 2020 bid for the White House, becoming the first Indian-American woman and the second African-American woman in history to run for US president.
  • She joins a crowded field of hopefuls planning to stop President Donald Trump from winning a second term, but is projected to emerge among the strongest.
  • The 54-year-old first-time senator from California is the daughter of an Indian mother from Chennai, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a breast cancer researcher who died in 2009, and Jamaican father, Donald Harris, who teaches at Stanford University.
  • Harris's prospects of winning the Democratic nomination, which have fared fairly well in opinion polls and some betting markets that view her as a favourite, got a ringing endorsement from leading poll forecaster FiveThirtyEight.

Lingayat seer dies at 111 

  •  Lingayat spiritual leader Shivakumara Swami, who commanded millions of followers and headed the highly influential Siddaganga Math, died at the age of 111.
  • Shivakumara, popularly known as 'walking god', had been ill for nearly two months.
  • Shivakumara, who took over the Math in 1941, followed and spread the teachings of 12th century poet and social reformer Basavanna, who rejected the authority of the Brahmins in the Hindu caste system.
  • He also commanded a following of political parties that jostled for his endorsement, though he had remained largely unaligned.
  • Some of his politically known followers include former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, and national leaders such Sonia Gandhi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Indira Gandhi have paid visits to him. 
  • Shivakumara's rise to popularity was rooted in the social services that he started in his Math. The seminary began offering 'Dasoha', the traditional Lingayat practice of providing a hearty meal as 'prasad', to the hundreds of thousands of people in nearby villages.
  • None, no matter the caste, class, region or religion, would be turned away. It also opened a chain of educational institutes, that, by its estimates, taught 10,000 students for free.
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DAYS AND EVENTS

Total Lunar Eclipse with Supermoon

  •  The only total lunar eclipse this year and next came with a supermoon bonus.
  • The moon, Earth and sun lined up to create the eclipse, which was visible throughout North and South America, where skies were clear.
  • There won't be another until the year 2021. It was also the year's first supermoon, when a full moon appears a little bigger and brighter thanks to its slightly closer position.
  • The entire eclipse took more than three hours. Totality — when the moon's completely bathed in Earth's shadow — lasted an hour.
  • During a total lunar eclipse, the eclipsed, or blood, moon turns red from sunlight scattering off Earth's atmosphere.
  • In addition to the Americas, the entire lunar extravaganza could be observed, weather permitting, all the way across the Atlantic to parts of Europe.
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GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND SCHEMES

 Digi Yatra Norms Out

  •  Aviation regulator DGCA has put in place norms for the roll-out of the "digi yatra" facility, which will make air travel paperless and hassle free.
  • The airlines will make a provision to collect the digi yatra ID of the passenger for domestic travel at the time of booking. The passenger will have the option to offer any one of the approved IDs.
  • The digi yatra ID will be authenticated during the first travel at an airport with such a facility.
  • The airline will ensure that e-tickets will have a 2D/ QR barcode following "one person, one ticket and one code" rule.
  • The airlines will have to collect passport number for international travel.  

Centre to Foot Ayushman Bill

  •  The Union government will fund the entire treatment for beneficiaries of Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) even if their states have pulled out of the scheme for some reason.
  • The National Health Authority (NHA), the implementing agency for the scheme, has sought special permission from Union health minister JP Nadda, who is also the chairman of the governing board of NHA, to permit interstate portability for such patients.
  • This will apply not just to about 80 million eligible families that received a letter from the Prime Minister at the time of the scheme's launch, but to all the beneficiaries.

UP to now extend pension to seers

  •  The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to widen the scope of its existing pension scheme for the destitute, which may now also include seers who meet the criteria.
  •  UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath has asked them to hold special camps for all destitute and elderly persons, including widows and disabled, from January 20 till January 30 to enrol beneficiaries above the age of 60 years.
  • The announcement comes at a time when Allahabad is hosting Kumbh Mela 2019, where several lakh Hindu seers are attending the event.
  • The Yogi government has also decided to bring the old-age and farmer pension at par with those for disabled and widows by raising the existing monthly amount from Rs. 400 to Rs. 500.
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