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Daily G.K. - Top Stories

02 Feb 2019

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

U.S. to Pull Out of INF Treaty

  •  According to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the U.S is suspending its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty effective February 2.
  • The treaty, signed during the Cold War in 1987, bans ground-launched missiles with a range of 500 km-5,500 km.
  • It was key to ending the arms race between the (then) two superpowers and helped protect the U.S.'s NATO allies in Europe from Soviet missile attacks.
  • The U.S. will formally give Russia and the other treaty parties a formal notice that it is withdrawing under Article XV of the Treaty.
  • Article XV mandates a six-month notice period before withdrawal. 

Indian Embassy Opens Hotline for Students

  •  The Indian embassy in the US has opened a 24/7 hotline to assist 129 Indian students arrested by the American authorities in the "pay-and-stay" university visa scam.
  • As many as 129 Indians are among the 130 foreign students arrested for enroling at a fake university allegedly to remain in the US.
  • The university in Detroit's Farmington Hills was part of an undercover operation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) designed to expose immigration fraud, according to federal prosecutors who announced charges in the case.
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ENVIRONMENT

Brace for Impact

  •  According to a NASA study, warming of the tropical oceans due to climate change may lead to a substantial increase in the frequency of extreme rain storms by the end of the century.
  • The study led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the U.S. combed through 15 years of data acquired by the space agency's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument over the tropical oceans to determine the relationship between the average sea surface temperature and the onset of severe storms.
  • The researchers found that extreme storms - those producing at least three millimetres of rain per hour over a 25-kilometre area - formed when the sea surface temperature was higher than about 28 degrees Celsius.
  • The study also found that, based on the data, 21 per cent more storms form for every one degree Celsius that ocean surface temperatures rise.
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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

Manufacturing PMI Rises

  •  According to a monthly survey, the country's manufacturing sector activity edged higher in January as companies continued to scale up production and employment, driven by the fastest rise in factory orders since December 2017.
  • The Nikkei India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) increased from 53.2 in December to 53.9 in January, indicating stronger improvement in the health of the goods producing sector.
  • This is the 18th consecutive month that the manufacturing PMI remained above the 50-point mark. 
  • According to the survey, the increase in factory orders was the strongest seen in 13 months.

GST Collections for January

  •  According to acting Finance Minister Piyush Goyal, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections for January have crossed the Rs. 1 lakh crore mark and is expected to be Rs. 1,03,000 crore.
  • The average monthly GST collection this year has been Rs 97,100 crore, as compared to Rs 89,700 crore last year.

RCom to Opt for Insolvency

  •  Reliance Communications will opt for insolvency proceedings as it failed to sell assets to pay for its debt.
  • RCom board of directors decides upon implementation of debt resolution plans through NCLT framework.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS

 Not Going Back to the Ballot Boxes

  •  Amidst the opposition parties demanding a return to the ballot boxes in the electoral process ahead of the Lok Sabha elections alleging EVM tampering, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora stated there will not be a going back to the ballot boxes.
  • The Commission has informed the political parties that VVPATs will be used in all polling booths countrywide in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
  • Arora added that the commission has firm belief and convinced that EVM and VVPAT machines are secure and have proved effective on all the parameters. As per extant practice, VVPAT slips will be matched with EVM vote count in one randomly selected polling station of each assembly segment of a parliamentary constituency.

Understanding on 6 Bills

  •  With the intervention of Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu, the government and the opposition reached an understanding on six bills to be taken up for consideration and passage in the Upper House.
  • As a result of the meetings, it was decided six legislative proposals, including one to replace an ordinance, will be taken up during the session.
  • The Companies (Amendment) Bill to replace ordinance, trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, New Delhi International Arbitration Centre Bill 2019, Personal Laws (Amendment) Bill 2019. 
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PERSONS IN NEWS

Haryana's Police Chief

  •  As per reports, senior Indian Police Service officer K. P. Singh took charge as officiating Director-General of Police, Haryana.
  • This is in addition to his present duty as D-G Human Rights Commission.

India's Envoy to Colombia

  •  Ministry of External Affairs announced the appointment of  Sanjiv Ranjan as its new Ambassador to the Republic of Colombia.
  • Ranjan, who is the current Ambassador to Argentina, is expected to take up the assignment shortly.
  • Between 1995 and 2009, he held diplomatic positions in Indian Embassies in Madrid, Lima and the Permanent Mission of India, New York interspersed with tenures at the External Affairs Ministry.
  • The 1966-born IFS officer had served as Deputy High Commissioner of India to Mauritius from 2006 to 2009.

Cory Booker Announces Presidential Run

  •  U.S. Senator Cory Booker, who gained national prominence in the fight over Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, announced that he would seek the Democratic Party's nomination for the 2020 presidential election, injecting more youthful energy to the expanding Democratic field.
  • Mr. Booker became the latest Democrat and the fourth U.S. Senator to announce a presidential bid in what is expected to be a crowded and diverse race to be the candidate to try to unseat President Donald Trump.
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DAYS AND EVENTS

World Wetland Day

  •  World Wetlands Day occurs annually on February 2nd, marking the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on February 2, 1971.
  • Established to raise awareness about the value of wetlands for humanity and the planet, WWD was celebrated for the first time in 1997 and has grown remarkably since then. Each year, government agencies, non-governmental organisations, and groups of citizens at all levels of the community, have taken advantage of the opportunity to undertake actions aimed at raising public awareness of wetland values and benefits.
  • Some of these benefits include: biologically diverse ecosystems that provide habitat for many species, serve as buffers on the coast against storms and flooding, and naturally filter water by breaking down or transforming harmful pollutants.
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AWARDS AND HONOURS

Detained Refugee Wins Top Australian Prize

  •  A refugee held in a remote Pacific detention centre has won Australia's top literature prize with his debut book, which he wrote on his mobile phone and delivered one chapter at a time via WhatsApp.
  • Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian held in an Australian-run camp on a Papua New Guinea island, won the A$100,000 ($72,390) Victorian Prize for literature with his book "No Friends but the Mountains".
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GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND SCHEMES

Government Looking at Dropping Key Bills

  •  With Lok Sabha elections round the corner, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may give a silent burial to the contentious triple talaq and the citizenship amendment bills, as well as the long-pending land acquisition legislation.
  • Since the first two bills have run into Opposition protests in Rajya Sabha, the BJP leadership has decided not to pursue them in the ongoing last session of Parliament that ends on February 13.
  • Non-National Democratic Alliance (NDA) parties have claimed victory by not allowing the ruling side to push its luck in the Upper House.
  • The NDA's tactical decision has created space for passage of other bills by avoiding divisive and controversial ones at least till the elections.
  • According to law, a bill that originates in Lok Sabha but is pending in Rajya Sabha lapses after the term of the Lok Sabha ends.
  • A bill that originates in and is passed by Rajya Sabha but is pending in Lok Sabha also lapses, as do bills passed by Lok Sabha but are pending in Rajya Sabha.

Pension Plan for Informal Workers

  •  In a move aimed at benefiting workers in India's unorganised or informal sector, the government in its interim budget announced the launch of a pension yojana 'Pradhan Mantri Shram-Yogi Maandhan' that can be availed by workers with monthly income up to Rs. 15,000.
  • The scheme will benefit 100 million workers in the informal sector.
  • As per the result of labour force survey on employment conducted in 2011-12 by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation, the number of estimated employed persons in 2011-12 on usual status basis were 474.1 million of which 391.4 million were in the informal sector.
  • Finance minister Piyush Goyal said the scheme would give workers an assured monthly pension of Rs. 3,000 from the age of 60 years on a monthly contribution of a small amount during their working years. 
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