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    03 Feb 2019

    INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

    India issues demarche to US on arrest of students

    •  India and the United States stumbled into the most serious spat since the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York in 2013, with New Delhi making known its displeasure over the incarceration of scores of Indians who were ostensibly entrapped by the US authorities in a sting operation aimed at uncovering an employment and immigration racket.
    • From issuing a demarche — a note of protest — to the US government via its embassy in New Delhi to establishing a hotline for the alleged victims in Washington and offering legal counsel, the Indian government initiated a series of measures  that left no doubt that it felt the purported students have been victimised.
    • The Indian Embassy in Washington DC also appointed a nodal officer to supervise assistance to the victims and their families.
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    BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

    Russia Trashes Arms Pact With US

    •  Following in the footsteps of the US, Russia will abandon a centre piece nuclear arms treaty but will only deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles if Washington does so, President Vladimir Putin.
    • US President Donald Trump accused Moscow of violating the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with "impunity" by deploying banned missiles.
    • Trump said in a statement that the US will "move forward" with developing its own military response options to Russia's deployment of banned cruise missiles. Moscow has denied any breaches.
    • China, meanwhile, has called upon both Washington and Moscow to keep the treaty alive.

    UP to gain most from farmers' scheme

    •  Uttar Pradesh may be the biggest beneficiary of the Centre's assured income support programme due to sheer number of small and marginal landholders in the state, but it is Kerala which figures at the top if one looks at the data in percentage term as over 99% of the farmers there have landholdings of less than five acres.
    • Under the income support programme (PM-KISAN), announced in the government's interim Budget, the Centre will annually provide Rs 6,000 each to only those over 12 crore landholders who have cultivable land of less than five acres (two hectares).
    • State-wise figures of such landholders show that over 50% of the total beneficiaries will be from five states with the highest of them (2.21 crore) coming from Uttar Pradesh (UP) followed by Bihar (1.59 crore), Maharashtra (1.18 crore), and Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh (over 75 lakh each).
    • Over 80% will come from 10 states where Kerala figures at the top in percentage terms followed by Bihar, Bengal, UP and Tamil Nadu. Except Bihar and West Bengal, all the states in the list along with Telangana have adequate digital land records.
    • These figures are part of the 2015-16 agriculture census, released late last year, which will be the basis of implementing the ambitious assured income support programme while arriving at corroborative land data.

    Blackstone to buy 79% stake in Aadhar Housing

    •  Investment firm Blackstone will buy 79% stake in Aadhar Housing, the affordable housing finance business jointly owned by Wadhawan Global Capital and Dewan Housing Finance Limited (DHFL). Blackstone is said to have valued Aadhar at Rs 3,300 crore-3,500 crore.
    • For Blackstone, an attractive feature of Aadhar, which has 250 branches in 20 states, is its deposit-taking licence. Blackstone, which manages $472 billion in assets, has been active in India since 2006.
    • It will buy 70% from Wadhawan and 9% from DHFL in Aadhar, which has a loan book of Rs 8,500 crore. IFC, an arm of World Bank, will continue holding 21% in Aadhar that offers home loans to low and middle income groups.
    • Wadhawan and Dewan are exiting Aadhar because of a liquidity squeeze hitting the latter. The deal will help reduce Wadhawan Global's outstanding debt significantly.
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    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

       Photographs of the Smallest Ever Celestial Body

    •  NASA's first asteroid-sampling mission OSIRISREx, which went into orbit around asteroid Bennu on New Year's Eve, has captured incredible photographs of the smallest ever celestial body to be orbited by a spacecraft.
    • Launched from Florida in 2016, OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached Bennu, an asteroid the size of the largest pyramid at Giza, on December 3, 2018, after travelling more than one billion miles through space.
    • The mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on December 2 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 24km.
    • The image was obtained at a 50-degree angle between the spacecraft, the asteroid and the sun. In it, Bennu spans approximately 1,500 pixels in the camera's field of view.
    • Scientists found that Bennu is a craggy ball, with some boulders the size of houses. They initially thought taking the sample return was going to be like plucking something from a football field. However, it is not.
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    SPORTS

    Smriti Rises to No.1 Ranking in ICC ODI Batting

    •  India opener Smriti Mandhana has rocketed to the No.1 spot in the latest ODI batters rankings, the ICC announced.
    • Smriti cracked her fourth ODI century and an unbeaten 90 in India's 2-1 win in the three-match series against New Zealand.

    Greg Chappell set to retire from CA 

    •  Greg Chappell, who is considered one of Australia's most influential voices in the field of cricket, is set to exit the stage as the selector and national talent manager following the end of the Ashes later this year.
    • In the midst of extensive debate about the role of the national selection panel, Chappell informed colleagues of his intention to depart Cricket Australia.

    Vizag to host first Oz T20I

    •  Vishakhapatnam will host the first of the two Twenty20 matches between India and Australia on February 24 at the ACAVDCA stadium.
    • BCCI decided to swap the venues of the matches after the Karnataka State Cricket Association expressed its inability to host the match on that day due to non-availability of security as a four-day air show was scheduled during that time.
    • Bengaluru would host the second Twenty20 International on Feb. 27
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    NATIONAL AFFAIRS

    Mughal Gardens at Prez House Opens for Public

    •  Delhi's royal Mughal Gardens at Rashtrapati Bhavan are set to open for public viewing from February 6.
    • President Ram Nath Kovind will inaugurate the annual 'Udyanotsav' on February 4, 2019. The gardens will remain open for the general public from February 6 to March 10 (except on Mondays, which are maintenance days) between 9am and 4pm.
    • The public will also be able to visit the Spiritual Garden, Herbal Garden, Bonsai Garden and Musical Garden
    • Around 10,000 tulips of various, vivid colours, especially cultivated in the Mughal Gardens are expected to bloom in phases during February.
    • Flower carpets in magnificent designs will also be on display at the Central Lawns. The dominant colour scheme of this year's ornamental flowers is white, yellow, red and orange.

    Party Manifesto in Braille

    •  Congress president Rahul Gandhi may consider a request by a Delhi University student to print the party manifesto in Braille for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
    • If printed, it will be the first time a political party will be releasing its manifesto in Braille.
    • The interaction was part of the youth outreach campaign -"Apni Baat, Rahul ke Saath" – during which Gandhi will have a series of interactions on different issues with students from across the country.
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    PERSONS IN NEWS

    RK Shukla Named New CBI Director

    •  The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government named Rishi Kumar Shukla as the new chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), just three days after he was removed as Madhya Pradesh police chief by the state's new Congress administration, in an appointment that is likely to ratchet up political friction ahead of general elections.
    • Shukla, a Madhya Pradesh cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the 1983 batch, will occupy the hot seat at a time when the agency has been left badly bruised by an internecine feud between his predecessor Alok Verma and his deputy Rakesh Asthana.
    • A selection committee — comprising the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice of India (CJI) and the leader of the largest opposition party in the Lok Sabha — chooses the CBI chief.
    • Prime Minister Narendra Modi and CJI Ranjan Gogoi approved the appointment of Shukla while Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge dissented.

    Cory Booker Announces Presidential Run

    •  Democrat Cory Booker has announced he is running for US president, bringing a charismatic African-American voice to a crowded field jockeying to take on Donald Trump in 2020.
    • Booker joins a crush of Democrats vying to run next year-with eight other declared candidates ranging from Trump nemesis Elizabeth Warren, to Kamala Harris, a senator from California who aspires to be the nation's first black woman president. 
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    DAYS AND EVENTS

    World Wetland Day

    •  The national capital celebrated World Wetland Day on Saturday at the Yamuna Biodiversity Park (YBP) in north Delhi. The event saw hundreds of participants, including over 300 students from various colleges of Delhi University and other educational institutions, besides researchers, academicians and nature enthusiasts.
    • This year's theme was "Wetlands and Climate Change". Participants shared their experiences of change in environmental quality and increase in groundwater level after the creation of Yamuna Biodiversity Park.
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    AWARDS AND HONOURS

    Presidential Award for the assistant commissioner of Mumbai Customs Zone-I

    •  The Assistant Commissioner of Mumbai Customs Zone-I, Bharat Laxmanrao Gade received the Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate recently, for his outstanding contribution and excellent service record.
    • Apart from the regular duty of confiscating valuables, foreign currency and contraband, his ability to promote the organisation to its stakeholders made a huge difference.
    • By enlisting honorary services from leading heritage architect Abha Lamba, Gade was instrumental in ensuring that the New Customs House retained its heritage tag.
    • This earned him the nomination for 'Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Public Administration' in 2008.
    • Gade is currently holding the charge of ICD Maliwada and ICD Waluj, both of which come under Aurangabad Customs Chapter and Nagpur Customs Commissionerate.

    Union Bank of India wins Finnoviti Awards 2019

    •  The Union Bank of India has been awarded the Finnoviti Award 2019 for 'Hyper Converged Private Cloud Security', i.e. for innovative processes and best practices in cyber security under BFSI sector.
    • The award was presented during the 7th International Trade Fair and Conference on Banking Technology, Equipment & Services, held at IBEX, MMRDA Grounds.
    • The Finnoviti Award is one of the most prestigious awards, organised by 'Banking Frontiers' in recognition of the efforts of institutions/organisations in the BFSI sector for their innovative fintech solutions or transformation.
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    GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND SCHEMES

    States to Codify Innovations in Education

    •  The Niti Aayog has begun an initiative under which states will discuss and codify their best practices and innovations in education so they can learn from each other.
    • On January 29, the government think tank held its first workshop in which Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and other states shared measures they took to bring about a systemic transformation in education.
    • Under the Saksham scheme, the Haryana government had introduced a system of remedial classes for weak students unable to grapple with the curriculum.
    • In Rajasthan, where there were several schools with just a couple of teachers and a few dozen students, the state government merged them to create integrated schools having better resources.
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