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Daily G.K. - Top Stories

06 Mar 2019

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

NSA Surveillance Programme to Be Shut

  •  The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyses logs of Americans' domestic calls and texts, halting a programme that has touched off disputes about privacy and the rule of law since the September 11 attacks.
  • The agency has not used the system in months, and the Donald Trump administration might not ask Congress to renew its legal authority, which is set to expire at the end of 2019.
  • President George W. Bush's administration started the programme as part of its intense pursuit for al-Qaeda conspirators in the weeks after the 2001 terrorist attacks, and a court later secretly blessed it.
  • Intelligence contractor Edward Snowden disclosed the programme's existence in 2013.
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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

India Downplays Impact of U.S. GSP Withdrawal

  •  The Indian government downplayed the effect of the U.S. decision to withdraw trade concessions granted to India under the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP).
  • According to Commerce Secretary Anup Wadhawan, the impact would amount to only $190 million on the value of $5.6 billion in exports to the U.S. that fall under the GSP category.
  • The government would continue to talk to the U.S. during the 60-day period after which the GSP withdrawal would come into effect.
  • The U.S. Trade Representative office said that it had decided to withdraw the GSP status for India and Turkey at the direction of U.S. President Donald Trump following India's failure to provide the United States with assurances that it will provide equitable and reasonable access to its markets in numerous sectors.

Bid for Rajkot Airport

  •  Anil Ambani led Reliance Infrastructure Limited has received the Letter of Award from the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for a Rs. 648-crore contract for the construction of greenfield airport at Hirasar in Rajkot district of Gujarat.
  • The company had participated in the tender for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract independently as the main contractor.
  • Reliance Infrastructure had scored the highest technical score of 92.2% among nine qualified bidders like Afcons and L&T.
  • Work on the airport is to be completed within 30 months from the date of issue of the award.

Bid to Privatise Ground Handling Delayed

  •  Concerns over high royalties quoted by bidders for ground handling services at 76 airports owned by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) have delayed the announcement of the outcome of the bidding process.
  • Several ground handling agencies, including Celebi, Bhadra and the Bird Group, had earlier voiced concerns over royalties as high as 227% being quoted by certain bidders when the AAI opened the bids for the airports in December 2018.
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Artificial Sun Device

  • China plans to complete the construction of the artificial sun this year, achieving an ion temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius.
  • The HL-2M Tokamak device is designed to replicate the nuclear fusion process that occurs naturally in the sun and stars to provide almost infinite clean energy through controlled nuclear fusion, which is often dubbed as the "artificial sun."
  • Achieving an ion temperature above 100 million degrees Celsius is one of the three challenges to reach the goal of harnessing the nuclear fusion, and the core of the sun is widely believed to be 15 million degree Celsius, meaning that the ion at the device's core will be seven times higher than that of the sun.
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SPORTS

Jadeja Joins Tendulkar and Kapil in Elite List

  •  Ravindra Jadeja became the third India cricketer after Sachin Tendulkar and Kapil Dev to score 2000 runs and 150 wickets as he achieved the feat against Australia in the second ODI encounter in Nagpur.
  • He became the 26th all-rounder with the double of 2,000 ODI runs and 150 wickets and 3rd Indian after Kapil Dev and Sachin Tendulkar. Kapil, who led India to their maiden ICC World Cup title win in 1983, scored 3783 runs and took 253 wickets in 225 ODIs while Tendulkar scored 18426 runs and took 154 wickets in 436 ODIs.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS

RLD Joins SP-BSP Alliance

  •  The Rashtriya Lok Dal has been officially inducted into the alliance of the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh and has been allotted three out of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the State.
  • The announcement was made here by RLD vice president Jayant Chaudhary and SP president Akhilesh Yadav at a joint press conference.

One Nation One Card

  •  Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the indigenously-developed National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
  • Dubbed as ''One Nation One Card'', the card will allow people to pay multiple kinds of transport charges, including metro services and toll tax, all over India.
  • The inter-operable transport card can also be used to pay for bus travel, toll taxes, parking charges, retail shopping and withdraw money
  • This card runs on RuPay card.
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DEFENCE

Smart Fence along Border

  •  A digital barrier has finally filled a 61 km gap on the 4,096.7 km India-Bangladesh border fence three decades after the project kick started.
  • Assam shares a 263 km border with Bangladesh. Much of the border was fenced, but a 61 km stretch in Dhubri district remained open owing to the terrain dictated by the Brahmaputra.
  • Comprising microwave communication, optical fibre cables, cameras, and an intrusion detection device, this system is called BOLD-QIT (Border Electronically Dominated QRT Interception Technique) and was established under the Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System.

India and Oman to Hold Joint Exercise

  •  A joint exercise between the Indian Army and Royal Army of Oman will be conducted in Oman.
  • Exercise Al Nagah III, third in the series of bilateral joint exercise between India and Oman is scheduled to be held from March 12-25, 2019 at Jabel Al Akhdar Mountains in Oman.
  • India-Oman bilateral security ties have continued to develop since the beginning of India-Oman Joint Military Cooperation meetings in 2006. 
  • Exercise Al Nagah III follows the first two joint exercises that were held in Oman in January 2015 and India in March 2017, respectively.  
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PERSONS IN NEWS

Vedanta Appoints Ajay Kapur as CEO

  •  Vedanta appointed Ajay Kapur as the CEO of its aluminium and power business. He joins Vedanta from Ambuja Cements where he was the MD and CEO for its India business.
  • He would drive key priorities for the aluminium business, which include strong focus on volume and cost and improving efficiencies, among others.

Richest Indian Mukesh Ambani

  •  Richest Indian Mukesh Ambani jumped six positions to rank 13th on Forbes World's Billionaire list that was again topped by Jeff Bezos.
  • E-commerce colossus Amazon founder Bezos, remains the world's richest person, ahead of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, as his riches swelled by USD 19 billion in one year and is now worth USD 131 billion.
  • Ambani's wealth soared from USD 40.1 billion in 2018 to USD 50 billion to be rank at 13th in 2019. 

Hillary Clinton Rules out 2020 Presidential Run

  •  Hillary Clinton has for the first time ruled out running for President in 2020.
  • Ms. Clinton has held meetings with some of the Democrats who are now vying for the party nomination or considering a run.
  • As the Democratic candidate in 2016, Mrs. Clinton was widely expected to become the first female US president, before a shock defeat by Mr. Trump. 
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AWARDS AND HONOURS

The Hindu Award

  •  The Hindu invited applications for the 2019 edition of The Hindu Playwright Award, which carries a cash prize of Rs. 2 lakh for the best play script written in English. The award was instituted in 2008.
  • Entries are open to playwrights across the country till June 10, 2019. Applicants must be above 18 years, and either Indian citizens or residents in India for at least five years.
  • The submitted script must be an original work, unpublished, and unperformed.
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GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND SCHEMES

Pension Scheme for Workers

  •  Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Mandhan (PM-SYM) Yojana.
  • The national pension scheme for workers and labourers of the unorganised sector was announced in the interim Budget in February 2019.
  • It provides for a monthly pension of Rs. 3,000 to the employees of the unorganised sector after 60 years of age.
  • During the national launch from Ahmedabad, Mr. Modi also distributed the PM-SYM pension cards to select beneficiaries and claimed that for the first time in independent India, workers of the unorganised sector would be entitled to monthly pension.
  • This scheme is the extension of various social security schemes implemented during the last five years of the NDA government.
  • According to him, 42 crore workers from the unorganised sector are eligible for this pension by contributing Rs. 55 to Rs. 200 monthly.
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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION

Second Person to be Cured of AIDS

  •  An HIV-positive man in Britain has become the second known adult worldwide to be cleared of the AIDS virus after he received a bone marrow transplant from an HIV resistant donor.
  • Almost three years after receiving bone marrow stem cells from a donor with a rare genetic mutation that resists HIV infection - and more than 18 months after coming off antiretroviral drugs - highly sensitive tests still show no trace of the man's previous HIV infection.
  • The case is a proof of the concept that scientists will one day be able to end AIDS, the doctors said, but does not mean a cure for HIV has been found.

Women Officers in Indian Army

  •  Women will be eligible for permanent careers in all 10 branches of the army where they have been inducted as short-service commissioned (SSC) officers.
  • Until now, women officers were allowed permanent commission (PC) only in two branches: Judge Advocate General (JAG) and Army Education Corps.
  • The eight new branches opened to SSC women officers for permanent commission are Corps of Signals, Engineers, Army Aviation, Army Air Defence, Electronics and Mechanical Engineers, Army Service Corps, Army Ordinance Corps and the Intelligence Corps.
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