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01 Jul 2019

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Trump Offers Kim Weekend Meeting

  •  U.S. President Donald Trump proposed a weekend meeting with Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea.
  • If Trump and Kim do meet, it would be for the third time in just over a year, and four months after their second summit broke down with no progress on U.S. efforts to get North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.
  • North Korea said that it had not had an official proposal.
  • Trump made the offer in a tweet about his trip to South Korea, where he landed after the Group of 20 Summit in Osaka, Japan.
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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

First Tranche Payment to Pakistan

  •  Qatar sent the first tranche of $3 billion to Pakistan that will help boost its dwindling foreign-exchange reserves.
  • The amount would be with Pakistan in the next few days. The gas-rich nation pledged the amount in deposits and investments to Pakistan after Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani visited Islamabad in June 2019.
  • The inflow follows Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates sending $5 billion in aid packages.
  • Pakistan also received $2.1 billion loan from China in March 2019, after Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan approached friendly countries to help it avert a balance of payments crisis.
  • Pakistan's foreign-exchange reserves have dropped by about 25% to $7.3 billion

Money in Swiss Banks

  •  As per data released by the central banking authority of the Alpine nation, India moved down one place to 74th rank in terms of money parked by its citizens and enterprises with Swiss banks, while the UK retained its top position.
  • India was ranked 73rd in 2018, after jumping 15 places from its 88th position a year ago (2017).
  • An analysis of the latest annual banking statistics released by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) showed that India remained ranked very low when it comes to money parked by Indian individuals and enterprises in Swiss banks, including through their India-based branches, while accounting for just about 0.07 per cent of the aggregate funds parked by all foreign clients of Switzerland-based banks.
  • In comparison, the top-ranked UK accounted for more than 26 per cent of the total foreign funds parked with Swiss banks at the end of 2018.
  • Among the top-ranked jurisdictions, the UK is followed by the US, West Indies, France and Hong Kong in the top five.

BoB Buys Out Loans from DHFL

  •  Bank of Baroda (BoB) entered into a transaction with Dewan Housing Finance Corp. Ltd (DHFL) to acquire loans worth Rs. 3,000 crore against its exposure to the non-bank lender, even as a lenders' consortium to the stressed non-bank lender is looking at a resolution plan.
  • BoB acquired the pool of loans made by DHFL and adjusted it against its loans to the non-bank lender. Since the acquired loans are higher-rated assets, the quality of BoB's loan book would improve.
  • Now DHFL would only act as a collection agent for the bank for these loans. The bank would keep around 85-90% of the repayments to itself and the rest will go to DHFL.
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SPORTS

Aparna Kumar Completes Seven Summit

  •  Aparna Kumar became the first Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) officer to complete the 'Seven Summit' challenge after successfully climbing Mt Denali.
  • Now, only North Pole is left and she would achieve that also very soon. Her achievement is an empowerment to all women mountaineers.
  • Kumar is a 2002 batch IPS from Uttar Pradeshh cadre and is currently posted as Deputy Inspector General, Indo Tibetan Border Police Northern Frontier at Dehradun.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS

Nagaland to Carry Out its Own Version of NRC

  •  According to a notification by the home commissioner, the Nagaland government is set to prepare a list of all indigenous inhabitants of the state.
  • According to the notification, the exercise to prepare the Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN) would begin on July 10, 2019 and would be completed within 60 days.
  • The exercise is being undertaken to stop issuance of the Indigenous Inhabitant Certificate (IIC) to ineligible persons.
  • The exercise would be conducted through an extensive survey of residents in every village and ward in the state and will be based on existing official records.
  • The survey would take into account whether an indigenous inhabitant is residing in his/her permanent residence or has moved elsewhere. Aadhar numbers, wherever applicable, would also be recorded.
  • Once the data of all residents is compiled, provisional lists of indigenous inhabitants will be published and authenticated by village and ward authorities.
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PERSONS IN NEWS

 New Haryana Chief Secretary

  •  The Haryana government appointed 1983-batch IAS officer Keshni Anand Arora as the new chief secretary. She replaced DS Dhesi who retired after having an over four-year long stint.
  • Keshni is only the fourth woman IAS officer in Haryana to have been appointed to the top bureaucratic post. Her two elder sisters, Meenaxi Anand Chaudhary (2005-06) and Urvashi Gulati (2009-12), have also served as chief secretaries.
  • Meenaxi was, in fact, the first woman IAS officer in Haryana to have held the post of chief secretary. The third woman IAS officer to have held the top bureaucratic post was Promila Issar.
  • Being the senior-most IAS officer in the state, Keshni was the obvious choice to succeed Dhesi.
  • She would have a tenure of 14 months as the chief secretary.
  • While she would handle general administration, personnel, training parliamentary affairs, administrative reforms department, the charge of the vigilance department has not been handed to the new chief secretary.
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DAYS AND EVENTS

Doctors' Day

  •  National Doctors' Day is a day celebrated to recognise the contributions of physicians to individual lives and communities.
  • The date may vary from nation to nation depending on the event of commemoration used to mark the day.
  • In some nations the day is marked as a holiday. Although supposed to be celebrated by patients in and benefactors of the healthcare industry it is usually celebrated by health care organisations.
  • Historically, a card or red carnation may be sent to physicians and their spouses, along with a flower being placed on the graves of deceased physicians.
  • In India the National Doctors' Day is celebrated on July 1 all across India to honour the legendary physician and the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy.
  • He was born on July 1, 1882 and died on the same date in 1962, aged 80 years. Dr Roy was honoured with the country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna on February 4, 1961.
  • The celebration of the Doctors' Day is an attempt to emphasise on the value of doctors in our lives and to offer them our respects by commemorating one of their greatest representatives.
  • India has shown remarkable improvements in the medical field and July 1 pays a perfect tribute to all the doctors who have made relentless efforts towards achieving this goal irrespective of the odds.
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GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND SCHEMES

Jal Shakti Abhiyan

  •  The government is set to launch the Jal Shakti Abhiyan, which aims to put in place measures for rainwater harvesting, water conservation and replenishing water bodies, at a time when the Narendra Modi government is turning its attention towards water shortage in various parts of the country.
  • Teams have been constituted in 254 districts before the launch of the programme, and engineers and technical staff have been placed in 1,539 blocks to take stock of the ground water levels, the state of acquifers, and ponds and water bodies that may have been encroached upon over the last two decades. 
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