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Daily G.K. - Top Stories

20 Oct 2020

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Singapore Becomes First Country to Use Facial Recognition to Pay Taxes

  • In Singapore, online government services can now be accessed by facial recognition -- a world first.
  • This technology is being rolled out to the city-state's SingPass digital identity scheme, offering access to no less than 400 online services, including tax declarations and public housing applications. Facial recognition is also increasingly being used to access other online services, such as banking.
  • This new function, dubbed SingPass Face Verification, lets users connect securely to government websites, as well as online services on private websites. The function is designed to work via home computers, tablets and cell phones, as well as at public kiosks.
  • According to the Singapore authorities, the technology helps ensure that the right person is genuinely present in front of their screen, rather than a photograph, a video, a replayed recording or a deep fake.
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ENVIRONMENT

Paddy Stubble can Decompose in 25 Days with Microbial Solution: ICAR

  • Initial results from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) about trials on the effectiveness of a microbial consortium to decompose paddy stubble show that the latter can decompose within 25 days amid reports of Delhi-national capital region (NCR) and several other north-western states battling "poor" air quality index (AQI), which has become an annual phenomenon in the past few years around this time of the year.
  • Trials are in progress in up to 14,000 hectares (ha) of paddy farmland in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Delhi, said the ICAR chief.
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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance Launches Invest 4G Plan

  • Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance has launched a new Unit Linked insurance plan (Ulip) titled 'Invest 4G'.
  • It is an individual life insurance savings plan which can be customized as per the goals and changing requirements of the individual.
  • This Unit Linked Individual Life Insurance cum Savings Plan provides a combination of Portfolio Management Options and flexibilities which gives choice to opt for protection suiting the demand for every individual as well as provide an opportunity to save for future goals.

Fino Payments Bank to Add 300 More Points at BPCL Outlets in TN

  • Fino Payments Bank is planning to add another 300 points at BPCL outlets to its existing 1,075 in Tamil Nadu, to help truck drivers to get fleet cards recharged by paying equivalent cash, without any hassles.
  • Recharging the Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) SmartFleet cards that are used to pay for fuel has been a challenge to truck drivers for quite some time and in order to ease this discomfort, Fino with BPCL has started such facilities.
  • The digitised cash in the form of prepaid fleet cards allows drivers to make payments for fuel at BPCL outlets, which also completely frees BPCL from handling the cash given by the drivers.

Bank of Baroda Inks Pact With Mahindra & Mahindra for Tractor Finance Biz

  • To push agriculture finance, state-owned Bank of Baroda (BoB) said it has entered into a pact with Mahindra and Mahindra for tractor finance business.
  • The lender, through its over 5,000 rural and semi-urban branch network, will provide tractor loan facility to customers of Mahindra and Mahindra.
  • This memorandum of understanding (MoU) will give a boost to agri business and will help farmers in availing hassle-free credit facilities for buying tractors.
  • The bank has tied up with Gromax under the Mahindra stable as the preferred brand.
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SPORTS

Kiren Rijiju Addresses Y20 Global Summit

  • Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Kiren Rijiju represented India in the Y20 Global Summit on October 15, 2020, aimed at exchanging ideas and dialogues between nations to empower the youth across the world.
  • Shri Rijiju was on a panel to discuss the Post Covid Opportunities for the Youth and was joined by Senator Matteo Renzi, former Prime Minister of Italy, Dr. Flavio Siniscalchi, Head of the Department of Youth Policies and Universal Civic Service, Presidency of the Council of Ministers (Italy), H.E Alvin Tan, Minister of State, Ministry of Community, Culture and Youth & Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore).
  • The host country for the Y20 Summit this year was Saudi Arabia.

Okuhara Nozomi Beats Carolina Marin to Take Denmark Open

  • Okuhara Nozomi beat Olympic badminton champion Carolina Marin to claim the Denmark Open title.
  • Japan's 2017 world champion won when the two met in last year's semi-finals, and she was victorious again in Odense 21-19, 21-17.
  • Okuhara had lost her previous seven finals - including at the 2019 Denmark Open to Tai Tzu Ying - but was too strong for the Spaniard as she secured her first tournament victory since the 2018 Hong Kong Open.
  • With reigning world champion PV Sindhu opting to sit out the event, two of her biggest rivals made it through to the final.

Sheikh Russel International Air Rifle Championship

  • World number one Indian Elavenil Valarivan won a gold medal and Shahu Tushar Mane bagged a silver in the Sheikh Russel International Air Rifle Championship, held virtually.
  • The championship was organised by Bangladesh Shooting Sport Federation (BSSF).
  • Thanks to her gold, Elavenil got richer by $1000 while Shahu Mane pocketed $700 for his effort.
  • In the 60-shot competition in which shooters from six nations participated, including hosts Bangladesh and India, Elavenil shot a modest 627.5 to come out on top.
  • Shiori Hirata won the silver with 622.6, while Indonesian Vidya Toyyiba took the bronze with 621.1.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS

Stellapps Launches 'mooPay' for Dairy Farmers in Rajasthan

  • Digital technology solutions provider Stellapps announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind, fully-automated direct payment platform — 'mooPay' — for dairy farmers in Rajasthan.
  • The platform is one of the fintech solutions the company has developed for dairies and dairy farmers.
  • mooPay acts as a payment gateway for dairies to make payments to every registered farmer, removing the risks and costs of transferring money to hundreds of thousands of farmers in hundreds of villages.
  • mooPay enables dairy officials to transfer milk payments digitally to member farmers from the dairies' existing bank account to farmers' savings bank account.

FSSAI's New Platform to Become Operational Across India

  • Food regulator FSSAI said its Food Safety Compliance System (FoSCoS) will become operational in the entire country from November 1, 2020.
  • The system is operational in nine States/UTs -- Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Gujarat, Odisha, Chandigarh, Goa, Manipur, Puducherry and Ladakh since June.
  • It said since 2011, its online FLRS (Food Licensing and Registration System) is the soul of the licensing ecosystem.
  • It is operational in all states and 70 lakh licences/ registrations have been issued till date while over 40 lakh licensees/ registrants are actively transacting on it.

Cultivation of Heeng in the Indian Himalayas

  •  Asafoetida, or heeng, is a common ingredient in most Indian kitchens –– so much so that the country imports Rs 600 crore worth of this pungent flavoured herb every year.
  • Now, scientists at CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource, Palampur (IHBT), are on a mission to grow heeng in the Indian Himalayas.
  • The first sapling has been planted in Himachal Pradesh's Kwaring village in Lahaul valley.
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DEFENCE

India, SL Begin Eighth Edition of Bilateral Maritime Exercise

  • The eighth edition of the annual Indian Navy (IN) - Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) bilateral maritime exercise SLINEX-20 is scheduled off Trincomalee, Sri Lanka from October 19 to 21.
  • The Sri Lanka Navy will be represented by SLN Ships Sayura (Offshore Patrol Vessel) and Gajabahu (Training Ship) led by Rear Admiral Bandara Jayathilaka, the Flag Officer Commanding Naval Fleet, Sri Lanka Navy.

Australia to Take Part in Malabar Naval Exercise

  • Australia will participate in the Malabar naval exercise involving India, the US and Japan that will bring the four key defence partners and democracies in the region together, demonstrating their collective resolve to support an open and prosperous Indo-Pacific.
  • In a significant move that comes amid a Sino-India border row, India announced Australia's participation in the upcoming Malabar exercise along with the US and Japan, effectively making it the first military-level engagement between the four-member nation grouping -- the Quad.

SANT Missile Successfully Testfired from Odisha Coast

  • India successfully test fired the Stand-off Anti-tank (SANT) Missile off the coast of Odisha.
  • The Missile is being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the Indian Air Force (IAF) and will have both Lock-on After Launch and Lock-on Before Launch capability.
  • On the other hand, the IAF congratulated the DRDO on the successful test-firing of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile.
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DAYS AND EVENTS

Government Hospitals Observe World Trauma Day

  • Government hospitals in the city observed World Trauma Day through awareness programmes on October 17, 2020.
  • Every year, 17th October is celebrated as World Trauma Day. This day highlights the increasing rate of accidents and injuries causing death and disability across the world and the need to prevent them.
  • Trauma means "any injury caused to the body".

World Statistics Day

  • The third World Statistics Day was celebrated around the globe on 20 October 2020 with the theme "Connecting the world with data we can trust."
  • This theme reflects the importance of trust, authoritative data, innovation and the public good in national statistical systems.
  • The celebration of World Statistics Day 2020 is a global collaborative endeavour, organized under the guidance of the United Nations Statistical Commission.
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AWARDS AND HONOURS

Pre-Independence Award to 1944 film Ram Shastri Discovered at FTII

  •  A cleaning drive at India's premier film school Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) has unexpectedly yielded a gem from history—an award certificate conferred on Ram Shastri, one of the first biopics produced in the country 76 years ago.
  • The pre-Independence award would now be showcased at the Prabhat Museum, according to FTII officials.
  • Ram Shastri, in 1944, was no less than a sensation as it swept one film award after another.
  • According to a person aware of the development, an award certificate presented to the Prabhat Film Company for Ram Shastri in 1944 was recently found in FTII's Prabhat Studio at Pune.
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GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND SCHEMES

Govt Launches Rs 10,000 cr Scheme to Boost Healthcare Infra

  • Union Minister of State for Agriculture Parshottam Rupala launched a new scheme, Ayushman Sahakar, under which the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) would extend term loans of Rs 10,000 crore to cooperatives for creating healthcare infrastructure in rural India.
  • There are about 52 hospitals across the country run by cooperatives. They have cumulative bed strength of more than 5,000. The NCDC fund would give a boost to provision of healthcare services by cooperatives, NCDC Managing Director Sundeep Nayak said.
  • The government said any cooperative society with suitable provision in its byelaws to undertake healthcare related activities would be able to access the NCDC fund.
  • The NCDC assistance will flow either through the state governments or directly to the eligible cooperatives. Subsidy/ grant from other sources can be dovetailed. 

Uttar Pradesh Governor Launches 'Safe City Project' in Lucknow

  • Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel said the movement of women police personnel in Lucknow will inculcate a feeling of pride and safety for women in the city.
  • The Governor spoke while inaugurating the 'Safe City Project', a 180-day-long campaign under which the police and other departments will work towards safety of women.
    • In a statement, the UP Raj Bhavan said the Governor flagged off 100 pink scooties and 10 four-wheeler police vehicles. Lucknow is among eight cities in the country selected for the 'Safe City Project'.
    • The central government has approved the project for Lucknow at a total cost of Rs 194 crore with an aim to strengthen security of women in public places.
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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION

Indian Spends 3.5% of Common Each Day Earnings on Meals, New Yorker 0.6%: UN Report

  • On a median an Indian spends 3.5% of his/ her each day earnings for a plate of meals as in comparison with 0.6% by a New Yorker and an astonishing, in response to the "Value of a Plate of Meals" report launched by the UN's World Meals Programme (WFP).
  • As per the report, the most costly plate of meals is of South Sudan the place individuals on common must spend 186% of their each day wage on primary substances. Within the checklist that options 36 international locations throughout the globe, India stands at 28th place as per the share of cash, individuals would pay on a plate of meals in comparison with their salaries.
  • It has dropped at mild how international locations in sub-Saharan Africa characteristic closely within the report with 17 of the highest 20 drawn from this area.
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ART AND CULTURE

Kati Bihu Celebrated In Assam

  • Locals in Bongaigaon celebrated the Kati Bihu festival in Assam.
  • Kati Bihu marks an important day for the Assamese people as they celebrate it by lighting up their homes and agricultural fields. People perform cultural dances and organise feasts.
  • During this time of the year, the paddy in the fields are in the growing stage and the granaries of the farmers are almost empty. On this day, earthen lamps are lit at the foot of the household tulsi plants, the granary, and the paddy fields.
  • To protect the maturing paddy, cultivators whirl a piece of bamboo and emanate spells to ward off pests and the evil eye.
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