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Daily G.K. - Top Stories

12 Feb 2022

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Burkina Faso Junta Chief Declared President

  • Burkina Faso's new military strongman, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, was declared President by the country's top constitutional body after a coup last month.
  • On January 24, disgruntled officers led by Mr. Damiba forced out the country's elected president, Roch Marc Christian Kabore, who had faced a wave of public anger over his handling of a bloody jihadist insurgency.
  • One of the world's poorest and most volatile countries, Burkina Faso is struggling with a jihadist campaign that has claimed more than 2,000 lives and forced around 1.5 million to flee their homes.
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ENVIRONMENT

Australia Designates Koalas as Endangered Species

  • Australia designated the koala as an endangered species amid pressure on the marsupials' eucalyptus tree habitats in eastern states of Australia.
  • The species was classed as vulnerable in Queensland, New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory.
  • Now, there would be increased protection for the animal.
  • Population of Koalas is declining dramatically across the country because of habitat loss, impact of prolonged drought, black summer bushfires, Urbanisation and cumulative impacts of disease. Furthermore, thousands of koalas are thought to have been killed in fires that swept Australia's eastern and southern states in 2019 and 2020. Thus, this designation would provide more protection to the species.
  • Proposal to list Koalas in Endangered category was given by WWF-Australia, Humane Society International and International Fund for Animal Welfare, in April 2020. This proposal was made after research found decline in population by 62 percent in New South Wales and 50 percent in Queensland since 2001.
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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

HDFC Ergo Partners Visa for Insurance Cover on Select Bank Cards

  • HDFC ERGO General Insurance, India's leading private sector general insurance company in the private sector, announced its first-of-its-kind partnership with Visa, the global leader in digital payments to offer curated insurance covers for Visa's Platinum cardholders for select public sector banks.
  • This policy is applicable for Visa's Platinum cardholders and will provide security to Visa's partner banks. This in turn will give the card users peace of mind while performing any transaction.
  • HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company is a joint venture between HDFC Ltd. and ERGO International AG; the primary insurance entity of the Munich RE Group of Germany. HDFC ERGO is one of India's largest non-life insurance company in the private sector.

Amazon India Signs MoU with Karnataka to Turn Rural Women into Entrepreneurs

  • Amazon India signed an MoU with Karnataka State Rural Livelihood Promotion Society (KSRLPS) to support the growth of women entrepreneurs. Amazon India will launch 'Sanjeevini-KSRLPS' in its platform and extend benefits of the 'Saheli' Programme to train and empower thousands of rural women entrepreneurs and also provide online access to a wider market for their products. The Saheli Programme offers training and skill development workshops to help women entrepreneurs.
  • Through this, Amazon and the government bodies will come together to assist and empower lakhs of women entrepreneurs associated with them from the four states to register their business with Amazon India and access a wider market base.

Larsen & Toubro's Construction Arm Bags 'Significant' Order in Bangladesh

  • Larsen & Toubro's construction arm has bagged a 'significant' order to construct hi-tech IT parks at eight locations across Bangladesh.
  • This project is being funded by the Indian EXIM Bank and is the first IT and office space order that L&T has secured in Bangladesh.
  • The construction arm of Larsen & Toubro has secured an order from the Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority to construct Hi-Tech IT Parks at 8 locations (2 packages at 4 locations each) across Bangladesh.
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

AI-based Tool to Find Habitable Planets

  • Astronomers from Indian Institute of Astrophysics developed a new way to identify potentially habitable planets, with a high probability.
  • Astronomers developed this new way in association with astronomers from BITS Pilani, Goa campus.
  • They used an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based algorithm for this, where 60 potentially habitable planets were found out of 5,000 known planets.
  • The new AI-based method is named as "Multi-Stage Memetic Binary Tree Anomaly Identifier (MSMBTAI)". This method is based on a novel multi-stage memetic algorithm (MSMA), which uses generic notion of a meme. Meme is a knowledge or idea that gets transferred from one person to another by imitation. This method was devised on the basis of a belief that Earth is an anomaly, with possibility of existence of more anomalies among thousands of data point. There are 60 potentially habitable planets out of 5000 confirmed and 8000 candidate planets proposed. The assessment was done on the basis of their close similarity to Earth. These planets can be regarded as candidates for anomalous instances in huge pool of non-habitable' exoplanets.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS

India- Bangladesh Webinar on Solid Waste Management

  • The municipalities of Indore and Dhaka North held a virtual dialogue, for sharing best practises in solid waste management.
  • Webinar was facilitated by High Commission of India and Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
  • During the webinar, waste collection methods were shared by Indore Municipal Corporation.
  • Municipal Corporation of Indore detailed about 100 percent door-to-door segregated waste collection system, GPS-tracked waste collection vehicle and biometric attendance system for municipal cleaners.
  • Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) officials also shared their best practises and held productive discussions on taking forward the cooperation in solid waste management and other municipal services.
  • Indore was ranked as the cleanest city of India in cleanliness Survey 2021. Since 2017, the city has won this distinction for five consecutive times because of its much-applauded waste management system including door to door collection, segregation of waste, home composting, central composting facilities and recycling of day waster.

Lata Mangeshkar's Ashes Immersed in Nashik's Ramkund

  • The family of Lata Mangeshkar bid farewell to the legendary singer, who died on February 6. Lata Mangeshkar's family members visited Nashik and immersed her ashes in the sacred Pavitra Ramkund on the banks of the Godavari River.
  • Lata's nephew, Adinath Mangeshkar and other relatives were present at the immersion ceremony.
  • Nashik Purohit Sangh president Satish Shukla conducted the rituals. Nashik civic commissioner Kailas Jadhav and some local politicians were also present on the occasion.
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DAYS AND EVENTS

National Productivity Day

  • National Productivity Day is observed every year in India on February 12. The objective of National Productivity Council is stimulating and promoting productivity and quality consciousness across all sectors in the country. The main observance of the day is to encourage all stakeholders in the implementation of productivity tools and techniques.
  • The day is celebrated by the National Productivity Council (NPC) to promote productivity culture in India. National Productivity Council (NPC) under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry Government of India is a premier institution for propagating productivity movement in India. NPC works for providing solutions towards accelerating productivity, enhancing competitiveness, increasing productivity.

Darwin Day

  • Darwin Day is celebration on February 12 to commemorate the birthday of Charles Darwin. The day is used to highlight Darwin's contributions to science and to promote science in general. Darwin Day is celebrated around the world.
  • Darwin Day celebration began with three Darwin enthusiasts: Dr. Robert Stephens, who motivated the community of Humanist in Silicon Valley to initiate an annual Darwin Day celebration in 1995; Prof. Massimo Pigliucci, who organised an annual Darwin Day event at the University of Tennessee in 1997 and Amanda Chesworth, who joined Stephens to officially incorporate the Darwin Day Program in 2000 in New Mexico. Two years later, the Darwin Day celebration was reincorporated in California as the Darwin Day Celebration to encourage science and humanity throughout the globe.
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AWARDS AND HONOURS

RailTel Gets ICAI Award for Excellence in Financial Reporting

  • RailTel bagged the ICAI award for excellence in financial reporting for the year 2020-21 in Public Sector Entities Category.
  • The award was given by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the premier accounting body which has been holding the annual competition for these awards since 1958.
  • This award was instituted with a view to promote better standards in the preparation and presentation of information in the financial statements.
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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION

Nanna Shale Nanna Koduge App

  • Department of Primary & Secondary Education in Karnataka developed an app titled "Nanna Shale Nanna Koduge". Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai launched the app.
  • Nanna Shale Nanna Koduge app, (Meaning 'My School, My contribution' app) was launched to help in addressing infrastructure needs of government schools, optimal use of hearing aids, shortage of teachers, and utilisation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds.
  • This app provides assistance to several department in about 80 organisations, that are working to improve schools and school education in Karnataka.
  • The app was launched with the aim of providing accessibility to donors across the world. It seeks to develop a sense of ownership among public, stakeholders and alumni. It also seeks to strengthen the public education system. It further aims to provide quick and easy access to schools without human interface.
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BOOKS AND AUTHORS

A Book "Atal Bihari Vajpayee" by Sagarika Ghose

  • A book titled "Atal Bihari Vajpayee" authored by Sagarika Ghose was launched. It is a biography of the former Prime Minister of India. Sagarika Ghose is a jounalist. She has also authored a book titled "Indira: India's Most Powerful Prime Minister".
  • Sagarika took the author three years to complete the biography. "The research was daunting," says Sagarika, who had to go through all the Parliament speeches from the 1950s to the 90s, Parliament records, Vajpayee's speeches, his written work, the pronouncements made by his Government, minutes of party meetings, proceedings of annual conferences, party periodicals, the large number of bills he moved in Parliament…the list is exhaustive. This was followed by around 50 interviews with members of the RSS and the BJP and his close aides.
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TOURISM AND HOTEL INDUSTRY AWARENESS

Surat to Get India's 1st Bullet Train Station by Dec 2024

  • The Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project will be India's first bullet train route. While Surat city will get India's first bullet train station. National High-Speed Rail Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) is constructing this project that is scheduled to be completed by December 2024. The cost of the project is estimated to be more than Rs. 1 lakh crore of which Rs. 88,000 crores will be funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Of the 508.17-kilometre Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project, 155.76 km is in Maharashtra, 384.04 km in Gujarat and 4.3 km in Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
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