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Daily G.K. - Top Stories

12 Jan 2023

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Henley Passport Index 2023, Japan Retains its Top Position

  • According to the latest Henley Passport Index, Japan retained its position as the most favourible passport in the world, allowing visa-free entry to 193 global destinations, which the country topped for the fifth consecutive year. Singapore and South Korea came in a joint second on the ranking, followed by Germany and Spain, and then a slew of other European nations.
  • The Indian passport was ranked 85th, giving visa-free entry to 59 destinations worldwide. In 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, the country ranked at 82nd spot, 84th, 85th and 83rd respectively. Indian passport holders can travel visa-free to 59 destinations like Bhutan, Indonesia, Macao, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Kenya, Mauritius, Seychelles, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Iran and Qatar. However, some countries require visa-on-arrival.

UK and Japan Sign Defence Deal amid China Concern

  • The leaders of Britain and Japan signed a defence agreement that could see troops deployed to each others' countries.
  • The two countries are strengthening military ties amid growing concern about China's increasing military assertiveness and designs toward Taiwan, which it considers a renegade province.
  • The deal has been in the works for years, and was discussed when Kishida visited Sunak's predecessor, Boris Johnson, in London in May 2022.
  • The deal, Reciprocal Access Agreement, Japan's first with any European nation, allows the two countries to hold joint military exercises.
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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

RBI Imposes Monetary Penalty on 5 Cooperative Banks for Rules Violation

  • The Reserve Bank of India (RBl) imposed a monetary penalty on five cooperative banks for some contravention or for non-compliance with varied central bank directions.
  • The entities are Shree Mahayogi Lakshmamma Co-operative Bank Ltd., Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh; The Attur Town Co-operative Bank Ltd., Attur, Salem District, Tamil Nadu; Gondia District Central Co-operative Bank Limited, Gondia (Maharashtra); The Shirpur Peoples' Co-operative Bank Ltd., Shirpur, Maharashtra; and Tirupati Urban Co-operative Bank Ltd., Nagpur, Maharashtra.
  • The monetary penalties slapped on these entities range between Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 3 lakh.
  • This action is based on deficiencies in regulatory compliance and is not intended to pronounce upon the validity of any transaction or agreement entered into by the bank with its customers.

EnKash Gets in-principle Approval for Payment Aggregator Licence

  • Fintech startup EnKash got in-principle approval from RBI for payment aggregator's licence.
  • The licence will enable EnKash to broaden its product offerings to millions of businesses for digital transactions.
  • Founded in 2018, EnKash claims to have assisted 1 lakh businesses to digitise and decentralise their corporate payments.
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Start Me Up UK Space Mission that Failed

  • The historic space mission 'Start Me Up' that took off from Cornwall ended in bitter disappointment after a rocket carrying the first satellites launched from British soil failed to reach orbit and was lost.
  • To whoops and cheers from a crowd that had gathered at Spaceport Cornwall to watch the launch, a converted Boeing 747 called Cosmic Girl took off and headed out across the Atlantic.
  • It successfully released its rocket, called LauncherOne, carrying a payload of nine satellites off the south coast of Ireland.
  • But shortly after Virgin Orbit, which led the mission, announced there had been "an anomaly" and the rocket failed to reach the required altitude.
  • The rocket and satellites were lost but the UK Space Agency insisted they posed no danger and were expected to burn or break up over the north Atlantic. The 747 returned to Cornwall safely.
  • The Start Me Up mission was heralded as the start of a new space era for the UK.

Scientists Discover Earth-Sized Planet in the Habitable Zone

  • Scientists from NASA discovered an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone, where liquid water could potentially exist on its surfaces. The scientists used NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e. The world is 95 per cent Earth's size and likely rocky.
  • Astronomers previously discovered three planets in this system, called TOI 700 b, c, and d. Planet d also orbits in the habitable zone. But scientists needed an additional year of TESS observations to discover TOI 700 e.
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SPORTS

Ashleigh Gardner and Harry Brook Win ICC Players of the Month Award for December

  • Australia allrounder Ashleigh Gardner and England's Harry Brook won the ICC Player of the Month Awards for December following their sparkling show at the international level. While Gardner produced an excellent all-round show during a bilateral T20I series against India, Brook continued his rise with an eye-catching show in the Pakistan Test series.
  • Gardner scored 115 runs at an impressive strike rate of 166.66 and also took seven wickets during a 4-1 T20I series win over India.
  • Brook had a remarkable series in Pakistan as he peeled off three centuries in as many Tests to help England complete a historic 3-0 clean sweep.

Herbalife Nutrition India Signs Smriti Mandhana as Sponsored Sports Athlete

  • Nutrition company Herbalife Nutrition India Private Limited partnered with international women's cricketer, Smriti Mandhana as a 'nutrition sponsor'. She had an incredible journey, taking the cricket world by storm with her batting performances. Currently, she is the vice captain of the Indian women's national cricket team. Herbalife Nutrition has signed over 100 sponsorship deals with varied world-class athletes, teams and events. Multiple renowned Indian athletes like Virat Kohli, Mary Kom, Lakshya Sen, and Manika Batra have partnered up with Herbalife Nutrition.
  • Mandhana's performance on the field made her the first Indian women cricketer to be recognized as the ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year in 2018.
  • The same year saw her winning the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award.

Swastika Ghosh Qualifies for World Table Tennis Championship

  • Swastika Ghosh became the fourth Indian to qualify for the World Table Tennis Championship after beating Chinese Taipei's Liu Hsing-Yin to be among the 28 women singles qualifiers from the Asian Continental Stage of 2023 WTTC final in Doha.
  • Swastika joins Sreeja Akula, Manika Batra and Sharath Kamal, who made it by finishing among the top-16 from the continent.
  • The World Championship will be played in Durban.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS

DPIIT Organises Start-up India Innovation Week from 10th to 16th January 2023

  • The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry is organising Start-up India Innovation Week from January 10 to 16, 2023 to celebrate the Indian start-up ecosystem as well as National Start-up Day (January 16 2023).
  • Start-up India Innovation Week 2023 aims to engage start-up ecosystem stakeholders across the nation during the Start-up India Innovation Week and spur the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation in India.

Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Allots Portfolios

  • The newly-inducted ministers of the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu-led Himachal Pradesh cabinet were allotted portfolios with former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh's son Vikramaditya Singh getting the public works, youth, and sports departments and Dhani Ram Shandil getting the charge of the health and family welfare. While Vikramaditya the youngest member of the cabinet, Shandil is said to be the eldest. Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar distributed the portfolios on the advice of CM Sukhu.
  • Sukhu retained the finance, general administration, home, planning, personnel portfolios, and all other departments not allotted to any minister.

Santhi Kumari Takes over as New Telangana Chief Secretary

  • Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer A. Santhi Kumari was appointed as Telangana Chief Secretary.
  • The development came a day after the Telangana High Court set aside the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order (Hyderabad bench) and directed shifting of senior IAS officer and state Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar from Telangana cadre to Andhra Pradesh, as allotted by the Centre during the bifurcation of combined Andhra Pradesh state in 2014.
  • Kumari, who is the 1989-batch officer, took charge as new Chief Secretary, relieving Kumar. She is the first woman Chief Secretary of Telangana.
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DEFENCE

ReNew Power Installs India's First 3x Platform Wind Turbine Generators

  • ReNew Power installed India's first 3x platform wind turbine generators (WTGs) in Gadag, Karnataka.
  • The WTGs have a nameplate capacity of 3.3-3.465 MW and are 128-140m in height. They offer significantly improved capacity over models installed in India to date, which typically have a nameplate capacity of 2-3 MW.
  • The new WTGs will be a part of the country's first 'Round the Clock' renewable energy project, combining wind, solar and a battery energy storage system (BESS). This project will produce enough energy to power over 1 million households in India annually.
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DAYS AND EVENTS

National Youth Day

  • India celebrates National Youth Day on January 12, the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, to honour one of the greatest philosophers and spiritual leaders. This day is also known as the Yuva Diwas, as it marks his ideas on how the youth should work hard and contribute to their country's overall development while upholding their values.
  • In 1984, the Indian government took the decision to celebrate Swami Vivekananda's birthday as National Youth Day in an attempt to inspire, ignite, and empower the nation's youth. Vivekananda is an inspiration to countless young people in India and around the world.
  • The theme for National Youth Day 2023 was 'Viksit Yuva-Viksit Bharat'.
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AWARDS AND HONOURS

Garima Agrawal Awarded NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award

  • The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi faculty Garima Agrawal was awarded the NASI-Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Award 2022 by The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI).
  • Agarwal was awarded for the 'Chemical Sciences' category in recognition of notable contributions made by her. This award carries a medal and a citation with a cash prize of Rs. 25,000.
  • Candidates for the NASI-Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Award must be under 35 years old, have a strong scientific background, and have produced important work in India. The award was instituted to recognise promise, creativity, and excellence in young scientists.
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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION

Govt. Approves Renaming of National Institute on Water after S.P. Mookerjee

  • The National Centre for Drinking Water, Sanitation and Quality in Kolkata was renamed as Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee National Institution of Water and Sanitation.
  • The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, gave ex-post facto approval to the proposal to rename the institute set up on 8.72 acres of land in Joka, Kolkata.
  • The Prime Minister had inaugurated the institute in December 2022.
  • It is envisaged as a premier institute to develop capacities in states and Union territories in the field of public health engineering, drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene through training programmes.

Uganda Ends WHO's Mandatory 42-day Countdown to be Declared Ebola-free

  • Uganda ended a 42-day countdown to be declared Ebola-free with no case reported in the period.
  • Uganda's Health Minister hailed the public for its vigilance in helping end the Ebola Sudan Virus outbreak, which was first reported in the country on September 20, 2022.
  • As per WHO, for a country to be declared Ebola-free, it should spend 42 days (two 21-day incubation cycles of the virus) without any new cases reported.

Assam to Assess Students in State-wide Drive

  • The Assam government will carry out 'Gunotsav 2023', a state-wide exercise to evaluate the performance of nearly 43 lakh students studying in over 44,500 schools, from January 18 to February 18, Education Minister Ranoj Pegu said.
  • Pegu said that the exercise will help the Education Department in ensuring quality education with improved learning outcomes.
  • Gunotsav 2023 will identify the learning gaps of each child and ensure quality education with grade-specific outcomes. It will also assess the performance of schools in areas such as scholastic, co-scholastic, availability and utilisation of infrastructure and community participation.
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BOOKS AND AUTHORS

'Jadunama', a Book on Veteran Writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar by Arvind Mandloi

  • 'Jadunama', a book written on veteran writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar by Arvind Mandloi, was released. Javed's wife, Shabana Azmi and children Zoya and Farhan Akhtar were present at the book launch. Farhan's wife, actor Shibani Dandekar also attended the event.
  • The book is a labour of love. Akhtar was overwhelmed when he first read the book. Arvind worked very hard on it. He included Akhtar's debates, speeches over the years. The book references a debate that Akhtar took part in when he was 17.
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TOURISM AND HOTEL INDUSTRY AWARENESS

At 15th Place, IndiGo among World's 20 most Punctual Airlines

  • According to a report by aviation analytics firm OAG, the country's largest airline IndiGo and state-owned Coimbatore airport were among the 20 most punctual airlines and airports globally.
  • When it comes to On-Time Performance (OTP) in 2022, IndiGo was ranked 15th while Coimbatore airport was at the 13th position, as per the report.
  • IndiGo and the Airports Authority of India (AAI)-owned Coimbatore airport were the only Indian airline and airport, respectively, in the OAG's Punctuality League report.
  • The list was topped by Garuda Indonesia with an OTP of 95.63 per cent, followed by Safair (95.30 per cent) and Eurowings (95.26 per cent) at the second and third spots, respectively.
  • Thai AirAsia (92.33 per cent) was at fourth place and Jeju Airlines (91.84 per cent) was in fifth position.
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LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS

National Heritage Status for Ram Setu: Supreme Court Directs Centre to File Affidavit

  • The Supreme Court directed the Union of India to file its affidavit on a petition seeking national heritage status for Ram Setu by the first week of February.
  • The matter was mentioned by petitioner-in-person and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy before the Bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice P.S. Narasimha.
  • Swamy told the Apex Court that the Central government had earlier committed to submit a counter by December 12, but it was yet to file the same.
  • The petitioner then requested the Court to summon the Union Cabinet Secretary as the matter was related to the Cabinet. Appearing for the Union government, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta sought time till February first week, stating that the matter was under consideration.
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