Daily Current Affairs - Civil Services - 20-01-2021

Useful compilation of Civil Services oriented - Daily Current Affairs - Civil Services - 20-01-2021

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• SECTION 1 - TEN NEWS HEADLINES

1. Agriculture – SC panel lays out road map on farmers’ issue – The SC-appointed committee on farmers’ issues has decided to meet the State governments and the State Agricultural Marketing Boards along with the farm unions and cooperatives to seek their views on the farm reform laws, starting January 21. The panel has laid out a two-month road map for consultations after their first meeting on January 19. At the Singhu border, leaders of the protesting unions again met senior Delhi Police officials, who suggested that it might be better to hold the Republic Day tractor parade on the peripheral expressways outside Delhi rather than entering the city. The SC will hear the issue again on January 20, just hours before union leaders and Central Ministers meet for the 10th round of talks. The talks were supposed to be held on January 19, but were postponed.
2. People & Personalities – Cancer care pioneer no more – A pioneer in cancer care in the country, and the chairperson of the Adyar Cancer Institute, V. Shanta breathed her last in Chennai on January 19. She was 93. A crusader for cancer research and making cancer care affordable for all, Dr. Shanta and her mentor S. Krishnamurthi built the Cancer Institute from a cottage hospital into a 500-plus bedded institution, offering state-of-the-art care to people across the income spectrum. Only 40% are paying beds and the remaining are general beds where patients are boarded and lodged free of cost. Dr. Shanta was the recipient of several honours and awards through her life, recognising her devotion to oncology care and research. The Padma Vibhushan and Ramon Magasaysay awards were among them. Dr. Shanta encouraged research into cancer care, even as she stressed building awareness in the community, to prevent cancer.
3. World – U.S. won’t lift travel ban: Biden team – Shortly after U.S. President Trump announced the lifting of COVID-19-related travel restrictions on parts of Europe and Brazil, the incoming Biden administration said it would reverse the move. Mr. Trump signed an executive order on January 18 removing restrictions on air travel for most non-U.S. citizens and permanent residents travelling from the Schengen Area, Ireland, the U.K. and Brazil starting January 26. The restrictions instituted in 2020 were also applied to Iran and China — these were not reversed by the executive order. Also, starting January 26, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has said that all those travelling by air into the U.S. will need to show a negative COVID-19 test result before boarding their flights.
4. World – Biden to introduce Bill for eight-year citizenship path – United States President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration Bill on the first day of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. without legal status — a massive reversal from the Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies. The Bill puts Mr. Biden on track to deliver on a major campaign promise important to Latino voters and other immigrant communities after four years of President Donald Trump’s restrictive policies and mass deportations. Expected to run hundreds of pages, the Bill is set to be introduced after Mr. Biden takes the oath of office on Jan 20, according to a person familiar with the legislation.
5. World – Kremlin dismisses calls to free Navalny – The Kremlin has dismissed Western demands to release Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, saying calls for mass protests over his arrest were “troubling”. Legal pressure is ramping up against President Vladimir Putin’s best-known domestic critic, who is due in court on defamation charges on January 20, as his allies in Russia call for protests in Moscow this weekend. The last time mass protests took place in Moscow was in the summer of 2019 when Mr. Navalny’s allies and a host of other opposition politicians were barred from balloting in local elections. Russia’s prison service said it had detained Mr. Navalny for violating the terms of a suspended sentence he was given in 2014 on fraud charges, which he says were politically motivated.
6. Covid-19 – Chinese COVID-19 vaccines find takers in Southeast Asia – China has signed deals with as many as 20 countries, many of which are in Southeast Asia, to offer its home-developed COVID-19 vaccines. With five vaccines being developed in China, Beijing is offering them both as donations and on a commercial basis. Among the countries that are ordering Chinese vaccines are Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Algeria, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Pakistan, Brazil, Ukraine, and Serbia. Pakistan has become the first country in South Asia to approve a Chinese vaccine, giving the nod for emergency use for Sinopharm’s vaccine. Earlier in January 2021, China offered its vaccines to Nepal, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as it held a multilateral dialogue with the four countries and Pakistan on anti-epidemic cooperation, but so far they have not agreed on orders.
7. Polity & Governance – Budget session to have Question Hour – The Question Hour, which had been suspended by the government during the monsoon session, will resume when Parliament meets for the Budget session from January 29. The government had claimed that the suspension of the Question Hour, which gives the Opposition an opportunity to hold the government accountable, was an additional precautionary measure to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. The suspension had been strongly criticised by the Opposition. As during the monsoon session, the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha will meet at alternate sessions to ensure that all the three chambers — Rajya Sabha hall, Lok Sabha hall and the Central Hall — were available for both Houses to seat members in keeping with the physical distancing norms.
8. Covid-19 – India to fly out vaccines to neighbours – India will begin to ship out lakhs of doses of the novel coronavirus vaccine to neighbouring countries beginning January 20, with the first batches expected to reach Bhutan and the Maldives among several countries by special planes as a grant or gift. The release of the shipments is part of the government’s “Neighbourhood First” initiative, and will make India the first country to reach COVID-19 vaccines in South Asia, ahead of China, which has promised but not so far delivered, the World Health Organization and GAVI’s vaccine alliance programme.
9. Science & Technology – India asks WhatsApp to revoke changes in its privacy policy – The Union government has asked WhatsApp to withdraw the proposed changes to its privacy policy, stating that it raised “grave concerns” over the implications of the choice and autonomy of Indian citizens. In a letter to WhatsApp chief executive officer Will Cathcart, the government pointed out that by not giving the option to opt out of data-sharing with Facebook companies, Indian users were being treated differently from those in Europe. The government also asked the Facebook-owned platform to reconsider its approach to respect the informational privacy, freedom of choice and data security of Indian citizens.
10. Education – Students with just pass in Class 12 can take JEE-Main – The eligibility criterion for JEE-Main 2021 has been relaxed, allowing students who scored less than 75% in their Class 12 examinations to attempt the entrance test for admission to the National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IITs), Schools of Planning and Architecture (SPAs) and other Centrally funded technical institutes. This means that a simple pass in Class 12 will be sufficient for applicants to the JEE-Main in 2021. Students will be allowed to answer 75 questions out of 90, which is 25 out of 30 questions each in physics, chemistry and mathematics in JEE.

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• SECTION 2 - DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS

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• 1. CONSTITUTION AND LAW (Prelims, GS Paper 2, Essay paper)

1.1 Repeal law which confiscates cattle before owner found guilty of cruelty: SC  

Highlights –

• The Supreme Court on January 4, 2021 asked the Centre to “delete” its three-year-old law which allowed seizure and subsequent confiscation in ‘gaushalas’ of livestock from people, who depended on these animals for a livelihood, even before they were found guilty of cruelty towards them.
• The law allows authorities to seize cattle on a mere suspicion that they suffered cruel treatment at the hands of their owners or were being primed for slaughter.
• The law under question is the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Care and Maintenance of Case Property Animals) Rules, 2017 notified on May 23, 2017. The rules were framed under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.
• The 2017 Rules allow a Magistrate to forfeit the cattle of an owner facing trial under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. The animals are then sent to infirmaries, ‘gaushalas’, ‘pinjarapole’, etc. These authorities can further give such animals for “adoption”.

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• 2. ECONOMY (Prelims, GS Paper 3, Essay paper

2.1 PM Modi flags off 8 trains to boost connectivity to Statue of Unity

 

 

Key points – 

• Mr.Narendra Modi has flagged off eight trains arriving at Kevadiya from different regions of India.
• He has also inaugurated the new railway lines in other places including Dabhoi, Chandod and Pratapnagar.
• The Dabhoi –Chandod Gauge converted to broad gauge rail line from an 18km narrow guage line, extended broad gauge railway line from Chandod to Kevadiya, newly electrified Pratapnagar – Kevadiya section, new station buildings of Dabhoi Jn., Chandod and Kevadiya, have been inaugurated today via video conferencing.
• Kevadiya Railway Station has been registered with the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) for being India's First Railway Station to be certified as Green Building by IGBC ever since inception of construction.
• The new Kevadiya Railway station is located approx. 6.5 km away from Statue of Unity.

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• The new line project was sanctioned at Rs. 811 crore and the land acquisition was completed in July 2020.
• Commissioned in five months, the project consists of seven stations out of which three are major crossing stations while the rest four stations will be halt stations.
• Four out of the seven stations are new stations, namely, Moriya, Tilakwada, Garudeshwar and Kevadiya. The three existing stations include Dabhoi Jn., Vadaj and Chandod.
• There are 8 major bridges, 79 minor bridges, 9 Road Over Bridges & 31 Road Under Bridges.
• The sectional speed between Pratapnagar - Dabhoi has been raised to 110 kmph from 75 kmph in 75 days. The Dabhoi – Kevadiya section has been built with 110 kmph. The speed of the entire section from Pratapnagar – Kevadiya will be further enhanced to 130 kmph.
• Modern engineering techniques & equipment such as mobile flash butt welding machines, ready mix concrete (RMC), heavy Earth moving equipment, heavy duty road cranes and track machines were deployed to quicken the pace of civil engineering work.
• For design of Minor bridges, locally available RCC Hume pipes were used. This has not only reduced execution time but has also garnered a savings of approximately 27 crore.
• Technologies such as Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) & Sight Acceptance Test (SAT) for Electronic Interlocking Signalling system through virtual mode (during COVID – 19 pandemic) have been used to speed up the signalling works & to reduce commissioning time.
• Tower Wagons, Over Head Equipment (OHE) wiring train were utilized for expedition of electrification works.
• The Pratapnagar – Kevadiya section has been electrified as per Ministry of Railways Mission of 100% Railway Electrification policy.
• It is aimed at providing cleaner, greener, faster & environment friendly rail transportation which will reduce carbon footprint.

2.2 News Round-up – Economy

 

• World Bank releases Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report - Global economic output is projected to grow by 4% in 2021 assuming widespread roll-out of a COVID-19 vaccine throughout the year, as per the World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report released on January 5, 2021. India is expected to grow at 5.4% in fiscal year 2021-22 and 5.2% in fiscal 2022-23 after an expected contraction of 9.6% in fiscal 2020-21. India’s expected contraction in the current fiscal is due to a sharp decline in household spending and private investment. There was severe income loss in the informal sector which accounts for four-fifths of employment.
• Online sale of expensive items through Canteen Stores Department enabled - Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched a portal on January 8, 2021 for the online sale of expensive items, including washing machines, microwave ovens, refrigerators, air-conditioners, television sets and laptops, through the (Canteen Stores Department) canteens. The armed forces personnel and the ex-servicemen use the CSD canteens.
• India’s GDP to decline 7.7% in 2020-2021: Govt. - India’s gross domestic product will shrink 7.7% in the financial year ending March 2021, the statistics ministry said in its first advance estimate published on January 7, 2021. Agriculture is projected to grow at 3.4% this financial year and manufacturing to contract 9.4%. Trade, hotel, and transport in the services sector are projected to contract 21.4%.
• Services sector loses steam, December PMI falls to 52.3 from 53.7 in Nov - Growth in India’s dominant services industry continued to lose momentum in December. The Nikkei/IHS Markit Services Purchasing Managers’ Index fell to 52.3 in December from November’s 53.7 but held above the 50-mark separating growth from contraction for a third straight month.
• Manufacturing sector showed marginal improvement in Dec: PMI survey - Manufacturing sector activities showed a marginal improvement in December compared to the previous month even as employment generation remained low, showed the widely-tracked IHS Markit purchasing managers’ index (PMI) survey. PMI inched up to 56.4 in December compared to 56.3 in November.  
• KVIC signs MoU with ITBP for supply of 1,72,000 cotton durries every year - Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) on January 6, 2021 signed MoU with Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) for supply of 1,72,000 cotton durries every year.
• Railway Minister launches Freight Business Development Portal - Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on January 5, 2021 launched a Freight Business Development Portal as one stop solution for all the needs of freight customers.

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• 3. ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY (Prelims, GS Paper 3, Essay paper)

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• 4. FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Prelims, GS Paper 2, Essay paper)

4.1 Russia withdraws from Open Skies Treaty

 

  

Key points –

• Russia will withdraw from an international treaty allowing observation flights over military facilities following the U.S. exit from the pact.
• The treaty was intended to build trust between Russia and the West by allowing the accord’s more than three dozen signatories to conduct reconnaissance flights over each other’s territories to collect information about military forces and activities.
• U.S. President Donald Trump declared Washington’s intention to pull out of the Open Skies Treaty in May 2020, arguing that Russian violations made it untenable for the United States to remain a party. The U.S. completed its withdrawal from the pact in November 2020.
• Russia denied breaching the treaty, which came into force in 2002. The European Union has urged the U.S. to reconsider and called on Russia to stay in the pact and lift flight restrictions, notably over its westernmost Kaliningrad region, which lies between NATO allies Lithuania and Poland.
• Russia has argued that the limits on flights over Kaliningrad, which hosts sizable military forces, are permissible under the treaty’s terms, noting that the U.S. has imposed more sweeping restrictions on observation flights over Alaska.
• As a condition for staying in the pact after the U.S. pullout, Moscow sought guarantees from NATO allies that they wouldn’t transfer the data collected during their observation flights over Russia to the United States, but was unsuccessful.
• Moscow has warned that the U.S. withdrawal will erode global security by making it more difficult for governments to interpret the intentions of other nations, particularly amid Russia-West tensions after the Russian annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014.
• The demise of the Open Skies Treaty follows the U.S. and Russian withdrawal in 2019 from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
• The INF Treaty, which was signed in 1987 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, banned land-based cruise and ballistic missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers (310 to 3,410 miles), weapons seen as particularly destabilizing because of the shorter time they take to reach targets compared with intercontinental ballistic missiles.
• The only U.S.-Russian arms control pact still standing is the New START nuclear agreement that expires in three weeks. Moscow and Washington have discussed the possibility of its extension, but so far have failed to overcome their differences.

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• 5. GOVERNMENT SCHEMES (Prelims, GS Paper 2, GS Paper 3)

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• 6. MISCELLANEOUS (Prelims, Various GS Papers)

6.1 Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan dies at 89

 

 

Highlights –

• Legendary Indian classical musician and Padma Vibhushan awardee Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan died on January 18 at his residence in Mumbai. He was 89.
• Born on March 3, 1931 in Badaun in Uttar Pradesh, Khan was the eldest son in a family of four brothers and three sisters.
• His father, Ustad Waris Hussain Khan was the son of celebrated musician Ustad Murred Baksh, while his mother, Sabri Begum, was the daughter of Ustad Inayat Husain Khan, credited as the founder of the Rampur-Sahaswan gharana of music.
• He got his basic classical music training from his father and later studied music under his cousin, Ustad Nissar Hussain Khan.
• He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1991, followed by Padma Bhusan in 2006 and Padma Vibhushan in 2018.
• In 2003 he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi award, the highest Indian recognition given to practicing artistes.

6.2 News Round-up – Corporate World

• Dell launches mobile app for non-communicable diseases - Dell Technologies in collaboration with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and Tata Trusts on January 5, 2021 announced they have developed a mobile application for the management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) at the government primary health centres (PHCs) across the country.
• Zerodha launches Rainmatter Foundation - Brokerage platform Zerodha announced that it will commit $100 million over the next few years to fund climate entrepreneurs, support grassroots individuals and organizations working on solutions for climate change. The fintech startup in this regard has launched an NGO called Rainmatter Climate Foundation which would be headed by conservationist Sameer Shishodia, Zerodha founder Nithin Kamath said in a blog post on January 8, 2021.
• ITC to meet all energy needs from renewable sources by 2030 - ITC Ltd said it aims to completely meet its electrical energy needs from renewable sources by 2030 as a part of its sustainability goals. At present, more than 40% of the conglomerates electrical energy consumption is met through renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass.
• Boeing to pay $2.5 billion to settle probe into 737 MAX crashes - oeing Co will pay more than $2.5 billion in fines and compensation after reaching a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over two plane crashes that killed a total of 346 people and led to the grounding of its 737 MAX aircraft.
• Alibaba to stop online music streaming service amid probe - China’s e-commerce giant, the Alibaba Group, said it will close a popular music streaming platform, Xiami Music. The announcement comes amid continuing investigations into the group and questions surrounding the future of its founder, Jack Ma. Xiami Music said it will stop the service “due to operational adjustments” from February 5, marking an end to Alibaba’s online music streaming platform.
• Reliance Infra sells its entire stake in Parbati Koldam Transmission - Parbati Koldam Transmission Company Limited (PKTCL) to India Grid Trust (IndiGrid) for an enterprise value of Rs 900 crore. RInfra owned 74% in PKTCL located in the state of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab in a joint venture with Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL).
• Tata Power, SIDBI offer rooftop solar financing for MSMEs - Tata Power on January 5, 2021 announced its partnership with SIDBI (Small Industries Development Bank of India) to provide a finance scheme to the MSMEs in the rooftop solar segment. Tata Power said easy financing has been one of the barriers for penetration of solar in the MSME sector.
• New York Stock Exchange to delist three Chinese telecom companies - The New York Stock Exchange said on January 7, 2021 it will delist three Chinese telecom companies -- China Mobile Ltd, China Telecom Corp Ltd and China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd. An executive order issued by President Donald Trump in November bars U.S. persons from investing in publicly traded companies Washington deems to be tied to the Chinese military.
• Deutsche Bank settles at $100 mn fine - Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay a fine of more than $100 million to avoid a criminal prosecution on charges it participated in a foreign bribery scheme. Lawyers for the bank waived its right to face an indictment on conspiracy charges on January 8, 2021 during a teleconference with a federal judge in New York City.
• Former HDFC Bank MD Aditya Puri joins Strides Group - Former HDFC Bank managing director Aditya Puri has joined global pharma major Strides Group as an advisor and will also serve as a director of its associate company Stelis Biopharma.

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• 7. POLITY (Prelims, GS Paper 2)

7.1 India’s first labor movement museum

 

 

Highlights –

• The country's first Labour Movement Museum, showcasing the history of world labour movement, would be launched in Kerala's houseboat tourism hub, Alappuzha.
• The museum will feature a huge repository of documents and exhibits that shaped the labour movements across the continents and impacted Alappuzha, the cradle of the labour movement in the country, in particular and Kerala in general.
• The Labour Movement Museum, the first such window in the country on the class struggle and spirited fight of workers, is part of a larger project that will also be of tourist appeal.
• The museum would be launched as part of the LDF government's second 100-day programme.
• Packed with history predating the advent of the Western colonialism, Alappuzha had a virtual monopoly over the production and shipping of coir made of coconut husk, a product that had immense global demand.
• The Alappuzha Heritage Tourism project is conceived to bring this legacy before tourists, in which these museums are important components.
• The Museums will open as soon as the restoration of heritage structures is complete.
• Kerala State Coir Corporation Ltd building, formerly run by the Volkart Brothers, will become the Museum of Coir History.
• With an outlay of Rs 9.95 crores, 97 per cent of renovation works in this museum is complete.
• The Port Museum gives a vivid idea of Alappuzhas commercial links with the world outside through the sea.
• The conservation of the old Port Office and the adjacent godowns is in progress.
• Nearly 90 per cent of the works of Rs 4.63 crore Port Office refurbishment is complete.
• The places of worship in the town, factories and historical buildings will be part of the project.
• Noted conservation architect Dr Benny Kuriakose is leading the restoration works.

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• 8. SOCIAL ISSUES (Prelims, GS Paper 1, GS Paper 2)

8.1 Education Minister honoured with Canada Sahitya Gaurav Samman

 

 

Highlights – 

• Education Minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' has been awarded the International Literature Canada Sahitya Gaurav by the Hindi Writers Guild Canada for his outstanding writing and literature.
• In December, 2020, Nishank had received 'Watan Shikhar Samman'. The Watan International Awards are given to poets, writers and artists for exemplary work in their respective fields by the Watan-UK organisation of London.
• In the presence of eminent litterateurs and Hindi lovers and academicians from over 52 countries of India and the world, he was conferred this honor at the Raj Bhavan in the hands of Baby Rani Maurya, Governor of Uttarakhand.
• Pokhriyal has an honorary doctoral degree, D.Litt in the field of literature by Graphic Era, Deemed to be University, Uttarakhand.
• He has penned more than 75 books on wide ranging issues, which have also been translated into many national and foreign languages.

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• 9. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Prelims, GS Paper 3)

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• 10. FACTS, CHARTS, RANKINGS and EDITORIALS (Prelims + GS Mains)

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10.2 Daily dose of  FIVE Facts -

• Foreign Ministry of United Kingdom in Jan 2021 said that it has raised $1 bn from global donors to fund vaccination campaigns against Covid-19 in developing countries.
• World Braille Day was observed on Jan 4, 2021.
• Visakhapatnam has been selected as the best performing civic body in the country under PMAY-Urban in 2019.
• PM-CARES Fund is Prime Minister’s- Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund.
• The Union Cabinet in Dec 2020 approved the opening of an Indian Mission in Estonia in 2021.

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• SECTION 3 - MCQs (Multiple Choice Questions)

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