Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 04 March 2022

SSC CGL Current Affairs

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Karnataka education department is preparing to start online classes for students who have or will return to the state from war-torn Ukraine, officials.
Director of medical education department PG Girish confirmed that the officials of his department will soon apprise chief minister Basavaraj Bommai of the plan to provide online classes to MBBS students arriving from Ukraine. The classes will be on a temporary basis till the situation in the country improves, he added.
“It is difficult to provide offline education to those students in the present circumstances. Here the seats have been allotted to those who took the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET). But there is a possibility that temporary online classes could be arranged for those who have come back to India,” he said.
He added that even though the syllabus in Ukraine is different, it is possible to provide classes to students.
Naveen SG, a resident of the Haveri district, became the first Indian casualty in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A fourth-year medical student at Kharkiv National Medical University, he was killed on Tuesday when he stepped out of his apartment and went to a nearby supermarket to buy some provisions for himself and those bunked with him.

The Chinese foreign ministry said a news report claiming China asked Russia to delay its attack on Ukraine until the end of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics was “fake” and a “very despicable” attempt to shift blame for the ongoing conflict.
Foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin repeated China’s accusations that Washington provoked Russia to invade Ukraine by not ruling out Nato membership for the Eastern European country.
Wang was referring to a New York Times report, which said Chinese officials told their Russian counterparts in early February not to invade Ukraine before the end of the Winter Olympics in Beijing.
The UN nuclear watchdog’s board of governors on Thursday passed a resolution criticising Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and calling on it to let Ukraine control all its nuclear facilities, diplomats said.
Twenty-six countries voted in favour and two voted against with five abstentions, two diplomats said. One diplomat said Russia and China voted against while Pakistan, India, South Africa, Senegal and Vietnam abstained. Mexico and Burundi were absent, they added.

Insurance is a necessity in India in the absence of a social security net, but the government is taxing the sector heavily even as others in the financial sector are exempted, lamented former Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDAI) member NileshSathe.
Sathe was the keynote speaker at the insurance round of the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit.
“Charging 18 per cent GST (Goods and Services Tax) on insurance premium is atrocious,” the respected insurance veteran said in his customary frank manner.
“In the absence of any social security available to the citizens, insurance becomes a necessity. All essential commodities are out of the purview of GST, why should premium be taxed, and that too, so heavily,” Sathe asked, adding nowhere in the world one has to pay such heavy tax on insurance premium.
“There is no such tax on banking services or mutual fund services. These are also financial services, there is no reason why insurance services should be taxed and that too, so heavily. Even the premium for purchase of annuity attracts GST,” said Sathe in his speech.
Sathe said the government’s “clear apathy” towards the sector was evident when no immediate capitalisation was done to state-owned insurance companies when their solvency ratio (which must always remain above 150 per cent) fell below the threshold a couple of times.

Faced with threats of withdrawals and growing animosity in the Athletes Village, organizers of the Winter Paralympics on Thursday reversed course and expelled athletes from Russia and Belarus.
The about-face came less than 24 hours after the International Paralympic Committee announced it would allow Russians and Belarusians to compete when the Games open on Friday, but only as neutral athletes with colors, flags and other national symbols removed because of the invasion of Ukraine.
“The war has now come to these Games and behind the scenes many governments are having an influence on our cherished event,” IPC President Andrew Parsons said Thursday after announcing the ban.
“We were trying to protect the Games from war.”