Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 05 April 2022

SSC CGL Current Affairs

Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 05 April 2022

::NATIONAL::

‘In conflict with central law’: Centre blocks Odisha’sLingaraj temple ordinance

The Central government has told the Odisha government that its ordinance to bring the 11th-century Lingaraj temple in Bhubaneswar and its associated temples under a special law is outside the “legislative competence” of the state legislature and could lead to conflict with the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 (AMASR Act)
In December 2020, Naveen Patnaik led cabinet approved an ordinance to bring Lingaraj Temple, the largest temple in Bhubaneswar and 8 other associated temples, under the control of Lingaraj Temple Managing Committee, similar to the one for Jagannath Temple in Puri.
The Lingaraj temple was earlier covered under the Odisha Hindu Religious Endowment Act.
The Jagannath temple was the first temple in Odisha to have a special law enacted in 1955 after being under British control for a long time. The ordinance provided an administrator, quite like the Jagannath temple and servitor system with hereditary rights.
In December 2019, the Patnaik government unveiled the EkamraKshetra Development project for the development of the area around Lingaraj temple to revive the heritage and cultural value of the ‘temple city’”.
Citing objections from the culture ministry, the judicial and political prisoners section of the home ministry said that since the ordinance covers 12 centrally protected monuments including the Lingaraj temple and 3 tanks it was outside the legislative competence of the state legislature as it violates the provisions of AMASR Act, 1958.

::INTERNATIONAL::

Neighbourhood in turmoil as Pakistan, Sri Lanka politics on edge

The developments in the neighbourhood are understood to have figured at a meeting between Prime Minister NarendraModi and external affairs minister S Jaishankar in the Parliament premises on Monday, the people cited above said on condition of anonymity.
India is keeping a wary eye on the political and economic turmoil affecting two neighbours – Pakistan and Sri Lanka – though the situation in both countries is not expected to have any immediate fallout for New Delhi, according to people aware of the developments.
A day after Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s surprise decision to dissolve Parliament and call early elections in order to avert a no-confidence vote that he was unlikely to survive, the Supreme Court on Monday adjourned without ruling on the legality of the premier’s actions.
A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial will take up several petitions from the government and opposition when it resumes hearing the matter on Tuesday. Outgoing information minister FawadChaudhry said Khan had proposed former chief justice Gulzar Ahmad for the post of interim prime minister to oversee the elections.
In Sri Lanka, the opposition dismissed President GotabayaRajapaksa’s offer to join a unity government as “nonsensical” and instead demanded his resignation over worsening shortages of food, fuel and medicines. The move followed several days of public protests and the resignation on Sunday of all members of the cabinet except the president and his elder brother, Prime Minister MahindaRajapaksa.
People familiar with the matter said that India decided not to take any official position on the constitutional crisis in Pakistan as it was an internal matter of the country. In the case of Sri Lanka, the people pointed out that India has already provided financial assistance of some $2.4 billion in recent weeks, including the deferral of loan repayments, and lines of credit worth $1.5 billion for emergency purchases of oil, food and medicines.

::ECONOMY::

This 30-year-old crypto billionaire plans to give his fortune away

The Economic Club of New York has hosted kings, prime ministers, and presidents, as well as Amazon.com Inc.’s Jeff Bezos and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon. Central bankers’ comments at the 115-year-old organization have moved markets. Sam Bankman-Fried, a 30-year-old cryptocurrency billionaire, is probably the first person to play a computer game while giving a talk.
As the featured guest one morning in February, Bankman-Fried looks schlubby as usual, reclining on a gaming chair in blue shorts and a gray T-shirt advertising his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, his mop of curly hair flattened by his headphones. He’s speaking by Zoom from his office in the Bahamas.
Off camera, the detritus of someone who more or less lives at work litters his desk: crumpled bills from the U.S. and Hong Kong, nine tubes of lip balm, a stick of deodorant, a 1.5‑pound canister of sea salt labeled “SBF’s salt shaker,” and an open packet of chickpea korma that he had for lunch the day before. The beanbag where his assistant says he sleeps most weekdays is so close he could practically roll onto it.
The novelty of appearances like this has long since worn off for Bankman-Fried, who’s testified before Congress twice since December. The previous weekend, he watched the Super Bowl from box seats just in front of NBA star Steph Curry—an FTX endorser. There was lunch with basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal and a party DJ’d by the head of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The singer Sia invited him to a dinner at a Beverly Hills mansion with Bezos and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, where Kate Hudson sang the national anthem and he chatted about crypto with pop star Katy Perry. The next day she told her 154 million followers on Instagram, in an unsolicited endorsement, “im quitting music and becoming an intern for @ftx_official ok”

::Science and tech::

First private astronaut mission to space station readies for launch

The International Space Station (ISS) is set to become busier than usual this week when its crew welcomes aboard four new colleagues from Houston-based startup Axiom Space, the first all-private astronaut team ever flown to the orbiting outpost.
The launch is being hailed by the company, NASA and other industry players as a turning point in the latest expansion of commercial space ventures collectively referred to by insiders as the low-Earth orbit economy, or "LEO economy" for short.
Weather permitting, Axiom's four-man team will lift off on Friday at the earliest from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, riding atop a Falcon 9 rocket furnished and flown by Elon Musk's commercial space launch venture SpaceX.
The launch was initially scheduled for Wednesday. An Axiom spokesperson said on Monday the delay would give SpaceX more time to complete pre-launch processing work. If all goes smoothly, the quartet led by retired NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria would arrive at the space station about 28 hours later as their SpaceX-supplied Crew Dragon capsule docks at ISS some 250 miles (400 km) above Earth.

::Sports::

Sports Ministry to spend ₹190 crore to prepare athletes for CWG, Asian Games

The sports ministry has earmarked ₹190 crore for preparing Indian athletes for the 2022 Commonwealth Games and Asian Games. The Annual Calendar of Training & Competitions (ACTCs) was finalised for 33 disciplines on Monday and Rs. 259 crore set aside as assistance to the National Sports Federations (NSFs).
Union sports ministerAnurag Thakur said funds will not be a constraint for preparing the athletes and the ministry will provide all support.
Assistance to NSFs for organising national championships was raised to Rs.51 lakh for high priority, priority and traditional sports. For general category sports, it has been raised to ₹30 lakh from ₹22 lakh (earlier uniform for all categories).
To encourage NSFs to host more international events in India, assistance has been raised to Rs. 1 crore from Rs.30 lakh. “To attract qualified support personnel, remuneration has been raised substantially. Remuneration of sports doctors and doctors has been increased to up to Rs. 2 lakh per month from Rs.1 lakh per month and that of head physiotherapists and physiotherapists to up to Rs. 2 lakh per month and up to Rs. 1.5 lakh per month respectively, from Rs. 80,000 per month,” the statement said.