Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 17 JUNE 2020

SSC CGL Current Affairs

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The Election Commission has decided to take cognisance of complaints of false affidavits, which indicate serious omission on the part of the candidate. The Commission said, it will refer such matters to the relevant investigating authorities on a case-to-case basis.
The Election Commission at its meeting in New Delhi yesterday discussed the matter of taking cognizance of complaints of false affidavits filed by some candidates along with their nominations, which adversely affects the rights of voters as well as impinging on the purity of electoral process.
The Commission decided to robustly address the challenge of false information in election affidavits to further ensure free, fair and ethical elections in the country.
In a statement, the Commission said, it has been receiving complaints regarding false information in affidavits filed by some candidates. Currently, one has to file such complaints in a court under section 125A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 for necessary action.

Chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW) Rekha Sharma denied on Tuesday that there was a spurt in domestic violence in the country.
Ms. Sharma said that there was only a rise in reporting of such crimes.Her response was to a report in The Hindu on a 2.5 times increase in domestic violence complaints registered by the NCW between March 25 and May 31.
She emphasised that 99% of the complaints received by the NCW were “not new cases”. “Many survivors who have approached us say they have been experiencing violence at home for past several years. These are not new cases.
Between March 25 and May 31, the NCW received 1,477 complaints of domestic violence.

Mobile payments and card transactions exceeded cash withdrawals from automated teller machines (ATMs) for the first time in 2019, indicating that the country’s push towards digital payments was bearing fruit, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence’s 2020 India Mobile Payments Market Report.
Card and mobile payments as a percentage of GDP rose to 20% in the quarter ended December 31, 2019, S&P said, adding that India ranked favourably among countries that built instant payment schemes, processing at least five times more transactions than the second-largest market based on an analysis of real-time payment volumes.
“High growth rates in cashless payments seen in recent years are unlikely to repeat amid an economic slowdown due to the novel coronavirus pandemic,” said Sampath Sharma Nariyanuri, fintech analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence.

India received 51 billion US dollar in foreign investment in 2019. UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in its report said, it was the world's ninth largest recipient of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI).
The report said, India's large market will continue to attract market-seeking investments to the country.In the developing Asia region, India was among the top five host economies for FDI.
The report said, FDI to India, the largest South Asian recipient, increased 20 per cent to 51 billion US dollar, sustaining the country's upward FDI trend.

The Charge d’ Affaires of the High Commission of Pakistan Haider Shah, was summoned today to the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi and a strong protest was lodged on the abduction and torture of two officials of the High Commission of India in Islamabad by Pakistan security agencies.
Two officials of the Indian High Commission were forcibly abducted by Pakistani agencies on the fifteenth of this month and kept in illegal custody for more than 10 hours.
The Government of India strongly condemned and deplored the action of the Pakistani authorities. It termed this as premeditated, grave and provocative action on the part of the Pakistani authorities, preceded by intensified surveillance, harassment and intimidation of High Commission personnel over the past several days it was designed to obstruct and disrupt the normal functioning of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad.
New Delhi also rejected the attempt by Pakistani authorities to levy false accusations and concocted charges on the officials of the High Commission.
India said, these actions by Pakistan not only constitute an egregious violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 as also the ‘Code of Conduct for treatment of Diplomatic and Consular personnel in India and Pakistan signed in 1992 and reaffirmed by both sides in March 2018, but are also against all established norms and practices of diplomatic conduct.

Foreign news channels, including those from India, may not receive permission to air in Nepal if they fail to produce advertisement-free content.This is part of the “clean feed” policy for foreign TV networks that the government of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli began to activate on Monday.
The policy stems from the Advertisement (Regulation) Act-2019 endorsed by the Nepalese Parliament last winter and an official order was issued by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology of Nepal.
Foreign TV channels will have to air content without commercial advertisements or promotional materials and campaigns. The law aims at generating more advertisements for the local channels and help domestic media and advertisement industry. Violations will attract tough penalty.
International broadcasters that refuse to produce “clean feed” content are likely to lose viewers. It is understood that the policy, which will make telecasting of foreign channels more expensive, is aimed at giving greater control over them, especially those from India that are in Kathmandu’s focus because of the coverage of the Kalapani territorial dispute.

India’s first ever national forecast on the impact of global warming on the subcontinent in the coming century, expects annual rainfall to increase, along with more severe cyclones and — paradoxically — more droughts.
These projections, based on a climate forecasting model developed at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, will be part of the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), expected to be ready in 2022.
Currently countries have signed an agreement to reduce emissions to restrict global temperature rise by the end of the century to less than 2°C.
The frequencies of future warm days and warm nights are projected to increase by 55% and 70%, respectively, relative to the reference period of 1976-2005. Summer heat waves over India are projected to be three to four times higher by the end of the 21st century.

The PGA Championship will be held in August but without fans, after California health officials on Monday gave the green light to the first major championship of 2020, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The tournament, scheduled for August 6-9 in San Francisco, had hoped to attract up to 40,000 fans a day at Harding Park golf course but that was before the USPGA Tour was shutdown because of the coronavirus outbreak. The PGA Championship, which is run by the PGA of America, was originally scheduled to take place in May.