Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 20 March 2021

SSC CGL Current Affairs

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The state Legislative Assembly passed the Haryana Recovery of Damages to Property during Disturbance to Public Order Bill, 2021 on Thursday (March 18).
The BharatiyaJanata Party-led government in the state passed by voice vote a bill to recover damages caused amid the protests, during the budget session of the state assembly.
Haryana Chief Minister ManoharLalKhattar said that the 2.5 crore people of Haryana have every right over the land and it is the responsibility of the State Government to protect it.
"This law should have been made long ago. It is the responsibility of the State Government to protect the property of the state, whether it is private or government. No one benefits from the loss of property, in fact, the loss of property leads to economic loss," Khattar told reporters here after the end of the VidhanSabha budget session.

India has been ranked 139 out of 149 countries in the list of UN World Happiness Report 2021 released on Friday which is topped by Finland.
The World Happiness Report 2021, issued by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, focuses on the effects of COVID-19 and how people all over the world have fared.
It ranks the world's 149 countries on "how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be".
"Our aim was two-fold, first to focus on the effects of COVID-19 on the structure and quality of people's lives, and second to describe and evaluate how governments all over the world have dealt with the pandemic. In particular, we try to explain why some countries have done so much better than others," it said in a statement.
It said that India is on the 139th spot in the list.
In 2019, India was ranked 140th.
"There have been both in-person and telephone samples for India, with the in-person responses being lower than telephone responses, while significantly higher than in-person responses in 2019. Hence the reversal in 2020 of the longer term slide in Indian life evaluations was not attributable to mode effects," it said.
Finland has been ranked as the happiest country in the world.
The Nordic nation is followed by Iceland, Denmark, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Norway.

The missiles, having a range of 1,850 metres, can be fired from ground as well as vehicle-based launchers and their induction is planned to be completed in three years, the ministry said.
The Defence Ministry on Friday sealed a deal with state-run Bharat Dynamics Ltd (BDL) to acquire 4,960 anti-tank guided missiles at a cost of 1,188 crore for the Indian Army.
The missiles, having a range of 1,850 metres, can be fired from ground as well as vehicle-based launchers and their induction is planned to be completed in three years, the ministry said.
In the last few months, the ministry finalised a range of procurement projects for the three forces to enhance their overall combat capabilities.
"The acquisition wing of the Ministry of Defence signed a contract with defence public sector undertaking Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) for supply of 4,960 MILAN-2T anti-tank guided missiles to Indian Army at a cost of 1,188 crore," the ministry said in a statement.

In a big fillip to budding space entrepreneurs, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has inaugurated three technology incubation centres (S-TICs) at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) campuses in Nagpur, Bhopal and Rourkela.
The three new centres were inaugurated by ISRO's chairman Dr K Sivan through a virtual programme.
It should be noted that these three new technology incubation centres are in addition to the three such facilities already established by ISRO at NITs in Agartala, Jalandhar and Tiruchirappalli.
With the opening of the three new S-TICs, ISRO's goal to establish one such centre in each of the six regions of the country has been accomplished.
These centres have been established under the concept of instituting one major academic institute taking the lead role in a particular region and providing opportunities to final-year and post-graduate students and research scholars as "future budding entrepreneurs".

Divyansh Singh Panwar was fighting his own battle as the world grappled with the coronavirus-enforced lockdown.The Indian shooter "almost forgot" how to shoot, something that had earned him laurels, including an Olympic quota and medals of all colours across the world.
On Saturday however, the 18-year-old 10m air rifle specialist showed that he is getting back to his old self, with a bronze medal in the ISSF World Cup here.
The world number one had no qualms in admitting that the shutdown had affected him gravely.