Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 25 March 2021

SSC CGL Current Affairs

Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 25 March 2021

::NATIONAL::

National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions Bill passed by Parliament

Parliament has passed the National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions Bill, 2021. The Bill seeks to set up a National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions to regulate and standardize the education and practice of allied and healthcare professionals.
The functions of the proposed National Commission include framing of standards for education and practice, creating and maintaining an online Central Register of all registered professionals, providing basic standards of education, and providing for a uniform entrance and exit examination. Under the legislation, only those enrolled in a State Register or the National Register as a qualified allied and healthcare practitioner would be allowed to practice as a allied and healthcare practitioner.
Replying to the debate in LokSabha today, Union Health Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan said that the legislation will increase employment opportunities for the allied and healthcare professionals and provide dignity to their valuable works.
He said, there is an immense demand for the qualified healthcare professionals and the legislation will provide necessary impetus in providing affordable healthcare to the people. He thanked members for supporting the Bill.
Participating in the discussion, BalubauDhanorkar of Congress stressed on the need to increase the allocation on health.
He said that the provisions pertaining to penalty must be increased so that interest of the people can be safeguarded. Dr. SubhashBhamre of BJP appreciated the legislation saying that the Bill is a path-breaking initiative which will transform the healthcare sector in the country.

::INTERNATIONAL::

In Bangladesh, protests to mark 'Genocide Day'

'Genocide Day' has been observed in Bangladesh since 2017 against the atrocities committed by the Pakistan Army on civilians on the night of March 25, 1971, when it launched Operation Searchlight in Dhaka to curb the Bengali nationalist movement.
Protests will be held at 34 spots across Bangladesh on Thursday to mark 'Genocide Day' in memory of the three million people killed by Pakistani forces during the 1971 Liberation War.
The daily reported that no lighting will be allowed at all the government, semi-government, autonomous organisations, and private buildings and installations on the night of March 25.
According to the official, key point installations (KPIs) and emergency installations will be exempted from the blackout program, Dhaka Tribune reported.
The Bangladesh genocide is considered to be the largest and longest since it covers the entire length of the nine-month-long liberation war of Bangladesh.

::ECONOMY::

India ranks 40th on the US government's International Intellectual Property (IP) Index

India has been ranked 40th out of 53 countries on a global intellectual property index, even as the country has shown improvement in terms of scores when it comes to the protection of IP and copyright issues, a top American industry body said on Wednesday.
India was placed at 36th position among 50 countries in 2019.
India's score, however, increased from 36.04 per cent (16.22 out of 45) in 2019 to 38.46 per cent (19.23 out of 50) in 2020, a 2.42 per cent jump in absolute score.
However, India's relative score increased by 6.71 per cent, according to the International IP Index released by Global Innovation Policy Center or GIPC of the US Chambers of Commerce.
This year, it finds itself on the 40th place among 53 countries.
Two new Index economies (Greece and the Dominican Republic) scored ahead of India.
The Philippines, and Ukraine leapfrogged India.
"Since the release of the 2016 National IPR Policy, the government of India has made a focused effort to support investments in innovation and creativity through increasingly robust IP protection and enforcement," the GIPC said.
Since 2016, India has improved the speed of processing for patent and trademark applications, increased awareness of IP rights among Indian innovators and creators, and facilitated the registration and enforcement of those rights, it added.
According to the eighth edition of the annual report, India's score on the Chamber's International IP Index demonstrates the country's growing investment in IP-driven innovation and creativity.

::SCIENCE AND TECH::

Musk on SpaceX landing Starship rockets on Mars

In December last year, Musk said his company is “highly confident” that it will land humans on Mars by 2026, terming it as an achievable goal “about six years from now.”
SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday his company will land Starships on the Red Planet before 2030. Musk’s comment was a reply to a tweet on his timeline, which included an article on how Europe feared the progress of Space X. “SpaceX will be landing Starships on Mars well before 2030. The really hard threshold is making Mars Base Alpha self-sustaining,” Musk tweeted.
In December last year, Musk said his company is “highly confident” that it will land humans on Mars by 2026, terming it as an achievable goal “about six years from now.”

::SPORTS::

India win historic ninth gold in best ever world cup performance

Euphoria swept through the stands as the scoreboard flashed the result at the end of the 25m sports pistol final at the ISSF World Cup here. ChinkiYadav, RahiSarnobat and Manu Bhaker–in that order–occupied the first three places. A gold-silver-bronze for India. On a day that India recorded their best ever performance at a shooting world cup, reaching a record tally of nine gold medals–the most by any nation in a single edition–the action was relentless.
What that scoreboard did not reveal was how much it mattered to the three shooters engaged in the nerve-wracking contest. All three have Tokyo Olympics quota places– Chinki and Sarnobat have it in the event they were competing in.