Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 25 OCTOBER 2019
::NATIONAL::
President to address golden jubilee celebration of Vishwa Shanti stupa
- President Ram NathKovind will visit Rajgir in Bihar today.
Mr.Kovind will inaugurate day long golden jubilee celebrations of Vishwa
Shanti Stupa (World Peace Pagoda) in Rajgir.
- More than 300 Buddhist monks, devotees and eminent personalities
from Japan, Thailand, Srilanka, Bhutan, Nepal, US and other countries have
arrived to take part in the function. During his brief visit, the President
will participate in prayers and also address the gathering at the venue.
- AIR Correspondent reports, the Vishwa Shanti Stupa has completed
50 years of its establishment. To mark this occasion Buddhist monks will
today chant traditional mantras in unison for peace, fraternity, humanity
and compassion.
SC asks centre to furnish roadmap of curbs in Jammu
- The Supreme Court today asked the Jammu and Kashmir administration
as to how long they intend to continue the restrictions, including internet
blockade, imposed in the Valley following the abrogation of provision of
Article 370.
- The Supreme Court today asked the Jammu and Kashmir administration
as to how long they intend to continue the restrictions, including internet
blockade, imposed in the Valley following the abrogation of provision of
Article 370.
- A bench headed by Justice N V Ramana told Attorney General K
KVenugopal and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who were appearing for the
Centre and the J&K administration respectively, to come out with “clear”
reply and find out other methods to deal with the issue.
- Mehta told the bench, also comprising Justices R Subhash Reddy and
B R Gavai, that “the restrictions are being reviewed daily. In around 99 per
cent area, no restrictions are there”.
::ECONOMY::
India improves rank in World Bank EODB
- In the latest ranking for countries in ease of doing business, the
World Bank has placed India 63rd out of190 countries — an improvement of 14
places from its77th position last year. The country’s score improved from
67.3 last year to 71.0this year, as per The Doing Business 2020 study,
released on Thursday.
- The indicator measures the performance of countries across 10
different dimensions in the 12monthperiod ending May 1, 2019.
- The 10 areas of study are:starting a business, dealing with
construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting
credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders,
enforcing contracts, and resolving insolvency.
SC allows centre’s plea to recover AGR from telecom companies
- The Supreme Court today allowed the Centre's plea to recover
Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) of about 92,000 crore rupees from telecom
service providers.
- A three-judge bench, headed by Justice Arun Mishra, upholded the
definition of adjusted gross revenue formulated by Department of Telecom (DoT).
The apex court said it had rejected all other submissions of the telecom
companies.
- It added that the service providers would have to pay penalties
and interests to the DoT. The bench made it clear that there would no
further litigation on the issue and it would fix a time frame for
calculation and payment of dues by the telecom companies.
- The Supreme Court ruled that adjusted gross revenue (AGR) for
telcos should include all revenue accrued to carriers, including that from
noncore activities, backing the telecom department’s stance in a 16-year-old
case.
::INTERNATIONAL::
U.S asks Bangladesh to postpone Rohingyan relocations
- The US has urged Bangladesh to postpone relocation of Rohingyas to
the uninhabited island Bhashan Char. In a statement given at the House
Foreign Affairs Sub Committee, acting assistant secretary at the Bureau of
South and Central Asia Alice G Wells urged Bangladesh to postpone any
refugee relocation to Bhashan Char until independent experts can determine
it a suitable location.
- Appreciating Bangladesh for allowing Rohingya refugees to take
shelter in the country she said that opening its border for 700,000
Rohingyarefugees since August 2017 deserves recognition from international
partners, including the United States.
- She further said that Myanmar must create conditions for the
Rohingya’s voluntary, safe, dignified and sustainable repatriation and
guarantee their rights as recommended by the Annan Commission.
- Government of Bangladesh has been keen to relocate the Rohingya
refugees to the Bhashan char island where arrangements for relocating 1 lakh
people have been made at a cost of 23,000 crores Taka.
- It has built houses, cyclone shelters, a three-metre high and
13-km long flood-defence embankment, food warehouses and other basic
facilities on the island.
::SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY::
WHO inches towards target of global polio eradication
- The World Health Organization welcomed an "historic step" towards
a polio-free world on Thursday as an expert panel certified that the second
of three types of the crippling virus has been eradicated globally.
- The announcement by the Global Commission for the Certification of
Poliomyelitis Eradication means that only wild polio virus type 1 is still
circulating, after type 2 was declared eradicated in 2015, and type 3 this
week.
- Global polio cases have been cut by more than 99 per cent since
1988, but type 1 polio virus is still endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan,
where it has infected a total of 88 people this year. That is a resurgence
from a record low global annual figure of 22 cases in 2017.
- In unvaccinated populations, however, polio viruses can re-emerge
and spread swiftly. Cases of vaccine-derived polio can also occur in places
where immunity is low and sanitation is poor, as vaccinated people can
excrete the virus, putting the unvaccinated at risk.
- The Philippines last month said it was planning an emergency
vaccination campaign after polio re-surfaced and caused the first two
recorded polio cases there for 20 years.
::SPORTS::
Bangladeshi cricketers call of strike
- In Bangladesh, cricketers led by star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan,
have called off their strike over pay and benefits after getting assurance
from the country's Board that all their demands will be met.
- The deadlock between the players and Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB)
ended after a two-hour-long meeting yesterday.
- The truce means that the team's T20 and Test tour of India,
beginning November 3rd, will go on as per schedule and players will be
joining the preparatory camp on Friday.