Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 27 February 2022

SSC CGL Current Affairs

Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 27 February 2022

::NATIONAL::

Education Ministry launches Bhasha Certificate Selfie campaign to promote Bhasha Sangam mobile app

Ministry of Education launched a campaign ‘Bhasha Certificate Selfie to encourage cultural diversity and promote mulitlinguism and to foster the spirit of Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat.
Bhasha Certificate Selfie initiative aims to promote BhashaSangam mobile app, developed by Ministry of Education and MyGov India. Using the app, people can learn 100+ sentences of daily use in as many as 22 scheduled Indian languages. The initiative, under the aegis of Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat will aim to ensure that people acquire basic conversational skills in Indian languages. To achieve this, a target of 75 lakh people acquiring basic conversational skills has been set.
The ‘Bhasha Certificate Selfie’ initiative is encouraging people to upload their selfie with the certificate from their social media accounts using the hashtag #BhashaCertificateSelfie.
To receive a certificate authorized by Ministry of Education, a user needs to download the mobile app, available in both Android and iOS versions, select any language from 22 scheduled Indian languages, finish all the levels, give a test and earn a certificate.
BhashaSangam mobile app was launched by Minister of Education and Skill Development ShriDharmendraPradhan while commemorating RashtriyaEktaDiwas which is celebrated on October 31 every year to mark the birth anniversary of SardarVallabhbhai Patel.
During the launch of BhashaSangam mobile app, Union Education Minister ShriDharmendraPradhan had said that the National Education Policy 2020 outlines the vision to lay emphasis on the promotion of Indian languages. Going forward, language learning will be promoted as a skill with a formal credit-earning system, he had added.

::INTERNATIONAL::

Indian High Commission in Dhaka launches Suborno Jubilee Scholarship website

At the invitation of ShriNarendraModi, Prime Minister of the Republic of India, H.E Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is on a State Visit to India from April 7-10, 2017. Apart from her official engagements in New Delhi, Prime Minister Hasina is visiting places of historical and cultural importance in India.
Prime Minister Hasina was accorded a ceremonial reception at the forecourt of RashtrapatiBhavan on April 8, 2017. She will call on President of India ShriPranab Mukherjee on April 9, 2017. She called on Vice President of India Shri Mohammad Hamid Ansari on April 8, 2017. External Affairs Minister of India Smt. SushmaSwaraj and other leaders called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Prime Minister Hasina paid tribute and respect to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat.
The two Prime Ministers presided over a ceremony at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi in honour of the Indian martyrs who fought alongside the Bangladeshi Muktijoddha in the Great Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
Both Prime Ministers jointly released the Hindi translation of the book "Unfinished Memoirs” by Bangabandhu Sheikh MujiburRahman. Prime Minister Hasina thanked the Indian government for renaming a road in New Delhi in memory of her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib. Both the Prime Ministers recalled the visionary leadership of Bangabandhu.
Prime Minister Hasina will address a business event to be held in New Delhi on April 10 jointly organized by the leading Indian and Bangladesh business community.
The two Prime Ministers held discussions in restricted format followed by delegation level talks on April 8. The talks were held in an atmosphere of cordiality and warmth. The two Prime Ministers noted with satisfaction the excellent implementation of decisions jointly taken during Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Bangladesh in June 2015. They held wide-ranging discussions during which they undertook a comprehensive review of all aspects of the bilateral relationship. They also pledged to pursue new opportunities to further deepen and broaden bilateral relations for the mutual benefit of the people of both countries.

::ECONOMY::

India ranks 43 out of 55 countries in International IP (Intellectual Property) Index: US Chambers of Commerce

India has improved its overall IP score from 38.4 per cent to 38.6 per cent, and the country is ranked 43 out of 55 countries on the International Intellectual Property Index, according to an annual report compiled by the influential US Chambers of Commerce.
India's overall score has increased from 38.40 percent (19.20 out of 50) in the ninth edition to 38.64 percent (19.32 out of 50) in the 10th edition. This reflects a score increase on indicator 32, said the report Global Innovation Policy Center of the US Chambers of Commerce.
Overall, India is ranked 43 out of 55 countries in the International IP Index.
In July 2021, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce released a Review of the Intellectual Property Rights Regime in India. This review is a welcome development and offers a comprehensive and detailed study of the strengths and weaknesses of India's national IP environment, the report said.
It is the first major attempt at assessing the state of India's IP policy regime since 2016 and the National Intellectual Property Rights Policy, the chamber said.
According to the report, innovators and creators are constantly competing to deliver the best and brightest tomorrow.
They're racing to create the solutions we need to address critical global challenges, like public health, cultural development, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities. Intellectual property (IP) policies can spur innovators and creators or stop them altogether, it said.

::SCIENCE AND TECH::

Chandrayaan-2 detected solar proton events due to high intensity solar flares in January 2022

When Sun is active, spectacular eruptions called solar flares occur that sometimes also spew out energetic particles (called Solar Proton Events or SPEs) into interplanetary space. Most of these are high energy protons that impact space systems and significantly increase radiation exposure to humans in space. They can cause ionisation on large scales in Earth's middle atmosphere. Many intense solar flares are accompanied by coronal mass ejections (CMEs), a powerful stream of ionised material and magnetic fields, which reach Earth a few days later, leading to geomagnetic storms and lighting up the polar sky with auroras.
Solar flares are classified according to their strength. The smallest ones are A-class, followed by B, C, M and X. Each letter represents a 10-fold increase in energy output. This means that an M class flare is ten times intense than C-class flare and 100 times intense than B-class flare. Within each letter class there is a finer scale from 1 to 9 i.e a M2 flare is twice the strength of M1 flare.
Recently, there were two M-class solar flares. One flare (M5.5) spewed out energetic particles into interplanetary space and the other flare (M1.5) was accompanied by a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). SPE event was seen by NASA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) satellite orbiting around Earth. However, the CME event was not detected by GOES.
Chandrayaan-2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS) on-board Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter detected SPE due to an M5.5 class solar flare that occurred on January 20, 2022 (blue curve). The red curve shows the proton counts due to SPE recorded by GOES satellite operated by NOAA.

::SPORTS::

58th Senior National Chess Championship-2022

International Master KoustavChatterjee of West Bengal continued with his impressive show and downed fourth seed and two time national champion KarthikeyanMurali in the fifth round of the ongoing MPL 58th Senior National Chess Championship here Ganges Club here.
Playing black side of Steinitz Defence of Ruy Lopez opening, Koustav sacrificed his rook for bishop and pawn on 39th move to garner full point against his fancied rival after 20 more moves. Earlier in the fourth round Koustav stunned fifth seed Sethuraman while in the third round he held top seed B Adhiban.