Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 27 November 2020

SSC CGL Current Affairs

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Films Division (FD) is organising Lok Virasat, a festival of films on folk art and painting starting from November 27, 2020.
It is an exclusive bouquet of documentary films on folk art and paintings - Lok Virasat - is being showcased, between November 27–29, 2020 on FD website and You Tube channel.
The Kingdom of God, on the great Indian heritage of art and culture with focus on various folk-art traditions,
Bhavai - Fading Memories, a film on Bhavai - a folk art of Gujarat,
Naman – Khele, a film on the ancient folk art performed in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra,
Sahi Jata, The Fusion Cult, a film on the unique fusion of muscle and music in the form of folk art on the back-drop of the ancient Orissa town of Puri and

Vice President said the Supreme Court and high courts had delivered several far-reaching verdicts in furtherance of socio-economic objectives besides making correctional interventions but concerns were raised whether orders
on Diwali fireworks,
monitoring of investigations and
Making judicial appointments their preserve meant an intrusion into the domains of the legislature and the executive.
Speaking at the 80th All India Presiding Officers’ Conference in Kevadia, he told there had been debates whether some issues should have been more legitimately left to the other organs of governance.
Banning use of vehicles of certain make after 10 or 15 years,
Monitoring police investigations,
Denying the executive any role in the appointment of judges by instituting collegium,

Government has proposed to provide equity capital of Rs. 6,000 crore to the debt platform sponsored by NIIF in the next 2 years.
NIIF is first sovereign wealth fund (by Govt of India) that seeks to create long-term value for domestic and international investors seeking investment in Greenfield, Brownfield and Stalled infrastructure projects.
It is registered with SEBI as a Category II Alternative Investment Fund with a planned corpus of Rs. 40,000 crore.

The United Nations earlier this month launched the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund to provide accelerated funding to countries with the heaviest burden of diseases stemming from lack of sanitation services and have the least ability to respond to them.
It also aims to raise $2 billion over the next five years for these countries.
The fund is hosted by the UN Office for Project Services, which provides technical advice and project implementation to the UN and its partners.
Expanding household sanitation
Ensuring menstrual health and hygiene

Department of Justice has launched the iOS version of the Nyaya Bandhu Application and its onboardingon UMANG platform (MeiTY).
Nyaya Bandhu was launched in 2017 to establish a framework for dispensation of pro bono legal servicesacross the country.
It connects practicing advocates interested in pro bono work with eligible marginalised and vulnerablebeneficiaries, through Mobile Application.
Recently, blue tide was spotted along Maharashtra's shoreline which was produced due to fluorescent blue huefrom the process called bioluminescence.
Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by a living organism.
The light is produced through a series of chemical reactions due to luciferase (oxidative enzymes) protein.

New Zealand's Greg Barclay has been elected as the new independent chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
The head of the New Zealand Cricket team, NZC, Barclay beat Imran Khwaja in the second round of voting. Imran was interim chairman after Shashank Manohar stepped down from the post in July this year.
In the first round of voting last week, Barclay had 10 votes to Khwaja's six, and needed 11 votes for a two-thirds majority of the 16-person ICC Board.