Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam - 29 May, 2014

Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam

It’s curtains for the UPA government’s flagship programme, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The new Union Urban Development and Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister (HUPA), M. Venkaiah Naidu, said a new mission would be launched soon in place of JNNURM.
The new mission would focus on the modern concept for cities based on GIS-based planning and would have solid and liquid waste management to develop clean cities.
As promised in the BJP manifesto, the Ministry will focus on initiating 100 new cities that will be enabled with the latest in technology and infrastructure.
The government would strive to reduce the interest rate on home loans to ensure housing for all and give a fillip to low-cost housing.

The Indian Air Force has test-fired three surface-to-air Akash missiles — two of them in ripple mode — from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, Balasore district, Odisha.
All the three missiles tore apart their targets — a contraption called tow-body flown by the pilotless target aircraft (PTA) Lakshya. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed both Akash and Lakshya.
The IAF launched the next two missiles in ripple mode, that is, the second missile lifted off from its launcher five seconds after the first one did so.
The missile can engage targets such as fighter aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, helicopters and cruise missiles, flying 25 km away.

Sony SIX, official broadcaster for the FIFA, believes nearly 65 million viewers are expected to watch the tournament from the Indian sub-continent.
The broadcaster said that it will tap into the prime time slot featuring lives games from FIFA. It said that about 24 matches out of the total 64 matches will be telecast in the prime time slot of 9:30 pm across the Indian subcontinent.
Last time around, out of the total viewer demography in India, the tournament had attracted 38% viewership from the 15-34 year audience category presenting a unique opportunity for advertisers and marketers to invest in, the broadcaster said in a statement.
‎Besides India, the channel will also broadcast the tournament exclusively to audiences across Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Maldives.

Soon, vegetables grown in kitchen gardens by children in government schools will be used for cooking food under the mid-day meal programme — Akshara Dasoha — in the State of Karnataka.
Already, many government schools in Mysore district have developed gardens on their campuses and are growing vegetables that are used in cooking meals.
Some schools were even sharing vegetables and fruits with other schools at a nominal cost. Such schools have emerged as models for others to replicate.
The idea is not to minimise the expenditure on the meal programme but to develop a healthy ambience in the schools.