Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 28 OCTOBER 2019

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Prime Minister NarendraModi today urged countrymen to celebrate India’s Nari-Shakti, the power and achievement of women by felicitating the daughters.
Expressing happiness that Bharat Ki Laxmi initiative which was initiated to mark the festive occasion of Deepavali has got overwhelming response from all corners, Mr Modi urged people to seek inspiration from such examples.
In his Mann Ki Baat on All India Radio, Prime Minister said, after the announcement of Bharat kiLaxmi, many inspirational stories on social media followed. Mr Modi referred to the 17th century Kannada poetess SanchiHonnamma who penned a poem mentioning that the daughters are our pride.
Saying festivals are occasions that awaken a new consciousness in the lives of people, Mr Modi appealed to the people to buy local products during Diwali. He said, the more people buy the local things, it will be a befitting tribute to Gandhiji on his 150th birth anniversary.

India has taken up Pakistan's denial of use of its airspace to Prime Minister NarendraModi's flight with the International Civil Aviation Organisation, government sources said on Monday.
Modi is travelling to Saudi Arabia later in the day on a bilateral visit. India has sought overflight clearance from Pakistan for the prime minister's aircraft to go to Saudi Arabia.
Sources said India regrets Pakistan's decision to yet again deny overflight clearance for the VVIP special flight which is otherwise granted routinely by any normal country.
Citing alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan on Sunday denied India's request to allow Modi's aircraft to move in its airspace for his visit to Saudi Arabia.

India will spend about USD 1.4 trillion on its infrastructure development in the next five years, Union Steel Minister DharmendraPradhan said on Saturday.
Pradhan was speaking at the Global Forum on Excess Capacity (GFEC) Tokyo which was attended by representatives several other countries.
He said that the country is committed to spending about US USD 1.4 trillion on its infrastructure development in the next five years.All this, Pradhan said, augurs well for the steel demand in the country.
India is determined to raise the per capita consumption of steel from its current low of 72 kg per capita to 160 kg per capita by 2030, he informed.
The minister met senior management of Japanese steel majors JFE Steel Corporation, Nippon Steel and Daido Steel on Friday and invited them to invest in the growing Indian steel sector.

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera today ended a state of emergency that lasted more than a week amid mass protests. However the demonstrations continued even after the lifting of emergency. A message on the presidency's official Twitter account said the state of emergency would end in all the regions and towns where it was established.
The situation had seen 20,000 soldiers and police deployed on the streets. This measure came a day after Pinera said he had asked all ministers to resign in order to form a new government. The decision came two days after more than a million people took to the country's streets demanding economic and political changes.
Authorities imposed both the state of emergency and curfews last weekend after Chile was rocked by its worst civil unrest in decades. What originated as a student protest against a modest hike in metro fares quickly got out of control as demonstrations turned deadly.

The researchers from IIT Hyderabad and School of Architecture, Bhubaneswar have developed bio-bricks from agricultural waste. The product serves dual purposes of development of eco-friendly sustainable material and also waste management.
The bricks are made from agro-waste like wheat straw, paddy straw, sugarcane bagasse and cotton plant.
Bio-bricks are more sustainable than clay bricks.They also act as carbon sinks as they fix more carbon dioxide than they produce during their lifecycle.
The bricks also provide good insulation to heat and sound and they help in maintaining humidity of buildings and make the house more suitable for hot-humid climates.

In Badminton, India's top men's doubles pair of SatwiksairajRankireddy and ChiragShetty lost to world No.1 pair of Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin SanjayaSukamuljo in the finals of the French Open in Paris last night. The Indian duo settled for silver after losing the final 18-21, 16-21.