Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 09 December 2020

SSC CGL Current Affairs

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The Union Cabinet approved laying of an undersea optical fibre cable to 11 Lakshadweep Islands to provide high-speed broadband internet connectivity, information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar.
This would be on the lines of the one recently laid to Andaman and Nicobar islands.
The Cabinet also approved setting up of 1 crore data centres.

Union Finance Minister releases the Smuggling in India Report 2019-20 which analyses organised smuggling trends on Gold and Foreign Currency, Narcotic Drugs, Security, Environment and Commercial Frauds.
The report has been compiled by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has detected 412 cases of smuggling resulting in the seizure of contraband worth ₹1,949 crore in 2019-20.
It arrested 837 economic offenders and also unearthed 761 complex cases of Customs duty evasion amounting to ₹2,183 crore.

Bangladesh signed its first Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) with Bhutan allowing duty free access to a range of goods between the two countries.
This is the first PTA Bangladesh has signed with any country in the world.
In 1971, Bhutan was the first country in the world, followed by India as the second, to recognise Bangladesh as an independent country.
The trade volume between the two countries is approximately 50 million dollars with 7.56 million of export and 42.09 million import into Bangladesh.
Bangladesh is expected to sign 11 more PTAs and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with countries like Indonesia and Nepal by June next year.

Greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high last year, putting the world on track for an average temperature rise of 3 degrees Celsius.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - the latest to suggest the world is hurtling toward extreme climate change - follows a year of sobering weather extremes, including rapid ice loss in the Arctic as well as record heat waves and wildfires in Siberia and the US West.
The annual “emissions gap” report measures the gap between anticipated emissions and those consistent with limiting the global temperature rise this century as agreed in the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Under the global climate pact, nations have committed to a long-term goal of limiting the average temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it even further to 1.5C.

Lebanon Reform, Recovery and Reconstruction Frameworkis part of a comprehensive people-centered response to the massive explosion on the Port of Beirut inAugust 2020.
It has been launched by the European Union, UN and the World Bank for a period of 18-month.
The 3RF aims to help Lebanon achieve three central goals in response to the Beirut port explosion.

National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited will be adopting LiDAR technique to conduct ground survey forthe proposed Delhi-Varanasi High Speed Rail corridor.
Light Detection and Ranging Survey (LiDAR) is a remote sensing technology that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure ranges(distances) to a target.
These light pulses are combined with other data recorded by the airborne system to generate precise,three-dimensional information about the shape of the Earth and its surface characteristics.
It is similar to radar and sonar (that use radio and sound waves, respectively).

Jehan Daruvala became the first Indian to win a Formula 2 race during the Sakhir Grand Prix.
A thrilling battle against F2 champion Mick Schumacher and Daniel Ticktum saw the 22-year-old Indian emerge on top in the support race of the season-ending Formula 1 Grand Prix.
The FIA Formula 2 Championship is a second-tier single-seater racing championship organised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).
The championship was introduced in 2017, following the rebranding of the long-term Formula One feeder series GP2.