Tuesday, May 26, 2020
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Monday, May 25, 2020
Vision IAS Mains 2020[English] Test 07 with Solution PDF
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Daily Current Affairs, 25th May 2020
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1) International Day to End Obstetric Fistula observed on 23 May
•The theme for International Day to End Obstetric Fistula 2020 is “End gender inequality! End health inequities! End Fistula now!”.
2) World Turtle Day celebrated on 23 May
3) Andhra Pradesh CM releases 1st tranche of “ReStart Package”
•Under the “ReStart Package”, government will waive of all the minimum power demand charges of MSMEs of the months of April, May and June. This cost has been estimated as a amount of Rs 188 crore. Along with waive off, the AP government will also provide input capital of Rs 200 crore to the firms at low-interest rates in order to bring the MSMEs back on rails. This will be done by providing loans in partnership with the Small industrial Development Bank of India at a low-interest rate.
•Andhra Pradesh government has also announced to give preferential market access to MSMEs in government procurement and it has identified 360 items that will be purchased from MSMEs and all those payments will be cleared in a period of 45 days.
4) Abhas Jha becomes World Bank’s Practice Manager for Climate Change
•During his tenure as World Bank’s Practice Manager for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management for South Asia, Abhas Jha will also work along with other Practice Managers, Global Leads as well as the Global Solutions Groups to incubate, pilot and scale-up innovative and high-quality development solutions. They will together promote the generation as well as the flow of global knowledge to serve South Asian countries.
5) Jahnabi Phookan appointed as National President of FLO
•As a National President, Jahnabi Phookan will work towards empowering women with entrepreneurship capabilities and professional excellence. Her efforts would aim to enable women to take up new challenges and maximise the opportunities in the new normal post COVID-19.
•FICCI FLO works towards women’s economic empowerment and represents over 8,000 women entrepreneurs and professionals across 17 chapters nationally. It also works towards promoting equal opportunities for women.
6) MoHFW constitutes committee to reform Drug Regulatory System
•The committee has been tasked with examining the current drug regulatory system and to give recommendations for reforms in order to bring the system more efficient and to streamline it with global standards. It has also been tasked to examine the reports given by Parliamentary standing committee, Professor RR Choudhary Committee on clinical trials and SN Mishra Committee on qualification of DCGI.
The HINDU Notes – 25th May 2020
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12:29
📰 U.S. pushing relations to the brink of a new Cold War: China
Foreign Minister says Beijing is open to international probe led by the WHO
•The United States is pushing relations with China to “the brink of a new Cold War,” China’s Foreign Minister said on Sunday, rejecting Washington’s “lies” over the coronavirus while saying Beijing was open to an international effort to find its source.
•Keeping up the worsening war of words with Washington over the pandemic and a Beijing move to tighten control over Hong Kong, Wang Yi said the United States had been infected by a “political virus” compelling figures there to continually attack China.
•“It has come to our attention that some political forces in the U.S. are taking China-U.S. relations hostage and pushing our two countries to the brink of a new Cold War,” Mr. Wang told reporters during a press conference at China’s week-long annual parliamentary session.
Long-standing friction
•Long-standing friction between the two powers over trade, human rights and a range of other issues have been pushed to new heights since the virus outbreak.
•Mr. Wang did not identify what “forces” he was referring to, but U.S. President Donald Trump has led world criticism of China’s initial response to the pandemic, which has caused more than 3,40,000 deaths and economic carnage worldwide.
•Mr. Trump and members of his administration have said China covered up the emergence of the virus late last year and bungled its initial response.
•Washington’s criticism has been widely seen in the United States as an attempt by Mr. Trump to divert attention from the White House’s own COVID-19 failures.
•Mr. Wang took an apparent swipe at the U.S. struggles to contain the virus, which has now infected more people in the United States than anywhere else. “I call on the U.S. to stop wasting time and stop wasting precious lives,” Mr. Wang said. He said China was “open” to international scientific cooperation to identify the source of the novel coronavirus, but stressed that any investigation must be “free of political interference”, based on science and led by the World Health Organization.
•The WHO has called on Beijing to invite the UN body in to investigate the source, but Mr. Wang did not indicate if foreign scientists would be invited to come to China. “Some political figures in the U.S. rush to label the virus and politicise its origins, stigmatising China,” Mr. Wang said, adding that an investigation must “oppose any presumption of guilt”.
•Most scientists believe the virus jumped from animals to humans after emerging in China, possibly from a market in the central city of Wuhan where exotic animals were sold for meat.
•Governments including the U.S. and Australia have called in recent weeks for an investigation into the exact origins of the virus.
Global response
•China has proposed instead that the “global response” to COVID-19 should only be assessed when the pandemic is over. WHO members on Tuesday adopted a resolution, tabled by the European Union, at the UN body’s first virtual assembly to review the international handling of the pandemic, but it does not single out China. “Aside from the devastation caused by the novel coronavirus, there is also a political virus spreading through the U.S.,” he said. “This political virus is the use of every opportunity to attack and smear China. Some politicians completely disregard basic facts and have fabricated too many lies targeting China, and plotted too many conspiracies.”
•The introduction at China’s legislature on Friday of a proposal to impose a security law in Hong Kong to suppress the semi-autonomous city’s pro-democracy movement also has drawn U.S. and world condemnation.
•But Mr. Wang defended the plan, saying it must be implemented “without the slightest delay”, adding that months of often-violent Hong Kong protests last year against China’s growing influence in the financial hub had “seriously endangered China’s national security”.
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