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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Daily Current Affairs, 26th March 2019

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1) ISRO Set To Launch 29 Satellites Including EMISAT
•Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch 29 satellites including the primary payload EMISAT, on the first of April. Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C45 will take off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota tentatively at 9:30 AM carrying the satellites onboard.

 •EMISAT has been developed for monitoring radar network by India. EMISAT, weighing 436 kg, is intended for electromagnetic spectrum measurement. It will be placed in an orbit of about 753 km altitude. The customer payloads are from Lithuania, Spain, Switzerland and the US. They will be hurled into space at an altitude of about 505 km.

2) Trump Sign Proclamation Recognising Israel’s Sovereignty Over Golan Heights
•US President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation recognising Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights and told the visiting Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that Israel has an absolute right to self-defence.

 •Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war but its sovereignty over the territory is not recognized by the international community. Over the past years terrorist groups in southern Syria continued to make the Golan Heights a potential launching ground for attacks against Israel.

3) World’s First Wireless Electric Car Charging Station Introduced By Norway
•Oslo, the capital city of Norway will become the world’s first city to install wireless, induction-based charging stations for its fleet of electric taxis with an aim to have a zero-emission cab system by the year 2023 according to a report by Reuters. Norway wants all new cars to be zero emission by 2025 whereas other nations, like Britain and France, have similar goals for 2040.

4) INS Kadmatt at Langkawi, Malaysia to Participate in LIMA-19
•Indian Navy’s frontline ASW corvette, INS Kadmatt arrived at Langkawi, Malaysia on a 7 days official visit. The ship is scheduled to participate in the 15th edition of Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition, LIMA-19 during the visit. INS Kadmatt was commissioned into the Indian Navy in January 2016.

 •The ship would be participating in numerous activities at Langkawi, including the International Fleet Review (IFR) by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, maritime and air demonstration, Sea Exercises with 29 other participating navies, cultural exchange programmes, cross visits to ships, and sporting events.




5) Chinook Helicopters Inducted In Indian Air Force
•The Indian Air Force formally inducted the CH 47 F(I)- Chinook heavy-lift helicoptersinto its inventory at Air Force Station Chandigarh. IAF had signed a contract with M/s Boeing Ltd in September 2015 for 15 Chinook helicopters.

 •The first batch of four helicopters has been delivered on schedule and the last batch is to be delivered by March 2020. These helicopters will be deployed in the Northern and Eastern regions of India. The helicopter is capable of airlifting diverse military and non-military loads into remote locations.

6) Indian-Sri Lankan Joint Military Exercise MITRASHAKTI–VI Begins
•The joint training exercise MITRASHAKTI – VI between Indian and Sri Lanka Armykick-started at Diyatalawa in Sri Lanka. An Indian contingent of 120 Army personnel, including 11 officers arrived last evening to take part in the two-week long exercise. The exercise is an annual event held in India and Sri Lanka alternatively.

 •MITRASHAKTI is one of the largest bilateral armies to army exercises conducted in the region. Based on the success of previous exercises, it has been recently upgraded from a platoon level engagement to a full Company level engagement.

7) Indian Navy Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Training Facility Launched
•The Indian Navy’s state of the art Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Training Facility (NBCTF) was inaugurated by Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba at INS Shivaji, Lonavala. The training facility has been named ABHEDYA, which means impenetrable in Sanskrit.

 •The Goa Shipyard Limited had signed the contract with the Indian Navy for the construction of the facility in March 2016. The new facility is expected to help train personnel of naval ships fitted with nuclear, biological and chemical detection and protection systems.

8) ADNOC Awards Onshore Block To Indian Consortium
•A consortium of two Indian oil companies, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, and Indian Oil Corporation Limited has been awarded the exploration rights for Abu Dhabi’s Onshore Block 1. The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) signed agreements awarding the exploration rights. The award has been endorsed by Abu Dhabi’s Supreme Petroleum Council.
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The HINDU Notes – 26th March 2019

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📰 Supreme Court in favour of increasing random physical verification of VVPATs

No institution, including the judiciary, should insulate itself from making improvements, Chief Justice Gogoi said in response to ECI’s resistance to increase physical counting of VVPATs

•The Supreme Court on Monday said it was in favour of increasing random physical verification of Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in parliamentary and Assembly polls, even as the idea was met with stiff resistance from the Election Commission of India.

•Deputy Election Commissioner Sudeep Jain said the current practice of physically checking the VVPAT paper slips of one randomly selected polling station in an Assembly constituency and each Assembly segment in case of Lok Sabha election was “all that is needed”. There was no need whatsoever to extend the physical count of VVPATs, he said.

•Mr. Jain told a Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Deepak Gupta that VVPATs were “working absolutely right” and everything that the Election Commission of India (ECI) does was based on expert statistical data. He said the Commission, on its own, constantly betters its parameters.

•A visibly annoyed Chief Justice Gogoi replied to Mr. Jain’s comments in court, asking him why the Election Commission had not introduced VVPATs on its own after introspecting on its parameters.

•“It was the judges of this court that pushed you into introducing the VVPATs in the first place. If you are so conscious of improving your parameters, why did you not take the first step to introduce VVPATs in elections. Why did the judges of this court have to think for you?” Chief Justice Gogoi asked the Election Commission.

Question of satisfaction

•In 2013, the Supreme Court held in the Dr. Subramanian Swamy case that paper trail through VVPAT of votes cast was an indispensable requirement of free and fair elections.

•“You (Mr. Jain) may not have been in the Election Commission at the time, but do you know how much of opposition the Supreme Court had to face from the Election Commission to bring in VVPATs?” Chief Justice Gogoi asked.

•The Chief Justice said “no institution, however high, including the judiciary, should insulate itself from improvements”.

•“We are only asking you to do a little more for the sake of purity of the elections… We would like you to increase the physical counting. This is not about casting aspersions on you, but this is a question of satisfaction… Anyway, two is better than one, is it not? So, can you do it on your own or do you have any difficulty to do so?” the CJI asked Mr. Jain again.

•The court finally directed the Election Commission to file an affidavit by Thursday, explaining why it seemed to be so “fully satisfied” about restricting physical counting of VVPATs to one polling station. The affidavit should also indicate the logistics and time required in case the sample verification of VVPATs was extended to more than one polling station.

•The court was hearing a joint petition filed by 21 Opposition parties demanding the random verification of at least 50 percent EVMs-VVPATs in every Assembly segment or constituency.

•The Opposition sought to quash an Election Commission guideline that physical counting should be conducted “only for VVPAT paper slips of one randomly selected polling station of an Assembly constituency in case of election to State Legislative Assembly and each Assembly segment in case of election to the House of the People”.

•The petition has been filed in the names of Andhra chief minister and Telegu Desam Party leader N. Chandrababu Naidu, Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar, Indian National Congress K.C. Venugopal, All India Trinamool Congress Derek O’Brien, Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, DMK leader Stalin, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, National Congress leader Farooq Abdullah, Loktantrik Janta Dal leader Sharad Yadav, Rashtriya Janta Dal leader Manoj Jha, among others.

📰 55% internet users scared of airing political views: report

Report from the Reuters Institute shows that online news and social media has outpaced print among English-speaking Indian Internet users

•As many as 55% of sampled English Internet users were concerned that expressing their political views online could get them into trouble with the authorities, an India digital report prepared by the Reuters Institute showed.

•“These high levels of concern could be based in part on recent events in India. Since 2012 at least 17 people have been arrested for posting material that was considered offensive or threatening to a politician,” the report said on Monday.

•As many as 68% of those surveyed identified smart phones as their main device for online news with 52% stating that they got their news from Facebook. WhatsApp (52%), Instagram (26%), Twitter (18%), and Facebook Messenger (16%) were the other sources of news.

•“Online news generally (56%), and social media specifically (28%) have outpaced print (16%) as the main source of news among respondents under 35, whereas respondents over 25 still mix online and offline media to a greater extent,” the Reuters Institute report said.

•“The fact that our survey covers only English speakers with Internet access is key here; the number of people accessing news via print and television will be higher fore regional language news consumers…though as mobile web use spreads we expect to see this change in the years ahead,” it argued.

•Respondents overall had low trust in news overall (36%) but expressed higher levels of trust in news search (45%) and social media (34%). As many as 57% of those surveyed were worried whether the news they consumed was fake or real.

•The report warned that in a competitive market for online advertising, with audiences resorting to ad blocking, Indian publishers reliance on advertising put them to risk.

•Significantly, the survey showed a considerable willingness to pay for online news in the future. “Of our respondents who do not currently pay, 39% said they are at least ‘somewhat likely’ (much more than users in the United States) and 9% said they were ‘very likely’ to pay for online news in the future.”

•“This suggests that Indian publishers who can put together a convincing content offering around great journalism, and deliver it in a compelling way, have an opportunity to reach a significant number of potential subscribers,” the report added.

•The Reuters Institute said that the report was based on data from a survey of English-speaking, online news users in India. “Our respondents are generally more affluent, have higher levels of formal education, skews male, and are more likely to live in cities than the wider Indian population and our findings only concern our sample, and thus cannot be taken to be more broadly representative.”

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

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Monday, March 25, 2019

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Daily Current Affairs, 25th March 2019

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1) World Tuberculosis Day: 24th March
•Each year, World Tuberculosis (TB) Day is commemorated on March 24 to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of TB, and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic. The theme of World TB Day 2019 – ‘It’s time’. 

 •The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the bacterium that causes TB, which opened the way towards diagnosing and curing this disease.

2) NITI Aayog’s FinTech Conclave Held In New Delhi
•NITI Aayog has organized a day-long FinTech Conclave at Dr. Ambedkar International Center, New Delhi. The Conclave was inaugurated by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das.

 •The objective of the conference is to shape India’s continued ascendancy in FinTech, build the narrative for future strategy and policy efforts, and to deliberate steps for comprehensive financial inclusion.

3) Vice Admiral Karambir Singh To Take Over As Next Chief of Naval Staff
•The Government of India has appointed Vice Admiral Karambir Singh, presently Flag Officer Commander-in-Chief (FOC-in-C) Eastern Naval Command as next Chief of the Naval Staff with effect from May 31, 2019. The present Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba retires on the same day.

 •Born on November 03, 1959, Vice Admiral Karambir Singh was commissioned on July 01, 1980 into the Executive Branch of the Indian Navy. Vice Admiral Karambir Singh is a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington. Vice Admiral Karambir Singh has been decorated with the Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM) and the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM). 

4) Book Titled ‘Every Vote Counts’ of Navin Chawla Launched
•Former Vice-President Hamid Ansari launched the book titled ‘Every Vote Counts-The Story of India’s Elections’. The author of this book is former Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla. 

5) IGI Airport Delhi Becomes The 12th Busiest Airport In The World
•In accordance with the preliminary world airport traffic rankings for 2018 released by Airports Council International (ACI), Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) of New Delhi has elevated 4 ranks to reach at 12th spot in terms of the busiest airport as compared to 2017’s 16th spot.

 •The list of world’s busiest airports by passenger traffic ranking has been topped by Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (US) followed by Beijing Capital International Airport (China) and Dubai International Airport (UAE).

6) India Ranks 76th On WEF Global Energy Transition Index
•India has moved up 2 places to rank 76th on a global energy transition index. The annual list, compiled by Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF), has ranked 115economies on how well they are able to balance energy security and access with environmental sustainability and affordability.

 •The report stated that India is amongst the countries with high pollution levels and has a relatively high CO2 intensity in its energy system. Sweden remains on the top and is followed by Switzerland and Norway in the top three.
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The HINDU Notes – 25th March 2019

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📰 Sushma asks report on abduction of Hindu sisters in Sindh, Pakistan retorts


According to available reports two sisters Raveena (13) and Rina (15) were abducted and forced to undergo religious conversion.

•External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s statement on the abduction of two sisters from the minority Hindu community in Pakistan snowballed into an online spat on Sunday after strong responses from Islamabad. 

•India followed the Minister’s statement with a rare note of protest, citing widespread incidents of forced conversion of Hindu women in parts of Pakistan. 

•Radio Pakistan later reported that Prime Minister Imran Khan had ordered an immediate investigation. 

•The incident was taken up by social media in Pakistan with videos showing the father of the girls protesting at a police station in Sindh. Subsequent videos showed the girls begging to be saved from captivity after they were taken away by goons during Holi. Responding to a news release, Ms. Swaraj said, “I have asked the Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan to send a report.” 

•This drew a quick response from Pakistan’s Information Minister Fawad Hussain Chaudhry, who said the incident was an internal issue.

•Sources said India then sent a note of protest or “note verbale” on Sunday asking Pakistan to take “remedial action” to ensure the safety of its citizens from minority communities.

•According to reports, the two sisters Raveena, 13, and Rina, 15, were abducted and forced to undergo religious conversion. Pakistan Hindu Sewa Welfare Trust alleged that police initially refused to lodge an FIR in the case and did so only after the local Hindus protested. 

•In his social media response, Mr Chaudhry alleged that minorities were not safe in India and argued that his country was committed to protecting its minority communities. “...White colour of our flag is equally dearer to us,” the Pakistani minister said, urging the senior Indian minister to address alleged violation of human rights of Indian minority communities. This led to further exchanges between Ms. Swaraj and Mr. Chaudhry.

•Ms. Swaraj responded by saying that her order to the Indian High Commission had made the Pakistan minister “jittery”. “This only shows your guilty conscience,” she said. To which Mr. Chaudhry referred to the human rights situation in Kashmir and Gujarat, saying, “…sincerely hope that your conscience will allow you to stand up for minorities at home as well.” 

•Later, the Minister said the matter was being looked into by the Ministry of Human Rights of Pakistan. Radio Pakistan also reported that Prime Minister Imran Khan had ordered an immediate investigation into the abduction. 

•Mr. Chaudhry said the Prime Minister has also ordered the Sindh and Punjab governments to devise a joint action plan.

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Imran orders probe

•Meanwhile, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered a probe into reports of abduction, forced conversion and underage marriages of the two Hindu girls and to take immediate steps for their recovery.

•The Hindu community in Pakistan has carried out massive demonstrations calling for strict action to be taken against those responsible, while reminding Prime Minister Khan of his promises to the minorities of the country.

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