Daily Current affairs - November 14th 2017 for all competitive exams
- The main objective of this year’s campaign is to promote the importance of affordable and equitable access to medical care for all women.
- Diabetes is a chronic disease or condition that is caused when the pancreas is no longer able to make insulin, or when the body cannot make good use of the insulin it produces.
- According to statics, currently there are over 199 million women living with diabetes and this total is projected to increase to 313 million by 2040.
- Diabetes is the ninth leading cause of death in women globally, causing 2.1 million deaths each year.
- Narendra Modi unveiled a plaque to mark the inauguration of the ‘Shri Narendra Modi Resilient Rice Field Laboratory’.
About: The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is an international agricultural research and training organization known for its work in developing rice varieties that contributed to the Green Revolution in the 1960s.
The Institute, established in 1960 aims to reduce poverty and hunger, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers, and ensure environmental sustainability of rice farming.
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- The exhibition, with 494 books written on or by PMs, is part of the government’s plan to set up a Prime Ministers Museum in the Teen Murti Estate.
- The exhibition which will end on November 17 got the extension to November 19.
The Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) is a museum and library in New Delhi, India, which aims to preserve and reconstruct the history of the Indian independence movement. Housed within the Teen Murti House complex, it is an autonomous institution under the Indian Ministry of Culture, and was founded in 1964 after the death of India's first prime minister
Director: Shakti Sinha
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- The JPC was set up in May 2015 to examine the Bill after it was opposed by many political parties, including allies of the ruling BJP. The Bill seeks to remove the consent clause for acquiring land for five purposes — industrial corridors, public-private projects, rural infrastructure, affordable housing and defence.
- The Bill creates five special categories of land use: 1. defence, 2. rural infrastructure, 3. affordable housing, 4. industrial corridors, and 5. infrastructure projects including Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects where the central government owns the land.
- The Bill exempts the five categories from provisions of the LARR Act, 2013 which requires the consent of 80% of land owners to be obtained for private projects and that of 70% of land owners for PPP projects.
- The Bill allows exemption for projects in these five categories from requiring Social Impact Assessment be done to identify those affected and from the restrictions on the acquisition of irrigated multi-cropped land imposed by LARR Act 2013.
- A Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) is an ad-hoc body. It is set up for a specific object and duration. Joint committees are set up by a motion passed in one house of Parliament and agreed to by the other. The details regarding membership and subjects are also decided by Parliament.
Chairperson: S.S. Ahluwalia
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- Home Minister Rajnath Singh also instructed all concerned to formalise an insurance plan for victims of bank fraud as most banks and insurance firms do not provide any cover for such frauds, an official said.
- On Monday, Mr. Singh reviewed various measures, including strengthening of surveillance and legal frameworks, to deal with financial frauds using bank cards and e-wallets.
- As per representational data available with the RBI, the value of prepaid payment instruments which mainly include e-wallets, increased from Rs. 1,320 crore in November 2016 to Rs. 2,760 crore in September 2017.
- The court was hearing a plea by the Tamil Nadu government for clarification on the ambit of the July 11 order of the apex court. The SC had explained in the July 11 order that the ban only extended along and in proximity of highways which provide connectivity between cities, towns and villages.
Background: The Supreme Court had clarified in the July 11 order that its nationwide ban on sale of liquor within a distance of 500 metres along national and State highways does not extend to municipal areas.
The court had clarified that the 500-metre ban does not prohibit licensed establishments within municipal areas.
The apex court explained that the December 15, 2016 ban on liquor sale only extends along and in proximity of highways which provide connectivity between cities, towns and villages.
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- A typical tour will consist of a two days-one night package, with fish as the focal theme – be it food or sightseeing. And fish dishes to be served will comprise the traditional favourites of Bengalis as well as newly-introduced varieties in the state.
- The circuit will centre around the hotels run by SFDC in places like Digha, Udaypur, Henry Island, Bishnupur, Jamunadighi and Siliguri.
- Over 500 delegates from more than 70 countries and international organisations are expected to gather at the Defence Ministerial in Vancouver. Along with representatives from the African Union, the European Union, NATO and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, these delegates are going to discuss improvements to UN peacekeeping operations.
The last meeting was held in London in the month of September 2016. The conference had taken up issues on Women, Peace and Security, Pre and Post Deployment, Tackling Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) and Improving Peacekeeping – Rapid Deployment.
Vancouver, a bustling west coast seaport in British Columbia, is among Canada’s densest, most ethnically diverse cities.
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- The two sides sealed four agreements and agreed to cooperate on counter-terror. Both countries have been victims of terrorism for long.
- India will also emerge as the world’s third-largest economy stated the Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a report titled, India 2028.
- According to the report, India has already emerged as the second largest BRIC economy after China by overtaking Brazil and Russia.
- By 2019, India will also overtake France and Britain to emerge as the world’s fifth largest economy.
- This assumes that the Indian economy witnesses a 10 percent (in nominal US GDP) growth in the next decade which is well ahead of Japan's 1.6 percent. The Bank of America Merrill Lynch has reported the country's real GDP growth at the potential of 7 percent.
- During a visit to China last week, U.S. President Donald Trump had rejected the doctrine of ‘containment’ of China, and signalled that Washington and Beijing will be the main pillars of a more inclusive international system.
- In June a Maoist-dominated coalition government awarded a contract to China Gezhouba Group Corporation to build a 1,200 MW plant on the Budhi Gandaki River.
- Kathmandu clears a 750 MW project to be built on the West Seti River in the western part of the country.
Capital: Kathmandu
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Currency: Nepalese rupee
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Prime minister: Sher Bahadur Deuba
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- The bilateral meeting will serve to establish a new economic, trade, tourist and diplomatic outlook for the country.
- Panama president Juan Carlos Varela will inaugurate Panama’s first embassy in China.
Capital: Panama City
Currency - Panamanian Balboa
President Juan Carlos Varela
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- The number of UNESCO natural sites at risk has grown to 62 from 35 in 2014, when one in seven were listed, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which released the report at UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany.
- The report found that 29% of UNESCO natural sites faced “significant” threats, and 7% — including the Everglades National Park in the United States and Lake Turkana in Kenya — had a “critical” outlook.
- Three World Heritage-listed coral reefs — the Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean, the Belize Barrier Reef in the Atlantic, and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the biggest on Earth — have been affected by “devastating” bleaching events over the last three year
- Inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 3.28% in September and as low as 1.46% in June. The food and beverages component of CPI saw a growth of 2.26% in October, the fastest pace since March, and up from 1.76% in September. This was mainly driven by a sharp uptick in vegetable prices.
- Inflation in the fuel and light segment came in at 6.36%, up from 5.56% in September.
Inflation is a sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.
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- The proposed combination relates to the acquisition and purchase of shares of Supermarket Grocery Supplies (SGS - the entity that runs BigBasket) by Alibaba Singapore.
Owner: Jack Ma
CEO: Daniel Zhang
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- For the second time in recent months, the flagship carrier has received loans from a public-sector lender.
- Battling multiple headwinds, the disinvestment-bound airline has been working on ways to reduce its debt.
- Air India is the flag carrier airline of India. It is owned by Air India Limited, a government-owned enterprise.
Air India CEO: Rajiv Bansal
Bank of India: Headquarters: Mumbai; CEO: Dinabandhu Mohapatra
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- He will be presenting his 60-member orchestra at a Beijing auditorium.
- China National Symphony Orchestra and Chorus is sponsoring the composition which Upadhyaya will present.
- His work related to India played an important role in the transformation of the US-India relationship and helped provide the foundation for the historic civil nuclear agreement between the two countries.
- He played a key role in enhancing the Indo-US ties under the George W Bush administration.
- He made the announcement on the sidelines of his lecture to the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University
- The summit will be hosted by State Bank.
- The theme for this year’s summit is ‘Asia’s turn to transform’.
- This year summit mainly based discuss the impact of the ongoing global downturn on the outlook of the Asian economies, economic consequences of the Brexit in March 2019 on Asia, the America-first policy of the Trump administration, implications of fintech on banks.
- Buffon played his 175th and final game for Italy as they lost 1-0 on aggregate in a play-off by Sweden.
- Buffon made his debut for the Azzurri as a 19-year-old in a 1998 World Cup play-off victory over Russia.
- He will become the first man to play in six World Cups if he hasn’t retired from football.
- Ajmal was once celebrated as the world’s number one bowler in ODI and Twenty20 cricket and was almost as successful in Tests.
- He finished his career with 184 wickets in 113 ODIs, and 85 in 64 Twenty20 Internationals.