Important Points @ Glance: Part 8
1)
The Indian Coast
Guard ship ‘Arush’, the seventeenth in the series of twenty Fast Patrol Vessels
(FPVs) was recently commissioned at Kochi. It is designed and built by M/s
Cochin Shipyard Limited.
2)
According to the
International Renewable Energy Agency’s (Irena) Annual Review 2016, India ranks
fifth in the world in renewable energy (RE) job creation, with 416,000 employed
in the sector during 2015. In the world, 8.1 million persons are employed in
the clean energy space. China tops the list with 3.5 million, followed by
Brazil with 918,000.
3)
RBI has directed
all banks and white-label ATM operators to have chip-and-pin based card
infrastructure. Earlier, the regulator has directed banks to issue only
chip-and-pin based cards and migrate old cardholders to these new cards. RBI
said though the cards comply with the new norms, ATMs continue to process card
transactions based on data from the magnetic stripe, the old system. As a
result, cards being used in ATMs are more prone to skimming frauds.
4)
The Union Cabinet
has granted ex-post facto approval to the Memorandum of Understanding signed
between India’s Ministry of Tourism and Maldives’s Ministry of Tourism for
strengthening cooperation in the field of tourism. The MoU with Maldives will
be instrumental in increasing arrival from this important source market. In
recent years, Maldives has emerged as an important tourism generating market
for India.
5)
Cabinet has
granted ex-post facto approval to the Amendment to The Institutes of Technology
Act, 1961 for incorporation of six new IITs at Tirupati (AP), Palakkad (Kerala),
Dharwar (Karnataka), Bhilai (Chhattisgarh), Goa, Jammu (J&K) and conversion
of ISM, Dhanbad to an IIT under the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961. The
approval will bring six new Indian Institutes of Technology within the ambit of
The Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 and declaring them as the institutions
of national importance.
1)
Ex-post facto
approval has been given to the MoU between India and Japan for promoting
sustainable, stable and low-carbon thermal power development in India. The
signing of the MoU will help India to address issues and barriers in promoting
sustainable, stable and low-carbon thermal power development that have been
identified through the preceding Pre-Primary Study and the on-going cooperation
towards Energy Efficient Renovation & Modernization as well as new power
development.
2)
The government
has dedicated 20 Nirbhaya Buses of the Rajasthan State Road Transport
Corporation to the public. This is an attempt by the government to provide safe
and secure transport to women. These buses are provided under an initiative of
the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways under the NIRBHAYA Scheme. These
buses are provided with Vehicle Tracking System (VTS), CCTV cameras and Panic
Buttons on every seat to provide immediate help to women passengers in
distress.
3)
The National
Academy For Training & Research In Social Security (NATRSS) has been
renamed as Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya National Academy of Social Security
(PDUNASS). NATRSS was set up in 1990, by Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation.
Ever since its inception, NATRSS has been emerging as a premier institution
involved in training, research and consultancy in the social security sector.
4)
The Union HRD
Minister, Smriti Irani has launched the multilingual knowledge portal www.bharatvani.in
and app. This project is in line with the HRD Ministry’s efforts to not only
ensure universalization of education but also towards creation of a knowledge
society in the digital age. The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL),
Mysuru is implementing this ambitious project of MHRD. Bharatavani is the first
knowledge portal of its kind in India which focuses on becoming a single point
source for multiple language learning, content and technology. The portal will
feature content from Indian writers, government and non-government
organisations, boards of education, textbook corporations, universities,
publication houses and academies. The app will enable users to search for one
language text in another language as well as get meanings in different
languages. Currently the App has 35 multilingual Dictionaries and MHRD aims to
extend it to 250 dictionaries in a years time.
5)
About 58% of software installed in computers
in India in 2015 was unlicensed, according to a survey. While the rate of installation
of unlicensed software in India has shown a gradual decrease from 65% in 2009
to 60% in 2013, it remains significantly higher than the global average of 39%.
India comes second after China ($8,657 million) in the Asia-Pacific Region in
commercial value of unlicensed software sold in 2015.
Important Points @ Glance: Part 2
Important Points @ Glance: Part 3
Important Points @ Glance: Part 4
Important Points @ Glance: Part 5
Important Points @ Glance: Part 6
Important Points @ Glance: Part 7
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