[CA/News] May 20, 2020 Headlines

MAY 20, 2020
government approved shekatkar committee recommendations Government has accepted and implemented 3 important recommendations of the Committee of Experts (CoE) under the Chairmanship of Lieutenant General D B Shekatkar (Retd) relating to border Infrastructure so as to speed up road construction, which leads to socio-economic development in the border areas. The Shekatkar Committee was set up by former defence minister Manohar Parrikar in 2016 to improve combat capability & rebalance defence expenditure of the Armed forces for better teeth-to-tail ratio. The Committee submitted its report in December 2016. indian territories comes under nepal political map Amidst the border dispute with India, Nepal’s cabinet has accepted a new political map showing Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura under its territory. India and Nepal are at a dispute after the Indian side released its new political map on Nov 02, 2019  which covers above three areas in Indian territory. Both India and Nepal consider Kalapani as their integral part. India calls it part of Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand while Nepal is part of Dharchula district. [Click for More Details...] ban on use of saliva in cricket balls   The International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket Committee, chaired by former Indian cricketer & commentator, Anil Kumble has recommended a ban on the use of saliva to make the ball shine due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. However, the committee considered ball-shining as safe from the use of sweat. The committee also recommended that two non-neutral umpires (both from the host nation) should be appointed for a short period of time. CYCLONE AMPHAN West Bengal mounted one of its biggest evacuation exercises by moving more than three lakh people to safer places as the extremely severe cyclonic storm 'Amphan' roared towards the coastal areas of the state. Cyclone Amphan is the second super cyclone over the Bay of Bengal in two decades. harsh vardhan Union Health Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, is set to take charge as the chairman of the WHO Executive Board on May 22. Vardhan would succeed Dr Hiroki Nakatani of Japan, currently the Chairman of the 34-member WHO Executive Board.	star rating of garbage free cities   Ministry Of Housing and Urban Affairs (MOHUA) announced the results of the Star Rating of Garbage Free Cities, for the assessment year 2019-2020, where 6 Cities (Ambikapur, Rajkot, Surat, Mysuru, Indore and Navi Mumbai) were rated 5 Star, 65 Cities rated 3 Star and 70 Cities rated 1 Star out of 141 cities & also launched the revised protocol for the Star Rating of Garbage Free Cities. No cities from Kerala and Tamil Nadu figured in the above ratings. india provides 2 milion usd to unrwa India provided 2 million USD (Rs 15 crore) to support the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to support the Palestinian refugees for its programmes and services like education and healthcare in the COVID-19 situation. R – BOT South Central Railway (SCR) zone developed a robotic device, “RAIL-BOT” (R-BOT) to assist in hospital management functions towards patient care in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak. The robot provide medicines, medical accessories & to serve food to the patients, without any need for physical contact. This will enable doctors, nurses and other support medical staff to stay away from the risk of contracting infections. samagra shiksha programme   In Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), the Union territory (UT) administration has initiated a slew of measures under “Samagra Shiksha programme” to facilitate students with complete access to education through technological interventions and other viable means in wake of COVID-19 lockdown. travel bubble The Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have started what is being referred to as a ‘travel bubble’ to help put their economies back on track post – COVID lockdowns. Creating a travel bubble involves reconnecting countries or states that have shown a good level of success in containing the novel coronavirus pandemic domestically. cerberus The CBI has issued an alert to Tamil Nadu relating to a banking Trojan known as Cerberus. Trojans are a type of malicious code or software that looks legitimate but can take control of computer. This malicious software takes advantage of COVID-19 pandemic to impersonate and send SMS using the lure of COVID-related content to download the embedded malicious link
Prepared by K. M. Senthil Kumar