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Apr 20, 2016

[CA] Important Points @ Glance - Part 1

Important Points @ Glance – Part 1

v Indian Oil Corporation has inked an MoU with Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation to examine the possibility of jointly working on setting up a LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) import terminal at Chittagong port and other downstream infrastructure in that country. The agreement would help India use the Chittagong port for importing LPG and then transporting it to Tripura through pipeline for use in northeastern states.

v Scientists have identified three new species of mouse lemurs in Madagascar, taking the total number of known mouse lemur species to 24. Mouse lemurs are small, nocturnal primates, which are only found in Madagascar – and they all look very similar with their brown fur and large eyes. The three new discovered species are named- Ganzhorn’s mouse lemur, Microcebus manitatra and Microcebus boraha. According to the “Red List” of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) more than 100 known species of lemurs are threatened by extinction and represent the world’s most endangered group of mammals.

v Reliance Jio has announced the launch of its 8,100-km Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) offering direct connectivity to South East Asia and the Middle East. The undersea cable landing facility is housed in Chennai. BBG connects India to South East Asia and the Middle East, with onward connectivity to Europe, Africa and Far East Asia via connections to other cable systems. It has an initial capacity of 9 Tbps, based on 100-Gbps wavelengths. Other members of the consortium include Dialog Axiata, Etisalat, Omantel, Telecom Malaysia, and Vodafone. The consortium awarded a construction contract for the submarine cable systems in 2013 to Alcatel-Lucent. BBG uses high-speed broadband fibre optic technology; dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) which allows the capacity to be increased without any additional submarine intervention.

v The Government has released a Rs.200 commemorative coin and a Rs.10 circulation coin on the occasion of the Martyrdom day of Tatya Tope, one of the outstanding Indian leaders of the 1857 revolt against the British. Tatya tope fought during 1857 revolt along with Jhansi ki Rani and Nana Sahib. He was defeated by General Napier’s British Indian troops at Ranod and after a further defeat at Sikar abandoned the campaign. He was executed by the British Government at Shivpuri on April 18, 1859.

v Maharashtra government has decided to make it mandatory to have a hologram on every alcohol bottle manufactured and sold in the state in order to check sale of spurious liquor.



v With about 30,000 soldiers in action, the Indian Army recently conducted a major Exercise called SHATRUJEET in deserts of Rajasthan. During the exercise, the capability to Strike deep in enemy territory in an integrated Air-Land battle environment was tested. The operationally oriented exercise is focusing on validating integrated theatre battle fighting concept incorporating new age technologies, weapon platforms and systems as well as long range precision targeting vectors. Indian Army undertakes such exercises at regular intervals at different levels to ensure forces are provided real war like situations and are kept in high state of battle readiness.

v Built at a cost of over Rs 2 crore, northeast has got its fastest supercomputer with a peak computing power of 15 Teraflops. Housed at the National Institute of Technology Sikkim’s campus, near Gangtok, the supercomputer, ‘PARAM Kanchenjunga’ is a collaboration between Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C—DAC) and the Ministry of Communications and IT.

v NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn since 2004, has collected and analysed dust coming from beyond our solar system. Cassini is the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter orbit.

v The Water Resources Department in Maharashtra has started releasing water to Karnataka from its Kalammawadi dam across the Dudhganga river, a tributary of the Krishna river in Kolhapur district. Dudhganga river rises in Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra in the Western Ghats and flows eastward through Kolhapur district and Belgaum district in Karnataka before joining the Krishna. The river is dammed to form the Kalammawadi reservoir in the west of Kohlapur district.


v The Delhi government has banned the sale, purchase and storage of all forms of chewable tobacco, including gutka, pan masala, khaini and zarda, in the Capital for one year.


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