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Apr 26, 2016

[CA] Important Points @ Glance - Part 2

IMPORTANT POINTS @ GLANCE – PART 2

v President Pranab Mukherjee recently inaugurated the war monument at Khongjom in Manipur on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the last battle of independence of the Manipuris against the British army.

v A huge 9,300 sq km coral reef system has been found below the muddy waters off the mouth of the river Amazon. The 600-mile-long (nearly 966 kilometer) reef ranges from about 30-120 m deep and stretches from French Guiana to Brazil’s Maranhao state.

v National Panchayati Raj Day (National Local Self-Government day) was celebrated across the country on 24 April annually. The Ministry of Panchayati Raj has been celebrating the National Panchayati Raj Day (NPRD) on 24 April since 2010, as on this day, the 73rd Constitutional Amendment came into force in 1993.

v The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has declared Salman Khan as the first Bollywood celebrity to be the goodwill ambassador for the Indian contingent at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics scheduled to start on August 5, 2016. Sport veteran Milka Singh and Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt criticized for appointing cine star as goodwill ambassador for the much coveted sporting event.

v As many as 175 countries, including India, China and the US, signed the Paris Agreement on climate change at the UN headquarters in New York on 22nd April, to coincide with ‘International Mother Earth Day’. [That such a large number of countries signed the agreement in a single day is significant. The previous record for the most countries to sign an international agreement on one day was set in 1982, when 119 countries signed the 'Law of the Sea Convention'.]



v China’s President Xi Jinping has taken on a new military title, in his latest move to exert greater control over the armed forces. Mr. Xi is now Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Battle Command of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

v The commerce and industry ministry has launched a ‘Twitter Seva’ to address queries and grievances on matters relating to the ministry. Through this Twitter Seva, queries on matters relating to Department of Commerce (DoC) and Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) will be answered.

v The Union Cabinet has given its approval for signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Bhutan on technical cooperation in the field of capacity building, benchmarking and bilateral exchange in infrastructure engineering. The MoU will provide an Umbrella for educational, scientific & technical research and environment protection which are also stated aim of the India-Bhutan foundation established in August 2003.
  
v The Union Cabinet has given its approval for operationalisation of new Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.


v Europe has become the world’s first region to wipe out malaria, with zero cases reported last year. The number of indigenous malaria cases dropped to zero in 2015 from 90,712 in 1995, and the last cases were reported in Tajikistan in 2014.


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