IMPORTANT POINTS @ GLANCE –
PART 2
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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'.]
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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).
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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.
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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.
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The Union Cabinet
has given its approval for operationalisation of new Indian Institute of
Science Education and Research (IISER) at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.
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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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