Govt launches index to rank states, UTs on good governance parameters

The Good Governance Index will provide quantifiable data to compare the state of governance in all states and Union territories

Current Affairs:A decent administration file (GGI) was propelled on Wednesday by the focal government to evaluate the condition of administration in the nation, as per an announcement gave by the Personnel Ministry.

The targets of GGI are to give quantifiable information to think about the condition of administration in all states and Union domains, empower them to define and execute reasonable systems for improving administration and move to result situated methodologies and organization, the announcement said.

Different standards have been remembered while choosing the pointers, for example it ought to be straightforward and figure, resident driven and result driven, prompting improved outcomes and appropriate to all states and UTs, among others, it said.

“The great administration file is a uniform device crosswise over states to evaluate the status of administration and effect of different mediations taken up by the state government and association domains,” the announcement said.

The GGI mulls over 10 parts – horticulture and united areas, trade and ventures, human asset advancement, general wellbeing, open foundation and utilities, monetary administration, social welfare and improvement, legal and open security, condition and resident driven administration.

These 10 administration areas are additionally estimated on a sum of 50 pointers.

These pointers are given distinctive weightage under one administration part to figure the worth.

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Isro puts Chandrayaan-2 setback behind ends 2019 on positive note

The GSAT-20 satellite is scheduled for mid-2020. It is a next-generation high-throughput satellite that would address the country’s connectivity issues

Current Affairs:The Indian Space Research Organization has gotten over the difficulty it endured by virtue of the Chandrayaan-2 strategic, has finished the year with six dispatch vehicle missions and seven satellite missions. The number is lower than that accomplished in 2018, when Isro had finished 16 missions and was planning for some significant achievements, including the dispatch of Chandrayaan-2, getting ready for India’s first human space program ‘Gaganyaan’ and its strategic the Sun: Aditya-1.

Toward the start of the year 2019, Isro said it was arranging upwards of 32 missions, including 14 dispatch vehicles, 17 satellite and one Technology Demonstration missions. The complex Chandrayaan-2 and the improvement flights of Small Satellite Launch Vehicle or SSLVs, were a characteristic piece of this arrangement. SSLVs are the new part in the Launch Vehicle family.

In the wake of finishing 16 missions in 2018, Isro began the year 2019 not with a dispatch, yet with the marking of a MoU with businesses to re-appropriate the generation of its dependable dispatch vehicle Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). This is the organization’s first significant leap forward, as it will help Isro center around satellite applications instead of rockets. Isro administrator K Sivan had declared that the advancement would spare the office a lot in time and assets, particularly HR.

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Tier II cities more prone to cyber security threats: K7 Computing report

Patna is most susceptible, with 47 per cent of its netizens saying they had been attacked

Current Affairs:Net clients in level II urban areas are generally helpless against digital security dangers, with Patna being the most vulnerable. A stunning 47 percent of netizens studied from that city said they had been assaulted. Patna was trailed by Guwahati and Lucknow, as per a most recent report by IT security arrangements supplier K7 Computing. The investigation says that very nearly three out of each ten Indian digital clients experienced at least one cyberattacks, while metro urban areas have encountered a comparative number when contrasted with the past quarter.

Among the metros and level I urban areas, Delhi has seen the most noteworthy increment as far as disease rate, with a development of six percent on a quarter-on-quarter premise, says the K7 Computing’s Cyber Threat Monitor report for the second quarter of 2019-20. The organization utilizes disease rate, portrayed as the territorial level of danger occasions answered to its K7 Ecosystem Threat Intelligence (K7ETI) framework, as a gauge to quantify the introduction of netizens assembled by state capitals, level 1 and level 2 urban areas to dangers. This incorporates the individuals who experienced at any rate one danger occasion during the period.

As per the examination, Patna enlisted the most elevated percentile of cyberattacks at 47 percent contrasted with the other Tier-2 urban areas shrouded in the investigation, and higher than any Tier-1 city. Guwahati, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar, and Jaipur posted a monstrous 45 percent, 44 percent, 43 percent and 40 percent of digital clients going under assault. The examination says that very nearly three out of each ten Indian digital clients experienced at least one cyberattacks, while metro urban areas have encountered a comparative number of cyberattacks when contrasted with the past quarter.

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Bhubaneswar Electropreneur park to incubate 50 start-ups in five years

The ecosystem is also envisaged to support innovation in electronics system design & manufacturing (ESDM) pertaining to agriculture, disaster management, healthcare and Smart City applications

Current Affairs:The Electropreneur park in Bhubaneswar would hatch 50 new businesses in five years with push on verticals like vitality, process control and modern robotization and training.

The biological system is likewise imagined to help development in gadgets framework plan and assembling (ESDM) relating to horticulture, debacle the executives, social insurance and Smart City applications.

Jitendra Chaddah, executive, Indian Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) stated, “The utilization of hardware in India is developing at a quick pace. The market is assessed to contact $400 billion in the following four to five years. The Electropreneur park in Bhubaneswar can assume a basic job in satisfying the need supply hole”.

The Electropreneur park in Bhubaneswar being set up by the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) in a joint effort with the division of gadgets and IT, Odisha government is the first ESDM brooding focus in quite a while. It is likewise the second Electropreneur park in the nation after the one set up inside Delhi University. Worldwide Institute for Information Technology (IIIT) is the information and scholarly accomplice though IESA has been assigned the execution accomplice for industry associate, tutoring backing and effort.

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India in midst of significant economic slowdown, needs policy actions: IMF

“India is now in the midst of a significant economic slowdown,” Salgado told reporters

Current Affairs:India is presently amidst a noteworthy financial log jam, the International Monetary Fund has stated, encouraging the administration to take dire arrangement activities to address the current delayed downturn.

In its report discharged Monday, the IMF Directors noticed that India’s quick financial development as of late has lifted a huge number of individuals out of neediness. Be that as it may, in the primary portion of 2019, a blend of components prompted stifled monetary development in India.

“The issue in India right now is the development stoppage. Despite everything we trust it is for the most part repeating, not basic… in view of the money related area issues, we figure, the recuperation will be not as fast brisk as we suspected before. That is the primary issue,” Ranil Salgado, Mission Chief for India in the IMF Asia and Pacific Department told PTI in a meeting as it discharged its yearly staff report on India.

With dangers to the standpoint tilted to the drawback, the IMF Directors called for proceeded with sound macroeconomic administration. They saw an open door with the solid command of the new government to revive the change plan to help comprehensive and practical development, the report said. The staff report was done in August when the IMF was not completely mindful of India’s present financial stoppage.

“India is presently amidst a huge monetary log jam,” Salgado told correspondents over telephone.

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India, Iran call for immediate end to all support to terror sanctuaries

The Joint Commission meeting was co-chaired by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif

Current Affairs:Voicing worry over the grave danger presented by psychological oppression, India and Iran have mutually required a prompt end to all help to fear havens.

An announcement gave by the Ministry of External Affairs on Monday said that during the nineteenth India-Iran Joint Commission Meeting in Tehran “the two sides shared worries at the grave risk presented by psychological oppression and called for prompt end to all help to fear asylums”.

The Joint Commission meeting was co-led by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Iranian partner Javad Zarif.

“They concurred that State help, abetment and backing to fear based oppression ought to be censured,” it stated, in an obvious reference to Pakistan.

India and Afghanistan blame Pakistan for giving place of refuge to the Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani arrange and other activist gatherings, which do assaults in the two nations.

Iran additionally charge Pakistan-based dread gatherings like Jaish al-Adl of doing assaults in the Islamic republic.

A day prior to the Pulwama fear assault on February 14 by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad dread gathering that killed 40 CRPF faculty, a suicide aircraft on February 13 focused on a military transport in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan Province, circumscribing Pakistan, killing 27 individuals from the tip top Revolutionary Guards. (IRGC).

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Four Muslim nations consider gold, barter trade to beat future sanctions

Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad urges Iran, Malaysia, Turkey and Qatar to be self-reliant against threats.

Current Affairs:Iran, Malaysia, Turkey and Qatar are thinking about exchanging among themselves in gold and through a bargain framework as a fence against any future monetary authorizes on them, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Saturday.

Toward the finish of an Islamic summit in Malaysia, Mahathir adulated Iran and Qatar for withstanding monetary embargoes and said it was significant for the Muslim world to act naturally dependent to confront future dangers.

“With the world seeing countries settling on one-sided choices to force such reformatory measures, Malaysia and different countries should consistently remember that it tends to be forced on any of us,” Mahathir said.

U.S.- unified Arab states Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut political and exchange joins with Qatar around 2-1/2-years prior over claims it backs fear based oppression, a charge Doha denies. Iran, then, has been hit gravely after the United States reimposed endorses on it a year ago.

“I have recommended that we return to exchanging utilizing the gold dinar and bargain exchange among us,” Mahathir stated, alluding to the Islamic medieval gold coin.

“We are genuinely investigating this and we trust that we will have the option to discover an instrument to place it into impact.” The pioneers concurred they required accomplish more business among themselves and exchange each other’s monetary forms.

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US and China would ‘very shortly’ sign their Phase One trade pact: Trump

The Phase One deal was announced earlier this month as part of a bid to end the months-long tit-for-tat trade war between the world’s two largest economies

Current Affairs:President Donald Trump on Saturday said the United States and China would “in the blink of an eye” sign their supposed Phase One exchange settlement.

“We just accomplished an achievement on the exchange accord and we will sign it in no time,” Trump said at a Turning Point USA occasion in Florida.

The Phase One arrangement was declared not long ago as a major aspect of an offer to end the months-long blow for blow exchange war between the world’s two biggest economies, which has bothered markets and hit worldwide development.

Under the arrangement, the United States would consent to lessen a few levies in return for a major bounce in Chinese acquisition of American homestead items.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said a week ago the settlement would be marked toward the beginning of January, saying that the arrangement had just been deciphered and was simply experiencing a specialized “clean.”

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Ajit Doval, China’s Wang Yi resolve to settle decades-old border issue

Both sides agree to work on rolling out more confidence-building measures along border, in sync with decision taken during second informal summit between PM Modi and Chinese Premier Xi in October

Current Affairs:India and China on Saturday made plans to heighten endeavors to accomplish a “reasonable”, “sensible” and commonly worthy answer for the vexed limit issue and concurred that its initial settlement will serve the basic interests of the two nations.

There was an agreement during “helpful” outskirt talks here between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval that the two sides should regard each other’s sensitivities and worries so as to fabricate common trust, as indicated by the External Affairs Ministry.

It said the different sides likewise underlined that the limit question ought to be drawn nearer from the vital viewpoint of India-China ties while concurring that keeping up harmony and serenity along the fringe was significant.

The two sides shared the view that steady and adjusted advancement of India-China relations is a positive factor for harmony and flourishing in the locale and the world, the MEA said after the 22nd round of Sino-India limit talks under the system of Special Representatives’ exchange.

Doval and Wang are the assigned Special Representatives of the two nations for the limit talks.

In the discussions, the different sides likewise consented to cooperate to turn out more certainty building measures along the fringe, in a state of harmony with choice taken during the second casual summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in October.

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From cyclones to floods, 2019 was a year of record extreme weather events

As this year draws to a close, we take a look at the extreme weather events that hit India in 2019 and their impacts.

Current Affairs:The year 2019 saw record extraordinary climate occasions activated by environmental change- – this July was the most sizzling July at any point recorded, the late spring storm saw 74% increasingly outrageous precipitation occasions, woodland fires were 113% progressively various year-on-year and seven typhoons hit the nation.

These extraordinary climate occasions dislodged about 2.17 million individuals in the initial a half year of 2019. These figures will undoubtedly ascend as the relocations from tornados and floods in the later 50% of the year are incorporated.

With generally number of passings because of extraordinary climate occasions, India was additionally viewed as the fifth generally helpless of 181 nations with the impacts of environmental change, IndiaSpend gave an account of December 5, 2019.

As this year attracts to a nearby, we investigate the extraordinary climate occasions that hit India in 2019 and their effects.

Heatwaves

The greater part the number of inhabitants in India was grasped by an extreme heatwave in the late spring a long time of June and July 2019, killing more than 200 individuals.

The Indian government proclaims a heatwave when temperatures reach in any event 4.5 deg-C over the “typical” temperature for a territory for at any rate two days.

Toward the beginning of June 2019, when extreme heatwave seared huge pieces of India, a few districts experienced temperatures outperforming 45 deg-Celcius (deg-C) for most of three weeks. On June 10, Delhi arrived at its most sizzling day on record for the month, arriving at 48 deg-C, as per the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) State of Global Climate 2019 discharged on December 3, 2019.

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