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Current Affairs March 2019 Current Affairs March 2019 www.classiciasacademy.com 2019 CURRENT AFFAIRS-MARCH 2019 1. FINLAND’S BASIC INCOME TRIAL 25. MARGINAL COST OF LENDING BOOSTS HAPPINESS, BUT NOT RATE (MCLR) JOBS 26. THE BENAMI 2. THARU TRANSACTIONS 3. REGIONAL COMPREHENSIVE (PROHIBITION) ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AMENDMENT ACT, 2016 4. CORAL BLEACHING 5. PANEL MOOTS MINIMUM WAGE 27. WHAT GEO-6 MEANS FOR OF 375 PER DAY INDIA 6. MARINE HEAT WAVES 28. MORETON WAVE OR SOLAR 7. OCEAN ACIDIFICATION TSUNAMI 8. ABSHER APP 29. RIGHTS ISSUE 9. MUNICH SECURITY 30. DRY EYE SYNDROME (DES) CONFERENCE 31. IN A FIRST, WOMAN BAGS ABEL 10. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PRIZE FOR MATHS COUNCIL: INDIA AND SAUDI 32. INDO-PACIFIC REGIONAL ARABIA DIALOGUE – 2019 11. MITOPHAGY 33. PRAYAGRAJ KUMBH MELA 2019 12. SEA SQUIRT, SUCKING UP MAKES IT TO THE GUINNESS PLASTIC PARTICLES FROM WORLD RECORDS THE SEA 13. MOBILE DATA USAGE 34. CENTRE FOR DISABILITY SURGES 69% IN DEC. 2018 SPORTS’ TO BE SET UP AT 14. ACID TEST RATI GWALIOR 15. INDIA TO HAVE OWN DNS 35. AL NAGAH 2019 FOR SAFE BROWSING 36. HAZARDOUS AND OTHER 16. PHILIPPINES LEADS ASIA IN WASTES (MANAGEMENT& GENDER EQUALITY TRANSBOUNDARY MOVEMENT) 17. U.K. SHOULD HAND OVER AMENDMENT RULES, 2019 CHAGOS ISLANDS TO 37. INDO-BANGLADESH JOINT MAURITIUS: ICJ MILITARY EXERCISE SAMPRITI 18. AZAADI KE DIWANE’ MUSEUM – 2019 INAUGURATED AT RED FORT 38. MỸ SƠN TEMPLES 19. FIFTEEN OF THE 20 MOST 39. BUJANG VALLEY POLLUTED CITIES IN THE WORLD 40. GREENFIELD PROJECTS ARE IN INDIA 41. BAN SAGAR DAM 20. STEM CELLS 42. SHADOW BANKING SYSTEM 21. ACQUITTAL OF DEATH ROW 43. WRIS CONVICTS 44. NATIONAL WATER RESOURCES COUNCIL 22. ICDS 45. NATIONAL WATER BOARD 23. SUNDARBAN WETLANDS 46. NATIONAL WATER ACADEMY :WETLAND OF INTERNATIONAL 47. GAGAN IMPORTANCE 48. SETU BHARATAM 24. ‘INDIA RANKS 11TH IN GOLD 49. ATAL PENSION YOJANA - APY HOLDING’ SCHEME 2 CURRENT AFFAIRS-MARCH 2019 50. ILO CONVENTION 138 AND 182: 83. SHIPRA RIVER INDIA RATIFIED 84. INDIA’S INTANGIBLE CULTURAL 51. NATIONAL CHILD LABOUR HERITAGE LISTED BY UNESCO PROJECT SCHEME (1988) 52. THE CHILD LABOUR (PROHIBITION AND REGULATION) AMENDMENT ACT, 2016 53. V.V.GIRI NATIONAL LABOUR INSTITUTE, NOIDA 54. KANYASHREE 55. PRESS COUNCIL OF INDIA 56. NITI AYOG COMPOSITION 57. MUDUMALAI NATIONAL PARK 58. RUSHIKULYA RIVER 59. GRAPES-3 60. GOLAN HEIGHTS 61. ITALY JOINS OBOR 62. NSCN TALKS 63. DEFEAT OF ISIS 64. INDIA'S FIRST LOKPAL: PC GHOSE 65. INDIA'S FIRST LOKPAL: PC GHOSE 66. URBAN HEAT ISLAND (UHI) 67. PYGMY SEAHORSES 68. UNHRC ON SRI LANKA 69. ELECTION INK 70. RBI DEFERS IMPLEMENTING Ind AS 71. BUMPHEAD PARROTFISH 72. SUCCESSFUL ANTI-SATELLITE (ASAT) MISSILE TEST 73. WORLD’S LONGEST SALT CAVE 74. LIMA-2019 75. YOUNG SCIENTIST PROGRAMME 76. 'DISTRICT INDUSTRIES CENTRE' (DICs) 77. HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE ON DEEPENING OF DIGITAL PAYMENTS 78. LEVERAGE 79. LEVERAGE RATIO 80. LIQUIDITY COVERAGE RATIO 81. BASEL III 82. GODAVARI 3 CURRENT AFFAIRS-MARCH 2019 FINLAND’S BASIC INCOME TRIAL The Tharus are recognized as an official BOOSTS HAPPINESS, BUT NOT JOBS nationality by the Government of Nepal. Finland’s basic income scheme did not The Government of India recognizes the spur its unemployed recipients to work Tharu people as a scheduled tribe. more to supplement their earnings as REGIONAL COMPREHENSIVE hoped but it did help their wellbeing, ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP researchers said on Friday as the government announced the trial’s initial Regional Comprehensive Economic findings. Partnership (RCEP) is a proposed free The two-year trial, which ended a month trade agreement (FTA) between the ten ago, saw 2,000 Finns, chosen randomly member states of the Association of from among the unemployed, become the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) first Europeans to be paid a regular (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, monthly income by the State that was not Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, reduced if they found work. Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and the six Asia-Pacific states with which ASEAN has Finland, which will hold parliamentary existing free trade agreements (Australia, elections in April, is exploring alternatives China, India, Japan, South Korea and to its current social security model. New Zealand). The project is being watched closely by RCEP negotiations were formally other governments who see a basic launched in November 2012 at the income as a way of encouraging the ASEAN Summit in Cambodia. The free unemployed to take up often low-paid or trade agreement is scheduled and temporary work without fear of losing their expected to be signed in November 2018 benefits. That could help reduce during the ASEAN Summit and Related dependence on the State and cut welfare Summit in Singapore, after the first RCEP costs, especially as automation sees summit was held on 14 November 2017 in humans replaced in the workforce. Manila, Philippines. Finland’s Minister of Health and Social CORAL BLEACHING Affairs Pirkko Mattila said the impact on employment of the monthly pay cheque of Coral bleaching occurs when coralpolyps €560($635) “seems to have been minor on expel algae that live inside their tissues. the grounds of the first trial year”. Normally, coral polyps live in an endosymbiotic relationship with this algae THARU crucial for the health of the coral and the reef. The algae provides up to 90% of the The Tharu people are an ethnic coral's energy. Bleached corals continue groupindigenous to the southern foothills to live but begin to starve after bleaching. of the Himalayas; most of the Tharu Some corals recover. people live in the NepalTerai. The word thāruis thought to be derived from Above-average sea water temperatures sthavir meaning follower of caused by global warming is the leading Theravadabuddhism. Some Tharu groups cause of coral bleaching. According to the also live in the IndianTerai, foremost in United Nations Environment Programme, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. between 2014 and 2016 the longest recorded global bleaching events killed coral on an unprecedented scale. In 2016, 4 CURRENT AFFAIRS-MARCH 2019 bleaching of coral on the Great Barrier While the Minimum Wages Act was Reef killed between 29 and 50 percent of enacted in 1948, it stipulates different the reef's coral. In 2017, the bleaching wages according to occupation and State; extended into the central region of the there is no national minimum wage. In reef. The average interval between 2016, then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley bleaching events has halved between hiked minimum wages for unskilled non- 1980 and 2016. agricultural workers by 42% to 350 per Coral bleaching may be caused by a day. number of factors. While localized triggers The Code on Wages Bill, 2017, had lead to localized bleaching, the large scale proposed a national minimum wage and coral bleaching events of the recent years five regional minimum wages. However, it have been triggered by global warming. was referred to a parliamentary standing Under increased carbon dioxide committee which, in its December 2018 concentration expected in the 21st report, said State governments must be century, corals are expected to becoming consulted before any national minimum increasingly rare on reef systems. Coral wage is set by the Centre. reefs located in warm, shallow water with low water flow have been more affected MARINE HEAT WAVES than reefs located in areas with higher water flow. Marine heat waves, defined as at least five days with temperatures far above PANEL MOOTS MINIMUM WAGE OF 375 average, are caused by heat from blazing PER DAY sunshine and by shifting warm currents. Among impacts, a 2011 marine heat wave An expert panel has recommended that a off western Australia killed abalone stocks need-based national minimum wage for and a 2012 heat wave off the eastern workers across the country be set at 375 United States drove lobster stocks north per day, or 9,750 per month. towards Canada. In a report submitted to the Ministry of Labour and Employment on Thursday, an Around the world’s oceans, the number of Expert Committee on Determining the days of marine heat waves per year rose Methodology for Fixation of the National 54 percent in the period 1987-2016 from Minimum Wage has also recommended 1925-54, according to the scientists in different national minimum wages for Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, “different geographical regions of the Japan, Spain and the United States. country to suit the local realities and as per socio-economic and labour market The scientists said marine heat waves contexts.” were “emerging as forceful agents of These regional wage recommendations disturbance” that could “restructure entire range from 342 per day in some States marine ecosystems”, disrupting livelihoods including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West and food supplies for millions of people. Bengal to 447/day for States such as Delhi, Goa, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. 5 CURRENT AFFAIRS-MARCH 2019 OCEAN ACIDIFICATION ABSHER APP Ocean acidification is the ongoing Absher, the “one-click” e-services app decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans, launched by the Interior Ministry of Saudi caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide Arab in 2015, is now regarded as the (CO2) from the atmosphere. Seawater is leading government platform for Saudi slightly basic (meaning pH > 7), and citizens, freeing them from bureaucratic ocean acidification involves a shift towards inefficiency and endless queuing for pH-neutral conditions rather than a everyday services. transition to acidic conditions (pH < 7). An However, in a recent New York Times estimated 30–40% of the carbon dioxide article, the app was criticized as a “tool of from human activity released into the repression” following claims by atmosphere dissolves into oceans, rivers Democratic Senator Ron Wyden and and lakes. To achieve chemical women’s rights groups. equilibrium, some of it reacts with the Apple and Google were urged to remove water to form carbonic acid.
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