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Current Affairs January 2020 LEGEND MAGAZINE (JANUARY - 2020) CURRENT AFFAIRS AND QUIZ, ENGLISH VOCABULARY Exclusively prepared for RACE students Issue: 26 | Page : 36 | Topic : Legend of January | Price: Not for Sale NATIONAL NEWS Centre sets up 7-member GoM led by projected on the capital expenditure in Rajnath singh to review crop insurance infrastructure sectors in India during the fiscals Government creates new Department of scheme-PMFBY: 2020 to 2025. The capital expenditure will be military affairs headed by Bipin Rawat: Government has formed a 7-member group of shared by the Centre, States and the private Following the change in the Government of India ministers (GoM) headed by Defense Minister sector in the ratio 39:39:22 respectively. (Allocation of Business), Rules 1961, the Ministry Rajnath Singh to review the crop insurance of Defence (MoD) has got it’s 5th department scheme, “Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana 2nd National GST Conference to streamline namely 'Department of Military affairs (DMA) (PMFBY) ” for making improvments as per the GST system held in New Delhi: ’, which is to be headed by Chief of Defence Staff need of the farmers. This move comes after the 2nd edition of the National GST Conference of the (CDS) General Bipin Rawat. The new concerns over growing dissent among farmers Commissioners of State Tax and Chief department works for the unity of the three forces about the scheme, dropping out of 4 insurance Commissioners of Central Tax was held in New Army, Navy and Air Force and will also monitor companies (ICICI Lombard, Tata AIG, Delhi under the chairmanship of Dr Ajay the services except for capital acquisitions Cholamandalam MS, and Shriram General Bhushan Pandey, Revenue Secretary of the according to prevalent rules and procedures. Insurance), and exit of states like Bihar, West Ministry of Finance (MoF). The conference was Bengal and Andhra Pradesh (AP) from the held to streamline the GST (Goods and Service 107th Indian Science Congress held in scheme. Tax) system and also to plug revenue leakages. Bengaluru, Karnataka: Committee constitution: A committee of the Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi India hosts Asia Pacific drosophila research centre and state officers for examining and inaugurated the 107th edition of the Indian conference 1st time; 5th edition overall: implementing quick measures to curb fraudulent Science Congress (ISC) also known as ISC The Asia Pacific drosophila research conference refund claims was decided to be constituted. The 2020 at the University of Agricultural Sciences (APDRC) is being conducted in India for the 1st committee will be implemented by the end of (UAS) in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The theme of time from January 6-10 in Pune, Maharashtra. January 2020. ISC for the year 2020 was “Science and Overall this is the 5th edition of the biennial CBDT, CBIC and GSTN Mou Signing: A Technology: Rural Development”. conference and is known by the name APDRC5. Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) would be Objective: The main objective of the summit was It is organised by Indian Institute of Science signed among Central Board of Direct to bridge the gap between farmers and tech- Education and Research (IISER). Taxes(CBDT), Central Board of Indirect Taxes and developers. The key highlights of the event are as Aim: The conference aims to promote the Customs (CBIC) and GST-Network (GSTN) to follows: interaction of Drosophila researchers in the Asia- exchange data through Application Program a) The Defence Research and Development Pacific region with the rest of the world. Interface (API) among them. Organization (DRDO) participated in the “Pride of Data sharing: This data will be shared on a India- Science Expo- 2020” at the 107th ISC. Cabinet approval with foreign countries on quarterly basis instead of yearly basis. b) Prime Minister also launched the Indian January 8, 2020: Science Technology and Engineering facilities Map a) Approval for MoU between India & United Maharashtra celebrates January 6, 2020, as (I-STEM) Portal during ISC. Kingdom (UK) for enabling energy self State’s Journalists’ Day: c) During the ISC, Women Science Congress was sufficiency for Indian railways. The Government of Maharashtra celebrates the held. DRDO Aeronautical Systems Director b) Approval for MoU between India & Sweden on 6th of January as a state’s Journalists' Day General Dr.Tessy Thomas famously known as cooperation in Polar Science. every year. It was celebrated in the memory of Missile Woman of India was the chief guest for the c) Approval for ratification of migration and late thespian journalist Balshastri Jambhekar. He event. mobility partnership agreement between India & was born on January 6, 1812, in the village of d) During ISC 2020, for the 1st time Farmer’s France. Pombhurle in Devgad taluka in the Konkan region Science Congress was conducted. d) Approval for agreement between India & of Maharashtra..He was known as ‘The Father Mongolia on cooperation in the exploration of Marathi Journalism’, for his efforts in For the 1st time, Vizag (Andhra Pradesh) to and uses of outer space. starting journalism in the Marathi language. He host 14th Global healthcare summit in 2021: came out with the first newspaper in the Marathi The American Association of Physicians of Indian Kerala became 1st State to pass resolution language named ‘Darpan’ in 1832. He was the Origin (AAPI), a professional association for against citizenship Amendment Act: first Indian to have published research papers in Indian American physicians, is set to organize a Kerala has become the 1st state in the country the quarterly journal of the Asiatic Society and 3-days long 14th Global Healthcare Summit to pass a resolution scrapping the Citizenship was the first person to print Dnyaneshwari in (GHS) in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA). The resolution 1845. (AP) from January 3, 2021 for the 1st time to was moved by Kerala’s Chief Minister Shri focus on public health hazards, eradication of Pinarayee Vijayan and was seconded by the 5th Swachh Survekshan League: Indore tuberculosis(TB), preventing maternal mortality, Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala. As per tops ranking among cities having 10lac+ control of Hepatitis B etc. Kerala cabinet, Citizenship Act was passed in population: 1955 followed all international conventions but The result of Swachh Survekshan League Pragati Maidan metro station renamed as present act is not adhering them. (Quarter 1 and Quarter 2) was announced by Supreme Court metro station in New Delhi: Union minister of State (MoS- Independent The Delhi Government’s renaming committee, 2019-2025 National Infrastructure Pipeline Charge) Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) Shri headed by Delhi’s Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, has report: Rs 102 lakh crore infrastructure plan Hardeep Singh Puri, at an event in New Delhi. renamed Pragati Maidan metro station as unveiled: The 5th edition of the Swachh Survekshan 2020 Supreme Court metro station following the The Union Minister of Finance Smt. Nirmala (urban cleanliness survey), which is to commence demand made by Supreme Court (SC) in Sitharaman released a report of the task force from 4 January 2020 by MoHUA was also rolled September 2019. The committee has also decided on National Infrastructure Pipeline for 2019-2025 out across India exept West Bengal. The key to rename Mukarba Chowk and its flyover after (NIP 2019-25) in order to achieve the $5 winners were: Kargil war martyr Captain Vikram Batra, MB trillion economy by 2024-25. Based on the a) >10lakh population: Indore Road as Acharya Sri Mahapragya Marg and The information compiled by the task force headed b) 1-10 lakh population: Jamshedpur Lajpat Nagar flyover to Jhulelal Setu. by Economic Affairs Secretary Atanu (Jharkhand) Chakraborty, Rs 102 lakh crores has been ________________________________________________________ 7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 2 |LEGEND MAGAZINE | JANUARY - 2020| 10k cameras to be used for 2020 Asiatic lion India and Pakistan exchanged list of Nuclear arrived at the yelahanka air base in census in Gujarat: Installations in their countries: Bengaluru. Following are the key highlights: Wildlife Institute of India (WII),an autonomous India and Pakistan exchanged lists of nuclear a) 3rd installment of Rs 2000 to 6 crore institution under the Ministry of Environment installations agreeing to not be targeted incase beneficiaries under PM KISAN released. Forest and Climate change(MoFCC), is set to of hostilities, through diplomatic channels b) 5 high-tech DRDO labs with under 35year conduct the Asiatic Lion Census in May 2020 by simultaneously at New Delhi and Islamabad aged scientists inaugurated. using around 8,000-10,000 cameras across (Pakistan). The exchange is based on the c) TN farmers handed over with deep sea fishing 25,000 sq.km (Square kilometre) area spanning agreement of prohibition of attack against nuclear vessels. 7 districts in Gujarat. National Tiger Conservation installations between India and Pakistan that d) 107th Indian Science Congress (ISC) Authority (NTCA) ’s technology will be used for came into force on January 27, 1991, under which inaugurated at the University of Agricultural the lion census. In the 2015 census, the area of the list is shared every year on January 1st. Sciences (UAS) in Bengaluru with Indian Science 15,000 sqkm surveyed where 523 lions reported Congress (ISC) 2020 theme: “Science and by WII in Gujarat. Gujarat
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