CSAP Daily-CA 15-16-10-2020
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CIVIL SERVICES ACHIEVERS' POINT, GUWAHATI THE ASSAM TRIBUNE ANALYSIS Date – 15 & 16 October 2020 (For Preliminary and Mains Examination) As per New Pattern of APSC (Also useful for UPSC and other State Level Government Examinations) Join our Regular/Online Classes. For details contact 8811877068 CIVIL SERVICES ACHIEVERS' POINT, GUWAHATI ANSWERS to MCQs of 14-10-2020 1. (b) Louis Gluck 2. (c) World Bank 3. (c) Stockholm Convention 4. (c) Mauritius 5. (d) All Join our Regular/Online Classes. For details contact 8811877068 CIVIL SERVICES ACHIEVERS' POINT, GUWAHATI MCQs of 16-10-2020 1. Which country has partnered with 2. Which state has launched the Mukhya Mantri Meghalaya for setting up “ centre of Saur Swarojgar Yojana? Excellence” on high value vegetables? a) Bihar b) Uttarakhand a) France c) Uttar Pradesh b) Israel d) Jharkhand c) Singapore d) South Korea Join our Regular/Online Classes. For details contact 8811877068 CIVIL SERVICES ACHIEVERS' POINT, GUWAHATI 3. Which of the following has been 4. Which Bank has inked MoU with NABARD for awarded the Nobel peace Prize 2020? extending credit support to the agricultural a) World Food Programme organizations various projects? b) United Nations High commissioner for a) State bank of India Refugees b) Punjab National Bank c) Jacinda Ardern c) World Bank d) Greta Thunberg d) Asian Development bank Join our Regular/Online Classes. For details contact 8811877068 CIVIL SERVICES ACHIEVERS' POINT, GUWAHATI 5. What causes Crimean- Congo hemorrhagic fever? a) Food Contamination b) Tick- borne virus (Nairovirus) c) Zoonosis d) Fecal- oral Join our Regular/Online Classes. For details contact 8811877068 CIVIL SERVICES ACHIEVERS' POINT, GUWAHATI CONTENTS Nepal re-elected to UN human rights council WPI rises to 1.32 percent Cabinet okays new STAR project Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half of its corals in past 3 decades:study NRL, GAIL sign Pipeline Right to Use sharing pact India to gift submarine to Myanmar Bhanu Athaiya no more Join our Regular/Online Classes. For details contact 8811877068 CIVIL SERVICES ACHIEVERS' POINT, GUWAHATI EDITORIAL o Height of irony o NEP 2020 and language policy Join our Regular/Online Classes. For details contact 8811877068 CIVIL SERVICES ACHIEVERS' POINT, GUWAHATI NEWS ARTICLES Join our Regular/Online Classes. For details contact 8811877068 CIVIL SERVICES ACHIEVERS' POINT, GUWAHATI Nepal re-elected to UN human rights council (General Studies-2: International Relations) o Nepal has been re-elected as a member of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in the elections held at UN Headquarters in New York. o Currently serving as a member of the Council since January 2018, Nepal has been re-elected with 150 votes on Tuesday and will serve a consecutive three-year term of 2021-2023, Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Wednesday. o In addition to Nepal, three countries from Asia Pacific region namely China, Pakistan and Uzbekistan were among the 15 Member States elected by a secret ballot in a plenary meeting of the 75th session of the UN GA. o Envoy/Permanent Representative of Nepal to UN, Amrit Bahadur Rai, termed Nepal’s re- election as the “international community’s acknowledgement of our progressive journey.” Join our Regular/Online Classes. For details contact 8811877068 CIVIL SERVICES ACHIEVERS' POINT, GUWAHATI WPI rises to 1.32 percent (General Studies-3: Economic Development) o High prices of food products, primary articles and manufactured goods accelerated India’s September wholesale inflation. Consequently, the annual rate of inflation based on wholesale prices rose to 1.32 per cent in September from 0.16 per cent in August, and from (-)0.25 per cent in July. o On a year-on-year (YoY) basis, the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) data furnished by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has risen by only 0.33 percent as against the corresponding period of the previous year. “The annual rate of inflation, based on monthly WPI, stood at 1.32 per cent (provisional) for the month of September 2020 (over September, 2019) as compared to 0.33 per cent during the corresponding month of the previous year,” the ministry said in its review of ‘Index Numbers of Wholesale Price in India’ for September. o On a sequential basis, the expenses on primary articles, which constitute 22.62 per cent of the WPI’s total weightage, increased 5.10 per cent from 1.60 per cent in August 2020. Join our Regular/Online Classes. For details contact 8811877068 CIVIL SERVICES ACHIEVERS' POINT, GUWAHATI o The prices of food items remained at elevated levels with a rise of 6.92 per cent from 4.07 per cent reported for August. o On commodity and sub-segment basis, potato price increased by 107.63 per cent in September while it was at 82.93 per cent during August 2020. Overall, vegetable prices in September rose 36.54 per cent against a rise of 7.03 per cent in August. Similarly, pulses became dearer by 12.53 per cent last month from 9.86 per cent in August. o On a YoY basis, expenses on food items increased at a faster rate of 8.17 per cent from 7.54 per cent in the corresponding period of last year. o Sub-segment of vegetable prices in September rose 36.54 per cent against the decline of 19.3 per cent in the same month a year ago. o The cost of the fuel and power category declined (-)9.54 per cent against a rise of (-) 6.68 per cent YoY. Furthermore, the cost of the manufactured products category rose 1.61 per cent against a fall of (-)0.42 per cent YoY Join our Regular/Online Classes. For details contact 8811877068 CIVIL SERVICES ACHIEVERS' POINT, GUWAHATI Cabinet okays new STAR project (General Studies-2: Governance, Social Justice) o The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the STARS project under the New Education Policy to support states in strengthening the school education system, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said Wednesday. o Addressing a press conference, Javadekar said the Modi government has started implementing the NEP-2020 and as part of the process it has approved the Strengthening TeachingLearning and Results for States (STARS) project. o The centrally sponsored project will be implemented by the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education. It will cover Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and Odisha, he said. o The World Bank-supported project is estimated to cost Rs 5,718 crore, he said. The project aims to support the states in developing and improving school education outcomes, the minister said. Join our Regular/Online Classes. For details contact 8811877068 CIVIL SERVICES ACHIEVERS' POINT, GUWAHATI Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half of its corals in past 3 decades: study (General Studies-1: Geography of World) o The Great Barrier Reef in Australia, which is the largest reef system in the world, has lost more than half of its coral population in the past three decades, according to a new study. o The research, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, assessed coral communities and their colony size along the length of the Great Barrier Reef between 1995 and 2017, and found that small, medium, and large corals have all declined in the period. o “We measured changes in colony sizes because population studies are important for understanding demography and the corals’ capacity to breed,” said Andy Dietzel, a co- author of the study from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoralCoE) in Australia. Join our Regular/Online Classes. For details contact 8811877068 CIVIL SERVICES ACHIEVERS' POINT, GUWAHATI o “We found the number of small, medium and large corals on the Great Barrier Reef has declined by more than 50 percent since the 1990s,” said Terry Hughes, another co-author of the study from CoralCoE. o According to the study, the decline occurred in both shallow and deeper water, and across virtually all species – but especially in branching and table-shaped corals. o “These were the worst affected by record-breaking temperatures that triggered mass bleaching in 2016 and 2017,” Hughes said. o Since the reefs are underwater ecosystems home to several interdependent species, the scientists said the loss of these corals means a loss of habitat, which in turn diminish fish abundance and the productivity of coral reef fisheries. o Dietzel said one of the major implications of coral size is its effect on survival and breeding. A vibrant coral population has millions of small, younger corals, as well as several large ones, he said. Join our Regular/Online Classes. For details contact 8811877068 CIVIL SERVICES ACHIEVERS' POINT, GUWAHATI o “Our results show the ability of the Great Barrier Reef to recover – its resilience – is compromised compared to the past, because there are fewer babies, and fewer large breeding adults,” Dietzel said. o The scientists cautioned that better data on the demographic trends of corals is urgently needed. o “If we want to understand how coral populations are changing and whether or not they can recover between disturbances, we need more detailed demographic data: on recruitment, on reproduction and on colony size structure,” Dietzel said. Join our Regular/Online Classes. For details contact 8811877068 CIVIL SERVICES ACHIEVERS' POINT, GUWAHATI NRL, GAIL sign Pipeline Right to Use sharing pact (General Studies on Assam: Economic Development) o A ‘Pipeline Right to Use (RoU) sharing agreement’ was inked between NRL and GAIL (India) Limited on Wednesday at New Delhi. o The agreement, a win-win for both the sides, was signed by NRL GM (Project) PJ Sarma and GAIL GM (Projects) KK Sachdeva in the presence of NRL MD SK Barua and GAIL CMD Manoj Jain.