Current affairs notes on September 11-15

1.127th anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s in Chicago. The Parliament of World’s Religions, held for the first time in 1893, from September 11 to September 27, saw eminent personalities from around the world at the same forum.

2. The Department of Posts has launched a scheme called Five Star Villages, to ensure universal coverage of flagship postal schemes in rural areas of the country. The scheme is being launched on pilot basis in Maharashtra. The scheme will be implemented by a team of five Gramin Dak Sevaks who will be assigned a village for marketing of all products, savings and insurance schemes of the Department of Posts.

3. ‘SAROD-Ports’ stands for Society for Affordable Redressal of Disputes – Ports. Launched by the Union Shipping Ministry. It is Affordable Dispute Redressal Mechanism for all kind of disputes of maritime sector.

4. Recently, the EASE (Enhanced Access and Service Excellence) 2.0 Banking Reforms Index on performance of Public Sector Banks (PSB) from March 2018-2020 was released and best performing banks on EASE were felicitated.

5. The Bank of Baroda, State Bank of India, and erstwhile Oriental Bank of Commerce were felicitated for being the top three in the ‘Top Performing Banks’ category.

6. The PM CARES Fund has received an exemption from all provisions of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act. However, it is alleged that PM CARES does not meet the precondition of being a body established and owned by the government whose accounts are audited by the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG).

7. Jammu and Kashmir Integrated Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (JK-IGRAMS): Launched on pilot basis for Jammu, Srinagar, and Reasi districts. This is the first UT that will be linked to the central government system—CPGRAMS. The CPGRAMS provides the facility to lodge a grievance online from any geographical location. It enables the citizen to track online the grievance.

8. The Results of the second edition of Ranking of States on Support to Startup Ecosystems have been released. Conducted by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).  Best performer: Gujrat. Top Performers: Karnataka,Kerala.

9. Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework (CSCAF) 2.0: Launched recently by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA). The objective of CSCAF is to provide a clear roadmap for cities towards combating Climate Change while planning and implementing their actions, including investments.

10. The Union Ministry of Mines had requested the Environment Ministry to exempt it from paying NPV (Net present value).  NPV is a monetary approximation of the value that is lost when a piece of forest land has been razed.

11. Typhoon Haishen Recently, Japan was hot by this typhoon.

12. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan were among countries that need to act urgently against trans-fat, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Trans fatty acids (TFAs) or Trans fats are the most harmful type of fats which can have much more adverse effects on our body than any other dietary constituent.

13. Researchers from Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) have found that the methane hydrate deposits are located in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin are of biogenic origin. On Earth, methane (CH4) is a naturally occurring gas.  Methane hydrate is formed when hydrogen-bonded water and methane gas come into contact at high pressures and low temperatures in oceans.

14. Living Planet Report 2020: Released by international non-profit World Wide Fund for Nature. India has 2.4 per cent global land share, about eight per cent global biodiversity and around 16 per cent global population. Living Planet Index (LPI)-It is a measure of the state of the world’s biological diversity based on population trends of vertebrate species in terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats.

15. National Hindi Divas or Hindi Day is observed every year on September 14. The Constituent assembly of India adopted Hindi as the official language of the country on September 14, 1949 under Article 343.

16. The Karnataka government is likely to take a delegation to bring pressure on the Centre to approve the construction of the Mekedatu balancing reservoir that has been proposed to store water for drinking purposes. Mekedatu is a location along Cauvery in Kanakapura Taluk of Ramanagara District of Karnataka. Tamil Nadu objected saying Karnataka had not sought prior permission for the project.

17. The supplementary demand for grants is needed for government expenditure over and above the amount for which Parliamentary approval was already obtained during the Budget session.  Article 115: Supplementary, additional or excess grants. Article 116: Votes on account, votes of credit and exceptional grants.

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