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Welcome to the Quick Gyan (QG) Section of D2G. QG is just a glimpse of what happened today all over the world.

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AWARDS AND HONORS

Kerala Tourism campaign wins Golden City Gate Award

Kerala Tourism’s new campaign has bagged the “Golden City Gate Award” at the world’s leading travel trade show in Germany. Titled “New Worlds”, the multimedia campaign containing three short films directed by reputed Malayalam filmmaker Anwar Rasheed won the silver prize of this year’s Das Golden Stadttor or Golden City Gate at the Internationale Tourismus-Borse Berlin (ITB-Berlin), 2016. The award was presented to Abraham George, president, Kerala Travel Mart (KTM) by Wolfgang Jo Huschert, president of the jury of the Golden City Gate Award jury. Kerala Tourism had earlier won the Ulysses Prize of the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) for its contribution to sustainable tourism.

Quick Link – Golden City Gate Award

BANKING AND FINANCE

Yes Bank inc pact with Indo-Brazil chamber

Yes Bank has inked a pact with the India Brazil Chamber of Commerce (IBCC) for cooperation in knowledge sharing, consultancy, skill and technology, and B2B opportunities. The core sectors covered in the MoU will be sports, media and entertainment with special focus on IT, infrastructure, broadcast driven business opportunities.  The MoU also seeks for building ground for innovative business integrations for businesses from India and Brazil. Yes Bank said the MoU signing comes in the run up to the 8th Annual BRICS Summit, to be held in New Delhi this year. Further, Yes Bank and IBCC will jointly endeavour to explore exchange of best practices in sports goods manufacturing, CSR in sports, SM&E talent management.

Quick Link – IBCC

INDIAN AFFAIRS

Farakka Power Plant in WB shuts down five units

Abysmally low level of water in the Farakka Feeder Canal has caused the National Thermal Power Corporation to shut down five units of its power plant at Farakka in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. The five units together have a combined generating capacity of 1600 MW and the shutdown is likely to affect Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and industry in the Eastern Region. Describing the dip in water level as “unprecedented”, the NTPC said, “This is the first time in the last decade when NTPC has been forced to switch off all the Stage I and II units together for water scarcity.”

Quick Link – WB shuts down five units

FSSAI to train 20K street vendors in Delhi

As part of its project to promote clean food, food safety regulator FSSAI will train about 20,000 street food vendors in the nation capital over the next four weeks. The decision to launch ‘Project Clean Strategy Food’ was announced at an event to connect with corporates, media specialists and food experts to promote food safety. The event was co-organised with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has partnered the government’s Skill India initiative and others for the project. Speaking at the same event, FSSAI CEO Pawan Agarwal said the country faces huge burden of food-borne diseases, the food safety can be ensured if all the citizen and businesses are involved in the process.

Quick Link – FSSAI

GOI allows women in combat roles in all CAPFs

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Malaysia bans recruitment of new foreign workers

Malaysia has banned the recruitment of new foreign workers after widespread criticism of its decision to bring in 1.5 million Bangladeshis to work in the country, a move that may also affect Indian labourers. Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid said employers who wanted to hire foreign workers should recruit from among foreign employees already in the country, including those whose permits had expired. Ahmad Zahid who is the home minister, said the issue of importing 1.5 million Bangladeshi workers could be considered as closed.  He said employers or agents who were found guilty of protecting illegal foreign workers would be subjected to whipping under the Immigration Act and Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act.

Quick Link – Malaysia bans recruitment

South Sudan allowed soldiers to rape as wages : UN

According to a UN Report, the South Sudanese government has conducted a “scorched earth policy” against civilians caught up in the country’s civil war. The Government has allowed its soldiers and allied militias to rape women in lieu of wages, torture and murder suspected opponents and deliberately displace as many people as possible. The report laid bare the scale of the atrocities committed by both sides since the war broke out in December 2013 and warned that many of those may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity. From April to September last year, the UN recorded more than 1,300 reports of rape in Unity state alone, an oil-rich area in the north of the country that has seen some of the worst violence of the conflict.

Quick Link – Scorched earth policy

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

BSNL plans to install ‘zero base’ mobile towers

To demonstrate that communication can be delivered with good aesthetics, state-run BSNL plans to install 50 ‘zero base’ mobile towers, which are better looking and multi-functional. The concept of a ‘zero site’ is that it can be used as a wi-fi hotspot, street light and camera and the radio units can be hidden inside the pole or underneath. BSNL Chairman and Managing Director Anupam Shrivastava said during his recent visit to Mobile World Congress, he witnessed solutions provided by equipment makers Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei and ZTE regarding the zero base towers. “We will ask for quotes from all these players for zero base towers.

Quick Link – Zero base

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