20-21.10.19 Gujarat [GPSC] Current Affairs

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GUJARAT

  • Gujarat: Doctors plan study to reduce high infant mortality rate in tribal areas

ð In a bid to remove the lacunas that attribute to the considerably high infant mortality rate (IMR) in tribal districts of the state, community medicine departments of four medical colleges in Gujarat have planned a study to ascertain the home-based newborn care practices prevalent in these districts. The study will also focus on removing the lacunas in these practices that directly or indirectly are connected to infant deaths.

ð While age up to a year is considered as an infant, the medical practitioner said 50-70 per cent of deaths take place within one month of birth. Out of it, 50-70 per cent deaths take place in the first week. Similarly, out of the infant deaths that take place within one week, 50-70 per cent of the deaths take place on the first day itself.

ð According to the Sample Registration System (SRS) bulletin of May 2019 for the year 2017, Gujarat has an IMR of 30 per 1,000 live births. However, there is a considerable difference in the IMR figures of rural and urban Gujarat. While IMR in urban Gujarat is 22, it is 36 for rural areas. The average IMR of the country is 33 per 1,000 live births.

INTERNATIONAL

  • Interpol to hold the general assembly in India in 2022

 

  • India will host the 91st Interpol General Assembly in 2022 after a proposal received the overwhelming support of member countries at this year’s congregation at Santiago in Chile.

 

  • The 91st Interpol General Assembly in India in the year 2022 will be held as part of celebrations of the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence.

 

  • The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) had hosted the General assembly, where representatives of all member countries converge, in India in 1997.

 

  • Based in Lyon, France, Interpol is an international police cooperation organisation with 194 member states and 100 years of experience of international cooperation in policing.

 

·       Sri Lanka removed from FATFs Grey List

ð The international terror financing watchdog, Financial Action Task Force (FATF), removed Sri Lanka from the Grey List.

ð FATF said that Sri Lanka had made significant progress in addressing the strategic AML/CFT deficiencies identified earlier.
Sri Lanka will not be monitored under its on-going global anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) compliance process.

ð  International Cooperation Review Group (ICRG) of FATF to assess the progress of AML/CFT effectiveness in the country.
ICRG reported that Sri Lanka had not made sufficient progress in four parameters, namely supervision, international cooperation, legal persons and arrangements, and targeted financial sanctions on proliferation.

Gk bit: FATF – Financial Action Task Force

ð FATF, an inter-governmental body, devices policy and sets standards to promote the implementation of legal, regulatory and operational measures to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and other related threats to the integrity of the international financial system.

ð There are 38 member countries, including the US, UK, India, Japan, China, and France, among others in FATF.

 

NATIONAL

·       Exercise Dharma Guardian 2019 commenced in Mizoram

  • The second editionof Exercise Dharma Guardian 2019, a bilateral annual military exercise, between the Indian and Japan Army commenced on 19 October at the Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJWS) at Vairengte in Mizoram. The exercise is being held from 19 October to 2 November 2019.

 

  • The aim of the exercise Dharma Guardian 2019 is joint training of troops in counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations in both mountainous terrain. The exercise will further strengthen the long-standing strategic ties between India and Japan.

 

  • Exercise Dharma Guardian is an annual military training between India and Japan. It is being conducted in India since 2018. Exercise Dharma Guardian with Japan is very important because of the security challenges faced by both India and Japan in the backdrop of global terrorism.

 

  • Defence exports soar by seven times in two years, reach 2 billion

 

  • India’s defence exports have grown seven times in the last two years, reaching a value of two billion dollars.

 

  • The country is working out modalities to become a hub in top-class defence production with efforts being made to increase defence exports to five billion dollars in the near future.

 

  • 440 companies in the private sector have taken up defence production in the last five years.

 

·       PM Modi unveiled the book Bridgital Nation

  • Prime MinisterNarendra Modiunveiled the book titled Bridgital Nation in New Delhi.He presented the first copy of the to Shri Ratan Tata.

 

  • The book was written by Shri N Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons, and  Roopa Purushottam, Chief Economist & Head of Policy Advocacy of Tata Sons.

 

  • The book Bridgital Nation presents a powerful vision of the future where human beings and technology co-exist in a mutually beneficial ecosystem. The book argues that instead of accepting technology as a replacement of human labour, India can use technology as an aid to generate more jobs. Bridgital term refersthat the digital tools can act as a bridge between aspirations and achievements.

 

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