CURRENT AFFAIRS
On 21st January 2015, Popular mobile messaging app WhatsApp made
a new service live for sending messages from a Web browser, this service will
require your mobile to stay connected to the internet to work with the web
browser. According to WhatsApp this new messaging service currently only works
with Google's Chrome browser and will not be available to iPhone users.
Do You Know :
In 2009, WhatsApp was co-founded by Jan Koum and Brian Acton,
both were former Yahoo executives and In Feb 2014 WhatsApp was acquired by
Facebook for 19 billion dollars.
Among the Business Current Affairs, As per announcement on 20th
January 2015by noted e-commerce company Snapdeal, It signed a 50:50 Joint
Venture with television distribution company DEN to launch TV Commerce channel
DEN Snapdeal TV shop.
With this joint venture Snapdeal aims to create a multi-nodal
electronic shopping avenue for customers and it aims to take the DEN TV shop to
100 million households across India over the next 12 months particular in Tier
I and Tier II cities.
On 21st January 2015, Shanta Kumar Committee submitted its
report on restructuring of Food Corporation of India (FCI) to the PM Narendra
Modi. Department of Food and Public Distribution has been asked by PM to give
its comments on the report so that recommendations can be implemented in a
time-bound manner.
Eight member High Level Committee chaired by Shanta Kumar was
set up on FCI restructuring in August 2014.
Following are the Important Recommendations :
·
FCI procurement should focus on eastern belt, where farmers do
not get minimum support price.
·
FCI should hand over procurement of wheat and rice to six States
which include Punjab, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
·
Grain storage needs to be outsourced to private and government
agencies like state-owned Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC), State
Warehousing Corporations (SWCs) and private organisations.
·
Proposed uniform tax of minimum 3 percent and maximum 4 percent
on wheat and rice and the same to be included in the minimum support price
(MSP). In Punjab, this tax rate on wheat and rice as of now is 14.5 percent.
·
To strengthen distribution of foodgrains, there needs to be
end-to-end computerisation and a vigilance committee needs to be set up. At
present, the leakage in Public Distribution System is estimated at 13.7
percent.
·
Recommended cash transfer in 52 cities having 1 million or more
population in two years and also asked the government to give deficit states
the option of either supplying grain or cash transfer.
·
Called for encouraging private investment in logistics in next
two-three years and suggested bulk handling of foodgrains through grain trains.
On 21st January 2015, National Heritage Development and
Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) was launched by Union Ministry of Urban
Development with an aim to preserve and rejuvenate the rich cultural heritage
of the country.
In intial phase of this scheme Union Government will provide 500
crore rupees to these 12 cities to rejuvenate and develop these heritage cities
with an aim to attract more tourists. These cities are :
·
Varanasi,
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Amritsar,
·
Telangana (Telangana),
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Ajmer,
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Gaya,
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Mathura,
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Kanchipuram,
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Vellankini,
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Tamil Nadu,
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Amaravati (AP),
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Badami (Karnataka),
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Dwaraka (Gujarat) and
·
Puri.
Book titled "Neither a Hawk nor a Dove" authored by
Ex-Foreign Minister of Pakistan Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri will be published by
Penguin in India at the end of January 2015. This book was in news as it is
based upon the Indo-Pak relations.
Title of book "Neither a hawk, nor a dove" is based on
the then President, Pervez Musharraf statement, who asked him pointedly, “Are
you a hawk or a dove in India, Kasuri Sahib?”
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