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INDIAN AFFAIRS
India up 19 ranks in World Bank logistics report
India has jumped 19 places in the latest World Bank ranking in the global logistics performance, reflecting the improvement in movement of goods inside the country thus facilitating better trade. The World Bank in its latest once-in-two-year Logistics Performance Index (LPI) said India is now ranked 35th as against the 54th spot it occupied in the previous 2014 report.
In the 2014 report, India had a LPI score of 3.08, which increased to 3.42 in 2016. For the third time, Germany with 4.23 points tops the ranking, followed by Luxembourg (4.22), Sweden (4.20), Netherlands (4.19) and Singapore(4.14). Other countries in top 10 are Belgium, Austria, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and the United States.Japan is ranked 11. China has jumped one spot to be ranked 27th while Pakistan is at 68th. Syria ranked lowest.
Quick Link – India in 19th rank
EESL Signs MoU with TERI, Enters into a Strategic Partnership
Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has entered into a strategic partnership with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) for two years. As per MoU, both organizations have decided to enter into an agreement as Strategic Partners, to work jointly for the achievement of common goals and objectives related to energy efficiency in India and abroad.
With this partnership, the main focus of TERI will be on working with governments, regulatory bodies, industry organizations, and utilities to create a policy environment for clean energy technologies. EESL will emphasize on implementing projects and programmes to promote clean energy technologies through innovative policy based business model to end users. The agreement will also bring in people and institutions who work on the policy side into the market based interventions.
Quick Link – EESL MoU with TERI
Navy inducts anti-submarine torpedo ‘Varunastra’
Indigenously developed heavyweight torpedo Varunastra, which was showcased for the first time on the Republic Day Parade at Rajpath this year, was inducted in the Indian Navy. The anti-submarine torpedo has been developed by Naval Science and Technological Laboratory of the DRDO for the Indian Navy.
Weighing around 1.25 tonnes, the torpedo carries about 250 kg of explosives at a speed of around 40 nautical miles an hour. Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar, handing over the torpedo to the Indian Navy, asked the DRDO to do “hand-holding” for the Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) which will be manufacturing the torpedo. India is among a group of elite nations which have the capability.
Quick Link – Varunastra
Cabinet Approvals – June 29′ 2016
i) Cabinet approves Implementation of the recommendations of 7th Central Pay Commission
ii) Cabinet approves MoU between India and Tanzania
iii) Cabinet approves Memorandum of Understanding between Union Public Service Commission and Royal Civil Service Commission, Bhutan
iv) Cabinet approves Revised Cost Estimates for establishment of Eight New IITs
v) Cabinet approves National Mineral Exploration Policy
vi) Cabinet considers Model Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Bill, 2016
Quick Link – Cabinet Approvals
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
UNGA elect Ethiopia, Bolivia, Sweden and Kazakhstan as non-permanent members
The 193 members of the United Nations General Assembly has elected Sweden, Bolivia, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan to serve on the world body’s Security Council for a period of two years, starting from 1 January 2017. After rounds of voting at UN Headquarters in New York, only one non-permanent Council seat remains to be filled. Italy and the Netherlands had been vying for the remaining seat, but the voting yielded no clear winner.
Quick Link – UNGA
Great Barrier Reef named best destination of ’16
The Great Barrier Reef has been named the best vacation destination in the world in a newly released ranking published by US News & World Report. The UNESCO World Heritage Site, which stretches for more than 2,000 km along the coastline of Queensland and is visible from space, was ranked the world’s best place to visit in 2016.
Rounding out the top three spots are Paris and Bora Bora in French Polynesia. The Great Barrier Reef is home to the world’s most extensive coral reef ecosystem, with 400 types of coral, 1,500 species of fish and 4,000 types of mollusk, covering an area of 348,000 square kilometers.
Quick Link – Great Barrier Reef
South Korea tops global internet speed at 29Mbps
CDN network Akamai has published its quarterly “State of the Internet” report for the first quarter of 2016. The report examines global internet speeds, which are going to be more relevant than ever for live-sports aficionados in the summer of the Rio Olympic Games. Global average connection speed increased 12 percent from the fourth quarter of 2015, to 6.3 Mbps, a 23 percent increase year over year.
Quick Link – State of the Internet
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Huge helium gas reserve found in Africa
Scientists have discovered a large helium gas field in Tanzania. With world supplies running out, the find is a “game-changer“, say geologists at Durham and Oxford universities. Helium is used in hospitals in MRI scanners as well as in spacecraft, telescopes and radiation monitors. Until now, the precious gas has been discovered only in small quantities during oil and gas drilling.
Using a new exploration approach, researchers found large quantities of helium within the Tanzanian East African Rift Valley. They say resources in just one part of the Rift valley are enough to fill more than a million medical MRI scanners.
Quick Link – Game-changer
OBITUARY
Isak Chisi Swu, founder of NSCN (IM) passes away
Isak Chisi Swu, who for decades spearheaded a bloody insurgency in Nagaland before shaking hands with New Delhi, died after months of battling a kidney ailment. He was admitted to the hospital on July 5 last year for a series of surgeries including for urinary tract infection that confined him to bed for months.
His illness prevented Isak Swu from attending the signing of a historic Naga Peace Accord on August 3, 2015 between the NSCN-IM and the Indian government at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence. Isak Swu was a co-founder of the NSCN – often dubbed the mother of all insurgent groups in the country – in 1980 along with long-time Naga comrades Thuingaleng Muivah and S.S. Khaplang.
Quick Link – Isak Chisi Swu passes away
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