ibps clerk 2017quiz.mahendraguru.com/mahendraguru/content/digi-note-ga...d k sarraf has been...

Write us – [email protected]

www.mahendraguru.com

IBPS CLERK – 2017

SPECIAL



Important news

Former Chief Justice of India, Justice Adarsh Sein Anand, passed away. He Was 8 He was the 29th

CJI and served from October 10, 1998 to October 31, 200

The government has appointed A Surya Prakash as the Chairman of Prasar Bharati Board for a second

consecutive term till February 202

Miss Korea Jenny Kim was crowned Miss Supranational 2017 in Poland. Tica Martinez of Colombia

and Bianca Tirsin of Romania were named the first runner-up and second runner-up respectively.

India's veteran Winter Olympian Shiva Keshavan won a gold medal at the Asian Luge Championships

at Altenberg, Germany.

India has been re-elected to the Member of Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

D K Sarraf has been appointed as the New Chairman of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory

Board.

According to CSO, India's GDP growth rate for the second quarter of the current fiscal stoodat 3 per

cent.

President Ram Nath Kovind has inaugurated the Hornbill Festival of Nagaland in Kisama.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has entered into 2 Bilateral Advance Pricing Agreements

(APAs) during the month of November, 201 These Agreements are the first ever Bilateral APAs with

The Netherlands. With the signing of these Agreements, the total number of APAs entered into by the

CBDT has gone up to 18 This includes 171 Unilateral APAs and 15 Bilateral APAs.

India has successfully test-fired the supersonic BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from Indian Navy's

Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter aircraft for the first time.

NASSCOM will host the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) at Hyderabad.

Bengali writer Nabaneeta Dev Sen has been awarded with the big little book award 2017 for her

contribution to the children literature in Bengali Language.

The Shanghai-based BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) has approved two infrastructure and

sustainable development projects in India and Russia with loans of USD 400 million. The loans will

be used to rehabilitate the Indira Gandhi canal system in India and to build a toll transport corridor

connecting Ufa city centre to the M-5 federal highway in Russia.



With rising number of cases under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, the government has set up a

14-member panel to identify and suggest ways to address issues faced in implementation of the law.

This committee will be chaired by Corporate Affairs Secretary Injeti Srinivas.

The Centre has constituted a 10- member committee under GSTN chairperson Ajay Bhushan Pandey

to look into the requirements of filing returns in current financial year.

Messaging app Hike has tied up with Airtel Payments Bank to power its mobile wallet product. Hike

users will have access to the bank's vast product line including merchant and utility payments.

China launched three remote sensing satellites- Jilin-1 04, Jilin-1 05 and Jilin-1 06 designed to improve

observation capability to promote commercial use for the remote sensing industry.

Actress Shraddha Kapoor has been awarded with the 'Youth Icon of NextGen' of Indian Cinema at the

48th International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe resigned from his post after 37 years in power.

Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, J P Nadda inaugurated the first World Conference on

Access to Medical Products and International Laws for Trade and Health.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 5th Global Conference on Cyber Space in New Delhi.

The theme of the conference is Cyber for All: A Secure and Inclusive Cyberspace for Sustainable

Development.

Three IITs and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore have made the cut among top 20 varsities in

BRICS countries in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Rankings. The Indian Institute of

Technology Bombay has secured ninth rank followed by IISc, Bangalore (10), IIT Delhi (15) and IIT

Madras (18). China's Tsinghua University has topped this list.

Bareilly's Shubhangi Swaroop became the first-ever female pilot to be inducted into the Indian Navy.

Zimbabwe's former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be sworn in as the new President of

the country.

Former national rugby captain Aga Hussain has been elected the president of Asia Rugby. He has thus

become the first Indian to occupy the post.

Basel will become the first city to jointly host the Badminton and Para Badminton World

Championships after it was awarded the 2019 edition of the Para event.

Sri Lankan author Anuk Arudpragasam has been awarded with the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2017

for his novel 'The Story of a Brief Marriage'.



The Union Cabinet gave its approval for signing of an agreement between India and the Philippines

on cooperation and mutual assistance in customs matters.

The Union Cabinet approved India's membership for European Bank for Reconstruction and

Development (EBRD).

The Union Cabinet has approved setting up of 15th Finance Commission (FC).

State Bank of India (SBI) unveiled the country's first integrated lifestyle and banking digital platform

'YONO' (You Only Need One). It was launched by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

Realty firm Raheja Corp has been named among the country's top 100 best companies for women, by

a US-based firm Working Mothers Media.

Actor Rajkummar Rao was named the Best Actor at the 11th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA).

Mayank Tewari and Amit V Masurkar won the award for Best Screenplay.

Veteran actor Anupam Kher's short film "Kheer" has bagged the Best International Short Film award

at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

Assam’s prominent film actor Biju Phukan passed away. He was 7

The Indian football team has been ranked 105th in the latest FIFA rankings.

Gurugram will host the two-day South Korean culture and tourism festival 'Korea Festival 2017'

showcasing the South Korea's famous tourist destinations, delicacies, art, culture and heritage.

Cisco Chairman John Chambers will lead a business delegation of US-India Strategic Partnership

Forum for the annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) at Hyderabad. This three day summit

will begin from November 2

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs gave its approval to the new scheme called ‘Pradhan

Mantri Mahila Shakti Kendra'.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Hyderabad Metro Rail project on November 2

DBS Group Holdings has overtaken Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) to become Southeast

Asia's biggest company by market value.

Ex-environment minister Anil Madhav Dave and deputy director of Centre for Science and

Environment (CSE) Chandra Bhushan have been honored with 'Ozone award' by the United Nations

Environment Programme (UNEP).

Rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has maintained India's sovereign ratings at BBB- (negative)

with stable outlook.



President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the International Gita Mahotsava-2017 in Kurukshetra,

Haryana.

Amritsar's Golden Temple has been awarded the ‘most visited place of the world’ by ‘World Book of

Records’ (WBR).

Barcelona's star striker Lionel Messi won his fourth European Golden Shoe award.

TV director and actor Peter Baldwin died. He was 8

Indian Police Service (IPS) Officer of 1984 batch, N Sambasiva Rao has been appointed as the

Director-General of Police (DGP) of Andhra Pradesh.

Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim and Belgium's Nafissatou Thiam were respectively named Male and

Female Athlete of the Year. Retired sprinting legend Usain Bolt of Jamaica received the IAAF

President's Award.

India wrestler Ritu Phogat (48kg) clinched the silver medal in the Under-23 Senior World Wrestling

Championship at Poland.

Indian Railways has installed Asia’s largest Solid State Interlocking (SSI) system in Kharagpur, which

will enable station masters to set 800 different routes for trains in a matter of minutes.

Need for Water Management.

It has been said that water is life. Water is one of the most important resources of nature. To say, the earth is

surrounded by water from all sides but only 2.5% of the water is found in natural sources - river, pond, wells

and bavadias - whereas half percent is groundwater storage. 97 percent water storage is in the sea. But it is

also a stark reality that India stands at the mouth of the water crisis countries. In view of this importance of

water, in India, the discussion is held every year from 2012 to the week, which the government has given the

name of India Water Week. Responsibility for organizing this has been entrusted to the Ministry of Water

Resources. It was conceived by the same ministry as well.

International forum

This international forum has proved to be very useful for open discussion on the utility, management and

other issues related to water, in which experts from abroad have given important suggestions on the

management and implementation of water resources. Three basic pillars for coordinated water resource



management have been considered by experts - social support, economic efficiency and environmental

integrity. To achieve these objectives, it is necessary to manage the work plan according to the basins of the

basin and regular monitoring and evaluation of the basin. Five important suggestions were found in the first

churn in 2012 –

· Enrichment of better water management for food and energy conservation.

· Necessity to discuss policy on effective and better use of water.

· The emphasis on proper coordination between the financial and financial status of the water projects.

· Issues related to climate change related issues from which all activities of the National Water Mission are

linked, they have to be promoted more.

Effective water management needs in India.

In India, there are many problems in which water savings are less, waste is more. It is also a fact that the

pressure of the increasing population, tampering with nature and mismanagement are also a cause of water

crisis. Irregular monsoons and rain have also increased water crisis for the last few years. This crisis forced

governments of many states to adopt traditional methods for water conservation. Initiative has been initiated

to build small dams and ponds across the country. With this, the problem of drinking water and irrigation can

be overcome to some extent. More than 30 percent of the population lives in cities in India. Figures from the

Ministry of Housing and Urban Development show that there is a need to pay immediate attention towards

proper management of water and waste water in almost two hundred cities of the country. Due to this the

measures to save surface water from pollution are also not meaningful. The Ministry of Water Resources itself

also believes that the challenges of fresh water management are increasing ever increasing. The limited water

resources need coordination between agriculture, city bodies and demand for environmental use, quality water

and supply.

New National Water Policy Needs.

Three national water policies have been created in the country in the last 70 years. The first policy was created

in 1987, second in 2002 and the third water policy in 2012. Apart from this, 14 states have developed their

hype. The rest of the state is in the process of preparing. In this national policy, "Consuming water as a natural

resource, it has been considered as the basis of life, livelihood, food security and sustainable development."



The policy has said that the use of water and the allocation of equality and the adoption of social justice rules

have been adopted. The ministry says that large parts of India have already been reduced to water. Due to the

increase in population growth, urbanization and lifestyles, water demand has increased due to serious

challenges. Increasing pollution in water sources is dangerous for the environment and health as well as the

availability of clean water. It has been emphasized in the water policy that for the purpose of food security,

biological and equal and sustainable development, the State Governments should manage the water as a

community resource in accordance with the principle of public heritage. However, the right to make policies,

law and regulation regarding water is of the States, yet it is time to prepare the comprehensive National Water

Framework for comprehensive general principles of water. In order to make necessary legislation for water

handling in states and to deal with local water situation, necessary authority can be handed over at the lower

level. A new water policy should be made in view of the fast changing condition. There should be provision

of sufficient water for every need and strict punishment for water pollutants.

Many organizations are working at the government level for water problem, supply, management and

exploitation. National Water Mission and the Water Revolution Campaign are doing their best at their level.

The aim of the mission is to reduce water conservation, misuse and to ensure equitable water supply and

management equally to everyone. The campaign is in the work of water management, public awareness and

supply in villages and urban areas.

Such programs are organized in many countries.

The importance of water is recognized by all countries. Developed countries such as Canada, Australia,

Singapore, and America also hold water weeks. In Singapore, more than 90 delegates from thirty countries

who took part in the Young Water Leaders - 2016 event took part in a thorough discussion on water issue.

This year, the India Water Week - 2017, being held in India from 10 to 14 October, 2017, is going to join the

Netherlands as a partner country. It should be expected that the benefit of Holland in the water sector will get

India in the coming days.

ibps clerk 2017quiz.mahendraguru.com/mahendraguru/content/digi-note-ga...d k sarraf has been...

Documents