DAILY GK 27 APRIL 2019
1.
UNION MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS DISTRIBUTED SPECIAL KITS ‘SAECKS ‘TO STATES AND
UNION TERRITORIES TO COLLECT EVIDENCE ON SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES
✔The
Union Ministry of Home Affairs has distributed around 3,120 special kits among
states and union territories.
✔The
kits are termed ‘SAECKs‘ (The Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kits) and are
also called ‘rape investigation kits’ that help to collect blood and semen
samples for carrying out immediate effective medico-legal investigations on
sexual assault cases.
2.
INDIAN ARMY INKS MOU WITH NHPC TO BUILD TUNNELS ON CHINA, PAKISTAN BORDERS
✔Indian
Army signed a Memorandum of Understanding with National Hydroelectric Power Corporation
Limited, to build four underground tunnels along China and Pakistan borders for
storage of ammunition and other war-related equipment.
✔Three
tunnels will be built along Chinese border and one tunnel will be built along
the Pakistan border.
3.
INDIA RANKED AS THE 2ND-MOST TARGETED NATION BY HACKERS IN 2018 WITH 120 CRORE
ATTACKS
✔US
registered 1,252 crore hacking attempts in 2018 while India ranked second for
hacking attempts in the world after the US with more than 120 crore account
takeover attacks.
✔The
hackers attacks targeted large media brands, retail, gaming and various other
sectors.
4.
IIM-BANGALORE BECAME ONLY INDIAN INSTITUTE TO FEATURE IN QS EMBA RANKINGS 2019
✔The
Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore’s
post-graduate programme in Enterprise Management has secured the 12th rank inAsia Pacifi
listing and came 61st globally in the QS Executive MBA Rankings 2019.
✔It
became the only Indian B-school to secure a place among the top 100 B-Schools
across the world.
✔IIM-B
also ranked first under the Management category in the National Institutional
Ranking Framework Rankings 2019.
5. UN
ADOPTED RESOLUTION ON SEXUAL-VIOLENCE CONDEMNING RAPE AS A WEAPON OF WAR
✔The
German-sponsored resolution 2467 (2019), on sexual violence, was adopted by United
Nations Security Council condemning rape as a weapon of war after 13 out of 15
members have voted in favour of the resolution while Russia and China abstain
from voting.
✔The
resolution was adopted only after language on a woman’s right to “reproductive
health” was removed from the draft to avert a veto by the anti-abortion US
administration.
6.
RANA DASGUPTA BAGS RABINDRANATH TAGORE LITERARY PRIZE 2019
✔British
Indian novelist Rana Dasgupta has been awarded the second edition of
Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2019 for his 2010 novel “Solo”.
✔World
Health Organization Goodwill Ambassador Yohei Sasakawa has been awarded the
Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize for social achievement 2019 for his
incredible efforts to uproot leprosy and great contribution to world peace.
✔Taiwan
president Tsai Ing-wen was awarded Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize for
Social Achievement as “a beacon of
democracy”.
✔Rana
was awarded Ryszard Kapuscinski Award in 2016 for the novel “Capital: The Eruption of Delhi”. Besides,
he also received Commonwealth Writers’ prize in 2010 for “Solo”.
