DAILY GK 19-20 JULY 2020
1. CAPITALS OF NE STATES TO BE CONNECTED THROUGH RAIL
NETWORK BY 2023
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Railway
Board Chairman Vinod Kumar Yadav has announced the
connectivity of all capitals of North-Eastern (NE) states through rail network
by 2023.
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Railways
is already implementing a project in this regard.
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The
capitals of Assam, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh are already connected.
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The
work to connect capitals of Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Meghalaya is in
progress.
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In
Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Meghalaya, the capital connectivity work is in
progress. Manipur will be connected in March 2022, Mizoram in March 2023,
Nagaland in March 2023, Meghalaya in March 2022 and Sikkim in December 2022.
2. ‘AIR BUBBLES’ WITH FRANCE, GERMANY AND US
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Union
Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri informed that India
has established individual bilateral ‘air bubbles’ with France
and the United States(US).
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In
addition to this, a similar arrangement with Germany has been established and
Lufthansa will be operating the flights.
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This
agreement allows countries’ airlines to operate international flights.
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India
is planning to establish such agreements with the UK, under which 2 flights a
day will be operated between Delhi and London.
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The
similar arrangements with the United Arab Emirates(UAE) till 26th July, 2020.
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Air
India will operate flights to France,
Germany and the US under bilateral air bubbles.
3. UN’S GLOBAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX
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The
United Nations’ “The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index(MPI) 2020: Charting
pathways out of multidimensional poverty: Achieving the SDGs” states that India
records the largest reduction in the number of People living in poverty as
around 273 million people moved out of the multidimensional poverty over 10
years (2005/2006 – 2015/2016).
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The
report released by the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human
Development Initiative (OPHI) focuses on how multidimensional
poverty has declined.
4. INDIA REMAINS AS LOWER-MIDDLE-INCOME ECONOMY
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According
to the New World Bank country classifications by income level 2020-2021, India remains
in the classification, Lower-Middle-Income Economy. In total 218
countries have been included in this classification.
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The
World Bank classifies countries into four income groups namely: low income ,
lower-middle income, upper-middle income, and high-income economies.
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The
classifications are updated each year on July 1 and are based on Gross National
Income(GNI) per capita in current USD(using the Atlas method exchange rates) of
the previous year.
5. 2020 NELSON MANDELA PRIZE
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Tijjani
Muhammad-Bande, The President of United Nations General Assembly announced that
Marianna Vardinoyannis, of Greece, and Doctor Morissana Kouyaté, of Guinea will
receive the 2020 Nelson Mandela Prize.
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They
will be recognised in the virtual ceremony on 20th July 2020.
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The
award will be presented to them in an in-person award ceremony at a later date
at the United Nations(UN) headquarters, New York, United States of
America.
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The
United Nations’(UN) Nelson Mandela International Day is annually
celebrated on July 18th the birth anniversary of Nelson
Rolihlahla Mandela, to recognise his contribution in creating a democratic
South Africa.
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The first Nelson
Mandela International Day was celebrated on 18th July 2010.
6. FIFA WORLD CUP 2022
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Federation
Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) informed that the 2022 World cup the tournament is to be held in Qatar at Al Bayt Stadium (or) Al Khor Stadium.
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Men’s
2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be the 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup.
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Host
country will be Qatar.
The first men’s FIFA World Cup to be staged in the Middle East, is also the first edition to be held in the November-December window.
The first men’s FIFA World Cup to be staged in the Middle East, is also the first edition to be held in the November-December window.
