DAILY GK: 30 JAN 2021
1. IJR REPORT 2020
• According to the 2nd Edition of India
Justice Report (IJR) 2020, Maharashtra (5.77 points) regained the Top spot for
Better Justice Delivery among 18 Large and mid-sized states (Population over
one crore each), it was followed by Tamil Nadu (5.73) & Telangana (5.64).
• In the Category of 7 small states
(Population less than one crore each), Tripura topped the list followed by
Sikkim & Goa.
• The report was released by Tata Trusts.
2. LIST OF SCIENTIFIC
PUBLICATIONS
• The Department of Science and Technology
(DST), Ministry of Science and Technology has announced that India is currently
in 3rd position globally in scientific publication after China and the United
States, with 1,35,788 scientific articles in the year 2018.
• The data is provided by the US agency, the
National Science Foundation (NSF).
3. UN RELEASES FINDINGS
OF ‘PEOPLE’S CLIMATE REPORT’
• The United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) released the results of ‘People’s Climate Report’ – World’s Largest
Survey of Public Opinion on Climate Change.
• Around 1.2 Million People participated in
the survey, out of which two-thirds of people (64%) believe that Climate Change
is a Global Emergency.
• The Peoples’ Climate Vote is part of the
Mission 1.5 campaign launched by UNDP in 2020 for educating people about
climate change solutions & asking people about actions needed to be taken
for tackling the climate change problem.
• In India 44% of respondents have voted
Conserving Forests & Land as the most effective policy to mitigate Climate
Change.
4. FII FORUM 2021
• 4th edition of the Future Investment
Initiative (FII) Forum 2021 was held virtually from Riyadh, Capital of Saudi
Arabia under the theme of “The Neo-Renaissance”.
• It was hosted by FII Initiative.
• From India, Union Minister Harsh Vardhan
addressed the FII where he highlighted the five big impacts of COVID-19 which
are influencing global business.
5. CPI 2020
• Transparency International released the
2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) where India’s rank slipped to 86th with
a score of 40, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
• The list has been topped by New Zealand
and Denmark rank at the first position with scores of 88 stating minimum
corruption levels.
• Contrarily, Somalia and South Sudan rank
lowest at 179th position with scores of 12.
6. NATIONAL BEST
ELECTORAL PRACTICES AWARDS 2020
• At the event organised for the 11th
National Voters Day(NVD) Delhi won the national Best Electoral Practices Award
2020 under the Accessible Election category for ensuring greater accessibility
during the assembly polls in Delhi during February 2020.
• Delhi has also achieved error free
electoral roll and increased its number of 3rd gender electors.
• The Office of Chief Electoral Office(CEO),
Meghalaya received the special award for its Information Technology(IT)
applications in Elections.
• Jeevika, a Bihar-based NGO, a poverty
alleviation programme of Bihar supported by World Bank has received the award
for creating voter awareness.
7. BUSINESS STANDARD
BANKER OF THE YEAR (2019-20)
• MD and CEO of Federal Bank, Shyam
Srinivasan, was awarded with the Business Standard Banker of the year for
2019-20.
• The high level 5-member Jury panel of
Business Standard’s chaired by former Reserve Bank of India deputy governor S S
Mundra, unanimously selected Shyam Srinivasan for the award.
8. TEJAS – VISUAL
INTELLIGENCE TOOK & WAW PORTAL
• National Informatics Centre Services
Incorporated (NICSI), a PSU under National Informatics Centre (NIC), Ministry
of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) celebrated 25 Years of its
inception.
• TEJAS
– A Visual Intelligence Tool will provide data analysis for turning data
into analysis & visualizations for Government Officials.
• Work from AnyWhere Portal (WAW).
• NIC Products Portfolio which includes several products to increase the branding of
Digital India initiative of Government.
