05.10.17 Andhra Pradesh (APPSC) Daily Current Affairs

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ANDHRA PRADESH

 

·       Mastercard, AP sign pact to create digital ecosystem in state

  • Global payments technology major Mastercard and the Andhra Pradesh government today signed a pact to create a “digital ecosystem” in the state.

 

  • It focuses on implementing a 4-pronged agenda for the state.

 

  • Signed by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and Mastercard President & CEO Ajay Banga, the pact will see implementation of innovative payment technologies that will help the state move towards a cashless society as also to elevate its foothold as a smart city.

 

 

  • Mastercard, through a mobile app, will help create a marketplace solution for farmers to buy and sell crops in a safer and simpler way besides being able to get access to credit and transparent pricing.

 

  • Besides, Mastercard will work on cybersecurity to make digital payments secure and hold a global conference in Andhra Pradesh annually from mid-2018 for exchange of ideas.

 

 

 

INTERNATIONAL

 

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017

 

  • The 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for improving images made of biological molecules.

 

  • Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson will share the nine million kronor (£831,000) prize.

  • They developed a technique called cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), which simplifies the process for looking at the machinery of life.

 

  • Prof Dubochet was born in Switzerland, Joachim Frank is German and Richard Henderson is from Edinburgh, UK.

 

 

·         World Space Week is observed from October 4th to October 10th

 

  • The World Space Week is observed from 4th to 10th October.
  • The theme of 2017 is ‘Exploring New Worlds In Space’.
  • On October 4th1957 Sputnik 1 was launched.
  • It was the first human-made, Earth-orbiting satellite. Second, the signing of The Outer Space Treaty on October 10th 1967.

 

NATIONAL 

 

·       India Renewable Energy to be double by 2022

 

  • India’s renewable energy capacity will more than double by 2022 to overtake renewable expansion in the European Union for the first time, International Energy Agency (IEA).
  • The country’s renewable energy installed capacity is 30 GWas per the recent government data.
  • The government has a target of raising it to 175 GWby 2022 including 100 GW of solar and 60 GW of wind energy.
  • Earlier this year, the solar and wind power tariffs dropped to an all-time low of Rs2.44 per unit and Rs3.46 per unit in a tariff-based competitive bidding conducted by Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI).

 

  • From Oct 31, speed past toll booths, pay tax later

 

  • The Union road transport and highways ministry’s much-hyped Electronic Toll Collection (ETC), which will allow commuters to travel seamlessly on highways without having to wait in long queues to pay a toll tax, will finally kick off in all the 370 toll plazas across the country by October 31 over five years after the system was announced.

 

  • A vehicle installed with the RFID also called FastTags that can be recharged once the balance becomes zero, will be able to drive past a toll plaza without having to stop and pay the toll. The tag will have a unique code that will help identify the vehicles so when they will pass through a plaza, the system will read the code and automatically deduct the toll.

 

·       Union Government Names Rajnish Kumar as SBI’s Next Chairman

  • The Union Government named Rajnish Kumaras the new chairman of State Bank of India for a three-year term.
  • He succeeds Arundhati Bhattacharya.

 

  • Country’s first ITI for dibyangans in Dibrugarh

 

  • Foundation stone for the first ever Industrial Training Institute for the Dibyangans exclusively was laid at Dibrugarh ITI Complex at Borboruah, Dibrugarh by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.

 

  • This is a one of a kind institute in the country in order to set up a new pathway for empowerment of the differently abled youth of the state.

 

 

  • RBI keeps repo rate, reverse repo rate unchanged

 

  • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has kept the repo rate and reverse repo rate unchanged at 6 percent and 5.75 percent respectively.

Repo Rate: Unchanged at 6%

Revrese Repo Rate: Unchanged at 5.75%

Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) Rate: Unchanged at 6.25%

Bank Rate: Unchanged at 6.25%

Cash Reserve Ratio: Unchanged at 4%

Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR): Changed by 50 basis points to 19.5%

 

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