Current Affairs - 2019-20

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The top three states in India that generate the most hazardous waste are:

• Gujarat: 28.76%
• Maharashtra: 25.16%
• Andhra Pradesh: 8.93%

Other major generators of hazardous waste include:

• Chhattisgarh (4.74%)
• Rajasthan (4.38%)
• West Bengal (4.17%)
• Tamil Nadu (4.15%)

In 2022, Gujarat generated over 4.2 million metric tons of hazardous waste, which was more than one third of the total hazardous waste output in India. Gujarat also had the largest number of industries generating hazardous waste in 2021.

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Before April 2019, National Housing Bank (NHB) was a wholly-owned subsidiary of RBI. RBI sold its 100% equity to government in 2019 and now its owner is Government of India. This was done to end the cross-holding in the regulatory institutions as per the Narasimham-II committee report’s recommendations.

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Recently, Switzerland and India have inked a pact to extend the Indo-Swiss Building Energy Efficiency Project (BEEP) by five years till 2021 based on successes achieved by the project in the first phase. 

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The Maharashtra government has approved Ghodazari in Chandrapur district as a new wildlife sanctuary in the state. The sanctuary, in the North East of Tadoba, will include 159 sq km of Brahmapuri forest.

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Maharashtra was the first State in India to launch a nutrition mission, in 2005, followed by five other States, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Gujarat and Karnataka, covering a total population of 300 million. Recently, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh joined the list with the focus of the nutrition mission and inter-sectoral coordination to improve child nutrition in the first 1000 days.

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Bezwada Wilson is one of the founders and National Convenor of the Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA), and an Indian human rights organization that has been campaigning for the eradication of manual scavenging, the construction, operation and employment of manual scavengers has been illegal in India since 1993. On 27 July 2016, he was honoured with the Ramon Magsaysay Award. Thodur Madabusi Krishna is a Carnatic music vocalist. He received the Ramon Magsaysay Award on 27 July 2016. The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award named after the former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay.

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Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a mega trade deal which aims at liberalising norms for trade in goods and services and boost investment among 16-member countries. The trade bloc consists of 10 ASEAN members (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Laos and Vietnam) and their six Free Trade Agreement (FTA) partners- India, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. Hyderabad International Convention Centre is the proposed venue for the meet.

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The union ministry of human resource development has launched Rashtriya Aviskar Abhiyan. It is a unique concept aims to inculcate a spirit of inquiry, creativity and love for Science and Mathematics in school children. Under Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan, government schools will be mentored by Institutes like IITs/ IIMs/ IISERs and other Central Universities and reputed organisations through innovative programmes, student exchanges, demonstrations, student visits, etc to develop a natural sense of passion towards learning of Science and Maths.

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There are in total six states which have achieved 100 percent Aadhaar card saturation. These are Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Telangana, Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh .Haryana achieved saturation on September 26, 2016 followed by Punjab on October 17, 2016, Chandigarh on November 29, 2016 and Himachal Pradesh on December 8, 2016.

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France had won the 2018 FIFA World Cup which was held at Russi