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- India ranks 81st in global corruption perception index
- India has been ranked 81st in the global corruption perception index for 2017, released by Transparency International.
- The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption.
- In the 2016 India was in the 79th place among 176 countries.
- The index uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
- India’s score is 40 in the latest ranking.
- In the latest ranking New Zealand and Denmark were placed the highest.
- On the other hand, Syria, South Sudan and Somalia were ranked lowest respectively.
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Transparency International
- Transparency International is an international non-governmental organization which is based in Berlin, Germany, and was founded in 1993.
- Its non-profit purpose is to take action to combat global corruption and prevent criminal activities arising from corruption.
- It publishes the Global Corruption Barometer and the Corruption Perceptions Index.
Topic- - Important International institutions
Source- Indian Express
2. India, Indonesia joint military drill “Garuda Shakti“ begins in Bandung (Indonesia)
- The Indian and Indonesian armies began the sixth edition of their annual military exercises in the West Java province of the archipelago country.
- The exercises will include experience sharing in counter-terrorism operations, close quarter combat, and other areas of special operations, an official statement said.
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Exercise Name | India and Other Countries |
Yudh Abyas | United States |
Vajra Prahar | United States |
Nomadic Elephant | Mongolia |
Indra | Russia |
Hand in Hand | China |
Ajeya Warrior | United Kingdom |
Ekuverin | Maldives |
Surya Kiran | Nepal |
Shakti | France |
Sampriti | Bangladesh |
Garud Shakti | Indonesia |
Mitra Shakti | Sri Lanka |
Al Nagah | Oman |
Maitree | Thailand |
Prabal Dostyk | Kazakhstan |
Vinbax | Vietnam |
Topic- - Defence
Source- Business Standards
- New features of National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) Platform
- The Union Minister of Agriculture launched six new features of National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) Platform to make it more users friendly.
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NAM (National Agricultural Market)
- National Agricultural Market is a whole-India electronic trading portal to facilitate farmers, traders, buyers, exporters and processors with a common platform for trading commodities.
- The e-NAM model aims at revolutionising agri markets by ensuring better price discovery, bringing in transparency and competition to enable farmers to get improved remuneration for their produce moving towards One Nation, One Market.
- Target- 585 online regulated wholesale markets in states/union territories(UTs) by March 2018.
- Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) is a marketing board established by state governments which forces the farmers to sell their produce only to middlemen approved by the government in authorized Mandis (markets).
Topic- -Agriculture
Source-PIB
- Indigenous light transport aircraft Saras completes 2nd test-flight
- The indigenous light transport aircraft (LTA) Saras completed the second of the proposed 20 test flights.
- The first successful test flight of the aircraft designed and developed by the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) was carried out on January 24.
- NAL proposes to get the Saras-Mk 2 certified initially for military and subsequently for civil version.
- Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has been identified as the production agency for the military version of Saras.
- The production of civil version will be given to identified private industries.
Topic- Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology
Source- Times of India
- Asia-Pacific military exercise “Cobra Gold 2018”
- Cobra Gold is an Asia-Pacific military exercise held in Thailand every year.
- It is the largest Asia-Pacific military exercise held each year and is among the largest multinational military exercise in which the United States participates.
- Cobra Gold was first held in 1982.
- It served as the military training exercise to improve coordination between the armed forces of the United States and Thailand in both hostile military and humanitarian efforts.
- This year, US sent its biggest force to an Asian military exercise.
Topic--International Relations
Source- Asia Times + Wiki
- Delhi government to Launch 'Mission Buniyaad' To Fix Learning Crisis in Delhi Schools
- The Delhi government announced the launch of "Mission Buniyaad" for improving learning skills of children studying in state and municipal-run schools.
- The announcement was made by Delhi government, days after the National Achievement Survey (NAS) showed that the entire country, including Delhi, was facing a learning crisis in schools.
- The program will run from April to June for Class 3 to 5 in Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) schools and for Class 6 to 8 in government's schools.
- Under the Program children will undergo a reading level assessment based on which they will be enrolled in specialised "Mission Buniyaad" classes.
- For children who are not able to read, the government will request to their parents to cancel their vacation plans during summer holidays and send their children to school for remedial classes.
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- The NAS survey demonstrates that close to half of all children in Delhi schools are not able to read their grade level textbooks.
Topic- - Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States
Source- NDTV
- Jaipur’s Gandhi Nagar became the country’s first all-woman managed railway station
- The Gandhi Nagar railway station in Jaipur became the country’s first major railway station to be fully-managed by women.
Source- Hindustan Times
- Government constitutes committee to study Brahmaputra and flood control measures in Assam
- The Union govt has constituted a committee headed by the Vice Chairman of the NITI Aayog to study the Brahmaputra and flood control measures in Assam and neighbouring states.
Source- Indian Express.
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