Daily Current Affairs 23 February 2016

Legarde elected as chief of IMF for Second Time The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 19 February 2016 chose Christine Lagarde to serve as IMF Lagarde, the main applicant assigned for the post, was supported by the UK, Germany, China, and her nation of origin, France, to remain focused an additional five years. In her first term as MD of IMF, Lagarde has supervised a facilitating of Europe's sovereign obligation emergency and has executed changes to give more prominent impact in the Fund to developing markets including China and Brazil. 

About Christine Lagarde 

• Christine Lagarde is a French attorney and Union for a Popular Movement government official who has been the MD of the IMF since 5 July 2011. 

• Previously, she held different pastoral posts in the French government. She was Minister of Economic Affairs, Finance and Employment and before that Minister of Agriculture and Fishing and Minister of Trade in the legislature of Dominique de Villepin. 

• She was the main lady to end up fund priest of a G8 economy, and is the primary lady to head the IMF. 

• She was the main female executive of the worldwide law office Baker and McKenzie. 

• On 16 November 2009, the Financial Times positioned her the best Minister of Finance in the Eurozone. 

• In 2014, she was positioned the fifth most capable lady on the planet by Forbes magazine.

The International Monetary Fund is an international organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., of "188 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate  
Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States
CEO: Christine Lagarde
Founded: December 27, 1945, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States

Parent organization: United Nations

Founders: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White

Noted vocalist Bhubaneswari Mishra passed away on 19 February 2016 in New Delhi taking after a heart failure. She was 67. The traditional artist started her vocation with the tune Tiki Mora Naa Ti for the fanciful Odia motion picture Krushna Sudama in the 1970s. 

Aside from numerous recompenses, the veteran artist was additionally deliberated with the Odisha State Film Award for Best Playback Singer (female) for two continuous terms in 1979 and 1980 for the motion pictures Srikrushna Rasalila and Jay Ma Mangala individually.

Italian Sara Errani dismissed Czech Republic's Barbora Strycova, 6-0, 6-2, in 66 minutes to win the Dubai Tennis Championships and bag her ninth career title. Italy's Sara Errani thrashed Czech Barbora Strycova 6-0 6-2 to win the Dubai Tennis Championship final on Saturday.

Previous Prime Minister of Central African Republic and Mathematics Professor Fausti-Archange Touadera of National Convergence party who battled against debasement has won a presidential race with 63.7 % of votes cast in the February

Focal African Republic is one of the shaky nations in the district experienced most noticeably awful emergency in its history in 2013 when Muslim warriors crumpled President Francois. 
 UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon quiet decision and try to keep up a productive air in the war conditioned country. 
Capital: Bangui 
Cash currency : CFA Franc 
Head administrator: Mahamat Kamoun 

President Pranab Mukherjee on 22 February 2016 designated Justice Vineet Saran as the new Chief Justice of Orissa (Odisha) High Court. He will take pledge on 26 February 2016.Before this arrangement, Justice Saran was filling in as a senior judge of Karnataka High Court.

About Justice Vineet Saran 

 He was conceived on 11 May 1957 and moved on from Allahabad University in 1976 and got LL.B in 1979.He was enlisted as a promoter with the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council in July 1980 and He honed as a promoter in Allahabad High Court until he was advanced as a lasting judge of the Allahabad High Court on 14 February 2002. He was moved to Karnataka in the same limit on 16 February 2015.

To shield the conventional desserts & traditional sweets from impersonations and for sending out them in future, the West Bengal government is good to go to get Geographical Identification (GI) tag for its four customary desserts. It has been reported amid the "Mishti Mela" (sweet reasonable) in Malda region of West Bengal. 

-The desserts incorporate "Moa" of Jainagar, "Sarpuria" of Krishnagar and "Sitabhog" and "Mihidana" of Burdwan. 

What is GI tag? 

A GI tag is a sign utilized on items that have a particular land cause and have qualities that are because of that starting point. GI tag is vital for these things to shield them from modest impersonations. It will likewise safeguard quality. 
 

Ministry Service of Tourism started the "Swachh Parayatan Mobile App". This undertaking is being actualized through Delhi eGovernance Society (DeGS) and National Informatics Center (NIC).It has declared by Mahesh Sharma, Union Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (Independent Charge) and Minister of State for Civil Aviation amid an occasion. 

About the App

-This Mobile App is accessible on Google Search Engine as "Swachh Paryatan". 
- "Swachh Paryatan Mobile App" instigatedThis portable application will be checked by the Project Monitoring Unit of Swachh Bharat Mission in Ministry of Tourism. 
-This application will empower overall population to convey their protests about any unclean region heaps in and around vacationer destinations. 
-25 Adarsh Smarak Monuments ensured by Archeological Survey of India (ASI) have been recognized for consideration in the application. 
How application work? 
-This portable application empowers a subject to take photo of junk at the landmark and transfer the same alongside his/her comments. 
-The application then sends a SMS to the ASI Nodal Officer worried with the endless supply of which the Nodal Officer gets the trash cleared/uprooted. 
-The Nodal Officer from that point sends affirmation about the redressal of the objection through a SMS to the complainant. The application will include more landmarks after the extension of campaign.

The International Mother Language day is praised on February 21 consistently since 2000.the primary thought behind this is to advance and safeguard the local dialects and society. It was initially proclaimed by UNESCO on 17 November, 1999 to observe Feb 21 as International Mother Language day It was reported as a consequence of the determination was gone by Rafiqul Islam to celebrate 2 persons executed in Dhaka in dialect development on Feb 21,1952 
 

PM Narendra Modi dispatched the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rurban Mission which is an activity to change the Rural area to get a urban look. 

Streak focuses 

• An activity to make savvy towns i.e. smart villages
• To enhance the personal satisfaction in towns 
• Begun in Dongargarh close chattisgarh 
• To pull in 5100 crore venture 
• Plan partitioned into 300 groups in next 3 years 
• 100 bunches to be actualized in this year 
• Gram panchayat a bunch has 25000 to 50000 populace 
• Tribal and Hilly territories a group has 5000-10000 populace 
•  4 bunches in Rajnandgaon, Dhamatri, Kawardha and Bastar regions of Chattisgarh 
• It replaces PURA plan of UPA government 
•  Electronic assembling group began in Naya Raipur with 2000 crores speculation 
•  30% Of the task reserve gave as Critical Gap Funding 
SLOGAN– “RURAL SOUL, URBAN AMENITIES”