GK and Current Affairs Updates

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”

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, on 22^nd feb 2016 launched the National Rurban Mission from Kurubhat, in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh. 

• •Prime Minister described the Rurban Mission as cluster based development – with a “rural soul and urban amenities.”
• •The Prime Minister described Rurban clusters as centres of economic activity, which would enrich growth, and improve the quality of life in nearby villages.
• •He said one example of this was that the important Rurban mission was being launched not from New Delhi, but from Kurubhat, in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh.
• •The Prime Minister congratulated villages and communities of nearby areas for achieving Open Defecation Free status. 
• •Earlier, the Prime Minister visited an exhibition at the venue, which showcased the implementation of development schemes, and handicrafts. 

Recently there have been many programs that got launched by Indian Prime Minister. It would be worth watching the real impact on ground level.

One of Britain's largest newspaper publishers is taking an innovative leap with the first of its kind "standalone national daily" to be launched in the past 30 years just as another wraps up its print edition. 

• •Trinity Mirror group, publishers of the leaft-leaning Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror, is launching 'The New Day' on February 29. 
• •It will be available free from over 40,000 retailers on launch day, and will be priced at 25 pence for the following two weeks before selling at 50 pence after that. 
• •The Independent and The Independent on Sunday newspapers recently announced closure of their print editions from next month as they go digital-only. 
• •The newspaper will not have a website but will have a social media presence instead. 

In this era where printed media is losing its charm. It is really a challenge for anyone to launch a print media news daily among highly technology addicted people. well this challenge has been accepted and it would be worth watching, where it goes.

To boost the bilateral relations between the two nations, India and Nepal signed seven agreements and Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) on 20 February 2016.

• •These seven agreements and MoUs have been signed during the five-day state visit of Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to India, from 19 February 2016 to 24 February 2016. Mr. Oli took office as Nepal’s Prime Minister in October 2015 and this is the first foreign visit of his tenure.

• •The MoUs exchanged includes one on the utilization of the USD 250 million grant given by India to Nepal for post-earthquake reconstruction process. It has been decided to utilze the grant in four sectors. These sectors are housing, health, education and cultural heritage.

Other agreements span on issues ranging from improving the roads in the TERAI region of Nepal, simplification of rules on transportation of goods between India and Nepal, rail facility from Vishakapatnam in Andhra Pradesh to Nepal, and the inauguration of the transmission line from Muzaffarpur-Dhalkebar.