GK and Current Affairs Updates

 The nation celebrates the first edition of World Radio Day in 2012. It was originally proposed by Spain. It was celebrated this year to remember the contribution of radio in our life.

World Radio Day is an observance day held annually on 13^th February.

About World Radio Day:

• United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) every year praise the World Radio Day by arranging exercises with telecasters, associations and groups the world over.

• The day is a worldwide festival of radio as a discussion for diversion and data, as a scaffold of correspondence for remote groups and its part in engaging individuals.

• UNESCO at its 36th General Assembly on 3 November 2011 announced 13 February as World Radio Day. The primary World Radio Day was authoritatively celebrated in 2012.

• World Radio Day denote the commemoration of the primary telecast by United Nations Radio in 1946. 13 February 1946 was the day when the UN Radio transmitted its first call sign.

Theme of the 2016 world radio day is “Radio in Times of Emergency and Disaster”.

 Biraja Prasad, a 1998 batch Indian Foreign Service officer of Odisha, was the youngest IFS officer to be appointed as India’s Ambassador to any country.

He had also worked as Deputy Chief of Mission in Embassy of India at Madrid. In the ministry, Prasad handled works related to India’s bilateral relations with Russian Federation, France, Germany and Spain.

 Nagendra Kumar Saxena concurrently accredited as the next High Commissioner of India to Solomon lslands GOI has designated Nagendra Kumar Saxena as the next High.

Commissioner of lndia to Solomon lslands with residence in Port Moresby. Presently, he is serving as the High Commissioner of lndia to the independent State of Papua New Guinea.

 Lionel Messi has been named La Liga player of the month for January. Interestingly he has won the recompense for the first time. Messi scored six times that month, nine times in March 2014 (counting continuous cap traps), five in October 2014, nine the next month, seven in February 2015 and four times last December.

The Barcelona forward was regarded at the 23rd time of asking subsequent to scoring six objectives in the same number of group diversions in January. The recompense has been given out following the start of the 2013-14 Primera Division season yet the five-times Ballon d'Or Award had not won it as of not long ago. Cristiano Ronaldo has won the recompense twice since it started in September 2013, as have the Atlético pair Diego Godín and Antoine Griezmann and the Real Sociedad striker Carlos Vela.

 Indian-origin legal counselor Davinder Singh in the second week of February 2016 was designated as a vice- chair t of the International Chamber of Commerce's Commission on Corporate Responsibility and Anti-corruption.

With this appointment, Davinder Singh, a citizen of Singapore, became one of three vice-chairs of the commission. Other two vice-chairs are François Vincke of Belgium and Johann Le Frapper of France.

About Davinder Singh:

• He is the Chief Executive Officer of Drew and Napier LLC.

• He moved on from the National University of Singapore and was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1983.

• He prosecuted cases in the Singapore Courts in verging on each zone of the law, including point of interest cases.

• He likewise has a dynamic worldwide discretion work on including the complex business question and numerous locales.

• He was the only  Singapore legal advisor to win the Outstanding Contribution to the Legal Profession Award at the Chambers APAC Awards 2014.

• He likewise drove the group which won the Cross-outskirt Dispute/Litigation of the Year honor for its effective arraignment of one of the biggest defilement cases in Brunei Darussalam.

• He was additionally a previous Member of Parliament for Bishan-Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency from 1988 to 2006.

About I.C.C. and Commission on Corporate Responsibility and Anti-Corruption:

• I.C.C. is the biggest, most illustrative business association on the planet.

• I.C.C. has three main activities: rule setting, dispute resolution, and policy advocacy.

• It’s a huge number of part organizations in more than 180 nations have intrigues crossing each segment of private undertaking.

• I.C.C. was framed in 1919 and its home office is situated in Paris, France.

• The Commission on Corporate Responsibility and Anti-Corruption work intimately with the I.C.C. on defilement related issues.

• The focus of the commission is on issues related to anti-money laundering, counter terrorist-financing, public procurement and anti-corruption clauses in model contracts (Commercial Law and Practice).

 The Disciplinary Committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (B.C.C.I.) on 12^th February 2016 banned Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf for a long time on charges of defilement and unfortunate behavior. The disciplinary board took this choice after Rauf was discovered liable for charges in connection to the Indian Premier League (I.P.L.) wagering and spot-altering embarrassment of 2013. With this boycott, Rauf got to be ineligible for umpiring or playing or speaking to cricket in any structure or being connected with exercises of the B.C.C.I. and its subsidiaries for a long time.

Prior, on 18^th January 2016, Ajit Chandila and Hiken Shah were likewise banned by the board of trustees in connection with the 2013 outrage.

While Chandila was banned forever, Hiken Shah was banned for 5 years from playing or representing cricket in any form or to be associated in any way with the activities of the Board or its affiliates.

 The 3-day long yearly World Government Summit (WGS) closed in Dubai, the UAE. The summit was fourth in the arrangement since the dispatch of WGS in 2013 by the UAE Government. 2016 WGS was gone to by 4500 members from more than 130 nations to talk about difficulties and opportunities before present and future governments around the world.

It additionally gave a chance to showcase advancements, best practice and keen answers for rouse imagination to handle these future difficulties.

Highlights of 2016 World Government Summit:

• It talked about key difficulties confronted by the mankind – environmental change, budgetary incorporation, benefits supportability, instruction for all, and so forth.

• Talks and gatherings were hung on mechanical arrangements and methodologies like economical improvement objectives, the web of things, virtual wellbeing, and so forth.

• It was gone to by around 2500 government authorities and heads of multilateral offices including Secretary-General of the UN Ban Ki-moon.

• During the summit, 2016 Best m-Government Service Awards presented. Karnataka's Mobile One venture the grant in the One Stop App class at the global level.

• Edge of Government report was discharged that catches driving edge contextual investigations of government development over the world.

• At the summit, it was declared that the WGS would start operations as a universal association and work during the time to accomplish its worldwide objectives.

• While the summit was facilitated by the UAE Government, the UN, the World Bank, OECD and World Economic Forum (WEF) were among the list of strategic partners.

At present, Tonapi is serving as the Principal Scientist at Seed Science and Technology of the IIMR.

Who is Vilas A. Tonapi?

•Tonapi prior served as Head, Division of Seed Science and Technology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi.

•He holds a Ph.D. from Tamil Nadu Agriculture University and acquired his post-Doctoral from University of Queensland, Australia.

•His uncommon fulfillments incorporate Planning, advancement and administration of yield change projects and systems.

•He has 50 research papers shockingly in associate inspected diaries, 30 composed and altered.

 Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheik Mohamed canister Zayed Al Nahyan finished up his 3-day visit to India. He is additionally the representative preeminent leader of UAE military

He went to India on invitation of Narendra Modi who turned into the principal Prime Minister to visit the UAE following a hole of 34 years in August 2015.

Highlights of 3-day visit:

• He held converses with President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on an array of two-sided relations.

• During the visit, both nations consented to 9 arrangements and Memorandums of Understanding.

• The understandings and MoUs secured an extensive variety of parts such as the circle of digital security, base, renewable vitality and fund.

• Both the nations issued a joint explanation that communicated resolve to expand exchange by 60 percent over by 2020.

• He went to Mumbai and met Indian business pioneers at the Mumbai Stock Exchange.

 Karnataka’s Mobile One project won 2016 Best m-Government Service Award at the 4th World Government Summit in Dubai, the UAE.

The project was selected for the award in the One Stop App category at the international level.

To win the award, the Mobile One competed with projects from about 64 countries of which the e-governance apps of the UK and Kazakhstan were also shortlisted.

Features of Mobile One project:

• It brings together around 4000 services of multiple states and central government departments as well as private service providers at one place.

• The services can be accessed in the form of an application that include government services like utility bill payments, income and property tax payment, SAKALA services, bus and railway ticket booking.

• In addition, various private services in the categories of healthcare, banking, travel, legal, agriculture and other areas are also provided by the application.

• The services can be accessed as an App on smart phones, a web portal or through short message service (SMS) and interactive voice response system (IVRS).

• The project was launched in December 2014 by the President Pranab Mukherjee.