Current Affairs 23rd February 2016

Current Affairs 23rd February 2016

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India stays world’s biggest arms shipper

• India keeps on remaining the world’s biggest arms merchant, representing 14% of the worldwide arms imports in the 2011-2015 time allotment.
• It was uncovered by report on worldwide arms exchanges discharged by a worldwide research organization, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
• Key highlights Top arms shippers are: 1.India (14%), 2.China (4.7%), 3.Australia (3.6%), 4.Pakistan (3.3%), 5.Vietnam (2.9%) and 6.South Korea (2.6%).

CGPDTM issues changed patent rules for Computer Related Inventions

• The Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (CGPDT) has issued a request barring programming licenses in its changed rules for Computer Related Inventions (CRIs).
• The new request unmistakably specifies that, minor PC programs those not in conjunction with a novel equipment won’t be conceded patent in India.
• The new rules Follow CGPDT’s keep focused updated rules issued in August 2015 which have permitted the protecting of programming which exhibited specialized progression and did not clear up it.
• Have been adjusted to the Patents Act, 1970 and gets out clarity terms of rejections expected under sub-area 3(k) of the Act. Prior, CGPDTM had concurred with a Parliamentary Panel which had watched that PC programs thusly are not planned to be conceded patent according to Patents Act, 1970.
• The sub-segment 3(k) of Act says that numerical techniques or business strategies or PC system or calculations are not patentable.

Union Government dispatches Swachh Paryatan mobile application

• Union Government has propelled ‘Swachh Parayatan’ mobile application to keep traveler puts clean. It was propelled by Union Minister of State (MoS) for Tourism, Culture and Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma in New Delhi.
• The venture is being actualized by the Union Ministry of Tourism through Delhi eGovernance Society (DeGS) and National Informatics Center (NIC).
• At first the application office will be accessible for 25 Adarsh Smarak Monuments ensured by Archeological Survey of India (ASI).
• The mobile application will be observed by the venture checking unit of Swachh Bharat Mission in the Union Ministry of Tourism.
• This mobile application will empower natives, sightseers to take photo of junk seen at the landmark and transfer it on the application alongside his or her comments.
• On transferring pictures and comments in the application, it will send a SMS to the ASI Nodal Officer worried with the landmark to make further move to clean the junk.

Haryana set to end up first state to finish Aquifer mapping

• Haryana is set turned into the primary state in the nation to finish aquifer mapping for its groundwater assets by May 2016.
• Aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing rock from which groundwater can be separated.
• Aquifer mapping: It is exploratory mapping of aquifers to assess the groundwater circumstance.
• Goal: To get ready administration arranges in counsel with partners and state governments to take measures to renew the declining groundwater.
• Nodal Agency: This aquifer mapping is embraced by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) on the size of 1:50,000 in 3D.

Indian-starting point Amar Singh designated as Police Commissioner of Kuala Lumpur

• An Indian-starting point Sikh Amar Singh has been designated the Police Commissioner of Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur. With this, he turns out to be first Person of Indian Origen (PIO) and first Malaysian Sikh to accomplish the most noteworthy police rank in the Muslim-dominant part nation.
• Preceding this arrangement, he was serving as delegate chief of CID. He will succeed Tajuddin Mohamed who has been exchanged to government base camp as the Deputy Director of business CID.
• Amar Singh Amar Singh is a third-era policeman from his crew. His dad Ishar Singh and maternal granddad Bachan Singh were from Punjab and the two were policemen in Malaysia.
• He had graduated in B.Sc from University of Malaya furthermore did his LLB from the University of Buckingham, UK. He additionally holds Diploma in Sharia Law.
• Amar’s dad Ishar Singh had joined the Federated Malay States Police in 1939 and was a pioneer individual from the police wilderness squad set up amid the Emergency.
• His maternal granddad Bachan Singh was a constable who joined the Malay police power in the mid 1900s.

CII inks MoU with Dubai fares to help exchange

• The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has marked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dubai Exports to help exchange and investigate business opportunities.
• CII is a non-government association of Indian organizations which attempts to make a domain helpful for the development of industry in the nation.
• Dubai Exports works with other Dubai Government Departments to improve the fare process by growing long haul development methodologies to extend organizations and amplify opportunities Key elements of MoU Signatory parties promise to keep up general and incessant contact with one another for common trade of financial, exchange and non-secret data.
• They will prescribe and propose accomplices for exchange and financial participation and investigate open doors for business between individuals from both sides. CII and Dubai fares will likewise compose trade of visits for business collaboration and give vital backing regarding mounting business designations, sorting out meetings and different exercises to one another