Current Affairs 26th February 2016

Current Affairs 26th February 2016

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Current Affairs 26th February 2016

E-Tourist Visa Scheme reached out to 37 more nations

• The Union Government has stretched out e-Tourist Visa Scheme to 37 more nations. With this, the aggregate tally of nations under the plan will get to be 150.
• The new nations incorporated into e-Tourist Visa plan are Austria, Albania, Botswana, Brunei, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Guinea, South Africa, Swaziland, Herzegovina, Cape Verde, Cote d’lvoire, Denmark, Czech Republic, Croatia, Eritrea, San Marino, Gabon, Greece, Comoros, Ghana, Gambia, Madagascar, Malawi, Lesotho, Liberia, Romania, Iceland, Moldova, Namibia, Trinidad and Tobago, Serbia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Senegal, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Lok Sabha passes Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2016

• Lok Sabha has passed Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2016 to give voting rights to individuals who got to be residents of India taking after the trading of enclaves in the middle of India and Bangladesh.
• The bill looks to change the Representation of the People Act (RPA), 1950 and the Delimitation Act, 2002.
• These Acts direct assignment of seats to the Lok Sabha and state lawmaking bodies and delimitation (altering limits) of parliamentary and state get together electorates.

Rajendra Singh selected as DG of Coast Guard

• The Union Government has named Rajendra Singh as the Director General (DG) of Indian Coast Guard (ICG), nation’s seaside assurance power.
• With this arrangement, Rajendra Singh turns out to be first DG of ICG from its own inside framework since it was set up in 1978. So far this top post was just held by officers who were charged in the Indian Navy.
• He will supplant Vice Admiral HCS Bisht who has been advanced as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Naval Command.

Union Government chooses 3 Information chiefs of CIC

The Union Government has delegated three Information Commissioners at the Central Information Commission (CIC). They were managed the promise of office by Chief Information Commissioner Radha Krishna Mathur. With their instigation, interestingly CIC has full quality i.e. the aggregate number of Information Commissioners including the CIC has gone up to 11. Their arrangements have been made for a term of five years or till they turn 65.

Representatives are :

• Amitava Bhattacharya: He is resigned IAS officer who had served Chairman of the Staff Selection Commission (SSC)
• Bimal Julka: He is resigned IAS officer who had served as Information and Broadcasting Secretary.
• Divya Prakash Sinha: He is resigned IPS officer and counter-year veteran who had served as Secretary (security) at the Cabinet Secretariat.

Highlights of the Railway Budget 2016-17

Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on 25 February 2016 introduced the Railway Budget 2016-17 in the Parliament. This was the second railroad spending plan for Suresh Prabhu and third rail spending plan of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-drove NDA government.

The following are the highlights of this Budget:

• Theme of the Budget: ‘Chalo, Milkar Kuch Naya Karen’ for overcoming challenges – Reorganize, Rejuvenate, Restructure Indian Railways
• Three columns technique: Nav Arjan – New incomes, Nav Manak – New standards, Nav Sanrachna – New Structures.
• Railroad Fares No new climb in traveler tolls and Freight admissions.
• Guaranteed to cut down cargo rates and twofold non-levy income for the sickly national transport.

ISRO gears up for dispatch of India’s first sun oriented mission Aditya-L1

• The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is set to dispatch the nation’s first sun oriented mission called Aditya-L1.
• It was reported by Union Minister of State (MoS) in PMO Jitendra Singh in the Lok Sabha.

India misfortunes sun oriented argument against US at WTO

• India has lost sun oriented argument against United States at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for in rupturing of worldwide exchange rules. In such manner, WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) decided that India’s residential substance necessity for National Solar Mission (NSM) oppressed imported sun oriented innovation.
• The DSB decided that India residential substance necessity needed local assembling limit in sun oriented cells and modules and there was danger of a disturbance in imports.

Goverdhan Mehta recompensed Germany’s Cross of the Order of Merit

• Synthetic researcher and understood analyst Goverdhan Mehta has been deliberated with Germany’s prestigious Cross of the Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) Award.
• The honor was gave to him by Achim Fabig, German Consul General in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

SBI Launches SBI e Smart SME to offer Ecommerce Loan

• India’s biggest moneylender State Bank of India (SBI) has propelled SBI e-Smart SME to give a working capital advance to merchants on ecommerce stages.
• It was propelled by SBI in organization with ecommerce stage Snapdeal in the vicinity of bank’s executive Arundhati Bhattacharya and Snapdeal CEO Sri Kunal Bahl.