{"id":54634,"date":"2020-02-23T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=54634"},"modified":"2020-02-27T09:55:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T04:25:23","slug":"9-pm-current-affairs-brief-february-23rd-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/9-pm-current-affairs-brief-february-23rd-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"9 PM Current Affairs Brief \u2013 February 23rd, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsonair.com\/News?title=Department-of-Telecommunications-launches-%e2%80%985G-Hackathon%e2%80%99&amp;id=381735\"><strong>Department of\nTelecommunications launches \u20185G Hackathon\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Department of Telecommunications(DoT) has launched \u20185G Hackathon\u2019 in\nassociation with the Government, academia and Industry Stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About\n\u20185G Hackathon\u2019:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Hackathon aims at shortlisting\nIndia\u2019s cutting edge ideas that can be converted into workable 5G products and\nsolutions.<\/li><li>It is open to developers,\nstart-ups, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), academic institutions &amp;\nregistered companies in India and NRIs.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\ninformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About\n5G:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>5G is the fifth cellular\ntechnology that succeeds generation of mobile networks namely a) 1G which\ndelivered analog voice b) 2G introduced digital voice c) 3G brought mobile data\nand d) 4G LTE ushered in the era of mobile Internet.<\/li><li>The 5G technology will provide a\nquantum leap over 4G in terms of speed, peak data rate, latency, spectrum\nefficiency and connection density.<\/li><li>It will provide a download speed\nof 1 Gbps which is at least 100 times the existing data speeds.<\/li><li>Further,it will also have a wider\narea in the frequency spectrum (range of frequencies) that will ensure no\nnetwork congestion.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsonair.com\/News?title=Bangladesh-to-enhance-Mongla-Port-Capacity&amp;id=381596\"><strong>Mongla Port<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Bangladesh government has approved the proposal to enhance the\ncapacity of the Mongla port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India and Bangladesh had signed a\nMoU on the use of Chattogram and Mongla ports in 2015.<\/li><li>The MoU envisages transit of goods\nfrom Mongla port to north eastern states of India through waterways, roads and\nrailways.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About\nMongla Port:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mongla Port is the second largest\nport of Bangladesh.It lies 62 km north of the Bay of Bengal coastline.<\/li><li>The port is situated at the\nconfluence of the Pasur River and the Mongla River.It is surrounded and\nprotected by the Sundarban mangrove forest.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Picture1-21.png?resize=750%2C518&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54638\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsonair.com\/News?title=PM-Modi-launches-50-development-projects-worth-over-Rs-1250-cr-in-Varanasi%3b-says-there-will-be-no-re-thinking-on-Art-370%2c-CAA-despite-pressure&amp;id=381374\"><strong>Siddhant\nShikhamani Granth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Prime Minister has released the translated version of the Shri\nSiddhant Shikhamani Granth in 19 languages and launched a mobile app of the\nGranth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About\nSiddhant Shikhamani:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Siddhantha Shikhamani is a\nreligious scripture of the Panchacharya tradition of Veerashaivas also known as\nLingayatism.<\/li><li>The scripture was written in\nSanskrit and gives an elaboration of the primitive traits of Veerashaivism\nfound in the Vedas and the Upanishads.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About\nLingayat:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Lingayat also known as\nVeerashaiva community are devotees of Shiva. <\/li><li>They follow the 12th-century\nsaint-philosopher Basavanna who had rejected ritualistic worship and\npre-eminence of the Vedas.<\/li><li>They are strict monotheists.They\nworship only one God namely Linga (Shiva).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/telangana\/adequate-water-to-quench-thirst-of-wild-animals-in-kawal-tiger-reserve\/article30889394.ece\"><strong>Kawal Tiger\nReserve<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The man-animal conflict in the Kawal Tiger Reserve(KTR) is on the\ndecline as there was no incident of wild animals straying into human\nhabitations for water in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About\nKawal Tiger Reserve:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Kawal Tiger Reserve is located in\nAdilabad district in Telangana state. <\/li><li>It was declared as a Tiger Reserve\nin 2012.The reserve is a catchment area for the rivers Godavari and Kadam.<\/li><li><strong>Vegetation:<\/strong>It is a dry deciduous teak forest\nmixed with bamboo, terminalia, Pterocarpus and cassias constitute the\npredominant flora of the region.<\/li><li>The reserve has several species of\nanimals including Cheetal, Sambar, Barking Deer, Nilgai, Sloth Bear, Indian\nBison, Panther and Tiger.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Telecommunications launches \u20185G Hackathon\u2019 News:Department of Telecommunications(DoT) has launched \u20185G Hackathon\u2019 in association with the Government, academia and Industry Stakeholders. Facts: About \u20185G Hackathon\u2019: The Hackathon aims at shortlisting India\u2019s cutting edge ideas that can be converted into workable 5G products and solutions. It is open to developers, start-ups, Small and Medium Enterprises&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/9-pm-current-affairs-brief-february-23rd-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9 PM Current Affairs Brief \u2013 February 23rd, 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":48116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9-pm-brief","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/9-PM-Brief.png?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700801563,"cached_date":1704940983},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}