{"id":57944,"date":"2020-03-28T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=57944"},"modified":"2020-03-29T20:54:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T15:24:43","slug":"9-pm-current-affairs-brief-march-28th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/9-pm-current-affairs-brief-march-28th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"9 PM Current Affairs Brief \u2013 March 28th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good Evening Friends<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are posting Todays 9pm Current Affair Brief<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About 9pm Current Affair Brief<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; This initiative provides a brief of all the relevant articles of day in a clear, concise and easily consumable format. Students don\u2019t need to look anywhere more for your daily news bytes. It will help students in their prelims and mains preparation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For old Archives of 9pm Current Affair Brief, Click on \u201cArchives\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/9-pm-brief\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9pm Current Affair Briefs Archives<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2192<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/education\/aicte-mhrd-fight-corona-ideathon-over-5-000-student-innovators-educators-participate-2201667\"><b>Fight Corona IDEAthon<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>News:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE) and Ministry of HRD Innovation Cell has launched the Fight Corona IDEAthon initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Aim: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To generate and transform innovative ideas into viable solutions that can support the community in managing the uncertainties arising out of the Coronavirus pandemic.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Additional Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Innovation Cell:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been established at All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) premises to foster the culture of Innovation in all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>AICTE:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a statutory body under the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/economy\/policy\/highlights-of-rbis-monetary-statement\/articleshow\/74845701.cms\"><b>RBI&#8217;s monetary Policy statement<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reserve Bank of India\u2019s Monetary Policy Committee(MPC) has come out with its own measures to help deal with economic fall out of COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>RBI\u2019s Measures<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Repo Rate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It is the rate at which the RBI lends money to the banks for a short term. It has been cut by 75 basis points (bps) from 5.15% to 4.40%.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Reverse Repo Rate: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the short term borrowing rate at which RBI borrows money from banks. It has been cut by 90 bps to 4%.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Moratorium on Repayments of Loans: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RBI has allowed banks to defer payment of Equated Monthly Installments (EMIs) on home, car, personal loans as well as credit card dues for three months.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Cash Reserve Ratio(CRR): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">refers to a certain percentage of total deposits the commercial banks are required to maintain in the form of cash reserves with the central bank.It has been cut to 3% from 4%.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Additional Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Monetary Policy Committee(MPC):<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a committee of the Reserve Bank of India which consists of six members with three nominated by the Union government and three representing the RBI.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is mandated by law to ensure that retail inflation stays within a band of two percentage points of the target inflation rate of 4%.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[read more]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/of-chinese-statistics-and-the-keqiang-index\/article31175766.ece\"><b>Keqiang Index<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>News:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Li Keqiang, the current Premier of the People\u2019s Republic of China, has said that the Keqiang index is a better economic indicator for China than official numbers of GDP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Li Keqiang index or Keqiang index is an economic measurement index created by The Economist to measure China\u2019s economy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is based on three indicators namely a) railway cargo volume b) electricity consumption and c) loans disbursed by banks.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Kochi\/legacy-waste-disposal-an-uphill-task-for-government\/article31005172.ece\"><b>Legacy Waste<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>News:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed a committee to assess the amount of damage caused to the environment due to the legacy waste in Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Legacy wastes are the wastes that have been collected and kept for years at some barren land or a place dedicated for Landfill (an area to dump solid waste).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is grouped into four categories: a) Contained and stored waste b) Buried waste c) Contaminated soil and groundwater and d) building materials and structures waste.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bio-mining method has been proposed by the Central Pollution Control Board(CPCB) for the effective disposal of legacy wastes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Additional Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Biomining: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the technique of using microorganisms(microbes) for the extraction and segregation of minerals such as rubbers, metals, textiles from mounds of waste.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/operation-namaste-army-chief-gen-manoj-mukund-naravane-tells-how-army-is-saving-itself-from-coronavi-2201968\"><b>Operation namaste<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>News:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane launched the initiative &#8221;Operation Namaste&#8221;. The initiative seeks to help the Indian government in dealing with the Coronavirus outbreak and to insulate the army from coronavirus infection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\":8f.co\" class=\"tL8wMe EMoHub\" dir=\"ltr\">[\/read]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Evening Friends We are posting Todays 9pm Current Affair Brief About 9pm Current Affair Brief &#8211; This initiative provides a brief of all the relevant articles of day in a clear, concise and easily consumable format. Students don\u2019t need to look anywhere more for your daily news bytes. 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