DAILY GK 3-4 DEC
1.
RBI,
BANK OF ENGLAND SIGN MOU CONCERNING CLEARING CORPORATION
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Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) and the Bank of England (BoE) signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation and information exchange regarding
the Clearing Corporation of India
Limited (CCIL).
·
RBI
in exercise of powers under the provisions of Section 11(3) of FEMA (Foreign
Exchange Management Act), 1999 has imposed
a monetary penalty of Rs 10,000 on Bank of America, N.A. for violation of RBI’s instructions on
reporting requirements under Liberalised Remittance Scheme of FEMA, 1999.
·
RBI
approved the promoter of CSB Bank to keep a 26% stake in the lender.
This is higher than the 15% stake that RBI had previously advised.
2.
SEBI
POSTPONES LINKING OF SCORES WITH ODR PORTAL TO APRIL 2024
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The Securities and
Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has extended the timeline of linking of SEBI Complaint Redressal (SCORES) platform
with the Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)
Portal from 4th December 2023 to 1st April 2024.
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The market entities has
to keep submitting the Action Taken Report (ATR) on SCORES within 21 calendar days from the date of receipt
of the complaint.
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The
SCORES acts as a platform for investors to file their grievances against listed
companies or registered intermediaries which are
unresolved initiative by SEBI.
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SEBI Chairperson
– Madhabi Puri Buch
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Headquarters – Mumbai,
Maharashtra
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Established in – 1992
3.
2023
POWER100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN ART
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5 Indians including Bose Krishna machari, an Indian painter and artist-curator hailing
from Kerala, are featured on 2023 Power 100, the annual ranking of the most
influential people in art, published by Art Review, a London-based magazine.
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Bose Krishna machari is ranked 38th on the list.
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He has curated the murals on Manaveeyam street
in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Traditional Historical and Colonial Architecture
photography exhibition and ‘Contextual Cosmologies.
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Prateek
Raja & Priyanka Raja, Gallerists and
Cofounders of Experimenter, Kolkata(West Bengal) ranked 62nd.
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Dayanita
Singh, Photographer (Delhi) ranked 78th.
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Natasha
Ginwala, an independent curator, researcher, and
writer, ranked 94th.
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Top
3 of 2023 list:Nan Goldin,Hito Steyerl,Rirkrit
Tiravanija
4.
INDIA
RE-ELECTED TO INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANISATION COUNCIL FOR 2024-2025
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India has been re-elected
to the International Maritime
Organisation (IMO) Council under Category
B states for the 2024-2025 biennium.
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India
got 157 votes out of 167, which is the highest
number of votes among candidates in category B.
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Vikram Doraiswami, High
Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom, represented India at the IMO
Assembly.
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India, Australia, Brazil,
Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) were elected under “Category
B – “largest interest in international seaborne trade”.
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The
IMO Assembly is the highest governing body.
It consists of 175 member states of IMO
and meets once in every 2 years (biennial).
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IMO
Council is the executive organ of IMO and is responsible for supervising the work of the organization under the IMO assembly.
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It consists of 40 members who are elected for 2 years.
These members are further classified into 3 different categories:
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Category
A: It includes 10 member states with the largest interest in providing international shipping services.
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Category
B: It includes 10 member states with the largest interest in international seaborne trade.
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Category
C: It includes 20 member states which have a special interest in maritime transport or navigation.
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International Maritime
Organisation (IMO) is one of the specialized
agencies of the United Nations(UN) responsible for regulating and
formulating policies for international maritime.
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The
IMO Convention entered into force in 1958.
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India
joined the IMO as its member state in the year 1959.
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Secretary-General–
Kitack Lim (South Korea)
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Headquarters–
London, the United Kingdom(U.K.)
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Members–
175 member states and 3 associate members.
5.
INDIA’S
84TH CHESS GRANDMASTER
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Indian Chess player Vaishali Rameshbabu (22 years old), has
become India’s 84th Grandmaster(GM) by crossing the 2500 Elo live ratings during the ongoing 4th edition of the Llobregat Open Chess Tournament
(Llobregat Open 2023) in Barcelona,
Spain.
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She
is the third Indian female, after Koneru Humpy (2002) and Harika Dronavalli (2011), to get the GM
title.
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Vaishali
and her brother Praggnanandhaa became the world’s first sister-brother pair to be
Grand Masters.
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FIDE
President – Arkady Dvorkovich
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Headquarters – Lausanne,
Switzerland
6.
INTERNATIONAL
DAY FOR THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY 2023- DECEMBER 02
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The United Nations (UN) International Day for the Abolition of
Slavery is annually observed across the globe on 2 December to combat and eradicate contemporary forms of slavery,
such as trafficking in persons, sexual exploitation, the worst forms of child
labour, forced marriage, and the forced recruitment of children for use in
armed conflict.
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The Convention for the
Suppression of Trafficking Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution
of Others entered into force on 25 July 1951.
7.
NATIONAL
POLLUTION CONTROL DAY 2023- DECEMBER 2
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National Pollution
Control Day or National Pollution Prevention Day is annually observed across
India on 2 December in the memory of
those who lost their lives in the disastrous 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy.
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2 December 2023 marks the
39th Anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy.
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Central
Pollution Control Board (CPCB):CPCB functions
under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change(MoEF&CC).
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Chairman– Tanmay Kumar
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Headquarters– New Delhi,
Deli
8.
WORLD
COMPUTER LITERACY DAY 2023 – DECEMBER 02
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World Computer Literacy
Day is annually observed across the globe on December 2 to raise public
knowledge of computers and encourage the development of technological skills,
particularly among children and women in India.
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The first World Computer
Literacy Day was observed on 2nd December 2001.
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National
Institute of Information Technology (NIIT):Headquarters
– Gurugram, Haryana
