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GROUP II INTERVIEW PROGRAMME

NEWS OF THE DAY

26.11.2019

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TAMIL NADU

1. The Madras High Court on Monday restrained Petroleum Employees Union and Petroleum Workers Union, two trade unions at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), from resorting to a strike from 6 a.m. on November 28 to 6 a.m. the next day, against the Centre’s decision to privatise the public sector enterprise.

2. Nokia plant in Chennai to reopen in 2020 & is is likely to resume operations by March 2020.

Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday said that the plant had been bought by Finland-based Salcomp — the world’s largest maker of mobile phone chargers and a key supplier for Apple.

3. Three more lakes to be added to city’s drinking water sources

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4. A book titled Stomach cancer - From prevention to cure, to create awareness on stomach cancer, was released by Health and Family Welfare Minister C. Vijayabaskar

5. Chennai to turn city waste to manure

6. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL) has launched a

new fool-proof integrated payment system in its 122 fuel outlets in the city by which the transaction amount will be automatically read by the debit/credit card swiping machine from the dispensing unit.

7. The Tamil Nadu Open University and the Department of Employment and Training will jointly conduct a job fair on Saturday at the Government Arts College, Nandanam

8. Metro riders will now be able to enjoy their favourite movies and songs on their smartphones by downloading an app, to be launched in the first week of December, said a senior Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) official.

9. Shaastra, the annual technical fest of IIT-M, will host a

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‘Makeathon’, where students will work on projects to enhance the quality of life of the elderly, adults and children with disabilities, by implementing successful prototypes.

NATIONAL

1. The Supreme Court on Monday said it would pass an order on Tuesday on the question of holding a floor test in the Maharashtra Assembly.

2. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), leaders of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress on Monday submitted a letter of support — signed by 162 MLAs — to the office of Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari. The tally is 17 more than the minimum required for a majority in the Assembly to form the next government.

3. The Supreme Court on Monday lashed out at the Punjab and Haryana governments for their inability to prevent pollution from stubble burning despite orders from the court, saying the smog from the fires had made Delhi a living hell.

4. Mr. Fadnavis cleared Rs. 5,380 crore from the Maharashtra Contingency Fund as relief for farmers affected by the unseasonal rains. Nearly one crore farmers have been affected by crop damage over 87 lakh hectare area in the past few months in Vidarbha and Marathwada.

5. Seventy two thousand forty five (72,045) Primary Health Centres (PHC), Sub-Centres (SC), and Community Health

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Centres (CHC) in India are without toilet facilities for their staff, and 1,15,484 are without separate toilets for men and women patients, according to a reply given by the Union Health Ministry in the Lok Sabha last week. Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Maharashthra are among the States leading the list.

6. TSRTC Joint Action Committee (TSRTC JAC) leaders called off their 52-day-long strike on Monday evening and asked the employees to resume duties from 6 a.m. of Tuesday.

7. ‘3.7% food samples unsafe, 15.8% sub-standard and 9% samples had labelling defects.

8. Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy on Monday

introduced the Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill,

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2019, amid din in the Lok Sabha.

9. The statement of objects and reasons of the Bill said that it is “considered to amend the Act to focus on core mandate, as the security of the Prime Minister, as Head of the Government, is of paramount importance for Government, governance and national security.”

10. As per the Bill, “SPG shall provide proximate security to the Prime Minister and his immediate family members residing with him at his official residence.”

11. The Bill says that family members of a former Prime Minister who do not reside with him at his official residence will not be guarded by SPG commandos and those who reside with him at his allotted accommodation will get security cover of the SPG only for five years.

12. The SPG Act was enacted in 1988 to provide for the constitution and regulation of the SPG as an armed force to provide proximate security to the Prime Minister and his/her immediate family members. It was amended in 1991, 1994, 1999 and 2003 to extend SPG cover to former PMs and their immediate family members for different periods of demitting office

13. The first tranche of 6,090 metric tonnes of onions imported by the Centre have been bought from Egypt and will reach the Mumbai port in the first week of December. This consignment is being offered to State governments at Rs. 52-55 per kg in Mumbai and Rs. 60 per kg in Delhi, according to an official statement from the Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs on Monday.

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INTERNATIONAL

1. External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Monday met Japan's

National Security Adviser Shigeru Kitamura and discussed foreign policy cooperation.

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1. The recently released NSS report claimed that nearly 22% households accepted that they throw waste in “common place other than community dumping spot”. Uttar Pradesh led the list of states with 38% respondents admitting it.

2. For the first time, J&K to celebrate November 26 as Constitution Day

3. C-section, or caesarean section, births in India are growing

rapidly with a huge disparity between public and private hospitals, reports Sushmi Dey. While public hospitals reported 34.9% caesarean births, 62.7% of deliveries in private hospitals were through C-sections, a survey conducted by NSO during July 2017-June 2018

4. Close to 97% of expenditure on hospitalisation is borne by people using their own income or savings or borrowings and sale of assets and the private sector, excluding charitable or NGO-run hospitals, accounts for over 55% of hospitalisation expenses, not including admission for childbirth.

5. . Changes in group II exam pattern: TNPSC seeks feedback

from candidates 6. When it comes to creating jobs in the textile sector, Gujarat is

faring well – the best in the country. According to data by Union ministry of textiles, the state created the highest number of jobs in the past three years, under the Scheme for Integrated Textile Park (SITP).

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7. Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Barve has said the city

police is fully equipped to handle situations like the 26/11 terror attack, with personnel trained to combat urban terrorism making it the "strongest force in the country". The city's streets and other land assets are being secured by highly trained personnel, including commandos, as well as sophisticated weaponry and armoured combat vehicles like Marksman, Barve told PTI on the eve of the 11th anniversary of the ghastly terror attack.

8. Some opposition parties led by the Congress are likely to boycott the joint sitting of Parliament on Tuesday called to commemorate the Constitution Day and will hold a protest against the political developments in Maharashtra.

The Congress, Left parties, NCP, TMC, RJD, TDP and DMK have planned a joint protest at the Ambedkar statue inside the Parliament complex against the political developments in Maharashtra and installing of a government led by Devendra Fadnavis with Ajit Pawar as deputy chief minister, sources said.

9. The Tamil Nadu government has announced an increase in

subsidy for sugarcane farmers who are interested in installing drip irrigation system in their farms.

10. For every new A320 Neo plane, ground an old one with unmodified PW engines: DGCA to IndiGo

11. Assam government joins hands with Times of India Group

to host the 65th Filmfare Awards in Guwahati

12. By 2022, IGI may get air train for inter-terminal transits

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13. The country's biggest airport IGI could get an air rain, or

automated passenger mover (APM) IG's capacity will be 10 crore passengers annually once the bigger T1 and the fourth runway get ready . APM will be located at walking distance from the terminals