TNPSC Current Affairs March 20, 2020

www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs March 20, 2020 (20/03/2020)

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Topic: Latest Diary of Events

World Consumers Day

15 March is World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD), an annual occasion for celebration and solidarity within the international consumer movement. It marks the date in 1962 President John F Kennedy first outlined the definition of Consumer Rights.

The theme for World Consumer Rights Day 2020 is ‘The Sustainable Consumer’.

Significance of the day: It is an opportunity to promote the basic rights of all consumers, for demanding that those rights are respected and protected, and for protesting the market abuses and social injustices which undermine them.

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Topic: Court Verdicts, Political Systems in India

Nirbhaya Case Convicts Hanged to Death in Tihar Jail

Four convicts of the Nirbhaya Gang Rape were hanged to death in Tihar Jail.

Key facts:

In September 2013, a fast track court convicted them with death sentence. Several curative and mercy petitions were filed by them at the Delhi High Court and Supreme Court. In 2017, the Supreme Court upheld death penalty.

Recently, in 2020, the Supreme Court refused to take in the petitions.

Article 145:

Article 145 of the constitution allows the Supreme Court to frame its own rules. Under the Article, the SC rules its own proceedings, cases handled by the it, transferred to high courts, etc.

It has powers to stay proceedings, grant bail, allocate number of judges to sit in a bench, etc. With this power, the apex court refused to consider the petitions of the accused.

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Topic: Current socio-economic issues, Latest Diary of Events

N K Singh Committee for a new Fiscal Consolidation Road Map

The Finance Commission Constituted a committee under Shri N K Singh in order to build a fiscal consolidation road map for the centre and the states.

Key facts:

The Finance Commission had submitted its first report to the GoI in February 2020. The Commission will submit its final report covering the financial years 2021-22 to 2025-26 by October 30. The N K Singh committee will recommend definition of deficit and debt. It will also define contingent liabilities of the public sector undertakings.

Fiscal Consolidation:

Fiscal Consolidation is the policy adopted by the Government to reduce the deficits. It mainly aims to reduce administrative costs of the Government.

In simple words, the policies undertaken by the Government to reduce debt stocks and deficits. The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003 (FRBMA) is the best example for the Fiscal Consolidation measure of GoI.

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Topic: Latest Diary of Events

SIDBI launches “Swavalamban Express” to promote business aspirants

The Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) announced Swavalamban Express.

Key facts:

The Train is to visit 11 entrepreneurial cities. This includes Delhi, Jammu, Mumbai. Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar and Varanasi. During the period, various workshops and programmes are to be organized. The train has been launched to fulfil India’s goal of 5 trillion USD by 2024-25.

The train is to cover more than 7,000 km in 15 days. It will connect small enterprises. There is no educational restriction for the journey. Any person between the age of 20 and 35 years can participate.

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Topic: Latest Invention on Science and Health

The Cellular Mechanism of Huntington Disease discovered

Scientists have found that the pathogenic protein called the Huntingtin Protein causes decrease in overall protein production.

What they have found?

A team of scientists from National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS) in Pune have observed that the pathogenic Huntingtin protein causes a decrease in the overall protein production in cells.

They also found that the Huntingtin clumps collect together (sequester) molecules of another protein called Orb2, which is involved in the process of protein formation.

In simple terms, Scientists have found that in a diseased person the Huntingtin protein interfered with the protein production of the cells.

This is how wrong instructions are sent, mainly due to faulty protein level. They also reduced the level of protein production of a normal cell.

What is Huntingtin Disease?

It is a progressive genetic disorder. It affects the brain that causes uncontrolled movements, impaired coordination of balance and movement, a decline in cognitive abilities, difficulty in concentrating and memory lapses, mood swings and personality changes.

How is it caused?

It is caused by a mutation in a gene called HTT. The HTT genes are involved in the production of a protein called huntingtin.

They provide the instruction for making the protein. When the genes mutate, they provide faulty instructions leading to production of abnormal huntingtin proteins and these form into clumps.

The clumps disrupt the normal functioning of the brain cells, which eventually leads to death of neurons in the brain, resulting in Huntington disease.

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Topic: Latest Diary of Events

March 20: International Day of Happiness

Every year March 20 is celebrated as International Day of Happiness. The day is observed by the United Nations. This year the day was celebrated under the theme: Happiness for All, Together.