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Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 03 November 2020

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National Film Archive of India is organising 15th edition of Film Appreciation Course in Marathi along with Federation of Film Society of India (FFSI). The course is to be held online for the first time from November 1 to November 7, owing to the COVID Pandemic.

About:

It was established in 1964 in Pune.
It is a media unit of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
It aims to trace, acquire and preserve for posterity the heritage of Indian cinema; to classify, document data and undertake research relating to films; to act as a centre for the dissemination of film culture.

Ministry of AYUSH and M/s Invest India will form a collaboration to set up a strategic policy unit called “Strategic Policy and Facilitation Bureau (SPFB)” to facilitate planned and systematic growth of the Ayush Sector.
This is among the various steps which the Ministry has initiated to chart future directions along which the stake-holding groups of the Ayush Sector can move.

The activities to be undertaken by the SPFB would include:

Knowledge Creation and Management,
Strategic and Policy-Making Support,
State Policy Bench marking: Undertaking State Policy bench marking to formulate uniform guidelines/regulations regarding AYUSH sector in India,
Investment Facilitation: Follow up and facilitation of investment cases and MoUs, and coordination among different Department, organisations and States.
Issue Resolution: Invest India would work with companies and other institutions on issue resolution across States and among various sub-sectors.
Some of the Specific Deliverables of Bureau would include project monitoring for Inter-Ministerial Groups, Skill Development Initiatives, setting up Strategic Intelligence Research Unit and initiating an Innovation Program.

E-way bills for October clocked 64.1 million, the highest since the introduction of the system more than two years ago.

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Union government has announced introduction GST E-way bills from April 1,2018.
The E-way bill is a document to be generated online under the GST system, when goods of the value of more than Rs.50,000 are shipped inter-State or intra-State.

Key highlights:

The e-invoice system under goods and services tax (GST) was launched on October 1, 2020 for the businesses with aggregate turnover of more than Rs 500 crore in the financial year.
According to NIC, within the first month of introduction itself, more than 495 Lakh e-invoices were generated on the NIC portal by 27,400 tax payers.

Modes of generations of invoice reference number (IRN) in NIC system:

Currently, there are three modes of generations of IRN in NIC system.
First is the direct API interface of ERP system of tax payer with NIC system.
Second is the API interface of ERP system of the tax payer through GSP with NIC system.
Third is using the offline tool for bulk uploading of invoices and generating IRNs.
Around 15% of the tax payers are using the offline tool for the IRN generations and 85% are integrating through API.

As part of ‘Mission Sagar-II’, Indian Naval Ship Airavat entered Port Sudan on 02 November 2020.

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As part of Mission Sagar-II, Indian Naval Ship Airavat will deliver food aid to Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti and Eritrea.
Mission Sagar-II, is in line with the Prime Minister’s vision of Security and Growth for All in the Region ‘SAGAR’ and highlights the importance accorded by India to relations with her maritime neighbours and further strengthens the existing bond.
The Indian Navy is progressing this mission in close coordination with the Ministries of Defence and External Affairs, and other agencies of the Government of India.

Phase 1 and 2:

Mission Sagar-II, follows the first ‘Mission Sagar’ undertaken in May-June 2020, wherein India reached out to Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar and Comoros, and provided food aid and medicines.
The Government of India is providing assistance to Friendly Foreign Countries to overcome natural calamities and COVID-19 pandemic, and towards the same INS Airavat is carrying a consignment of 100 Tonnes of food aid for the people of Sudan.

Recently, this typhoon killed 7 people in Philippines.
A typhoon is defined as a tropical cyclone in the western Pacific.
Typhoons generally track in a westward or northern direction, and occur most frequently in a region of thewestern Pacific and east Asia.
Typhoon season lasts from the early summer to early autumn, often coinciding with the monsoon seasonin Southeast Asia and the wet season in eastern Japan.
Hurricane is essentially the same thing as a Typhoons that takes place in the North Atlantic, or central oreastern North Pacific.

Super Typhoon:

Since 2009 the Hong Kong Observatory has divided typhoons into three different classifications: typhoon, severe typhoon and super typhoon.
A typhoon has wind speed of 64–79 knots (73–91 mph; 118–149 km/h), a severe typhoon has winds of at least 80 knots (92 mph; 150 km/h), and a super typhoon has winds of at least 100 knots (120 mph; 190 km/h).

It was reported that England World Cup winner Bobby Charlton, regarded England’s greatest, had developed dementia.

About:

Dementia is a general term for loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life. Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia.

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopath:

It is a disease that causes severe damage to the brain because of repeated head injuries and is linked to memory loss, depression and dementia.
Former boxers are most commonly diagnosed with it, however, there have been instances of CTE in many other contact sports like pro wrestling, mixed martial arts, ice hockey, rugby, baseball, Australian rules football and, of course, football.
A 2017 research by University College London and Cardiff University pointed to six cases of players in 60s developing dementia having played for an average of 26 years
Four showed signs of CTE adding that the risk was ‘extremely low’ from playing recreational football.