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Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 05 December 2020
Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 05 December 2020
::NATIONAL::
Karnataka LearningManagement System
- It was launched by Karnataka Government.
- It is implemented in two ways: LMS-based digital learning and establishing 2500 ICT enabled classescovering government first grade colleges, polytechnics and engineering colleges.
- It encourages digital learning and would improve the quality and Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in highereducation.
- This would benefit students and teachers to make an impact on their learning and teaching, respectively,hence improving quality of higher education.
::ECONOMY::
Muni bond
- The Muni Bonds are issued by the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) listed on the BSE.
- It raising Rs 200 crore for Uttar Pradesh's capital. It’s the ninth city in the country to raise capital through municipal bonds.
- Chief Minister informed that it will be the next to issue a municipal issue and it will be followed by Pragyaraj, Varanasi, Agra and Kanpur.
- LMC’s bond issuance, launched on November 13, offered coupon of 8.5 per cent and had tenure of 10 years.
- The issuance had garnered 4.5 times subscription.
::INTERNATIONAL::
India votes to reclassify cannabis
- India has voted with the majority at the United Nations to remove cannabis and cannabis resin from the list of most dangerous substances from Schedule IV of 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.
- Convention allows for control over trafficking in narcotics, marijuana, cocaine and coca leaf.
- India had signed and ratified the convention.
- Now, the decision by UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) will lead to changes in the way cannabis is regulated internationally.
- Under India's Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, the production, manufacture, possession, sale, purchase, transport, and use of cannabis is a punishable offence.
::SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY::
2020 SO
- NASA has confirmed that the Near-Earth Object called 2020 SO is the rocket booster that helped lift the space agency’s Surveyor spacecraft toward the Moon in 1966.
- The Surveyor-2 spacecraft was supposed to make a soft landing on the Moon’s surface in September 1966, during which time one of the three thrusters failed to ignite as a result of which the spacecraft started spinning and crashed on the surface.
- The aim of the mission was to reconnoiter the lunar surface ahead of the Apollo missions that led to the first lunar landing in 1969.
- While the spacecraft crashed into the Moon’s surface, the rocket booster disappeared into an unknown orbit around the Sun.
