Current Affairs 28th February 2019

Current Affairs 28th February 2019 - Important Points

• Government launched ‘2nd Edition of ISL Dictionary’ for hearing impaired persons on - 27th February 2019
• President Donald Trump to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in - Vietnam Summit
• ICAR & CSIR sign MoU for working together on - Food & Agriculture
• Mahesh Elkunchwar to be honoured with META Lifetime Achievement Award on - 12th March 2019
• India hosts Global Digital Health Partnership Summit at - New Delhi
• India & Sweden to Increase Cooperation on - Anti-Microbial Resistance R&D
• ESIC payroll information suggests 2 crore jobs created in - 16 months
• Indian Space Research Organisation to launch electronic intelligence satellite ‘Emisat’ in - March 2019
• National Cancer Institute at Jhajjar a part of AIIMS Delhi & AIIMS Rewari to come up as - 22nd AIIMS in nation

Current Affairs 28th February 2019 - Details

Government launched ‘2nd Edition of ISL Dictionary’ for hearing impaired persons on - 27th February 2019

Union Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment, Thaawarchand Gehlot on February 27th, 2019 released the 2nd Edition of Indian Sign Language Dictionary. The dictionary has been designed by the Indian Sign Language Research & Training Centre under Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities of the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.
The 2nd edition of dictionary consists total 6000 words. The 1st edition of the dictionary was released on March 23rd, 2018 with 3000 words.
2nd Edition of ISL Dictionary

• The Dictionary consists total 6000 words under the categories of academic, legal, medical, technical & day-to-day terms.
• The dictionary videos contain the sign, the English term for the sign & pictures where required.
  A word list is also printed with the English & Hindi equivalents of the signs.
• It has been designed with the involvement of the hearing impaired community, by issuing due consideration to their recommendations & understanding.
• The Indian Sign Language Dictionary is also available on Indian Sign Language Research &  Training Centre's YouTube channel. About 1000 videos have been uploaded already & the rest are in the progression of being uploaded on YouTube channel.

President Donald Trump to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in - Vietnam Summit

US President Donald Trump will hold the 2nd summit with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un in Vietnam on February 27th-28th, 2019 as part of his government's continuing endeavours to denuclearise North Korea.
Vietnam's Hanoi will be presenting the 2nd summit. Vietnam has diplomatic bonds with both Washington & Pyongyang.
Significance
The 2nd Trump-Kim Summit will be in an extension of Trump’s efforts to persuade Kim to roll back his nuclear programme.
The Summit comes less than a year after the 2 leaders organised a historic meeting in Singapore in June 2018.
Since their meeting, Trump has claimed that North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat; however, the spectators have witnessed some movement at their nuclear site.
Expectations
At the 2nd Trump-Kim summit, specialists expect that North Korea will likely be swapping the destruction of its main Yongbyon nuclear complex with an official declaration of the end of 1950-53 Korean War by the United States.

ICAR & CSIR sign MoU for working together on - Food & Agriculture

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research- ICAR & Council of Scientific & Industrial Research- CSIR have signed an MoU to collaborate in the area of food & agriculture.
Memorandum of Understanding

• Both Indian Council of Agricultural Research & Council of Scientific & Industrial Research will effort
  together on jointly agreed areas of agri-foods, medicinal & aromatic plants, nutraceuticals, accuracy
  agriculture, big information analysis, usage of artificial intelligence, genetic modifications in cotton,
  application of sensors in agriculture, post-harvest management & agricultural practises.
• The network of Krishi Vigyan Kendras of Indian Council of Agricultural Research would be utilised for technology demonstration & dissemination.
• The Memorandum of Understanding also proposes a joint working committee to thoughtful & formulate the collaborative programmes & will meet 4 times a year.
  Indian Council of Agricultural Research

ICAR is an autonomous organisation HQ at New Delhi & assists under the Department of Agricultural Research & Education, Ministry of Agriculture &Farmers Welfare. Earlier known as Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, it was recognized on 16th July 1929 as a listed society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 in enactment of the report of the Royal Commission on Agriculture.
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research was recognized by the Government of India in September of 1942 as an independent body under the Department of Science &Technology, Ministry of Science & Technology. Council of Scientific & Industrial Research activities cover a varied spectrum of science & technology from radio &  space physics, oceanography, geophysics, chemicals, drugs, genomics, biotechnology & nanotechnology to mining, aeronautics, instrumentation, environmental engineering & information technology.

Mahesh Elkunchwar to be honoured with META Lifetime Achievement Award on - 12th March 2019

Eminent Indian playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar has been selected for META Lifetime Achievement Award 2019. The award would be deliberated on March 12th during the Mahindra Theatre Festival.
Mahesh Elkunchwar
Mahesh Elkunchwar is stared as one of the progressive playwrights of the nation & is critically acclaimed & widely-renown for having experimented with an extensive range of drama & is considered a powerful force in both Indian & Marathi theatre.
Mahesh Elkunchwar is also a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship. He has more than 30
plays & essays in his credit including works including “Sultan”, “Holi”, “Garbo”, “Yatanaghar”, &  “Atmakatha”.
META Awards
The Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards- META, is intended at applauding the finest in theatre. The Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards were introduced by the Mahindra Group with the aim of becoming a noteworthy platform for celebrating this art. Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards recognizes theatre’s varied elements like playwriting, set, costume, light designing, direction & performance. More than 14 years since its inception, Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards has succeeded in forming a stage that represents the diverse understandings of this art form as understood in various regions of the nation.

India hosts Global Digital Health Partnership Summit at - New Delhi

The 4th Global Digital Health Partnership Summit being organised at New Delhi was initiated by the Union Health Minister J.P.Nadda in the company of Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad Union Minister of Law &  Justice & Electronics & IT.
The summit delivers an option to support government & health system reformers in refining the health & well-being of their residents through digital technologies. The Global Digital Health Partnership Summit is being hosted by the Ministry of Health &Family Welfare in association with the  World Health Organization & the Global Digital Health Partnership.
Global Digital Health Partnership

• The GDHP is a partnership of governments & territories, government firms & the  World Health Organization  intended at supporting the effective execution of Digital Health Services.
• The Global Digital Health Partnership was recognized in February 2018 to deliver an international
  platform for worldwide collaboration &sharing of evidence to direct the delivery of better digital health services within member nations.
• The Global Digital Health Partnership also delivers an opportunity for transformational engagement between its applicants, who are striving to learn & share best practice & policy that can support their Digital Health Systems.
• The secretariat services for the Global Digital Health Partnership are delivered by Australian Digital Health Agency for the initial 18 months.

ESIC payroll information suggests 2 crore jobs created in - 16 months

The Employees State Insurance Corporation payroll information published by the Central Statistical
Office proposes 2 crore jobs created in 16 months. The Employees State Insurance Corporation
information is one of payroll numbers released by the Central Statistics Office in its reports based on
individuals joining various social security schemes operated by Employees Provident Fund Organisation
& Pension Fund Regulatory Development Authority. The information shows that:
During September 2017 & December 2018, approximately 1.96 crore new subscribers joined the
scheme.
Employment produced in the prescribed sector almost tripled to touch 16 months high of 7.16 lakh in
December 2018 compared to 2.37 lakh in the last year.
About 72.32 lakh new users were added to social security schemes of the Employees Provident Fund
Organisation from September 2017 to December 2018.
An appraised number of new National Pension Scheme users during the period of September 2017 to
December 2018 is 966381.
The report issues different perspectives on the levels of employment in the official sector & does not measure employment at a holistic level.

India & Sweden to Increase Cooperation on - Anti-Microbial Resistance R&D

The Swedish Health Minister Lena Hallengren following the meeting with Union Health Minister
J.P.Nadda declared that  Anti-microbial Resistance is really dangerous & India as well as Sweden intend to boost teamwork to block it.
Cooperation to tackle Anti-Microbial Resistance

• India & Sweden have inked a MoU to conjoin in the field of various matters, including Anti-microbial Resistance, communicable diseases & public health On February 24th, 2009.
• Anti-microbial Resistance effort is an “continuing co-operation” between India & Sweden.
• There would be bilateral co-operation between organisations, between universities, institutions.
  Sweden expected that India would join the Alliance of Champions, which is a conception between many nations worldwide to face & to fight Anti-microbial Resistance.
  Alliance of Champions
  The Alliance of Champions was published by then Swedish Health Minister Gabriel Wikstrom at the
  2015 World Health Assembly. Alliance of Champions involved health ministers of 14 nations intended to promote “political awareness, engagement & leadership” on Anti-microbial Resistance.

Indian Space Research Organisation to launch electronic intelligence satellite ‘Emisat’ in - March 2019

The Indian Space Research Organisation would be releasing an electronic intelligence satellite ‘Emisat’ for Defence Research & Development Organisation in March 2019. 
In the special mission, Indian Space Research Organisation would also be releasing 28 3rd-party satellites & determine its new technologies like 3 different orbits with a new variant of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket.  The precise date of the mission has not been specified till date.
Important Highlights

• Indian Space Research Organisation would be using a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket with 4 strap-on motors. For the 1st time, it will be trying to orbit the rocket at 3 different altitudes.
• The main passenger of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket will be Defence Research & Development Organisation's electronic intelligence satellite Emisat that alone weighs about 420 kilograms.
• The residual 28 satellites would cumulatively weigh about 250 kilograms.
• After launching Emisat at an altitude of 763 kilometres, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket will be brought down to put the 28 satellites into orbit at an altitude of 504 kilometres.
• After that the rocket will be brought down further to 485 kilometres where the 4th stage will turn into a payload platform carrying 3 experimental payloads.
• The experimental freights comprise 1 developed by the students of Indian Institute of Space Science &  Technology, Indian Space Research Organisation's own technology demonstrator & a Hamsat.

National Cancer Institute at Jhajjar a part of AIIMS Delhi & AIIMS Rewari to come up as - 22nd AIIMS in nation

The National Cancer Institute at Jhajjar, Haryana, which was freshly dedicated to the nation by PM Narendra Modi, is an integral part of All India Institutes of Medical Sciences- AIIMS, New Delhi. This tertiary healthcare institute keen for cancer care is the 2nd campus of the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences Delhi only. 
 
Constructed at a cost of Rupees 2035 crores, National Cancer Institute is the largest investment done by the Government in a single hospital project & embraces the unique distinction of being one of the jumbo healthcare projects to be accomplished in a record time of three years.
National Cancer Institute

• The National Cancer Institute will have 710 patient beds keen for cancer prevention, treatment, research & education. 
• It will be fitted with cutting edge technology & shall have Twenty-five OTs, Five Linear Accelerators, Four PET Scanners, Three Brachy-therapy, Two CT Scanners, Two MRI Machines & much more. 
• India’s 1st public sector “Robotic Core Clinical Laboratory” has also been recognized at National Cancer Institute at a cost of Rupees 15 crores. This Laboratory can accomplish more than 60,000 tests in a day & has the capability to give reports in 2 hours. 
• It will have advance digital integration of Hospital Critical Care Systems & door to discharge without paper patient records.
• It will emphasise on translational research on India Specific Cancers which shall enable primary detection of cancers & better treatment results.
• Various nations including United States, France, United Kingdom, etc., have entered into research alliances with National Cancer Institute.
• It has also cooperated with Department of AYUSH for research into the role of Indian Systems of Medicine in prevention & cure of cancer.