Daily Current Affairs Capsule - 14th August 2018

Daily Current Affairs Capsule – 14th August 2018

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Appointed to post till May 2020.
He is an IAS officer (1992 batch) of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
PMFBY is a farmers’ welfare scheme launched in 2016
It replaced earlier two schemes National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (MNAIS) and Modified National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (MNAIS)
Under PMFBY, farmers need to pay uniform premium of only 2% for all Kharif crops and 1.5% for all Rabi crops.
In case of annual commercial and horticultural crops, farmers have to pay premium of only 5%.
There is no upper limit on Government subsidy, so farmers will get claim against full sum insured without any reduction.

Somnath Chatterjee was a senior politician, an eminent lawyer, multiple times MP and former Lok Sabha Speaker
He was associated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for most of his life.
He was the Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009

The Delhi High Court has asked the Centre why it has not yet notified the law to prevent discrimination against HIV and AIDS.
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) (Prevention and Control) Act, 2017 had received Presidential assent in April 2017.
But the centre has still not notified the above act.
About the Act: The Act prohibits discrimination against PLHIV in accessing healthcare, getting jobs, renting accommodation or in admission to public and private educational institutions.
Violation of the Act by publishing information about PLHIV or advocating hatred against them would attract imprisonment ranging from three months to two years or a maximum fine of ₹1 lakh or both

Pune, Navi Mumbai and Greater Mumbai are at the top of the Ease of Living Index.
This is the first Ease of Living Index of Indian cities
It is brought out by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
The national capital, New Delhi, is ranked 65 among 111 cities
Chennai is in 14th place.
Kolkata did not participate in the survey.
The other cities in the top ten: Tirupati, Chandigarh, Thane, Raipur, Indore, Vijayawada and Bhopal.
The three cities at the bottom of the rankings are: Rampur (last), Kohima and Patna

The Centre has made it mandatory for companies to disclose whether they have constituted an internal complaints committee (ICC) to probe such Sexual Harassment allegations.
The Corporate Affairs Ministry has amended the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014, governed by the Companies Act, 2013, making the disclosure compulsory.
Under the Sexual Harassment at Workplace Act, it is mandatory for any company with 10 or more employees to constitute an ICC.
An employer who doesn’t comply could face a fine of up to Rs. 50,000.
An internal complaints committee(ICC) should consist of a presiding officer, who is a woman employee at a senior level in the same organisation, at least two employees “preferably committed to the cause of women”, and a member from an NGO or a person “familiar with issues relating to sexual harassment.”

Researchers from the University of Chicago and Harvard Kennedy School have laid out five key evidence-based policy recommendations in a new report released titled ‘A Roadmap Towards Cleaning India’s Air’.
More than 660 million Indians live in areas that exceed the country’s standard for what is considered safe exposure to fine particulate pollution (PM 2.5).
To help improve India’s air quality, group recommends improving emissions monitoring by better aligning incentives of auditors, providing regulators with real-time data on polluters’ emissions, applying monetary charges for excess emissions, providing the public with information about polluters, and using markets to reduce abatement costs and pollution.
As per the report If India achieves its own air quality standards, life expectancy would increase by more than one year on an average
This number would increase to four years if India were to meet the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) norms.
Air pollution is causing hundreds of millions of people in India to lead shorter and sicker lives
Some of the greatest gains would be seen in big cities such as Delhi. There, people would live six years longer if air quality met the national standards.