ETEN Enlightens-Daily current capsules (Prelims Prominence) – 20thJan 2018
Ministry of Electronics & IT
MEITY launches Cyber Surakshit Bharat to strengthen Cybersecurity
The first public-private partnership of its kind in India
The best brains in both the government and corporate sector to come
together to ensure a safe a secure cyberspace
Implementing Ministry
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY),
announced the Cyber Surakshit Bharat initiative in association with
National e-Governance Division (NeGD)
Why
To spread awareness about cybercrime and building capacity for safety
measures for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and frontline
IT staff across all government departments,
Cyber Surakshit Bharat
Cyber Surakshit Bharat will be operated on the three principles of
Awareness, Education and Enablement.
It will include an awareness program on the importance of cybersecurity;
a series of workshops on best practices and enablement of the officials
with cybersecurity health tool kits to manage and mitigate cyber threats.
First Public – Private Partnership -
Cyber Surakshit Bharat is the first public-private partnership of its kind
and will leverage the expertise of the IT industry in cybersecurity.
The founding partners of the consortium are leading IT
companies Microsoft, Intel, WIPRO, Redhat and Dimension Data.
Additionally, knowledge partners include Cert-In, NIC, NASSCOM and
the FIDO Alliance and premier consultancy firms Deloitte and EY.
Cyber Surakshit Bharat
aims to conduct a series of training programs in the next six months across Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai.
The audience will include CISOs and technical officials from:
The central government
State governments and Union Territories
Public Sector Banks
Public Sector Units
Defense forces, defense PSUs and technical arms of the Air Force, Army and Navy
INTERNATIONAL BODIES
India admitted to Australia Group
Australian Group –
Aims to prevent proliferation of biological and chemical weapons,
would ensure a more secure world.
The Australia Group decided to admit India as its 43rd participant.
India’s membership would help to counter the “spread of materials,
equipment and technologies that could contribute to the development or
acquisition of chemical/biological weapons.”
The entry is a show of support from the international community for
India’s non-proliferation records.
India’s entry into the Australia Group shows India’s export controls and
safeguards for biological and chemical agents, equipments and
technologies meet the benchmarks established by the international
community.
India joined the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) in 2016
and the Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) last year.
India is now a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime
(MTCR), the Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) as well as AG, three of four
non-proliferation regimes. The only one remaining is the Nuclear
Suppliers Group (NSG). India has managed entry into all three groups
despite not being a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and
despite China's attempts to stonewall its bid to enter the NSG.
Significantly, China, which stonewalled India's entry into the 48-nation
NSG is not a member of the WA or the MTCR, both of which play a
significant role in promoting transparency and greater responsibility in
transfers of conventional arms and dual-use goods and technologies.
Since its civil nuclear deal with the US, India has been trying to get into
export control regimes such as the NSG, the MTCR, the Australia Group
and the Wassenaar Arrangement that regulate the conventional, nuclear,
biological and chemicals weapons and technologies.
Enlighten about MTCR –
Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), an informal and voluntary
partnership among 35 countries that regulates trade in sensitive
equipment and technologies to ensure there is no proliferation of missile
and unmanned aerial vehicle technology capable of carrying payloads
above 500kg for more than 300km.
India had joined it in June 2017.
Enlighten about Wassenaar Arrangement
India had joined Wassenaar Arrangement, which is also an informal
grouping of 42 countries, exercising control over the export of dual-use
goods and technologies in December 2017.
Now, NSG, which controls the export of sensitive nuclear technologies
and equipment, with the aim of preventing nuclear weapons’
proliferation is only export control group that India is not part of.
China has repeatedly blocking India’s entry in NSG.
Significantly, China is not member of Wassenaar Arrangement, MTCR
and Australia Group.
Enlighten about Australia Group
It is multilateral export control regime (MECR) and informal group that
works to counter spread of materials, equipment and technologies that
could contribute to development or acquisition of chemical and
biological weapons (CBW) by states or terrorist groups through
harmonisation of export controls.
It was established in 1985.
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Office of profit
Election Commission (EC) recommended to President Ram Nath Kovind
that 20 of AAP MLAs be disqualified for holding offices of profit.
The EC’s counsel is binding on the President.
The controversy was triggered when 21 AAP MLAs were appointed
Parliamentary Secretaries in March 2015.
The Delhi government then introduced an amendment to the Delhi
Members of Legislative Assembly (Removal of Disqualification) Act,
exempting the post from the definition of “office-of-profit.”
President Pranab Mukherjee rejected the amendment in June 2015.
Advocate Prashant Patel then petitioned the President seeking the MLAs’
disqualification.
The plea was then referred to the EC.
DEFENCE
Navy's All-Woman Crew Aboard INSV Tarini Crosses Cape Horn,
Roughest Stretch Of Water
It was termed as "historic" when an all-woman Indian Navy team set sail
for one of the toughest feats -- a global circumnavigation trip - in
September last year.
A the six-member crew of the tiny sailboat Indian Naval Sailing Vessel
INS Tarini has successfully crossed the notoriously rough Drake
Passage, as they rounded Cape Horn off the Southern tip of South
America, sometimes called the Mount Everest of sailing. They hoisted
the tricolour as they raced towards Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands.
Cape Horn
Ministry of Corporate Affairs
The National CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Data Portal and
Corporate Data Portal.
The National CSR Data Portal will capture information on CSR activities
carried out by eligible companies
The CSR portal contains all filed information, which can generate
predefined reports with respect to expenditure across states, districts and
development sectors adding
By making the portals accessible to general public, it will ensure high level
of compliance and also in institutionalising and consolidating the CSR
activities.
The open access to data is expected to help researchers, improve quality
of data filed by companies as well as involve intended beneficiaries in
giving valuable feedback to companies.
It will help in institutionalising and consolidating the CSR activities
The ease with which corporate data is available online had put pressure
on companies to ensure compliance.
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National CSR Data Portal and Corporate Data Portal
The National CSR Data Portal will capture information on CSR activities
carried out by eligible companies.
While the Corporate Data Portal aims at making all the financial and non-
financial information of the companies available in a user friendly format
to the general public
DEFENCE
Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC-1) Vikrant
IAC-I is expected to join the Navy in October 2020
The Indian Navy is confident of commissioning Indigenous Aircraft
Carrier (IAC-1) Vikrant, currently under construction at Kochi
The Navy’s Republic Day contingents. The theme of this year’s Navy
tableau is centred around a model of Vikrant being built at the shipyard.
Enlighten about Vikrant -
Vikrant borrows its name from India’s first aircraft carrier, the 20,000-
tonne INSVikrant purchased from the U.K.
India currently operates the 44,500-tonne INSVikramaditya procured
from Russia.
Like INSVikramaditya, Vikrant too would employ the STOBAR (Short
Take-Off But Arrested Recovery) mechanism with a ski-jump and
arrestor cables to launch and recover aircraft.
It can operate 20 fighter jets and 10 other aircraft. The Mig-29K fighters
currently in service with the Navy would also be on the deck of Vikrant.
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