26th Dec Daily current affairs for UPSC Civil Service Exam 2017

e-HRMS

• Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions recently launched electronic-Human Resource Management System (e-HRMS).
• e-HRMS is an  online platform for central government employees to apply for leave and access their service-related information.
• It will also help the employees to apply for different kind of claims/reimbursements, loan/advances etc on a single platform.
• The e-service book which is already in service for DoPT employees for accessing the service-related details of an employee will also be integrated in to the e-HRMS.

City Logo

• Bengaluru becomes the first Indian City to have a logo on its own.
• With this initiative of Karnataka Government, the city joins New York, Melbourne and Singapore.
• The logo, ‘Be U’, is a mix of typography in English and Kannada. The first part of the logo is in English and the rest in Kannada.

Ripple and Petro

• Ripple is a technology that acts as both a cryptocurrency and a digital payment network for financial transactions.
• It was released in 2012 and its coin is labeled as XRP.
• Ripple operates on an open source and peer-to-peer decentralized platform that allows for a seamless transfer of money in any form, whether USD, Yen, litecoin, or bitcoin.
• It is the fourth-largest cryptocurrency in the world by market capital, which now stands at around $43 billion.
• Petro is a cryptocurrency launched by Venezuela backed by oil reserves.
• It is mainly to shore the collapsed oil economy.
• Venezuela’s real currency “Bolivar” is in freefall, and the country is sorely lacking in basic needs like food and medicine.

Design University

• India's first and only design university “World University of Design” was recently opened at Sonipat, Haryana.
• It is situated on NH1 in Rajiv Gandhi Education City (NCR) in Sonipat, the largest planned integrated city for education in India.
• The university has international collaborations with foreign universities like University of West Scotland, the Vancouver Film School, and the Italian University of Design.

The State of the World’s Children 2017

• The report on “The State of the World’s Children 2017” was recently released by UNICEF.
• It accesses the status of “Children in the Digital Economy”.
• It has a tagline, “For every Child | a digital Bridge, for every Child | digital parity, for every children | digital safety and for every Child | digital care”.
• It has highlighted that around 3 out of 5 youth in Africa are offline, compared to just 1 in 25 in Europe.
• It says that the online gender gap is growing. Globally there are 12 per cent more men than women online, and the gap is greatest in low-income countries.

World Migration Report 2018

• International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the UN migration agency has recently published “World Migration Report 2018” during IOM council, held at Geneva.
• This report is the ninth in IOM’s World Migration Report (WMR) series and the first since IOM became the UN Migration Agency.
• IOM is an inter-governmental organization, established in 1951.
• It works in the field of migration with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners.
• The organisation has 166 member countries (including India) and 8 observer states.
• It aims to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants in need, including refugees and internally displaced people.
• IOM works to ensure the humane management of migration by providing services and advice to governments and migrants, and promote international cooperation on migration issues.

Champion State

• Union Government has recently recognized Odisha as a 'Champion State' for recording the highest growth in exports during 2016-17.
• Odisha’s export volume has been increased from Rs 19, 082 crores in 2015-16 to Rs 40,872 crores in 2016-17.
• The growth of exports has a direct positive impact on the enhancement of employment and livelihood opportunity.

Source: PIB, BusinessLine, Economic Times