TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - March 27, 2018 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.in 2018

TNPSC Current Affairs - March 2018 by TNPSC Guru

1.Host Country Agreement with ISA 

• India has signed Host Country Agreement with International Solar Alliance .
• The agreement will give ISA a juridical personality and gives it power to contract, to acquire and dispose  movable and immovable properties also to institute and defend legal proceedings
• It also provides privileges,  tax concessions and immunities for independently discharge its function and programmes.
• ISA becomes the first international intergovernmental treaty based organization is headquartered in India (Gwal Pahari, Gurgaon, Haryana). 

AboutInternational Solar Alliance (ISA): 

2.SWIFT expands tracking capabilities

Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) has said that it has expanded the GPI(Global Payment Innovation) Tracker system which helps bank to track its global transaction at all times and keep vigil on its payment activity.

Recently Reserve Bank of India has asked all banks to link its core banking solution with SWIFT(Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) interbank messaging system by April 30.

About SWIFT.

3.Brazzaville declaration on largest Peatland. 

• The Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo and Indonesia jointly signed the Brazzaville declaration to protect the world’s largest Peatland from unregulated land use, exploitation, degradation.
• This is world’s largest tropical Peatland, which stored equivalent of 3 years of global greenhouse emission in Congo Basin.
• The exploitation could result in release of 3 years equivalent Global Greenhouse emission in shorter period. 

About Peatlands

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4. “E-Tribes India”

The Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India, (TRIFED), has launched the “e-Tribes India website and app to sell all the products produced by tribes.

5.National Water Digest Award

Chhattisgarh wins the National 'Water Digest Award' for Water Conservation-Diversion and for increasing the irrigation capacity.