Currency Monitoring List is maintained by Department of Treasury, USA.
The countries are placed in this list which have potentially questionable foreign exchange policies.
India was placed for the first time in April this year, in this list.
The other countries in the list are China, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Switzerland.
In the latest report by department of treasury, it highlighted that India could be removed from the list citing India’s foreign exchange market intervention and current account deficit.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has noted that the value of the rupee is broadly market-determined, with intervention used only during "episodes of undue volatility”.
IMF projects that India’s current account deficit to be around 2.5% of GDP over the medium term.
Women of India Organic Festival
The Ministry of Women and Child Development is organizing the 5th edition of the Women of India Organic Festival in New Delhi.
It is the country's largest organic festival.
The festival is aimed to boost organic culture and promote women organic farmers and entrepreneurs.
C-FLOWS
C-FLOWS (Chennai FLOod Warning System) is developed by National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR) and IIT Madras.
It is a flood warning system customised for use in Chennai and soon going to be developed for other cities.
It can predict flooding due to heavy rainfall, sea-level rise and increase in water levels of the rivers that traverse the city.
Data from IMD, NCMRWF, INCOIS and Tamil Nadu State government are brought together to observe the situation in real time.
Baishui Glacier
The glacier is in China and it is one of the world’s fastest melting glaciers.
It is located in the Third Pole of the Earth, a region in Central Asia with the world’s third largest store of ice after Antarctica and Greenland.
Third Pole glaciers are vital to billions of people from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
Asia’s 10 largest rivers, including the Yangtze, Yellow, Mekong, and Ganges are fed by seasonal melting third pole glaciers.
The melting of this glacier attracts large number of tourists.
Scientists have already warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are gradually becoming increasingly serious for China.
Marigold – Colour of Sacrifice
Marigold flower is chosen as the symbol of remembrance for Indian soldiers martyred in World War I.
The world marks the centenary of the end of the First World War on November 11.
The United Service Institution of India (USI) and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) have launched ‘India Remembers’ project.
It aims to project and to remember, honour and commemorate the valour and sacrifice of personnel of the Indian Armed Forces in conflicts, both before and after independence.
It proposes that the Marigold flower join the poppy as a new Indian symbol of remembrance.
After the WW-I, poppy was adopted as the symbol of remembrance as it grew widely in the Flanders fields in Europe.
In India, the India Gate was built as the focal point to the Remembrance with the names of over 72,000 soldiers inscribed over it.
The government and the Army have to formally adopt the marigold to make it an official effort.
