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.
