ODISHA
- Swipe card to pay traffic fines in Odisha
- The transport department will stop issuance of vehicle checking report (VCR) in manual form from November 1 and will opt for e-collection of all revenues.
- The department signed a memorandum of understanding with HDFC Bank for e-collection of all motor vehicles-related revenues.
- People will now be able to pay all kinds of motor vehicles taxes, fees and fines digitally in the offices of the State Transport Authority, the regional transport offices and also during spot checking by enforcement officials.
- The mobile e-challan device has been integrated with SARATHI and VAHAN database to generate the on-spot VCR. All enforcement officials will be able to generate the VCR on the spot and collect the compounding fees through digital payment.
INTERNATIONAL
- India ranks 147thin Oxfam world inequality index
- India has been ranked among the bottom 10 countries in a new worldwide indexon the commitment of different nations to reduce inequalities in their populations.
- UK-based charity Oxfam International’s ‘Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index’ ranks India 147th among 157 countries.
- The index is topped by Denmark, based on its high and progressive taxation, high social spending and good protection of workers.
· Researchers developed bio electronic medicine that helps nerve growth
- Researchers at the Washington University in the U.S. have developed the first bioelectronic medicine, an implantable, biodegradable wireless device. This device speeds nerve regeneration and improves the healing of a damaged nerve.
- The scientists developed a device that delivers regular pulses of electricity to damaged peripheral nerves in rats after a surgical repair process, accelerating the regrowth of nerves in their legs. About the size of a small coin, the wireless device operates for two weeks before getting absorbed into the body.
· India ranks 147th in Oxfam World Inequality Index 2018
- Oxfam International’s report, the UK-based charity, released Commitment to Reducing Inequality(CRI) Index. In the Index, India ranked 147th among 157 countries and was labelled as “a very worrying situation” with respect to the rising inequality in the country.
- Out of 157 countries measured, Denmark topped first based on its high and progressive taxation, high social spending and good protection of workers.
NATIONAL
- Soon file zero firs from on board trains
- Soon, passengers on board trains can lodge complain through a mobile app and it will be registered as ‘Zero FIR’ and immediately investigated by the RPF.
- A pilot project under which complaints of harassment, theft, crime against women can be lodged through a mobile application is already ongoing in Madhya Pradesh which will be replicated across the country soon.
- ZERO-FIR means that a FIR can be filed in any police station (i.e.: irrespective of place of incident/ jurisdiction) and the same can be later transferred to the appropriate police station.
- Currently, if there is an incident that 576 512">
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