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Kerala records best tourist arrivals in 24 yrs in 2019, earns Rs 45,010 cr Total earnings from tourism stood at Rs 45,010.69 crore, a 24.14% increase from 2018 Current Affairs :Kerala a year ago recorded its most elevated development rate in the travel industry in over two decades, pulling in around 1.96 crore household and remote guests after “shocking, extraordinary floods”. Complete income from the travel industry remained at Rs 45,010.69 crore, a 24.14 percent expansion from 2018. The complete number of vacationers was pegged at 1,95,74,004, of whom there were 1,83,84,233 residential travelers and 11,89,771 guests from abroad. In 2018, the quantity of visitors visiting Kerala was 1,67,01,068 (residential voyagers 1,56,04,661 and remote sightseers 10,96,407). The development rate in the inflow of household voyagers was 17.81 percent while for the outside traveler appearances, it was 8.52 percent. “We have ricocheted back with extraordinary life in the wake of enduri...

ED finds 'financial link' between PFI and CAA protests; organisation denies The sources said a total amount of Rs 120 crore, credited to bank accounts linked to the PFI, are under the ED’s scanner Current Affairs :The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has discovered that the ongoing rough fights in Uttar Pradesh and different pieces of the nation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) had an affirmed “money related connection” with the Kerala-based Popular Front of India (PFI), a case named as “unjustifiable” by the association. Official sources said on Monday that the government test office, which is exploring the PFI under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) since 2018, has discovered that at any rate Rs 1.04 crore were saved in a few financial balances connected to the association between December 4 a year ago and January 6 this year in different pieces of the nation. This was when Parliament passed the law to allow citizenship to non-Muslims who were ...

Kerala govt bans manufacturing, sale of single-use plastic from January 1 As per the decision, plastic manufacturers, wholesalers and small sellers who violate the law can be fined Rs 10,000 for the first time and Rs 25,000 for violating the law again Current Affairs :Kerala Government, in a bureau meeting led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday, chose to boycott the assembling, deal and capacity of single-utilize plastic items from January 1, 2020. “Exacting move will be made against the individuals who abuse the Prohibition Act, 1986. Authorities, Sub-Divisional Magistrates, Pollution Control Board Officers, Local Government Secretaries and Central Government delegated authorities under the Environmental Protection Act are qualified for make a move,” the administration said in a discharge. According to the choice, plastic makers, wholesalers and little merchants who damage the law can be fined Rs 10,000 just because and Rs 25,000 for disregarding the law onc...

Kerala govt approves Rs 1,548-crore fiber optic network project The project, to be completed by December 2020, is expected to help the country’s IT industry and open major opportunities in the fields of artificial intelligence, blockchain, and startups Current Affairs :The Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday affirmed a Rs 1,548-crore fiber-optic system undertaking to give free rapid web association with around 2 million families in the state. The Kerala government has just vowed to make web get to a ‘resident’s correct’. The fiber-optic system task will be finished by December 2020, as indicated by a state government articulation. The Kerala Fiber Optic Network (KFON) venture is a community oriented activity of the state’s capacity utility Kerala State Electricity Board and Kerala State IT Infrastructure Ltd. The fiber-optic system venture was required to help the nation’s IT industry and open significant open doors in the fields of man-made brainpower, blockchain, and new com...

Monsoon mayhem: Nearly 1,900 dead in rains, floods across the nation Twenty-two districts in Gujarat were hit during the monsoon season Current Affairs  :- About 1,900 individuals lost their lives and another 46 were accounted for missing this rainstorm season in downpours and floods which influenced in excess of 25 lakh in 22 states, Union Home Ministry authorities said on Friday. The most noteworthy 382 individuals kicked the bucket in Maharashtra, trailed by 227 passings in West Bengal in downpours, floods and avalanches that hit upwards of 357 locale in the nation. As indicated by the authorities, 738 individuals were harmed and almost 20,000 creatures were lost. The overwhelming downpours and floods completely harmed 1.09 lakh houses, mostly harmed 2.05 lakh houses and annihilated 14.14 lakh hectares of yields. An aggregate of 1,874 individuals kicked the bucket, an authority said. In spite of the fact that storm stays dynamic in a couple of parts of the na...

Kerala floods: Rahul writes to RBI Governor Das, seeks relief for farmers Kerala has witnessed the worst floods in over a century C urrent Affairs :- Congress pioneer Rahul Gandhi has kept in touch with RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, asking that the ban on reimbursement of harvest credits be stretched out to December 31 for ranchers in Kerala in the wake of floods in the state. The loss of life in the Kerala floods is 95, according to government figures, and over 1.89 lakh individuals uprooted by the storm since August 8 have taken asylum in 1,118 camps, some of which were visited by Gandhi, the Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad, on Monday. In a letter to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) representative, Gandhi said Kerala has seen the most noticeably terrible floods in over a century and the staggering effect of the storm is additionally intensified by the powerlessness of ranchers to reimburse farming credits by virtue of across the board crop misfortune, and broad harm to other ...

Delay in monsoon pushes rainfall deficiency to 45% in first 9 days of June The rainfall deficiency in June could be higher due to the sluggish pace of the monsoon and a weak El Niño, a phenomenon associated with heating of Pacific waters Current Affairs :-A postponement in the entry of rainstorm has driven the nation’s precipitation insufficiency in the initial nine days of June to 45 percent, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Rainstorm made a beginning over Kerala on June 8, seven days after its ordinary entry date. This has additionally postponed its entry in various pieces of the nation. The nation got just 17.7 millimeters of precipitation as against the typical precipitation of 32.4 millimeters, which comes to around 45 percent, it said. The precipitation inadequacy in June could be higher because of the languid pace of the rainstorm and a frail El Niño, a marvel related with warming of Pacific waters. An on-going cyclonic dissemination in the Arabian ...