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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nElon Reeve Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and\nbusinessman who founded X.com in 1999 (which later became PayPal), SpaceX in\n2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003. Musk became a multimillionaire in his late 20s\nwhen he sold his start-up company, Zip2, to a division of Compaq Computers.\nMusk made headlines in May 2012, when SpaceX launched a rocket that would send\nthe first commercial vehicle to the International Space Station. He bolstered\nhis portfolio with the purchase of SolarCity in 2016, and cemented his standing\nas a leader of industry by taking on an advisory role in the early days of US\nPresident Donald Trump\u2019s administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria,\nSouth Africa. As a child, Musk was so lost in his daydreams about inventions\nthat his parents and doctors ordered a test to check his hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At about the time of his parents\u2019 divorce, when\nhe was 10, Musk developed an interest in computers. He taught himself how to\nprogram, and when he was 12 he sold his first software: a game he created\ncalled Blastar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the Police Commissionerate System?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nOn January 13, 2020, the Government of Uttar\nPradesh announced that Lucknow and NOIDA were being converted into police\ncommissionerates with an ADG (Assistant Director General) level officer heading\nthe force. A commissionerate is a region\nadministered for policing by a Commissioner of Police (CP) and not by a\nSuperintendent of Police (SP). Rural areas are administered by SPs while some\nlarge cities are administered by CPs. A government of a state of the Union can\nnotify a city as a Police Commissionerate either through a notification or a\nbill. Executive notifications need to be ratified by the State Assembly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uttar Pradesh has taken the\nnotification route while states like Rajasthan had introduced bills in their\nLegislative Assemblies for this purpose. \nThe government opts for a Police Commissionerate system in a large city\nif it feels that population density, the general law and order situation, and\ncrime patterns are complex enough to warrant such a structure. IPS Officers\nSujit Pandey and Alok Singh were named on January 13, 2020 as the Police\nCommissioners of Lucknow and NOIDA respectively. Two new police stations each\nhave also been approved for the two cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The powers of the executive magistrate, such as\nissuing orders for preventive arrests or imposition of Section 144 CrPC, are\nvested in the district collector. Under the commissionerate system, the\nCommissioner does not report to the DM. In this system, the Police Commissioner\nexercises the judicial powers of the DM. It helps fix responsibility with the\nCommissioner of Police and eliminates a blame game between the civil\nadministration and the police when something goes wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When did China enter the elite $10,000 per capita\nGDP Club?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On January 17, 2020, the National Bureau of\nStatistics released data that China\u2019s per capita GDP has reached $10,276\nin 2019. This is the first time China\u2019s per capita GDP has crossed\nthe $10,000 level. The 2018 per capita GDP figure was $9,771,\nwhich gives a simple annual growth of 5.2% between 2018 and 2019. If\nthis growth rate continues, China could become a high income economy\u2014per capita\nGross National Income of $12,376 or more\u2014by 2023-24. So, by the time India\nbecomes a $5 trillion economy, China could become a high income country. India\nis growing at 4.5% per year. It needs to\ngrow by 10% every year to grow from a $3 trillion economy to a $5 trillion\neconomy in 2024. The Chinese economy accounts for almost 30% of the global GDP\ngrowth today. Both in terms of per capita GDP and global contribution to\ngrowth, China is now far ahead of India, although the gap has been narrowing in\nrecent years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where has the mysterious Coronavirus\nspread?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A mysterious SARS-like virus has\nspread across China\u2014including Beijing\u2014authorities said on January 17,\n2020, fuelling fears of a major outbreak as millions begin travelling for the\nlunar new year in humanity\u2019s biggest migration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new Coronavirus strain, discovered in the\ncentral city of Wuhan, has caused alarm because of its connection to severe\nacute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which had killed nearly 650 people across\nmainland China and Hong Kong in 2002-03.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wuhan has 11 million inhabitants and serves as a\nmajor transport hub, including during the annual lunar new year holiday which\nsees hundreds of millions of Chinese people travel across the country to visit\ntheir families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No human-to-human transmission has been\nconfirmed so far but authorities have previously said the possibility \u201ccannot\nbe excluded\u201d. A third person was confirmed to have died, and in Wuhan 136 new\ncases were found during the weekend of 18th and 19th of January, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three cases have been reported outside Chinese\nborders: two in Thailand and one in Japan. On January 20, 2020, media in South\nKorea said a woman who had travelled from China had tested positive for the\nvirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why did the Australian bushfires happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Australian bushfires happened due to climate\nchange. Australia\u2019s climate has warmed by more than one degree Celsius\nover the past century, causing an increase in the frequency and\nintensity of heatwaves and droughts. Heatwaves and droughts dry out the\nundergrowth and create conditions that increase the risk of bushfires. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bushfires in Australia are a widespread and\nregular occurrence that have contributed significantly to moulding the nature\nof the continent over millions of years. Eastern Australia is one of the most\nfire-prone regions of the world, and its predominant eucalypt forests have\nevolved to thrive on the phenomenon of bushfire. However, the blazes can cause\nsignificant property damage and loss of both human and animal life. Bushfires\nhave killed approximately 800 people in Australia since 1851 and millions\nof animals. The devastating 2019-2020 Australian Southern Hemisphere wildfire\n(when it was winter in the Northern Hemisphere) has wiped out over a billion\nanimals. It has become an unmitigated global biodiversity disaster since\nAustralia is an Island Continent and many of these species have evolved through\nDarwinian Evolution in Australia alone. They have not had the opportunity to\nadapt, diversify and interbreed outside Australia owing to its geographical\nisolation. Many of the billion dead animals are not found anywhere else on the\nplanet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How did the controlled detonation at Kochi\ntake place?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Demolition of Maradu flats in Kochi on the 11th\nand 12th of January 2020 has turned the spotlight on controlled explosions. The\nKochi demolitions have brought to the fore controlled implosion, a method that\nhas been used to raze buildings in the West for decades but is still relatively\nuncommon in India, thanks to lack of expertise and the availability of cheap\nlabour for alternative methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Step 1 of a controlled implosion, the\ntopography and surrounding areas are surveyed to determine whether the\nstructure might fall to one side or would it collapse in on itself. Obviously,\na controlled implosion is only planned when the initial survey determines that\nthe building will collapse in on itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Step 2, the building plan is studied in order\nto determine where the explosives can be placed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Step 3, toxic substances like asbestos,\ninflammable materials, glass and furniture are removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In\nStep 4, non load-bearing walls are removed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In\nStep 5, holes are drilled in columns and explosives are placed. The columns are\ncovered with geotextiles.\n\nIn Step 6, explosives go off in a sequence at strategic places in the\nbuilding. The structure then starts collapsing on itself. A thick cloud of dust\nand debris envelops the surrounding greenery and buildings. The whole operation\nis over in a matter of seconds. What took years to erect is reduced to rubble\nin the blink of an eye!\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Who is Elon Musk? Elon Reeve Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and businessman who founded X.com in 1999 (which later became PayPal), SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003. Musk became a multimillionaire in his late 20s when he sold his start-up company, Zip2, to a division of Compaq Computers. Musk made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}