ASSAM

• Assam yet to contact Kerala on flood-hit migrant workers

• Faced with ‘unprecedented’ destruction caused to human lives and property by flood, the Kerala government has chalked out special plans to rescue and repatriate the migrant workers, which include nearly 60,000 from Assam.

• Ironically, the Assam government does not have any up-to-date statistics on such workers who had left the State for better employment opportunities outside, contrary to the laid down rules.

• Assam contributes the second highest manpower to the ‘God’s own country’, second only to West Bengal. These migrant workers are mostly engaged in the tourism sector.

INTERNATIONAL

·        World Bank to issue world’s first blockchain bond

• The World Bank has mandated the Commonwealth Bank of Australia(CBA) to issue the world’s first blockchain-based bond.
• The Kangaroo bond, referring to foreign bonds issued in Australia in the local currency, has been named bond-i, an acronym standing for Blockchain Offered New Debt Instrument. (It’s also a reference to Bondi Beach, an iconic spot in Sydney.

• BBC’s Women Who Changed the World List: Marie Curie Topped

• BBC History Magazine conducted a poll of 100 women who changed the world. Marie Curie voted the woman who made the most significant impact on world history.
• Women from several fields in areas like politics, science, sports, technology, and literature were shortlisted.
• Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel prize in physics, a first female professor at the University of Paris and also the first person to win a second Nobel prize.

NATIONAL

• Pune best city to live in, Bengaluru ranked 58^th

• Bengaluru does not figure even in the top 25 Indian cities in the Ease of Living Index, which rates Pune as the best city to live in.

• Bengaluru was rated 58th among major cities surveyed to assess living conditions of urban areas in the country.

• Navi Mumbai bagged the second place followed by Greater Mumbai. Temple town Tirupati was ranked fourth in the country.

• The survey was commissioned by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in 111 major cities.

·        WSO alleged against the fencing that poses threat to wildlife

• Forest departmenthas installed barbed wire fencing for its plantation projects causing a threat to movement of wildlife, especially elephants. The Wildlife Society of Orissa (WSO), an environmental pressure group, has expressed its concern by suggesting the Forest department to use green fences comprising bamboo and Amari (Ipomoea Carnea) instead of the artificial barricades like barbed wire
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