Daily Current Affairs for July 6-9,2018 ( English)
Important Days:
1. July 7 - The International Day of Cooperatives (IDC) was
observed on first Saturday of July across the world
to promote co-operative model as it contains core aspects of sustainable
development and is based on ethical values and principles. The 2018 theme of
the Day was ‘Sustainable societies through cooperation’.
National:
1. UNESCO
delegation has entered into an agreement with Andhra Pradesh Economic
Development Board (APEDB) is going to set up ‘Design University for Gaming’ in
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. For this
UNESCO has requested State Government to provide 100 acres of land in Visakhapatnam
for developing the city as International Gaming and Digital Learning Hub. It
will help UNSECO to develop edutech gaming in state, with the target of
providing 50,000 jobs in 10 years.
2. The Law
Commission of India (LCI) has recommended that gambling and betting on sports
be allowed as regulated activities in its report “Legal Framework: Gambling and
Sports Betting including Cricket in India”. It
recommended number of changes in law for regulating betting for making it
taxable under direct and indirect tax regimes and used as source for attracting
foreign direct investment (FDI).
3. The entire
animal kingdom i.e. all animals, including avian and aquatic species as legal
entities with rights, duties and liabilities of living person .This declaration was made by the Uttarakhand High Court
Bench consists of Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Lok Pal.
4. The Supreme
Court ruled that the Chief Justice of India is the ‘Master of Roster’ who has
the authority to decide on allocation of cases. The ruling was given by a bench comprising Chief
Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud. CJI is an individual judge and not the powerful collective of
five senior-most judges of Supreme Court called the ‘Collegium’. CJI has
exclusive authority to allocate cases to fellow judges and is spokesperson of
the court.
5. A mandatory dope
test for all government employees, including police personnel, from the time of
their recruitment through every stage of their service has ordered by Punjab CM
Captain Amarinder Singh. Drug screening
will be mandatory in cases of promotions, and also be a part of annual medical
examinations.
6. The study conducted by researchers from US based Earth
Institute, Columbia University and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
recommended that Indian farmers can make a big switch from growing rice and
wheat to alternative cereals such as maize, sorghum and millet, it could reduce demand for irrigation water by 33%. This
could also improve nutritional availability to consumers.
7. Satyarup Siddhanta has become second Indian mountaineer after
Malli Mastan Babu to climb Mt Ojos del Salado (6893 m), the highest volcano in
the world. He is certified mountaineer from Himalayan
Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling. He has skied last degree to South Pole by
covering distance of 111 km. In December 2017 he summited Vinson Massif,
becoming only fifth Indian civilian to complete the seven summits (Messner’s
List).
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8. India’s most popular competitive exams, Joint Entrance
Examination (JEE) (Main) and National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) will
now be held twice a year and over multiple days. This announcement was announced by the Union Ministry of
Human Resource Development (HRD). Both exams will be conducted by newly formed
National Testing Agency (NTA). It will also conduct National Eligibility Test
(NET).
9. The 67th plenary meeting of North Eastern Council (NEC)
chaired by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh was recently held in Shillong,
Meghalaya. The meeting was attended by
Union Minister of Development of NER and Governors and Chief Ministers of
the north-eastern States. The meeting discussed development projects of
Northeast States.
10. The Uttar Pradesh Government has granted Status of
Revenue Village to three villages inhabited by the Tongia Scheduled Tribe in
and around forests in Saharanpur district under the Forest Rights Act, 2006
(FRA). The granting of Revenue Status to villages
means that these villages will now come under the revenue department instead of
forest department. The Forest Rights Act, 2006 has a provision for turning
forest villages into revenue villages so that civic facilities reach these
areas. These villages
are - Kaluwala, Sodhinagar and Bhagwatpur.
11. The Himachal Pradesh government issued a fresh notification
banning the use of thermocol cutlery across the state on July 7, 2018. This announcement was made by state’s Chief Minister
Jai Ram Thakur on the occasion of the World Environment Day on June 5. The government has issued fresh
notification reiterating that no person including shopkeepers, vendors,
wholesalers, retailers, hawkers, rehriwalas will use thermocol cutlery in any
form manufactured from non-biodegradable material as listed in Schedule under
Himachal Pradesh Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act, 1995.
12. The Haryana government announced on July 7, 2018 that it has
decided to enrol family members of nomadic tribes so no person living in the
state remain deprive of an Aadhaar card. Under the
campaign, 20 Aadhaar enrolment kits would be provided in the three
sub-divisions of Gurugram to all nomadic tribe 'bastis'. A special enrolment campaign for
nomadic tribes is being run till July 10 in all 22 districts.
13. The Telangana government has allotted 200 acres to three
different women entrepreneurs' associations in the state. It has
allocated 50 acres to FLO at Sultanpur, 30 acres to Confederation of Women
Entrepreneurs (COWE) at Toopran and 120 acres to the Association of Lady
Entrepreneurs of India (ALEAP) and also 10 per cent of land in all the 140
various industrial parks in the state are earmarked for women entrepreneurs.
14. The Haryana Excise and Taxation Department has identified a
total of 6,091 value-added tax (VAT) dealers in the state having arrears over
Rs 5 lakh and uploaded the photographs of the defaulters on its website. The
action has been taken on the directions of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)
in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) 2012-13. It was also suggested by the PAC
that the names of these defaulters should be published in the newspapers.
International:
1. An accountability court in Pakistan on July 6, 2018 sentenced
ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison in one of the three
corruption cases against him in the high-profile Panama Papers scandal. His daughter Maryam was sentenced to seven years and
son-in-law Captain (retired) Safdar was sentenced one year
imprisonment. While Nawaz Sharif was fined 10 million dollar, his daughter
Maryam was handed down a 2.6 million dollar fine. The ruling came weeks before
the general elections of Pakistan that are scheduled to be held on July 25.
2. US $6.69 billion dollar budget for 13 peacekeeping operations
for year 2018-19 has approved by the Fifth Committee (Administrative and
Budgetary) of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The budget approved for missions include MINUJUSTH (UN
Mission for Justice Support in Haiti), MINUSCA (Multidimensional Integrated
Stabilisation Mission in Central African Republic), MINURSO (Mission for
Referendum in Western Sahara), MONUSCO (Stabilisation Mission in Democratic
Republic of the Congo) and UNIFIL (Interim Force in Lebanon).
3. The 17th World
Sanskrit Conference was held at Vancouver, Canada from 9th July to 13th July,
2018. It was inaugurated by Human Resource
Development Minister Prakash Javadekar. So far it has been held thrice in
India. The World Sanskrit Conference is being held in various countries across
the globe once in every three years under the auspices of the
International Association of Sanskrit Studies. The purpose of this conference
was to promote, preserve and practice Sanskrit language all over world by the
people.
4. The sixth
edition of biennial World Cities Summit was jointly organised by Singapore’s
Centre for Liveable Cities and Urban Redevelopment Authority was held in
Singapore from July 8 to 12, 2018. Its theme
was “Liveable & Sustainable Cities: Embracing the Future through Innovation
and Collaboration. The summit was held together with Singapore International
Water Week and CleanEnviro Summit Singapore.
5. Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and his Bhutanese counterpart Dasho Tshering Tobgay during their
meeting in New Delhi agreed to take the exemplary bilateral partnership to new
heights for benefit of the people of both the countries. Both
leaders expressed happiness over the commemoration of Golden Jubilee of the
establishment of formal diplomatic relations between India and Bhutan.
6. US officials
have ordered DNA tests on '3,000' detained children who remain separated from
their migrant parents in an effort to reunite families at the centre of a
border crisis. The Department of Health and Human Services, HHS
is doing DNA testing to confirm parentage accurately. The department is seeking to meet a
court- imposed deadline of next Tuesday to reunite some 100 detained children
less than five years of age.
7. Regular citizens
and NGOs will have the right to sue polluting companies in civil courts, as per
a new bill proposal approved on July 8, 2018 by the Israeli Ministerial
Committee for Legislation. Israel suffered two significant pollution
disasters in nature reserves during recent years, where Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline
Co and Israel Chemical Ltd were held accountable. The Israeli government hopes the new bill will put
more pressure and deterrence toward big companies that do not care about the
state supervision against pollution.
Science & Technology:
1. ‘Khan Prahari’ –
a mobile Application and Coal Mine Surveillance & Management System (CMSMS)
has launched by the Union Ministry of Coal. ‘Khan Prahari is atool used for reporting any
activity taking place related to illegal coal mining like rat hole mining,
pilferage etc. Using it, one can upload geo-tagged photographs of incident
along with textual information directly to system. The CMSMS is web based GIS
application through which location of sites for unauthorised mining can be
detected. Its objective is reporting, monitoring and taking suitable action on
unauthorised coal mining activities. The CMSMS and the mobile app have been
developed by CMPDI, Ranchi a Subsidiary of CIL and Bhaskarcharya Institute of
Space Application and Geo-informatics (BISAG).
2. The test of Crew
Escape System that provides escape mechanism for astronauts if the launch
operation is aborted has successfully conducted by ISRO. The crew escape system is being developed as part of
the he proposed human spaceflight programme. India at present does not have
human space flight programme. Only three countries United States of America
(USA), Russia and China have human space flight programmes. The only Indian
scientist to ever travel to space was fighter pilot Rakesh Sharma who flew
aboard Soyuz T-11 (spacecraft of former USSR) in 1984.
3. The Centre of
Excellence for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (CoE-DSAI) has opened
by Indian IT industry apex body NASSCOM (National Association of Software &
Services Companies) in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The centre aims to support small and mid-sized businesses
(SMB) by fast-tracking their product developing, providing market access and
assist them by co-creating programs along with other industry partners and
start-ups.
4. Saathi - a mobile help centre to reach out to people
undertaking annual pilgrimage to 3,880-metre high holy cave shrine of Amarnath
has launched by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). It will provide help and information to yatris staying in
camps outside the Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu. This will be in addition
to security provided by CRPF to the yatra routes. In addition, they will
also provide first aid treatment to people in need and would also be
distributing medicines.
Defence:
1. Six global
aircraft manufacturers have responded Indian Air Force’s (IAF) Request for
Information (RFI) to supply 110 fighter aircrafts to replace its ageing fleet
of MiG-21s and MiG-27s, which are being phased out of service. The bids now will be evaluated after which IAF will
issue Request For Proposal (RFP) with exact specifications of aircraft to be
procured. The RFP is expected by early 2019. It has not specified exact
requirement of fighter jets, opening up contest to both single-and twin-engine
jets.
First in State/ India/
World:
1. First Internet
telephony service Wings in India to be rolled out from August 1, 2018 is going
to launch by the state-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
(BSNL). To use the service of Internet telephony through
Wings, customer needs to install soft app on any of its smart devices (like
smart mobile handset/tablet/ laptop) having internet to make and receive calls
from anywhere in India and abroad with any party (mobile/landline). Through
wings, customer can make or receive calls by using internet service of any
operator. It also launched prepaid initiative in its landline offerings and a
rent free landline connection for existing subscribers.
2. Samsung has
opened the world's largest mobile factory in Noida, India. The factory will be officially inaugurated by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and visiting South Korean President Moon Jae-in on July
9, 2018. The factory
inauguration marks the first-ever state visit of South Korean President Moon
Jae-in. The South Korean President will be accompanied by first lady Kim
Jung-sook, senior cabinet members, officials as well as industry captains.
Economy:
1. ‘GST Verify’ - a
mobile app to protect interest of consumers has developed by the Central Board
of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC). It has
been developed by B Raghu Kiran joint commissioner GST Hyderabad and can be
used all across the country. It will allow customers to verify their bill if
any GST amount mentioned is of genuinely registered person or not. This will
help consumers to save the amount shown as tax from fraudster they are cheating
them.
2. The license to
Bank of China to launch operations in India has issued by the Reserve Bank of
India. With this, Bank of China becomes the second
Chinese bank after the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to have a branch
in India.
3. A ministerial
panel formed by the Goods and Services Tax Council on July 8, 2018 recommended
that there shall be no additional tax incentives for digital transactions for a
year, citing revenue considerations. The panel
headed by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Sushil Kumar Modi
said that it may think about the proposal of incentivising digital transaction
again after a year, once returns and GST revenues stabilise.
Appointments/Resignations:
1. Justice AK Goel has appointed as the new Chairperson of
National Green Tribunal (NGT) by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
(ACC). His appointment comes after he retired as
Supreme Court Judge. He will have tenure of five years from date he assumes
office or till he reaches age of 70 years, whichever is earlier.
2. Britain's Brexit minister David Davis has resigned two days after the cabinet approved a plan to retain
strong alignment with the European Union even after leaving the bloc.
3. Former Information and Broadcasting secretary Uday
Kumar Varma has been appointed as a member of the Broadcasting Content
Complaints Council, a self-regulatory body for general entertainment
channels.
Sports:
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