[CA] News - June 16, 2017

Around INDIA

# For the second time in six months, a motion to introduce proceedings to remove Justice C. V. Nagarjuna Reddy of the Hyderabad High Court has failed

# Centre has called for tripartite talks with West Bengal and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) on June 19 to end the current phase of violence in the hill district of Darjeeling; The GJM, however, told Union Home Minister Mr. Rajnath Singh that it would participate in the talks only if its demand for a separate State for Gorkhas was addressed.

# Union Minister for Environment, Mr. Harsh Vardhan will have a fresh consultation with environmental groups, scientists, and farmers’ bodies before taking a call on the release of GM (Genetically Modified) mustard

# Ministry of Culture launching the implementation of the ‘‘National Mission on Cultural Mapping of India’ at Goverdhan Block, Mathura District, Uttar Pradesh

# Union Home Minister Mr. Rajnath Singh chaired the Consultative Committee meeting of Members of Parliament attached to the Ministry of Home Affairs

TAMIL NADU

# The Madras High Chief Justice Just. Indira Banerjee made it clear that resolutions passed in grama sabha cannot be a bar to open a ASMAC shop in the locality

# Chief Minister, Mr. Edappadi K. Palaniswami conceded that he had recommended to the Prime Minister that the AIIMS hospital be set up at Sengipatti in Thanjavr Dt

# A slew of measures announced by Education Minister, Mr. K. A. Sengottayan in Assembly

STATES SCAN

# Gujarat: traders shut their shops against the imposition of GST

# Jammu & Kashmir: traders in the state called for a shutdown against the GST regime on Jul 15; a special assembly session is scheduled to debate the implementation of the GST

# Karnataka: Ruling Congress faced a major embarrassment when the no – confidence motion moved by it against Legislative Council Chairperson, Mr. D. H. Shankaramurthy was defeated, with JD (S) refusing to lend support

# Manipur: 16th North East Region Commonwealth Parliamentary Association held at Manipur Assembly

# Rajasthan: In a big embarrassment to the ruling BJP, the RSS affiliate to launch an indefinite stir for farmers; State government sounded a high alert in all districts in view of the agitation

BILATERAL ISSUES

# India’s national pavilion at the International Exhibition Expo 2017 (June 10- September 10) in Astana, Kazakhstan

WORLD

# China: launched its first X- ray space telescope (called as Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) or Insight) to study black holes, pulsars and gamma – ray bursts

# Yemen: Death toll due to cholera increased to 1000

ECONOMICS

# After a lull of eight years, Mukesh Ambani – led Reliance Industries, along with partner BP PLc., has decided to invest $6 billion in the controversial KG-D6gas block to bring new gas to production even as earlier $9 billion of investments in the block saw production falling to over one-tenth of an anticipated 80 mmscmd (million metric standard cubic metres per day)

# Second Meeting of the National Steel Consumers’ Council, on the theme of “Current Status of Steel Industry and the Way Forward’’ will be held today in Bhubaneswar

SPORTS

# India’s H. S. Prannoy stunned World No 1 Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia in straight games to storm into the quarterfinals of the $1 million Indonesia Super Series Premier

# India’s young racer Ms. Mira Erda will become the first Indian woman driver to compete in one of the highest classes of Formula racing in the country after signing up for the Euro JK series in the upcoming JK Tyre – FMSCI National racing championship

# Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi inaugurated USHA School (Usha School of Athletics)

# India enters finals of Champions Trophy 2017 by defeating Bangladesh; finals between India and Pakistan

# Suresh Raina and Yusuf Pathan have signed up for the second edition of the TNPL (Tamil Nadu Premier League)

MISC

# Former CJI, Just Prafullachandra Natwarlal (P. N.) Bhagwati passed away

# Law expert Ms. Neer Chadha has been elected a judge of the ITLOS (International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea) and will be the first Indian woman to serve on the 21-member court

# Israeli author David Grossman has won the Man Booker International Prize, sharing the £50, 000 award with translator Jessica Cohen (for the book “A Horse Walks Into A Bar”)