[CA] News: June 27, 2017

Around INDIA

# The committee for preparation of final draft of National Education Policy has been constituted under the Chairmanship of eminent Scientist Padma Vibhushan Dr K. Kasturirangan.

- On MyGov platform 26, 000 people gave their views online. TSR Subramaniam committee has given its detailed input. All these suggestions and inputs will be considered by the committee.

# Union Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley has written a letter to the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Ms. Membooba Mufti Sayeed urging for introduction of the goods and services tax in Jammu and Kashmir from 1st July, 2017 along with the rest of the States.

# The first-ever picture of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration over India shows that it is way above the safety mark and in line with what has been observed in other parts of the world

# The first Scorpene submarine Kalvari is all set to join the Navy by August and would go for its normal refit in 2023. The remaining five submarines are expected to be inducted at nine-month intervals

# Railways will pilot a project (called as Project "Swarn" (Gold)) to revamp services on its Rajdhani and Shatbadi trains

TAMIL NADU

# Leader of Opposition, Mr. M. K. Stalin wants the removal of the AIADMK government

STATES SCAN

# Assam: 8 districts were affected de to severe flood; over 1 lakh people have been hit hard; altogether 170 hectares of agriculture land have been submerged

# Karnataka: Agriculture Price Commission has recommended to the government to provide coconut oil as edible oil under the Public Distribution System in Malnad and coastal districts

# Kerala: posts its worst dengue affected; 118 affected with dengue

BILATERAL ISSUES

# India and Mexico have agreed to hold an important conference on regional and global disarmament

# India may ask Myanmar to revoke its ceasefire pact with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland- Khaplang (NSCN-K)

WORLD

# China: Nobel Peace Prize winning rights activist Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on medical parole. Liu was jailed for 11 years in 2009 for "inciting subversion of state power" after he helped write a petition known as "Charter 08" calling for sweeping political reforms in China

# France: President, Mr. Emmanuel Macron said that France refuses to recognise Russia's "annexation" of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea

# UK: Prime Minister, Ms. Theresa May struck a deal to prop up her minority government by agreeing to at least £1 billion in extra funding for Northern Ireland in return for the support of the province's biggest Protestant party

# USA: scientists have built simple machines out of DNA, which can be used to make nanotech sensors, amplifiers and even a molecular computer

ECONOMICS

# Government to change the financial year to January- December from the existing April-March from 2018

# GSTN (GST-Network) portal has begun accept registration requests from businesses

# Japan's Takata Corporation (the firm at the centre of the auto industry's biggest-ever product recall) filed for bankruptcy protection in USA and Japan

# US-India Business Council (USIBC) set up a task force under the head of Palash Roy Chowdhury to identify opportunities in India's civil aviation sector

# HPCL has joined the Indian consortium negotiating the acquisition of a 49% stake in Russia's Vankor Cluster oilfields in the Arctic region

SPORTS

# Yashaswini Singh Deswal won the 10m air pistol gold and Anish Bhanwala won gold at the 25m standard pistol at the junior World Shooting championship (held in Moscow)