[CA] News - Jul 01, 2017

Around INDIA

# President, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee graced a special function organized to launch the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the midnight of June 30- July1, 2017 in the Central Hall of Parliament House, New Delhi.

# The Goods and Services Tax came into force at midnight, amid a historic midnight session in the Central Hall of Parliament. President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley addressed the gathering, before the President and the Prime Minister pressed a button to mark the launch of GST.

# Ten railway stations have been identified to roll out redevelopment of stations on self-financing basis through land monetization in synergy with the Smart City Mission of the Ministry of Urban Development.

# Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi inaugurated Textiles India 2017, India’s first ever mega textiles trade fair, being held at Gandhinagar, Gujarat

# Department of Science and Technology is looking to send a robotic vehicles into the sea near Dwaraka, Gujarat and Puhar, Tamil Nadu to look for submerged structures that may, point to evidence of ancient cities

# In a bid to create a globally competitive biopharmaceutical industry that addresses the country’s major concerns around barriers to affordable healthcare, innovate in India (i3) program was launched

TAMIL NADU

# Mr. T. K. Rajendran IPS was posted as Director General of Police and Head of the Force barely an hour before he was due to retire from service

# Birth centenary celebrations of the former Chief Minister, Mr. M. G. Ramachandran began in Madurai

# The annual fee structure in engineering colleges for UG courses has been revised upwards in the range of Rs. 10, 000 - Rs. 17, 000. The Justice N. V. Balasubramanian Committee has revised the fee structure for both government quota and management quota seats

STATES SCAN

# Karnataka: has sought the Central Water Commission (CWC) permission to start work on a balancing reservoir across the Cauvery at Mekedatu at a cost of Rs. 5912 crore

# Maharashtra: Mumbai's iconic Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station has been rechristened with addition of an honorific "Maharaj" after "Shivaji" to its earlier name

# Telangana: government launched the online drug licensing system in Hyderabad

BILATERAL ISSUES

# China's action at the Doko La (Doklam) tri-junction in Sikkim between India, China and Bhutan have "Serious, security implications": India

# India and Thailand sign MoU on Cooperation in Controlling Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances, their Precursors and Chemicals and Drug Abuse

WORLD

# Canada: 150th anniversary of the formation of Canada

# China: President, Mr. Xi Jinping led lavvish celebrations in Hong Kong to mark 20 years since the cit was handed back to China by Colonial Britain

# Germany: Parliament legalised the same-sex marriages; 393 lawmakers supported the bill while 226 including Chancellor, Ms. Angela Merkel voted against it

SPORTS

# "TransStadia", a sports complex was inaugurated in Ahmedabad

MISC

# July 01: World Doctor's Day

# "Tirupati Varaha": a new cross-bred pig is set to hit the pork market

# Mr. R. K. Pachnanda, is the new ITBP Chief