[CA] News: July 05, 2017

Around INDIA

# On March 27, the Supreme Court rejected a plea of a 28-year old Mumbai woman to abort her pregnancy in the 27th week; the SC states that the baby could be "born alive" during the process of abortion

- The woman gave birth to a baby boy with the Arnold Chiari Type II syndrome, which leads to a malformed brain and spinal cord

- The baby is now battling for life in a neonatal intensive care unit

# Supreme Court observed that there may be nothing wrong in de - notifying particular stretches of highways running inside city limits as city roads and such de-classification does not violate its order that national and state highways across the country should be liquor-free zones

# Cautioning the government against depriving genuine persons of their hard earned money and property, the Supreme Court said the Centre cannot close all options for such persons; it should open a window for them to approach the authorities to prove that it is their money

# Centre is considering partial removal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from Assam and Arunachal Pradesh

# Law Commission of India has recommended compulsor registration of marriages to protect gullible women who become victims of fake marriages

# Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi sent out personalised e-mails to over two lakh chartered accountants across the country to combat black money

# Law Minister issued a notification for the appointment of Election Commissioner Mr. Achal Kumar Joti as the next Chief Election Commissioner; he will take over the charge from incumbent Chief Election Commissioner Dr. Nasim Zaidi on July 06

# All the 1,137 statutory cities and towns in six States of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Kerala and Telangana are set to be declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) by October 2 this year marking the completion of three years of Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban).

TAMIL NADU

# A new Tamil Nadu curriculum Framework Committee headed by M. Anandakrishnan, (former Vice - Chancellor of Anna University) has been constituted to revise the syllabus in schools

STATES SCAN

# Andhra Pradesh: Excise Minister, Mr. Kothapalli Samuel Jawahar said that beer is a "health drink and the state government was planning to promote beer as a health drink

# Goa: The Office of the Commissioner of Commercial Taxes has set up GST facilitation centres in ward across the state and at the department's head office in Panaji

# Karnataka: Government's "Elevate Program" to fast track the most innovative startups

# Madhya Pradesh: country's biggest Global Skill Park was laid in the city of Bhopal

# Manipur: declared the flood situation in the state as a "national calamity"

# Punjab: Chief Minister, Mr. Amarinder Singh said that his government would bring the Chief Minister, along with Ministers and bureaucrats, within the ambit of the Lokpal Bill to be enacted soon

# Uttar Pradesh: government launched the "Mukhbir Yojana" to curb female foeticide

# West Bengal: witnessed an unprecedented political showdown with Governor Mr. Keshari Nath Tripathi and Chief Minister, Ms. Mamata Banerjee indulging in a public spat

BILATERAL ISSUES

# Vietnam asked India to play a greater role in ASEAN's strategic and security affairs

# Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi became the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Israel

- India and Israel celebrates 25 years of diplomatic relationship

- Prime Minister, Mr. Modi paid tribute to fallen Indian soldiers at the Haifa Cemetery in Israel

- India and Israel likely to sign 7 MoUs today

WORLD

# Democratic Republic of the Congo: WHO (World Health Organisation) put an end to the Ebola outbreak in Congo

# Nigeria: Boko Haram jihadists have kidnapped 37 women

# North Korea: claimed it successfully test-launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile (HWASONG-14)

# UK: Britain announced that it would withdraw from the 50-year-old London Fisheries Convention, in order to fulfill one of its Brexit Pledges

# UN: Secretary General, Mr. Antonio Guterres appointed a French legal expert and former judge Catherine Marchi - Uhel was appointed as the head of the independent panel to assist in the investigation and prosecution of those responsible for most serious violations of international law in Syria

ECONOMICS

# Reliance Jio has launched the world's longest submarine cable system

SPORTS

# 22nd Asian Athletics Championships to begin today in Bhubaneswar, Odisha (July 05-09, 2017)

- Bhubaneswar is the third Indian city (after Delhi in 1983 and Pune in 2013) to host Asian Athletics Championships

- The winners of the Asian meet will get a direct berth for the 2017 World Championships in London from August 4–13.

- "Olly" that represents Olive Ridley sea turtle, one of the endangered species of Odisha became the mascot for this championship

MISC

# Indian - Americans (Shantanu Naraen and Vivek Murthy) to be honoured with Great Immigrants Award