[CA] News: July 07, 2017

Around INDIA

# India declared itself free from Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1 and H5N8) and notified the same to World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), an intergovernmental body that coordinates, supports and promotes animal disease control

- In view of the above, India has declared itself free from Avian Influenza (H5N8 and H5N1) from 6th June, 2017 and notified the same to OIE

# Centre told the Supreme Court that the increasing incidence of suicide by distressed farmers was a "Terrible tragedy" and it was doing "all in its powers" to tide over the agrarian crisis; government said that NITI Aayog was addressing the issue of farmers' suicides

# Government launched JIGYASA programme, a student - scientist connect programme; for the implementation of the programme Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) tied-up with Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS)

# Andhra Pradesh and Telangana raised their water sharing issues before Krishna Water Dispute Tribunal - II (headed by Just Brijesh Kumar)

# Achal Kumar Jyoti took charge as the 21st Chief Election Commissioner

# Supreme Court questioned the Election Commission on its reluctance to use VVPAT units with EVMs for the Gujarat Assembly Polls in 2017, warning the poll panel aganist making excuses and compelling the court to force its hand

# Garib Nawaz Skill Development Centres will be established in 100 districts of the country which will effectively ensure employment oriented skill development of youth belonging to Minority communities.

# A 2-day Regional Conference on “Good Governance and Replication of Best Practices” will begin in Nainital, Uttarakhand today

TAMIL NADU

# Armed with videos of "brutal treatment" of bulls in jallikattu held in five regions of Tamil Nadu, the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA) moved the Supreme Court for quashing the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Tamil Nadu Amendment) Act 2017, which brought bulls back into the fold of "performing animals"

STATES SCAN

# Telangana: Police to set up 16 Special Task Force to check food adulteration in the State

BILATERAL ISSUES

# Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi wrapped up a three-day visit to Israel with a meeting with CEOs of various companies who reportedly signed agreements worth about $4.3 billion

# With India and China asserting that no bilateral meeting between Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi and President, Mr. Xi Jinping had been scheduled on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting in German, there was no immediate prospect of an end to the continuing boundary standoff between the two countries

# 2nd BRICS Culture Ministers' meeting held in Tianjin, China

# BRICS Health Ministers’ Meeting held in Tianjin, China with the theme "‘Strengthen Health System and Achieve Health-Related SDGs"

WORLD

# Bangladesh: an international rights group said that security agencies have secretly detained score of opposition activists many of whom have later been killed

# Italy: passed a bill making torture a crime under the national law

# Sri Lanka: banned the destructive fishing practice of bottom - trawling, making violators liable to Rs. 20, 000 and two years' imprisonment

# USA: SpaceX launched a commercial satellite INTELSAT 35e into Space using FALCON-9 rocket

ECONOMICS

# India's top low-cost airline IndiGo in only interested in taking over the international operations of Air India

SPORTS

# Indian national football team climbed four places to sit on the 96th position in the latest FIFA rankings; it is the second highest ranking for the country ever;  It was in Feb 1996, that India was placed on 94th spot, which is the country's best ever FIFA ranking

# FIFA World Rankings: (1) Germany (2) Brazil (3) Argentina (4) Portugal and (5) Switzerland

# Asian Athletics Championships 2017: India: 2 Gold + 1 Silver + 4 Bronze = 7; China: 2 Gold + 1 Silver = 3

# Asian Athletics Championships 2017: India's Manpreet Kaur won Gold in women's shot put event (qualified for World Athletics Championships) ; While in women's long jump India won Silver (V. Neena) and a Bronze medal (Nayana James)

# Asian Athletics Championships 2017: India's Govindan Lakshman won Gold in the 5000 metres race; India's Vikas Gowda settled for Bronze in Men's discus throw; India's Sanjivani Jadhav won Bronze in Women's 5000metres; India's Annu Rani won Bronze in Women's Javelin Throw

MISC

# Himachal Pradesh DGP, Mr. Sanjay Kumar was appointed as the Director General of NDRF (National Disaster Response Force)

# One of the largest icebergs ever recorded, about 2500 square miles, is poised to break off from one of the largest floating ice shelves in Antarctica