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INDIA
# Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi, launched the National
Nutrition Mission (NNM), and expansion of the coverage of Beti Bachao Beti
Padhao (BBBP) programme, at Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan.
- BBBP was extended from the existing 161 districts to 640
districts
- NNM aimed at improving nutrition levels of women and children
and reducing low birth weight by 2% each year
# Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and
Parliamentary Affairs, Mr. Ananthkumar announced the launch of ‘Suvidha’, the
100% Oxo-biodegradable Sanitary Napkin, under the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya
Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP)
- The affordable sanitary napkin will be available for Rs. 2.50
per padat over 3200 Janaushadhi Kendras across India and would ensure
‘Swachhta, Swasthya and Suvidha’for the underprivileged Women of India.
- Suvidha napkins would be physically available at all
Janaushadhi Kendras in the country by May 28, 2018 – World Menstrual Hygiene
Day
- According to the National Family Health Survey 2015-16, about
58 percent of women aged between 15 to 24 years use locally prepared napkins,
sanitary napkins and tampons. Further, about 78 percent women in urban areas
use hygienic methods of protection during menstrual period; only 48 percent
women in rural areas have access to clean sanitary napkins.
# Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME)
launched a portal for women entrepreneurs of India: www.udyamsakhi.org.
# TDP ministers quits from Union Government; Union Civil
Aviation Minister Mr. Ashok Ghajapathi Raju and MoS for Science and Technology,
Mr. Y. S. Chowdary of TDP submitted their resignations to Prime Minister, Mr.
Narendra Modi
# Supreme Court restores Hadiya’s marriage; Supreme Court set
aside a Kerala High Court annulling the marriage of Hadiya to Shafin Jahan,
whom she had married after converting to Islam (Kerala High Court termed this
marriage as “Love Jihad” and declared as null on May 24, 2017)
TAMIL
NADU
# The inhuman act of Police which led to death of pregnant woman
created strong criticism from the State; NHRC issued notice to the Chief Secretary
and DGP; NHRC termed the incident as “worst example of police brutality”
# Haryana: launched first cyber police station in Gurugram
# Karnataka: Government unveiled the State Flag (nada dhwaja);
if approved by the Centre, Karnataka will be the second State to have a flag
after Jammu & Kashmir; the flag is of red-white-yellow with the state emblem
at the centre; the proposal will be now sent to the Union Home Minister for
approval, since a State has no powers to announce its own flag
# Puducherry: 7th Puducherry International Documentary and Short
Film Festival began
BILATERAL
ISSUES
# Icelandic Cultural Festival 2018 was held in Puducherry
WORLD
# WHO (World Health Organisation) invited pharmaceutical
companies around the world to submit proposals to manufacture affordable
versions of newer medicines for treatment of drug resistant Tuberculosis
- At present two new-generation drugs named Bedaquiline (manufactured by Janseen, USA) and Delaminid (manufactured by Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, Japan) are
recommended for TB
ECONOMICS
# RBI has imposed a penalty of Rs. 40 lakh on SBI as SBI failed
to comply with RBI’s directions on detection and impounding of counterfeit
notes
MISC
# Cabinet Secretary Mr. P K Sinha released “The Operator’s Story”- a publication by World Bank and Railway and
Transport Strategy Centre (RTSC), Imperial College London, on findings of the
research on “What makes Metros successful”.
# Prakriti has become the first woman to be directly inducted as
combat officer into the ITBP (Indo – Tibetan Border Police)
# A group of scientists belonged to Austria and US have provided
the first proof of an exotic new state of matter, known as Rydberg polarons.
Scientists have described how a new state of matter can be created, by
essentially putting atoms inside other atoms
# 2 Indian women (Arundhati Roy and Meena Kandasamy) shortlisted
for UK’s women prize for fiction; award to be announced in July 2018
# India’s Balkrishna Doshi, honored with the Pritzker
Architecture Prize, the Nobel equivalent for the field
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