[CA] News- June 21, 2017

Around INDIA

# India has renominated Just Dalveer Bhandari to ICJ (International Court of Justice)

# President, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee has accepted the resignation of Mr. Ram Nath Kovind, as Governor of Bihar

- President appointed Governor of West Bengal, Mr. Keshari Nath Tripathi to discharge the functions of the Governor of Bihar, in addition to his own duties, until regular arrangements for the office of the Governor of Bihar is made.

# The hunt that began on May 09, 2017 to arrest the Kolkata High Court Judge Just C. S. Karnan (retired) came to an end with the arrest of the Justice in Coimbatore

# The first indigenously built Floating Dock (FDN-2) for the Indian Navy was launched (on June 20, 2017) at an impressive ceremony at Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T) Shipyard at Kattupalli near Chennai.

# South West Monsoon: North Eastern States and West Bengal reel under floods

# India is set to launch 31 satellites (PSLV- XL) on June 23, 2017

TAMIL NADU

# AIADMK government led by, Chief Minister Mr. Edappadi K. Palaniswami refused to object anything on the Cattle notification restricting cattle trade law in the Assembly and said that the government will implement the Court verdict

# Domestic consumers in the State may well have to face a 6% hike in 2018-19 as per the tripartite agreement signed by the State Government, TANGEDCO and UDAY

STATES SCAN

# Telangana: Hyderabad Mayor Mr. B. Rammohan launched the “Hyderabad City Wi – Fi Project” or “Hy – Fi” with over 10, 000 hotspots where citizens can access Internet free for about half-an-hour

# Uttar Pradesh: Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi inaugurated building of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, dedicated 400KV Lucknow-Kanpur D/C transmission line and distributed sanction letters to the beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana in Lucknow.

BILATERAL ISSUES

# Pakistan will not carry out the death sentence of Kulbhushan Jadhav, until the process in the ICJ is over, even if it takes two to three years: Pakistan's High Commissioner Mr. Abdul Basist

# India and Portugal signed a historical agreement to promote cooperation in the field of Archives

# First meeting of the India-Russia High Level Committee on Science & Technology in Moscow (on June 21, 2017)

# 17th meeting of the India-Russia Inter Governmental Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation in Moscow (on June 23, 2017)

WORLD

# Australia: Government said that it was temporarily halting air missions over Syria

# Sweden: pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2045

# Vanuatu: President, Mr. Baldwin Jacobson Lonsdale passed away

# Eighth Session of the Implementation Review Group of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) at Vienna, Austria

ECONOMICS

# ADB signed a $275 million loan with India for improving urban services in 64 small towns in the State of Madhya Pradesh.

# Cabinet Secretary, Mr. P. K. Sinha took a detailed review of the preparedness for the roll-out of Goods and Services Tax (GST) from 1st July 2017.

# Enough time given, GST will be implemented from Jul 01: Union Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley

# A GST facilitation cell has been set up in the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion to answer queries regarding GST; this will be headed by Mr. Sudhansu Sekhar Das (Economic Adviser)

SPORTS

# Anil Kumble quits as head coach of Indian Cricket team

# The Champions Trophy could be scrapped in favour of staging the World Twenty20 for every two years: ICC [India to host the next Champions Trophy in 2021]

MISC

# June 21: International Yoga Day; main event at Lucknow

- The theme for 2017 IYD celebration that is being organised by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN is "Yoga for Health"

# The Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (in Pune) has been selected as the first recipient of the Prime Minister's Award for outstanding contribution to promotion and development of Yoga.

# Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) BIO 2017 held at San Diego Convention Centre, San Diego, USA

# NASA's Kepler Space telescope has spotted 219 potentially new planets, among which at least 10 are in the habitable zone, nearly about the same size as the Earth with conditions suitable to host life