[CA] News: July 06, 2017

Around INDIA

# President, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee approved the promulgation of The Prevention of cruelty to Animals (Karnataka Amendment) Ordinance 2017 to legalise Kambala in Karnataka

# Selection of Election Commissioners must be transparent: Supreme Court to Centre

# Union Home Minister, Mr. Rajnath Singh spoke to West Bengal Governor Mr. K. N. Tripathi and Chief Minister, Ms. Mamata Banerjee regarding the communal violence at Basirhat in North 24 Parganas Dt

TAMIL NADU

# Supreme Court agreed to hear a petition on quashing the Confidence Vote won by the Chief Minister, Mr. Edappadi K. Palaniswami

# Chief Minister, Mr. Edappadi K. Palaniswami wrote to Union Water Resources Minister, Ms. Uma Bharti asking her not to accord sanction for the Mekedatu project across the Cauvery till the issue was settled legally

STATES SCAN

# Haryana: Government is planning to set up an environment - friendly transportation system in Gurugram on the pattern of Poland

# Jammu & Kashmir: both the Houses of the State legislature passed a resolution adopting the GST through a presidential order

BILATERAL ISSUES

# India and Israel announced a strategic partnership; signed 7 agreements

- A new fast-growing Israeli flower was named after Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi; Israeli Crysanthumum flower will now be called Modi

# 10th India-Jordan Trade and Economic Joint Committee (TEJC) Meeting was held in New Delhi

# 5th Meeting of BRICS Ministers of Education was held in Beijing, China; adopted "Beijing Declaration"

# China accused India of "misleading the public" by pointing out that the face-off between Indian and Chinese troops was taking place not at the tri - junction of China, India and Bhutan but at an undisputed section in the Donglang general area

WORLD

# France: Prime Minister, Mr. Edouard Philippe overwhelmingly won the confidence vote in the National Assembly

# Pakistan: test - fired short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile NASR

# USA: President, Mr. Donald Trump accused China of non - cooperation in dealing with the North Korean nuclear threat, and threatened retaliatory trade measures against Beijing

SPORTS

# Athlete Tintu Luka was national flag bearer in the opening ceremony of the Asian Athletics Championships - 2017 at Bhubaneswar; 44 countries participating in the championships

# Asian Snooker Championship (at Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan): Indian team (Laxman Rawat, Pankaj Advani and Malkeet Singh) won the Championship by defeating Pakistan in the final

MISC

# Scientists have recorded a major section of Rare Endemic and Threatened (RET) plant and trees in the Western Ghats, some of which have not been assessed by international conservation bodies for nearly two decades