G-20 Summit
2017
# Held at Hamburg, Germany
# Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi targeted Pakistan in his
speech
- Prime Minister said, some countries were using terror as a
tool to achieve political objectives and pressed for “deterrent” action
collectively by the G20 members against such nations.
- Prime Minister equated the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the
Jaish-e-Mohamamd, as also the Haqqani network to the Islamic State and
al-Qaeda, saying their names may be different but their ideology is the same
- With leaders like U.S. President Mr. Donald Trump, Russian
President Mr. Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Mr. Xi Jinping listening,
Mr. Modi regretted that the international response to terrorism was weak, and
said more cooperation was needed to fight the menace.
- Prime Minister presented an 11-point ‘Action Agenda’ which
included suggestions for exchange of lists of terrorists among G20 nations,
easing and expediting of legal processes like extradition and concrete steps to
choke funds and weapon supply to the terrorists.
# US President, Mr. Donald Trump and Russian President Mr.
Vladimir Putin held their first face-to-face meeting
# German Chancellor, Ms. Angela Merkel pressed G20 leaders to
compromise at the start of talks on climate and trade
Around INDIA
# Supreme Court froze the status of "legal persons"
accorded to Rivers Ganga and Yamuna by the Uttarakhand High Court in March 2017
# In a bid to prevent impersonation fraud, Microsoft has
integrated its `Made for India' Skype Lite app with Aadhaar, thereby allowing
users of the app to verify the caller's identity online.
# The Home Ministry has given security clearance to the GSTN,
the information technology backbone of the Goods and Services Tax regime,
paving the way for its operationalisation soon
# Chairpersons of the Backward Classes Commissions of the
Southern States resolved to urge the Centre against "interfering with acts
of inclusion into or exclusion from the list of Socially Backward Classes for
the purpose of reservation in any State"
TAMIL NADU
# "Your job is to take steps to prevent farmers' suicides
and not to go around distributing compensation after they commit suicide":
Supreme Court to Tamil Nadu Government
# Chief Minister, Mr. Edappadi K. Palaniswami reiterated in the
Legislative Assembly that the AIADMK government will nor support the
Hydrocarbon project at Neduvasal in Pudukkottai Dt which was against the
interests of farmers in the State
# Chief Minister, Mr. Edappadi K. Palaniswami claimed in the
Legislative Assembly that the protests in Kadiramangalam village against
leakage from ONGC wells are instigated to bring disrepute to his government
STATES SCAN
# Assam: flood situation in the State worsens; death toll due to
flood increased to 22; Out of 35 districts in the State, 17 were reeling under
the flood, while 4.5 lakh people were affected
# Delhi: High Court launched helpline number "1888" to
provide litigants easy access to justice
# Kerala: Government launched "G-Ride", a digital ride
sharing designed and deployed for the IT Industry by the Group of Technology
Companies (GTech), the industry body of IT companies in the State
BILATERAL
ISSUES
# India, Japan and USA began the joint naval exercise MALABAR -
2017 in Bay of Bengal (July 07-17); Exercise will feature both ashore (at
Chennai) and at-sea training
- Form India, INS Vikramaditya, two Shivalik class frigates, to
destroyers and tanker INS Jyoti are participating
WORLD
# USA: Defence Secretary Mr. Jim Mattis reaffirmed America's
strategic security partnership with Qatar, amid a diplomatic crisis in the
Gulf.
# Yemen: Cholera spreads as war; since April the disease has
killed at least 1, 614 people in the country that is being bombed by Saudi
Arabia for the past two years
# UN to adopt the first multilateral nuclear disarmament treaty
ECONOMICS
# Oracle has said it is opening its first digital hub in Asia
Pacific, which will be based in Bengaluru
SPORTS
# India has been placed alongside African powerhouse Ghana, USA
and Colombia in Group A for the FIFA U-17 World Cup; 24 countries (divided into
6 Groups) are participating in the FIFA U-17 World Cup
# Asian Athletics Championships 2017 (at the end of Day 2):
India: 6 Gold + 3 Silver + 6 = 16; China: 4 Gold + 3 Silver + 3 Bronze = 10
# Performance of Indian athletes in Asian Athletics
Championships 2017 (Day 02):
Men's 400m: Mohammad Anas won Gold; Arokia Rajiv won Silver
Men's 1500m: Ajay Kumar Saroj won Gold
Men's Shot Put: Tajinderpal Singh Toor won Silver
Women's 100m: Dutee Chand won Bronze
Women's 400m: Nirmala Sheoran won Gold; Jisna Mathew won Bronze
Women's 1500m: P. U. Chitra won Gold
Women's Long Jump: Nayana James won Bronze
MISC
# India ranked a high 23rd out of 165 nations in the 2017 Global
Cybersecurity Index (GCI), a global index that measures the commitment of
nations across the world to cybersecurity; Singapore topped the chart followed
by USA, Malaysia, Oman and Estonia
# UNESCO's addition and omission
- World Heritage Committee, decided not to include the Great
Barrier Reef in the List of World Heritage in Danger
- UNESCO declared the Old City of Hebron in the West Bank, to be
inscribed as a Palestinian World Heritage Site in Danger
- World Heritage Committee, inscribed the Historic Centre of
Vienna on the List of World Heritage in Danger
# Pale tiger (White Tiger) is found in the Nilgiris Biosphere
Reserve; first time, a white tiger is spotted in South India
- Wildlife scientists say it could be just an instance of an
aberrant genetic mutation
- The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, where the pale tiger was
photographed, also encompasses the Mudumalai - Bandipur - Nagarhole - Wayanad
Complex, which is home to the World's largest wild tiger population
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