[CA] News: July 11, 2017

Around INDIA

# Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, interacted with Chief Secretaries of States and Union Territories.

- This interaction was part of the National Conference of Chief Secretaries on the theme of "States as Drivers for Transforming India."

- This is the first time, that the Prime Minister has addressed such a gathering, at such an event.

# States stalling nuclear plants should not be eligible for nuclear power: Union Power Minister, Mr. Piyush Goyal

# India now has overall 36 World Heritage Inscriptions with 28 Cultural, 07 Natural and 01 Mixed site. India stands second largest in number after China in terms of number of world heritage properties in ASPAC (Asia and Pacific) region, it is overall seventh in the world.

TAMIL NADU

# Tamil Nadu has reported its first case of zika virus in a 27-year old man from a village in Krishnagiri Dt

- The case was diagnosed on July 01 and the man, who was treated as an outpatient, is reported to have recovered completely

# Chief Minister, Mr. Edappadi K. Palaniswami announced an incentive of Rs. 20 lakh for G. Lakshmanan (who won Gold medals in 5000m and 10000m events) and Rs. 15 lakh for Arokia Rajiv (Gold medal in 4*400m relay and Silver medal in 400m) at the Asian Athletics Championships 2017

# Government will not approve the Centre's hydrocarbon exploration project at Neduvasal in Pudukottai Dt: Industries Minister, Mr. M. C. Sampath

STATES SCAN

# Assam: flood situation in the state turned critical with 12.55 lakh people across 20 districts affected the state ; most of the Kaziranga National Park is under water and animals are straying into higher ground

# Karnataka: Government has constituted a nine-member committee headed by Principal Secretary, Department of Kannada and Culture to study and submit a report to the government on the possibility of "designing a separate flag for Karnataka and providing it a statutory standing"

# Kerala: actor Dileep arrested in molestation case

# Manipur: remains cut off from the rest of the country as both the NH 2 and NH 37 were disrupted by landslides; three major landslides occurred along the NH 2 connecting Assam and Manipur

# Puducherry: Speaker Mr. V. Vaithilingam refused to accept the three BJP nominees appointed as nominated MLAs by Lt. Governor Ms. Kiran Bedi

# Tripura: People's Front of Tripura launched an indefinite blockade on Assam - Agartala NH - 8 pressing its demand for a separate state "Twipraland"

# West Bengal: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Government of West Bengal to formalize its support to set up a state-of-the-art Centre of Excellence in Transfusion Medicine at Kolkata

BILATERAL ISSUES

# Joint exercise (MALABAR-17) of India, Japan and USA began in Bay of Bengal (North Indian Ocean)

WORLD

# Japan: A men-only island in Japan where women are banned and male visitors must bathe naked in the sea before visiting its shrine, has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site

- Okitsugu shrine of the Munakata Taisha on Okinoshima island

# Pakistan: A joint investigation team (JIT) tasked with investigating the assets of Pakistani Prime Minister, Mr. Nawaz Sharif and his family has recommended that a corruption case be registered against Mr. Sharif, his sons and daughter

# UK: Britain's first pregnant man has given birth to a girl. Hyden Cross (21 yr) made headlines around the world earlier in 2017 when he announced that he was pregnant by a sperm donor

- Hyden Cross had legally become male through gender assignment

- The first man to give birth was Thomas Beatie in the US in 2008

ECONOMICS

# A new tax payer service module ‘Aaykar Setu’, was launched by Union Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley

# ONGC Videsh will bid in an upcoming auction to explore and develop gas fields off the coast of Lebanon (Levant basin in the Mediterranean Sea)

# India to import crude oil from the U. S. for the first time after Indian Oil Corp. bought a cargo

SPORTS

# India's Abhijeet Gupta won the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2017 held in New Delhi

# Valtteri Bottas (Finland; Mercedes Team) won the 2017 Austrian Grand Prix

MISC

# July 11: World Population Day; theme:"Family Planning: Empowering People, Developing Nations"

# Former Cabinet Secretary Mr. Naresh Chandra Passed away

- Cabinet Secretary from 1990-92; Indian Ambassador to the US from 1996-2001