[CA] Daily News (Feb 05, 2018)

Around INDIA
# Vice President, Mr.Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the 1st International Kala Mela, organized by the Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi
- Main objective of this festival is to facilitate direct interaction between artists and the experts of the art forms and also to raise awareness about the art.
TAMIL NADU
# Government is consulting the Law Ministry over the possible action to be taken against A. Ganapathi (Vice-Chancellor of Bharathiyar University): the State Higher Education Ministry
# Renaming the Tamil Nadu House in New Delhi as "Vaigai Tamil Nadu Illam" and "Podhigai Tamil Nadu Illam" is an onslaught on Tamil Pride: Opposition Leader, Mr. M. K. Stalin
# CII and the State Government have set up  a joint task force on "School Education System"
STATES SCAN
# Maharashtra: Government has approved Ghodazari in Chandrapur district as a new wildlife sanctuary in the state.
# Uttar Pradesh: Government has decided to use cow urine for medicines; already the government has made floor cleaners using cow urine
BILATERAL ISSUES
# India contributed an additional $1 million to the India-UN Development Partnership Fund earmarked for South-South cooperation.
WORLD
# Bangladesh: Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has been appointed as Chief Justice of Bangladesh.
# Maldives: Government remained defiant with the Attorney - General instructing law enforcement agencies not to obey a recent Supreme Court ruling ordering the release of nine opposition leaders, including former President, Mr. Mohamed Nasheed
ECONOMICS
# Government makes PAN mandatory for transactions over Rs. 2.5 lakh
SPORTS
# India Open 2018: USA's Zhang Beiwen won the title by defeating India's P. V. Sindhu
MISC
# International Conference on ‘Demetrios Galanos and His Legacy’ was inaugurated at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in New Delhi
- Demetrios Galanos was a Greek scholar who came to India to study in the nineteenth century. He stayed in India for 47 years (for 40 years he lived in the city of Varanasi