[CA] Daily News [23-04-2018]

 Around INDIA

# President, Mr. Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to an Ordinance permitting death penalty for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years

# Government formed Defence Planning Committee (DPC) under Mr. Ajit Doval to reform the process of higher defence planning and national security strategy

# Central Government has declared Digambarpur Gram panchayat of West Bengal in South 24 Parganas Dt as the best panchayat in the country

# The security forces gunned down 16 alleged members of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) in Gadchiroli Dt of Maharashtra

# Mr. Sitaram Yechury was re – elected as general – secretary of CPI (M)

# Ms. Taniya Sanyal has become the first woman fire-fighter of the AAI (Airports Authority of India)

 # Union Health Ministry is considering a ban on e – cigarettes; Ministry said nicotine addiction through e – cigarettes might lead young people to try conventional tobacco products.

# The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has decided to approach the government for granting it Constitutional status to protect the rights of minority communities more effectively (Till now, only the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and National Commission for Scheduled Tribes enjoy the constitutional status)

TAMIL NADU

 # Government to observe Road Safety Week from April 23 – 30, 2018 with the theme “Road Safety – Life Safety”

STATES SCAN

# Gujarat: Government launched “Pocket Cop” project to improve crime detection rate in the state

 # Uttarakhand: Chief Minister, Mr. Trivendra Singh Rawat launched a campaign called “Devbhoomi Dialogue” calling upon youth to look for elf-employment opportunities in their chosen fields

BILATERAL ISSUES

# Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi to meet Chinese President, Mr. Xi Jinping in an informal summit to be held in Wuhan, China

WORLD

# Afghanistan: An Islamic State (IS) suicide bomber killed at least 48 persons in Kabul

# France: An Algerian woman’s refusal to shake hands with male officials at a French naturalization ceremony is sufficient grounds for denying her citizenship: France’s top administrative court

ECONOMICS

# Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors from G20 have agreed to aim for economic growth by promoting trade

# Government plans to set up at least one SEZ in every state under the proposed electronic policy

SPORTS

 # International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, Mr. Thomas Bach presented a momento to Indian Olympic medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra and Boxer Vijender Singh

# 16th Federation Cup National Junior Athletics Championship (held at Coimbatore)

- Overall championship: (1) Haryana (2) Tamil Nadu

- Best athlete: Sapna Kumari (Jharkhand)

# Rafael Nadal won the 11th Monte Carlo Masters title 2018 by defeating Kei Nishikori in the finals 

 MISC

# April 23: World Book Day; World Book Capital 2018: Athens (Greece)

# World’s oldest person (Nabi Tajima) of Japan passed away at the ages of 117 years; She was born on August 04, 1900 and reportedly had more than 160 descendants, including great-great-great grandchildren

- Now Japanese woman Chiyo Yoshida of 116 years old is the world’s oldest person

# 3 Books released on Mahatma Gandhi’s Champaran Movement of 197:

(i) “Mister M. K. Gandhi Ki Champaran Diary” by Arvind Mohan

(ii) “Champaran Andolan 1917” by Ashutosh Partheshwar

(iii) “Pir Muhammad Munis: Kalam Ka Satyagrahi” by Srikan

# Karan Johar (KJo) will soon become the first Indian filmmaker to get a wax statue at Madame Tussauds, London