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CURRENT AFFAIRS:
1. The Centre has asked the States to procure relief materials and equipment in advance to increase their capacities to deal with natural disasters effectively.
2. Calcutta High Court today directed the holding of three phased Panchayat elections in West Bengal next month.
3. Government has formed a Group of Ministers (GoM) to draft a law to provide for the independence of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and its functional autonomy.
4. The Centre has decided to publicize best practices on implementation of Right to Information (RTI) Act by public authorities across the country.
5. Government today said that indigenously developed rota virus vaccine – ROTAVAC has shown positive results during phase three clinical trail of the vaccine.
6. A boat carrying Rohingya Muslims has capsized off western Burma. The boat said to be carrying up to 200 passengers, was evacuating people ahead of Cyclone Mahasen, which is expected to hit the area later in the week.
7. In Pakistan, election commission says that Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League – N has won 123 of the 272 directly elected seats. His party now needs the support of independents to secure an overall majority in the legislature.
8. Mount Everest is shedding its frozen cloak as its glaciers have shrunk at an alarming rate of 13 per cent over the last 50 years due to global warming, a new study has warned.
9. Gujarat government today kept on hold its decision to seek death penalty for former minister Maya Kodnani, Babu Bajrangi and eight others in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case.
10. Indian paddlers have got off to a good start at the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris. In the Men’s section, Soumyajit Ghosh, Harmeet Desai and Sanil Shetty won their respective first round matches of the men’s preliminary qualification event.
CURRENT AFFAIRS:
1. The Centre has asked the States to procure relief materials and equipment in advance to increase their capacities to deal with natural disasters effectively.
2. Calcutta High Court today directed the holding of three phased Panchayat elections in West Bengal next month.
3. Government has formed a Group of Ministers (GoM) to draft a law to provide for the independence of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and its functional autonomy.
4. The Centre has decided to publicize best practices on implementation of Right to Information (RTI) Act by public authorities across the country.
5. Government today said that indigenously developed rota virus vaccine – ROTAVAC has shown positive results during phase three clinical trail of the vaccine.
6. A boat carrying Rohingya Muslims has capsized off western Burma. The boat said to be carrying up to 200 passengers, was evacuating people ahead of Cyclone Mahasen, which is expected to hit the area later in the week.
7. In Pakistan, election commission says that Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League – N has won 123 of the 272 directly elected seats. His party now needs the support of independents to secure an overall majority in the legislature.
8. Mount Everest is shedding its frozen cloak as its glaciers have shrunk at an alarming rate of 13 per cent over the last 50 years due to global warming, a new study has warned.
9. Gujarat government today kept on hold its decision to seek death penalty for former minister Maya Kodnani, Babu Bajrangi and eight others in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case.
10. Indian paddlers have got off to a good start at the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris. In the Men’s section, Soumyajit Ghosh, Harmeet Desai and Sanil Shetty won their respective first round matches of the men’s preliminary qualification event.
