Current Affairs – August 2018

Sri Chaitanya IAS Academy Career Finder Contents Chief Editor : Dr. B. S. Rao garu, Chairman, NATIONAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES.............................. 4 Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions Government declares six educational Institutions of Eminence 4 Co Editors The RTE (Second Amendment) Bill, 2017 passed by Lok Sabha 4 Mr. Venu Cabinet approves introduction of the DNA Technology Bill, 2018 4 Mr. Vijay Anti-trafficking Bill passed by Lok Sabha 4 Mr. L N Rao High Level Committee constituted to check mob violence and lynching 5 Mr. Manish Standing Committee submitted report on (SBM-G) 5 Layout Designers: Amendments proposed to the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989 6 Mr. K S R Kiran Report on a Legal Framework for Betting and Gambling 6 Expert Committee submits report on data privacy 7 Admn. Office: Plot No. 304, Kasatty Heights, Lt Governor bound to listen to Delhi government's advice, rules top court in Madhapur, win for AAP 8 Hyderabad - 500 081. Prevention of Corruption Bill, 2018 passed by Parliament 9 Ph: 040 - 66151515, 64640193/5/6. The Commercial Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2018 introduced in Lok Sabh 9 NITI Aayog Proposes 'National Health Stack' 10 All rights reserved. No part of this Magazine may be reproduced, stored Two Indians are among six winners picked for the MAGSAYSAY award 10 in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means, Electronic, ECONOMY .......................................................................... 11 Mechanical, Photocopying or 'GST day' 11 otherwise, without the prior Intellectual Property Appellate Board 11 permission of the publisher. While every effort has been made to ensure Kudankulam power plant 12 accuracy of the information in this Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) 12 edition, neither publisher nor any of its employees accept any Recapitalization of RRBs 13 responsibility for any error or World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaties 13 omission. Articles that cannot be IAS officers for village outreach 14 used are returned to the authors if accompanied by a self addressed Currency Derivatives 15 and sufficiently stamped envelop. India-Korea Technology Exchange Centre 15 “Career Finder” assumes no Ease of Doing Business Ranking of States 15 responsibility for statements and opinions advanced by the authors India has 5th largest area under GM crops 16 nor for any claims made in the India pips France to become world's 6th largest economy 17 advertise-ments published in the Purvanchal Expressway 17 Magazine. IFFCO iMandi 18 "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time". Arnold H. Glasow 1 August 2018 Sri Chaitanya IAS Academy Career Finder Jute sector 19 Sri Lanka: Anti-India rebel leader's wife approaches court Bansagar canal project 19 to locate him 29 yrs after his arrest 32 Right of First Refusal (ROFR) 20 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS....................33 FASTags 20 'IS abducted Druze women, children' 33 State Banks (Repeal and Amendment) Bill, 2017 21 MH370 probe offers no new clue 33 Cabinet relaxes NELP, pre-NELP pact rules 21 Imran to take oath as Pakistani PM on August 11 33 Solar parks in India 22 Vote my party out of office: Mugabe 34 Inter-Creditor Agreement (ICA) 22 U.S. President threatens ‘shutdown’ 35 Invest India 23 China, Russia, Iran pose grave cyber espionage threat to FDI Confidence Index 24 US: Report 35 Western Dedicated Corridor (WDFC) 25 Cartoonist axed for PM caricature 35 'Mukhyanmantri Kissan Aaye Badhotri Solar Yojna' 25 Indian student killed in Australia 35 INDIA AND WORLD ................................. 26 China, Bhutan discuss boundary dispute 35 Hackers stole 1.5 million health records 35 Parliamentary panel to probe U.K.-India relations 26 EU warns Sri Lanka over death penalty 36 Indian-origin CEO bats for working class 26 U.S. must work with Kremlin, says expert 36 Teenager charged with Indian's murder 27 Buddha of Swat smiles again 37 U.S. eases export controls on India 27 Pak's first Sikh police officer thrashed, forcibly evicted We pose no threat to India, says Rohingya militant group from his house 38 27 Pakistan gets its first Sikh newsreader 38 Census category calls divide Britain's Sikh community 28 Indian-origin student's platform fights fake news 28 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.................... 39 Two Indian-origin candidates join race for London Mayor Agni-V 39 28 Hubble Space Telescope 39 Indian man shot dead in Canada 29 Parker Solar Probe 39 Lanka awaits experts' report for India JV 29 ISRO conducts pad abort test 40 Mattis, Pompeo to travel to India in September for 2+2 Nasscom unveils centre for data, AI 40 30 Einstein's Theory of Relativity 41 US executes Indian-origin man's killer despite clemency Kepler space telescope 41 appeal by victim's son 30 RAMA 42 Indian woman among 3 killed as two training aircraft GRACE-FO mission 42 collide midair in US 30 Pak Spy Satellites Launched By China 43 Jadhav case: Pakistan submits rejoinder in ICJ 30 Global Innovation Index 43 No plan to contain China, says India 31 First-Ever Colour X-Ray On A Human 44 Indian doctor jailed in Singapore 31 MeerKAT radio telescope 44 India, U.S. set to mend trade ties 31 BrahMos missile 45 Recommended for you 32 IIT-Madras unveils word's first remotely operable LEAP British woman police officer sacked for 'racist' slurs microscope 45 against Indian restaurant staff 32 India to expand polar research to Arctic 45 'Rent-a-lab' policy to bring revenues to institutions 46 2 August 2018 Sri Chaitanya IAS Academy Career Finder NASA's 'Remote Sensing Toolkit' 46 Govt selects 734 athletes for Khelo-India scholarships 59 World's fastest man-made spinning object 46 Indian men’s hockey team to be part of Target Olympic "Innovate India Platform" 47 Podium Scheme 59 Draft of Data Protection Bill 47 FIFA World Cup 2018 winners 60 'Deep Ocean Mission (DOM)' 48 IMPORTANT ARTICLES............................ 61 ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES......................... 49 What is Section 377, and why does it matter? 61 The tree as an urban coordinate 49 Scheme to compensate victims of sexual assaults should include children: SC 62 It’s all bleak on the climate front 50 Lifestyle diseases: FSSAI launches 'Eat Right Movement' 62 Uttarakhand HC declares animals to be ‘legal persons’ 51 Opening up to the world: on internationalising higher 4 species added to recovery programme by Wildlife Board 52 education 63 India to expand polar research to Arctic as well 53 Survey launched to rank States on rural cleanliness 65 PSUs biggest donors to Clean Ganga Fund 54 Digital India becoming 'Divisive India' 65 India’s genetically modified crop area fifth largest in world How India choked its cryptocurrency ecosystem to near- 54 death 66 Nilgiri Tahr to face drastic habitat loss due to CC 55 Give and take 66 NMCG Organises “Ganga Vriksharopan Abhiyan” 56 On the move 67 PERSONS.................................................... 57 To end impunity 68 Major General VD Dogra becomes first serving Army officer EDITORIALS ............................................. 77 to complete Ironman triathlon 57 Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu becomes first Chairman of Rajya Uncertainty ahead: On Pakistan political crisis 69 Sabha to sign an MOU 57 Washed out: On the floods in eastern and western India Five Indian-origin persons in Fortune's 2017 '40 Under 69 40' list 57 Cinema & censorship 70 Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel appointed as Chairperson of Questions of age - On SC's ruling on POCSO Act 71 National Green Tribunal 57 Winners all: On women's cricket in India 72 Two Indians named among Ramon Magsaysay Award H1N1 returns: what can be done to control the virus 72 winners 57 Spanish steps: On the secession vote in Catalonia 73 'The English Patient' By Michael Ondaatje won Golden The boycott ban: on Maharashtra's law against social Man Booker Prize 58 boycott 74 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje won the best The new President, Ram Nath Kovind 75 work of fiction from 58 Target Tehran: on USA's sanctions on Iran 75 Man Booker Prize Longlist of 13 novels announced 58 Erdo?an's excesses: a year on from the Turkey coup 76 Ramachandra Guha authored book titled 'Gandhi 58 Easing the rhetoric: on the India-China stand-off 77 Sunil Mehta Panel on NPAs submitted its report with recommendations to FM 58 The past catches up 78 Justice Srikrishna committee submits report on data Inflation conundrum: on the record low retail inflation privacy 58 78 Tough times: containing violence crucial for peaceful SPORTS................................................ 59 Kashmir 79 Dipa Karmakar wins gold in Artistic Gymnastics WCC59 A good beginning: on draft data protection bill 80 3 August 2018 Sri Chaitanya IAS Academy Career Finder NATIONAL & SOCIAL ISSUES Govt. declares six educational The Bill seeks to amend this provision to state Institutions of Eminence that a regular examination will be held in class 5 and class 8 at the end of every academic year. If The Ministry of Human Resource Development a child fails in the examinations, he will be given recently declared six higher educational additional instruction, and will take a institutions as Institutions of Eminence.26 Of reexamination. If he fails in the re-examination, these six institutions, three are in the public sector the relevant central or state government may and the remaining in the private sector. These decide to allow schools to detain the child. institutions were selected on the basis of Note that, the Standing Committee on Human recommendations of the Empowered Expert Committee (Chair: Mr. N. Gopalaswami). Resource Development (Chair: Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya) submitted its report on the Bill in February In February 2018, the University Grants 2018. It reinstated that learning of children must Commission constituted an Empowered Expert be assessed through examinations. Committee to recommend ten public and ten private higher educational institutions to emerge Cabinet approves Introduction of as world-class teaching and research institutions the DNA Technology Bill, 2018 i.e., as Institutions of Eminence.

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