Daily Updated Current Affairs – 19.05.2017 to 22.05.2017
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DAILY UPDATED CURRENT AFFAIRS – 19.05.2017 TO 22.05.2017 DAILY UPDATED CURRENT AFFAIRS NATIONAL c) The Beas station was the cleanest, followed by Madhya Pradesh bans Sand Excavation in Narmada Khammam, in the A category. Ahmedanagar station River was ranked 3rd. a) The State Government of Madhya Pradesh has put an India to become TB free by 2025 indefinite ban on the sand excavation in the Narmada a) While representing India in the 29th board meeting of River. „Stop TB‟ programme coordination committee in b) The government has also set up a committee to Berlin, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare suggest the scientific ways of mining the rivers. J.P. Nadda declared that the government would c) Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched eradicate Tuberculosis (TB) by 2025. the Narmada Seva Mission at Amarkantak in b) He also said that it is aimed that the world will be TB Anooppur district of Madhya Pradesh for the free by 2030. conservation of river Narmada. c) But under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra d) The event also marked the conclusion of „Namami Modi, we have set a target to eradicate TB completely Devi Narmade Sewa Yatra‟. by 2025 in India. e) The Narmada, also called the Rewa,also known as Haryana launches e-textbook portal for school students "Life Line of Madhya Pradesh". The river Narmada Haryana government has launched e-textbook portal for originates from the Maikal hills through the Gulf of school students. Students can now download school books Khambhat into the Arabian Sea. instantly from the e-textbook portal of the Haryana School Free Wi-Fi facility inaugurated at 28 Railway Stations Education Boar. As of now, 26 textbooks of classes IX to a) Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhu inaugurated free XII have been uploaded on the portal and these can be Wi-Fi facility at 28 Railway Stations of Konkan easily converted into audio files. Railway from Kudal Railway Station in Maharashtra. Hyderabad’s Turbo Megha Airways first private airline b) Konkan Railway has tied up with broadband and to get UDAN licence internet service provider Joister/SYSCON to provide Turbo Megha Airways has become the first private airline Wi-Fi facility at its stations. to get a licence to fly under UDAN, the government c) He also inaugurated improved passenger amenities scheme for subsidized regional flights. and facilities at Kudal and Chiplun stations. The Hyderabad-based airline which flies as TruJet stated Madhav Chitale Committee Recommends Measures for that it will launch flights on Hyderabad-Cuddapah, De-silting Ganga Hyderabad-Nanded and Nanded-Mumbai routes. The five The Madhav Chitale Committee of the Ministry of Water airlines awarded the rights to fly UDAN flights so far are Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Air India, SpiceJet, Turbo Megha, Air Odisha and G.R. has recommended creation of sand registry for de-silting of Gopinath led Deccan Air. the Ganga. The committee has also recommended an UDAN Scheme institute be established for flood routing studies Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the National Green Tribunal Bans Open Defecation and UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik) scheme from Waste Dumping on Yamuna Floodplains Jubbarhatti, an airport on the outskirts of Shimla. a) A Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice He flagged of the first UDAN flight under Regional Swatanter Kumar has banned open defecation and Connectivity Scheme (RCS) on Shimla-Delhi sector. waste dumping on the floodplains of the Yamuna. It UDAN flights on Kadapa–Hyderabad, and Nanded - has also slapped an environment compensation of Rs Hyderabad sectors were also flagged off. 5,000 for people who violated the order. The operations under the scheme are intended to b) NGT has also constituted a committee under the head provide air connectivity to un-served and remote of Delhi Jal Board CEO to oversee the cleaning works routes with airfare being capped at Rs 2,500 for an of the river. hour's journey of around 500 km c) The central government had sanctioned the Yamuna The airline companies chosen are Airline Allied Action Plan (YAP)-I and YAP-II schemes for the Services (Alliance Air), SpiceJet, Turbo Megha states of Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. Airways, Air Deccan and Air Odisha. d) YAP-III projects which are to be completed by The seating capacity of airlines under the UDAN December 2018 has been introduced in Delhi with scheme will range from 19 to 78. financial assistance from Japan International However, only 50% of the seats will be sold at Rs Cooperation Agency (JICA). 2500 per seat per hour. The airlines can sell the rest of Vishakhapatnam adjudged cleanest railway station the tickets at market rates. a) Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh has been Recently Union Civil Aviation Ministry has adjudged as the cleanest railway station in category announced as many as 128 routes connecting 70 big A1 followed by Secunderabad in Telangana and and small airports across the country were selected Jammu Tawi. and all flights will become active within 4-6 months. b) The Darbhanga railway station in Bihar was the dirtiest among the busiest stations. BILATERAL India-Bangladesh: To enhanced cooperation in the field of military education , The Union cabinet, chaired by Prime 1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRPF Square, Bhubaneswar-750015 1 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] DAILY UPDATED CURRENT AFFAIRS – 19.05.2017 TO 22.05.2017 Minister Narendra Modi, gave an ex-post facto approval to rates of 5, 12, 18 and 28 per cent as against the single the agreement, signed between the National Defence rate of 15% levied on all taxable services. College, New Delhi and the National Defence College, b) Luxury hotels, gambling, race club betting and cinema Dhaka, Bangladesh. services will attract a tax rate of 28%. Start up India Summit to be held in Dubai c) Telecom and financial services will be taxed at a rate CGI Dubai and Embassy of India in Abu Dhabi in of 18%. partnership with iSPIRIT, a nonprofit think tank and d) Transport services will be taxed at the rate of 5%. Cab supported by TiE, Dubai will host a two day “Start up India aggregators like Ola and Uber will have to pay 5% Summit” in UAE on 23rd and 24th of May 2017. This is under GST in place of 6%. AC rail travel will attract the first such “Start Up Summit” being held in the UAE. 5% tax. Economy class air travel will attract 5 % GST The aim is to provide a shared platform for the Start up eco while business class will attract 12%. system in both India and UAE for greater collaboration, e) The e-commerce players like Flipkart and Snapdeal exchange ideas, interact with academia, investors and would be required to shell out 1% Tax Collected at industry and have access to funding from the venture Source (TCS). Non-AC restaurants and AC restaurants capitalist in the UAE. will attract a GST of 12% and 18% respectively. Advertisements published in newspapers will attract INTERNATIONAL 5% GST. Hassan Rouhani Wins Iran’s Presidential Election f) Education, healthcare and non-AC rail travel will a) Hassan Rouhani has been re-elected as the President remain exempted from the GST tax regime. Travelling of Iran. He was elected as president for his first term on metro, local train and religious travel such as Haj in 2013. Yatra would be exempted from GST. b) Iran-Capital: Tehran, Currency: Iranian rial Paytm Payments Bank to launch next week China, ASEAN Countries Agree on Framework for India‟s leading digital wallet player Paytm has received the South China Sea Code of Conduct final licence from the Reserve Bank of India for its a) China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations payments bank entity. Paytm has also announced that its (ASEAN) took a step towards easing tensions in the longtime executive and vice president Renu Satti will be South China Sea, agreeing to a framework for a “code the CEO of the payments bank. of conduct” to prevent incidents in the disputed RBI asked to open 25% of new bank branches in rural waters. areas b) The issue has come to a head in recent years as China The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) mandated that 25 per has pursued a strategy of building artificial islands cent of the total number of 'banking outlets' opened during capable of supporting military facilities in the region, a financial year should be located in unbanked rural provoking strong reactions from other claimants as centres. The RBI mandated this in its notification -- well as the US. "Rationalisation of Branch Authorisation Policy- Revision c) 10 ASEAN Members: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, of Guidelines". Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, DBS Bank India expands bancassurance partnerships Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Jakarta, Indonesia a) DBS Bank India has expanded its bancassurance is the H.Q. of ASEAN partnerships with two new partners in Tata AIA Life d) The 28th and 29th ASEAN Summits were held from 6 and Birla Sun Life in addition to Aviva India Life. to 7 September 2016 in Vientiane, Laos. b) With this move, Singapore-heaquartered DBS Bank India ranks 154th out of 195 countries on healthcare has become the first bank in India to adopt a new open index architecture model with three life insurers on a single a) According to the Global Burden of Disease Study platform (GBD) published in the medical journal The Karnataka Bank inks pact with LIC Lancet,India came at 154th position in the ranking of a) Karnataka Bank Ltd has entered into a Memorandum healthcare quality in 195 countries.