VAID’S ICS LUCKNOW B-36, Sector-C, Aliganj, Lucknow Cont.9415011892/93 NOVEMBER-2017 Vaid’s ICS Lucknow B-36, Sector –C, Aliganj, Lucknow Mob: 9415011892/93, 8765163028 website: www.vaidicslucknow.com 1 VAID’S ICS LUCKNOW B-36, Sector-C, Aliganj, Lucknow Cont.9415011892/93 Content Pages 1. National Events 3 2. International Events 7 3. Economy 11 4. Science & Technology 14 5. Treaty & Agreements 16 6. Planning & Project 19 7. Conference 20 8. Sports 23 9. Awards & Honours 26 10. Persons in news 28 11. Places in news 29 12. Commissions & Committee 31 13. Operations & Campaign 32 14. Associations & Organizations 33 15. Law & Justice 34 16. Year, Day & Week 35 16. Miscellaneous 38 2 VAID’S ICS LUCKNOW B-36, Sector-C, Aliganj, Lucknow Cont.9415011892/93 • In the year 2014, 14.5 percent of the total NATIONAL EVENTS cases of crimes against women (49,262 cases) were held in Uttar Pradesh. After this, West Crime in India 2016- Statistics Bengal is at second with 9.6 percent (32,513) th • On November 30 , 2017, Union Home cases. Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh released the • Rape incidents rose 12.4 percent in the year ‘Crime in India – 2016’ published by the 2016 compared to year 2015. National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), • According to the Reports, the highest rape Ministry of Home Affairs. cases took place in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar • It is for the first time, for 19 Metropolitan Pradesh. cities (having population above 2 million) also, • Out of total incidents, 12.5 percent were in chapters on “Violent Crimes”,” Crime Against Madhya Pradesh, 12.4 percent in UP and 10.7 Women”,” Crime Against Children”, “Juveniles percent in Maharashtra. in conflict with law”, “Crime Against SC/STs”, “Economic Crimes”,” Cyber Crimes”,” Crime Cabinet approves setting up of Against Senior Citizens” and “Disposal of National Nutrition Mission Cases by Police and Court” have been included th • On November 30 , 2017, Union Cabinet in the report. chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi • In addition to first time Statistics on the yesterday has approved setting up of National seizures of Arms, Ammunitions, Drugs and Nutrition Mission (NNM). Currency by CAPFs/CPOs (Assam Rifles, CISF, • The mission is commencing from 2017-18 BSF, CRPF, NIA and SSB). with a three year budget of Rs.9046.17 crore. • Murder cases in the country have shown • The NNM, as an apex body, will monitor, declining trends during the last three years. supervise, fix targets and guide the nutrition Murder cases decreased by 5.2% in 2015-16, related interventions across the Ministries. from 32,127 cases in 2015 to 30,450 cases in • The proposal consists of 2016. • Mapping of various Schemes contributing • For States perspective, Uttar Pradesh towards addressing malnutrition accounted for 9.5% of total IPC crime reported • Introducing a very robust convergence in the mechanism • The highest cases of crime were registered • ICT based Real Time Monitoring system in Uttar Pradesh followed by followed by • Incentivizing States/UTs for meeting the Madhya Pradesh (8.9%), Maharashtra (8.8%) targets and Kerala (8.7). • Incentivizing Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) • Cases under ‘Crime Against Women’ have for using IT based tools reported a marginal decrease in the year 2016 • Eliminating registers used by AWWs (3,38,954) compared to the year 2014 • Introducing measurement of height of (3,39,457), however for 2016, it is a marginal children at the Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) increase compared to 2015 (3,29,243). Social Audits • Delhi City accounted for 38.8% of total IPC • Setting-up Nutrition Resource Centres, crime reported in the cities followed by involving masses through Jan Andolan for their Bengaluru (8.9%) and Mumbai (7.7%). participation on nutrition through various • According to the report, the incidents of activities, among others. murder were highest in Uttar Pradesh. • This program will take measures to reduce • 4,889 cases of murder were reported here, the level of weight loss of children, short which is 16.1 percent of the total cases. nutrition, deficiency of blood and at the time of • After this, the maximum 2,581 (8.4%) birth, through targets. incidents of murder were registered in Bihar. 3 VAID’S ICS LUCKNOW B-36, Sector-C, Aliganj, Lucknow Cont.9415011892/93 • More than 10 crore people will be benefitted him’. This film is based on an episode of by this programme.All the States and districts Gurudev Ravindra Nath Tagore’s life. will be covered in a phased manner i.e. 315 • The Golden Peacock Award for Best Film of districts in 2017-18, 235 districts in 2018-19 and this Festival was awarded to the film directed by remaining districts in 2019-20. Moroccan-born film director Sebile Campello, • An amount of 9046.17 crore will be ‘120 Bits per Minutes’. expended for three years commencing from • This film is made on the backdrop of the 2017-18. homosexuality and AIDS epidemic spread in • This will be funded by Government France in the 1990s. Its world premiere was held Budgetary Support (50%) and 50% by IBRD or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. other MDB. Government budgetary support • China’s director Vivian Qu won the best would be 60:40 between Centre and States/UTs, director award for her film ‘Angels wear White’. 90:10 for NER and Himalayan States and 100% • Best Actor Male Award was awarded to for UTs without legislature. Nahuel Perez Biscayart for his film ‘120 Bits • Total Government of India share over a ‘Per Minute. period of three years would be Rs. 2849.54 • Parvathy Thiruvoth Kottuvatta was given the crore. Best Actress Award for her Malayalam film • NNM targets to reduce stunting, under- ‘Take-Off’. nutrition, anemia (among young children, • Famous actor Amitabh Bachchan was women and adolescent girls) and reduce low awarded the Best Indian Film Personality of the birth weight by 2%, 2%, 3% and 2% per annum Year for his contribution to Indian cinema. respectively. • In the 48th IFFI, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan was awarded the Lifetime Achievement 48th International Film Festival of Award. India-2017 • Marathi film ‘Kshitij- A Horizon’ was th th • During 20 -28 November, 2017, India’s awarded the ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal. 48th International Film Festival of India was • In this festival world’s first 3D film in the held in Panaji, Goa. Sanskrit language, ‘Anurakti’ was performed. • This year Canada was chosen as Focus Country in 48th IFFI 2017. Paradise Papers Case • This year’s IFFI theme was ‘Connecting the On November 5th, 2017, International World through Stories’. Consortium of Investigative Journalists made st • On November 21 , 2017, famous actress public the 'Paradise Papers' received by the Sridevi inaugurated the 48th IFFI Panorama. German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. • During the inauguration, the audience was 95 other media partners with 'US-based ICIJ' introduced to the official selection of 26 feature (total 96) made 'Paradise Papers' public. and 16 non-feature films of IFFI under the Paradise Papers contains the names of 180 Indian Panorama 2017 category. countries in which India's position is 19th. • In IFFI-2017, about 195 films from over 82 It contains names of 714 Indians which countries were exhibited. includes in these papers as Bollywood star • Of which 10 were world premieres, 10 Asian Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt's wife and international premieres and more than 64 Mannyata Dutt, Union Minister Jayant Sinha, Indian premieres. BJP MP RK Sinha, Congress MP Veerappa • The exhibition of the films was inaugurated Moily, son of P. Chidambaram, Kirti with the performance of Iranian master Majeedis Chidambaram etc. first film featured in India ‘Beyond the Clouds’. In India on November 6th, 2017, Finance While the festival ended with Pablo Caesar’s Minister Arun Jaitley ordered the inquiry into Indo-Argentine co-production ‘Thinking of the matter. 4 VAID’S ICS LUCKNOW B-36, Sector-C, Aliganj, Lucknow Cont.9415011892/93 In this financial document, files related to What is ICIJ: investment in 'Tax Haven' countries have been The International Consortium of Investigative made public, which is linked to the offshore law Journalists was founded in 1997 by American firm. Such kind of investment in technical Journalist Chuck Lewis. language is called 'Offshore Finance'. It is a global network spread across 70 It is believed that about 1.34 crore documents countries in which more than 200 journalists are have been made public in Paradise Papers. connected. This document is related to two financial India's daily newspaper The Indian Express is companies-Bermuda's 'Appleby' and a member of ICIJ who has examined all Singapore’s Asiaciti. documents related to India. Through leak papers, about 1 crore million The team examines the received information pounds of foreign investment of Queen and makes it public when found correct. Elizabeth II of Britain have been revealed. She Its headquarters is in Washington DC, US. invested in an offshore in the year 2004 and in the year 2005. National Achievement Survey-2017 Investment in Russian shipping company by In November 2017, the National Commerce Minister Wilbur Ross of the trump’s Achievement Survey was organized by the government was also revealed through these National Council of Educational Research and papers. Training (NCERT). This will again trigger questions in regards to This survey was developed by NCERT. relations between Donald Trump's government This survey conducted by NCERT is not only and Russia. India’s largest ‘national achievement survey’ It is important that in the year-2016, Panama but it is also one of the world’s largest Papers were also made public by the ICIJ, which assessment surveys. was received by the German newspaper German This survey was organized for class 3, 5 and 8 newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.