Important Days:
1.
July 30 -World Day against Trafficking in Persons
is observed every year to raise awareness of the
plight of human trafficking victims, and promote and protect their rights. This year’s theme is ‘responding to the trafficking of
children and young people’.
National:
1. The blueprint
of Deep Ocean Mission (DOM) has unveiled by the Union Ministry of Earth
Sciences. For this mission, Centre
has drawn up a five-year, Rs. 8,000 crore plans to explore deep recesses of the
ocean. The mission proposes to explore deep-ocean by emulating success of
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in designing and launching
satellites.
2. The Criminal
Law (Amendment) Bill, 2018 to provide death penalty to those convicted of
raping girls below the age of 12 years has passed by Lok Sabha. It provides for stringent punishment of jail
term of minimum 20 years or life imprisonment or death for rape of girl less
than 12 years. It provides provides punishment with imprisonment for rest of
life or death sentence in case of gang rape of girl below 12 years. It
increases minimum punishment from 10 years to 20 years for crime of rape of
girl under 16 years, which can be extended to imprisonment for rest of life. It
increases minimum punishment for rape of women from rigorous imprisonment of 7
years to 10 years, which can be extended to life imprisonment. It provides for
speedy investigation and trial, which must be completed in two months. It
proposes 6 months’ time limit for disposal of appeals in rape cases in time
bound manner. It provides no provision for anticipatory bail for person accused
of rape or gang rape of girl under 16 years. It has also been provided that
court has to give notice of 15 days to Public Prosecutor and representative of
victim before deciding bail applications in case. It has provision for
maintaining national database and profile of sexual offenders by National Crime
Records Bureau (NCRB). This data will be regularly shared with States/UTs for
monitoring, tracking and investigation including verification of antecedents by
police. The Bill replaces ordinance promulgated by President in April 2018 and
amends Indian Penal Code (IPC), Criminal Procedure Code, Protection of Children
from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Indian Evidence Act.
3. Homoeopathy
Central Council (Amendment) Bill, 2018 has passed by Lok Sabha by voice vote to
replace Ordinance promulgated by President in May 2018. The Bill amends 1973 Act to provide for
supersession of Central Council with effect from May 18, 2018.
4. United
Nation’s E-Government Index 2018 was released. India has jumped 22 places to
break into the top 100. India, which was ranked 118 in 2014, jumped 11 places
to be ranked 96 in 2018. The
E-Government Development Index (EGDI) is a composite index based on the
weighted average of three normalized indices. The E-Government survey is
released by the United Nations in every two years. The 2018 edition: 'Gearing
E-Government to Support Transformation towards sustainable and resilient
societies' was launched on July 19, 2018.
International:
1. The United
States has eased export controls for high-technology product sales to India by
elevating its status to a Strategic Trade Authorisation-1 (STA-1) country. The designation of ‘STA-1 country’ will allow India
to buy more advanced and sensitive technologies from the United States, at par
with that of the closest US allies and partners and ensure enduring cooperation
into the future. The information was shared by US Commerce Secretary
Wilbur Ross on July 30, 2018.
2. The voting
has been closed in Zimbabwe's first election since Robert Mugabe was ousted
after 37 years of being in power. With
5.6 million registered voters, the results of the presidential, parliamentary
and local elections are due by August 4. A run-off vote is scheduled for
September 8 if no presidential candidate wins at least 50 per cent of the votes.
The historic vote saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mugabe's former right-hand
man in the ruling ZANU-PF party, face off against opposition leader Nelson
Chamisa of the MDC (Movement for Democratic Change).
3. U.S. spy
satellites have detected renewed activity at the North Korean factory that
produced the country’s first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of
reaching the United States. According
to the images, North Korea appears to be building one or two new liquid-fueled
intercontinental ballistic missiles at the large research facility on the
outskirts of Pyongyang.
4. European
Union countries decided to move the headquarters of the bloc's anti-piracy Atalanta
patrols from London to the Spanish port of Rota on March 29 next year, when
Britain exits the EU.
An EU statement said that the member countries also agreed to transfer the
London-based Maritime Security Centre Horn of Africa, which informs shipping about
piracy threats off Somalia, to the French port of Brest. The security centre
will remain under the Atalanta command.
5. The Myanmar
Government appointed an independent commission to investigate the alleged human
rights abuses against the ethnic Rohingya minority on July 30, 2018. The 4-member panel includes former Japanese
ambassador to the United Nations, former UN Undersecretary-General for
Humanitarian Affairs, Kenzo Oshima, former Philippine Vice Foreign Minister
Rosario Manalo, former Chief of Myanmar's Constitutional Court Mya Thein and
Aung Tun Thet, an economist and former UN official.
Science & Technology:
1. Scientists
have identified new shape called scutoid while studying epithelial cells. Scutoid shape has five sides on one end and six
on the other and a triangular surface on one of its longer edges and it is
completely new to geometry and resembles beetle’s scutellum (shield-like structure)
from top-down view. Epithelial tissue is one of four kinds of tissue that forms
human bodym which acts as safety shield of body that make up cell
walls lining our blood vessels and organs.
2. e-Aksharayan
- a desktop software to enable editing of text printed on scanned documents has
launched by the Union IT ministry on July 31, 2018. It will convert scanned printed Indian language
documents into a fully editable text format in Unicode encoding. The
software can be downloaded for free from its website. The software
supports editing in seven Indian languages - Hindi, Bangla, Malayalam,
Gurmukhi, Tamil, Kannada and Assamese.
Defence:
1. The proposal
for acquisition of 8 Fast Patrol Vessels (FPVs) for Indian Coast Guard at an
approximate cost of Rs 800 crore has approved
by Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by Defence Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman. These vessels
will be procured under ‘Buy (lndian-lDDM)’ category. They will be indigenously
designed and manufactured. Their induction will strengthen maritime security by
undertaking day and night patrolling and policing of Maritime Zones of India.
2. The implementation
of Strategic Partnership guidelines has approved by Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired
by Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. SP model aims to revitalise defence industrial ecosystem and
progressively build indigenous capabilities in private sector to design,
develop and manufacture complex weapon system for future needs of armed forces.
It is considered as major step towards boosting private sector participation in
domestic defence manufacturing. The SP model has four segments — submarines,
single engine fighter aircraft, helicopters and armoured carriers/main battle
tanks which will be specifically opened up for the private sector. The
policy had come into effect in May 2017 but progress was delayed due to lack of
specific guidelines.
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Economy :
1. The
three-day meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of
India began in Mumbai on July 30, 2018. In a release, the RBI said, the Monetary Policy
Committee has decided to continue the practice of a three-day meeting format as
was adopted in the meeting for the Second Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement
of June 6, 2018. The meeting will discuss the Third Bi-monthly Monetary
Policy Statement for 2018-19 which will be issued on August 1, 2018.
2. The State Banks (Repeal and Amendment) Bill, 2017
that merges the subsidiary banks with the State Bank of India (SBI) passed by the
Indian Parliament on July 30, 2018. The Bill seeks to repeal the State Bank of
India (Subsidiary Banks) Act, 1959, the State Bank of Hyderabad Act, 1956.
These Acts established the State Bank of Bikaner, State Bank of Mysore, State
Bank of Patiala, State Bank of Travancore, and State Bank of Hyderabad, the
subsidiaries of the SBI.
Awards:
1. Former West Bengal
governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi has been selected for this year's Rajiv Gandhi
Sadbhavana Award for his outstanding contribution towards the promotion of
communal harmony, peace and goodwill. The
award will be presented to Gandhi at a special ceremony on August 20 at Jawahar
Bhawan on the occasion of the birthday of former Prime Minister Rajiv
Gandhi.
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