14.07.17 GUJARAT Current Affairs

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GUJARAT

  • Gujarat to set up its own bustard breeding centre

 

  • With collaboration of Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and expertise offered by United Arab Emirates (UAE) the state government is planning to set up a breeding centre for great Indian bustards (GIB) at Naliya in Kutch. This will be the first breeding centre in the state for the birds, which are currently on the Red List of threatened species maintained by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

  • Officials in the forest department say that the UAE has been a frontrunner in bustard conservation since 1970 and, in its own territory, it has brought back the houbara bustard from the brink of extinction with successful breeding centres.

 

  • GIB conservation efforts in Gujarat faced a major roadblock when the Union government could not set up a breeding centre in Gujarat as Rajasthan refused to send GIB eggs for incubation. Consequently, the Union government decided to set up the breeding centre in Rajasthan, and Gujarat was left in the lurch.

INTERNATIONAL

  • Liu Xiaobo, Chinese dissident who won Nobel prize, dies.

 

  • Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, China’s most prominent political prisoner, died on Thursday at a hospital in the country’s northeast, officials said. He was 61.

 

  • Chinese literary critic, writer, human rights activist who called for political reforms and end of communist single-party rule. He is also known for his role in 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing.
  • Liu is the third person to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while in prison or detention, after Germany’s Carl von Ossietzky (1935) and Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi (1991).

NATIONAL

  • New rules to protect policyholders.

 

  • The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDA) has notified new rules to protect policyholder’s interest.

 

  • If an insurer delays claims payments, it has to pay a penalty that’s 2% over the bank rate, which is specified by the Reserve Bank of India, as on 1 April of that fiscal.

 

 

  • It has to do so within 30 days from when the decision to pay was taken.

 

  • National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination in India (2017-22)

 

  • The Strategic Plan gives year wise elimination targets in various parts of the country depending upon the endemicity of malaria in the next 5 years.

  • Highlighting the salient features of the NSP, Shri Nadda stated that the strategies involve strengthening malaria surveillance, establishing a mechanism for early detection and prevention of outbreaks of malaria, promoting the prevention of malaria by the use of Long Lasting Impregnated Nets (LLINs), effective indoor residual spray and augmenting the manpower and capacities for effective implementation for the next five years.

 

  • India to host 8th Edition of Theatre Olympics ‘The Biggest Theatre Celebration of the World’

 

  • India will host the 8th edition of Theatre Olympics in 2018, the biggest theatre celebration of the world.
  • The eight edition of the greatest carnival will start from February 17-April 08, 2018.
  • The Theatre Olympics will take place simultaneously in various cities across the country.
  • There will be five hundred plays and seven hundred ambience performances from across the world.

 

  • Delhi government to start online RTI portal

 

  • Delhi became the second state to launch e-RTI portal that will enable citizens to file online Right to Information (RTI).

  • The Central government had launched its own online RTI application portal in 2013, which allowed users to file queries, pay application fee and submit requests for appeal.

 

  • The Central government had urged the States to set up their own online application portals. Maharashtra had followed suit in 2015 with its own RTI portal.

 

  • Dumping in Ganga will be fined from now.

 

  • Penalty of Rs 50, 000 will be imposed on those dumping waste in the stretch between Haridwar and Unnao of River Ganga, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) said.

 

  • No waste dumping should be allowed within 500 meters from the edge of the Ganga. Also, 100 meters from the edge of the river should be declared a “no-development zone.

 

  • The Tribunal directed the concerned authorities to complete the setting up of a sewage treatment plant and cleaning of drains within two years.
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