[CA] News - June 02, 2017

Around INDIA

# Rajasthan tops in child marriage: Study by Just A. K. Sikri of the Supreme Court

# President, Mr. Pranab Mkherjee to lay the foundation stone of a Driver’s Training Institute and a Secondary School under the SMARTGRAM Initiative today in Haryana

# National Gopal Ratna and Kamdhenu Awards to dairy farmers for the year 2017 was awarded

# Union Transport Ministry launched INAM-Pro + in New Delhi

# Committee is being set up in Union Water Resources ministry to look into the issues of de-silting and mining in river ganga in Bihar that hampers the flow of the river

TAMIL NADU

# Chennai Silks Building in T-Nagar, Chennai crumbled

STATES SCAN

# Karnataka: Home Minister, Mr. G. Parameshwara resigned

# Odisha: The first Mega Food Park in the state of Odisha M/s MITS Mega Food Park Pvt. Ltd. at Rayagada has been inaugurated

# Telangana: three day celebrations of Telangana formation from today

BILATERAL ISSUES

# India and Russia signed 5 MoUs in sectors covering nuclear energy, railways, gems and jewellery, traditional knowledge and cultural exchanges.

# 18th Annual India - Russia Summit held at St. Petersburg

# India and Russia signed St. Petersburg Declaration to mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between two countries

- Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi announced that a road in Delhi has been renamed after Ambassador Alexander Kadakin, whom he described as a friend of India, who passed away recently.

# Ties between India and Russia span the spectrum from Culture to Defence (Sanskriti se Suraksha): Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi

WORLD

# China: Premier Li Keqiang said that, the country will "steadfastly" implement the Paris Climate pact

# Japan: launched a satellite to help build a high - precision geolocation system that will complement the US operated Global Positioning System (GPS)

ECONOMICS

# Slowdown in the GDP in the 4th quarter of 2016-17 was not solely due to demonetisation but it is due to global slowdown in the services sector: Union Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley

# SEBI nod for Bharti Airtel and Telenor merger

SPORTS

# Historian Ramachandra Guha, one of the four members of the Committee of Administrators (CoA) appointed by the Supreme Court to run BCCI, quits from the CoA

MISC

# Former Indian Ambassador to the USA, Nirupama Rao has been appointed as the public policy fellow to a top American-think tank based in Washington

- She would be working on a project on Indo - China relationship