Around INDIA
# President, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee launched a mobile Application
‘Selfie with Daughter’ at Rashtrapati Bhavan
# Supreme Court upheld the validity of an Income Tax law
amendement linking PAN with Aadhaarfor filing tax returns and making Aadhaar
compulsory to apply for PAN
# Madras High Court questioned the rationale behind holding
NEET; asked the MCI whether is it possible to determine the calibre or
intellect or merit of the students by a single NEET conducted by CBSE
# Furthering the agenda for cooperative federalism, NITI Aayog
has launched SATH, (‘Sustainable Action for Transforming Human capital’) with
the State Governments.
# Protests by farmers in the BJP - ruled States (Madhya Pradesh
and Maharashtra) have focussed on demands for a farm loan waiver of the kind
offered in another BJP - ruled State (Uttar Pradesh)
# The second edition of National Health Editors’ Conference on
Yoga was held in New Delhi with the theme of “Yoga for Health and Harmony”.
# Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment inaugurated the
“Eastern Regional Conference of Eastern Region States on issues relating to
Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities” in New Delhi; Representatives from
the States of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland,
Odisha, Sikkim, Tripura, West Bengal participated in the Conference.
TAMIL NADU
# Tamil Nadu's 22nd Government Medical College was inaugurated
in Pudukottai
# A response to a question under RTI has revealed that the
Centre had chosen Sengipatti in Thanjavur for setting up the All India
Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
# MDMK Chief, Mr. Vaiko denied entry into Malaysia on the ground
that he was "on the list of dangerous persons posing a threat to the
country"
STATES SCAN
# Madhya Pradesh: farmer "thrashed" by police dead;
with this toll in the ongoing agrarian agitation in Malwa region goes up to 6
# Madhya Pradesh: Chief Minister, Mr. Shivraj Singh Chahan said
that, he would go on an indefinite fast from today in an attempt to restore
peace in the state
BILATERAL ISSUES
# India and Pakistan became a full member of the SCO (Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation) on June 09, 2017
- India and Pakistan were admitted as observers in 2005
# Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, held bilateral meetings
with the leaders of Kazakhstan, China and Uzbekistan, on the sidelines of the
SCO meeting in Astana.
# Switzerland, the incoming chair of the NSG (Nuclear Suppliers
Group) will support application for India's membership but has left the door
open for Pakistan to join as well
# India and the United Nations Office for South - South Cooperation
(UNOSSC) launched a partnership fund to support the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) across the developing world
WORLD
# Austria: to ban burqas from Oct 2017
# UK: British Prime Minister, Ms. Theresa May suffered a
shocking setback as her Conservative Party lost majority in the elections, but
she is going to form a coalition government with the DUP (Democratic Unionist
Party)
- Ms. Theresa May to form the government; out of the 650 seats,
Conservative Party (by Ms. May) won 318 seats [well short of the majority 326]
and the Labour Part (Mr. Jeremy Corbyn) won 261 seats
- The new British Parliament will have a record number of Indian
- origin MPs; 12 MPs; 5 from Conservative Party and 7 from Labour Party
ECONOMICS
# Government has set up 18 sectoral groups, comprising senior
members from the Centre and the States, to ensure the smooth rollout of the GST
SPORTS
# International Olympic Committee approved Mixed-gender events
in athletics, swimming, table tennis and triathlon have been approved for the
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games; 2020 Olympics will see 321 events (in 2016 Olympics
it was 206 events)
# French Open 2017: Stan Wawarinka Vs Rafal Nadal in the finals
MISC
# Mahatma Gandhi's granddaughter Ela Gandhi was honoured for
lifetime activism at the 70th anniversary of the 1946 "Indian Passive
Resistance Campaign" in South Africa
# Palvai Govardhan Reddy, Rajya Sabha MP from Telangana passed
away
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