1. Y.C
Modi named National Investigation Agency Chief
i. Senior
Indian Police Service officer ‘Y.C Modi’ (1984 batch- Assam-Meghalaya cadre)
has been appointed as the Director General (DG) of the National Investigation
Agency (NIA).
ii. He will
take over from Sharad Kumar (longest serving chief of the NIA) after he
completes his tenure on 30th October this year.
iii. Appointments
Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has also approved the appointment of Modi as an
officer on special duty (OSD) in NIA with immediate effect to ensure a smooth
takeover.
iv. National
Investigation Agency (NIA) is a central agency established by the Indian Government
to combat terror in India.
v. The
agency is empowered to deal with terror-related crimes across states without
special permission from the states.
vi. The
Agency came into existence with the enactment of the National Investigation
Agency Act 2008 by the Parliament of India on 31st December 2008.
2. Rajni
Kant Misra named Director General of the Sashastra Seema Bal
i. Senior
IPS officer Rajni Kant Misra (1984 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre) has been
appointed director general (DG) of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).
ii. He will
hold the post till the date of his superannuation (31st August
2019).
iii. Sashastra
Seema Bal (SSB) is one of India's Central Armed Police Forces, currently under
the administrative control of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
iv. As of
2017, it has 76,337 active personnel in 67 battalions.
3. Iceland
Prime Minister ‘Bjarni Benediktsson’ resigns
i. Prime
Minister of Iceland ‘Bjarni Benediktsson’ has given his resignation to the
President ‘Gudni Th. Johannesson’.
ii. Earlier,
Mr. Benediktsson took his office in January 2017, uniting his Independence
Party, the Reform Party, and the centrists.
iii. The
resignation paves the way for the new election to be held on 4thNovember
2017.
4. Airtel
Payments Bank launches UPI enabled digital payments
i. India's
first Payment Bank ‘Airtel Payments Bank’ integrated the Unified Payments
Interface (UPI) on its digital platform.
ii. In
January 2017, Bharti Airtel launched Payments Bank in India to enable
transactions on digital platforms.
iii. The
initiative will allow bank customers to link their bank accounts to Bhim app
and make UPI payments.
5. Current
account deficit increases to 2.4% of GDP in first quarter: RBI
i. Current
account deficit (CAD) of the first quarter of this fiscal widened to 2.4% of
gross domestic product (14.3 billion dollars) as imports pushed the trade
deficit.
ii. Last
year, it was 0.1% (401 million dollars) in the same period.
iii. On a
sequential basis, the CAD also widened from0.6 % (3.4 billion dollars) of GDP
in the fourth quarter of last fiscal.
iv. According
to the RBI, widening of the year-on-year deficit was primarily on account of a
higher trade deficit brought about by a larger increase in merchandise imports
relative to exports.
v. The
balance of payments for the April-June quarter increased to 11.40
billion dollars from 6.969 billion dollars in the
year-ago period and net foreign direct investment in the
reporting quarter almost doubled from its level at 7.2 billion
dollars in the same period last year.
6. Google
Tez UPI- based Digital Payments app launched in India
i. Vice-President
of Google has launched a new digital payment app “Google tez” at an event in
New Delhi, India.
ii. The app
is based on UPI platform, allows payments direct from the bank accounts.
iii. The tez
app is one of the most-simple forms of monetary transactions and available to
Android as well as iOS users.
iv. It
supports seven Indian Languages and more will be on the way.
7. International
Yoga Festival starts in Kashmir
i. Jammu and
Kashmir governor N N Vohra has inaugurated the second International Yoga
Festival and International Yoga Sports Championship 2017 in Kashmir.
ii. Around
300 participants from various parts of India, Vietnam, Taiwan, Canada,
Bulgaria, USA, and Nepal are participating in the festival.
iii. The
festival is being organized by the Yoga Society of Kashmir at the
Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre.
8. New
intelligence set-up of Sashastra Seema Bal made operational
i. The Union
Home Minister ‘Rajnath Singh’ made operational the New Intelligence Set-up of
Sashastra Seema Bal.
ii. He also
launched the Welfare & Rehabilitation Board App and distributed scholarship
to children of SSB martyrs.
iii. This
new unit will gather information along the borders with Bhutan and Nepal, which
are often used by criminals and Kashmiri militants returning from Pakistan.
iv. The SSB
has now been declared as the lead intelligence agency for both these borders to
tackle these issues effectively.
v. SSB
guards the 1,751 km- long Indo-Nepal and the 699
km-long Indo-Bhutan borders.
9. Assam
assembly adopts two child norm policy
i. According
to the Assam’s health and family welfare minister, the service rules of the
state government will be changed to give effect to two child norms for
the state government employees.
ii. The
policy seeks to bar those having more than two children from
being elected or nominated to panchayat and other local bodies’
elections or government jobs.
iii. The
policy stated government will consider bringing legislation to increase the
reservation of women in eligible jobs up to 50 percent.
10. Union
Govt. decides to form an inter-ministerial committee for safety measures in
schools
i. The union
govt. has decided to form an inter-ministerial committee to monitor
implementation of safety measures in its schools across the country.
ii. A
committee of six secretaries will be constituted to monitor the implementation
and progress of the guidelines.
iii. It will
conduct a series of meetings to develop a roadmap as well as a timeline for
implementation of the measures recommended.
11. Japan
Open Badminton Championship begins in Tokyo today
i. Today,
the Japan Open Badminton Championship begins in Tokyo.
ii. In the
opening round of the event, India’s P V Sindhu will take on Minatsu Mitani whom
she defeated in the Korea Open.
iii. Kidambi
Srikanth and Saina Nehwal will also return to action at the championship.
12. India's
Purnima wins pentathlon gold at Asian indoor meet
i. Indian
athlete ‘Purnima Hembram’ (24-year) bagged Gold in women's pentathlon event at
the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Turkmenistan.
ii. Hembram
broke the Indian record by scoring 4,062 points and won the event by more than
100 points.
iii. India
also got two silvers, through Sanjivani Jadhav in women’s 3000m (9:26.34s) and
Tejinder Singh Toor in men’s shot put (19.26m), and a bronze V. Neena in
women’s long jump (6.04m).
13. Cyclist
‘Mark Beaumont’ breaks around the world record
i. Mark
Beaumont (34-year) arrived in Paris having completed a circumnavigation of the
globe by bicycle in 78 days 14 hours, and 40 minutes (cycled the 18,000-mile
route).
ii. This
beat his previous unsupported attempt by 116 days and beat the previous world
record by 45 days.
iii. Mark
was also awarded the Guinness World Records title for the most miles cycled in
a month, from Paris to Perth, Australia, verified at 7,031 miles.
iv. He was
on his bike for more than 16 hours a day and only slept for five hours each
night.
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