CURRENT GK
1.Transparency in corporate data will help in stopping the money received from fictitious companies: Finance Minister :-
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that transparency in corporate data will help in curbing the money received from fraudulent companies. After launching the National Corporate Social Responsibility Data Portal and Corporate Data Portal in New Delhi, he said that transparency and accountability will increase from this website. Shri Jaitley said that this will give people detailed information about Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
This is now in front of people. One advantage of this is that there will be pressure to follow the rules. I think the system will be able to get information easily even by getting the system on-line. It is also good for corporate India as well as transparency system.
2.US President Donald Trump accused Russia of helping North Korea ignoring international sanctions on Russia :-
US President Donald Trump has said that Russia is helping North Korea ignoring international sanctions. In a meeting with the news agency Writer in Washington, Mr Trump said that Russia is not doing any assistance to the United States in dealing with North Korea. He also said that in this case Russia is emulating China.
The American President also expressed the danger of a kind of crisis , especially considering the possibility that North Korea has developed such an international ballistic missile whose ability to kill the mainland of the US. They also expressed doubts that there would be a constructive outcome of the dialogue with Kim Jong, about the release of the Korean Peninsula from nuclear weapons. However Mr Trump did not rule out direct talks.
On the comments of Mr. Trump, there was no immediate response from Russian Embassy in Washington. Last year, both China and Russia had supported the UN Security Council’s sanctions imposed last year against North Korea.
3.India successfully test-fired ballistic missile fire-5 in the country, test successfully :-
India has successfully tested the surface-to-surface ballistic missile Agni-5 from Orissa coast. This advanced state-of-the-art Agni-5 missile has been constructed by Defense Research and Development Organization. It was released on Thursday morning at 9.25 pm. The three-phase concrete fuel-powered missile can kill five thousand kilometers. It can take nuclear weapons of over one ton of weight.
Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) chief Dr. S. Christopher has said that the Agni-5 missile test was the first user test by defense forces. In Chennai, he said that DRDO has done all three trials. On the development of the Arjun Tank, the DRDO chief said that the dialogue is going on at the higher level to include the army of this state-of-the-art tank in two additional regiments.
4.The Social Justice and Empowerment Minister launched one hundred websites for the Divisions :-
Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawar Chandra Gehlot launched a hundred websites for the Divya on Friday. Devyang people will now be able to use these official websites conveniently. Divya Friendly These websites are especially for visually impaired people. Their specialty is that there are screen readers and screen magnifiers that can make the user content available in the audio form. Shri Gahlot said that such 9 hundred websites will be started in a phased manner. Shri Gahlot said that there is enough capacity and generosity among the people of Divya, But they should be given an opportunity to prove themselves. He said that there is a lot to be done for the empowerment of the people in the country. Shri Gehlot appealed the States to accelerate the work being done in the interest of the Divisions. He said that the Central Government is providing all possible help to empower the people and bring them in the mainstream.
5.Under the Prime Minister’s Safe Maternity Campaign, more than one crore women were screened for pre-natal health check-up :-
Pre-natal health check-up of more than one crore pregnant women has been done under the Prime Minister’s Safe Motherhood campaign. This program was started in 2016. Its aim is to fulfill Mr. Modi’s dream of ensuring quality check of pregnant women across the country. Under this campaign, pregnant women are checked every month on 9th of every month.
Health Minister JP Nadda has said that now safe pregnancies have become a social movement. He thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for extending this support. Shri Nadda said that this program is being run in remote and remote areas also.
In July 2016, the Prime Minister had requested the private sector doctors in the matter of mind talking to Akashwani that they should give this program 12 days every year and on 9th of every month, voluntarily provide services under the campaign. Under this program, more than 4,800 doctors have expressed their commitment to provide services.
6.Supreme Court dismisses petition seeking cancellation of certificates from Padmaavat :-
The Supreme Court has refused to hear an urgent hearing on the new PIL in which controversial film Padmavat has been demanded to cancel the certificate obtained from the censor board. Judge Justice M. Khanvilkar and DY Chandrachood, under the chairmanship of Chief Justice Justice Deepak Mishra, did not even consider the argument that the performance of the film could be a serious threat to the law and order. The bench said that maintaining law and order is the work of the state.
7.The fifth and the eighth grade classes will start again: Prakash Javadekar :-
Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar has said that to ensure the level of education, the annual examination of class five and eighth classes will be resumed again. He said in a seminar organized by Indian Institute of Technology -IIT Madras that 26 states supported this decision, while three states opposed it.
