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JUNE 30, 2018 AND JULY 1,

JUNE 30, 2018 AND JULY 1, 2018
2018

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June 30, 2018 and July 1, 2018

NATIONAL NEWS
1. The NITI Aayog launched the first Delta ranking (incremental progress) for
the Aspirational Districts, based on self-reported data of districts between March 31,
2018 to May 31, 2018.
• This was computed across five developmental areas of Health and Nutrition,
Education, Agriculture and Water Resources, Financial Inclusion and Skill
Development, and Basic Infrastructure.

• 108 districts out of total 112, participated in this ranking.

• Transformation of Aspirational Districts programme - The programme launched
in January 2018 aims to quickly and effectively transform some of most
underdeveloped districts of the country.
• It focuses closely on improving people’s ability to participate fully in burgeoning
economy.

2. The Maharashtra government in the weekly cabinet meeting chaired by Chief

Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced a new scheme called ‘Kanya Van
Samruddhi Yojana’, wherein farmers families where girl children are born, will be given
saplings for plantation.
• It is aimed at empowering women and promoting tree plantation.

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3. As per Future Development blog of the World Bank’s Brookings Institute titled as ‘The
start of a new poverty narrative’ India is no longer a nation having world’s largest poor
population.
• Nigeria has overtaken India with the largest number of extremely poor people at
87 million in early 2018.
• The study has cited data from World Poverty Clock and new projections on
country economic growth from the International Monetary Funds’ World
Economic Outlook.
• This has been computed for 188 countries and territories, developed and
developing, across the world.
• From 125 million poor people in 2016, India had just 73 million people in the
poorest of the poor index as of May 2018.
• The World Bank report indicates that if the pace of positive growth remains the
same, India would be able to lift up to around 50 million more people out of
poverty by 2022.

4. A Liquid Based Cytology (LBC) technique — Direct to Slide — for screening Cervical
Cancer was launched.
• Approximately 1.32 lakh new cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed and 74,000
deaths occur annually in India which accounts 1/3rd of the global cervical cancer
deaths.

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5. Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu launched a
mobile application called ReUnite which helps to track and trace missing and abandoned
children in India.
• The app has been developed by the NGO, BachpanBachaoAndolan & Capgemini.
• BBA was founded by Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi.
• It is India’s largest movement for the protection of children and works along with
law enforcement agencies and policymakers.
• As per Ministry of Women and Child Development, 2,42,938 children went
missing between 2012 and 2017.

6. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that the health assurance cover for all-
women families per year will be increased from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 7 lakh under the Biju
Swasthya Kalyana Yojana (BSKY).

7. Monti Rajkhowa has become the first Assamese to scale Mount Kanchenjunga, the
third highest mountain in the world.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. International Arbitration Centre in Tokyo (IACT), Asia’s first arbitration centre
specialised in intellectual property, would be opened in Tokyo in September 2018, to
resolve the increasing number of disputes in the region.
• Technological progress and diversification of applications have increased the
number of patent infringement disputes.

2. Indian actress Sonakshi Sinha has joined hands with UNESCO to promote a safe and
secure cyber environment for youngsters.

3. The US State Department categorised North Korea as one of the “worst human
trafficking nation” for the 16th straight year, citing the use of forced labour in its ‘2018
Trafficking in Persons Report’.
• North Korea has been included in the Tier 3 category, which is the lowest
ranking, along with China, Russia and Iran.
• South Korea has been ranked at the highest category, that is, in the list of Tier
1 countries for the 16th consecutive year, along with US, UK, France and Canada.
• India was placed in Tier 2 category for making significant effort to comply with
the US standards.
• The tiers are mandated by The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 of the
US.
▪ Tier 1 : for countries that meet minimum US standards.
▪ Tier 2: for those making significant efforts to meet minimum US
standards.
▪ Tier 2 Watch-list : for those requiring special scrutiny.
▪ Tier 3: for countries that fail to fully comply with the minimum US
standards.

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AWARDS
1. Madhya Pradesh will be awarded for reducing Maternal Mortality under Prime
Minister’s Safe Motherhood Campaign.

• The maternal mortality rate was 221 in 2011-13. Now it has reduced to 173. A
decline of 22% in the last 3 years has been witnessed in Madhya Pradesh.

2. The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) announced that India has
won Global Restructuring Review’s “most improved jurisdiction” award.
• This award is to honour the jurisdiction which improved its restructuring and
insolvency regime the most over the last year.
• In 2017, India lost the title to Singapore.

APPOINTMENTS
1. Dedar Singh Gill, an Indian-origin intellectual property litigator in Singapore has been
appointed Judicial Commissioner of Singapore’s Supreme Court.
2. ICICI Bank has appointed Girish Chandra Chaturvedi as the company’s Non-Executive
Chairman.

IMPORTANT DAYS
1. On 30th June 2018, International Asteroid Day was celebrated all over the world.
2. On 30th June 2018, the first International Day of Parliamentarism was observed all
over the world.
• This day celebrates parliaments and the ways in which parliamentary systems of
government enhance the day-to-day lives of people.
• It is also the date, in 1889, on which the Inter-Parliamentary Union — the global
organization of parliaments — was established.

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