Good, Bad, Ugly, Controversial
& Interesting News
7th July 2017
Source: Times of India (Chennai Edition)
GOOD News
Electronic payments have become safer
for consumers with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introducing the concept of
`zero liability' and `limited liability' for bank customers for any card or
online fraud. Reporting
of unauthorised transactions through a reply to the alert message and reporting
of unauthorised transactions on the home page of the banks are being made
mandatory. The
customer will not be liable if there is a third party breach, without bank
involvement, which is reported to the bank within three working days of
receiving communication regarding the unauthorized transaction
Those using fake caste certificates for
school and college admissions or getting government jobs will lose the benefit
when the fraud is discovered
CJI, governors should come under RTI
Act: Supreme Court
Indian and Israeli companies signed
strategic pacts worth $4.3 billion (excluding defence) on the side-lines of the
first CEOs Forum held in Tel Aviv. The business leaders gave a thumbsup to the
$40 million innovation fund. They aim to increase bilateral trade from the
present $4-5 billion to $20 billion in five years.
The Indian Coast Guard plans to
strengthen its presence on the eastern seaboard by adding more patrol and
interceptor vessels. The
number of ships went from 61 in 2009 to 129 in 2017. This will be increased to
150 by the end of 2018
Gujarat is set to become the first state
to witness use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with paper trail in all
polling booths during the assembly elections slated to be held in December.
The Kerala government is planning to set
up a `One-Day Home' to provide safe accommodation for women visiting
Thiruvananthapuram for various purposes as part of making the Kerala capital women
friendly
India has declared itself free from bird
flu (highly pathogenic Avian Influenza -H5N1 and H5N8) and notified it to the
World Organisation for Animal Health. The move will help it resume export of
poultry products to the countries which had banned trade
Like universities abroad, students in
India will now have a say in assessment and accreditation of their academic
institutions. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), which
launched its new methodology for grading universities, will give 20% weightage
to online student satisfaction survey (SSS) while offering accreditation from
this year
Mauritius signed the multilateral
instrument (MLI) to mitigate tax avoidance through base erosion and profit
shifting (BEPS) tactics. However,
it has not covered the tax treaty with India under the MLI signed by it
Bad News
Tamil Nadu Govt. to tax rooftop solar,
slashes support
As Indian and Chinese troops remain
locked in a face-off near the Sikkim-Bhutan-Tibet trijunction, there is, as of
now, no bilateral meeting scheduled between Chinese President Xi Jinping and PM
Narendra Modi at Germany's Hamburg where the leaders will attend the G20
deliberations on 7th & 8th Jul
3,000 streets out of 28,000 streets in Chennai
city which get water supply through 6,520-km pipeline network in Chennai go
without water
Amid stand-off, China holds army
exercise in Tibet
Ugly News
A 20-year-old student fell to his death from
the fifth floor balcony of a building in Gurgaon DLF-3 where he stayed as a
paying guest after allegedly being pushed by the landlord and his sons during
an argument over water shortage and power outages on the premises
Controversial News
PeTA (The
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) moves SC against TN jallikattu law
Noting a
lack of affordable and quality school education for children from minority
communities, a panel set up by ministry for minority affairs has recommended
setting-up of 211 central schools on the lines of Kendriya Vidyalas and
Navodaya Vidyalas in minority-concentration districts
Sikkim has
decided to sue Bengal for causing loss exceeding Rs 60,000 crore to the
Himalayan state during the 32-year-long Gorkhaland statehood agitation in
neighbouring Darjeeling
Former
finance minister Chidambaram calls GST `very, very imperfect'
The joint
admission board of IIT has told the Supreme Court that it was not possible to
revise the merit list of Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) by scrapping
bonus marks awarded to all students for wrong questions, saying that around
30,000 candidates had already been allotted seats in different engineering
colleges across the country. According to the petition, “IIT-Madras decision to award 18 bonus marks to all the
candidates appearing for the examination (11 marks for incorrect questions in
Paper II and 7 marks for incorrect questions in Paper I) irrespective of
whether or not those candidates even attempted to answer the said questions is
clearly arbitrary and violative of the rights of the candidates who
successfully solved the said questions”
The
district magistrate of Haridwar has issued directions to heads of various departments
such as police, local bodies, health department, village panchayats etc to
penalise those who are found urinating or defecating in the areas under their
jurisdiction with a fine of Rs. 5,000.
Interesting News
The transmission and distribution
(T&D) losses for rooftop solar plants is less than 1%, while for big plants
it is around 20%-25%.
According to the `Global Report on Urban
Health' released by the UN in 2016, the number of persons killed per lakh of
population in Chennai was the second highest across the major selected cities
at 26.6, next to Fortaleza, the capital of the Brazilian state of Ceara.
The
Swedish capital reported only 0.7 deaths per one lakh of population
According to a research study by the ministry of road transport and highways and Barclays
on the vehicular population in India in 2016, Delhi had the most number of
vehicles with around 4.5 crore and Chennai had the second largest vehicular
population of 2.33 crore.
As refinery systems can reach
temperatures as high as 120ºC, they use significant quantities of water -about
2.5 gallons -for every gallon of petrol they produce.
Bariatric surgery to reduce excess fat
cannot be always categorized as a cosmetic surgery; morbid obesity is a disease
which leads to several health complications as well (such as hypertension,
diabetes, osteoarthritis and cancer), a consumer court has held. The court
directed the insurance company to pay mediclaim of Rs. 3.24 lakh with 9% interest to a morbidly
obese 67year old woman who went under the scalpel for weight loss three years
ago
The Indian Army played a vital role in
liberating Haifa from the Turks after almost 402 years -a battle immortalised
in the school curricula of Israel. Almost a 100 years later, at a solemn
ceremony in the Indian War Cemetery, PM Narendra Modi and his Israeli counterpart,
Benjamin Netanyahu, paid homage to the 44 Indian soldiers who had made the
ultimate sacrifice during the liberation of the city during World War I
5.3 crore of the country's 12 crore
farmers (44%) and 40% of the crop area had been covered in one year of the launch
of crop insurance
France aims to junk sale of petrol,
diesel cars by 2040
Two experimental treatments for skin
cancer, tailor-made to target a particular patient's tumours, proved safe in
small-scale trials
Older couples cheat more than their
younger counterparts in extra-marital sex
Strong sense of smell could make you fat
Nakazato, the 31-year-old wunderkind has
been working for six months on a new 3D technique using cotton, nylon and wool.
He said that in future clothes would be infinitely adaptable “and will grow
with you“ - expanding with the wearer's waistline -and able to incorporate
wearable devices.
According to researchers from the
University of Toronto, Expressions Can Reveal If We Are Rich Or Poor, Make
People Act With Bias
Chinese cinemas have be en ordered to
play government-issued videos before every movie screening.
Wi-Fi now an analytics tool for
retailers to engage with shoppers
Former world chess champion Garry
Kasparov is coming out of retirement to play in a US tournament next month
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