Current Affairs Today 7th May 2019 | Current Affairs News

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: DAYS

International Day of the Midwife

• International Midwives Day 2019 is celebrated on May 5^th every year.
• First International Day of the Midwife (IDM) was celebrated on 5^th of May in the year 1991 using the theme “Towards safe birth for all by the year 2000”. It is celebrated as a day to honor the midwives for their big contribution towards the health of the people across the nations.

International No Diet Day

• International No Diet Day is a day that is celebrated on May 6th and is a day used to raise awareness to not only how unhealthy fad dieting can be but also to acknowledge the beauty and diversity of all body types.
• It is also a day to raise awareness about the various dieting disorders which exist. Disorders such as anorexia and bulimia.
• This day was first created in 1992 by Mary Evans to help people appreciate their own bodies

World Athletics Day

• Every year the World Athletic Day is observed every year on 7 May to raise awareness about sports among youth, in schools and institutions to promote athletics as the primary sport. And to introduce new talent and youngsters in the field of athletics

CURRENT AFFAIRS: NATIONAL

India to attend G-7 meet in France

• India will be attending the Group of 7 industrialised nations meet organised by France in Biarritz in August along with Australia, Chile and South Africa, in a sign of the recognition of India’s growing economic heft in the international arena.
• The invitation to Australia, France and Chile besides India reflects the French emphasis on the Indian Ocean and the Pacific region.
• The G-7 groups together the US, Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Japan and Germany.

Anti-dumping duty imposed on saccharin imports from Indonesia

• The Finance Ministry has, on the recommendations of the Commerce Ministry, imposed an anti-dumping duty of $1,633.17 per tonne on the import of saccharine from Indonesia.
• Saccharine is a compound most commonly used in sugar-substitute sweeteners.
• Indonesia, until recently, accounted for a large chunk of India’s saccharine imports. In 2017-18, India imported $4.36 million worth of saccharine from Indonesia, which is 43% of the total imports of the sugar-substitute compound.
• However, imports from Indonesia have declined since then. In the April 2018 to February 2019 period, India imported only $1.48 million worth of saccharine from Indonesia, about 20% of its total imports from around the world.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: STATE

Shops, businesses in Gujarat can remain open 24X7 now

• Shops and other businesses in Gujarat can remain open round the clock now with the Gujarat Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2019 coming into force from May 1.
• With this, commercial establishments in municipal corporations limits, or those near national highways, railway stations, state transport depots, hospitals and petrol pumps will be allowed to operate 24 hours.
• The shops and commercial entities operating near state highways and within municipality limits can now operate between 6 am to 2 am.
• The act replaced the Gujarat Shops and Establishments Act of 1948, which prohibited shops and other businesses from operating between 12 am to 6 am.
• Under the new act, working hours for women employees can be between 6 am and 9 pm, which could be relaxed only if a written request is made and after the authorities consider safety issues.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BANKING AND FINANCE

RBI directs banks to enhance housing loan limits for eligibility under priority sector lending

• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increased the eligibility cap on home loans extended by regional rural banks and small finance banks to 35 lakh in metropolitan areas and Rs. 25 lakh in other centres, provided the overall cost of the dwelling unit in the metropolitan centres and other centres does not exceed Rs. 45 lakh and Rs. 30 lakh.
• All such loans will be now classified by these banks as priority sector loans.
• The existing family income limit of 2 lakh per annum to be eligible for loans for housing projects exclusively for construction of houses for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and Low Income Groups (LIG), is revised to Rs. 3 lakh per annum for EWS and Rs. 6 lakh per annum for LIG, in alignment with the income criteria specified under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana

ADB launches $5 billion healthy oceans action plan

• The Asian Development Bank has launched a 5 billion dollar action plan aimed at protecting the Pacific Ocean and promoting economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region.
• The initiative was launched at the 52nd Annual Meeting of ADB’s Board of Governors in Fiji.
• The $5 billion action plan will run between 2019–2024.
• The ADB announced the launch of the Action Plan for Healthy Oceans and Sustainable Blue Economies.
• The organization wants to help reduce land-based sources of marine pollution, including waste water and plastic waste. It also wants to protect marine ecosystems and create sustainable business opportunities in tourism and the fisheries industry.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATION

Stevo Pendarovski wins North Macedonia’s presidential election

• Stevo Pendarovski, supported by the ruling Social Democrats (SDSM), has won the North Macedonian presidency in a run-off vote.
• Pendarovski had 51.7% of votes whereas Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, his challenger, had 44.7% votes.
• Siljanovska-Davkova is North Macedonia’s first female candidate and a university professor.

King Maha Vajiralongkorn crowned Rama X of Thailand

• Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn was crowned with a golden-tiered headpiece, the highlight of an elaborate three-day coronation ceremony two years after he ascended the throne.
• The 66-year-old monarch, who was dressed in a bejewelled golden robe, was handed the 7.3kg Crown of Victory, which he placed on his head before issuing his first royal command.
• King Vajiralongkorn is the tenth monarch of the Chakri dynasty, which has reigned since 1782.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: AWARDS AND HONOURS

Indian-origin journalist conferred with V K Krishna Menon award

• G D ‘Robert’ Govender, an Indian-origin journalist in South Africa, has been honoured in the UK with 2019 V K Krishna Menon award for his outstanding contribution as a pioneer of decolonised journalism.
• The South Africa-born journalist was awarded posthumously during an event to mark the 123rd birth anniversary of Indian diplomat and politician V K Krishna Menon.

PC Chandra Purashkaar 2019 conferred to Padma Bhushan Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty

• C. Chandra Puraskaar, the annual national award from the P. C. Chandra Group was conferred upon one of India’s reputed cardiac surgeon and humanitarian Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty at the Biswa Bangla Convention Centre.
• Swami Suviranandaji Maharaj, the General Secretary of Ramkrishna Math and Ramkrishna Mission, Belur Math graced the occasion as the Chief Guest and gave away the award.
• He has received innumerable awards and honours in his life, the most noteworthy being Padma Shri for Medicine in 2003 and Padma Bhushan for Medicine in 2013. Government of Karnataka also conferred him with the ‘Rajyotsava Award’ in 2002 for initiating the concept of “micro health insurance scheme.”
• The award ‘P.C. Chandra Puraskaar’ carries an honorarium of Rs. 10 lakhs, which is tax exempt.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Momo-3 is Japan’s first private rocket to reach space

• A Japanese aerospace startup successfully launched a small rocket, making it the country’s first privately developed model to reach outer space.
• The unmanned rocket launched from its test site in Taiki on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido and it reached about 110 km in altitude before falling into the Pacific Ocean after 10 minutes of flight time.

SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 rocket with Dragon spacecraft

• Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. launched its 17th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station for longtime customer NASA
• The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Dragon will deliver almost 5,500 pounds of science, supplies and hardware to the Space Station

CURRENT AFFAIRS: DEFENCE

Indian Navy’s submarine ‘Vela’ of Project 75 launched 

• The Navy launched the Scorpene-class submarine Vela, the fourth of six underwater warships being built in India with French collaboration, with an aim to boost Indian capability to defend and secure the strategic sea lanes.
• The Vela submarine will undergo a number of tests conducted by the Navy before it is commissioned in the defence fleet.
• The state-owned Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited has entered into a contract for construction and transfer of technology for six Scorpene-class subs with French collaborator Ms Naval Group (formerly DCNS). INS Vela is the fourth in that series.

INS Ranjit decommissioned at Visakhapatnam

• Frontline missile destroyer of the Indian Navy ‘INS Ranjit’ was decommissioned at the Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam, after serving the Indian navy for 36 years.
• INS Ranjit, the third of the five Kashin-class destroyers built by the erstwhile USSR, was commissioned on September 15 1983.
• INS Rajat has sailed for 2,190 days, covering over 7,43,000 nautical miles, equivalent to navigating around the world 35 times and 3.5 times the distance from the earth to the moon

CURRENT AFFAIRS: MOU

E-Governance Services India ties up with IIT – Kanpur to upscale Unnat Bharat Abhiyan

• Common Service Centre’s (CSC) e-Governance Services India Limited, a special purpose vehicle under the Ministry of Electronics & IT, has tied up with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kanpur to upscale ‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyan’.
• ‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyan’ is an initiative of the Ministry of HRD. It aims to find solutions to accelerate sustainable growth in rural India.
• Under the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, IIT-Kanpur has brought together 15 leading higher education institutions from Uttar Pradesh.
• These institutions have agreed to work with CSC for the development of villages under the scheme.

India, UK in talks to build copycat Naval supercarrier under ‘Make in India

• The United Kingdom is in talks with the Indian government on building a new state-of-the-art aircraft carrier along the lines of Britain’s HMS Queen Elizabeth as part of the ongoing ‘Make in India’ negotations,
• The talks are under way for the Indian Navy to buy detailed plans for the 65,000-ton British warship to build a so-called “copycat supercarrier” to be named INS Vishal in 2022.
• The report noted that such a new Naval carrier would serve alongside India’s 45,000-ton carrier INS Vikramaditya — bought from Russia in 2004 — and the currently under-construction 40,000-ton INS Vikrant
• The design for UK aircraft carriers is owned by the British and French aerospace giants BAE and Thales.

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