Current Affairs 18-19th Apr, 2015

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Current Affairs 19th Apr, 2015

1. Income tax assessees will now be required to disclose details of foreign travel and expenses incurred during such visits in their tax returns. Taxpayers also need to give information of all bank accounts even if they have been closed during the financial year.

2. The office of the Chief Educational Officer, Pudukottai, Tamil Nadu, has bagged the ISO 9001:2008 certification. This is said to be the first Education Department office to get the certification.

3. Uttarakhand now has a second tiger reserve, besides the Corbett Tiger Reserve. Uttarakhand is the State with the second highest tiger population after Karnataka.

4. The ‘Global E-Waste Monitor 2014’, compiled by U.N.’s think tank United Nations University (UNU), has warned that the volume of global e-waste is likely to rise by 21% in next three years. India is the fifth biggest producer of e-waste in the world.

5. In a judgment with far-reaching effect on numerous cases pending under the Prevention of Corruption Act, the Supreme Court has held that a public servant cannot by default claim legal protection of prior sanction against prosecution.

Current Affairs 18th Apr, 2015

1. Nasim Zaidi assumed the charge as Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India. He succeeded Hari Shankar Brahma, who had retired on 18 April 2015. Zaidi became India’s 20th CEC.

2. The 13th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice was held from 12 April 2015 to 19 April 2015 in Doha, Qatar. The Summit concluded with the adoption of Doha Declaration which aims at integrating crime prevention and criminal justice into the wider United Nations (UN) agenda.

3. Israel has agreed to transfer in full hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes collected for the Palestinian Authority (PA) but frozen in a row over the International Criminal Court.

4. Chhurim Sherpa, first woman to climb the 8850 metre (29035 feet) Mount Everest summit twice in a week. Sherpa was in news as during her third ascent to Mount Everest she will take a cricket bat and two jerseys of deceased Australian cricketer Phil Hughes.

5. Former Governor of Assam and three-time Chief Minister of Odisha Janaki Ballabh Patnaik died in Tirupati. He was 89. His major contribution was to the transportation and tourism of Odisha.