Current Affairs 28-29th Apr, 2015

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Current Affairs 29th Apr, 2015

1. Raja Rajeswari, the first India-born woman to be appointed a judge in New York City, was sworn-in by Mayor Bill recently.

2. The Sri Lankan Parliament has adopted the 19th Constitutional Amendment Bill with an overwhelming majority. The legislation envisages the dilution of many powers of Executive Presidency, which had been in force since 1978.

3. In its ‘India Development Update’, the World Bank pegged India’s economic growth rate at 7.9 per cent for the next financial year (FY17) and eight per cent for FY18.

4. Government may not take away the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) power to regulate trade in government bonds even as it prepares to remove the central bank's responsibility for managing public debt.

5. The ministry of home affairs (MHA) has cancelled the registration of around 9,000 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) under the Foreign Contribution Registration Act (FCRA), 2010. None of these NGOs will be able to seek foreign donations or access their bank accounts to utilise the unutilised foreign contributions.

Current Affairs 28th Apr, 2015

1. United States and Japan have unveiled new rules for defence cooperation that will give Japanese armed forces a more ambitious global role amid concerns over China’s rising sway. Under the revised guidelines, Japan could come to the aid of U.S forces.

2. China wants to include Mongolia’s “Steppe road” initiative, and link up with the Moscow-driven transcontinental rail plan to develop the China-Mongolia-Russia (CMR) economic corridor.

3. A new report from UN Women has found that South Asia has the world’s most skewed gender wage gap and is among the few regions where the gender labour force participation gap is both large and growing. The report is titled ‘The Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016’.

4. Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Limited (TRIFED) functioning under Ministry of Tribal Affairs, has bagged the “National Award for Excellence in Training for the Year 2015″ in a contest organized by the Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India.

5. An Indian 155 millimetre, 45-calibre artillery gun called the Dhanush has cleared its field trials and is ready for manufacture in numbers.