Daily News Analysis for IAS / UPSC (1st June, 2016)

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Draft ‘Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2016’ released

Objective: To create a strong legal, economic and social environment against trafficking of persons and related matters.
Highlights of the Initiatives:Khoya-Paya web portal, Pasting of posters in railway coaches, Expansion of Children helpline – 1098

India tops global slavery index

highest number of people in the world ensnared in slavery with 35 millionaccording to the Global Slavery Index report
Causes:Forced labour, Prostitution and Beggings.
Released by:Australia-based Human rights group Walk Free Foundation.

India in 41st slot on competitiveness ranking

ranked at 41st positionon the IMD World Competitiveness Scoreboard, 2016.
Hong Kongtakes the place of US by the World’s most competitive economy
Top places of Countries:Switzerland, Singapore, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Canada.

Govt adds four new vaccines to immunisation drive

Union health ministry to revamp its flagship immunisation programme Mission Indradhanush
four new vaccines forrotavirus, measles rubella, inactivated polio vaccinebiavalent and Japanese Encephalitis for adults.

Retirement age of doctors of Central Health Services raised to 65 years

Cabinet will soon approve a Bill to increase the superannuation age of all central government doctors from 60 to 65 years.
Purpose:To retain the experienced doctors for a longer period & provide quality health services to citizens, particularly the poor.
there are about4,000 doctors under the Central Health Service.

Delhi Government Launches ‘DVAT M SEWA’ Mobile App

‘DVAT M SEWA’ mobile app is launched in order to boost the tax collection.
app will ensure VAT registrationwithin 24 hrs of filing request.
city traders can register themselves with the VAT department of the state government.
VAT inspector’s visit at traders’ business premises will not be required instead traders will have to upload a picture of their business premises in the app only.

Indian Railways, PEC sign MoU to set up Kalpana Chawla Chair on geospatial technology

would develop in-house solutions to problems that are otherwise often outsourced to western countries.
railways to provide a corpus of Rs 10 crore to the University for the Chair.

Indian Economy May See 7.8% Growth In FY17

Indian economy is expected a growth of 7.8 per centin the current fiscal year due to improvement in agriculture and private consumption.
Credit Suisse expected that growth to improve to8% in current fiscal from 7.5%

Mahindra inks brand licence agreement with Pininfarina

Mahindra & Mahindra has signed a brand licence agreementwith Italian car designer Pininfarina for using trademarks
Deal to acquire 76.06per cent stake in the company.
Vehicle major had announced to acquire Turin-based Pininfarinafor an overall outgo of over 50 million Euros after months of negotiations last year.

A.R Rahman conferred with Japan’s Fukuoka prize 2016

for his outstanding contribution towards creating, preserving and showcasing South Asian traditional fusion music.
usician has been invited to the Fukuoka to give a public lecture on From the Heart: The World of A.R Rahman’s Music.
Prize is an award established by Fukuoka, Japan and the Yokatopia Foundation, to honour the outstanding work of individuals or organisations in preserving or creating Asian culture.

Pope Francis Awards Medals to Richard Gere, George Clooney, Salma Hayek

award is to promote the work of a foundation inspired by the pontiff, Scholas Occurrentes
actors had agreed to be ambassadors for one of the foundation’s arts projects for the foundation named schools that meetin Spanish, links technology with the arts, aiming at social integration and a cultural of peace.

Virat Kohli named T20 Player of the year, Ashwin best bowler at Ceat Award event

The Award winners:
International Cricketer of the Year	Joe Root
International Batsman of the Year	Joe Root
International Bowler of the Year	R Ashwin
Test Cricketer of the Year	Kane Williamson
ODI Cricketer of the Year	Martin Guptill
T20 Player of the Year	Virat Kohli
Indian Cricketer of the Year	Rohit Sharma
Domestic Cricketer of the Year	Shreyas Iyer
Young Player of the Year	Rishabh Pant
Special Award	Ajinkya Rahane.
Lifetime Achievement Award	Dilip Vengsarkar.

Former Delhi Police commissioner B S Bassi appointed UPSC member

It is a Constitutional post, with a five year tenure.
Union Public Service Commission has a maximum strength of 10 members besidesa chairperson
with this appointment the Commission is in its full strength.
Bassi is a 1977 batchIPS officer Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre
has served the police force for almost 40 years.

Admiral Sunil Lanba takes charge as 21st Navy chief

Noted Kannada writer D Javare Gowda passes away

he suffered from heart failure at Mysuru. He was 101.
Gowda served as the Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University from 1969 to 1975.
He was also awarded with the Pampa Prishathi in 1998and the Guru Award in 2003.
Karnataka government had honoured him with the Karnataka Ratna and the Nadoja title in recognition of his contributionto literature.

BJP leader and former MP Rudra Madhab Ray passes away

Rudra Madhab Raypassed away after prolonged illness in Bhubaneswar. He was 79.
Ray was a member of the Indian Parliament, and represented Kandhamal Lok Sabha Constituency for BJD ticket in 2009.

Alastair Cook Becomes Youngest Cricketer To Score 10000 Test Runs

England Test captain Alastair Cook, became the first English batsman to score 10,000 runsin test matches
First English batsman and the 12th player fromany country to reach the landmark and he also became the youngest at 31 years and 158 days to achieve the feat.
Sachin Tendulkar was 31 years and 326 days old when he reached the landmark in 2005.

Gurpreet Singh Sandhu becomes first Indian to play in top flight European League game

Indian national team goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhuis the first Indian to feature in a top-tier league match in Europe, by turning out for Norwegian side Stabaek
He had already represented India at the U-19 and U-23 levels in the last few years has displaced Subrata Paul as India’s number one.
made his debut for the Indian national team against Turkmenistan in 2013.

Snapdeal opens data sciences centre in California

Snapdealhas established a data sciences centre in San Carlos, California to get top global talent and build high-value solutions.
Data Sciences Center will focus on big-data and advanced-analytics to define consumer-centric growth strategy
centre has experienced data expertsfrom leading global brands like Groupon, Google, Yahoo and Amazon