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'Ranchi Rays' crowned 'Hockey India League 2015' champion.
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- DRI makes the biggest seizure of Mephedrone, a stimulant drug of the amphetamine class, in Indian history.
- The drug, captured by 'Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI)' is worth almost Rs 30 crore in the world market.
- This is also one of the biggest seizures of a psychotropic substance in recent times.
- The drug goes around in the market with its street name 'Meow Meow' - taken from its chemical name 4-methylmethcathinone, or M-CAT.
>Login To Save for Revision- Dilip Shanghvi overtakes Mukesh Ambani as the richest Indian in terms of market value.
- The Sun Pharma's founder and MD, is worth about Rs 1.46 lakh crore thanks to his 63 per cent stake in three group companies - Sun Pharma, Sun Pharma Advanced Research and Ranbaxy Laboratories.
- Mukesh Ambani, on the other hand, holds a total of 45 per cent stake in RIL and Reliance Industrial Infrastructure, accounting for a wealth of Rs 1.32 lakh crore as per BSE.
- The turnaround is majorly due to the rising stock value of Sun Pharma companies in the market.
>Login To Save for Revision- Death toll rises to 385 in Saudi Arabia due to MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) Virus.
- The Virus belongs to a family of viruses known as coronaviruses which include both the common cold and SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.
>Login To Save for Revision- Exercise GARUDA SHAKTI-III, the 3rd edition of joint exercises between armies of India and Indonesia, concludes at Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School in Vairengte, Mizoram.
- The scope included sharing experience in counter terrorism and conduct of joint counter insurgency training at platoon level aimed at neutralizing of terrorist threat.
- The exercise aim to bolster bilateral military relations between the armies of the two nations.
>Login To Save for Revision- Somdev Devvarman clinches $100,000 ATP Challenger Delhi Open title beating Yuki Bhambri in the final.
- The doubles crown went to the pair of Egor Gerasimov and Alexander Kudryavtsev who beat Riccardo Ghedin and Toshihide Matsui in the final.
>Login To Save for Revision- Centre rolls out Web-Portal to deliver e-certificates to the pass-outs from various NCVT courses including ITI pass-outs.
- The system is designed as a self-service digital platform to deliver various services to current and prospective trainees of the vocational training system, apprenticeship trainees, employers/establishments, ITIs and other institutions, as well as States/UTs.
- The portal "www.ncvtmis.gov.in" is part of the Digital India Initiative and seek to improve the governance of vocational training across the field institutions of DGE&T by providing high degree of transparency, better analytics for decision making, and improved access to citizen services.
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Jul 08, 2016 India’s widening gender gap a concern : ILO
There is a difference of 25 per cent in workforce participation rate of men and women worldwide but in India it is up to 40 per cent.
International Labour Organisation (ILO) Director General Guy Ryder has expressed concerns over the widening gender gap in workforce in India.
ILO will work with the government in its labour reform process by bringing in international experience and setting international labour standards. The reforms would probably bridge the gap of gender gap in workforce in India.
India does poorly in comparison to its neighbours despite a more robust economic growth. In 2015, women comprised of 43% of the labour force in Bangladesh,
The rate has also increased in Pakistan, while participation has remained relatively stable in Sri Lanka. Myanmar with 79% and Malaysia with 49% are also way ahead of India.
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Jul 08, 2016 BRICS drug control meeting begins in New Delhi
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the second anti-drug Working Group meeting of Heads of Drug Control Agencies of BRICS in New Delhi to discuss issues related to narco-terrorism and money laundering. The meeting is being organized by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
BRICS drug control meeting 2016 :
The delegates from the member countries of BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) and the Ambassadors of the respective countries will participate in the meeting.
The Directors General of Border Guarding Forces and the Paramilitary will also attend the inaugural session along with the heads of the Intelligence and Investigative Agencies like the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The Indian delegation shall be headed by Shri Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar, Director General, Narcotics Control Bureau and shall comprise of officers from the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Ministry of Health and Family welfare and Narcotics Control Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs.
Background :
The anti-drug working group meeting of heads of anti-narcotics agencies has been organised by India in accordance with the ‘eThekwani Declaration’ adopted during the BRICS summit in March 2013 at Durban, South Africa where it was decided that the heads of anti-drug agencies of the five member countries may meet regularly under the aegis of the BRICS anti-drug working group meeting. In keeping with the spirit of the eThekwani Declaration, the first anti-drug working group meeting of BRICS countries was organized at Moscow, Russia in November, 2015.
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Jul 07, 2016 Cabinet approves setting up a Major port at Enayam near Colachel in Tamil Nadu
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its 'in-principle' approval for setting up a Major port at Enayam near Colachel in Tamil Nadu.
Background : At present, there are only a few ports in India that have sufficient draft and can match global cargo handling efficiencies. Currently, all of India's trans-shipment traffic gets handled in Colombo, Singapore and other international ports. Indian port industry loses out upto Rs 1,500 Crores of revenues each year.
Significance of Enayam port :
Establishing this Major port at Enayam will not only act as a major gateway container port for Indian cargo that is presently trans-shipped outside the country, but also become a trans-shipment hub for the global East-West trade route.
Enayam will also reduce the logistics cost for exporters and importers in South India who currently depend on trans-shipment in Colombo or other ports thus incurring additional port handling charges.
Note : Currently India has 12 major ports. They are Kandla, Mumbai, JNPT, Marmugao, New Managlore, Cochin, Chennai, Ennore, V.O. Chidambarnar, Visakhapatnam, Paradip and Kolkata (including Haldia).
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