Current Affairs January, 2017

The special session of Tamil Nadu Assembly has unanimously passed Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Tamil Nadu Amendment), Act, 2017 to lift Supreme Court imposed ban on the traditional sport of Jallikattu.

The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Committee has submitted its 4 volume report on changes in FRBM Act, 2013 to the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

Scientists have spotted a new view of the dark, contorted centre of a sunspot that is nearly twice the diameter of the Earth.

• Committee constituted to set rules for implementation of Disabilities Act, 2016
• Government to launch prevention, screening and control programme for 5 non-communicable diseases
• Government shifts disinvestment advising role to Department of Economic Affairs

The Union Health Ministry will soon launch population based prevention, screening and control programme for five common non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on the occasion of World Cancer Day (4th February).

The Union Government has transferred the advising role of Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) on utilisation of the proceeds from disinvestment to the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA).

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to set a new world record in space history by launching 103 satellites in one go on a single rocket in the first week of February, 2017.

According to Status of Education Report (ASER) 2016, students of Himachal Pradesh stand ahead of Kerala and all other states in terms of learning outcomes.

The Steel Ministry has released new draft National Steel Policy of 2017, envisaging to double India̢۪s domestic steel production capacity to 300 million tonnes by 2030-31.

The Union Government has constituted committee (Working Group) to frame uniform rules for the states to avoid delay in proper implementation of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 across the country.

• Government constitutes negotiation committee on Mahanadi and its Tributaries
• Union Government clears Tamil Nadu’s Ordinance on Jallikattu
• India Innovation Index to measure performance of Indian states

A group of Hindi professors have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting not to add dialects of Hindi, like Bhojpuri and Rajasthani, in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution as full-fledged Indian languages.