Current Affairs 2017

• Thiruvananthapuram tops city governance ranking: ASICS
• IMD predicts above normal temperature in 2017 summer
• Supersonic Prithvi interceptor missile successfully test-fired

Thiruvananthapuram, capital of Kerala has topped in city governance ranking of the Annual Survey of India�s City Systems (ASICS) 2016 conducted by Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy.

Government appointed Working Group on Migration headed by Partha Mukhopadhay has recommended necessary legal and policy framework to protect the interests of the migrants in the country.

Indigenously developed supersonic Prithvi interceptor missile was successfully test-fired from launch complex III of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Abdul Kalam Island in Balasore, Odisha.

The BCCI Awards are a set of annual cricket awards given by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecasted above normal temperature in most parts of the country during 2017 summer season. The predictions were given by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune.

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• Madras HC orders TN Government to enact law to remove Seemai Karuvelam trees
• WHO wants new drugs against 12 antibiotics-resistant super-germs
• MEITY to promote digital transactions in place of NITI Aayog

The Union Government has signed a Financing Agreement with World Bank for IDA credit of $63 million for the Tejaswini Socio-Economic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) Project.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has entered into 10 more Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs) pertaining to various sectors of economy like Telecom, Banking & Finance, Pharmaceutical, Steel, Retail and IT etc It includes 7 Unilateral APAs, 2 Bilateral APAs with the United Kingdom and Japan. Seven of these Agreements have Rollback provisions in them.

The Union Government has shifted the responsibility of promoting digital transactions in the country to the Union Ministry of IT and Electronics (MEITY) from NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog.

The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court has ordered Tamil Nadu government to enact a law with prohibitory and penal clauses to eradicate Seemai Karuvelam (prosopis juliflora) trees within two months.