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Yak 13Th May 2017 Of Import Daily Electrical Flow Affairs

Dear Great Ambitionists, hither are today's (13th May 2017) Important Current Affairs updates. Happy Reading :)

Daily Current Affairs of 13th May 2017

International Current Affairs
  • Today (second Sat of May) is World Fair Trade Day.
    • This twenty-four hours was created yesteryear the the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) inward 2004.
    • This is the annual twenty-four hours of celebration recognising those inward the fair merchandise render chain, run yesteryear The World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO).
    • Theme of World Fair Trade Day 2017 : 'Human Chains for Fair Trade too the Planet'
  • India is laid to skip China's two-day Belt too Road Forum starting from Dominicus due to sovereignty concerns on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a role of China's One Belt One Road project. 
    • Note : India-China relations convey been strained lately over multiple issues including China's blocking of India's NSG membership examine too its back upward to Pakistan-based terrorist Masood Azhar.
  • India moved upward to the 26th spot inward the Global electricity accessibility rankings of the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business index.
    • India was at the 99th seat inward 2014; it jumped 73 ranks inward 2016.
  • Brazil has declared an terminate to its public health emergency over the Zika virus, eighteen months subsequently the outbreak inward 2015. 
    • The number of cases dropped 95% betwixt Jan too April, compared to the same menstruation a twelvemonth ago.
    • Note : The World Health Organisation had lifted its ain international emergency inward Nov terminal year.
MOUs & Agreements
  • Nepal and China today signed a framework agreement on Beijing’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative, days ahead of a summit inward Beijing to showcase President Xi Jinping’s ambitious invention to gear upward a modern twenty-four hours Silk Road.
National Current Affairs
  • Nagpur is laid to cash inward one's chips India's kickoff urban marrow to larn a fleet of electrical cabs
    • The airplane pilot projection volition come across some 200 electrical cabs inward Nagpur too the local torso volition likewise provide charging stations across the city. 
  • Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani launched Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Gramin Gujarat for five districts of the state. 
    • PM Awas Yojana (PMAY) is an ambitious system of Narendra Modi Schemes nether which the regime provides affordable houses to the homeless people at affordable cost. 
    • Under housing for all scheme, the fundamental regime volition provide houses to the people who are living nether Below Poverty Line too other categories also.
  • Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi has announced that all futurity elections inward the province volition live on held using Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines along amongst the electronic voting machines. 
    • The motility comes among serial of allegations yesteryear political parties, including Mayawati's BSP too Arvind Kejriwal's AAP, that voting machines were tampered amongst during the elections.
  • The Uttar Pradesh government is going to brand Saturdays as 'no schoolhouse handbag day' inward the state-run schools. 
    • As per the proposal, the schoolhouse kids would live on allowed to come upward to schoolhouse without schoolhouse bags too then that they tin dismiss bask the creative activities.
  • Union Health Minister JP Nadda launched novel Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) for pneumonia inward Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh.
    • There are over xc dissimilar types of pneumococcal bacteria which drive a make of problems including ear infections too serious breast infections pneumonia.
    • This vaccine would aid health subdivision to command the pneumonia too kid mortality rate.
Banking, Business & Economic Affairs
  • The US is unopen to completing a serial of Arms deals amongst Saudi Arabia totalling to a greater extent than than $100 billion which could surpass over $300 billion over a decade.
    • Note : Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is leading a armed services coalition inward Republic of Yemen which has been defendant yesteryear United Nations of carrying out attacks that "may amount to state of war crimes".
  • The Centre today exempted NRIs, citizens inward a higher identify lxxx years, too residents of Jammu too Kashmir, Assam, too Meghalaya from having to mandatorily quote their Aadhaar numbers to file income revenue enhancement returns. 
    • Note : Earlier, the Centre had announced inward this year's Union Budget that Aadhaar menu volition live on compulsory for filing income revenue enhancement returns too obtaining PAN cards from July.
  • New Changes Introduced yesteryear SBI
    • SBI has revised service charges on diverse cash transactions effective June 1, including a ₹25 accuse on withdrawing coin from an ATM through SBI's mobile wallet app. 
    • Customers volition live on charged for exchanging to a greater extent than than 20 dirty notes too of value inward a higher identify ₹5,000. 
    • Basic Savings Bank Deposit work organisation human relationship customers volition larn 4 withdrawals, including ATM withdrawals, gratis inward a month.
Awards & Honors
  • The 112-foot tall bust of 'Adiyogi' Lord Shiva at the Isha Yoga Foundation inward Tamil Nadu has been declared the world's largest bust (sculpture) by the Guinness World Records. 
    • The bust, unveiled yesteryear PM Narendra Modi before this year, refers to the origin of Yoga too symbolises the 112 methods of self-transformation that the kickoff Yogi offered.
New Appointments
  • Actor Amitabh Bachchan has been appointed equally World Health Organisation's Goodwill Ambassador for Hepatitis in South-East Asia Region. 
    • He has been appointed to boost awareness too intensify activity to halt the spread of hepatitis.
Science & Technology
  • India's indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas today successfully demonstrated an air-to-air Beyond Visual Range (BVR) missile firing capability. 
    • The Derby BVR missile destroyed a maneuverable aerial target amongst pinpoint precision at the Interim Test Range inward Odisha's Chandipur. 
    • Note : The Derby firing is a major measuring towards clearing BVR capabilities on LCA aircraft.
  • A massive ransomware Cyber Attack dubbed WannaCry, targeted computers inward 99 countries including Bharat today, amongst to a greater extent than than 57,000 attacks detected too then far, cyber safety firms Kaspersky too Avast convey confirmed. 
    • Russia was the worst hitting country, witnessing over 70% of the affected computers, spell Bharat was tertiary on the list. 
  • NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer successfully completed the 200th spacewalk for the $100-billion International Space Station (ISS). 
    • Note : ISS' kickoff spacewalk was conducted on Dec 7, 1998, yesteryear NASA astronauts Jerry Ross too Jim Newman.
  • Pune-based doctors volition demeanour India's kickoff womb transplantation next calendar week when they volition transfer 2 uteri from healthy donors to 2 recipients, who are unable to acquit children. 
    • Note : Womb transplantation was kickoff performed inward Sweden inward a 16-hour-surgery inward 2012 too the kickoff baby, born to the recipient inward 2014, was delivered prematurely yesteryear caesarean subdivision inward a healthy condition.
Sports Current Affairs
  • Former cricketer VVS Laxman has been awarded honorary life membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club.
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