1. G20 – meeting in Australia. World chess chairmanship in SOCHI (Russia)

2. Japan highest award given to Manmohan Singh  

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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2014

Kailash Satyarthi, 60-year-old child rights activist from Madhya Pradesh, and Malala Yousafzai, who has risked her life to wage a campaign for girls’ education in Pakistan, are the joint winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

KAILASH SATYARTHI : The peace prize winner has saved thousands of children from bonded labour in factories through the Bachpan Bachao Andolan which he founded in 1980, and other organisations.

 On Malala Yousafzai, the Committee said, “Despite her youth, [she] has already fought for several years for the rights of girls to education, and has shown by example that children and young people, too, can contribute to improving their own situations.” Malala became a global symbol of the fight against extremism after she was shot by Taliban militants two years ago in Swat.

Past Indian Nobel winners

Year	Name	Field
1913	Rabindranath Tagore	Literature
1930	C.V. Raman	Physics
1968	Hargobind Khorana	Medicine
1979	Mother Teresa	Peace
1983	Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar	Physics
1998	Amartya Sen	Economics
2009	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Chemistry
2014	Kailash Satyarthi	Peace

1. French writer Patric Modiyano won Nobel prize for literature.

2. Hood hood cyclone formed in Bay of Bengal name put by OMAN. 

1. John o keefe, may britt moser, Edward I Moser won Nobel Prize for inner GPS in brain in medicine.

2. 100^th NRI pravasi bharathiya diwas meeting in Ahmadabad 2015. 

1. India signed FREE TRADE AGREEMENT with ASEAN in services and Investment..

2. Kamal bawa won midori prize for biodiversity..

3. India 8^th rank in Asian games..  

1. K.V.Kamath committee – finance to small and medium scale industry.

2. Yogeswar dutt won gold medal in wrestling in Asian games.

3. Afghanistan New President – Asraf Kani.

4. Seema Poonia won gold in Asian games.

1. Playing it my way – Sachin Tendulkar autobiography book

2. 17^th Asian games start in  INCHIYON city South Korea.

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1. US open tennis men’s champion – Marin Cilic (Croatia)  

2. Women champion – Serena Williams (US) 

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1. India’s first bullet train – Mumbai to Ahmadabad

2. Rajiv Gandhi sadhbavana award – Muzafar Ali 

2018 -

1. Commonwealth game in - Australia  

2. Global innovation index - India 76^th rank 

1 India’s rank in human development index – 135

2. Income tax exemption limit – 2.5 lakh

3. World badminton game - P.V.Sindu got bronze medal. ..... 2018 world cup football in – Russia

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1. Singapore 1^st rank in foreign direct investment in India. 

2. Commonwealth games 2014 – India fifth place

3. Next commonwealth game in Australia 

CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS

ISRO has delayed the launch by three minutes at 9.52 a.m. IST on June 30 due to the probability of space debris movement.

WHAT IS PSLV-C23?

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle,usually known by its abbreviation PSLV is the first operational launch vehicle of ISRO. PSLV is capable of launching 1600 kg satellites in 620 km sun-synchronous polar orbit and 1050 kg satellite in geosynchronous transfer orbit.

India's PSLV C23 will launch the several satellites on this mission including SPOT-7, NLS-7.1 (CanX-4), NLS-7.2 (CanX-5) and AISat.

SPOT-7= FRANCE

SPOT-7 is an Earth observing satellite, similar to Indian Remote Sensing System (IRSS).

WHY IT WAS IN NEWS?

The Launch Authorisation Board (LAB), which met on Friday at Sriharikota, cleared the launch, paving the way for the start of the countdown.

The launch, originally fixed at 9.49 a.m. IST on June 30, has been rescheduled for 9.52 a.m. due to the probability of space debris movement during the launch window.

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1. PANCHMARI Sanctuary – Madhya Pradesh

2. DACHIGAM Sanctuary - Kashmir

3. SIMLIPAL Sanctuary – Orissa

1. 1^st women judge of delhi high court -  ROHINI....

2. Gandhiji 1^st struggle place against British in India – CHAMPRAN (Bihar) 1917 

1. 272 M.P. is enough to become PRIME MINISTER.....

2. World cup football – BRAZIL......

Capital city of TELENGANA - hyderabad...... Every banks must deposit particular percentage of amount with RBI..... that percentage amount is called cash reserve ratio (CRR)...

Voting receipt system introduced 1^st time in central Chennai constituency in tamilnadu...... 

1. Donna tartt win Pulitzer prize for fiction.....

2. MICROSOFT chief executive officer  - SATHYA NATHALELA 1^st time an Indian appointed....

Dadha Saheb Palke award presented to Hindi director GULSAR......

T20 Mens Champion Srilanka.....   T20 Womens Champion Australia. 

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Those who died while in the post of president.

1. Jahir Ussain

2. Fukrudin Ali Ahmed

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1. Mohit Mayur and prerna bhambri win the men’s and women’s singles titles in the national tennis championship in New Delhi.

2. Sabastian vettel wins the formula one Indian grand prix in New Delhi.

Rafael nadal wins the men’s title of the US open tennis championship, defeating Novak Djokovic the final at Newyork.

5^th 20-20 world cup cricket starts in Bangladesh........ A.T.P. challenger Tennis – SOM DEV champion......

1. Tokyo wins the bid to host 2020 Olympic games.

2. Serena William’s inns the women’s singles title of the US open tennis championship, defeating Victoria azarenka in the final at Newyork. 

Mary ann gomes wins the national women's chess championship in Kolkata. 

P.V.Sindhu loses in the women’s semifinal of the world badminton championships. She, however, secures bronze to become the first Indian woman singles player to bag a medal in the tournament. 

Andy Murray wins the Wimbledon, ends britain’s 77 years wait for a home – grown men’s singles Champion. 

Marion bartoli wins the women’s Wimbledon title. The bryan brothers, bob and mike, win the Wimbledon to become the first doubles team to hold all four grand slam titles in the open era. 

The ISRO’s polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV C-25) in its silver Jubilee mission puts the 1350kg mars orbiter precisely on to its earth – orbit 44 minutes after blasting off from sriharikota. 

1. 12 years A slave film best Oscar award film.....

2. ‘bravery award of USA Given to LAKSHMI....

3. BIMSTEC Meeting held in NAI THEPE city in Myanmer...  

President Pranab Mukherjee presents the Indira Gandhi price for peace, disarmament and development for 2012 to his Liberian counterpart Ellen Johnson sir – Leaf at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.

The Navy’s Kilo-class submarine INS sindhurakshak sinks after twin explosions at the Mumbai Naval dockyard, a day earlier. Eighteen sailors are killed. 

INS Vikrant, India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier is launched at Cochin. Shipyard limited. 

Chief Economic Advisor Raghuram Govind Rajan is appointed as the RBI Governor for three years. 

The world’s largest steel maker Arcelor Mittal scraps its $ 12- billion steel plant in Odisha. 

India’s first dedicated navigation satellite, the 1425 – kg IRNSS – 1A is successfully put into orbit after launch from the Satish Dhawan centre in sriharikotta.

Defence Secretary Shashi kant Sharma is appointed as the 12^th Comptroller and Auditor-General. 

Anshu Jamshenpa of Arunachal Pradesh, who holds the record of being the only mother in the world to have scaled the Mount Everest twice in 10 days scales the peak again for the third time.

The Cauvery Delta Farmers Welfare Association presents a memento named Ponniyin Selvi to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for her efforts in getting the final award of the Cauvery Tribunal notified in the Central gazette, at a function in Thanjavur.

National

The Delhi gangrape victim is posthumously honoured with the Rani Lakshmibai Award, at a function in New Delhi.

Bittihotra mohanty, son of farmer odisha DGP B.B. Mohanty missing since his release on parole on November 20, 2006. While serving a seven year term for rating a german national in alwar, Rajasthan is arrested by the Kerala police in Kannur. 

current affair 
The PSLV C20 puts the 400-kg India – French satellite SARAL and six other into their precise orbits after its successful launch from the Sriharikota spaceport.

Scheme Nirbhaya

·        Launched to protect the dignity and ensuring safety of women in India after the brutal gang rape of a Delhi student on Dec ’16, 2012.

·        Announced Rs.1000 crores in the union budget 2014 by Finance Minister P.Chidambaram to support initiative by the Government and NGOs.

·        Nirbhaya means ‘fearless’ is a pseudonym given to hide the victim’s actual identity.

·        A committee headed by former CJI of India, late Mr. J.S.Verma to make a report about the incident. The three men committee submitted their report within one month, on Jan ‘2013.

Ten key recommendations by the committee are.

i) Make Voyeurism, stalking and intentional touching an offence.

ii) Amend rape laws.

iii) Review security laws in conflict zones.

iv) Monitor illegal, patriarchal village councils.

v) Review medical examination of rape victims.

vi) Police reforms.

vii) Electoral reforms.

viii) Gender sensitisation through education.

ix) Bill of rights.

x) End to Human Trafficking.

Sports

¨    China’s Zhang Jike wins the men’s singles title at the World table tennis championship.

¨    Pune Warriors withdraws from the Indian Premier League.

¨    Andy Murray pulls out of French Open.

¨    Bayern Munich Clinches UEFA Champions League title.

¨    Nico Rosberg wins Monaco Grand Prix.

¨    China wins Sudirman  Cup badminton tournament.

¨    Mumbai Indians crowned IPL champion.

¨    Sachin Tendulkar announces retirement from IPL.

¨    Laura Massaro wins British Open sqash tournament in the women’s section.

¨    Pakistan wins its two-match ODI series against Ireland 1-0.

¨    England confirmed as host of 2019 cricket World Cup.

¨    England beats New Zealand in the second Test at Leeds to win the two match series 2-0.

¨    Wisden Almanack’s 150^th anniversary is observed.

   Sports

§     Paris Saint-Germain is crowned French football league champion.

§     Roberto Mancini sacked as Man-chester City manager.

§     Footballer Rio Ferdinand calls time on his England career.

§     Chelsea wins the Europa League football tournament.

§     Footballer David Beckham announces retirement at end of season.

§     Karnataka wins the Rangaswamy Cup for the men’s senior National hockey championship.

§     Athletico Madrid wins the Copa del Rey football tournament.

§     Adam Gilchrist brings the curtains down on his career, winning his last IPL match    

§     England beats New Zealand in the first Test at Lord’s

§     Refeal Nadal, Serena Williams win Rome Masters.

Sports:
Viswanathan Anand finishes third in the Alekhine memorial chess tournament. 
ATP president brad dre-wett dies at the age of 54. 
P.V.Sindhu wins malay – sian Grand Prix. 

FIDE approves Chennai as venue for world chess championship.

Singapore men and women win team titles in commonwealth table tennis championships. Manchester united manager sir Alex Ferguson announces retirement at end of season.

Barcelona clinches its 22^nd La Liga football title

Fernando Alonso wins the Spanish grand prix.

Rafael nadal and serena Williams win the Madrid masters.

Tiger woods wins the us PGA tour place players championship Churchill brothers win the I – League football tournament.

 

POOR PHARMA POLICY

Source: By Kewal Handa: The Financial Express

The Union Cabinet rejected the proposal of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) to limit Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in domestic manufacturers in rare and critical drugs. The Cabinet decided that the current policy in brownfield and greenfield projects in the pharmaceutical sector will continue to be subject to the additional condition that in all cases of FDI in brownfield pharmaceuticals, there shall be no non-compete clause in any of the inter se agreements.

The DIPP and the Cabinet are of the opinion that if a promoter sells one facility or operation, he should not be barred from starting another venture. The DIPP has notified the new FDI policy for the pharmaceutical sector and it retains its old norms of keeping the FDI cap at 100% for the sector. Moreover, greenfield FDI proposals will be allowed through the automatic route while brownfield FDI will be vetted by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB). But a new clause has been added as per which non-compete clauses will not be allowed for pharmaceutical M&A involving FDI.

The new policy says that non-compete clause will be allowed only in special circumstances, and such requests will have to be vetted through FIPB. However, the press note on the new policy doesn’t shed any light on what precisely constitutes special circumstances for allowing non-compete clause. It is a normal practice by any buyer and seller to have a non-compete clause as it helps to avoid confusion in the market place.

The move to have no non-compete clause will hit the premium valuation which the pharmaceutical companies have commanded so far. The government needs to clarify under what special circumstances the non-compete clause would be allowed. However, leaving it to the discretion of FIPB may not be a good idea. It is important to take a look at the DIPP argument as it runs counter to the Indian entrepreneur spirits. Exclusion of non-compete clause for every M&A deal may dampen investments in the domestic market. FIPB should use this clause selectively and only in cases where shortages will occur or future R&D will suffer.

Given the current scenario, the fear of a monopolistic situation and thereby leading to price increases or the fear of the production being diverted to global market is completely without any rational basis. Acquisition of Indian companies started in 2008 with Japan, Daiichi Sankyo taking over Ranbaxy laboratory. This has been followed by many—Sanofi buying Shantha Biotech, Matrix Lab taking Mylan, PiramalHealthcare by Abbott Laboratories and the latest, Mylan acquiring Agila Specialties.

There is no data to substantiate on record since 2008 to show that it has led to any monopolistic situation or non-ability of the products. On the contrary, we have seen these companies introduce 341 new drugs and formulations in the domestic market since May 2009 and the Department of Pharmaceutical (DoP) price analysis shows almost no changes in prices. There are misplaced concerns that acquisitions in brownfield may lead to shortages and increase in drug prices in the country.

The government must seriously think to build an ecosystem to encourage innovation and R&D in the pharmaceutical sector. It is imperative to create a secure environment that fosters protection through intellectual property rights and it would certainly encourage investments in R&D thereby making the domestic market conducive for FDIs.