1.
Modi launches 'My Clean India' campaign
I.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh
Bharat, or Clean India, Mission on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
II. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the
'Swachh Bharat' (Clean India) campaign by wielding a broom at Valmiki Basti in
New Delhi, home to a lower caste that has traditionally been employed in
janitorial and scavenging work.
III. The
Mission will aim to make India ‘clean’ by October 2, 2019, Mahatma Gandhi’s
150th birth anniversary, Mr. Modi said.
IV. This goal will include the elimination of open
defecation, which he called a “blot on society”, especially for women and young
girls.
V. Modi
invited 9 people to join the campaign , they should pick another nine. Nine
people include Mridula Sinha, Sachin Tendulkar, Shashi Tharoor, Kamal Haasan,
Priyanka Chopra, Anil Ambani, Salman Khan, and the team of Tarak Mehta Ka Oolta
Chashma.
VI. Government is planning to spend 62000 Crore ruppees for accomplishing the Swacchha Bharat mission
2.
Pakistan terms Kashmir a ‘legal issue’, demands
plebiscite
I.
Pakistan on Thursday asserted that Kashmir is a
“legal issue” and must be resolved through plebiscite as per the aspirations of
the Kashmiri people.
II. Foreign
Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam also made it clear that India-Pakistan talks
were not a substitute to the U.N. resolutions on Kashmir which envisage plebiscite
in the region.
III. India
had strongly rejected the “untenable comments” made by Mr. Sharif, asserting
that the people of the State have peacefully chosen their destiny in accordance
with universally accepted democratic principles.
3.
SEBI bars Sword-Edge, 26 others from capital
markets for 5 years
I.
Regulator SEBI has barred Sword-Edge Commercials
Ltd and 26 other entities from the capital markets for five years or violating
various securities norms.
II. "Rotam
Commercials Ltd or RCL (presently known as Sword-Edge Commercials Ltd) is
prohibited from raising any further capital from the securities market, in any
manner whatsoever for a period of five years."
III. These
entities have violated regulations related to Listing Agreement, PFTUP
(Prohibition of Fraudulent Trade Practices)and Takeover norms.
4.
Indian hockey team win gold at Incheon, qualify
for Rio Olympics
I.
A spirited Indian men's hockey team defeated
arch-rivals and defending champions Pakistan 4-2 in a nerve-wracking shoot-out
to end its 16-year gold medal draught in the Asian Games
II. India
also earned a direct berth to the 2016 Rio Olympics, in Incheon on Thursday.
III. It
took a shoot-out to determine the winner as both the teanm were locked 1-1 in
the regulation time of the summit clash at the Seonhak Hockey Stadium.
IV. The
last time India won the gold medal was in the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok.
5.
Relay girls make it four in a row
I.
The Indian women’s 4x400m relay team won the
gold at the 17th Asian Games here on Thursday night, their fourth straight
triumph at the Continental Games, and it came with a Games record too.
II. India
got a bronze too, through the Haryana-based shotputter Inderjeet Singh,
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