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Current Affairs 13th April 2017: NATIONAL NEWS

Art of living event destroyed Yamuna floodplain - NGT panel

The damage to the Yamuna floodplains caused by the Art of Living’s three-day cultural festival last year will cost more than Rs 42 crore and at least 10 years to fix, according to the expert panel appointed by the National Green Tribunal.
●    The Foundation has, however, called the committee biased and acting with vested interests.
●    The expert panel, headed by Shashi Shekhar, secretary of ministry of water resources, submitted its report to the NGT on Wednesday, on damage assessment following the Art of Living’s three-day World Culture Festival in March 2016.
●    The panel has suggested a time-bound action plan, which comprises two components - physical and biological rehabilitation. The physical component is estimated to cost around Rs 28.73 crore and the biological part would cost around Rs 13.29 crore.
●    The 47-page report estimates that approximately 120 hectares (about 300 acres) of floodplains of west (right bank) of the river Yamuna and about 50 hectares (120 acres) floodplains of the eastern side (left bank) of the river have been adversely impacted ecologically at different magnitudes.

Petrol, diesel prices to change daily from May 1 in 5 cities

State-owned fuel retailers, namely Indian Oil Corp. (IOC), Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (BPCL), have planned to launch a pilot scheme under which the fuel prices will be revised on a daily basis. 
●    The rates will be decided in sync with the international rates, a practice of several advanced markets.
●    Initially the scheme will be launched in 5 Indian cities from 1 May 2017 (a defined final date was not declared but sources said that the pilot will be effective from 1 May) and will be gradually extended across India.
●    Union Government grants BP Plc licence to set up petrol pumps in India
●    At present, the rates of the fuel are revised on the 1st and 16th of every month in accordance with the average international price in the preceding fortnight and the currency exchange rate.
●    The five cities where the pilot scheme will be launched are Visakhapatnam and Puducherry in Andhra Pradesh, Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, Udaipur in Rajasthan and Chandigarh.
●    IOC, HPCL and BPCL own over 95 per cent (nearly 58000) fuel outlets in the country.

Dr. (Ms.) Mukulita Vijayavargiya takes charge as Whole Time Member, IBBI

Dr. (Ms.) Mukulita Vijayavargiya took charge as Whole Time Member, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India in New Delhi today. 
●    Dr. (Ms.) Vijayavargiya will look after Administrative Law Wing. She will also look after Information Technology, Limited Insolvency Examination, National Insolvency Examination, Finance and Accounts and Communication. 
●    Dr. (Ms.) Vijayavargiya was a member of Bankruptcy Law Reforms Committee (BLRC) based on which, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 has been framed. She played a key role in drafting the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 as Additional Secretary in the Legislative Department, Ministry of Law & Justice. 
●    Dr. Vijayavargiya served as a member of Indian Legal Service. She has vast experience of 35 years in various fields of law. 
●    She has been associated with drafting/vetting of more than 100 legislative proposals in the legislative department. Her previous assignment was Additional Secretary in the Legislative Department, Ministry of Law & Justice, Government of India. 

G 20 Digital Ministers’ Meet on Digital Economy Better International Cooperation Needed to Check Cyber Crimes and Cyber Terrorism - Ravi Shankar Prasad 

The G20 Digital Ministerial Meeting was held in Dusseldorf, Germany. G20 cooperation on the Digital Economy has become a special priority, subsequent to the adoption of Digital Economy Development and Cooperation Initiative in the 2016 Hangzhou Summit, under the Chinese Presidency. 
●    The German Presidency has carried this forward, and, realizing the potential of digital technologies and its wide impact on the overall economy, has elevated the Digital Economy Task Force to the Ministerial level.
●    The G20 Ministers expressed their warm appreciation for the accomplishments of the Digital India programme. 
●    They noted how Digital India is provisioning a unique digital identity – cheaply, securely, and with privacy – to 1.1 billion citizens via Aadhaar. 
●    They appreciated India’s historic digital payment push through innovative and indigenous solutions like UPI, DBT, BHIM and AADHAR enabled payment systems, based on easily accessible mobile platforms. 
●    They observed how India has leveraged 250,000 Common Service Centres to drive digital inclusion, entrepreneurship, digital services, and productivity across rural India’s grassroots, empowering India’s less privileged citizens. 
●    The G20 Ministers particularly noted how Digital India’s digital literacy mission is transforming digital accessibility for 60 million households.  
●    OECD, as an invitee, made a special mention of how India has emerged as one of the world’s most vibrant e-commerce environments and startup nations.

Current Affairs 13th April 2017: INTERNATIONAL RELATION

India-Australia launch Sports Partnership in Mumbai

India and Australia today launched Sports partnership in Mumbai aimed at increasing  cooperation in sports.  
●    The Partnership, which was launched by the Union Minister for Youth Affairs & Sports Mr. Vijay Goel and the visiting Australian Prime Minister Mr. Malcolm Turnbull, in the presence of cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar, will advance India – Australia cooperation in four areas - athlete and coach training and development, sport science, sport governance and integrity, and grassroots participation.”
●    Speaking on the occasion, Sports Minister Vijay Goel said “we have a lot to learn and share with Australia in the field of sports. 
●    The India-Australia Sports Partnership would facilitate exchange of athletes, coaches, technical officials, sports scientists between two countries.” 
●    He said India has started taking sports as a very important component of public health management as well as education. 
●    “We have launched a major grassroots programme - Khelo India for developing a sporting culture at grass-roots level.  
●    We are planning to introduce sports as a compulsory subject in schools” he said. 
●    The Minister said that the National Sports Talent Identification and Development Portal would be launched shortly.  
 

Current Affairs 13th April 2017: AWARDS

Dilip Kumar honoured with Living Legend Lifetime Award

Veteran actor Dilip Kumar was honoured with the Living Legend Lifetime Award by the Punjab Association on Tuesday. 
●    The elated actor took to Twitter to announce the honour bestowed upon him, stating that he was "humbled" at receiving the award. 
●    Apart from sharing a few pictures of himself with his trophy, he also tweeted, "Mr. Ranbir Singh Chandok and Mr. Anand of the Punjab Association visited me today.
●    This was followed with a tweet that read, "God is kind. Humbled at receiving the Living Legend Lifetime Award from Punjab Association this afternoon."
●    The 94-year-old actor also shared pictures of a wall mural of himself created by artist Asif Farooqui on Hill Road, Bandra, Mumbai. Dilip thanked the artist for all the love and the installation.

Current Affairs 13th April 2017: OBITUARY

Former Union Minister Akhilesh Das Gupta Passes Away

Former Union minister and ex-Lucknow mayor Akhilesh Das Gupta died of cardiac arrest in Lucknow on Wednesday morning. He was 56. 
●    Das's close aides said he had not complained of any discomfort and had carried on as usual on Tuesday night. 
●    On Wednesday morning, after being found unconscious, he was rushed to Lari Cardiology Centre where he was declared brought dead by doctors.
●    Das is survived by his wife Alka, son Viraj Sagar and daughter Sona. Condolence messages on Das's death poured in from across political quarters. 
●    Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted: "Saddened by the demise of former MP and Union minister Akhilesh Das. His active contribution to public life will be remembered."
●    UP CM Yogi Adityanath, former CM Akhilesh Yadav, and BSP leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui visited Das's residence to pay their last respects and to condole his sudden death.
●    Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi also condoled his untimely death and sent wreaths to be laid on Das' body before he was cremated on Wednesday evening.Sports minister Vijay Goel also tweeted to condole Das' death, calling his passing a loss to the sports in India.

Current Affairs 13th April 2017: SPORTS

MCC Passes rules to allow umpires eject players misbehaving in Cricket match

Cricket umpires have been given the power to eject disobedient players while tethered bails will be permitted to protect wicketkeepers from eye injuries as part of a series of law changes coming into effect from October 1.
●    The new 'Players conduct' rule will allow on-field officials to remove a misbehaving competitor temporarily or permanently and award five penalty runs to the opposition, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has said.
●    If a captain refuses to remove his offending player, the umpire can award the match to the opposition. If both captains refuse to comply, the contest can be abandoned.
●    The MCC, the custodians of the game's laws, also merged “handled the ball” offence with “obstructing the field", thus reducing the number of possible dismissals from 10 to nine.
●    It also ratified the proposal of tethered bails to protect wicketkeepers from the type of injuries that ended South African Mark Boucher's career in 2012.
●    Mr. Boucher was hit in the eye by flying bails in a tour match in England, which forced him into retirement.
●    “Law 8.4 has been changed, to help prevent injuries, to allow specially designed mechanisms which tether the bails to the stumps, thereby restricting the distance that they can fly off the stumps but without limiting their ability to be dislodged,” the MCC said.
●    The MCC also approved bat restrictions and allowed substitutes to keep wicket.