Current Affairs 30th June 2018

Current Affairs 30th June 2018 - Important Points

• US postpones 2+2 dialogue with India  from - July 6th 2018 to still unknown one
• OPCW given powers to identify those behind chemicals arms attacks in - Syria
• National Statistics Day observed globally on - 29th June 2018

Current Affairs 30th June 2018 - Details

US postpones 2+2 dialogue with India  from - July 6th 2018 to still unknown one

US has adjourned its introductory 2+2 dialogue with India which was planned to be happen on July 6 th , 2018 in Washington DC, highlighting ‘unavoidable reasons’. Both nations are now recognizing new mutually suitable dates to organise dialogue as soon as possible. This is 3rd time that 2+2 dialogue has been suspended in the past 6 months.
More about India-US 2+2 Dialogue

• India and US 2+2 Dialogue format was decided among 2 nations during visit of PM Narendra Modi to United States in June, 2017. It was intended at replacing previous India-United States Strategic and Commercial Dialogue.
• It is expected to enhance strategic harmonization among both nations and maintaining peace and stability.
• It puts strategic, defence and security ties among the both nations at the front and centre stage.
• It protects India-US strategic association from disputes over business concerns and strongly division on economic mixing policies as business and salable issues that collided with strategic ties between both nations debated in Strategic and Commercial Dialogue previously. It is analogous to India-Japan 2+2 dialogue format among foreign and defence secretaries of the both nations.

OPCW given powers to identify those behind chemicals arms attacks in - Syria

The world’s leading chemical weapons regulator, an Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons as approved itself new powers to assist identify those answerable for chemical attacks in Syria. 82 associates of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons voted in flow of this suggestion presented by UK at special session of Conference of States Parties in The Hague. 24 nations including Russia, Iran and Syria cast votes against it.
With improved powers, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons now can have placed in-place preparations to classify the committers of practice of chemical weapons in Syria.
Did you know?
Till date, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was only intelligent to say whether chemical weapons were castoff. It had inadequate power to only direct teams to unproven chemical weapons attack, gather samples and lure their assumptions. They were having only imperfect power of defining whether attack is chemical weapons or not. But whatever indication they turned up, they were not having authorities to point at specific nation or non-state actor as the culprit for the attack.
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is a diplomatic group that promotes, manages and confirms the devotion to the Convention on Prohibition of Development, Manufacture, Storing and Usage of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction. This convention outlaw’s manufacturing, storing, and usage of chemical weapons and their forerunners. Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was recognized April 1997 and it is HQ in Hague, Netherlands. It was bestowed Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 for supervising global endeavour for perpetual and demonstrable removal of chemical weapons.

 National Statistics Day observed globally on - 29th June 2018

The National Statistics Day is observed every year on June 29th in India to generate public awareness about the significance of statistics in socio-economic preparation and policy formulation. The day also admits distinguished contribution of Late Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in the arenas of statistics, statistical system and economic planning. The 2018 subject is ‘Quality Assurance in Official Statistics’. It underlines position of compliance with indispensable parameters of quality in statistical systems and products.
More about PC Mahalanobis

• PC Mahalanobis was born on 29th June 1893 in Kolkata and passed away on 28th June 1972 in Kolkata.
• He was the 1st Indian statistician to get world recognition. In year 1933, he published the 1st Indian statistical periodical ‘Sankhya’. He had initiated the Indian Statistical Institute and donated to the design of large-scale sample surveys.
• He also made ground-breaking research in anthropometry in India. He is also best known for the statistical measure Mahalanobis distance. The 2nd 5-year Plan had based on Mahalanobis’s mathematical explanation of Indian economy.
• This plan had stimulated the development of heavy industry in India and well along known as
  Nehru-Mahalanobis model of economic development.
  Did you know?

The Union Government had elected June 29th as National Statistics Day in 2007 in gratitude of notable
contributions made by Late Professor PC Mahalanobis in the fields of statistics. Every year Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and ISI selects specific subject for the day grounded on present national importance for attentive discussions and efforts throughout year to bring developments in designated area.