Current Affairs 30th May 2018

Current Affairs 30th May 2018 - Important Points

• Gaj Yatra launched in Garo Hills of Meghalaya by - Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
• Fourth element showing magnetism at room temperature discovered, is - Ruthenium (Ru)
• Who has been appointed President of National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission ? - R K Agrawal
• Sudha Balakrishnan as its first Chief Financial Officer appointed by - RBI
• International Day of UN Peacekeepers 2018 observed globally on - 29th May 2018
• Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali ties up with BSNL with - Swadeshi Samriddhi SIM cards
• Ex-Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk named as  - caretaker PM of Pakistan
• WHO adopts Resolution on Digital Health initiated by India: - JP Nadda

Current Affairs 30th May 2018 - Details

Gaj Yatra launched in Garo Hills of Meghalaya by - Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change 

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change rolled out ‘Gaj Yatra’, to safeguard elephants from Tura in Garo Hills of Meghalaya. It was planned by the Wildlife Trust of India in partnership with the State Forest Department.
In this campaign, an elephant mascot will be taken around regions frequented by jumbo masses for creating awareness among the people. It was released to recognized good sign of villagers from Garo Hills who had form aside part of their community possessed land to form village standby forests for
human-elephant agreement.
More about Gaj Yatra

• Gaj Yatra is 18 months long national campaign focused to safeguard elephants which is India’s national heritage animal in twelve elephant range states.
• It was released in August 2017 by Environment and Forest Minister Harsh Vardhan on the eve of World Elephant Day 2017 celebrated on August 12th .
• The campaign is being directed by Wildlife Trust of India. It goals to involve individuals from all spheres of life in preservation of elephants.
• In this campaign, Wildlife Trust of India is safeguarding 101 elephant corridors around in twelve elephant range states via its Right to Passage project, in corporation with Union government’s Project Elephant, state forest subdivisions and different Non-Governmental Organisations.
• The objective of this project is to assimilate people affected by man-elephant fight in corridor areas while making sure never-ending movement of elephants among significant habitats.

Fourth element showing magnetism at room temperature discovered, is - Ruthenium (Ru)

Researchers from University of Minnesota have found that chemical element Ruthenium is 4th element
having unique ferromagnetic properties at room temperature. Till date, only 3 periodic table elements
Iron, Cobalt, and Nickel have exhibited ferromagnetic properties at room temperature.
Key Points

• Scientists displayed that Ruthenium can be 4th single element ferromagnetic material by utilising ultra-thin sheets to force ferromagnetic phase.
• It took them about 2 years to discover correct way to cultivate this material and authenticate it. The finding will assist to advance sensors, devices in computer memory and logic industry utilising magnetic things.
• From an application point of view, Ruthenium is resistant to oxidation and additionally has high thermal stability, which is a vigorous necessity for scaling magnetic memories.
  More about Ruthenium
• Ruthenium is chemical element with atomic number 44. It is infrequent transition metal have its place to platinum group of periodic table.
• Ruthenium is inert to most other chemicals. It was discovered in 1844 by Russian originated scientist Karl Ernst. Ruthenium is typically found as negligible component of platinum ores. It is utilised in wear-unaffected electrical contacts and thick film resistors.
• It is also used in platinum alloys and as a chemistry catalyst.

Who has been appointed President of National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission ? - R K Agrawal

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has sanctioned former Supreme Court Judge Justice
R.K.Agrawal as President of National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission. He will succeed Justice D.K.Jain, who finished his term. Justice Agrawal was judge of Supreme Court from February 2014 to May 2018 and had assisted on bench of the Supreme court for 4 years.
National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission

• National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission is commission formed under Consumer Protection Act of 1986.
• It addresses complaints of aggrieved consumer for goods and services having value more
  than Rupees one crore.
• It was recognized in 1988 and is HQ in New Delhi. The commission is led by retired judge of Apex Court of India.
  More about Statutory Provisions
• Section 21 of Consumer Protection Act, 1986 suggests that National Consumer Disputes Redressal
  Commission shall have authority to handle complaint valued above Rupees one crore and also have
  appellate and revisional authority from orders of state commissions.
• Section 23 of Act delivers that any person distressed by order of National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, may put application against such order to Supreme Court within time period of thirty days.

Sudha Balakrishnan as its first Chief Financial Officer appointed by - RBI

RBI has chosen Sudha Balakrishnan as the 1st Chief Financial Officer. She will be the twelfth executive
director of the Reserve Bank of India and will have term period of 3 years.
Sudha Balakrishnan is CA by profession. Previously, she was executive VP of National Securities
Depository Limited, India’s 1st and largest depository.
Key Points

• The new Chief Financial Officer will be in-charge of Reserve Bank of India’s balance-sheet to make sure accounting policies and processes comply with guidelines.
• She will be in-charge of government and bank account department, which progressions government transactions and income collections.
• She will also supervise Reserve Bank of India’s investments in India and overseas.
• She will also be in-charge of dividend Reserve Bank of India pays to government, which is vital in final budgetary calculations.
• Under Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, Reserve Bank of India is needed to pay government its excess after assembling provisions for bad and doubtful arrears, devaluation in assets and involvement to staff and retirement fund among others.

International Day of UN Peacekeepers 2018 observed globally on - 29th May 2018

The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers was celebrated worldwide on May 29 th , 2018 with an objective to honour above 3700 peacekeepers who have lost their lives while serving the UN since 1948, as well as 129 who passed away in 2017.
Celebrations of the Day

• On the eve of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, the United Nations Secretary-General supervises over a wreath-laying ceremony at the United Nations HQ in New York to bestow all peacekeepers who lost their lives while serving under the United Nations flagship.
• In addition, the Dag Hammarskjold Medal is presented retrospectively to the peacekeepers who have collapsed while working in the cause of peace during the preceding year.
  More about UN Peacekeepers Day
• The International Day of UN Peacekeepers was announced by the UN General Assembly through Resolution 57/129 on December 11 th , 2002. The day was 1st observed in 2003.
• The UN finalised to announce the day after getting a formal request of the Ukrainian Peacekeepers Association and the Ukraine Government.
• The day, May 29 th , marks the anniversary of the creation of the UN Truce Supervision Organization in 1948 to watch the ceasefire after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and it was the 1st ever United Nations peacekeeping mission.

Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali ties up with BSNL with - Swadeshi Samriddhi SIM cards

Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali has tied-up with state possessed BSNL, to release Swadeshi Samriddhi SIM
cards. With this, India’s furthermost trusted FMCG brand has arrived in to telecom sector after getting
popularity in the consumer goods market.
Key Realities

• Swadeshi Samriddhi SIM cards can be recharged for Rupees 144, for which subscribers will get unlimited calls across nation, 2GB internet data and 100 SMS free.
• Primarily, only Patanjali staffs and office bearers will receive the advantages of SIM card. After wide-ranging rollout of SIM cards, clienteles will receive a 10 percent discount on Patanjali goods.
• The SIM card also covers medical insurance and life insurance benefits.
• The medical insurance benefit is for Rupees 2.5 lakhs, while life insurance advantages for Rupees five lakh.
• These benefits can only be availed in case of road accidents only.

Ex-Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk named as  - caretaker PM of Pakistan

Pakistan’s former Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk was termed as nation’s caretaker PM for 2 months period
ahead of general elections to be organised in July 2018. The work profile of caretaker PM is to maintain
nation running among termination of parliament and fresh government being under oath. The current
ruling government will finish tenure in May 2018 and caretaker government will continue in office until
new government is formed via elections. The provisional caretaker administration usually does not form
any chief decisions until new government is designated, though it may act to shore up economy in case of deteriorating macro-economic outlook.
More about Nasirul Mulk

• Nasirul Mulk took birth on August 17 th , 1950 in Mingora, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa area.
• He had served as lawyer and judge for numerous years before becoming 22nd-Chief Justice of Pakistan from July 2014-August 2015.
• Previously, he worked as acting Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan from November 2013-July 2014.

WHO adopts Resolution on Digital Health initiated by India: - JP Nadda

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister J.P.Nadda broadcasted on May 29 th , 2018, that the WHO has accepted the resolution on Digital Health, brought out by India, during the 71st World Health Assembly.
The 71st World Health Assembly was organised in Geneva and was witnessed by representatives from all World Health Organisation member states.
Resolution on Digital Health

• The resolution recognises that Digital health technology has enormous potential for supportive Universal Health Coverage and enlightening accessibility, quality and affordability of health services.
• The resolution impulses Member States to prioritise the progress and better utilisation of digital technologies in health as a means of advancing the Sustainable Development Aims.
• It is the 1st step towards mainstreaming digital technologies in health including deep machine learning, artificial intelligence, internet of things and genomics.
• It overlays the way for the World Health Organisation to create a global strategy on digital health and involve member states to maximise their health systems in synchronisation with the global digital health programme.
• It also requests Member States to categorize priority areas in which they would be profited from World Health Organisation help including implementation, assessment and scaling up of digital health services and apps, data security, ethical and permissible concerns.