May 31, 2017

30th May 2017 Important Daily Current Affairs

Daily Current Affairs of 30th May 2017

International Current Affairs

In a crackdown on child sex tourism, Australia will ban convicted paedophiles from leaving Australia and cancel their passports.

The new laws, to be introduced in Parliament, will apply to convicts while they are on the offenders' register.
Paedophile meaning : a person who is sexually attracted to children.

National Current Affairs

Today is Hindi Journalism Day.
- On this day in the year 1826, the first Hindi newspaper of India called Udant Martand (The Rising Sun) was edited and published.
- With this, the Hindi Journalism completed its 187 years in India.
Goa is celebrating its 30th Statehood Day today.

It was on this day in 1987 that Goa became the 25th state of India.
It was a Union Territory along with Daman and Diu from December 1961 onwards when Goa was liberated from the colonial rule.

The government is going to bring 14 new categories, including acid attack survivors, under the Disability Act, 2016.

Currently, it provides benefits to seven categories including blindness, hearing impairment, mental illness and leprosy.
The new categories which will be added include muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, dwarfism, thalassemia, multiple disabilities (two or more disabilities).

The government today launched the 'Darwaza Band' campaign supported by the World Bank, to promote the use of toilets and freedom from open defecation across the country.

Note : Several Bollywood actors like Amitabh Bachchan and Anushka Sharma will help promote the campaign.

Goa CM Manohar Parrikar today announced that buying or selling of plastic bags in the state will be an offence from July and defaulters can be fined up to ₹5,000 for it.
In support of the Indian Army, Cricketer Gautam Gambhir has started a campaign titled #SoldierSelfies.

Under this campaign he asked people to take selfies with soldiers and post them on social media with the above hashtag.

Mumbai MLA Bharati Lavekar has launched India's first digital bank for sanitary pads on the occasion of World Menstrual Hygiene Day on Sunday.

Banking, Business & Economic Affairs

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon put into circulation new notes in One Rupee denomination while existing notes and coins will continue to be legal tender.

The new notes, printed by the Government of India, will be predominantly pink-green in colour.
The design on the reverse side will consist of the picture of 'Sagar Samrat', the oil exploration platform.
The notes will have the watermark of Ashoka Pillar in the window.
The notes will have the hidden numeral '1' in the centre and the hidden word 'Bharat' (in Hindi) vertically arranged on the right.
They will also feature a replica of new one rupee coin with ₹ symbol of 2017.

Russia's largest bank Sberbank is going to deliver cash via drones, its Deputy Chairman Stanislav Kuznetsov has announced today.

The cash delivered through the drones would come with certain security features like permanent ink taint to catch the thieves red-handed.

Awards & Honors

New Appointments

The UN has appointed Indian Supreme Court advocate and human rights lawyer Indira Jaising to lead a probe into alleged rape, torture, and killings by security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Deaths

Yoshie Oka (86), the first person to raise the alarm outside Hiroshima that the Japanese city had been hit by an atomic bomb, has died today.

Oka, who was then 14 years old, was working in Hiroshima as a communications operator at an underground command centre of the Imperial Japanese Army.

The two-time National Award-winning filmmaker has directed over 140 films.
He is known for films like 'Premabhishekam', 'Meghasandesham', 'Osey Ramulamma' and 'Tata Manavadu'.
Note : He held the record for directing the most number of films.

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