Current Affairs 1. India’s Central Information Commission has ruled on Monday that India’s main political parties must be subject to the Right to Information Act, which allows Indian citizens to seek information from most government bodies . Till now, Political parties have claimed they are not public authorities under the RTI act. Rejecting the claim, CIC said the Indian National Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party India, the Nationalist Congress Party and Bahujan Samaj Party have been substantially financed by the central government and should be subject to the RTI. 2. The Union Cabinet on Tuesday cleared a legislation to set up a long-pending real estate regulator to protect home buyers from unscrupulous developers and builders yesterday. A real estate regulator to be set up in every state will ensure that private developers get their projects registered before sale after obtaining all necessary clearances. It will be mandatory for developers under the law to get every project registered with the regulator before selling any immovable property. As of now, the commercial real estate is not covered under the purview of the proposed bill. However, it will apply to residential buildings. The bill has a provision for mandatory public disclosure of all project details such as lay out plan, land status and credentials of promoters etc. 3. Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer has entered into Indian e-commerce market with the launch of its market place Amazon.in which currently offers books, movies and television shows for sale . The company is planning to expand its product footprint to cameras, mobiles and other electronics devices. Amazon will not stock and sell its own products because India’s FDI regulations do not allow online multibrand retailers to sell their own products. Amazon has signed up 100 vendors across the country so far and has set up a 1.5 lakh sqft fulfillment centre in Mumbai to service online orders. 4. World Environment Day was observed today (5 th June). The theme for the year 2013 was “ Think, Eat, Save”. It aims at an anti-food wastage and loss campaign to encourage people to reduce their food print . It also calls for more awareness about the environmental impact of the food choices people make and empowers them to make informed decisions. As per the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), every year around 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted across the world. If the similar amount of food could be saved, it could serve the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. 5. PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif was formally elected as Pakistan’s Prime Minister today by an overwhelming majority in the National Assembly . With this he will be Pakistan’s Prime Minister for the third time. PML-N received 244 votes in the 342-member lower house of parliament during the election conducted through a division of the House, as the result of the election was announced by Speaker Ayaz Sadiq. 6. Veteran PML-N leader Ayaz Sadiq was elected Speaker of Pakistan’s National Assembly on Monday with majority of votes . He won 258 of the 313 votes that were cast in the election of the Speaker in the lower house of parliament and defeated Shaheryar Afridi of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (got only 31 votes) and S.A. Iqbal Qadri of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (got 23 votes). 7. Susan Rice, the tough-talking US Ambassador to the UN, has been appointed as the new National Security Adviser of President Barack Obama . She would replace Tom Donilon, who will be resigning from the post. Rice is well known for advocating strong relationship with India. 8. Latvia is all set to become the 18th member country of the euro zone and y to use the euro after being approved for membership by the European Commission . The Commission has confirmed that Latvia had met the criteria for joining the single currency. 9. Burundi’s Lydia Nsekera has become the first woman to be elected to the FIFA Executive Committee (ExCo) for a full term of four years since FIFA’s formation in 1904 . She is President of the Fédération de Football du Burundi since 2004 and has been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 2009.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:33:31 +0000
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