Current Affairs June 2014 No visa-free entry for Bangladeshis: Home ministry June 28, 2014 The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has decided to thwart any move to provide visa-free entry for Bangladesh nationals. The MHA has opposed the proposal of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to provide visa-on-arrival facility to Bangladeshi nationals and visa- free entry to citizens of that country under the age of 18 and over the age of 65. This shows a change in government’s policy as former home minister Sushilkumar Shinde was in support of the liberalized visa agreement with Bangladesh. However, MHA, under Rajnath Singh, has rejected the twin proposals sent by the MEA ahead of foreign minister Sushma Swaraj’s visit to Bangladesh. The MHA has cited security concerns to scrap the proposal of a visa-free entry. However, MHA has said that such Bangladesh citizens, under the age of 18 and over the age of 65, can be granted long-term tourist visas on the condition that they would have to report to the FRRO’s every year during their stay. It can be recalled that PM Narendra Modi had, during the election campaign said that if the BJP came to power, illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in India would be expatriated. Okavango Delta: UNESCO’s 1,000th World Heritage Site June 28, 2014 UNESCO has inscribed the Okavango Delta in Botswana on its World Heritage Site List. It is the 1,000th site to be bestowed with this status. Okavango Delta Location: Northwest Botswana, Africa on Okavango River The delta has rich biodiversity and is home to cheetah, white rhinoceros, black rhinoceros, African wild dog and lion – all of which are endangered. Around 24 species of globally-threatened birds can also be seen in the delta. Union Government modernizes NIC-1987 to NIC-2008 June 27, 2014 Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry upgraded the National Industrial Classification -1987 (NIC-1987) to NIC-2008. The upgrade to NIC-2008 will facilitate new businesses as it is more investor friendly and more in sync with international practices as compared to the older version of NIC Code. It provides a more modern industrial classification system in line with changes in the structure and composition of the economy and changing user requirements and compatibility with international standards. National Industrial Classification NIC is used for the purpose of classification of activities in respect of industrial license/ IEM proposals submitted to the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion. It is an essential statistical benchmark for developing and maintaining comparable database as per economic activities. Such classifications are often used in classifying the economically active population, statistics of industrial production and distribution, the different fields of labor statistics and other economic data such as national income. India’s Central Statistical Organization (CSO) has been finalizing NIC since 1960. Poli Over 1 million children in India are out of school: UN report June 27, 2014 As per a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report, India, Indonesia and Pakistan each have more than a million children out of school. According to the UNECO report: Globally, around 58 million kids aged 6 to 11 are out of school. This shows little overall improvement since 2007. India had 1.4 million unschooled children in 2011 but the country is among 17 other nations that have managed to decrease the number of unschooled children in the past decade. The aid sanctioned to education has further reduced combined with the lack of progress in reducing out of school numbers. With these disappointing figures, there is little chance of countries reaching the goal of Universal Primary Education by 2015
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:16:37 +0000
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