DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS: 5 AUG 2015
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1. ‘SAMANVAY’ LAUNCHED BY MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT FOR GRAM PANCHAYATS:
i. ‘SAMANVAY’ web portal is launched to monitor progress and implementation of the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana for development of Gram Panchayats.
ii. It will provide information about all Government schemes including Central and State government for Gram Panchayats.
‘SAMANVAY’ will act as a database for information on various gram panchayat related activities through various schemes undertaken by the Central and State Governments. A magazine ’Panchayat Darpan’ is also launched to monitor the progress of the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana.
Union Rural Development Minister: Chaudhary Birender Singh.
2. BHARAT BHARTI LITERARY AWARD TO KASHINATH SINGH:
i. Hindi litterateur Kashinath Singh has been chosen for the Bharat Bharti literary award.
ii. He had penned down many books and novels his most famous novel is’ Kashi ka Assi’
iii. Bharat Bharti literary award is Uttar Pradesh state’s highest literary award.
Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh : Akhilesh Yadav
3. ‘OPERATION MUSKAAN ‘ BY GURGAON POLICE TO TRACE MISSING KIDS:
i. ‘Operation Muskaan’ was launched by railway police to trace missing children and to reunite them with their parents.
ii. The operation was launched with an aim to prevent child trafficking and rescue children from persons who engage them in begging, sexual trade and other antisocial activities.
4. ‘OPERATION SHISHTACHAR’ LAUNCHED BY DELHI POLICE
i. ‘Operation Shishtachar’ is launched by Delhi police to teach lesson to eve-teasers.
ii. The operation aims to nab offenders and teach lesson of manner to them.
women police officers dressed in civil will be posted at busy places like markets, metro stations, cinema halls and buses stands to keep a eye on young men .The operation is launched following several complaints by girls that they often have to face eve teasing in busy places, especially crowded markets and metro stations.
5. IQBAL AHMED ANSARI APPOINTED AS ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE OF PATNA HIGH COURT:
i. Justice Iqbal Ahmed Ansari was appointed as acting Chief Justice of Patna High Court by President Pranab Mukherjee under article 233.
Article 223 of Indian Constitution states for the appointment of acting Chief Justice when the office of Chief Justice of High Court is vacant or when any such Chief Justice, by reason of absence or otherwise, is unable to perform the duties of his office.
6. CHINA TO MAKE FIVE-HUNDRED-METER APERTURE SPHERICAL TELESCOPE:
i. China to make Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), in Guizhou province of south west China.
ii. It will be the World's Largest Radio Telescope, whose dish size will be equal to 30 football stadiums.
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope has been described as an Ear that will help scientists to listen the universe, to get weaker radio signals from outer space and solar system.
Telescope: an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer.
Telescope: an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer.
