NATIONAL
UPDATES:
1 1. Union HRD Ministry forms N
Gopalaswami Committee on Sanskrit Promotion:
The Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has
constituted a 13 member expert committee exclusively on Sanskrit in its attempt
to revive interest in the ancient Indian classical language Sanskrit. The
expert committee would be headed by former chief election commissioner (CEC) N
Gopalaswami. He is currently, Chancellor of Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth (RSV)
in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.
2. Delhi assembly passes CrPC (Delhi Amendment) Bill, 2015:
Delhi Assembly has passed the Code of Criminal Procedure
(CrPC) (Delhi Amendment) Bill, 2015. The bill amends section 176(1) of the CrPC
Act, 1973 and widens the scope of magisterial inquiry into cases of suspicious
death, rapes in police custody and suspicious disappearances.
INTERNATIONAL
UPDATES:
1. China
building world’s largest animal cloning factory:
China is building the world’s biggest animal cloning
factory to recreate sniffer dogs, racehorses, pets and beef cattle. In this
regard, Chinese scientists have signed a deal to create a commercial animal
cloning centre in Tianjin, north-eastern China. Key facts The factory would be
built in the Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Area (TEDA) which
is a business development park sponsored by the government. It is joint project
of Chinese biotechnology firm Boyalife and South Korea’s Sooam Biotech. Peking
University and Tianjin International Joint Academy of Biomedicine are also part
of it.
OTHER UPDATES:
BUSINESS & ECONOMY:
1.
ASEAN leaders sign declaration for launching ASEAN Economic Community: Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders has signed a declaration for launching ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) which would be similar to European Union (EU)-style regional economic bloc. In this regard, Kuala Lumpur declaration on the establishment of the AEC was signed by the leaders of 10-nation grouping chaired by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak at its 27th Summit held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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