Current Affairs: Daily GK Update 05th July 2017- Ideticedu
5 July In History
- 1687 Isaac Newton’s great work PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England. Outlines his laws of motion and universal gravitation.
- 2004 First Indonesian presidential election by the people – first round (eventually won by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono).
VAN Mahotsav
VAN Mahotsav, a week-long celebration, is being celebrated in several regions of India. It is usually celebrated between 1st July to 7 july .
More About Van Mahotsav
VAN Mahotsav is an annual tree-planting movement in India, which started in 1950. The name Van Mahotsava means “the festival of trees”. It has gained significant national importance and, each year millions of saplings are planted across India in observation of Van Mahotsav week. It was started by K. M Munshi.
Obligatory Registration of Marriages – Law Commission
Law Commission presented its 270th report titled “Obligatory Registration of Marriages” to Law Ministry. In this report, Law Commission has prescribed necessary enrollment of all relational unions to manage social indecencies, for example, kid relational unions, polygamy, marriage cheats, renunciations of ladies by their better half and sexual orientation brutality.
i. Law Commission has prescribed correcting the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, to incorporate relational unions.
ii. The Commission proposed that as far as possible to enlist relational unions ought to be confined to 30 days after which a punishment of Rs. 5/ – every day could be forced.
Important Points
1. On this event, the two nations underscored the requirement for expansion of two-sided exchange and enlarging their engagements for more prominent collaboration in venture division.
2 Amid the TEJC meeting, the two sides examined the guide for collaboration in different fields, for example, Fertilizer Sector, Customs, Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement, Visa and Consular issues, Health and Pharmaceuticals and some more.
3. The fundamental point is to advance financial, exchange and venture participation in light of the guideline of value and non-separation.
4. Both the sides likewise talked about the guide for advancement of exchange and venture through B2B system.
5. The meeting is held under the co-seats of Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Commerce and Industry, Government of India, and H.E Eng. Mr. Yarub Qudah, Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply, the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has initiated the ninth version of Delhi Dialog on fourth of July 2017.
The theme for Delhi Dialogue 9 is India-ASEAN relations: Charting the Course for the Next 25 Years.
Arunachal Pradesh observes ‘Dree celebration’ with conventional ceremony and exhilaration
The Dree Festival of Arunachal Pradesh is a rural celebration celebrated by the Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh.
5th Meeting of BRICS Education Ministers was hung on July 5, 2017 in Beijing, China. The Indian assignment was driven by Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Prakash Javadekar.
Karnataka government has launched the ‘Elevate 100’ scheme.
Under ‘Elevate 100’ start-ups will not only be provided funding, but will also be provided technical and business support including access to mentors, networking opportunities, idea validation, incubation facilities and sessions on accounting, legal and emerging technologies