DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 27TH OCT 2016
(Daily News India)
1. NEW
ZEALAND TO PLAY ‘CONSTRUCTIVE’ ROLE ON NSG
i. New Zealand PM John Key is on his
visit to India a meeting was to discuss on India becoming a member of the
Nuclear Suppliers Group.
ii. New Zealand is part of a group
called the New Agenda for Coalition which promotes the NPT and pushes for
nuclear disarmament worldwide.
iii. The New Agenda Coalition is a group of middle power countries seeking
to build an international consensus to make progress on nuclear disarmament, as
legally called for in the nuclear NPT.
iv. It was formed in 1998.
2. NADIA
MURAD AND LAMIYA AJI BASHAR WINNERS OF 2016 SAKHAROV PRIZE
i. Two Yazidi women, Nadia Murad Basee
and Lamiya Aji Bashar have won Europe's top human rights award, the Sakharov
prize.
ii. They escaped from the engulfed of Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria in Iraq,
iii. Nadia Murad Basee Taha appointed
UNODC Goodwill Ambassador
3. UNION
GOVERNMENT CONSTITUTES MUNIALAPPA COMMITTEE TO MONITOR BIRD FLU SITUATION
i. The Union Agricultural Ministry has
constituted a High-Level Committee to monitor the bird flu situation and help
state governments take steps to contain the disease.
ii. The High-Level Committee will be
headed by Joint Commissioner in the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairy and
Fisheries Munialappa.
iii. The committee was constituted
after mortality among the birds in National Zoological Park, Delhi NCR and
other parts of the country due to Avian Influenza Virus was found.
4.
ONE-MAN JUDICIAL COMMITTEE ON OROP SUBMITS REPORT TO DEFENCE MINISTER
i. The one-man judicial committee on
One Rank One Pension set up by the Union
Government, has submitted its report to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar.
ii. The Union had appointed the
committee under the Chairmanship of retired Chief Justice of Patna High Court L
Narasimha Reddy in December 2015.
iii. It was tasked to look into the
anomalies arising out of implementation of OROP.
iv. The OROP scheme aims to provide
ex-servicemen of same rank and same length of service uniform pension regardless
of date of retirement.