DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 30 OCT 2017
(DAILY NEWS INDIA)
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1.
INDIA TO HOST UN WILDLIFE SUMMIT IN 2020
i. The UN
for Environment Programme announced that, India will host the next United
Nations global wildlife conference on migratory species (CMS COP13) in 2020.
The Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species is held
once in three years.
ii. It is
the only international treaty devoted exclusively to migratory wildlife
species. The summit aims to conserve terrestrial, marine, and avian migratory
species on a global level.
2.
CABINET APPROVES RS 7,000 CR FOR CONSTRUCTION OF SIX IIT
CAMPUSES
i. The Union
Cabinet has approved over Rs 7,000 cr for construction of permanent campuses of
six new Indian Institute of Technology across the country.
ii. Each of
the permanent campuses to be established at Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh), Palakkad
(Kerala), Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir), Dharwad (Karnataka), Bhilai (Chhattisgarh)
and Goa will have a facility for housing 1,200 students from the academic year
2020-2021.