UN Tribunal Fixes Maritime Border of India, Bangladesh

Ending years of dispute over the maritime boundary between India and Bangladesh, a UN tribunal on July 8, 2014 announced that Bangladesh will get 19,467 sq km of the total 25,602 sq km disputed area with India in the Bay of Bengal.

By a majority of four votes to one, the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Haque in the Netherlands determined the course of the maritime boundary line between Bangladesh and India in the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf within and beyond 200 nautical miles.

In its verdict, the tribunal unanimously decided that it has jurisdiction to identify the land boundary terminus and to delimit the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf between the parties within and beyond 200 nautical miles in the areas where the claims of the parties overlap.

Expenditure Management Commission

Expenditure Management Commission has been set up by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It will be headed by former RBI Governor Bimal Jalan. This commission will suggest the ways to reduce food, fertiliser and oil subsidies and narrow the fiscal deficit. The other members of this commission is former finance secretary Sumit Bose and former RBI deputy governor Subir Gokarn. Additional Secretary, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, will be an ex-officio member and a senior officer with finance/expenditure experience will be member-secretary

New Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha elected

Dr. M. Thambidurai elected as the Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha. He is belonging from the political party AIADMK.

Indian Medal Winners in 20th Commonwealth Games

Gold Medal Winners
Medal Winners	Events
Amit Kumar	Wrestling
Abhinav Bindra	Shooting
Apurvi Chandela	Shooting
Sukhen Dey	Weightlifting
Yogeshwar Dutt	Wrestling
Sanjita Khumukcham	Weightlifting
Sushil Kumar	Wrestling
Babita Kumari	Wrestling
Dipika Pallikal, Joshana Chinappa	Squash
Kashyap Parupalli	Badminton
Jitu Rai	Shooting
Rahi Sarnobat	Shooting
Vikas Shive Gowda	Athletics
Sathish Sivlingam	Weightlifting
Vinesh	Wrestling
Silver Medal Winners
Ayonika Paul	Shooting
Amalraj Anthony Arputharaj, Sharath Kamal Achanta	Table Tennis
Bajrang	Wrestling
Navjot Chana	Judo
Mirabai Chanu Saikhom	Weightlifting
Laishram Devi	Boxing
Malaika Goel	Shooting
Ashwini Ponnappa, Jwala Gutta	Badminton
Geetika Jakhar	Wrestling
Mandeep Jangra	Boxing
Satywart Kadian	Wrestling
Ravi Katulu	Weightlifting
Devendro Laishram	Boxing
Lalita	Wrestling
Shushila Likmabam	Judo
Sakshi Malik	Wrestling
Santoshi Matsa	Weightlifting
Prakash Nanjappa	Shooting
Gagan Narang	Shooting
Seema Punia	Athletics
Rajinder Rahelu	Powerlifting
Sanjeev Rajput	Shooting
Anisa Sayyed	Shooting
Gurpal Singh	Shooting
Shreyasi Singh	Shooting
Harpreet Singh	Shooting
Vikas Thakur	Weightlifting
Rajeev Tomar	Wrestling
Vijender	Boxing
Sadar Singh, Akashdeep Singh, Birendra Lakar, Chinglensana Kangujam, Chandana Nikkin Thimmaiah, Danish Mujtaba, Dharamvir Singh, Gurwinder Chandi, Gurbaj Singh, Kothajit Khadangbam, Manpreet Singh, Sreejesh Parattu Raveendran, Rupinder Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Sunil Sowmarpet Vitalacharya, Raghunath Vokkaliga Ramachandra	Mens Hockey
Bronze Medal Winners
Arpinder Singh	Athletics
Lajja Gauswami	Shooting
R. V. Gurusaidutta	Badminton
Dipa Karmakar	Gymnastics
Rajwinder Kaur	Judo
Sakina Khatun	Powerlifting
Pawan Kumar	Wrestling
Ganesh Mali	Weightlifting
Chandrakant Mali	Weightlifting
Asab Mohd	Shooting
Gagan Narang	Shooting
Navjot Kaur	Wrestling
Omkar Otari	Weightlifting
Pinki Rani	Boxing
Manavjit Sandhu	Shooting
P. V. Sindhu	Badminton
Swati Singh	Weightlifting
Kalpana Thoudam	Judo
Punam Yadav	Weightlifting

India to host next IBSA summit

India will host the 7th IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa) summit in 2015. The announcement was made following a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South African President Jacob Zuma in Brasília on Wednesday.

The two leaders met at the sidelines of the interaction between the BRICS leadership and leaders from Latin American countries.

This will be the third time New Delhi will be hosting the IBSA summit since it started in 2006. While the inaugural edition of the summit was held in Brazil, India played host to the third edition in 2008 and the sixth in 2013. IBSA is a trilateral initiative between India, Brazil and South Africa “to promote, inter-alia, South-South cooperation and exchange.” The platform was announced, following a meeting of Foreign Ministers of the three countries in Brasilia in 2003, through the adoption of the Brasilia Declaration.

The IBSA summit involves consultations at the heads of state-level while meetings between Ministers and officials are held at the Trilateral Joint Commission and Focal Point levels respectively.

Five new Governors has been appointed by the President of India

 

The President has been pleased to appoint the following as Governors:-

1. Shri Ram Naik as the Governor of Uttar Pradesh
2. Shri Balramji Dass Tandon as the Governor of Chhattisgarh
3. Shri Keshari Nath Tripathi as the Governor of West Bengal
4. Shri Om Prakash Kohli as the Governor of Gujarat
5. Shri Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya as the Governor of Nagaland

Rajya Sabha passes NID Bill

The government pushed through the ‘National Institute of Design Bill, 2013’ in the Rajya Sabha on the first day of the budget session of Parliament. The BJP-led NDA government, which is a minority in the Upper House, managed to pass the Bill with help from the Congress. The Bill originally drafted by the UPA government is not contentious and was introduced in the Rajya Sabha last year by former Commerce Minister Anand Sharma. Minister of State for Commerce & Industry Nirmala Sitharaman, who moved the Bill for consideration and passage, explained its provisions seeking to declare the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, as an institution of national importance. Currently, the NID is registered as a society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 and as an autonomous institution under the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950. Now, the NID can establish institute campuses anywhere within or outside India.