Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam - 02 December, 2013

Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam

The Centre might order a probe into the alleged illegal surveillance and phone tapping of a women in Gujarat in the wake of demand from certain quarters, including Congress.
The "snooping" on the woman architect, allegedly by the Gujarat Police at the behest Amit Shah, a close aide of BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, was apparently in violation of phone tapping rules as it was reportedly carried out without the mandatory permission from the Centre when the woman went out of the state.
Home Secretary is empowered to order phone tapping of a person within the state but when the surveillance is carried out in multiple states, permission of Union Home Secretary is mandatory. The Gujarat Police seems to have tapped the telephone of the woman when she was even in Maharashtra and Karnataka, besides Gujarat, without taking any authorisation from Union Home Secretary.
Congress has been maintaining that the episode raised questions about the Gujarat Chief Minister's disregard for law and intrusion into the privacy of the Bangalore-based architect whose family hails from Kutch.
The party questioned the use of state agencies like anti-terrorist squad and state intelligence to keep tabs on the woman.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi recently inaugurated several roads in her parliamentary constituency Raebareli, where she will also launch a host of projects, including a railway line.
Sonia Gandhi, laid the foundation of over 50 roads constructed under Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojna ( PMGSY) connecting various villages of her constituency. She also inaugurated a water treatment plant at Saraimugla.
During the visit, she would lay the foundation of a new railway line -- Raebareli- Maharajganj-Akbarganj.
This line would bring Mahrajganj tehsil of Raebareli on the railway map for the first time. Besides, Raebareli will be connected to Faizabad by the shortest railway route.

In a legal opinion that could re-ignite the debate on federalism in general and powers of states to deal with terrorism in particular, Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran has told the government that "only Parliament and not the state legislature has the exclusive power to legislate" on an issue dealing with terrorism.
Passed by the Madhya Pradesh Assembly on March 25, 2010, the proposed law was referred by the Governor, taking resort to the powers under Article 200 of the Constitution, to the President for consideration and assent on the ground that it was inconsistent or repugnant with legislations passed by Parliament, particularly the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 2008 as well as the Code for Criminal Procedure, 1973, the Limitation Act, 1963, and Indian Evidence Act, 1872.
On October 22, 2010, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs said the proposed Bill was repugnant to the main central legislation dealing with terrorism — the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 2008.

PV Sindhu bounced back from a string of poor results to win to win her second Gold Prix Gold title of the year. The 18-year-old, who had earlier won the Malaysian Open in May, beat Canada's Michelle Li 21-15 21-12 in 37 minutes to win the Macau Open.
Sindhu, the top seed, was completely dominant against the World No. 30 Li, seeded seventh at Macau.
The win would undoubtedly have boosted the Hyderabad shuttler's confidence after a run of early ousters recently. She had enjoyed a strong start to the year with the Malaysia Open win, a semifinal run at the India Open Super Series, beat fancied Chinese players en route a landmark bronze at the World Championships — the first singles medal since Prakash Padukone's bronze in the 1983 edition.
The results had won her an Arjuna Award and helped her reached a career high world ranking of 10. But in September she suffered a shock second round exit at the hands of a qualifer in the Japan Open, lost a tight first round encounter to World No. 18 Eriko Hirose in the Denmark Open Super Series, then was upset by World No.30 Scot Kirsty Gilmour in the French Open.

Gaganjeet Bhullar carded 16-under-268 for the week to lift his fifth Asian Tour title with victory at the Indonesia Open.
Bhullar, who had a forgettable outing at the World Cup of Golf last week, fired a bogey-free final round to come home the winner. He thus ended up being the wire-to-wire leader from round one till the end. He shot scores of 64 67 69 and 69.
Another Indian, Jyoti Randhawa claimed fifth place at 11-under-273 while Anirban Lahiri secured tied sixth at 10-under-274 to make it three Indians in the top-6. PGTI member Mohammad Siddikur Rahman of Bangladesh finished with a four-day total of 12-under-272 to bag fourth place.
Bhullar has had a brilliant season so far. He posted a runner-up finish at the Avantha Masters, a European Tour & Asian Tour co-sanctioned event, earlier this year. This win is expected to push him up on the Asian Tour Order of Merit, where he is currently ranked sixth.