Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam - 05 September, 2014

Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams

Bollywood actor-producer Aamir Khan said that he is donating Rs.11 lakh towards supporting the Mumbai Film Festival, which is facing a funds crunch for its forthcoming 16th edition this year.
Aamir has joined a list of cinema lovers who have come forward to save the fest, organised annually by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI).

Danish toy maker Lego has taken the top spot as the world’s biggest maker of toys by sales, overtaking Barbie doll-maker Mattel, its first-half results showed on Thursday. Performance was boosted by the Lego Movie product line.

President Pranab Mukherjee has cleared the appointment of Justice H.L. Dattu, the senior-most judge in the Supreme Court, as the 42nd Chief Justice of India.
Justice Dattu could become the last Chief Justice of India to be appointed under the collegium system of judicial appointments.
If the States ratify the National Judicial Appointments Commission, a constitutional body, the collegium system will come to an end and the executive will get an equal role in appointments to the highest judiciary.
Justice Dattu will become the Chief Justice of India after the retirement of CJI R.M. Lodha on September 27, 2014. He will hold the post for a little over a year until his retirement on December 2, 2015.

India recorded the highest number of suicides in Southeast Asia in 2012, says a report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva.
The number of victims was 2,58,075 — 1,58,098 men and 99,977 women — that year. Globally, the number was 8,04,000.
Suicide by pesticide ingestion is among the most common methods employed globally and is of particular concern in rural areas in Southeast Asia.

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the government to clarify its stand on the citizenship of children born to surrogate mothers in India, but whose biological mother was a foreign national.
“Under the Constitution, a child born here from an Indian surrogate mother is entitled to Indian citizenship. But what happens if the biological mother is a foreign citizen and the child applies for citizenship of that country,” a Bench led by Justice Ranjan Gogoi asked.
Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Tushar Mehta acknowledged the problem, adding that in countries such as Germany, surrogacy was banned by law.
The Bench was looking into the larger issue on the need for a “comprehensive legislation” dealing with all issues and situations, including the citizenship of a surrogate child, created by new reproductive technology.
The problem of citizenship of a surrogate child was highlighted in the case of twin babies born to an Indian surrogate mother and a German father, Jan Balaz, in 2008.
The two boys, Balaz Nikolas and Balaz Leonard, were conceived by an Indian woman in Gujarat’s Anand district in January 2008.
Justice Gogoi suggested that the government could consider dual citizenship for surrogate children born in such circumstances.

A report launched by the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) titled ‘India’s Surveillance State’at the Internet Governance Forum, currently underway in Istanbul, said the Indian state is violating the privacy of its citizens through use of Internet monitoring systems.
The Report further revealed that an unknown number of Lawful Interception and Monitoring (LIM) systems, tasked with the collection and analysis of citizens’ communications data and meta-data, are already installed in India’s communication networks.

The World Media Summit (WMS) has invited entries for the first WMS Global Awards for Excellence, instituted to honour “truth, objectivity, excellence” in journalism.
These are “the first comprehensive news and news-related awards at the international level recognising professional excellence across the print, television, radio, and digital-only platforms.
The four awards announced fall under three categories: contributions to public welfare by exemplary news teams and news professionals in developing countries; media innovation; and new media reporting.