Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam - 27 December, 2013

Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam

Ahmedabad metropolitan court rejected the protest petition filed by Zakia Jafri and endorsed the closure report of Special Investigation Team (SIT) that gave a clean chit to the chief minister Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the 2002 communal riots.
The protest petition was filed by Zakia — widow of then Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, who was burnt alive by a mob at Gulbarg Society on February 28, 2002 — in April 2013 for charge sheeting Modi along with 59 others for their role in the riots conspiracy which had triggered violence across the state.
The verdict, however, is expected to give a major political boost to the BJP and Modi, who is fighting hard to erase the taint of the riots that claimed over 1,000 lives.

The socio-economic caste census (SECC) undertaken by the government in 2011 to gather information on the condition of people across the country is still far from complete. It is aimed at identifying BPL (below the poverty line) households that can benefit from the Centre’s welfare schemes.
The survey is being carried out by trained enumerators, who are mostly members of panchayats or village-level MGNREGS secretaries.
The SECC has seven deprivation indicators to rank households on a scale of 0 to 7. Households with the highest deprivation score will have the highest priority for inclusion in the BPL list. Additionally, households without shelter, the destitute, manual scavengers, primitive tribal groups and legally released bonded labourers will have the ‘highest priority’ for inclusion.
The SECC database will provide policymakers authentic information on caste-wise population break-up in the country. Based on that, the government can evaluate the performance of its past schemes and update them accordingly.
So far, Haryana Nagaland, Daman & Diu have published the draft list.

Two new junior national records were created on the opening day of the 50th Men and 26th Women Junior National Weightlifting Championships at Guwahati.
S Mirabai Chanu of Manipur lifted 75kg in women`s 48kg category snatch event, bettering her own record by one kg.
Chanu swept the gold by winning a yellow metal each in clean and jerk (95kg) and total lift (170kg).
Harshdeep Kaur of Punjab created the second record of the day by lifting 79 kg in snatch in women`s 53kg category contest, erasing the earlier record of 78kg held by M Santoshi of Andhra Pradesh.
Harshdeep also swept the gold by winning a yellow metal each in clean and jerk (95kg) and total lift (174kg).
More than 255 weightlifters, including international medallists, from across the country are participating in the Championships in 15 bodyweight categories -- eight men and seven women.

The Indian cricket board will reward off spinner Ravichandran Ashwin with the Polly Umrigar Award for being India’s best international cricketer of 2012-13.
India’s best performers in the senior and the junior level cricket in a period of 12 months from October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2013, will be felicitated at the BCCI’s annual awards ceremony, to be held in Mumbai on January 11.
Ashwin took 43 wickets and scored 263 runs in Tests. In ODIs, he took 24 wickets from 18 matches and three wickets from four T20Is.
Abhishek Nayar will receive the Lala Amarnath Award for being the best all-rounder in the 2012-13 edition of the Ranji Trophy. He scored 966 runs at an average of 96.6.
The achievers of 2012-13 apart, Rohit Sharma will receive the Dilip Sardesai Award for being India’s best cricketer in the recent Test series against the West Indies. He scored hundreds in both Tests.