Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam - 30 November, 2013

Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam

Barring seven Assembly constituencies within Imphal Municipal area, the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958 will be extended for another year in insurgency-hit Manipur.
The Act will be enforced in all the districts of the State except seven Assembly constituencies of Wangkhei, Yaiskul, Thangmeiband, Uripok, Sagolband, Shingjamei and Khurai, all in Imphal municipal areas.
The decision to extend the Act was taken in a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singhm and the act has been enforced in the state for more than two decades after it was extended annually.
The Act was removed from the seven Assembly constituencies about a year ago following intense agitation demanding its withdrawal from the entire State.
Social activist Irom Chanu Sharmila has been on fast unto death for more than 13 years demanding repeal of the Act after killing of 10 civilians by Assam Rifles near Imphal airport on November 2, 2000.
The Act gives extra powers to security forces to deal with insurgents and if anyone wants to fight against the forces for any violation of human rights, he or she has to get permission from the Union government.

The case of the two Italian Marines facing trial in India for murder would not be resolved by Christmas.
Marines Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone were arrested for the killing of two Indian fisherman off the coast of Kerala in February last year. They are currently on bail pending trial and are living and working at the Italian embassy in New Delhi.
Italy has been waiting for a report due in December from Indian investigators over the alleged killings.
A media report said Indian investigators had recommended to the home ministry that Latorre and Girone be sentenced to death.
Italian officials have been working to secure the return of the two Marines, who were guarding an oil tanker and claim they merely fired warning shots into the sea in the direction of the fishermen's boat, believing they were pirates.
Italy disputes India's jurisdiction over the case, claming the incident took place in international waters.
The case sparked a major diplomatic row between the two countries when Rome refused to return Latorre and Girone to New Delhi after they were allowed home to vote in national elections.
Amid escalating tension, Italy relented and sent the Marines back when it received assurances from India that the pair would not face the death penalty.

The Supreme Court panel probing the complaint of a law intern who alleged a former judge of sexually assaulting her last December had submitted its report to the Chief Justice of India.
The probe panel comprising of Justices R M Lodha, H L Dattu and Ranjana Desai allegedly found that the law intern had pointed out former Justice A K Ganguly who had sexually harassed her in December last year. The committee had also recorded the statement of Justice Ganguly as well.
The Committee was set up by the CJI as a fact finding panel to find out the truthfulness of the contents of a blog in which the law intern had highlighted the alleged sexual harassment incident involving the judge concerned.
The woman intern had alleged that the retired judge had misbehaved with her in a hotel room last December.
The contents of her blog were published in a newspaper and the committee was asked to probe into the correctness of her statement and the alleged incident. Supreme Court committee met eight times since Novermber 13 and recorded the statement of law intern. The girl also submitted three affidavits in support of her statement.

Indian weightlifters has continued to break new records at the Commonwealth Youth, Junior and Senior Championships, taking their overall medal tally to an unprecedented 102, including 53 gold, on the penultimate day of the event in Penang, Malaysia .
The biggest contributors to the tally were the youth boys, who notched up 24, including 16 gold.
The youth girls were not too far behind with 21 medals, inclusive of a dozen gold.
The senior men and women have so far won 21 medals in all, nine of them being gold.

India has beaten Kazakhstan 84-71 to remain in Level 1 of the FIBA Asia U16 Championship for women.
India started off well in their match and took the lead in the first quarter, finishing at 20-14 but Kazakhstan bounced back soon, winning the second quarter 22-16.
However, India returned to its winning ways in the second half and won both the third and fourth quarters.
Ritu Verma top scored with 24 points for the Indian team.
Earlier, China and Japan ensured their way into the final of the championships.