Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 6 July 2015

::Sports ::

Double delight for Jamaican sprinters

Jamaican sprinters Asafa Powell and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce made up for the absence of injured Usain Bolt by storming to double 100m glory in the Diamond League meet in Paris on Saturday.
But there was heartbreak for Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba who narrowly missed out on breaking her older sister Tirunesh’s world record in the women's 5,000m.
Powell held his nerve to power through the line in 9.81 seconds, Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut equalling the European record of 9.86sec in second ahead of American Michael Rodgers (9.99).
American Evan Jager led a strong field of Kenyans into the final bend of the men's 3,000m steeplechase, only to come a cropper on the final hurdle to allow Jairus Kipchoge Birech in a world leading 7:58.83.

::International ::

Greece says 'No' to bailout referendum

Voters in cash-strapped Greece overwhelmingly rejected international creditors' tough bailout terms on Sunday, but Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras insisted the result does not mean a "rupture" with Europe despite fears it will end in a "Grexit" from the eurozone.
With the final tally showing the 'No' vote winning by more than 61%, the historic referendum represented a victory for the radical left prime, who said his negotiating position to secure a new debt deal was now greatly bolstered.
As eurozone leaders scrambled to work out their response, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande called a European summit for Tuesday and declared that the Greeks' decision must"be respected".
Thousands of pro-government supporters cheered and hugged each other in central Athens in celebration, although some other Greeks expressed pessimism that Tsipras would be able to deliver on his promises.
Figures released by the interior ministry showed the final tally at 61.31% voting 'No' and 38.69% voting 'Yes'. Participation stood at 62.5%.
Now, Europe faces a near impossible choice between giving debt-laden Greece a chance or pushing it out of the euro and risking global turmoil, analysts said.
European leaders reacted with a mix of dismay and caution to the resounding election results, which also sent the battered single currency plummeting.
In Asian trade, the euro help up against the dollar after dropping in the immediate wake of the vote, changing hands at $1.1024 to claw back some of the losses it suffered in New York electronic trade where it fell at one point to $1.0987.
Tsipras said the creditors -- the ECB, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) -- would now finally have to talk about restructuring the massive, 240-billion-euro ($267 billion) debt Greece owes them.

::National ::

Mobile cross landlines in rural India

Nearly 28 per cent of rural households in India still do not have access to a phone, whether landline or mobile, finds the Socio Economic and Caste Census, 2011. Only 11 per cent of these households have a refrigerator.
The census, released by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Rural Development Minister Chaudhary Birendra Singh here on Friday, finds that the number of mobile-phone connections far exceeds that of landlines in rural India.
Sixty-eight per cent of households own only a mobile phone, one per cent own only a landline phone, and 2.7 per cent own both.
The census provides an insight into transport facilities in villages, showing that only 20.6 per cent of households own “motorised two/three/four-wheelers or motorised fishing boats requiring registration”.
A whopping 71 per cent of Chhattisgarh’s rural population, for example, does not have a phone. This number is 65.3 per cent for Odisha and 51.9 per cent for Madhya Pradesh.
The proportion of these States’ rural populations with a refrigerator is very low — only around a third of the national average

PM Modi’s new initiative ‘Digital India With Laado’ campaign

After its ‘Beti Bachao-Selfie Banao’ initiative caught Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attention prompting him to announce ‘Selfie with Daughter,’ the Bibipur Panchayat on Sunday launched “Digital India with Laado”, a campaign to replace names of family-heads in the nameplates with their daughter’s moniker.
Under the new campaign, representatives of village panchayat are visiting every household and putting up nameplates bearing the name and email id of the daughter of the house along with the tagline “Digital India With Laado.”
The representatives would visit every home in Jind and convince people to replace names of the head of the house with that of their daughters’, said panchayat sarpanch Sunil Jaglan, who started the campaign by replacing his name with his daughter’s.