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1 DPCC notifies list of fuels permissible for industrial use

The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has issued a notification with a list of fuels permissible for industrial use within the NCT of Delhi, a move which has been hailed by the Centre for Science and Environment.

All existing industrial units and commercial establishments who are currently using fuels that are not approved under the notification have been asked to switch over to approved fuels within 90 days.

“All other fuels will deemed unapproved and so disallowed for use in NCT of Delhi,” the notification read.

Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director-research and advocacy, CSE, said, “Dust particles in the air get coated with toxic substances from combustion and can go deep into the lungs. Cleaner fuels for combustion are an important step forward to reduce the toxicity of emissions.

 05-Jul-2018 News in Details
2 Benjamin Netanyahu tells Europe to get tougher on Iran after France bomb plot

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Europe on Wednesday to take a harsher stance against Iran after an Iranian diplomat was arrested on suspicion of plotting to attack an Iranian opposition group in France.

An Austria-based Iranian diplomat was held in Germany, one of four people arrested on suspicion of plotting to bomb a meeting of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

"It was no coincidence that this attack was thwarted," Netanyahu said during a speech in northern Israel.

"I call on the leaders of Europe: stop financing the terrorist regime that is financing terrorism against you on your soil. Enough with the policy of appeasement and weakness regarding Iran."

 05-Jul-2018 News in Details
3 Uttam Dhillon appointed as new head of the Drug Enforcement Administration

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday appointed Uttam Dhillon as the new head to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Mr. Dhillon took up the role of acting administrator after Robert Patterson retired after 30 years with the agency.

“With one American dying of a drug overdose every nine minutes, there can be no doubt that we are facing the deadliest drug epidemic in our history,” Mr. Sessions said in a statement. “The work of the Drug Enforcement Administration is critical to fighting this crisis, and President Trump and I are committed to continuing to give it the strong leadership it deserves.”

Mr. Dhillon has previously worked as the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement and as an associate deputy attorney general for the Justice Department.

Mr. Dhillon also worked in the White House as deputy counsel and deputy assistant to the president.

 05-Jul-2018 News in Details
4 Govt approves hike in MSP for 14 Kharif crops: Check revised support prices for the summer-sown produce

The Centre on Wednesday raised the minimum support price (MSP) at which the government will buy all Kharif crops for the 2018-19 season. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), at its meeting, approved the MSP of 14 Kharif (summer-sown) crops.

The government has raised the MSP of the common rice variety by 13 percent. The government had fixed last year’s rice purchase price for the common variety at Rs 1,550 ($22.63) per 100 kilogrammes.

It also raised the support price for a superior rice variety to Rs 1,770, up from Rs 1,590 last year, home minister Rajnath Singh told reporters on Wednesday.

The hike in support prices will not impact food inflation and the government is confident in reining in rising consumer prices, Singh said.

The cabinet also raised the minimum support price for soybean and long staple cotton by 10.3 percent and 20.7 percent, to Rs 3,399 and Rs 5,450 respectively, Singh said.

 04-Jul-2018 News in Details
5 RBI Issues License To Bank of China To Operate In India,

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday issued license to Bank of China to operate in India, according to sources. According to reports, the decision was based on the commitment made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Chinese leadership.

Following this, the 106-year-old Bank of China will open a branch in India.

Last month Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese President XiJinping ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Qingdao, China. During the meeting, they discussed the issues of security, economic cooperation and people-to-people exchanges.

 04-Jul-2018 News in Details
6 Centre to set up e-waste recycling unit in Bengaluru

The Centre has announced a state-of-the-art e-waste recycling unit for Bengaluru, India’s technology capital which produces an estimated one lakh tonne of electronic waste a year. The Chemicals and Fertilizers Ministry, which is setting up the facility, said this is also India’s first such unit in the government sector.


The Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET), a research institute that comes under the ministry, will set up the unit in the next four months. The initiative will later be replicated at other places, Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers Ananth Kumar announced. He represents Bengaluru South in the Lok Sabha. 

 04-Jul-2018 News in Details
7 NRL becomes 1st oil PSU to introduce online legal compliance

Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) in Assam has become the first oil public sector undertaking (PSU) to adopt an online legal compliance system by introducing 'Legatrix'.

'Legatrix' is a onestop solution for effectively managing the organisations legal and regulatory compliances through monitoring control at different levels, a press release said.

It encompasses the requirements of laws like labour, taxation, IT, commercial, export-import, corporate laws and other industry-specific laws, it said.

This initiative augments the NRLs contribution towards the Digital India Mission and induces greater transparency in its operations, the release said.

 03-Jul-2018 News in Details
8 JHARKHAND TO SET UP COUNTRY'S FIRST KHADI MALL: CM Jharkhand to set up country's first Khadi mall: CM

RANCHI: The first 'Khadi Mall' of the country will be opened here soon, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das announced on Sunday.


"Within 15 days, land in the Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) campus will be made available to the Khadi Board to develop the country's first Khadi mall," he said while addressing the 'Karigar Panchayat' organized by the Khadi Board at the Tana Bhagat Indoor Stadium here.

Noting that handicrafts were being accorded priority in the state, Das said: "People in the villages are talented and so far 1.13 lakh artisans have been registered to be trained to make goods as per the needs of the market."

 03-Jul-2018 News in Details
9 Do not appoint police officer as acting DGP, SC tells States, UTs

The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed a slew of directions on police reforms in the country and ordered all States and Union Territories to not appoint any police officer as acting Director General of Police (DGP).

A Bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also directed all the States to send names of senior police officers to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) for being considered as probable candidates to be appointed as DGPs or Police Commissioners as the case may be.

The UPSC, in turn, will prepare a list of three most suitable officers and the States will be free to appoint one of them as police chief, the Bench, also comprising A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud, said.

The Bench also said that endeavour should be made that a person, who had been selected and appointed as DGP, has reasonable period of service left.

 03-Jul-2018 News in Details
10 Pakistan's 'all-weather' friend China approves $1 billion aid despite grey list

China's one billion dollar loan to Pakistan has come at a time when the South Asian country has been officially placed on a terrorism financing watchdog’s grey list.

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), while taking the decision, argued that Pakistan failed to act against terror financing on its soil. The FATF is a global body that tightens the noose on terrorists by combating their financing and money laundering.

The idea behind putting Pakistan in the FATF grey list is to deplete its economy and eventually pull the plug on terror groups. But several experts believe, China's loan to Pakistan in distress times like this, might act as a shot in the arm of terrorism. 

According to an article published in The Diplomat, the FATF verdict might make Islamabad tighten its belt, but will not significantly affect its coffers, which are inextricably enmeshed with a nexus of non-state actors.

 03-Jul-2018 News in Details

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