Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 27 August 2015

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated the Call To Action Summit 2015, a global meet aimed at ending preventable child and maternal deaths.
The two-day summit will see officials from 24 countries deciding on strategies and sharing practices, said Rakesh Kumar, joint secretary in the Health and Family Welfare Ministry.
First hosted in the US in 2012, the global meet aims to end preventable child deaths by 2035. The event is co-hosted by Unicef, WHO, Tata Trusts and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Girish Sahni, a former director of CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology in Chandigarh, has taken over as the new director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
He will also be the secretary of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), the science and technology ministry said on Wednesday.
Sahni has a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru and has specialisation in Protein Engineering, Molecular Biology, and Biotechnology.
He assumed charge of the CSIR and the DSIR on August 24. Born on March 2, 1956, Sahni joined CSIR-IMTECH in 1991 and became its director in 2005.

The Finance Ministry said in a notification that the new SEBI Chairman would be appointed for a five-year term or up to the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier.
Besides, he would be eligible for re-appointment.The Government has begun the search for a new Chairman of the capital market regulator SEBI to succeed the current head UK Sinha, whose term ends on February 17, 2016.
The Finance Ministry said in a notification that the new SEBI Chairman would be appointed for a five-year term or up to the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier. Besides, he would be eligible for re-appointment.
The Chairman would have an option to receive pay "as admissible to a Secretary to the Government of India, or a consolidated salary of Rs. 4.5 lakh per month".
The salary remains unchanged from what is being paid currently.
Before joining SEBI as its Chairman, UK Sinha was the head of the UTI Mutual Fund. Prior to that, he had served in the Finance Ministry among other positions as an IAS officer.

For the first time in the history of weightlifting, an individual international tournament will be organised in India when it hosts the Commonwealth Youth, Junior and Senior Weightlifting Championships in Pune from October 11-15.
India will field 40 weightlifters -- 11 youth (boys & girls), 16 junior (men & women) and 13 senior (men & women) -- in the Commonwealth Championships.
Meanwhile, five weightlifters will take part in the 26th Women & 45th Men Senior Asian Weightlifting Championships to be held in Phuket, Thailand from September 3 to 12.

The Karnataka high court on Wednesday ordered notices to tennis star Sania Mirza, Union sports ministry and two sports committees in response to a petition filed by Paralympics champion HN Girisha.
Girisha has challenged the decision to recommend Sania's name for this year's Rajiv Khel Ratna award, to be presented by the President on August 29.
Girisha, from Hassan district, had won a silver for India in the 2012 London Olympics Paralympics.
He also won bronze in the 2014 Asian Para Games. He has won Padma Shri, Arjuna and Ekalavya. As per the marks criteria, Girisha said he has to his account 90 marks (70 marks for silver medal in London Olympics, Paralympics 2012 and 20 marks for bronze medal in Asian Games 2014) during the computation period - January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2014.
In his petition, Girisha claimed he was a more meritorious candidate among the nominees and alleged discrimination since the right person has been denied the award.
"The respondents (selection committee and sports ministry) have severely erred in their assessment in arriving at the qualification and recommendation of Sania Mirza's name for the award of Khel Ratna. There has not been proper and unbiased assessment in the matter," Girisha claimed in his petition.