Current Affairs for IAS Exams

Current Affairs for IAS Exams – 26 November 2016

Prime Minister said the water that right-fully belonged to India under the Indus Water Treaty cannot be allowed to go to Pakistan.
He also said that the government was working towards using every single drop of water of the Sutlej, Ravi and Beas rivers for the country's farmers.
Mr. Modi said at a rally at Bathinda in Punjab, wherehe laid the foundation stone for an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
“But now every single drop of water, which is rightfully ours under the Indus water Treaty, will be stopped and I'll give that tothe farmers in Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country.”
“I have set up a task force for this purpose and I'm committed towards it,” he said.

SC sent a message that religious and wedding celebrations take second place to the basic fundamental right to breathe clean air, by ordering an immediate and blanket ban on the sale of fire-crackers in Delhi and the National Capital Region.
Moved by the everyday despair of children, women and the elderly in a city choked by smog, the SC said the situation was indeed “grave” for drastic action to check the rising pollution graph.
Having once compared the bursting of firecrackers to the“burning of money,” SC upheld the government's authority to intervene in people's right to celebrate weddings and festivals if the cause was urgent and entailed the larger public good.
The ban was imposed on the basis of a petition filed last year by three children of Delhi immediately after Deepavali.
Children suffered the most and their battle tobreathe got tougher with the poisonous tang of Deepavali firecrackers remaining in the air even days after the festivities were over.
Supreme Court, as the guardian of the right to live with dignity, should help them immediately.
A Bench of Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur and Justices A.K. Sikri and S.A. Bobde ordered a ban on the issuance of fresh licences to firecracker sellers and suspended the existing ones till further orders.
This would mean that any sale, purchase or stocking of firecrackers here would be rendered illegal.

President RecepTayyip Erdogan threatened to open Turkey's borders to allow migrants to reach the EU, in a move that would tear up a land-mark deal that has reduced the flow.
Mr. Erdogan's comments, some of his toughest in recent times against the European Union, prompted an immediate warning from Germany which helped broker the deal that such “threats” were unhelpful.
The threat came a day after the European Parliament angered Ankara by backing afreeze in EU accession talks, al-ready hit by alarm over its crack-down in the wake of the July 15 failed coup.
He said Brussels had cried out for help in 2015 as tens of thou-sands of migrants massed at Tur-key's border crossing with EU member Bulgaria.
Successful in stemming inflow, Ankara and Brussels forged a deal for Turkey to halt the flow of migrants to Europe — an accord that has largely been successful in reducing numbers crossing the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece.