Current Affairs for IAS Exams

Current Affairs for IAS Exams – 03 June 2016

Five protesters and two policemen, including an SP-rank officer, were killed and over 40 injured in clashes during an eviction drive in Mathura district.
The clashes broke out when the police were trying to evict illegal occupants of a land in Jawahar Bagh, believed to be activists of Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi, on the directions of the Allahabad High Court.
SP (City) Mukul Dwivedi and SHO Farah police station Santosh Kumar were killed in firing by the encroachers.

Have an opinion about the NDA government that you would like to share with Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself?
More than 15,000 people have already done so on MyGov.in, a portal run by the government of India, and much like your Friday matinee, ratings have been solicited by the PM on 15 of his pet projects.
At the end of these responses, (and they are there for anyone who logs on to MyGov.in to see), the scores on just what and whose work makes the cut in the government is telling.
Ranking right there at the top, with an average of 4.6 stars are the initiatives taken by the government on rail connectivity and modernisation, so hurray for Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu.
Following closely in the list of above average work are the initiatives on roads and highways; they score an average of 4.55 stars.
Number three is the work of a Minister who was conspicuous by her absence (due to ill-health) from the second anniversary: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. Her Ministry’s work gets an average of 4.5 star rating.
Make in India, and initiatives in the power sector are the next two popular areas of government work. Each scored an average of 4.2 stars.

The official committee on constitutional reforms in Sri Lanka has not been able to arrive at a consensus while making recommendations on several contentious areas such as the nature of state, religion, merger of provinces and land powers.
Despite this, the 20-member committee has come up with an exhaustive Bill of Rights and provisions for curtailment of powers of the office of Governor, a subject that has been of great interest to the Northern and Eastern Provinces.
It covers 32 types of rights, ranging from right to life (not included in the 1978 Constitution) to freedom of religion to rights of people with diverse sexual and gender identities.
In many ways, views of the committee also presented a microcosm of diversities of views and positions in society.
On the issue of religion, the committee points out that despite the existing constitutional position of providing Buddhism “the foremost place”, the Supreme Court has called Sri Lanka a “secular State”.
The committee is also for retaining the present national flag or designing one without any reference to ethnicity, while representing Sri Lankan collective life, or framing a new flag symbolising the equality of all ethnic groups.
Terming the merger of the Northern and Eastern provinces as “the most controversial”, the committee makes six recommendations.
One of them is for allowing the current structure of nine provinces with constitutional provisions for power- sharing.