Current Affairs for IAS Exams

Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 03 January 2017

Noting that its diktats are not “written in sand” and are meant to be complied with, the Supreme Court stripped BCCI president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke of their posts.
SC ordered them to “forthwith cease and desist” from associating themselves with Indian cricket’s most powerful body.
A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud declared Mr. Thakur and Mr. Shirke “unfit” to continue at the helm of the BCCI for their “obstructionist” attitude.
The BCCI bosses not only made “unfortunate comments” about the Lodha panel in public but also ended up hurting the dignity of the Supreme Court with their attitude, it noted.
Besides, the court found Mr. Thakur prima facie guilty of both contempt of Supreme Court proceedings and perjury (fabrication of false evidence), adding that such a person does not deserve to continue as BCCIpresident.

Consumer have the discretion to not pay ‘service charge’ ad- ded to your bill by any hotel/ restaurant.
Consumer Affairs Department asked the State to advise hotels/restaurants to prominently display that “the service charges are discretionary/voluntary and a consumer dissatisfied with the services can have it waived.”
This follows several com- plaints that hotels and restaurants are charging service charge in the range of 5-20per cent, in lieu of tips, which a consumer is forced to pay irrespective of the kind of service provided, the department said.
It said the Consumer Protection Act, 1986, provides that a trade practice which, for the purpose of promoting the sale, use or supply of any goods or for the provision of any service, adopts any deceptive method is to be treated as unfair.
The department said a consumer can make a com- plaint to the appropriate forum established under the Act against such unfair trade practices.

Myanmar said it has detained several police officers over a video shot by a fellow police- man that shows them beating Rohingya civilians, a rare admission of abuse against the Muslim minority.
Tens of thousands of people from the persecuted ethnic group — loathed by many of Myanmar’s Buddhist majority — have fled a military operation in Rakhine State, launched after attacks on police posts in October.
The refugees’ stories have raised global alarm and galvanised protests against Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been accused of not doing enough to help the Rohingya.
Authorities pledged to take action “against police who allegedly beat villagers during area clearance operations on 5 November in Kotankauk village”.
The footage shows police hitting a young boy around the head as he walks to where dozens of villagers are lined up in rows seated on the ground, hands behind their heads.