The Daily Brief – 5th May 2019

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1. The International Cricket Council (ICC) on May 3, 2019 released the ICC Men’s T20I Team Rankings. As per the rankings, India dropped three places to fifth position. Pakistan, ICC T20 World Cup champions in 2009, with 286 rating consolidated the top position in the men’s Twenty20 (T20) International team rankings. The next top four positions in the rankings are South Africa (262), England (261), Australia (261) and India (260).

   

2. The United States Air Force General Tod D. Wolters was sworn in as top military officer of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), at NATO’s military headquarters in Mons, southern Belgium. He will succeed U.S. Army General Curtis M. Scaparrotti to become new Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) for a term of two to three years. NATO is an intergovernmental military and political alliance based on North Atlantic Treaty (also known as Washington Treaty) signed in 4 April 1949. It is also known as North Atlantic Alliance.
3. Article titled ‘Coalgate 2.0’, authored by Nileena M. S. and published in March 2018 issue of ‘The Caravan’ magazine, won Asian College of Journalism’s Award for Investigative Journalism, 2018. The article investigates allotment of ‘captive coal blocks’ in Parba East and Kanta Basan regions of Chhattisgarh. It explores deforestation, re locations of people, loss of livelihood, and denial of forest rights to tribals.
4. Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) meeting chaired by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has approved Indian Navy’s proposal to acquire 10 Kamov-31 helicopters from Russia. The deal worth Rs.3, 600 crore, is a move to strengthen Indian Navies capability against aerial threats to its aircraft carriers and large warships. Kamov Ka-31 is a military helicopter manufactured by ‘JSC Kamov’ (a Russian rotorcraft manufacturing company) and development started in 1987 for Soviet Navy.
5. India and Australia held the 11th Meeting of Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism at Canberra on May 3, 2019. Both the countries have agreed to further deepen counter-terrorism co-operation through regular exchange of information and sharing of best practices on countering extremism and radicalization.
6. The Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) to Central government, Dr. Krishnamurthy Subramanian is appointed as twelfth (12) member of Advisory Council of Fifteenth (15th) Finance Commission (FCc). Finance Commission is constituted under article 280 of Constitution by President of India. The chairman of first FC was Shri K.C. Neogy on 6th April, 1952. Fifteenth Finance Commission constituted in November 2017, is chaired by N. K. Singh.
7. Indian Navy’s front-line missile destroyer, INS Ranjit will be decommissioned on May 6, 2019 at the naval dockyard at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, after having served the Indian Navy for 36 years. The ship was commissioned in the fleet of Indian Navy on September 15, 1983 with Captain Vishnu Bhagwat at the helm. The ship is the third of the five Kashin-class destroyers built by erstwhile Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). INS Ranjit has a motto of ‘Sada Rane Jayate’ or ‘Ever Victorious in Battle’.

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