13 MAY 2015 CURRENT AFFAIRS

Children under 14 banned from all Employment

*Union Cabinet approved the plan to ban children under 14 in all kinds of commercial enterprises.

*The Child Labour Prohibition act of 1986 banned employment of children below 14 in only 18 hazardous industries

Politicians removed from government adds

*Supreme Court in and order restrained the government from publishing the photograph of political leaders , Ministers in government advertisement

*Based on the decision that such photos tended government project as the achievement of a particular person

*The court gives exception the President, the Prime Minister and the Chief Justice of India  

Achal Kumar Jyothi took over as Election Commisiion

*Achal Kumar Jyothi took over the charge of Election Commission filling one of the two vacancies in the three member commission. 

*He is a 1975 batch Indian Administrative Service officer and was retired as Gujarat Chief Secretary

*He will have a tenure of nearly three years

Harbhajan Kaur Dheer becomes first Asian elected mayor in UK


*Indian-origin councilor Harbhajan Kaur Dheer of Labour Party became the first Asian woman to be elected as mayor in United Kingdom.

*Harbhajan Kaur Dheer was born in Punjab in 1953 and has moved to Britain in 1975.

*Her  husband  Ranjit  Dheer  is  presently  councilor  of  Ealing  Council  and  is a former Mayor of Ealing

North Korea Minister Executed for insubordination

*North  Korea  leader  Kim  Jong-un  executed  his  Defence Minister Hyon Yong Chol with  an  anti  aircraft  fire  for  insubordination  and dozing  off during a formal military rally 

*Hundred of people witnessed the execution of the Minister and was believed to happen in April 30

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