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The Hindu Current Affairs October/17/2015



1. Nirbhay, the subsonic cruise missile developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), failed again on Friday when it lost control after about 12 minutes of flight and fell into the Bay of Bengal.
2. Sex ratio falls to 898 girls per 1,000 boys Activists say law against prenatal gender determination not working.
Newly released CRS data show that the sex ratio of registered births fell from 909 in 2011 to 908 the next year and 898 in 2013. Manipur and Haryana do particularly badly, as do Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan. There are, demographers caution, problems with using CRS data on the sex ratio. For one, it counts registered births only and since girls are less likely to be officially registered than boys, the sex ratio derived from the CRS is artificially depressed.
3. SC Bench strikes down National Judicial Appointment Commission Act as ‘unconstitutional and void’ the collegium system remains operative
4.Israel ‘upset’ over India’s ties with Palestine.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed unhappiness with India’s “lenience” towards Palestine to President Pranab Mukherjee. At a State lunch hosted by Mr. Netanyahu here on Thursday, he told Mr. Mukherjee that Israel expects India to change its stand towards Palestine, according to a person who was present at the lunch.

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