Current Affairs and Essay/Short note topics for Competitive Exams

1. > India's “no first strike policy” with Pakistan.
2. Martial arts exponent, Syeda Falak,felicitated on the occasion of Telangana State Formation Day
3. > World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General Roberto Azevedo has welcomed India’s proposal for a Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) in Services
4. > India, world's fourth-biggest oil consumer, recently offered Saudi Aramco a stake in refineries and petrochemical projects.
5. > PARIS (Reuters) - After being previously tipped as a future French Open champion by claycourt master Rafael Nadal, Dominic Thiem has been branded the "leader of a new generation" by world number one Novak Djokovic.<div class="feedflare">
6. World Environment Day
7. > The Global Slavery Index: The Global Slavery Index 2013 measures the size of the modern slavery problem, country by country. The Index provides a quantitative ranking of 162 countries around the world according to the estimated prevalence of modern slavery (that is, the estimated percentage of enslaved people in the national population at a point in time). The Index is constructed from three quantitative indicators on prevalence, one of which was generated internally (estimated prevalence of slavery), and two of which are based on an analysis of pre-existing data from UNICEF and the US Trafficking in Persons report. The second section, on the risk of modern slavery, analyses risk based on an assessment of 31 qualitative and quantitative indicators that reflect five key dimensions: a country's anti-slavery policies; a country's respect for human rights; a country’s level of human and economic development; the stability of the government and the institutions of the country.
8. > Short note on "human genome": The human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens, which is stored on 23 chromosome pairs. Twenty-two of these are autosomal chromosome pairs, while the remaining pair is sex-determining. The haploid human genome occupies a total of just over 3 billion DNA base pairs. The haploid human genome contains ca. 23,000 protein-coding genes, far fewer than had been expected before its sequencing. In fact, only about 1.5% of the genome codes for proteins, while the rest consists of non-coding RNA genes, regulatory sequences, introns, and (controversially named) "junk" DNA The Human Genome Project (HGP) produced a reference sequence of the euchromatic human genome, which is used worldwide in biomedical sciences.