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TNPSC Current Affairs - September 2017 by TNPSC Guru

1.India to Re-thinks joining Hague child custody pact. 

India will re-think joining the Hague child custody pact, which was signed by many countries. India has announced last year that it will not sign the convention and now it re-thinks its stand of joining and discussing the effects of joining the convention.

About Hague Abduction Convention: 

• It is an International treaty on Child abduction and makes swift return of children wrongfully retained or removed from their habitual residence from one member country to another country.
• The Main purpose of the convention is to protect children from wrongful international abduction by parents.
• The convention is applicable for children under age 16 and 97 countries have been signed till now.

India’s Concern: 

• Many Indian Women married to Indians settled in foreign countries and they were compelled to return India with their children after violence or conflict with their partners.
• If India Ratify or signed The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1980), which will make women to fly back to the foreign country for settlement of custody.
• Also India should recognise the foreign judgment automatically irrespective of country’s own law on this issue. 

2.Vice President Releases  releases Commemorative Coin on Dr. M.S. Subbulakshmi 

The Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu released a Commemorative Coin on Bharat Ratna Dr. M.S. Subbulakshmi and inaugurated an exhibition entitled “Kurai Onrum Illai-MS: Life in Music”

3.Hurricane Maria thrashed  Dominican Republic. 

Hurricane “Maria” Thrashed Dominican Republic with heavy rain and high winds .

4.Justice Lodha to quit from Anna University VC Search Panel. 

Former Chief Justice of India RM Lodha, who headed the search committee to select the Vice Chancellor of Anna University has decided to quit and sent his resignation to Tamil Nadu Governor.

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