Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 05 February 2015

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Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami was given his marching orders for allegedly trying to stall the arrest of Saradha scam accused and former Minister Matang Sinh.
The final decision was taken after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh met and discussed the issue.
Rural Development Secretary L.C. Goyal was appointed in his place, the order from the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet said.

Jordan executed two Iraqi jihadists, including a woman would-be suicide bomber, in response to the burning alive of one of its fighter pilots by the Islamic State group.
The gruesome murder of airman Maaz al-Kassasbeh triggered condemnation from governments across the Middle East.
Jordan said it hanged Sajida al-Rishawi and Al-Qaeda member Ziad al-Karboli — who were both on death row — before dawn at a prison south of the capital.
Amman had promised to begin executing Islamic extremists in response to the murder of Kassasbeh, who was captured by IS when his plane went down in Syria in December.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II described Kassasbeh as a hero and vowed to take the battle to IS after a video emerged purporting to show the caged 26-year-old F-16 fighter pilot engulfed in flames.

JK group Chairman Gaur Hari Singhania passed away following a heart attack.
Singhania (80) was also the President of J. K. Organisation and a Promoter Director of JK Cement Ltd. since its inception in 1994.
A sports lover, he was also the chief patron of Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association’s (UPCA). He is survived by a son, Yadupati Singhania.
He was cremated this afternoon at Bhagwat Das Ghat in the city.

A palm-sized dongle connected to a smartphone will soon be able to diagnose HIV and syphilis with good accuracy.
The device, which was recently field-tested on 96 patients in Rwanda, had high sensitivity and specificity for both HIV and syphilis.
The results are published today (February 5) in the journal Science Translational Medicine .
Sensitivity and specificity for both the infections are comparable to the lab-based ELISA.
In the case of HIV, the sensitivity was 100 per cent and specificity was 87 per cent. For syphilis, the sensitivity was 92-100 per cent and specificity was 79-92 per cent.