*CURRENT AFFAIRS (23:07:2014)

1. Yellapragada Sudharshan Rao has been appointed as Chairman of
Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR).
- He succeeds Basudev Chatterjee for a 3-year term.
2. Pneumonia is the greatest threat to children below 5 in India.
- 16 percent of under-five child deaths are due to Pneumonia and 14
per cent are due to Diarrhoea as per a Millennium Death Study 2010.
- The good news is, there has been a steady decline in it over the
last three years:
Year Under five mortality rate per thousand live births
2010: 59
2011: 55
2012: 52
3. David Rasquinha and Debasish Mallick has been appointed as Deputy
Managing Directors of the Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank).
4. Centre proposes to set up three new low-cost airports in Bihar at
Muzaffarpur, Raxaul and Gaya.
- While Gaya is an operational custom airport, Raxaul will be a
non-operationalairport.
5. The health worker density in rural areas is 11.74 per 10,000
populations while in urban areas, the density is 40.46 per 10,000
populations; as per the NSSO 2004-05 report.
- There are 1, 60,862 hospital beds in rural areas out of the total 7,
84,940 hospital beds available in the Country: National Health Profile
2011
6. There are only 136.42 police personnel per one lakh population in India.
- Whereas the sanctioned police-population ratio is slightly better at
181.47 as per the Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D) as
on 1.1.2013.
- Several countries such as Canada (191.4), Italy (549.9), Japan
(199.8), New Zealand (187.0), Spain (313.0), USA (223.6), have higher
police-population ratio than India.