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Current Affairs Monthly

Capsule and Quiz June 2018

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IN Ships arrive Guam to participate in Ex-

Malabar 2018

Indian Naval Ships Sahyadri, Shakti and Kamorta of

the Eastern Fleet arrived at Guam on 07 June to

participate in the 22nd edition of Exercise Malabar,

off Guam, USA from 07 to 16 June 2018.

Exercise Malabar, which started as a bilateral

exercise between the US Navy and the Indian

Navy in 1992, has evolved over the years

with the participation of the Japanese

Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) from

2007.

Malabar 17 was held in July last year on the

Eastern Sea Board of India, off Chennai and

Visakhapatnam.

It is for the first time that the exercise is

being conducted off Guam, a major US

Naval Base in the Western Pacific.

It would be of interest to note that the US has

recently named their Hawaii-based Pacific

Command as the U.S. Indo-Pacific

Command.

India ranks 137th on Global Peace Index 2018

According to a report by an Australian think tank,

India has moved up four places to the 137th rank

among 163 countries on the 2018 Global Peace

Index.

Iceland remains the most peaceful country in

the world, a position it has held since 2008.

New Zealand, Austria, Portugal and

Denmark also sit in the top five most

peaceful rankings.

Syria remains the least peaceful country in

the world, a position it has held for the past

five years.

World Oceans Day: 8 June

World Oceans Day is held every year on 8th June to

raise awareness of the vital importance of our oceans

and the role they play in sustaining a healthy planet.

The conservation action theme for World

Oceans Day 2018 is “Preventing Plastic

Pollution and Encouraging Solutions for a

Healthy Ocean”.

QS World University Rankings 2019: IIT

Bombay, IISc move up

Three Indian universities feature in the top 200

universities of the QS World University

rankings 2019.

These includes-Indian Insitiute of

Technology (IIT), Bombay, Indian Institute

of Science (IISc), Bangalore and IIT Delhi.

IIT-Bombay is now the top institute in the

country at 162 rising 17 positions from 2018,

IIT-Delhi retained its 2018 position with a

rank of 172 while the Indian Institute of

Science has overtaken IIT-Delhi and is

ranked 170.

The list has been topped by Massachusetts

Institute of Technology for the seventh year

in a row.

G7 summit 2018 held in Canada

The 44th G7 summit was held on June 8–9, 2018, in

La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada.This was the sixth time

since 1981 that Canada has hosted the meetings.

The summit received significant attention due to a

significant decline of relations of members with the

United States.

Due to this, the summit was dubbed the "G6+1" by

France and some members of the media.

Points to Remember

Earlier it was known as G8, but in March

2014, the G7 declared that a meaningful

discussion was currently not possible with

Russia in the context of the G8. Since then,

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meetings have continued within the G7

process.

The G7 is a group consisting of Canada,

France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United

Kingdom, and the United States.

58 Indian companies in 2018 Forbes 'Global

2000' list

Fifty-eight Indian companies featured on the 2018

Forbes ‘Global 2000’ list of the world’s largest

public sector companies, the same number as last

year.

The Mukesh Ambani-led oil-to-telecom

conglomerate, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL),

rank at 83, retaining its top spot as the most

valued Indian company on the list.

HDFC Bank, the country’s largest financier,

took the second spot among Indian

companies, ranking at 202.

Overall, Industrial & Commercial Bank of

China is ranked 1 for the sixth consecutive

year.

11th World Hindi Conference to be Held

in Mauritius

The 11th World

Hindi Conference

(WHC) is being

organized from

18-20 August

2018 in Mauritius

by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of

India in association with the Government of

Mauritius.

The main theme of the Conference is “Hindi

Vishwa Aur Bharatiy Sanskriti”.

The first World Hindi Conference was held

in 1975 in Nagpur, India. Since then, ten

such Conferences have been held in different

parts of the world.

Indians form 2nd largest group of international

students in US

With 1,86,000 Indian students currently studying in

the United States, India is the second highest sender

of foreign students to the US, next only to China.

US consul general in Kolkata, Craig Hall,

said that the United States is the top

destination for foreign students worldwide

and the number of Indian students in the US

has more than doubled in the last 10 years.

International ICT conference to be held in Nepal

The Computer Association Nepal (CAN) is

organizing an international-level 'Information and

Communication Technology (ICT) Conference-

2018' in Kathmandu on June 17-18.

The objective of the conference is to

exchange information on the improved

practices of information technology.

Various international experts will attend and

present their working papers on the occasion.

Experts from China, India, Bangladesh, Sri

Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea

and UNDP are participating in the two-day

conference.

World Day Against Child Labour: 12 June

The World Day Against Child Labour, which is held

every year on June 12, is intended to foster the

worldwide movement against child labour in any of

its forms.

The International Labour Organization

(ILO), the United Nations body that

regulates the world of work, launched the

World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 in

order to bring attention and join efforts to

fight against child labour.

World Blood Donor Day

Every year on 14 June, countries around the world

celebrate World Blood Donor Day (WBDD).

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The event, established in 2004, serves to

raise awareness of the need for safe blood

and blood products, and to thank blood

donors for their voluntary, life-saving gifts

of blood.

The theme for Blood Donation Day in 2018

is 'Be there for someone else. Give blood.

Share life.’

Mukesh Ambani tops Forbes' 2017 list of India's

100 richest tycoons

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) chairman Mukesh

Ambani has topped Forbes annual list of Indias 100

richest tycoons of 2017, With a net worth of $38

billion, which is equal to the entire GDP of the

former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan.

The richest newcomer in the list is Wadia

Group of companies Chairman Nusli Wadia

(No. 25, $5.6 billion).

At $19 billion, the net worth of Wipro's

Azim Premji - who jumped two places up

over last year to become the second richest

Indian on the list - is almost equal to

Afghanistan's GDP.

Record-Breaking Astronaut Peggy Whitson

Retires from NASA

Astronaut Peggy Whitson, who

has spent more time in space

than any other American,

retired from NASA on June 15.

Iowa native Whitson,

58, earned a doctorate

in biochemistry from Rice University in

1985.

She went to work at NASA's Johnson Space

Center in Houston a year later, as a National

Research Council Resident Research

Associate.

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day: 15 June

The 15th of June every year marks the United

Nations internationally recognised day – World

Elder Abuse Awareness Day.

The day came about as a result of UN

resolution 66/127.

The day aims to focus global attention on the

problem of physical, emotional, and

financial abuse of elders.

The theme for 2018 World Elder Abuse

Awareness Day is “Moving from Awareness

to Action through a Human Rights based

approach”.

World Day to Combat Desertification and

Drought: June 17

The World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD)

is being celebrated worldwide on 17th June.

World Day to Combat Desertification and

Drought is observed every year to promote

public awareness of international efforts to

combat desertification.

Theme of WDCD 2018 is “Land has true

value – invest in “.

NSG plenary meeting held in Jurmala, Latvia

The 28th Plenary Meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers

Group (NSG) was held in Jurmala, Latvia On

14th and 15th June 2018.

The NSG plenary meeting

was chaired by Ambassador Jānis Zlamets

of Latvia.

The NSG reviewed the developments since

the last meeting in Bern in 2017.

International Decade for Action: Water for

Sustainable Development 2018-2028

Union Minister for Water Resources, River

Development & Ganga Rejuvenation and Road

Transport & Highways and Shipping Shri Nitin

Gadkari is scheduled to visit Republic of Tajikistan

to represent India in the high-level Conference on

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“International Decade for Action: Water for

Sustainable Development, 2018-2028” on 20-21

June 2018.

United Nations and Government of Republic

of Tajikistan are jointly organizing the

Conference to discuss key water related

issues of sustainable development goals

adopted by UN member countries.

Tajikistan is a strategic partner country in our

extended neighbourhood.

The country has a leading role in pioneering

global water related issues.

India-Greece business forum meeting

On the occasion of the official visit of the President

of the Republic of India to Athens, from June 18 –

19, 2018, a Business Forum the “Greece-India

Business Forum” was organized on Tuesday the

19th of June, in Athens.

This Forum was organized by The Embassy

of India in Athens in collaboration with

Enterprise Greece.

7th OPEC international Seminar

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting

Countries (OPEC) will host the 7th OPEC

International Seminar at the Imperial Hofburg

Palace in Vienna, Austria, on 20−21 June 2018.

The theme of the Seminar is ‘Petroleum –

cooperation for a sustainable future’.

Seminar participants customarily include

Ministers from OPEC Member Countries

and other oil-producing and oil-consuming

nations, as well as heads of

intergovernmental organizations.

World Music Day: 21 June

World Music Day is an annual music celebration

that takes place on 21 June.

On Music Day the citizens of a city or

country are allowed and urged to play music

outside in their neighborhoods or in public

spaces and parks.

The first all-day musical celebration was

originated by the France.

International Day of Yoga: 21 June

International Day of

Yoga, or commonly

and unofficially

referred to as Yoga

Day, is celebrated

annually on 21 June

since its inception in 2015.

An international day for yoga was declared

unanimously by the United Nations General

Assembly (UNGA).

Yoga is a physical, mental and spiritual

practice originated in India.

The theme for Yoga Day 2018 is "Yoga for

Peace."

US leaves the UN Human Rights Council

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley

and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have

announced the US was withdrawing from the UN

Human Rights Council.

In doing so, they claimed the council was a

roadblock to genuine global human rights

protection.

World Refugee Day: 20 June

World Refugee Day is observed every year by the

people on 20th June in order to raise the public

awareness about refugee’s situations throughout the

world.

World Refugee Day was declared on 20th

of June by the United Nations General

Assembly in the Resolution 55/76 on 4th of

December in 2000.

The Theme of World Refugee Day 2018

is: “Now more than ever, we need to

stand #WithRefugees”

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India to construct war memorial in France

India will construct a war memorial at Villers

Guislain, a town around 200 km from Paris, to

honour the valour and sacrifice of the thousands of

its soldiers, sailors and airmen who fought for

peace in the World War I.

This was announced by external affairs

minister Sushma Swaraj.

This will be the second such memorial in

Europe, she said.

Gadkari Inaugurates Swami Vivekananda

Cultural Centre at Dushanbe

Shri Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister for Water

Resources, River Development & Ganga

Rejuvenation, Road Transport & Highways and

Shipping said in Dushanbe, that India is trying to

make Chabahar Port in Iran operational by 2019.

Shri Gadkari was addressing the Indian

Community at the inauguration of the

Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre at the

Indian Embassy in Dushanbe.

He said the opening up of the Chabahar Port

would make the CIS countries more

accessible.

Shri Nitin Gadkari was on a two day official

visit to Tajikistan to represent India at the

high level global conference on

“International Decade for Action: Water for

Sustainable Development”.

International Widows Day: 23 June

International Widows Day is a United Nations

ratified day of action to address the "poverty and

injustice faced by millions of widows and their

dependents in many countries".

The day takes place annually on 23 June.

International Widow

Saudi Arabia issues first driving licences to

women

Saudi Arabia has issued driving licences to women

for the first time in decades just before a ban on

female drivers is lifted.

Ten women swapped their foreign licences

for Saudi ones in cities across the country.

A flood of applications is now expected in

the run-up to 24 June when the ban will end.

UN MSME Day to be celebrated on 27th June

2018

The Ministry of Micro Small & Medium Enterprises

(MSME), will organizea National Conclave (Udyam

Sangam) on 27th June 2018 on the occasion of UN

MSME Day.

The purpose of the Conclave is to encourage

dialogue and partnership among various

stakeholders of the MSME ecosystem and

for promoting innovation and knowledge

sharing on MSME related issues.

India Most Dangerous Country For Women:

Survey

India is the world's most dangerous country for

women due to the high risk of sexual violence and

being forced into slave labour.

War-torn Afghanistan and Syria ranked

second and third in the Thomson Reuters

Foundation survey of about 550 experts on

women's issues.

Respondents also ranked India the most

dangerous country for women in terms of

human trafficking.

UAE to hold first-ever 'World Tolerance

Summit'

The United Arab of Emirates (UAE) will host a

two-day "World Tolerance Summit" in November.

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The theme of the summit is"Prospering From

Pluralism: Embracing Diversity through

Innovation and Collaboration".

India Ranked Fourth as Cyber Attacks on The

Rise Globally: Report

India ranked fourth in the list of top 10 target

countries for Web Application Attacks as bot-driven

abuse and distributed denial of service (DDoS)

attacks continued to rise from November 2017 till

April this year, Cloud delivery network provider

Akamai Technologies said.

Registering over 2.8 crore attacks, India also

ranked eighth globally in the list of Web

Application Attack source countries.

Russia, China and Indonesia occupied top

three spots.

Pakistan placed on FATF's grey list

Pakistan has been placed on the Grey list of

countries that financially aid terrorism, in Paris by

the Financial Action Task Force(FATF).

The placement on to grey list could hurt

Pakistan's economy as well as its

international standing.

The FATF is an inter-governmental body

established in 1989 to combat money

laundering, terrorist financing and other

related threats to the integrity of the

international financial system.

N Korea named 'worst human trafficking

country'

The US State

Department has

categorised North

Korea as as one of the

"worst human

trafficking nation" for

the 16th straight year, citing the use of forced labour.

According to the annual '2018 Trafficking in

Persons Report', North Korea has been

included in the Tier 3 category, which is the

lowest ranking, along with China, Russia and

Iran.

Three Indian cities among top 10 for GDP risk

from terrorism

Three Indian cities, including Delhi, Mumbai and

Bengaluru are ranked among the top 10 cities

globally for GDP risk from terrorism threats, a

recent study found out.

Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore stood at fifth,

sixth and seventh in this aspect, in the latest

edition of Lloyd's India's City Risk Index

(CRI).

President Declares ‘Queen Pineapple’ as State

Fruit of Tripura

he President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind

formally declared the “Queen Pineapple” as the state

fruit of Tripura.

The President inaugurated the National

Highway from Matabari to Sabroom in

Udaipur, Tripura.

The President also visited the Matabari

Temple complex in Udaipur.

Andhra Pradesh now is Open Defecation Free

(ODF) State

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu

Naidu has announced that the state was now Open

Defecation Free (ODF) as it had achieved its goal of

constructing 2.77 lakh individual toilets.

With this achievement, Andhra Pradesh

becomes the first large state in the country to

be declared as Open Defecation Free.

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Indian PM leaves for China to attend SCO

Summit

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for China

to attend the two-day Shanghai Cooperation

Organization (SCO) summit that begins Qingdao.

This will be India's first SCO Summit as a

full member.

Modi will be interacting with leaders of SCO

nations and discussing a wide range of

subjects with them.

Sikkim gets its longest tunnel

Minister of State for Defence Subhash Ramrao

Bhamre has inaugurated 578-metre-long Theng

Tunnel, the longest in Sikkim.

Constructed on Gangtok-Chungthang State

Highway by the Border Roads Organisation

(BRO), the double-lane tunnel bypasses a

treacherous stretch of road between Sikkim's

capital Gangtok and Chungthang, which

frequently remains closed due to land slides

and shooting stones.

The tunnel would provide all-weather

connectivity, said a Defence Ministry

spokesperson.

Kalinga Literary Festival begins in Odisha

The 5th edition of the Kalinga Literary Festival kick-

started in Bhubaneswar in the presence of eminent

personalities from Indian literature, politics, media,

and public services.

Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra

Pradhan inaugurated the three-day festival.

He said the event could be a perfect

opportunity to showcase the rich heritage of

Odia literature and litterateurs.

CSIR lab to give technology for India’s first

indigenous Lithium Ion Battery project

Central Electro Chemical Research Institute

(CECRI), Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu under Council of

Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and RAASI

Solar Power Pvt Ltd have signed a Memorandum of

Agreement for transfer of technology for India’s first

Lithium Ion (Li-ion) Battery project.

A group at CSIR-CECRI headed by Dr Gopu

Kumar has developed an indigenous

technology of Lithium-ion cells in

partnership with CSIR-National Physical

Laboratory (CSIR-NPL) New Delhi, CSIR-

Central Glass and Ceramic Research

Institute (CSIR-CGCRI) Kolkata and Indian

Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-

IICT) Hyderabad.

CSIR-CECRI has set up a demo facility in

Chennai to manufacture prototype Lithium-

Ion cells.

Dhanush, India's first indigenous artillery gun

India's first indigenous,

long-range artillery gun

"Dhanush" has passed

its final test at Pokhran,

paving the way for its

induction into the Army.

Dhanush is a 155mm x 45mm calibre

artillery gun and is also called the "desi

Bofors".

It has a strike range of 38 kilometres and

81% of its components are indigenously

sourced.

Delhi most vulnerable UT in India’s first disaster

risk index, Maharashtra leads states

A national disaster risk index mapping hazards and

vulnerabilities across 640 districts puts Maharashtra

at the top of the chart followed by West Bengal,

Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Delhi is most at risk among Union territories

(UTs).

The index is currently in the form of a draft

report prepared by the Union home ministry

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with support from the United Nations

Development Programme (UNDP).

India to have its 1st police museum in Delhi

India will soon have its first national police museum

as the central government has decided to establish

the unique facility in Lutyens' Delhi.

The museum will come up as an

underground facility in the premises of the

national police memorial in Chanakyapuri

area of the national capital.

The museum is expected to be inaugurated

on October 21 (Police Commemoration Day)

at the hands of either Prime Minister

Narendra Modi or Home Minister Rajnath

Singh.

India's first lithium ion cell factory to come up in

Andhra Pradesh

Munoth Industries Limited will set up India’s first

lithium ion cell production project by investing Rs

799 crore in three phases in Tirupati, Andhra

Pradesh.

It will provide a trigger for enabling mobile

component manufacturing in India that will

also lead to value addition in overall mobile

phone manufacturing.

In the first phase, Rs 165 crore will be

invested to produce li ion cells having total

storage capacity of 200,000 Ah (Ampere

hour) per day.

Grand Finale of the First Hardware edition of

Smart India Hackathon 2018

The Ministry of HRD along with AICTE, Persistent

Systems, i4C and IIT Kharagpur is all set to host the

Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon 2018 –

Hardware edition from Jun 18-22, 2018.

This was disclosed by the Union Minister for

Human Resource Development, Shri

Prakash Javadekar.

He said that the Smart India Hackathon 2018

is in line with the ‘Make in India’ initiative

of the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi

and is proving to be an important vehicle for

scouting new ideas and help them convert

them into products and businesses.

Shri Piyush Goyal launches “Rail Madad”

Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways & Coal

launched a new App “Rail Madad” – An App to

expedite & streamline passenger grievance

redressal.

RPGRAMS (Railway Passenger Grievance

Redressal and Management System),which

has been developed by Northern Railway

(Delhi Division) and comprises many novel

features including ‘Rail Madad’ – a mobile

App to register complaints by passengers

through mobile phone/web.

It relays real time feedback to passengers on

the status of redressal of their complaints.

Union Steel Minister dedicates to nation rebuilt

Blast Furnace-1 of Rourkela Steel Plant

The Union Minister of Steel, Chaudhary Birender

Singh dedicated the rebuilt Blast Furnace-1 ‘Parvati’

of SAIL, Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) to the Nation.

Parvati is the first Blast Furnace of SAIL that

was dedicated to the nation on 3rd February

1959 by the first President of India, Dr.

Rajendra Prasad.

The Blast Furnace was put down on 6th

August 2013 for total rebuilding. Although

erected on the old foundation, the rebuilt

furnace equipped with superior technology

has a higher production capacity.

With the rebuilding, the annual production

capacity, of the furnace has increased from

0.438 Million tonnes (MT) to 1.015 MT.

India-Nepal Joint Ex SURYA KIRAN-XIII

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Exercise SURYA KIRAN-XIII, a joint military

training exercise between India & Nepal culminated

at Pithoragarh, wherein the troops of both Armies

participated in 14-day long joint training based on

counter terrorist operations.

The training culminated with a 72-hour

outdoor exercise in which troops of both

contingents carried out a Cordon and Search

Operation in a mock counter-insurgency

village.

Ten new Swachh Iconic Places launched under

Swachh Bharat Mission

Ten new iconic sites, namely, RaghavendraSwamy

Temple (Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh); Hazardwari

Palace (Murshidabad, West Bengal); Brahma

Sarovar Temple (Kurukshetra, Haryana); VidurKuti

(Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh); Mana village (Chamoli,

Uttarakhand); Pangong Lake (Leh-Ladakh, J&K);

Nagvasuki Temple (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh);

ImaKeithal/market (Imphal, Manipur); Sabarimala

Temple (Kerala); and Kanvashram (Uttarakhand)

have been taken up under Phase III of the flagship

project Swachh Iconic Places (SIP) of the Swachh

Bharat Mission.

The project envisioned by the Prime Minister

is being coordinated by Ministry of Drinking

Water and Sanitation with the support of

State governments and local administration.

The consultation is in process for finalising

the PSUs/corporates for extending support to

new sites as CSR partners.

These new sites have joined the 20 iconic

places under Phase I & II where special

Sanitation work is already underway.

3,000 Additional Atal Tinkering Labs

Announced

NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) has

selected 3,000 additional schools for the

establishment of Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs),

bringing the total number of ATL schools to 5,441.

The selected schools shall receive a grant of

Rs 20 lakh spread over the next five years to

establish Atal Tinkering Labs for nurturing

innovation and entrepreneurial spirit among

secondary school children across India.

ATLs will soon be established in every

district of India, seeking to enable an

innovation ecosystem, which will facilitate

transformational change in technological

innovation and pedagogy.

India to host first BIMSTEC Military Exercise in

September

India will host the first military exercise of the

BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-

Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation)

group focussing on counter-terrorism in September.

As part of this, a conclave of the Army chiefs

of all seven member-states is being planned.

The exercise is scheduled to be held in Pune

in the second week of September.

BIMSTEC was set up in 1997 and includes

India, Bangladesh, Bhutan Myanmar, Nepal,

Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Cabinet approves Repositioning of North

Eastern Council

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister

Shri Narendra Modi has approved the proposal of

Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region

(DoNER) for the nomination of the Union Home

Minister as ex-officio Chairman of North Eastern

Council (NEC) - a statutory body with Governors

and Chief Ministers of all the eight North Eastern

States as its Member.

The Cabinet also approved that Minister of

State (Independent Charge), Ministry of

DoNER would serve as Vice Chairman of

the Council.

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NEC implements various projects through

the State and Central agencies. Under the

new arrangement with Home Minister as

Chairman and Minister of DoNER as Vice

Chairman, NEC and all the Governors and

Chief Ministers of North Eastern States as

Member would provide a forum for

discussing inter-state matters more

comprehensively and also consider common

approaches to be taken in future.

Cabinet approves proposal for withdrawal of

Nalanda University (Amendment) Bill, 2013

The Union Cabinet

chaired by the Prime

Minister Shri Narendra

Modi has approved the

proposal for withdrawal

of Nalanda University (Amendment) Bill, 2013

pending in the Rajya Sabha.

The Nalanda University was established on

the basis of a Joint Press Statement at the 4th

East Asia Summit held in Thailand in

October, 2009, which supported its

establishment as a non-state, non-profit,

secular and self-governing international

institution. Subsequently, the Nalanda

University Act, 2010 was passed by the

Parliament and came into effect from

25thNovember 2010.

The present proposal is for moving a motion

in Rajya Sabha withdrawing the Nalanda

University (Amendment) Bill, 2013

introduced in Rajya Sabha on August 26,

2013 to amend certain existing provisions of

the Nalanda University Act, 2010 and add

some new provisions.

Cabinet approves 'Three Year Action Plan of

Agricultural Education Division & ICAR

Institutes

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri

Narendra Modi has approved the continuation of the

Three Year Action Plan (2017-2020) of the scheme

for Agricultural Education Division and ICAR

Institutes with an outlay of Rs.2225.46 crore[Rs.

2197.51 crore + Rs. 27.95 crore (State share) as

salary component for AICRP-HS]for strengthening

and developing higher agricultural education in

India.

It comprises of:

"Strengthening and Development of Higher

Agricultural Education in India - Rs.

Rs.2050.00 crore;

ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural

Research Management (NAARM) - Rs.

24.25 crore and

ICAR - Central Institute of Women in

Agriculture (CIWA) including All India

Coordinated Research Project on Home

Science (AICRP-HS) - Rs.151.21 crore.

Raksha Mantri Inaugurates BEL representative

office in Vietnam

Raksha Mantri, Smt Nirmala Sitharaman

inaugurated the first Representative Office of

Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited

(BEL) in Hanoi, Vietnam.

BEL, India’s leading defence electronics

company, is fast expanding its global

presence, putting its best foot forward to give

a thrust to exports worldwide, especially

South East Asian countries such as the

Republic of Union of Myanmar, Indonesia,

Malaysia, Thailand and Philippines.

The Representative Office will aim to

promote BEL’s exports in areas such as

Weapon Systems, Radar Systems, Naval

Systems, Military Communication Systems,

Electronic Warfare Systems, Combat

Management System and Coastal

Surveillance System.

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10th Meeting of Global Alliance to Eliminate

Lymphatic Filariasis

Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and

Family Welfare inaugurated the 10th meeting of

Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis

(GAELF).

During his inaugural address, Shri Nadda

said that India as a Global leader is

committed to eliminating Lymphatic

Filariasis (LF) transmission and disease

burden so that our future generations are free

from Lymphatic Filariasis.

He further stated that India will always

welcome newer initiatives and research to

translate into the Filariasis elimination

programme.

At the event, Shri Nadda also gave away the

GAELF awards to 11 countries- Cambodia,

Cook Islands, Egypt, Maldives, Marshall

Islands, Niue, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Togo,

Tonga and Vanuatu, for successfully

interrupting the transmission.

The Union Health Minister also released the

Accelerated Plan for Elimination of

Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) 2018 for India.

Cashless Ticketing through 'Utsonmobile' app

developed by CRIS

Continuing towards digitalization and moving

towards becoming a cashless economy, the initiative

of faster and more techno-advanced transactions in

Indian Railways is being taken up, the Centre for

Railway Information System (CRIS) has developed

a mobile based application ‘utsonmobile'.

The ‘utsonmobile’ application enables

booking and cancellation of unreserved

tickets, issue and renewal of season and

platform tickets, check and load R-wallet

balance and helps maintain user profile

management and booking history.

Thawarchand Gehlot chairs ‘3rd Meeting of

National Council of Senior Citizens’

Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot, Union Minister for

Social Justice and Empowerment chaired the “3rd

Meeting of National Council of Senior

Citizens(NCSrC)” convened by the Ministry of

Social Justice and Empowerment.

Addressing on the occasion, Shri

Thaawarchand Gehlot said that the

government is committed to the welfare of

senior citizens and several new initiatives

have been taken during past four years.

The NCSrC advises Central and State

Governments on the entire gamut of issues

related to welfare of senior citizens and

enhancement of their quality of life.

The NCSrC meets at least twice a year. Its

first meeting was held on 30th August, 2016

and the second meeting was held on 19th June

2017.

NITI Aayog to launch Composite Water

Management Index

The objective of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas can be

fully achieved once the benefits of the interventions

reach the last mile.

As a step beyond measurement of outcomes,

NITI Aayog has come out with various

indices that not only fulfills its mandate of

cooperative and competitive federalism but

also challenges States and Union Territories

(UTs) them to meet the aspirations of the

new India.

Furthering this mandate, NITI Aayog has

come up with the Composite Water

Management Index as a useful tool to assess

and improve the performance in efficient

management of water resources.

This index is an attempt to inspire States and

UTs towards efficient and optimal utilization

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of water, and recycling thereof with a sense

of urgency.

Piyush Goyal dedicates NLCIL's Three 100 MW

Solar Power Projects to the Nation

The Union Minister for Railways, Coal, Finance &

Company Affairs, Shri Piyush Goyal has

inaugurated Neyveli Lignite Corporation India

Limited (NLCIL)’s three 100 MW Solar Power

Projects for commercial operation and dedicated

these projects to the Nation .

The Solar Power projects situated at

Thoppalaakkarai and Sethupuram in

Virudhunagar District and Sellaiya

Sezhiyanallur in Tirunelveli District, with an

installed capacity of 100 MW each, were

erected at a cost of Rs.1300 Crores, which

includes Operation & Maintenance cost for

15 Years.

The power produced from these units will be

given to Tamilnadu Power Generation and

Distribution Company (TANGEDCO) at a

cost of Rs.4.41/- per unit.

Swajal Launched in 115 Aspirational Districts of

India

A National Consultation on the National Rural

Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) and Swajal

was held in the Capital to discuss the reforms needed

in NRDWP and to outline a road map for the Swajal

scheme.

The consultation was chaired by the Union

Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation,

Sushri Uma Bharti.

Ministers-in-charge of Drinking Water from

13 States, including Assam, Bihar, Goa,

Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh,

Jammu & Kashmir, Maharashtra, Manipur,

Meghalaya, Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh and

Uttarakhand, attended the consultation and

gave their views on the reforms needed in the

ongoing Centrally-sponsored drinking water

schemes being implemented in the

respective states.

20 States sign MoU for implementing Ayushman

Bharat –AB-NHPM

Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and

Family Welfare exchanged the Memorandum of

Understanding with the State Health Ministers of 20

States marking their commitment towards the launch

of the Ayushman Bharat – National Health

Protection Mission (AB-NHPM) at a Health

Ministers conclave.

Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey and Smt.

Anupriya Patel, Ministers of State for Health

and Family Welfare, Shri Amitabh Kant,

CEO NITI Aayog, Dr. Vinod Paul, Member

Health, NITI Aayog, Smt Preeti Sudan,

Secretary (Health) and Shri Indu Bhushan,

CEO, AB-NHPM, were also were also

present at the function.

Shri J P Nadda further stated that AB-NHPM

will protect around 50 crore people (from

about 10 crore families).

Integrated Command and Control Centre of

Naya Raipur Smart City inaugurated by PM

The Integrated Command and Control Centre of the

Naya Raipur Smart City was inaugurated by Prime

Minster Narendra Modi.

Sh. Hardeep Puri, MoS(I/C), Housing and

Urban Affairs and Chief Minister of

Chhattisgarh, Dr. Raman Singh were also

present on the occasion.

Integrated Command & Control Centre of

Naya Raipur becomes the 10th Smart City

Centre to be operational in the country.

Under the ambitious Smart City Mission,

Integrated Command & Control Centres in 9

cities had already become operational in the

cities of are Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat,

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Pune, Nagpur, Rajkot, Visakhapatnam,

Bhopal and Kakinada.

National Tribal Museum proposed to be set up at

Delhi

A National Tribal Museum along with a National

Level Tribal Research Institute is proposed to be set

up at Delhi by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

Briefing media persons on four years of

initiatives and achievements of the Tribal

Affairs Ministry, the Minister of Tribal

Affairs Shri Jual Oram said that the Museum

will showcase the rich tribal culture and

heritage using state-of-the-art technologies.

The proposal to set up the Museum and TRI

has already been sent to the Niti Ayog.

As per the announcement made by the Prime

Minister, Shri Narendra Modi in his

Independence Day Speech on 15th August,

2016, MoTA is setting up six Tribal Freedom

Fighters Memorials including two of

national importance ie. Narmada (Gujarat)

and Birsa Munda Central Jail (Ranchi), the

Minister disclosed.

Release of the Report on the Composite Water

Management Index

As a step further in direction and keeping in view the

criticality of water for life, NITI Aayog has prepared

a report on Composite Water Management Index

(CWMI).

The report released today ranks Gujarat as

number one in the reference year (2016-17),

followed by Madhya Pradesh, Andhra

Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra.

In North Eastern and Himalayan States,

Tripura has been adjudged number 1 in

2016-17 followed by Himachal Pradesh,

Sikkim and Assam.

In terms of incremental change in index

(over 2015-16 level), Rajasthan holds

number one position in general States and

Tripura ranks at first position amongst North

Eastern and Himalayan States.

NITI Aayog proposes to publish these ranks

on an annual basis in future.

Prime Minister to Chair the 4th meeting of the

Governing Council of NITI Aayog

Prime Minister

Shri Narendra

Modi will chair

the fourth

meeting of the

Governing

Council of NITI

Aayog at Rashtrapati Bhawan on 17th June.

The day-long meeting will be attended by

Union Ministers, Chief Ministers from the

States, Lieutenant Governors of Union

Territories and senior officials from the

Government of India.

The Governing Council of NITI Aayog is the

premier body tasked with evolving a shared

vision of national development priorities,

sectors and strategies with the active

involvement of States in shaping the

development narrative.

The Governing Council reviews the work

done during the previous year and

deliberates upon the future developmental

priorities.

India to host European Union Film Festival

Putting a spotlight on the latest European cinema,

the European Union Film Festival (EUFF) will

premiere in New Delhi on 18th June, 2018 at the Siri

Fort Auditorium.

With a selection of 24 latest European films

from 23 EU Member States, this years' film

festival brings some unusual stories for the

world cinema enthusiasts.

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The European Union Film Festival is

organized by Directorate of Film Festivals,

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,

Government of India partnering with the

Delegation of the European Union and

embassies of EU Member States in various

city film clubs.

The festival will traverse through 11 cities in

India including New Delhi, Chennai, Port

Blair, Pune, Puducherry, Kolkata, Jaipur,

Visakhapatnam, Thrissur, Hyderabad and

Goa from 18th June till 31st August.

Celebrating diversity, the EUFF will screen

movies from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,

Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark,

Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,

Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,

Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal,

Slovakia, Spain and Sweden.

Tourism Minister to attend Incredible India road

shows in the United States

The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for

Tourism, Shri K. J. Alphons will attend a series of

‘Incredible India road shows’ in the United States of

America, from 18th to 22nd June 2018.

The road shows will be held in several major

cities of US including New York, Chicago &

Houston.

The Incredible India road shows will hold

B2B interactions, presentations & press

briefings by the Indian delegation.

The key note addresses will be delivered by

the Tourism Minister and Incredible India

presentation will be made by Joint Secretary

Ministry of Tourism Shri. Suman Billa, with

an aim to project India as a ‘must visit’

tourist destination.

The road shows will include Cultural

performances also.

The USA is one among the top three source

countries in the percentage share of Foreign

Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) in India.

During April 2018, the USA was the second

highest source country with 11.21% share of

total FTAs.

In addition, the Minister will also be

attending the Federation of Malayalee

Associations of Americas (FOMAA)

Convention 2018 in Chicago on 22nd June

2018.

Naval Women Mountaineers Summit Mount

Deotibba

An all women Naval

mountaineering team led

by Lt Cdr Kokila Sajwan

summited Mount

Deotibba an 10 Jun 2018.

The exp edition was flagged off by Vice

Admiral AK Chawla, AVSM, NM, VSM,

Chief Of Personnel on 28 May 18 from New

Delhi laying foundation for a team, which

would attempt to scale many more

challenging peaks in the near future.

Mount Deotibba provided excellent

opportunity to the team in honing their

mountaineering skills.

Mt Deotibba is the second highest peak

(6001M) in the Pir-Panjal range in Himachal

Pradesh.

Dr Jitendra Singh chairs the Meeting of

Consultative Committee for DoNER Ministry

The Union Minister of State for Development of

North Eastern Region (I/C), Prime Minister’s

Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions,

Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh

reiterated the Government’s commitment to ensure

fast-track development in the North east region.

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Dr. Jitendra Singh said that the Government

has taken major strides in the development of

the North Eastern Region in last four years.

Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh discontinues

ceremonial guard of honour

Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh has discontinued

the ceremonial guard of honour accorded to his

office, Raj Bhawan officials said.

While a letter in this regard was sent by his

office to the state government, the practice

was discontinued during his recent visit to

Jodhpur between June 9 and 11 when he did

not take the guard of honour.

Singh had expressed his desire to discontinue

the ceremony for the Governor’s office in a

letter to the Home Department on January 1.

Foundation Stone of ‘Auxiliary Production Unit

& Artificial Limbs Fitting Centre’ Laid

The Foundation of stone of “Auxiliary Production

Unit and State-of-the-Art Artificial Limbs Fitting

Centre” of Artificial Limbs Manufacturing

Corporation of India (ALIMCO) under Department

of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities

(DEPwD), Ministry of Social Justice &

Empowerment was laid by Shri Manohar Lal, Chief

Minister of Haryana and Shri Krishan Pal Gurjar,

Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment

at a function at village Nawada, Tigaon

(Ballabhgarh), Faridabad, Haryana.

There has been an ever increasing demand

from the Divyangjan about the difficulty

being faced by them in visiting Kanpur to

avail facilities of evaluation, measurements

and fitment of assistive devices.

Diversification of rehabilitation and fitment

of assistive devices services to other areas

will facilitate Divyangjans to cover less a

distance for acquiring these devices.

Findings of 160 cost-benefit analyses in Andhra

Pradesh and Rajasthan presented to NITI Aayog

NITI Aayog has

been engaging with

State Governments

to evolve a shared

vision of national

development and

strategies from time to time to share the best

practices.

In this context, India Consensus - a

partnership between Tata Trusts and

Copenhagen Consensus which

has undertaken more than 160 cost-benefit

analyses across all main policy areas in

Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan presented

their findings on 14th June 2018 in NITI

Aayog.

The presentation on evidence-based policy

prioritisation model was chaired by Dr Rajiv

Kumar, Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog.

It was attended by Chief Secretaries,

Additional Chief Secretaries/Principal

Secretaries/Secretaries dealing with the

Planning Department of 32 States and Union

Territories, Joint Secretaries from 14

Ministries, senior officers from NITI Aayog,

eminent economists and researchers.

Copenhagen Consensus President, Dr Bjorn

Lomborg presented the policies and

interventions which generate the most social,

economic and environmental good for the

States.

The focus of the presentation was on how

this approach and method could be replicated

across other States.

School Chale Hum Abhiyan 2018 launched in

Bhopal

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Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan

inaugurated the ‘School Chale Hum Abhiyan 2018’

in Bhopal.

The motive of this scheme is that no child

should be deprived of schooling.

Inaugurating the month long campaign on

June 15, the minister encouraged students,

teachers and parents to make it a success.

Telangana govt to set up Child Protection Units

in all 31 districts

In an effort to implement child rights, the Telangana

government will soon establish ‘District Child

Protection Units (DCPU)’ in all 31 districts.

Right now the 10 erstwhile districts have the

District Child Protection Units (DCPU).

Proposals were already sent to the

government for constitution of child

protection units and already they were

sanctioned and now staff recruitment was

underway.

Fourth Governing Council Meeting of NITI

Aayog Concludes

The fourth meeting of the Governing Council of

NITI Aayog was held under the chairmanship of the

Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at

Rashtrapati Bhavan.

It was attended by 23 Chief Ministers and the

Lieutenant Governor of Andaman & Nicobar

Islands, apart from Union Ministers, who are

ex-officio members and special invitees.

At the end of the day-long deliberations, the

Prime Minister highlighted the importance

of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog as

a platform to inspire cooperative federalism.

Ashwini Kumar Choubey releases 11th Common

Review Mission (CRM) report

Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State for

Health and Family Welfare released the

11thCommon Review Mission (CRM) report of the

National Health Mission.

Speaking at the function, Shri Choubey

stated that India has registered a record 22%

reduction in MMR since 2013, which is the

highest percentage decline so far when

compared to all the previous reductions in

MMR as per the earlier rounds of SRS.

“Maternal Mortality Ratio of India has

declined from 167 in 2011-2013 to 130 in

2014-2016. It is because of the joint efforts

of the Ministry and the States.

Grand Finale of the First Hardware edition of

Smart India Hackathon 2018

The Union Minister for Human Resource

Development, Shri Prakash Javadekar inaugurated

the 5 day Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon

2018 – Hardware edition through Video

conferencing in New Delhi.

Hardware edition is the first of its kind

innovative initiative by Ministry of HRD to

provide national platform to young technical

minds of India to showcase their disruptive

innovations and creative products which can

bring out revolutionary changes in crucial

sectors like agriculture, health, clean water,

waste management, automotive, smart

communication, and education.

The Hardware edition is the sub-edition of

SIH2018.

The Grand Finale of the Hardware

Hackathon will be a 5 days event and will

take place simultaneously at 10 prestigious

institutions (Nodal centers) across India.

The 3-day NATIONAL YOGA OLYMPIAD-

2018

A 3-day National Yoga Olympiad was inaugurated

at the National Council of Educational Research and

Training in CIET in New Delhi by Mr. Eric Falt,

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Director and UNESCO Representative of the New

Delhi Cluster Office for India, Bangladesh, Bhutan,

Nepal, the Maldives and Sri Lanka.

This is the third consecutive year of National

Yoga Olympiad of NCERT and this year

about 500 students from 26 States and 4 RIEs

are participating in the Olympiad as

compared to the participation of students

from 25 States/UTs last year.

In his welcome address, Professor

Hrushikesh Senapaty, Director, NCERT

brought to the attention that the Olympiad

creates awareness about a scientific and

holistic way of living and the purpose is to

create positive attitude among all human

beings and promote peaceful living in the

society.

Col Rajyavardhan Rathore inaugurated

European Union Film Festival

Minister of State (I/C) for Information &

Broadcasting and Sports & Youth Affairs, Col

Rajyavardhan Rathore inaugurated the European

Union Film Festival.

The opening ceremony was followed by the

screening of Slovakian movie “Little

Harbour”.

With a selection of 24 latest European films

from 23 EU Member States, this years' film

festival brings some unusual stories for the

world cinema enthusiasts.

The European Union Film Festival is

organized by Directorate of Film Festivals,

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,

Government of India partnering with the

Delegation of the European Union and

embassies of EU Member States in various

city film clubs.

Workshop on Cyber Security Framework – 2018

A workshop on Cyber Security Framework for

Department of Defence was organised by DDP,

Ministry of Defence.

The workshop was inaugurated by

RakshaMantri Smt Nirmala Sitharaman.

During her address, Smt Sitharaman stressed

upon the fact that Defence sector is more

prone to the cyber threats and hence it

becomes important to safeguard our

cyberspace with anticipation of possible

attacks.

Mehbooba Mufti resigns as J&K CM

Jammu and Kashmir

Chief Minister

Mehbooba Mufti has

sent her resignation

to Governor NN

Vohra, after the BJP announced it was leaving the

alliance with her Peoples Democratic Party.

The BJP's decision to end the coalition

leaves Mufti with just 28 out of Jammu and

Kashmir's 87 elected seats.

Governor's rule in Jammu and Kashmir

A day after BJP pulled out of its alliance with PDP,

the state of Jammu and kashmir has come under

Governor's rule with immediate effect.

The 81-year-old governor, NN Vohra will

now be running the state for a fourth time

since his appointment in 2008.

Union HRD Minister dedicates the National

Digital Library of India to the Nation

The Union Human Resource Development Minister,

Shri Prakash Javadekar launched the new digital

initiative of HRD Ministry ‘National Digital Library

of India’ on the occasion of National Reading Day

in New Delhi.

This National Digital Library of India

(NDLI) is a project of the Ministry of Human

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Resource Development under the aegis of

National Mission on Education through

Information and Communication

Technology (NMEICT).

The objective of NDL is to make digital

educational resources available to all citizens

of the country to empower, inspire and

encourage learning. National Digital Library

of India is developed by IIT Kharagpur.

NDL is the Single Window Platform that

collects and collates metadata from premier

learning institutions in India and abroad, as

well as other relevant sources.

It is a digital repository containing

textbooks, articles, videos, audio books,

lectures, simulations, fiction and all other

kinds of learning media.

CEA Arvind Subramanian resigned

Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Arvind

Subramanian has submitted his resignation and

expressed his desire to return to the United States

due to family commitments, Union Minister Arun

Jaitley announced.

Mr. Subramanian started his term as CEA

on October 16, 2014 for a term of three

years.

On the completion of three years, he was

asked to continue for a year more, which

would have taken his term to October 2018.

19th all India Conference of Directors of Finger

Prints Bureaux

Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri

Hansraj Gangaram Ahir will inaugurate the 19th all

India Conference of Directors of Finger Prints

Bureaux in Hyderabad.

During the two-day conference, participants

will deliberate on latest Automatic

Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS).

In the conference issues related to

administration, standard operating

procedures for uniform functioning of

bureaus would also be deliberated.

Shillong gets selected as the 100th Smart City

Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya has been

selected as 100th Smart City after evaluating the

proposal submitted by it.

Till now, 99 smart cities had been selected

in four rounds of competition and with

today’s announcement, selection of 100

cities has been completed under the Smart

Cities Mission.

Previously, 20 cities were selected in

January 2016, 13 cities in May 2016, 27

cities in September 2016, 30 cities in June

2017 and 9 cities in January 2018.

With the selection of Shillong, the total

proposed investment in the finally selected

100 cities under the Smart Cities Mission

would be Rs.2,05,018 crores.

KVIC adopts Jagatpur village in Delhi for

Swachhata Abhiyaan

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission

(KVIC) has adopted Jagatpur village in Delhi for

its Swachhata Abhiyaan.

The sanitation drive by KVIC began with a

plantation drive and ended with cleanliness

drive along the bank of the Yamuna river.

RK Singh inaugurates solar plant at Gurdwara

Rakab Ganj Sahib

India is making rapid strides in the field of

renewable energy and we will overshoot the target

of 175 GW renewable energy by 2022.” said Shri

R.K Singh, Minister of State(IC) for Power and

New & Renewable Energy.

He was speaking as the Chief Guest at the

inauguration of 1500 kWP capacity solar

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plant developed by Delhi Sikh Gurdwara

Management Committee (DSGMC) at the

Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib.

Lauding this noble initiative by DSGMC,

Shri Singh said that this would inspire other

institutions to go green and become

environment conscious.

He said that 20 cities in India are ranked

among the most polluted in the world and

there is an urgent need to reduce fossil fuel

use so that we leave a better world for our

children.

The Minister reiterated the Government’s

commitment to bring electricity to every

household by 31st December, 2018.

7th India Minerals and Metals forum

inaugurated in New Delhi

th India Minerals and Metals forum was

inaugurated in New Delhi . The forum seeks to

come up with solutions to leverage in the sector

with the changing global scenario.

The deliberations took cognizance on the

need to consolidate small players for

strengthening of overall health of the

industry.

Punjab Government Launched Mobile App- ‘i-

Hariyali’

To increase the state’s green cover,

the Punjab government has launched ‘i-Hariyali’

app that lets users order free plant saplings.

The ‘i-Hariyali’ app under ‘Mission

Tandarust’ can be downloaded from the app

store for free.

The users can book a sapling of their

choice, a maximum of 25 per person, from a

nearby government nursery.

PM Modi inaugurates nature center in New

York via video link

On the occasion of 4th International Day of Yoga,

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a

nature center.

PM Modi inaugurated the 'YO1 Nature

Cure Center' in the Catskills area of New

York through a video link.

Gujarat gets world's1st centre for humanitarian

forensics

Gujarat is set to come up with the world's first

international centre for humanitarian forensics.

The International Centre for Humanitarian

Forensics (ICHF) will facilitate better

management of bodies during emergencies

such as disasters.

It was inaugurated at the Gujarat Forensic

Sciences University (GFSU).

The ICHF is a joint venture of the

International Committee of the Red Cross

(ICRC) Regional Delegation for India,

Bhutan, Nepal and the Maldives, and

GFSU.

Prime Minister lays foundation stone of Vanijya

Bhawan

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, laid the foundation

stone for Vanijya Bhawan, a new office complex of

the Department of Commerce in New Delhi.

Speaking on this occasion, the Prime

Minister emphasized the need for an increase

in exports and said that the states must be

made active partners in this effort.

He said that the Department of Commerce

must resolve to raise India’s share in total

global exports to at least 3.4 percent, from

the current 1.6 percent.

He further stated that efforts must be made to

raise domestic manufacturing output in order

to reduce imports.

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Swachh Bharat Rankings 2018: Indore Tops

Again

ndore won the cleanest city tag for the second time

in a row, while 19 of the 25 dirtiest cities in the

country are in West Bengal, a nationwide cleanliness

survey by the Union housing and urban affairs

ministry has found.

Indore was followed by Bhopal and

Chandigarh.

Among states, Jharkhand topped the list,

followed by Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.

Greater Mumbai is the cleanest state capital.

Vijayawada is the Cleanest city in >10 lakh

population category.

Mysuru is the Cleanest city in 3-10 lakh

population category.

New Delhi Municipal Corporation is the

Cleanest city in 1-3 lakh population

category.

PM inaugurates urban development projects

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, remotely

inaugurated urban development projects at various

locations across the State of Madhya Pradesh.

These include houses under Pradhan Mantri

Awaas Yojana, urban drinking water supply

schemes, urban solid waste management,

urban sanitation, urban transportation and

urban landscape projects.

PM dedicates Mohanpura Irrigation Project to

the Nation

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has

dedicated the Mohanpura Project in Madhya

Pradesh to the Nation.

This project will facilitate irrigation of

agricultural land in Rajgarh district. It will

also provide drinking water to villages in the

area.

The Prime Minister also laid the foundation

stone of various drinking water schemes.

Photo Exhibition on ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao

campaign inaugurated

The Union Minister of State for Social Justice and

Empowerment, Shri Vijay Sampla stressed the need

to inspire more girls to take up the field of Photo

Journalism as the Photo Journalists play a significant

role in depicting the reality in a natural way.

He was addressing the Photo Journalists after

inaugurating a three day Photo

Exhibition on ‘Beti Bachao, Beti

Padhao campaign, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

and Khelo India Khelo’ in Chandigarh

organised by The Photo Journalists Welfare

Association.

He congratulated the organisers of Photo

Exhibition for highlighting these issues

along with there press photography duties

which are too demanding.

PM inaugurates Bahadurgarh-Mundka Metro

Line via video conference

The Prime

Minister, Shri

Narendra Modi,

inaugurated the

Bahadurgarh-Mundka Metro Line via video

conference.

Congratulating the people of Haryana and

Delhi on the commencement of this new

section of the Delhi Metro, he said he was

happy to see Bahadurgarh connected with

the Delhi Metro.

This is the third place in Haryana, after

Gurugram and Faridabad to be connected

like this.

Piyush Goyal inaugurates India Infrastructure

Expo 2018

The Union Minister of Railways,Coal, Finance &

Corporate Affairs, Shri Piyush Goyal inagurated the

India Infrastructure Expo 2018 in Mumbai.

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Two day expo is being organised by the

Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry

of Finance, in partnership with the

Federation of Indian Chambers of

Commerce & Industry (FICCI).

PM Narendra Modi launched urban transport

service

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated

urban public transport bus service 'Sutra Seva'at

function held at Nehru Stadium, Indore on June 23.

In the first phase of 'Sutra Seva', 127 buses

will start plying in four municipal

corporation cities Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur

and Chhindwara and in two municipal

council towns Guna and Bhind.

Government to set up regulator for skills training

The government is to set up an independent

regulator for skills training in the country, as skill

development and entrepreneurship ministry failed in

its efforts to improve the quality of skills imparted

by various bodies and institutions.

The skill development and entrepreneurship

ministry will act as the administrative

ministry for the regulator.

Skills training in India is governed by

different bodies and regulations such as the

National Council for Vocational Training

(NCVT) and the National Skills

Development Authority (NSDA).

India and Seychelles agree on naval base at

Assumption Island

India and Seychelles has agreed to work together on

a project to develop a naval base at the Assumption

Island keeping each other's concerns in mind after

talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and

President Danny Faure.

India also announced a USD 100-million

credit to Seychelles for augmenting its

defence capabilities.

With this credit Seychelles will be able to

buy defence equipments from India to build

its maritime capacity.

Group of Eminent Personalities to study the SEZ

Policy holds its first meeting

The group of eminent personalities constituted by

the Government of India to study the Special

Economic Zones (SEZ) Policy of India held its first

meeting on 22nd June under the aegis of Minister of

Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh

Prabhu.

Baba Kalyani, Chairman Bharat Forge, who

is Chairman of this group, pointed out that

biggest challenge today was creation of jobs

and the focus of the group would be to

address this issue.

The group will make suggestion for shift

from fiscal incentives to employment based

incentives, reframe the boundaries and

introduce grandfathering clause for existing

provisions.

Suresh Prabhu chairs India-Australia Joint

Ministerial Commission

Minister for Commerce & Industry and Civil

Aviation of India, Suresh Prabhu co-chaired the 15th

Session of the India-Australia Joint Ministerial

Commission with the Australian Minister for Trade,

Tourism and Investment, Steven Ciobo, in Canberra.

Both Ministers emphasized the need

forgrowth in two-way trade and investment.

They discussed about how mutual strengths

could contribute to economic modernization.

51 Lakh Houses Sanctioned under Pradhan

Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) in Three Years

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Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA)

conducted its 35th Central Sanctioning and

Monitoring Committee (CSMC) meeting of Pradhan

Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) – Urban on

25.06.2018 where a total of 3,18,900 houses from 6

States/UTs were approved.

With this, the PMAY (U) has approved more

than 51 Lakhs dwelling units against the

estimated demand of 1 crore.

As the scheme is completing its 3rd year of

implementation today, a significant

milestone of more than 51 lakh houses

approved has been achieved.

This is a huge jump in comparison to old

housing scheme where 12.4 Lakh houses

were approved in around 9 years of its

implementation.

Such unprecedented performance is due to

innovative architecture of the scheme where

flexibility has been given to the States/UTs

to approve the projects.

Further, rather than a rigid approach,

beneficiaries are free to choose from 4

verticals of the Mission as per their

preference.

The State of Maharashtra has taken a big

stride in achieving its target of providing

houses to slum dwellers by getting 2.48 lakh

houses approved in 35th CSMC.

Report on ‘Women in Prisons’ launched

The Ministry of Women and Child Development

(MWCD) has come up with its report titled

‘Women in Prisons’ which aims to build an

understanding of the various entitlements of

women in prisons, the various issues faced by them

and possible methods for resolution of the same.

The report contains a comprehensive list of 134

recommendations for improving the lives of

women under incarceration.

Main Features of the report are:

The report proposes that bail should be

granted to those under-trial women who have

spent one-third of their maximum possible

sentence in detention, by making necessary

changes in Section 436A of the CrPC which

provides for release after half of the

maximum sentence has been served.

Considering the needs of women in their

post-natal stages, the report recommends a

separate accommodation for mothers in post-

natal stage to maintain hygiene and protect

the infant from contagion, for at least a year

after childbirth.

To make legal aid more effective, the report

suggests that legal consultations must be

conducted in confidentiality and without

censorship

Re-integration of women in society is a grave

problem, due to the stigma attached to

incarceration. In the study conducted by

MWCD, it was found that in many cases,

women were abandoned by their families

and were left to fend for themselves after

their release.

Government proposes to set up 3000 Van Dhan

Kendras

The Government proposes to set up 3000 Van Dhan

Kendras involving 30,000 SHGs across the country

under the Van Dhan Scheme of the Ministry of

Tribal Affairs.

In a new game changing initiative, the Prime

Minister launched the Van Dhan Scheme of

Ministry of Tribal Affairs and TRIFED on

14th April, 2018 during the celebrations of

Ambedkar Jayanti at Bijapur Chattisgarh.

Emphasizing the important role of value

addition in increasing tribal incomes, the

Prime Minister stated that Van Dhan,

Jandhan and Goverdhan Schemes had the

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potential to change the tribal-rural economic

system.

National Seminar on Conservation of

Particularly Vulnerable Tribes of Andaman &

Nicobar Islands

National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST)

is organizing a National Seminar on “Conservation

of Particularly Vulnerable Tribes of Andaman and

Nicobar Islands: The Way Forward” on 27th and

28th June, 2018 at Kamaladevi Multipurpose Hall,

India International Centre, Max Mueller Marg, New

Delhi.

About 44 Ministries/Departments have been

invited by the National Commission for

Scheduled Tribes to present their strategies

and approach towards PVTGs in Andaman

and Nicobar Islands.

This Seminar is being organized in

collaboration with Anthropological Survey

of India (AnSI) and Directors of 18 Tribal

Research Institutes in different States have

also been invited to deliberate on critical

issues of tribal groups who are at the verge

of extinction.

Vice Chancellors of six Universities

including Indira Gandhi National Tribal

University, Amarkantak will provide

academic inputs on PVTGs.

Sushma Swaraj Introduces Passport Seva App

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj launched

a Passport Seva app for seamless application and

issue of passports.

Ms Swaraj said that in total, there are 260

working passport centres, which will be

expanded to all Lok Sabha constituencies in

the near future.

President of India Inaugurates the Udyam

Sangam-2018

The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind,

inaugurated the Udyam Sangam-2018, being

organised by the Ministry of Micro, Small &

Medium Enterprises (MSME) on June 27, 2018 to

celebrate the 2nd United Nations Micro, Small and

Medium-sized Enterprises Day.

On this occasion, he also launched the Solar

Charkha and MSME Sampark Portal.

The President said that the Udyam Sangam-

2018 is an important effort in developing

effective eco-systems for MSME sector.

J P Nadda inaugurates the NIMHANS Digital

Academy

Shri J P Nadda, Union

Minister of Health and

Family Welfare

inaugurated the

NIMHANS Digital

Academy and addressed the first batch of

professionals enrolled for undergoing courses in the

fields of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Social Work.

Shri Nadda also released the training

modules and curricula for various training

programmes to be undertaken at the

NIMHANS Digital Academy.

WCD Ministry to organise TECH-THON

Ministry of Women and Child Development,

Government of India will organize a day-long

Seminar on Technology Partnerships for Steering

POSHAN Abhiyaan called ‘TECH-THON’ for

POSHAN Abhiyaan - PM’s Overarching Scheme

for Holistic Nourishment on 28th June, 2018 at

PravasiBharatiya Kendra in New Delhi.

Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog will inaugurate

the Seminar and launch the Jan Andolan

Guidelines of POSHAN Abhiyaan.

The Seminar is being organised to showcase

and orient the environment towards the

initiative, exchange ideas and to explore

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avenues of cooperation and partnerships for

technology support, as well as, reaching-out

to the beneficiaries for effective behavioural

change to initiate a ‘Peoples Movement’ or

Jan Andolan towards Nutrition.

4th National Review & Consultation on Swachh

Iconic Places

The 4th National Review and Consultation on

Swachh Iconic Places has begun in Hyderabad to

review the progress relating to maintenance and

cleanliness of Iconic Places.

Inaugurating the two-day consultation and

review, Director General Special projects

under the Ministry of Drinking Water

Supply, Akshay Rout underlined the need for

better coordination between local and state

Governments in implementing SIP

Strategies.

Centre to Replace UGC With HECI

The Centre is set to replace the apex higher

education regulator body University Grants

Commission (UGC) with Higher Education

Commission of India (HECI) by repealing the UGC

Act, 1951.

The proposed Higher Education

Commission of India would focus solely on

academic matters and monetary grants

would be under the purview of the ministry.

Presently, the University Grants

Commission (UGC), which came into

existence in 1953, provides financial

assistance to eligible colleges.

Oxytocin formulations ban to come into effect

from 1st July 2018

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has

restricted the manufacture of Oxytocin formulations

for domestic use to public sector only from 1st July

2018.

It has also banned the import of Oxytocin

and its formulations.

From 1st July 2018, no private manufacturer

will be allowed to manufacture the drug for

domestic use.

Only Karnataka Antibiotics &

Pharmaceuticals Ltd (KAPL), a public sector

company, would be manufacturing this drug

for domestic use from that date.

“Statistics Day” will be celebrated on 29th June,

2018

In recognition of the notable contributions made by

Late Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in the

fields of statistics, statistical system and economic

planning, Government of India in 2007, has

designated 29thJune as the “Statistics Day” in the

category of Special Days to be celebrated every year

at the National level.

29th June, 2017 marked the beginning of the

125th year of birth of Prof. P.C.

Mahalanobis.

ISI has held year-round celebrations which

will be culminated on 29th June, 2018.

The objective of celebration of this Day is to

create public awareness about the

importance of statistics in socio-economic

planning and policy formulation, to

acknowledge the contribution of Prof.

Mahalanobis, and to pay homage to him.

Institution of "Home Minister's Special

Operation Medal"

he Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh has

approved the institution of "Home Minister's Special

Operation Medal".

Police Officers of States & Union

Territories, Central Police Organisations

(CPOs), Central Armed Police Forces

(CAPFs) and Security Organisation involved

in Special Operations will be eligible.

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The Union Home Minister has also instituted

three more Medals, - the Antarik Suraksha

Medal, Asadharan Aashuchan Padak, and

Utkrisht & Ati-Utkrisht Seva Medal.

Fourth National Consultation to be held in New

Delhi

The fourth National Consultation Meeting of

Ministers of States & UTs, in-charge of Food, Civil

Supplies and Consumer Affairs is being held on 29th

June 2018 in New Delhi.

The meeting will be chaired by Shri Ram

Vilas Paswan, Union Minister of Consumer

Affairs, and Food & Public Distribution.

The consultation will be on measures needed

for further improving various facets of

consumer protection and welfare including

availability of essential food items at stable

prices, Public Distribution System etc., and

chart a future course of action.

Mumbai airport's terminal 1 becomes first to

offer automated check-in facility

Airlines operating out of the Terminal 1 (T1) of the

city airport now provide self-bag drop (SBD) facility

to passengers, making it the only terminal with such

a fully-automated check-in system.

Besides, the airport operator has also

extended the check-in facility to a host of

five-star hotels in the city, enabling the

passengers to collect their boarding passes

from the hotel itself.

This is the only terminal in the country to

have a fully-automated check-in system.

Suresh Prabhu launches Mobile App 'ReUnite'

Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil

Aviation, Suresh Prabhu has launched a mobile

application called ReUnite which helps to

trackandtrace missing and abandoned children in

India.

Speaking on this occasion the Minister

appreciated the work being done by the

NGO,Bachpan Bachao Andolan &

Capgemini for developing this app.

The app is multiuser where parents and

citizens can upload pictures of children, and

provide detailed description like name, birth

mark, address, report to the police station,

search and identify missing kids.

NITI Aayog partners with GNFC Ltd to

implement Fertilizer Subsidy Disbursement

NITI Aayog and

Gujarat Narmada

Valley Fertilizers &

Chemicals Limited

(GNFC) have signed

a Statement of Intent

(SOI) to work together towards implementing a

Proof-of-Concept (“PoC”) application using

Blockchain Technology for fertiliser subsidy

management.

Fertilizer units manufacture approximately

31 Million MT of fertilizers across country,

where total approximately Rs. 70,000 Cr. of

subsidy is disbursed to the manufacturing

units.

NITI Aayog releases First Delta Ranking of

Aspirational Districts

The NITI Aayog has launched the first Delta ranking

(incremental progress) for the Aspirational Districts,

based on self-reported data of districts between

March 31, 2018 to May 31, 2018, across five

developmental areas of Health and Nutrition,

Education, Agriculture and Water Resources,

Financial Inclusion and Skill Development, and

Basic Infrastructure.

The Districts started entering data from 1st

April, 2018 in the Champions of

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Change Dashboard and 108 districts out of

total 112, participated in this ranking.

Dahod district of Gujarat improved 19.8

points to rank first in the Delta ranking (was

Ranked 17 in Baseline ranking).

West Sikkim district in Sikkim stood second

with 18.9 points, a huge improvement from

being in the 30th position in Baseline

ranking.

Andhra Pradesh, Singapore sign pacts for

Amaravati development

The state government

of Andhra Pradesh and

Singapore has signed

several pacts for the

development of a start-up area (1,691 acres) in the

new capital, Amaravati, to transform it into a world-

class city.

Under the agreement, the land would be

handed over in three phases – 660 acres in

the first phase – to the Singapore companies

for infrastructure development and other

promotional activities.

World Bank forecasts 7.3 per cent growth for

India

The World Bank has forecast a growth rate of 7.3 per

cent for India this year and 7.5 per cent for the next

two years, making it the fastest growing country

among major emerging economies.

A top World Bank official said India's

economy is robust, resilient and has potential

to deliver sustained growth.

It said that growth in South Asia is projected

to strengthen to 6.9 per cent in 2018.

anks to set up dedicated mechanism to address

stress assets

The government of India has set up a committee

under Punjab National Bank non-executive

chairman Sunil Mehta to consider the establishment

of an asset reconstruction company to help resolve

the bad loan burden.

Others on the committee include State Bank

of India chairman Rajnish Kumar and Bank

of Baroda managing director PS Jayakumar.

India gives Rs 99 million to Nepal for installing

shallow tube wells

India has extended a financial aid of Rs 99 million

to Nepal for the construction of 2,700 shallow tube

well irrigation systems in 12 districts of the country's

southern Terai region to boost agricultural

productivity.

The assistance has been extended as part of

the final payment for the Nepal-Bharat

Maitri Irrigation Project, which was

launched in January last year to boost growth

to the Himalayan nation's agricultural sector

through enhanced facilities.

India's Ambassador to Nepal, Manjeev Singh

Puri, handed over a cheque of 99.21 million

Nepalese Rs to the country's Energy

Secretary, Sanjay Sharma.

Maharashtra Inks MoU with Canada’s Quebec

Province for Greater Economic Cooperation

The Maharashtra government and Canada’s Quebec

province have signed a pact to increase the economic

cooperation, specially in areas of information

technology, biotechnology, artificial intelligence

and welfare of the tribal community.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

to this effect with was signed by Chief

Minister Devendra Fadnavis and

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard during

his week-long tour to the US and Canada.

Karnataka Bank launches ‘Deposit Only Card’

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Karnataka Bank Ltd has launched ‘KBL-Deposit

Only Card’ that enables hassle-free cash deposit

transactions at the bank’s 24X7 e-lobby services.

This card is specially meant for the bank’s

current/overdraft customers.

These customers can perform cash deposit

transactions even with higher deposit limit at

the bank’s bunch note acceptor (BNA) or

cash recycler kiosks by using this card.

The limit for the cash deposit a day is Rs 10

lakh.

'SoftBank to invest up to $100 billion in Indian

solar'

SoftBank Group has decided to invest $60-100

billion in solar power generation in India.

SoftBank and the government are expected

to reach a formal agreement soon after final

arrangements are made.

The company is expected to make the

investment through a fund backed by Saudi

Arabia's government.

U.S. pips India as top greenfield FDI destination

The U.S. has surpassed India to become the top

destination for greenfield FDI investment in 2017,

says a report.

The number of greenfield FDI projects in

India during the year fell sharply by 21% to

637, said the fDi Report 2018 compiled by

FDI Intelligence.

India had maintained the numero uno slot in

greenfield FDI investment in 2015 and 2016.

Muthoot Fincorp Limited announced its

partnership with NSDC

Muthoot Fincorp Limited has announced its

partnership with National Skill Development

Corporation to train over 10,000 youth over the next

three years and make them job ready.

With the

partnership, Muthoot Fincorp claims to have

become the first major private sector player

to partner with National Skill Development

Corporation (NSDC) to launch the Pradhan

Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY-2)

programme.

Under the scheme, Muthoot Fincorp targets

to train over 10,000 people over the next

three years and make them job ready.

NSDC has approved a target of 3,000

candidates in the first year and 3,500 each in

the subsequent two years.

NABARD to lend Rs 21,000 crore to MP in

current fiscal

National Bank For

Agriculture And Rural

Development

(NABARD) said that it

would give Rs 21,000

crore to the Madhya Pradesh government in the

current financial year.

In the last three years, NABARD has given

Rs 2,000 crore every year to the Madhya

Pradesh government for works related to

roads, bridges and irrigation among other

things, An official Bansal said.

Government to team up with Google for flood

forecasting

Union Minister for Water Resources, River

Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Shri Nitin

Gadkari has expressed hope that collaboration with

Google will help in effective flood management in

India.

Central Water Commission (CWC), India’s

apex technical organization in the field of

Water Resources, has entered into a

Collaboration Agreement with Google.

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CWC would use state-of-the-art advances

made by Google in the in the field of

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

and geo spatial mapping for effective

management of water resources particularly

in the field of flood forecasting and

dissemination of flood related information to

the masses widely using the dissemination

platforms developed by Google.

This initiative is likely to help crisis

management agencies to deal extreme

hydrological events in a better manner.

BoB partners Accenture, IBM to drive growth

through technology

Public sector lender Bank of Baroda has mandated

IT majors IBM and Accenture to create an IT

Centre of Excellence (ITCoE) and Analytics Centre

of Excellence (ACoE) as part of the bank’s strategy

to use technology to drive growth.

The bank said in a statement that the twin

centres are part of a comprehensive digital

roadmap drawn up to enhance the quality.

Foundation Stone of ‘Auxiliary Production Unit

& Artificial Limbs Fitting Centre’ Laid

The Foundation of stone of “Auxiliary Production

Unit and State-of-the-Art Artificial Limbs Fitting

Centre” of Artificial Limbs Manufacturing

Corporation of India (ALIMCO) under Department

of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities

(DEPwD), Ministry of Social Justice &

Empowerment was laid by Shri Manohar Lal, Chief

Minister of Haryana and Shri Krishan Pal Gurjar,

Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment

at a function at village Nawada, Tigaon

(Ballabhgarh), Faridabad, Haryana.

There has been an ever increasing demand

from the Divyangjan about the difficulty

being faced by them in visiting Kanpur to

avail facilities of evaluation, measurements

and fitment of assistive devices.

Diversification of rehabilitation and fitment

of assistive devices services to other areas

will facilitate Divyangjans to cover less a

distance for acquiring these devices.

Findings of 160 cost-benefit analyses in Andhra

Pradesh and Rajasthan presented to NITI Aayog

NITI Aayog has been engaging with State

Governments to evolve a shared vision of national

development and strategies from time to time to

share the best practices.

In this context, India Consensus - a

partnership between Tata Trusts and

Copenhagen Consensus which

has undertaken more than 160 cost-benefit

analyses across all main policy areas in

Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan presented

their findings on 14th June 2018 in NITI

Aayog.

The presentation on evidence-based policy

prioritisation model was chaired by Dr Rajiv

Kumar, Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog.

It was attended by Chief Secretaries,

Additional Chief Secretaries/Principal

Secretaries/Secretaries dealing with the

Planning Department of 32 States and Union

Territories, Joint Secretaries from 14

Ministries, senior officers from NITI Aayog,

eminent economists and researchers.

Copenhagen Consensus President, Dr Bjorn

Lomborg presented the policies and

interventions which generate the most social,

economic and environmental good for the

States.

The focus of the presentation was on how

this approach and method could be replicated

across other States.

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School Chale Hum Abhiyan 2018 launched in

Bhopal

Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan

inaugurated the ‘School Chale Hum Abhiyan 2018’

in Bhopal.

The motive of this scheme is that no child

should be deprived of schooling.

Inaugurating the month long campaign on

June 15, the minister encouraged students,

teachers and parents to make it a success.

Telangana govt to set up Child Protection Units

in all 31 districts

In an effort to implement child rights, the Telangana

government will soon establish ‘District Child

Protection Units (DCPU)’ in all 31 districts.

Right now the 10 erstwhile districts have the

District Child Protection Units (DCPU).

Proposals were already sent to the

government for constitution of child

protection units and already they were

sanctioned and now staff recruitment was

underway.

Fourth Governing Council Meeting of NITI

Aayog Concludes

The fourth meeting of the Governing Council of

NITI Aayog was held under the chairmanship of the

Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at

Rashtrapati Bhavan.

It was attended by 23 Chief Ministers and the

Lieutenant Governor of Andaman & Nicobar

Islands, apart from Union Ministers, who are

ex-officio members and special invitees.

At the end of the day-long deliberations, the

Prime Minister highlighted the importance

of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog as

a platform to inspire cooperative federalism.

Ashwini Kumar Choubey releases 11th Common

Review Mission (CRM) report

Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State for

Health and Family Welfare released the

11thCommon Review Mission (CRM) report of the

National Health Mission.

Speaking at the function, Shri Choubey

stated that India has registered a record 22%

reduction in MMR since 2013, which is the

highest percentage decline so far when

compared to all the previous reductions in

MMR as per the earlier rounds of SRS.

“Maternal Mortality Ratio of India has

declined from 167 in 2011-2013 to 130 in

2014-2016. It is because of the joint efforts

of the Ministry and the States.

Grand Finale of the First Hardware edition of

Smart India Hackathon 2018

The Union Minister for Human Resource

Development, Shri Prakash Javadekar inaugurated

the 5 day Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon

2018 – Hardware edition through Video

conferencing in New Delhi.

Hardware edition is the first of its kind

innovative initiative by Ministry of HRD to

provide national platform to young technical

minds of India to showcase their disruptive

innovations and creative products which can

bring out revolutionary changes in crucial

sectors like agriculture, health, clean water,

waste management, automotive, smart

communication, and education.

The Hardware edition is the sub-edition of

SIH2018.

The Grand Finale of the Hardware

Hackathon will be a 5 days event and will

take place simultaneously at 10 prestigious

institutions (Nodal centers) across India.

The 3-day NATIONAL YOGA OLYMPIAD-

2018

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A 3-day National Yoga Olympiad was inaugurated

at the National Council of Educational Research and

Training in CIET in New Delhi by Mr. Eric Falt,

Director and UNESCO Representative of the New

Delhi Cluster Office for India, Bangladesh, Bhutan,

Nepal, the Maldives and Sri Lanka.

This is the third consecutive year of National

Yoga Olympiad of NCERT and this year

about 500 students from 26 States and 4 RIEs

are participating in the Olympiad as

compared to the participation of students

from 25 States/UTs last year.

In his welcome address, Professor

Hrushikesh Senapaty, Director, NCERT

brought to the attention that the Olympiad

creates awareness about a scientific and

holistic way of living and the purpose is to

create positive attitude among all human

beings and promote peaceful living in the

society.

Col Rajyavardhan Rathore inaugurated

European Union Film Festival

Minister of State

(I/C) for Information

& Broadcasting and

Sports & Youth

Affairs, Col

Rajyavardhan

Rathore inaugurated

the European Union Film Festival.

The opening ceremony was followed by the

screening of Slovakian movie “Little

Harbour”.

With a selection of 24 latest European films

from 23 EU Member States, this years' film

festival brings some unusual stories for the

world cinema enthusiasts.

The European Union Film Festival is

organized by Directorate of Film Festivals,

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,

Government of India partnering with the

Delegation of the European Union and

embassies of EU Member States in various

city film clubs.

Workshop on Cyber Security Framework – 2018

A workshop on Cyber Security Framework for

Department of Defence was organised by DDP,

Ministry of Defence.

The workshop was inaugurated by

RakshaMantri Smt Nirmala Sitharaman.

During her address, Smt Sitharaman stressed

upon the fact that Defence sector is more

prone to the cyber threats and hence it

becomes important to safeguard our

cyberspace with anticipation of possible

attacks.

Mehbooba Mufti resigns as J&K CM

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba

Mufti has sent her resignation to Governor NN

Vohra, after the BJP announced it was leaving the

alliance with her Peoples Democratic Party.

The BJP's decision to end the coalition

leaves Mufti with just 28 out of Jammu and

Kashmir's 87 elected seats.

Governor's rule in Jammu and Kashmir

A day after BJP pulled out of its alliance with PDP,

the state of Jammu and kashmir has come under

Governor's rule with immediate effect.

The 81-year-old governor, NN Vohra will

now be running the state for a fourth time

since his appointment in 2008.

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Union HRD Minister dedicates the National

Digital Library of India to the Nation

The Union Human Resource Development Minister,

Shri Prakash Javadekar launched the new digital

initiative of HRD Ministry ‘National Digital Library

of India’ on the occasion of National Reading Day

in New Delhi.

This National Digital Library of India

(NDLI) is a project of the Ministry of Human

Resource Development under the aegis of

National Mission on Education through

Information and Communication

Technology (NMEICT).

The objective of NDL is to make digital

educational resources available to all citizens

of the country to empower, inspire and

encourage learning. National Digital Library

of India is developed by IIT Kharagpur.

NDL is the Single Window Platform that

collects and collates metadata from premier

learning institutions in India and abroad, as

well as other relevant sources.

It is a digital repository containing

textbooks, articles, videos, audio books,

lectures, simulations, fiction and all other

kinds of learning media.

CEA Arvind Subramanian resigned

Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Arvind

Subramanian has submitted his resignation and

expressed his desire to return to the United States

due to family commitments, Union Minister Arun

Jaitley announced.

Mr. Subramanian started his term as CEA

on October 16, 2014 for a term of three

years.

On the completion of three years, he was

asked to continue for a year more, which

would have taken his term to October 2018.

19th all India Conference of Directors of Finger

Prints Bureaux

nion Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri

Hansraj Gangaram Ahir will inaugurate the 19th all

India Conference of Directors of Finger Prints

Bureaux in Hyderabad.

During the two-day conference, participants

will deliberate on latest Automatic

Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS).

In the conference issues related to

administration, standard operating

procedures for uniform functioning of

bureaus would also be deliberated.

Shillong gets selected as the 100th Smart City

Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya has been

selected as 100th Smart City after evaluating the

proposal submitted by it.

Till now, 99 smart cities had been selected

in four rounds of competition and with

today’s announcement, selection of 100

cities has been completed under the Smart

Cities Mission.

Previously, 20 cities were selected in

January 2016, 13 cities in May 2016, 27

cities in September 2016, 30 cities in June

2017 and 9 cities in January 2018.

With the selection of Shillong, the total

proposed investment in the finally selected

100 cities under the Smart Cities Mission

would be Rs.2,05,018 crores.

VIC adopts Jagatpur village in Delhi for

Swachhata Abhiyaan

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission

(KVIC) has adopted Jagatpur village in Delhi for

its Swachhata Abhiyaan.

The sanitation drive by KVIC began with a

plantation drive and ended with cleanliness

drive along the bank of the Yamuna river.

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RK Singh inaugurates solar plant at Gurdwara

Rakab Ganj Sahib

India is making rapid strides in the field of

renewable energy and we will overshoot the target

of 175 GW renewable energy by 2022.” said Shri

R.K Singh, Minister of State(IC) for Power and

New & Renewable Energy.

He was speaking as the Chief Guest at the

inauguration of 1500 kWP capacity solar

plant developed by Delhi Sikh Gurdwara

Management Committee (DSGMC) at the

Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib.

Lauding this noble initiative by DSGMC,

Shri Singh said that this would inspire other

institutions to go green and become

environment conscious.

He said that 20 cities in India are ranked

among the most polluted in the world and

there is an urgent need to reduce fossil fuel

use so that we leave a better world for our

children.

The Minister reiterated the Government’s

commitment to bring electricity to every

household by 31st December, 2018.

7th India Minerals and Metals forum

inaugurated in New Delhi

7th India Minerals and Metals forum was

inaugurated in New Delhi . The forum seeks to

come up with solutions to leverage in the sector

with the changing global scenario.

The deliberations took cognizance on the

need to consolidate small players for

strengthening of overall health of the

industry.

unjab Government Launched Mobile App- ‘i-

Hariyali’

To increase the state’s green cover,

the Punjab government has launched ‘i-Hariyali’

app that lets users order free plant saplings.

The ‘i-Hariyali’ app under ‘Mission

Tandarust’ can be downloaded from the app

store for free.

The users can book a sapling of their

choice, a maximum of 25 per person, from a

nearby government nursery.

PM Modi inaugurates nature center in New

York via video link

On the occasion

of 4th International

Day of Yoga, Prime

Minister Narendra

Modi inaugurated a nature center.

PM Modi inaugurated the 'YO1 Nature

Cure Center' in the Catskills area of New

York through a video link.

PM to inaugurate the Third AIIB Annual

Meeting 2018

The Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of

Finance, Government of India and the Asian

Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will jointly

host the third Annual Meeting of the Asian

Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on June 25-

26, 2018 at Hotel Trident/Oberoi and NCPA,

Mumbai, India.

The theme for this year’s meeting is

*“Mobilizing Finance for Infrastructure:

Innovation and Collaboration”* that will see

leaders from varied organizations and levels

of government to share ideas and

experiences for creating a sustainable future

through sound infrastructure investment.

This year will also see the launch of the

inaugural Asian Infrastructure Forum, which

will gather infrastructure practitioners in a

practical and project-driven discourse,

focused on matching innovative finance to

critical infrastructure needs.

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CEMS Sets Up Labs in Mumbai and Vizag

The Centre of Excellence in Maritime &

Shipbuilding (CEMS), a well-funded start-up in skill

development for maritime and shipbuilding sector,

has announced setting up of 24 labs -6 in Mumbai

and 18 in Vizag campus.

It also shared the list of courses being

offered.

The labs being set up include Product Design

& Validation, Advance Manufacturing, Hull

Design, Automation, Welding Technology,

Robotics, Virtual Reality, Advance Machine

& Robotics, Electrical and several others.

Promoted by Indian Register of Shipping

(IRClass) in partnership with Siemens and

support from Sagarmala, Ministry of

Shipping, CEMS aims to build competency

in the field of maritime & shipbuilding sector

through skill development in the latest

manufacturing technologies for

shipbuilding/ repair and ancillary sectors.

India is the largest borrower from Asian

Infrastructure Investment Bank

With the total project portfolios of US$4.4 Billion,

India has been the largest borrower of Asian

Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) lending since

the time the Bank started its operations.

Unlike most other multilateral development

banks set up by advanced economies, AIIB

is the first major multilateral development

bank where principal contributors are the

borrowing members themselves.

The third Annual Meeting of the bank

focuses on infrastructure, with the theme of

innovation and collaboration.

Saudi ARAMCO and ADNOC sign MoU for

participating in the Ratnagiri Refinery project

Saudi Aramco and ADNOC signed an MoU today to

jointly develop and build an integrated refinery and

petrochemicals complex at Ratnagiri in

Maharashtra. The project will be implemented by

Ratnagiri Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd.

(RRPCL).

Earlier, Saudi Aramco had joined the project

by signing an MoU with the Indian

consortium on 11th April 2018 on the

sidelines of the16 International Energy

Forum Ministerial.

RRPCL which is promoted by a consortium

of India PSUs consisting of IOCL, BPCL

and HPCLwill now have Saudi Aramco &

ADNOC as overseas strategic partners.

The project will be set up as a 50:50 joint

partnership (50:50) between the consortium

from India and Saudi Aramco and ADNOC.

This will be single largest overseas

investment in the Indian refining sector.

AIIB to invest $100 mn for India's development

projects

The Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment

Bank (AIIB) has announced an equity investment of

$100 million in India`s National Investment &

Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) to help various

development projects in this country.

The NIIF is a collaborative investment

platform for international and domestic

investors keen on investing in commercially

viable Indian infrastructure projects.

AIIB's 4th Annual Meeting 2019 in Luxembourg

Moving out of Asia first time, the Asian

Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)'s Fourth

Annual Meeting will be held in Luxembourg in July

2019.

Luxembourg is a founding member of AIIB

as well as a leading international financial

centre and facilitator of investments between

Europe and Asia.

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The first AIIB Board of Governors meeting

was held in Beijing in 2016, followed by

Jeju, South Korea in 2017 and the third in

Mumbai.

NITI Aayog’s WEP Signs SoI with Financial

Institutions & Social Organisations

NITI Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurs Platform

(WEP) has signed five separate Statement of Intent

(SoIs) with Shri Mahila Sewa Sahakari Bank

Limited, Indiabulls Housing Finance Limited, SREI

Infrastructure Finance Limited, Sreemanta Sankar

Mission and the Self Employed Women’s

Association (SEWA).

The WEP was established on the occasion of

International Womens’ Day in March 2018

to substantially increase the number of

women entrepreneurs who will create and

empower a dynamic New India.

Cabinet approves capital infusion in Export

Credit Guarantee Corporation Ltd

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs

chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has

approved the capital infusion of Rs.2000 crore for

strengthening of Export Credit Guarantee

Corporation (ECGC).

The amount would be infused in the three

financial years i.e. Rs.50 crore in 2017-18,

Rs.1450 crore in the year 2018-19 and

Rs.500 crore for 2019-20.

The infusion would enhance insurance

coverage to MSME exports and strengthen

India’s exports to emerging and challenging

markets like Africa, CIS and Latin American

countries.

Cabinet approves a Corpus to National Export

Insurance Account Trust

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs

chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has

approved contribution of Grant-in-Aid (Corpus) of

Rs.1,040 crore to National Export Insurance

Account Trust (NEIA).

The Corpus is to be utilised during three

years from 2017-18 to 2019-20. An amount

of Rs.440 crore has already been received for

the year 2017-18. Rs.300 crore each will be

given to NEIA for the years 2018-19 and

2019-20.

The Corpus would strengthen NEIA to

support project exports from the country that

are of strategic and national importance.

Israel to gift 100 units of digital farming to

Gujarat

Israel will gift 100 units of digital farming on an

experimental basis in Gujarat. Gujarat Chief

Minister Vijay Rupani is on a six-day-long visit to

Israel with a high-level delegation.

Vijay Rupani met Netafim CEO Ran Maidan

and discussed with him the potential of

digital farming in Gujarat.

Netafim is an Israeli irrigation solutions

providing firm.

IRDAI allows LIC to invest up to 51% in IDBI

Bank

The Insurance

Regulatory

Development

Authority of India

(IRDAI) has

allowed Life

Insurance

Corporation of India (LIC) to invest up to 51 percent

in IDBI Bank.

This is a special case dispensation that has

been given to LIC and the 15 percent equity

investment cap still remains.

According to the regulator's norms on

investment, insurance companies cannot

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hold more than 15 percent stake in any

company.

West Bengal Governor KN Tripathi to Hold

Additional Charge of Tripura

West Bengal Governor

Keshari Nath Tripathi

was given the additional

charge of Tripura,

according to a statement

issued by the

Rashtrapati Bhavan.

The President of India has appointed Keshari

Nath Tripathi to discharge the functions of

the Governor of Tripura, in addition to his

own duties, during the absence on leave of

Tathagata Roy.

Bandhan Bank appoints H R Khan as chairman

Bandhan Bank said its board has appointed H R

Khan, a former RBI deputy governor, as non-

executive chairman.

The board of directors of the bank at its

meeting appointed Harun Rasid Khan as the

non-executive, part time chairman of the

bank.

Khan's appointment will be for a period of

three years with effect from June 5, 2018.

U.N. Security Council elects five members for

two-year term

The United Nations General Assembly voted to elect

Germany, Belgium, South Africa, the Dominican

Republic and Indonesia for a two-year term in the

Security Council starting on Jan. 1, 2019.

The five members giving up their seat at the

end of this year are the Netherlands, Sweden,

Ethiopia, Bolivia and Kazakhstan.

Arvind Saxena appointed acting UPSC chief

UPSC member Arvind Saxena has been appointed

as the acting chairman of the commission from June

20, a government order said.

Saxena, a 1978-batch Indian Postal Service

officer, will take over the charge from

incumbent Vinay Mittal who completes his

term at the Union Public Service

Commission (UPSC) on June 19.

Appointment of Vigilance Commissioner

Shri Sharad Kumar (Indian Police Service, Retd.,

HY:1979) has been appointed as the Vigilance

Commissioner in the Central Vigilance

Commission, New Delhi.

His appointment will be for a term of four

years from the date on which he enters upon

his office, or till he attains the age of sixty

five years, whichever is earlier.

Deepak Raj Joshee recommended as new CJ of

Nepal

The Constitutional Council (CC) has recommended

Acting Chief Justice Deeepak Raj Joshee as new

Chief Justice (CJ) of the Nepalese Supreme Court

(SC).

Joshee has been working as the Acting CJ

after then CJ Gopal Parajuli resigned from

his post on March 15, 2018.

S Ramesh appointed CBIC chairman

Senior bureaucrat S Ramesh was appointed as

chairman of Central Board of Indirect Taxes and

Customs (CBIC).

Ramesh, a 1981 batch officer of Indian

Revenue Service (customs and central

excise), is at present member in the CBIC, an

apex policy making body for indirect taxes.

He will take over charge from incumbent

Vanaja N Sarna who completes her term this

month-end.

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Rana Kapoor re-appointed MD & CEO for

Yes Bank

Yes Bank shareholders have approved the re-

appointment of Rana Kapoor as the bank’s chief

executive officer and managing director for a period

of three years.

The AGM also approved the appointment of

Subhash Chander Kalia and Ajai Kumar as

non-executive non-independent directors.

Dr. Inder Jit Singh assumes charge as Secretary,

Ministry of Coal

Dr. Inder Jit Singh, (KL:1985) assumed charge

as Secretary, Ministry of Coal at Shastri Bhawan

office, New Delhi.

Dr. Inder Jit Singh took over the charge

of Secretary which fell vacant after

superannuation of Shri Susheel Kumar

(IAS:1982:UP) on April 30 this year.

In the interim, Secretary Mines, Shri Anil G

Mukhim (IAS:1985:GJ) had been holding

additional charge as Secretary, Coal.

Indian-American Dhivya Suryadevara to become

CFO of General Motors

An Indian-American woman, Dhivya Suryadevara

has been named the Chief Finance Officer of the US’

largest automaker, General Motors.

Ms. Suryadevara, currently the vice

president of corporate finance, will succeed

Chuck Stevens, the General Motor’s present

CFO, on September 1.

Ivan Duque Wins Election to Become Colombia's

President

Youthful rightwinger Ivan Duque won Colombia’s

presidential election, promising “a new generation”

of leadership for Columbia.

With 98 per cent of the ballot counted, Mr

Duque had 54 per cent of the vote.

Mr Duque will be sworn in as the country’s

new leader on August 7.

ICICI Bank Board appoints Mr. Sandeep

Bakhshi as Wholetime Director

The Board of Directors of

ICICI Bank Limited has

decided to appoint Mr.

Sandeep Bakhshi, as

Wholetime Director &

Chief Operating Officer

designate, ICICI Bank.

His appointment as COO will be for a period

of five years, subject to regulatory approvals.

He will take over as the COO from June 19,

2018, or on the date of regulatory and other

approvals, whichever is later.

IRDAI Sets Up Panel To Review Norms For

Marketing Firms

The Insurance Regulatory and Development

Authority of India (IRDAI) has formed a 10 member

panel to review norms related

to insurance marketing firm (IMF) with an aim to

increase insurance penetration in the country.

The committee is headed by Suresh Mathur,

Executive Director (insurance marketing

firms), IRDAI, with nine more members.

Chief Ministers Subgroup Constituted for

Agriculture and MGNREGS

Government has set up a Chief Ministers Subgroup

to Coordinate Policy Approaches for Agriculture

and MGNREGS.

Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh as the

Convener and CMs of Andhra Pradesh,

Bihar, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal

and Sikkim along with the Member NITI

Aayog, Shri Ramesh Chand are its members.

The move comes in the backdrop of the

vision of the Prime Minister towards

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Doubling Farmers’ Income by 2022 which

requires a multi-dimensional and inclusive

approach.

Sunil Mittal becomes honorary chairman of ICC

Sunil Bharti Mittal, the Founder and Chairman of

Bharti Enterprises, will step down as the Chairman

of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) on

June 21.

He will be succeeded by Paul Polman, CEO

of Unilever, as ICC Chairman.

He will now function as the Honorary

Chairman of the ICC commencing July 1.

Ajay Banga, the President and CEO of

MasterCard will be appointed as the ICC

First Vice-Chair.

B V R Subramanyam appointed as Jammu and

Kashmir Chief Secretary

B V R Subrahmanyam, a senior IAS officer of the

Chhattisgarh cadre, was appointed as the chief

secretary of Jammu and Kashmir.

The 55-year-old bureaucrat, who hails from

Andhra Pradesh, has been appointed in

place of incumbent B B Vyas.

Karnataka Bank launches ‘Deposit Only Card’

Karnataka Bank Ltd has launched ‘KBL-Deposit

Only Card’ that enables hassle-free cash deposit

transactions at the bank’s 24X7 e-lobby services.

This card is specially meant for the bank’s

current/overdraft customers.

These customers can perform cash deposit

transactions even with higher deposit limit at

the bank’s bunch note acceptor (BNA) or

cash recycler kiosks by using this card.

The limit for the cash deposit a day is Rs 10

lakh.

'SoftBank to invest up to $100 billion in Indian

solar'

SoftBank Group has decided to invest $60-100

billion in solar power generation in India.

SoftBank and the government are expected

to reach a formal agreement soon after final

arrangements are made.

The company is expected to make the

investment through a fund backed by Saudi

Arabia's government.

U.S. pips India as top greenfield FDI destination

The U.S. has surpassed India to become the top

destination for greenfield FDI investment in 2017,

says a report.

The number of greenfield FDI projects in

India during the year fell sharply by 21% to

637, said the fDi Report 2018 compiled by

FDI Intelligence.

India had maintained the numero uno slot in

greenfield FDI investment in 2015 and 2016.

Muthoot Fincorp Limited announced its

partnership with NSDC

Muthoot Fincorp Limited has announced its

partnership with National Skill Development

Corporation to train over 10,000 youth over the next

three years and make them job ready.

With the

partnership, Muthoot Fincorp claims to have

become the first major private sector player

to partner with National Skill Development

Corporation (NSDC) to launch the Pradhan

Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY-2)

programme.

Under the scheme, Muthoot Fincorp targets

to train over 10,000 people over the next

three years and make them job ready.

NSDC has approved a target of 3,000

candidates in the first year and 3,500 each in

the subsequent two years.

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NABARD to lend Rs 21,000 crore to MP in

current fiscal

National Bank For Agriculture And Rural

Development (NABARD) said that it would give Rs

21,000 crore to the Madhya Pradesh government in

the current financial year.

In the last three years, NABARD has given

Rs 2,000 crore every year to the Madhya

Pradesh government for works related to

roads, bridges and irrigation among other

things, An official Bansal said.

Government to team up with Google for flood

forecasting

Union Minister for Water

Resources, River

Development and Ganga

Rejuvenation Shri Nitin

Gadkari has expressed

hope that collaboration

with Google will help in effective flood management

in India.

Central Water Commission (CWC), India’s

apex technical organization in the field of

Water Resources, has entered into a

Collaboration Agreement with Google.

CWC would use state-of-the-art advances

made by Google in the in the field of

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

and geo spatial mapping for effective

management of water resources particularly

in the field of flood forecasting and

dissemination of flood related information to

the masses widely using the dissemination

platforms developed by Google.

This initiative is likely to help crisis

management agencies to deal extreme

hydrological events in a better manner.

BoB partners Accenture, IBM to drive growth

through technology

Public sector lender Bank of Baroda has mandated

IT majors IBM and Accenture to create an IT

Centre of Excellence (ITCoE) and Analytics Centre

of Excellence (ACoE) as part of the bank’s strategy

to use technology to drive growth.

The bank said in a statement that the twin

centres are part of a comprehensive digital

roadmap drawn up to enhance the quality.

SBI's B Sriram appointed CMD of IDBI Bank

State Bank of India's Managing Director B Sriram

was appointed as the MD and CEO of IDBI Bank

for a temporary period of three months.

He has been appointed in place of

incumbent Mahesh Kumar Jain who was

recently named Deputy Governor of the

Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Sriram has been working as the MD

(Corporate and Global Banking) in SBI

since July 2014.

Arijit Basu to be State Bank of India's new

Managing Director

The government has appointed Arjit Basu as

managing director of the country's largest lender

State Bank of India.

He will fill the position that fell vacant

following the elevation of Rajnish Kumar as

the chairman.

Now, after this the SBI will have four

managing directors.

As per the SBI Act, the bank can have four

managing directors.

Erdogan wins re-election as Turkish president

Turkey's long-standing leader Recep Tayyip

Erdogan has won a new five-year term after securing

outright victory in the first round of a presidential

poll.

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Mr Erdogan got nearly 53% with almost all

votes counted. His closest rival Muharrem

Ince was on 31%.

Committee for Standardization and

Indigenization in Metro Rail Systems

A committee has been constituted under the

chairmanship of Sh. E. Sreedharan for

Standardization and Indigenization in Metro Rail.

The committee is expected to submit its

report in 3 months.

After 3 months, based on specific task of

standardization, Dr. Sreedharan could co-opt

the relevant expert members for the task for

a specified period of time.

Sonakshi joins UNESCO to promote safe

cyberspace for kids

Sonakshi Sinha joins UNESCO to promote safe and

secure online environment for children and help

empower our future digital citizens.

Stressing on the importance of education on

the safe use of online spaces, the actress said

it will equip boys and girls to be prepared to

report any type of abuse or exploitation.

ICICI Bank appoints Girish Chandra

Chaturvedi as non-exec part-time chairman

Private lender ICICI Bank has appointed Girish

Chandra Chaturvedi as an additional (independent)

director effective July 1, 2018 for a period of 3 years.

The bank, in a notification to the exchanges,

also said that it has named Chaturvedi as

non-executive part-time chairman subject to

the approval of shareholders.

Current chairman MK Sharma will retire on

June 30.

Gehlot elected IKF chief for next four years

Janardan Singh Gehlot was elected the president of

the International Kabaddi Federation for the next

four years.

Among other developments, the England

Kabaddi Association, headed by Ashok Das,

was disaffiliated because of anti-federation

activities.

Virat Kohli to get cricketer of the year award at

BCCI annual awards

The Board of cricket control in India (BCCI) has

announced its annual awards for the previous two

seasons.

The award winners for 2016-17 season:

COL. C.K. NAYUDU LIFETIME

ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Late Mr.

Pankaj Roy (posthumously)

BCCI LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

AWARD FOR WOMEN: Diana Edulji

(DECLINED)

BCCI SPECIAL AWARD: Abbas Ali Baig

and Late Naren Tamhane

POLLY UMRIGAR AWARD: Virat Kohli

BEST INTERNATIONAL CRICKETER

(WOMEN): Harmanpreet Kaur

LALA AMARNATH AWARD FOR THE

BEST ALL-ROUNDER IN THE RANJI

TROPHY: Parvez Rasool of Jammu and

Kashmir

LALA AMARNATH AWARD FOR THE

BEST ALL-ROUNDER IN DOMESTIC

LIMITED-OVERS COMPETITIONS,

2016-17: Krunal Pandya

MADHAVRAO SCINDIA AWARD

(HIGHEST SCORER IN THE RANJI

TROPHY IN 2016-17): Priyank K Panchal

of Gujarat.

MADHAVRAO SCINDIA AWARD

(HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN THE

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RANJI TROPHY IN 2016-17): Shahbaz

Nadeem of Jharkhand

M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY

(HIGHEST SCORER IN (U23) COL. C K

NAYUDU TROPHY IN 2016-17): Ekant C

Sen of Himachal

M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY

(HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN (U23)

COL. C K NAYUDU TROPHY IN 2016-

17): Karan Kaila of Punjab

M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY

(HIGHEST SCORER IN (U19) COOCH

BEHAR TROPHY IN 2016-17): Jonty

Sidhu of Delhi

M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY

(HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN (U19)

COOCH BEHAR TROPHY IN 2016-17):

Rahul Singh of Assam

JAGMOHAN DALMIYA TROPHY

(HIGHEST SCORER IN (U16) VIJAY

MERCHANT TROPHY IN 2016-17): N

Thakur Tilak Varma of Hyderabad

JAGMOHAN DALMIYA TROPHY

(HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN (U16)

VIJAY MERCHANT TROPHY IN 2016-

17): Rohit Dattatraya of Vidarbha C A

JAGMOHAN DALMIYA TROPHY (BEST

WOMAN CRICKETER OF 2016-17):

Punam Raut

AWARD WINNERS OF 2017-18:

COL. C.K. NAYUDU LIFETIME

ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Anshuman

Gaekwad

BCCI LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

AWARD FOR WOMEN: Sudha Shah

BCCI SPECIAL AWARD: Late Mr. Budhi

Kunderan

POLLY UMRIGAR AWARD: Virat Kohli

BEST INTERNATIONAL CRICKETER

(WOMEN): Smriti Mandhana

LALA AMARNATH AWARD FOR THE

BEST ALL-ROUNDER IN THE RANJI

TROPHY, 2017-18: Jalaj Saxena of Kerala

LALA AMARNATH AWARD FOR THE

BEST ALL-ROUNDER IN DOMESTIC

LIMITED-OVERS COMPETITIONS,

2017-18: Diwesh Pathani of SSCB

MADHAVRAO SCINDIA AWARD

(HIGHEST SCORER IN THE RANJI

TROPHY IN 2017-18): Mayank Agarwal of

Karnataka

MADHAVRAO SCINDIA AWARD

(HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN THE

RANJI TROPHY IN 2017-18): Jalaj Saxena

of Kerala

M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY

(HIGHEST SCORER IN (U23) COL. C K

NAYUDU TROPHY IN 2017-18): Aryaman

Birla of Madhya Pradesh

M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY

(HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN (U23)

COL. C K NAYUDU TROPHY IN 2017-

18): Tejas Baroka of Delhi

M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY

(HIGHEST SCORER IN (U19) COOCH

BEHAR TROPHY IN 2017-18): Y V

Rathod of Vidarbha

M.A. CHIDAMBARAM TROPHY

(HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN (U19)

COOCH BEHAR TROPHY IN 2017-18):

Ayush S Jamwal of Himachal Pradesh

JAGMOHAN DALMIYA TROPHY

(HIGHEST SCORER IN (U16) VIJAY

MERCHANT TROPHY IN 2017-18): K

Nithish Kumar Reddy of Andhra

JAGMOHAN DALMIYA TROPHY

(HIGHEST WICKET-TAKER IN (U16)

VIJAY MERCHANT TROPHY IN 2017-

18): Reshu Raj of Bihar

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JAGMOHAN DALMIYA TROPHY (BEST

WOMAN CRICKETER OF 2017-18):

Deepti Sharma.

Anupam Kher to be given Lifetime Achievement

honour at upcoming IIFA awards

Veteran film actor Anupam Kher will be given the

prestigious Lifetime Achievement honour at the

upcoming International Indian Film Academy

awards ceremony in Bangkok.

He will be presented with the honour on June

24 at the 19th edition of IIFA.

The 63-year-old actor, has worked in over

500 films spanning across languages along

with projects both in India and abroad for

over three decades.

Kamila Shamsie's "Home Fire" wins 2018

Women's Prize for Fiction

Renowned British

Pakistani author

Kamila Shamsie's

book "Home Fire"

has won the

Women's Prize for

Fiction, 2018.

The book, was also in the race for last year's

Man Booker Prize, is a contemporary

reimagination of Sophocles' "Antigone".

Sulabh founder bags Nikkei Asia Prize

Noted social reformer and founder of Sulabh

International Bindeshwar Pathak was honoured with

Japan’s prestigious ‘Nikkei Asia Prize for Culture

and Community’.

The award honours people in Asia who have

made significant contributions in one of the

three areas: regional growth; science,

technology and innovation; and culture and

community.

Former PM Manmohan Singh and Infosys

Chairman Narayan Murti are among the few

Indians who have won the prize in the past.

Oriental Bank of Commerce awarded for Atal

Pension Yojana

Oriental Bank of Commerce has been awarded as

the best public sector bank for Atal Pension Yojana

for the year 2017-18.

MoS for Finance Shiv Pratap Shukla

presented the awarded to Mukesh Kumar

Jain, MD and CEO of the bank.

PM’s Award for Outstanding Contribution for

Promotion and Development of Yoga

Shri Vishwas Mandalik, Nasik and The Yoga

Institute, Mumbai are the recipients of the Prime

Minister's Award for outstanding contribution for

promotion and development of Yoga for the year

2018.

The selection was done from among 186

nominations received under different

categories.

On the occasion of the 2nd International

Day of Yoga celebrations at Chandigarh on

21st June, 2016, the Hon’ble Prime Minister

had announced the institution of awards for

the promotion and development of Yoga.

The award for 2017 was won by Ramamani

Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute, Pune.

India Smart Cities Awards

Nine awards in three categories, i.e., Project

Award, Innovative Idea Award and City Award

have been announced under the India Smart Cities

Awards, which was launched on June 25, 2017 by

Hon’ble Housing and Urban Affairs Minister.

The city award is being given to Surat for

showing great momentum in

implementation of projects especially in the

categories of urban environment, transport

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and mobility and sustainable integrated

development.

The Innovative Idea award is being given

to a project/idea particularly remarkable for

its innovative, bottom-up and

transformative approach towards

achievement of sustainable integrated

development. Joint winners in this category

are Bhopal for their Integrated Command

and Control Centre (ICCC) and Ahmedabad

for Safe and Secure Ahmedabad (SASA)

Project.

The Project awards are being given to

most innovative and successful projects in

seven categories that have been completed

by April 1, 2018.

The Projects selected are

PMC Care from Pune under ‘Governance’

category,

Smart Place Making from Pune under ‘Built

Environment’,

Smart Class rooms from NDMC and

Jabalpur, Smart Campus from

Visakhapatnam, Lighthouse from Pune

under ‘Social Aspects’ category,

B Nest Incubation Centre from Bhopal and

Conservation of Rajasthan School of Arts

from Jaipur under ‘Culture and Economy’

category,

Public Bike Sharing from Bhopal, Pune,

Coimbatore and Waste to Energy Plant in

Jabalpur under ‘Urban environment’

category,

Integrated Transit Management System

(TMS) from Ahmedabad and Surat under

‘Transport and Mobility’ category and

Smart Water Management through SCADA

from Ahmedabad under ‘Water and

Sanitation’ category.

Anukreethy Vas From Tamil Nadu Crowned

Femina Miss India 2018

nukreethy Vas, a 19-year-old Tamil Nadu college

student, has been crowned Femina Miss India 2018

in a grand ceremony in Mumbai.

Anukreethy Vas, who was previously

crowned fbb Colours Femina Miss Tamil

Nadu, beat 30 contestants to bag the top

honour.

Meenakshi Chaudhary from Haryana was

the first runner-up while Shreya Rao

Kamavarapu from Andhra Pradesh secured

the second runner-up position.

Ministry of WCD receives the ‘Best Performing

Social Sector Ministry’ SKOCH Award

Lauding the achievements of the Ministry of

Women and Child Development in delivering the

promises made and for its significant achievements

and initiatives from the last 4 years, SKOCH has

conferred the ‘Best performing Social Sector

Ministry’ award on the Ministry of Women and

Child Development.

Minister for Women and Child

Development Smt.Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

has received the award on behalf of the

Ministry in an event held in New Delhi.

Outlining the achievements and initiatives

of the Ministry, Smt.Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

has said that under the leadership of the

Prime Minister, flagship schemes like Beti

Bachao Beti Padhao has achieved huge

success within a very short period of time.

Under this scheme, efforts were made at

National, regional and local level which led

to behaviour change which is reflecting in

the improved sex ration at birth.

Srikanth wins Sports person of the Year award

2018

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Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth has been

adjudged as the Sportsperson of the Year for 2018

by the Sports Illustrated India magazine.

Here is the list of the winners

Team of the Year: Women’s Cricket Team

Coach of the Year: Stephen Constantine

Editor’s Choice for Excellence

(Team): Aizawl FC

Editor’s Choice for Excellence (Male): Jitu

Rai

Young Sportsperson of the Year: Manav

Vikas Thakkar

Community Development in Sport: Sailen

Tudu

Comeback of the Year: Sushil Kumar

Gamechanger of the Year: Shubhankar

Sharma

Outstanding Contribution to Sport: Leander

Paes

Lifetime Achievement Award: Dhanraj

Pillay

Special Award Living Legend: Balbir Singh

Sr.

Sportsperson Of The Year: Kidambi

Srikanth

Vasundhara Raje conferred with ‘Chief Minister

of the Year’ award

Rajasthan Chief

Minister

Vasundhara Raje

was conferred the

‘Chief Minister of

the Year’ award for

her remarkable work in e-governance.

The award was given at the 52nd Skoch

Summit held in New Delhi.

Union Steel Minister Chaudhary Birender

Singh was the chief guest at the function.

Ramdev to get wax statue at London's Madame

Tussauds

Baba Ramdev will soon have a wax replica at the

Madame Tussauds museum of London.

After Swami Vivekanand, Ramdev will be

the second swami to be depicted at the

notable wax museum.

In a press release, the yoga guru shared the

news with the world.

Kalki Koechlin conferred with French honour

Kalki Koechlin was conferred with the French

distinction of Knight of the Order of Arts and

Letters, for her contribution in enhancing Indo-

French ties in cinema.

Kalki, who has French roots, has done films

such as ‘Dev D’, ‘Zindagi Na Milegi

Dobara’, ‘Shanghai’ and ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai

Deewani’ to name a few.

Pallavi Darua crowned as India's first 'Tribal

Queen'

Pallavi Durua, who belongs to Odisha's Koraput

district, was crowned as the first Tribal Queen at the

Adi Rani Kalinga Tribal Queen competition held at

Utkal Mandap.

Panchami Majhi of Titlagarh and

Rashmirekha Hansdah of Mayurbhanj were

declared as the first and second runners-up of

the beauty pageant respectively.

The prime objective of the event was to

promote tribal art and culture.

International Indian Film Academy Awards

(IIFA) 2018

At the International Indian Film Academy Awards

(IIFA) were held in Bangkok.

Here's the list of winners:

Best Film:Tumhari Sulu

Best Actor in a leading role (Female):

Sridevi

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Best Actor in a leading role (Male): Irrfan

Khan

Best Actor In Supporting Role (Female):

Meher Vij

Best Actor In Supporting Role (Male):

Nawazzuddin Siddiqui

Best Director: Saket Chaudhary (Hindi

Medium)

Outstanding Achievement by an Actor in

Indian Cinema: Anupam Kher

Best Story: Amit V Masurkar (Newton)

Best Playback Singer Female: Meghna

Mishra

Best Playback singer Male: Arijit Singh

Best Style Icon of the Year: Kriti Sanon

‘Sagarmala’ receives Gold Award at the 52nd

Skoch Summit 2018

The Ministry of Shipping’s flagship programme for

port-led-prosperity ‘Sagarmala’ received the ‘Gold

Award’ in infrastructure sector in the recently

concluded 52nd Skoch Summit 2018 in New Delhi,

recognizing the programmes’s contribution to

India’s socio-economic transformation and it's role

in propelling fast-track growth and infrastructure

development.

The Sagarmala Programme also received the

‘Order of Merit’ at the Summit.

The Secretary (Shipping) Sh. Gopal Krishna

shared the award with Minister for Shipping,

Road Transport & Highways, Water

Resources, River Develooment and Ganga

Rejuvenation Shri. Nitin Gadkari.

Economist Lawrence Haddad, Dr. David

Nabarro awarded World Food Prize

The World Food Prize will be awarded this year to

two men who have dedicated their careers to

improving the availability of nutritious food for

pregnant women and children in an effort to reduce

the effects of malnutrition in developing countries.

Lawrence Haddad, who is a British

economist and food policy researcher, and

Dr. David Nabarro, who has worked with the

World Health Organization and United

Nations on health and hunger issues, were

named the 2018 prize recipients.

The World Food Prize was created by Nobel

Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug in

1986.

Mithali Raj becomes first Indian to score 2,000

T20I runs

Star batswoman Mithali Raj has became the first

Indian cricketer to amass 2,000 runs in Twenty20

Internationals (T20I).

Mithali achieved the landmark after scoring

a knock of 23 during India's seven-wicket

win over Sri Lanka in the Women's Asia Cup

T20.

She now has 2,015 runs in 75 matches.

Mithali is the seventh woman to reach 2,000

runs.

Halep beats Stephens to win maiden Grand Slam

title

Romanian Simona Halep beat Sloane Stephens of

US 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 win the French Open, which is her

first Grand Slam title.

Halep became the second Romanian woman

to win a Grand Slam singles trophy after

Virginia Ruzici.

This was Halep's fourth major final and has

lost all three in the past, including two at

Roland Garros.

French Open 2018: Rafael Nadal beats Dominic

Thiem to win 11th title

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World number one Rafael Nadal won an 11th French

Open title by beating Austrian Dominic Thiem in

straight sets.

Nadal, 32, won 6-4 6-3 6-2 to earn his 17th

Grand Slam, three adrift of Roger Federer's

all-time men's record.

Nadal is the only second player in history to

win the same Grand Slam on 11 occasions

after Margaret Court, who won 11 Australian

Open titles between 1960 and 1973.

Bangladesh beat India to lift maiden Women's

Asia Cup T20 title

Bangladesh stunned India by three wickets in a last-

ball finish to win their maiden Women's Asia Cup

T20 title at the Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala

Lumpur.

Chasing 113, Bangladesh reached the target

off the final delivery to record a historic title

win over the defending champions India.

Thus, India's run of six straight Asia Cup

titles came to an end with Bangladesh

claiming their first ever.

India beat Kenya to win Intercontinental Cup

Indian captain Sunil Chhetri scored a brace to put

himself on par with Lionel Messi and lead the home

side to Intercontinental Cup title triumph with a 2-0

win over Kenya in the summit clash.

Playing in his 102nd international match,

Chhetri struck in the eighth and 29th minutes

to hand a dominant India the trophy.

Chhetri is now on par with Argentine

superstar Messi with 64 strikes for the

country to be the joint second highest

international goal scorer among active

players.

Vettel wins Canadian GP

Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel dominated the Canadian

Grand Prix to retake the championship lead as Lewis

Hamilton could finish only fifth for Mercedes.

Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas finished second.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen took third after a

valiant but unsuccessful attempt to pass

Bottas.

USA, Canada and Mexico to host 2026 FIFA

World Cup

The World Cup is to return to North America for

a fourth time after FIFA members voted to award the

right to host the 2026 tournament to a joint bid from

the United States, Canada and Mexico.

The North American bid beat competition

from Morocco, which was hoping to become

just the second African country to host

soccer's biggest international tournament.

The "United" bid received 134 of the 203

votes cast at the FIFA Congress in Moscow,

while Morocco polled 65.

Roger Federer wins Mercedes Cup

Roger Federer beat Milos Raonic to win the

Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart, his first event for two and

a half months.

The Swiss had not played since the Miami

Open in March, but the win in Germany

gives him a 98th Tour title.

Federer, 36, beat Canadian Raonic 6-4 7-6

(7-3) in the final.

The 20-time Grand Slam champion had

already secured his return to number one in

the world rankings with victory over Nick

Kyrgios in the semi-final.

England post record ODI total of 481/6

Alex Hales and Jonny Bairstow both hit hundreds as

England broke the record for the highest score in a

men's one-day international at Trent Bridge by

scoring 481 for six against Australia.

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England surpassed their own previous all-

time record men's ODI total of 444 for three,

also set at Trent Bridge, against Pakistan in

2016.

In reply, Australia could only manage to get

239/10.

India’s R Praggnanandhaa Becomes World’s

2nd Youngest Chess Grand Master

In a historic event, Chennai based R

Praggnanandhaa has become India’s youngest and

the second youngest Grandmaster in the world at 12

years, 10 months and 13 days.

Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine had become the

youngest Grandmaster at 12 years, seven

months in 1990.

Praggnanandhaa became India’s youngest

Grandmaster after making it to the final

round at the Gredine Open in Italy to clinch

his third GM.

Veteran journalist Adiraju passes away

Veteran journalist and author Adiraju Venkateswara

Rao passed away after a brief illness.

Popularly known as Adiraju, Mr.

Venkateswara Rao was born in 1938 at

Panditapuram village in Khammam district.

In a career spanning over five-and-a-half

decades, he worked for several Telugu and

English dailies and news agencies including

Andhra Jyothi, Udayam, Deccan Chronicle,

Indian Express, Himachal Times and

Hindustan Samachar at Hyderabad and

Delhi.

Former Union Minister and Congress leader

LP Shahi dead at 98

Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister

L.P. Shahi died at the All India Institute of Medical

Sciences (AIIMS). He was 98.

He became MP from Muzaffarpur in 1984

and later served as the Education and Culture

Minister.

Legendary Brazilian tennis player, Maria Bueno,

dies

Maria Bueno, the Brazilian “queen” of tennis, who

won three Wimbledon and four US championship

singles titles, died in Sao Paulo at age 78, the

hospital where she was being treated said.

Known for her stylishness and her exciting

way of playing, she was the first South

American woman to win the Wimbledon

singles title.

Former South Korean Prime Minister Kim Jong-

pil passes away

Kim Jong-pil, the founder

of South Korea's spy

agency whose political

skills helped him also

serve twice as prime

minister, has died. He was 92.

A retired lieutenant colonel, Kim was a key

member of a 1961 coup that put army Maj.

Gen. Park Chung-hee in power.

Gadkari Releases Nabard Publication on Water

Productivity mapping of major Indian crops

Union Minister for Water Resources, River

Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Shipping,

Road Transport & Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari

released a book ‘Water productivity mapping of

major Indian crops’ published by NABARD in a

function at New Delhi.

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Addressing the gathering Shri Gadkari said

that there is no scarcity of water in the

country but we have to improve upon the

planning and management of water

resources.

Our Ministry and Government is thinking

about innovative ways for better

management of water resources.

Proposal for three projects at Tuticorin,

Paradip and Kandla are under consideration

where sea water can be desalinised and used

for irrigation and other works.

Vice President receives the Book ‘Vedvigyan

Alok’

The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah

Naidu has received the book "Vedvigyan Alok"

(Maharishi Aitareya Mahidas Praneet - Aitareya

Brahmina ki Vaigyanik Vyakhya) authored by

Acharya Agnivarat Naishthik.

The book is divided into four broad

volumes.

The Book Vedvigyan Alok is the scriptural

verse in Vedas' prose.

Vice President launches the book “Human

Rights, Values and Cultural Ethos”

Hon’ble Vice President

of India Shri M.

Venkaiah Naidu has

launched the book

“Human Rights,

Values and Cultural

Ethos” on 26 June.

It is a collection of essays and lectures

written by Dr. R.P. Dhokalia.

The thrust of the book is on the connection

between human rights and the intrinsic and

core human values which in turn manifest in

the cultural ethos of a society.

Q:1 What is the rank of India in the list of 175 countries

in “End of Childhood Index 2018” indexed by global

child rights group, Save the Children?

108th

145th

113th

94th

68th

Q:2 What is the name of the state bird of the Andhra

Pradesh?

Indian Roller

Great Hornbill

Hill Myna

Rama Chiluka

Great Indian Bustard

Q:3 With which the Government of India has signed a

$500 million loan agreement to provide additional

financing for the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

(PMGSY) Rural Roads Project, implemented by

Ministry of Rural Development?

IMF

World Bank

ADB

New Development Bank

Asian Infrastructure Development Bank

Q:4 What is the growth rate of Indian economy in

January-March 2018?

6.7 %

7.7 %

7.2 %

8.2 %

6.2 %

Q:5 Who has become the face of Central Railways` anti-

trespassing campaign?

Amitabh Bachchan

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Aamir Khan

Shahrukh Khan

Kailash Satyarthi

Sachin Tendulkar

Q:6 Who has been honoured with 'Santokba

Humanitarian Award' by President Ram Nath Kovind for

his services aimed at the betterment of society?

Jadav Payeng

Beena Rao

Kailash Satyarthi

Sudhanshu Biswas

Dr. Mapuskar

Q:7 Who has been appointed as Secretary in the

Ministry of Information & Broadcasting?

P K Mishra

Aman Trivedi

Rajeev Kumar

Amit Khare

Vishal Rai

Q:8 Two Days Thematic Seminar on ‘Water and

Sanitation’ is being held in which of the following city?

Jodhpur

Kanpur

Pune

Chennai

Bhopal

Q:9 What is the name of the state flower of the Andhra

Pradesh?

Kachnar

Lotus

Nag Kesar

Brahma Kamal

Jasmine

Q:10 Who is the Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs?

D.V. Sadananda Gowda

Ravi Shankar Prasad

Anant Geete

Hardeep Singh Puri

Inderjit Singh Rao

Q:11 Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy who was toppled

by a corruption scandal, became the first leader in which

country’s modern democracy to lose a vote of no

confidence in Parliament?

Sweden

Spain

Jorden

Israel

Germany

Q:12 On which date Prime Minister Narendra Modi

became the first Indian PM to deliver the keynote speech

at the Shangri-La Dialogue?

1 June 2018

1 may 2018

1 April 2018

11 June 2018

20 may 2018

Q:13 The United States has renamed its oldest and

largest military command - the Pacific Command – to

The Pacific Ocean command

The international command of Pacific

The US international command

Indo Pacific command

Indo US joined Pacific command

Q:14 The Ministry of Culture, Government of India has

introduced which new scheme with a total outlay of Rs.

325.00 Crores for Financial Years 2018-19 and 2019-20?

Seva Bhoj Yojna

Pavitra bhoj yojna

Muft bhoj yojna

Satvik bhoj yojna

Seva khadya yojna

Q:15 Hon’ble Minister for Women and Child

Development, Smt Maneka Sanjay Gandhi laid

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foundation of Sakhi Suraksha Advanced DNA Forensic

Laboratory in which state?

Haryana

Chandigarh

Delhi

Maharashtra

Punjab

Q:16 With which country has India signed its first MRA

(Mutual Recognition Agreement) in Nursing with any of

our FTA partners?

Thailand

Shri Lanka

Afghanistan

Singapore

Malaysia

Q:17 The Government of India has decided to

commemorate 150th Birth Anniversary of which Indian

leader?

Lala Lajpat rai

Subhash Chandra Bose

Mahatma Gandhi

Vivekanand

Bal Gangadhara tilak

Q:18 To which former Singaporean diplomat, Prime

Minister Narendra Modi handed over the Padma Shri

award one of India's highest civilian awards?

Berry decker

Tommy koh

Ong keng Yonge

Simon tensing

Michael Tay

Q:19 Who is the chairperson of the Committee

constituted under to celebrate 150th birth anniversary of

Mahatma Gandhi?

Prime minister of India

Home minister of India

Culture and Art minister

President of India

Human resource and development minister

Q:20 Who is the present prime minister of Singapore?

Thomas Church

Lee Hsien Loong

Halimah Yacob

Lee Kuan Yew

Goh Chok Tong

Q:21 What is the rank of IISc Bangalore in world top

university list?

18th

78th

56th

91th

54th

Q:22 Which of the following Iconic Place has been

adopted by the NTPC Ltd under the Swachh Iconic

Places Projects of India?

Charminar

Red Fort

Tajmahal

Hawamahal

Sun Temple

Q:23 Who is the Prime Minister of Italy?

Matteo Renzi

Silvio Berlusconi

Giuseppe Conte

Sergio Mattarella

Paolo Gentiloni

Q:24 Which of the following bank has been recognized

with the Champion Security Award at the 14th Visa Asia

Pacific Security Summit?

Yes Bank

ICICI Bank

HDFC Bank

SBI

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Axis Bank

Q:25 Who has won an international award in the best

caricature cartoonist category?

Gary Larson

Scott Adams

Sergio Aragonés

Ralph Steadman

Thomas Antony

Q:26 In the run up to the World Environment Day 2018,

National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) in

association with which of the following bank has

organised a cleanliness drive at Kalindi Kunj ghat on

river Yamuna in New Delhi?

HDFC Bank

ICICI Bank

SBI

Axis Bank

Yes Bank

Q:27 Which of the following university has topped the

world top university list?

University of Oxford

University of Cambridge

Stanford University

Harvard University

University of California

Q:28 Where is the headquarters of the Energy and

Resources Institute (TERI)?

Mumbai

New Delhi

Pune

Kanpur

Chennai

Q:29 Where is the capital of Italy?

Berlin

Shanghai

Rome

Geneva

Bern

Q:30 Who will preside over a two-day Conference of

Governors and Lt. Governors on June 4 and 5, 2018, at

Rashtrapati Bhavan?

President of india

Prime Minister of india

Chief Justice of india

Vice president of india

Home Minister of india

Q:31 Which of the following country has renamed an

orchid after Prime Minister Narendra Modi to

commemorate his visit to the National Orchid Garden?

Malaysia

Germany

Singapore

Indonesia

Italy

Q:32 World Bicycle Day is observed on which of the

following date?

4 June

3 July

13 May

23 July

3 June

Q:33 Who will inaugurate the 3rd National Health

Editors’ Conference on Yoga at Morarji Desai National

Institute of Yoga (MDNIY) in New Delhi on June 05,

2018?

Narendra Modi

Shripad Yesso Naik

Rajnath Singh

Sushma Swaraj

Nitin Gadkari

Q:34 Recently which of the following long range

ballistic missile is successfully flight tested from Dr APJ

Abdul Kalam Island (Wheeler Island)?

Agni 6

Agni 5

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Agni 7

Agni 2

Agni 4

Q:35 In an endeavour to facilitate the unemployed youth

of the state, Which of the state government has

announced to give a monthly allowance of Rs 1,000 each

to Unemployed graduate youth?

Rajasthan

Maharashtra

Odisha

Andhra Pradesh

Kerala

Q:36 Who is the President of Egypt?

Ashraf Ghani

Abdul Hamid

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

Joseph Kabila

George Konrote

Q:37 What is the name of Indian navy's operation for

Evacuation of Stranded Indians from Socotra, Yemen?

Operation Nistar

Operation Vistar

Operation All Out

Operation Save

Operation Socota

Q:38 PM Modi unveiled Plaque At Singapore's Clifford

Pier Paying Tribute to which of the following Indian?

Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

Jawahar lal Nehru

Mahatma Gandhi

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Rajendra Prasad

Q:39 Who is the governor of Andhra Pradesh?

E. S. L. Narasimhan

B. D. Mishra

Om Prakash Kohli

Acharya Dev Vrat

Ganga Prasad

Q:40 Who is the Defence Minister of india?

Arun Jaitley

Nirmala Sitharaman

Manohar Parrikar

Suresh Prabhu

Narendra Singh Tomar

Q:41 Which of the following country's passport ranked

'most powerful' in world?

USA

England

Singapore

Japan

Germany

Q:42 World Environment Day is observed on which of

the following date?

3 June

5 July

5 June

18 May

18 July

Q:43 According to the latest data from the Indian Forest

Survey, What percent of the country's total land area is

forest covered in 2015?

20.05

21.34

26.58

18.36

24.35

Q:44 Asia’s 1st ‘Blue Flag’ Beaches will Be Developed

in which of the following country?

India

Japan

Sri Lanka

China

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Singapore

Q:45 Which city will host UN Global Compact Network

India convention 2018?

Pune

Chennai

Mumbai

Surat

Bengaluru

Q:46 Recently who has been appointed as a deputy

governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a period

of three years?

Rajnish Kumar

Mahesh Kumar Jain

Amitabh Kant

Rajeev Kumar

P K Mishra

Q:47 A team of scientists from which of the following

Institute have built a psychopathic AI using image pulled

from Reddit?

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University of Cambridge

Harvard University

Stanford University

University of Oxford

Q:48 According to Murmansk Marine Biology Institute,

which of the following seas is the cleanest seas on the

planet?

Atlantic Ocean

Pacific Ocean

Arctic Ocean

Indian Ocean

Red Sea

Q:49 Which city is the host city of World Environment

Day 2018?

Paris

Tokyo

Berlin

Sydney

New Delhi

Q:50 Which of the following is the most forested state

in the country?

Lakshadweep

Arunachal Pradesh

Assam

Mizoram

Manipur

Q:51 Which of the following countries is among the top

five countries generating e-waste?

Canada

India

Nepal

Singapore

Iceland

Q:52 The Eleventh edition of Geo Intelligence Asia

2018 has been organised in which of the following city?

Pune

New Delhi

Mumbai

Chennai

Kanpur

Q:53 Who has been appointed as new attorney general

of Malaysia?

Tommy Thomas

Mohamad Apandi Ali

Najib Razak

Tony Fernandes

Vincent Tan

Q:54 Who is the new Prime Minister of Jordan?

Abdullah II

Hani Al-Mulki

Abdullah Ensour

Omar Razzaz

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Samir Rifai

Q:55 Who has been elected as president of the 73rd

United Nations General Assembly?

Peter Thomson

Miroslav Lajčák

Maria Fernanda Espinosa

Mogens Lykketoft

Sam Kahamba Kutesa

Q:56 Which of the following bank has been chosen for

‘Investor Relations Awards 2018’ under the category

‘Best Expectation Management (Mid Cap)’ for 2017-18?

Corporation Bank

Allahabad Bank

Bank of Maharashtra

Oriental Bank of Commerce

UCO Bank

Q:57 Which of the following committee will be awarded

the Sansad Ratna Award 2018 for its outstanding

performance?

Committee on Public Undertakings

Business Advisory Committee

Committee of Privileges

Estimate Committee

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance

Q:58 Which of the following Indian state is the largest

contributor in e-waste?

Bihar

Maharashtra

Tamil Nadu

Kerala

Punjab

Q:59 Where is the headquarters of Corporation Bank?

Bangalore

Chennai

Mangalore

Mumbai

Pune

Q:60 Who is the Chairman of the Parliamentary

Standing Committee on Finance?

Arun Kumar Jaitley

Ananth Kumar Khadge

M. Veerappa Moily

Yashvant Sinha

Rajnath Singh

Q:61 Which of the following state has recently banned

on the use of thermocol plates?

Kerala

Arunachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh

Rajasthan

Punjab

Q:62 Recently Cabinet has approved the joint issue of

postage stamp between India and which of the following

country?

Russia

England

Germany

Nepal

Bhutan

Q:63 According to the just released SRS bulletin (2016),

India has shown impressive gains in reduction of

Maternal Mortality with ...... reduction in since 2013.

12%

28%

18%

22%

16%

Q:64 Atal Bhujal Yojana (ABHY), a Rs.6000 crore

Central Sector Scheme of the Ministry of Water

Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

is assisted by which of the following institution?

NABARD

New Development Bank

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World Bank

Asian Development Bank

Asian Infrastructure and Development Bank

Q:65 What is the new Repo Rate?

6.50 %

5.50 %

6.00 %

6.75 %

6.25 %

Q:66 Government of India has constituted a group of

eminent persons to study the Special Economic Zones

(SEZ) Policy of India. Who is the chairman of this group?

C. Rangarajan

Kaushik Basu

Arvind Subramanian

Baba Kalyani

Prannoy Roy

Q:67 India – Indonesia Coordinated Patrol closing

ceremony will be held in which of the following city?

Belawan

Port Blair

Chennai

Bali

Kochi

Q:68 What is the New Marginal standing facility (MSF)

rate?

7.50%

6.25%

6.50%

6.00%

7.25%

Q:69 Who is the leader of the National Institute for

Mountaineering & Allied Sports (NIMAS), Dirang,

Arunachal Pradesh expedition team to Mt Everest?

Dorjee Khandu

Col Sarfraz Singh

Kalden Panjur

Surinder Singh

Balwant Singh Negi

Q:70 Who is the chief minister of himachal Pradesh?

Veerbhadr Singh

Anurag Thakur

Jai Ram Thakur

Sarbananda Sonowal

Jairam Ramesh

Q:71 At which of the following place 22nd edition of

Exercise Malabar is being conducted?

Chennai

Visakhapatnam

Guam

San Diego

Coronado

Q:72 What is the rank of India in global peace index

2018?

124th

144th

147th

154th

137th

Q:73 According to the latest edition of Lloyd's India's

City Risk Index how many Indian cities are ranked

among the top 10 cities globally for GDP risk from

terrorism threats?

5

2

3

1

6

Q:74 With which of the following country the state

government of Andhra Pradesh has signed several pacts

for the development of a start-up area (1,691 acres) in the

new capital, Amaravati, to transform it into a world-class

city?

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Singapore

Germany

Japan

USA

Iceland

Q:75 According to the World Bank forecast what will be

the growth rate of India for this year?

7.7%

7.5%

7.1%

7.3%

6.9%

Q:76 Who has become the first Indian cricketer to amass

2,000 runs in Twenty20 Internationals?

Virat Kohli

Mithali Raj

Rohit Sharma

Suresh Raina

Ajinkya Rahane

Q:77 Which of the following fruit has been declared

state fruit of Tripura?

Orange

Litchi

Guava

Pomegranate

Queen Pineapple

Q:78 According to 2018 global peace index which of the

following country is the most peaceful country in the

world?

New Zealand

Iceland

Austria

Portugal

Denmark

Q:79 Who is the winner of POLLY UMRIGAR

AWARD 2016-2017?

Rohit Sharma

M S Dhoni

R Ashwini

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Virat Kohli

Q:80 Who is the winner of BEST INTERNATIONAL

CRICKETER (WOMEN) award 2017-2018?

Mithali Raj

Harmanpreet Kaur

Jhulan Goswami

Poonam Yadav

Smriti Mandhana

Q:81 World Oceans Day is observed on which of the

following date?

11 June

8 May

18 July

4 June

8 June

Q:82 Which of the following institute has topped the QS

World University Rankings 2019?

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Stanford University

Harvard University

University of Cambridge

University of Oxford

Q:83 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

summit 2018 has been held in which of the following

city?

Shanghai

Beijing

Guangzhou

Qingdao

Wuhan

Q:84 578-metre-long Theng Tunnel is located in which

of the following Indian state?

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Sikkim

Assam

Kerala

Arunachal Pradesh

Mizoram

Q:85 Kalinga Literary Festival 2018 has been held in

which of the following city?

Pune

Bhubaneswar

New Delhi

Chandigarh

Surat

Q:86 Which of the following state's additional charge

has been given to West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath

Tripathi?

Kerala

Tripura

Mizoram

Manipur

Andhra Pradesh

Q:87 Whom will be given the prestigious Lifetime

Achievement honour at the upcoming 19th International

Indian Film Academy awards ceremony in Bangkok?

Anupam Kher

Sridevi

Amitabh Bachchan

Akshay Kumar

Naseeruddin Shah

Q:88 Who is the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh?

Biplab Kumar Deb

K Chandrasekhar Rao

N Chandrababu Naidu

Raghubar Das

Pema Khandu

Q:89 How many Indian universities has been feature in

the top 200 universities of the QS World University

rankings 2019?

14

8

12

3

6

Q:90 Who is the Union Petroleum Minister?

Piyush Goyal

Dharmendra Pradhan

Subhash Ramrao Bhamre

Ananth Kumar

Jitendra Singh

Q:91 Where was The 44th G7 summit held on June 8–9,

2018?

Germany

Holland

New York

Canada

France

Q:92 How many Indian companies featured on the 2018

Forbes ‘Global 2000’ list of the world’s largest public

sector companies?

64

47

58

35

72

Q:93 Who has been appointed president of committee to

consider the establishment of an asset reconstruction

company to help resolve the bad loan burden?

Sunil mehta

Ravi Venkatesan

M.K. Sharma

Vijay Tyagi

S.Sitaraman

Q:94 Who has been appointed as non-executive part

time chairman of the Bandhan bank?

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Imran syed

S.K. sinha

Harun Rasid Khan

Aakash sachdev

Anurag mukharjee

Q:95 Which of the following institute will give

technology for India’s first indigenous Lithium Ion

Battery project?

ISRO

DRDO

CSIR

BARC

None of these

Q:96 What is the name of India's first indigenous

artillery gun?

Trishul

Dhanush

Disha

Karma

None of these

Q:97 Who has been appointed as acting UPSC chief?

Vinay Mittal

Arvind Saxena

Sujata Mehta

R. K. Singh

Sanjiv Chaturvedi

been appointed as the Vigilance Commissioner in the

Central Vigilance Commission, New Delhi?

P K Mishra

Vishal Rai

Sharad Kumar

Ram Kumar

N K Singh

Q:99 Who is the winner of French Open 2018 title?

Dominic Thiem

Roger Federer

Andy Murray

Novak Djokovic

Rafael Nadal

Q:100 Which of the following country has won the

Women's Asia Cup T20 title 2018?

India

Pakistan

SriLanka

Bangladesh

Nepal

Q:101 Which of the following country has beat Kenya

to win Intercontinental football Cup 2018?

India

New Zealand

China

Japan

Russia

Q:102 Which of the following state is the most

vulnerable in India’s first disaster risk index?

West Bengal

Uttar Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

Maharashtra

Gujarat

Q:103 Tennis player Dominic Thiem is belongs to which

of the following country?

Canada

Spain

Russia

Japan

Australia

Q:104 How many total Grand Slams Nadal has won till

June 2018?

15

17

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21

14

12

Q:105 Which country is not elected to be voted for

Security Council starting from Jan. 1, 2019 by the United

Nations General Assembly?

Germany

India

South Africa

The Dominican Republic

Indonesia

Q:106 Which book has won the Women's Prize for

Fiction 2018?

The Mars room

The Art of gathering

War light

Home fire

The Pisces

Q:107 Who has won her first grand slam in French open

beating Sloane Stephens of US?

Simona Halep

Wozniacki

Muguruza

Svitolina

Ostapenko

Q:108 Recently, Which Senior Congress leader and

former Union Minister died at the All India Institute of

Medical Sciences (AIIMS)?

Debarata saikia

Sadanand Singh

T.S. Singh

Shri Chandrkant

L.P. Shahi

Q:109 Who was the first South American woman to win

the Wimbledon singles title?

Althea Gibson

Maria Bueno

Sachia Vickery

Serena Williams

Maria Kirilenkko

Q:110 Who is current Prime minister of Canada?

Jean Chretien

Donald Trump

Paul Martin

Stephen Harper

Justin Trudeau

Q:111 11th World Hindi Conference will be Held in

which of the following country?

Guyana

Mauritius

Nepal

Fiji

Singapore

Q:112 Which is the highest sender of foreign students to

the US?

China

India

Japan

Germany

England

Q:113 1st police museum of India will be established in

which of the following city?

Mumbai

Pune

Chennai

Delhi

Gandhinagar

Q:114 India's first lithium ion cell factory will be

established in which of the following state?

Gujarat

Telangana

Andhra Pradesh

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Maharashtra

Punjab

Q:115 Which of the following App has been launched

by railway ministery to expedite & streamline passenger

grievance redressal?

Rail Help

Rail Sahayta

Rail Karma

Rail Madad

Rail-Tail

Q:116 Parvati is the first Blast Furnace of SAIL that was

dedicated to the nation on 3rd February 1959 by the first

President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad. It is located in

which of the following state?

Andhra Pradesh

Odisha

Gujarat

Maharashtra

Madhya Pradesh

Q:117 Recently India has extended a financial aid of Rs

99 million to which country for the constrution of 2,700

shallow tube well to boost agricultural productivity?

Nepal

Pakistan

Bhutan

Afghanistan

Bangladesh

Q:118 Who won the Canadian Grand Prix 2018?

Lewis Hamilton

Valtteri Bottas

Max Verstappen

Sebastian Vettel

Daniel Ricciardo

Q:119 The first World Hindi Conference was held in

1975 in which of the following city?

Pune

New Delhi

Chennai

Nagpur

Allahabad

Q:120 Sebastian Vettel belongs to which of the

following team?

Mercedes

Red Bull

Ferrari

McLaren

Team Lotus

Q:121 An international-level 'Information and

Communication Technology (ICT) Conference-

2018'will be held in which of the following city on June

17-18?

Paris

Berlin

Jakarta

Mumbai

Kathmandu

Q:122 World Day against Child Labour observed on

which of the following date?

12 June

12 July

2 June

10 May

13 June

Q:123 Exercise SURYA KIRAN-XIII, a joint military

training exercise between India & Nepal culminated at

which of the following place?

Vairangte

Pithoragarh

Belgaum

Ranikhet

Katmandu

Q:124 First military exercise of the BIMSTEC (Bay of

Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and

Economic Cooperation) group will be held in which of

the following country?

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Nepal

Bhutan

India

SriLanka

Indonesia

Q:124 बिमसटक (िगाल की खाडी िह-कषतरीय तकनीकी और आबथिक सहयोग

उपकरम) समह का पहला सनय अभयास बनमनबलबखत म स बकस दश म आयोबित बकया

िाएगा?

नपाल

भटान

इबिया

शरीलका

इिोनबशया

Q:125 Who has been recommended as new Chief Justice

(CJ) of the Nepalese Supreme Court (SC) by the

Constitutional Council?

Gopal Parajuli

Sushila Karki

Kalyan Shrestha

Ram Kumar Prasad Shah

Deeepak Raj Joshee

Q:126 Who has been appointed as chairman of Central

Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs?

S Ramesh

Sahil Singh

Vishal Rai

P L Sharma

M K Sharma

Q:126 क दरीय अपरतयकष कर और सीमा शलक िोिि क अधयकष क रप म बकस बनयकत

बकया गया ह?

एस रमश

साबहल बसह

बिशाल राय

पी एल शमाि

एम क शमाि

Q:127 How many countries are there in BIMSTEC

Group?

8

10

12

5

7

Q:128 How many Iconic Places has been taken up under

Phase III of the flagship project Swachh Iconic Places

(SIP) of the Swachh Bharat Mission?

25

15

10

18

8

Q:129 NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)

has selected how many additional schools for the

establishment of Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs)?

2000

3000

2600

3800

2850

Q:130 Raghavendra Swamy Temple is located in which

of the following state?

West Bengal

Kerala

Manipur

Andhra Pradesh

Gujarat

Q:131 Who is the chairman of the North Eastern

Council?

Prime Minister

Home Minister

President

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Minister of Development of North Eastern Region

Governor of Manipur

Q:132 In which of the following country Raksha Mantri,

Smt Nirmala Sitharaman has inaugurated the first

Representative Office of Navratna Defence PSU Bharat

Electronics Limited (BEL)?

Vietnam

Malaysia

Indonesia

Thailand

Myanmar

Q:133 10th Meeting of Global Alliance to Eliminate

Lymphatic Filariasis is held in which of the following

city?

Pune

Shimla

New Delhi

Mumbai

Chandigarh

Q:133 गलोिल एलायस की 10 िी िठक बलमफबटक फाइलररया को खतम करन क

बलए बनमनबलबखत म स बकस शहर म

Q:134 'Utsonmobile' App is related to which of the

following ministry?

Home Ministry

Fianance Ministry

Foreign Ministry

Railway Ministry

Health Ministry

Q:135 Who is the Union Minister for Social Justice and

Empowerment?

J P Nadda

Thaawarchand Gehlot

Rajnath Singh

Ananthkumar

Narendra Singh Tomar

Q:136 Composite Water Management Index will be

launched by which of the following institution?

Planning Commission

ISRO

DRDO

CSIR

NITI Aayog

Q:137 Which of the following state has inked an MoU

with Canada’s Quebec Province for Greater Economic

Cooperation?

Andhra Pradesh

Maharashtra

Gujarat

Rajasthan

Punjab

Q:138 Who has been appointed MD & CEO of Yes

Bank?

Aditya Puri

Sunil Kakar

Govind Singh

Rana Kapoor

Mukesh Sharma

Q:139 Who has been honoured with Japan’s prestigious

‘Nikkei Asia Prize for Culture and Community’?

Arvind Kejriwal

Kailash Satyarthi

Bindeshwar Pathak

K. Radhakrishnan

Nandan Nilekani

Q:140 Nalanda University is located in which of the

following state?

Gujarat

Bihar

Maharastra

Meghalaya

Kerala

Q:141 World Blood Donor Day (WBDD) is celebrated

on

14 May

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15 June

11 Feb

14 June

10 July

Q:142 Recently, The Union Minister for Coal Shri

Piyush Goyal has inaugurated which corporation’s three

100 MW Solar Power Project in Tamilnadu?

IOCL

COAL India

ONGC

NLCIL

BHEL

Q:143 In how many districts of India ‘Swajal scheme’ is

launched?

110

115

56

79

80

Q:144 How many States has signed on an MoU for

implementing ‘Ayushman Bharat –AB-NHPM’

15

20

25

23

18

Q:145 Recently, Integrated Command and Control

Centre at which place was inaugurated by PM?

Naya Raipur Smart City

Kota smart city

Pune smart city

Noida smart city

Ernakulam smart city

Q:146 Where is the National Tribal Museum proposed

to be set up?

Pune

Chennai

Bangalore

Mumbai

Delhi

Q:147 Which state has been ranked number 1 in ‘Water

Management Index’ (WMI) for reference year (2016-

17)?

Madhya Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh

Kerala

Gujrat

Assam

Q:148 Recently, who assumed charge as Secretary of

Ministry of Coal?

Dr. Inder Jit Singh

Mr. Mukesh Tiwari

S.K. Sinha

Narendra Joshi

Pooja Kanwar

Q:149 What is the theme of ‘Blood Donation Day’ in

2018 ?

“For saving my life, thank you”.

“Secure Blood for saving the life of the Mother”.

'Be there for someone else. Give blood. Share life.’

“Donate Blood: Give the life’s Gift”

“More life due to More Blood”.

Q:150 The solar power plant recently inaugurated in

Tamilnadu, costs how much including operation and

Maintenance?

1250 crore

1300 crore

780 crore

1050 crore

800 crore

Q:151 In which of the following country India will

construct a war memorial to honour the valour and

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sacrifice of the thousands of its soldiers, sailors and

airmen who fought for peace in the World War I?

Japan

USA

Russia

France

Germany

Q:152 A high level global conference on “International

Decade for Action: Water for Sustainable Development”

held in which of the following country?

Tajikistan

Norway

Germany

Israel

Japan

Q:153 World's first international centre for humanitarian

forensics will be established in which of the following

Indian state?

Kerala

Andhra Pradesh

Gujarat

Maharashtra

Goa

Q:154 Who has been appointed as the MD and CEO of

IDBI Bank for a temporary period of three months?

Mahesh Kumar Jain

B Sriram

Alok Kumar Jain

Rajnish Kumar

M K Sharma

Q:155 The third Annual Meeting of the Asian

Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on June 25-26,

2018 will be held in which of the following city?

Pune

Beijing

Mumbai

Moscow

Durban

Q:156 Recently the Swami Vivekananda Cultural

Centre at the Indian Embassy inaugurated in which of the

following city?

Moscow

Kathmandu

New York

Tokyo

Dushanbe

Q:157 Which of the following Ministry has received the

‘Best Performing Social Sector Ministry’ SKOCH

Award?

Ministry of External Affairs

Ministry of Civil Aviation

Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public

Distribution

Ministry of Women and Child Development

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Q:158 Who has been adjudged as the Sportsperson of

the Year for 2018 by the Sports Illustrated India

magazine?

Virat Kohli

Kidambi Srikanth

Sushil Kumar

P V Sindhu

Rohit Sharma

Q:159 Who has been adjudged as the coach of the Year

for 2018 by the Sports Illustrated India magazine?

Stephen Constantine

Pullela Gopichand

Ravi Shastri

Tushar Arothe

Harendra Singh

Q:160 Gamechanger of the Year award winner

Shubhankar Sharma belongs to which of the following

sports?

Basketball

Cricket

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Golf

Shooting

Badminton

Q:161 When is ‘International Widows Day’ celebrated?

23 may

21 June

23 June

20 June

22 April

Q:162 Which city won the cleanest city tag for the

second time in a nationwide cleanliness survey by the

Union housing and urban affairs ministry?

Bhopal

Indore

Gujrat

Delhi

Jaipur

Q:163 Recently, in which state did PM inaugurate urban

development projects?

Uttar Pradesh

Jharkhand

Chhattisgarh

Madhya Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh

Q:164 Recently, which project in Madhya Pradesh has

been dedicated to the nation by the prime minister,

Narendra Modi?

Mehroi medium irrigation project

Modasagar medium irrigation project

Mohanpura project

Nagda Nalla project

Kolar major irrigation project

Q:165 Recently, where was Photo Exhibition on ‘Beti

Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign inaugurated?

Kerala

Chandigarh

Rajasthan

Chhattisgarh

Maharashtra

Q:166 Which chief minister conferred with ‘Chief

Minister of the Year’ award at the ‘52nd Skoch Summit’

held in New Delhi?

Mamta Banerjee

Mahbooba mufti

Vasundhara raje

N. Chandrababu Naidu

Manohar Parikar

Q:167 After Swami Vivekanand, who will be the second

Indian swami to be depicted at the Madame Tussauds

museum of London?

Subrahmanyam swami

Praveen swami

Ramdev swami

L.R. swami

Geetanjali swami

Q:168 Recently which Former South Korean Prime

Minister passed away?

Kim Jong-pil

Goh kun

Han duck soo

Chung Hong won

Han Seung soo

Q:169 Chief minister Vasundhara raje belongs to which

state of India?

Madhya Pradesh

West Bengal

Kerala

Rajasthan

Gujrat

Q:170 What is the capital of south Korea?

Seoul

Pyongyang

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Hanoi

Baghdad

Zuba

Q:171 Recently which country has issued driving

licences to women for the first time in decades just before

a ban on female drivers is lifted?

Saudi Arabia

Iran

Oman

Yemen

Iraq

Q:172 Recently Union Minister of Railways, Coal,

Finance & Corporate Affairs, Shri Piyush Goyal

inaugurated the India Infrastructure Expo 2018 in which

city?

Mumbai

New Delhi

Chennai

Gandhinagar

Shilong

Q:173 The Ministry of Finance is organising the India

Infrastructure Expo 2018 in partnership with which of the

following?

National Highway Authority of India

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce &

Industry

Defence Research and Development Organisation

Airports Authority of India

Energy Efficiency Services Limited

Q:174 Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi has

inaugurated urban public transport bus service 'Sutra

Seva' in which city?

Nagpur

Bhopal

Indore

Surat

New Delhi

Q:175 Which country is the largest borrower from Asian

Infrastructure Investment Bank since the time the Bank

started its operations?

India

China

Japan

Pakistan

Russia

Q:176 Where is the headquarters of the Asian

Infrastructure Investment Bank?

Shanghai

Beijing

New Delhi

Moscow

Karachi

Q:177 Recently the Union Government has appointed

Arjit Basu as Managing Director of which Bank?

SBI

HDFC

ICICI

PNB

OBC

Q:178 Recently which Bollywood celebrity was

conferred with the French distinction of Knight of the

Order of Arts and Letters, for her contribution in

enhancing Indo-French ties in cinema?

Freida Pinto

Irrfan Khan

Nasserudin Shah

Kalki Koechlin

Anupam Kher

Q:179 Recently R Praggnanandhaa has Become World’s

2nd Youngest Chess Grand Master. He hails from which

state?

Tamilnadu

Orissa

Kerala

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Karnataka

Telangana

Q:180 The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is a

multilateral development bank that aims to support the

building of infrastructure in which of the following

region?

Asian region only

Pacific region only

Atlantic region only

Both Pacific and Atlantic region

Both Asian and Pacific region

Q:181 Who tops Forbes' 2017 list of India's 100 richest

tycoons?

Ajij premji

Anil Ambani

Aditya Birla

Mukesh Ambani

Bharti Mittal

Q:182 Who will Chair the 4th meeting of the Governing

Council of ‘NITI Aayog’?

Rajiv Kumar

Narendra Modi

Bibek debroy

V.K. Saraswat

Ramesh Chand

Q:183 Where will ‘European Union Film Festival

(EUFF)’ premiere held on 18th June, 2018?

Pune

Mumbai

New Delhi

Chennai

Bengaluru

Q:184 Who from India, will attend a series of ‘Incredible

India road shows’ in the United States of America, from

18th to 22nd June 2018?

Shri K. J. Alphons

Narendra Modi

Sushma Swaraj

Arun Jaitely

Rajnath singh

Q:185 Who led an ‘all women Naval mountaineering

team’ that summited Mount Deotibba on 10 Jun 2018?

Monika tyagi

Rasmi Mishra

Kokila Sajwan

Saroj chanwla

Meena aiyer

Q:186 Who chaired the Meeting of Consultative

Committee for Donor Ministry?

Kamlesh Mishra

Manoj Singh

Kamla prjapat

Devyani gupta

Jitendra singh

Q:187 Governor of which state discontinues ceremonial

‘Guard of honor’?

Manipur

Jammu and Kashmir

Bihar

Uttar Pradesh

Rajasthan

Q:188 Which Indian-American became CFO of General

Motors?

Dhivya Suryadevara

Kanchan Maharshi

Divya Sankhla

Payal gupta

Pooja Gautam

Q:189 Who will host 2026 FIFA World Cup?

US, Canada and Mexico

Brazil, Mexico

Iran

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France

Australia

Q:190 Where is FIFA headquarters situated?

Geneva

Manila

Moscow

New York

Zurich

Q:191 In which of the following city of Haryana

Foundation Stone of ‘Auxiliary Production Unit &

Artificial Limbs Fitting Centre’ has been laid?

Faridabad

Hisar

Karnal

Panipat

Rohtak

Q:192 Who is the Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog?

Amitabh Kant

Rajnath Singh

Rajiv Mahrshi

Rajiv Kumar

Vivek Debroy

Q:193 In which of the following city of Madhya Pradesh

School Chale Hum Abhiyan 2018 has been launched?

Indore

Jabalpur

Bhopal

Ujjain

Gwalior

Q:194 Recently which of the following bank has

launched ‘Deposit Only Card’ that enables hassle-free

cash deposit transactions at the bank’s 24X7 e-lobby

services?

Karnataka Bank

HDFC Bank

ICICI Bank

SBI

PNB

Q:195 Which of the following institution has recently

decided to invest $60-100 billion in solar power

generation in India?

Amazon

SoftBank

Goldman Sachs

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management

None of these

Q:196 Recently Adiraju Venkateswara Rao passed

away. He was belonged to which of the following field?

Literature

Journalism

Acting

Direction

Science

Q:197 Who ha released a book ‘Water productivity

mapping of major Indian crops’ published by NABARD

in a function at New Delhi?

Narendra Modi

Ramnath Kovind

M Venkaiah Naidu

Nitin Gadkari

Rajnath Singh

Q:198 Who is Peggy Whitson?

An Astronaut

A Football Player

A Scientist

A Journalist

A Politician

Q:199 Who is the Chief Minister of Haryana?

Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Manohar Lal Khattar

Vijay Rupani

Om Prakash Chautala

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Raghubar Das

Q:200 Who is the governor of Andhra Pradesh?

Anil Baijal

Ganga Prasad

E.S Lakshmi Narasimhan

Jagdish Mukhi

V.P. Singh Badnore

Q:201 World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is observed

on which of the following date?

15 June

18 July

8 July

15 March

14 June

Q:202 World Day to Combat Desertification and

Drought is observed on which of the following date?

18 June

8 July

12 May

22 March

17 June

Q:203 According to a report which country has

surpassed India to become the top destination for

greenfield FDI investment in 2017?

Canada

USA

Mexico

England

Germany

Q:204 Which company has announced its partnership

with National Skill Development Corporation to train

over 10,000 youth over the next three years and make

them job ready?

Google

Muthoot Fincorp Limited

HDFC Bank

TCS

Infosys

Q:205 How much amount will NABARD lend to

Madhya Pradesh in current fiscal year?

Rs 18,000 crore

Rs 45,000 crore

Rs 12,000 crore

Rs 10,000 crore

Rs 21,000 crore

Q:206 Who won Mercedes Cup 2018?

Roger Federer

Rafel Nadal

Andy Murray

Novak Djokovic

Milos Raonic

Q:207 Milos Raonic is belonged to which of the

following country?

USA

Canada

Mexico

Germany

Switzerland

Q:208 Where is the headquarters of NABARD?

New Delhi

Chennai

Chandigarh

Mumbai

Ahmedabad

Q:209 Under whose chairmanship the fourth meeting of

the Governing Council of NITI Aayog was held at

Rashtrapati Bhavan?

Ramnath Kovind

Amitabh Kant

Rajiv Kumar

Narendra Modi

Sumitra Mahajan

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Q:210 Which of the following state government will

soon establish ‘District Child Protection Units (DCPU)’

in all 31 districts in an effort to implement child rights?

Gujarat

Andhra Pradesh

Telangana

Assam

Madhya Pradesh

Q:211 The 28th Plenary Meeting of the Nuclear

Suppliers Group (NSG) was held in which of the

following city?

Paris

Jurmala

London

Berlin

New Delhi

Q:212 The 3-day NATIONAL YOGA OLYMPIAD-

2018 has been held in which of the following city?

Mumbai

Ahmedabad

Kanpur

Pune

New Delhi

Q:213 Central Water Commission (CWC), India’s apex

technical organization in the field of Water Resources,

has entered into a Collaboration Agreement with which

of the following organization/ company for flood

forecasting?

ISRO

Google

CSIR

NASA

Amazon

Q:214 Who has Won the Election to Become Colombia's

President?

Juan Manuel Santos

Gustavo Petro

Nicolás Maduro

Álvaro Uribe

Ivan Duque

Q:215 Who has been appointed as Chief Operating

Officer of ICICI Bank?

Chanda Kochhar

Shyam Srinivasan

Sandeep Bakhshi

Rana Kapoor

Rakesh Sethi

Q:216 Which of the following bank has been awarded

as the best public sector bank for Atal Pension Yojana for

the year 2017-18?

State Bank of India

Punjab National Bank

Bank of Baroda

Allahabad Bank

Oriental Bank of Commerce

Q:217 Where is the capital of Colombia?

Bogotá

Manama

Minsk

Gaborone

Ottawa

Q:218 “Little Harbour”, opening ceremony movie at

European Union Film Festival is belongs to which of the

following country?

Canada

Slovakia

USA

Japan

Russia

Q:219 What was the Maternal Mortality Ratio of India

during 2014-2016?

147

167

130

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185

195

Q:220 Who is the Minister of State for Health and

Family Welfare?

Ashwini Kumar Choubey

Jayant Sinha

Shripad Yesso Naik

Manoj Sinha

Ramdas Athawale

Q:221 Recently India-Greece business forum meeting

held in which of the following city?

New Delhi

Pune

Mumbai

Athens

Paris

Q:222 7th OPEC international Seminar is being held in

which of the following country?

Austria

Iran

Saudi Arabia

Ecuador

United Arab Emirates

Q:223 Who is the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir?

Mehbooba Mufti

N N Vohra

B. D. Mishra

Acharya Dev Vrat

Padmanabha Acharya

Q:224 In which of the following country a Conference

on “International Decade for Action: Water for

Sustainable Development, 2018-2028” is being held?

Bahrain

Algeria

Djibouti

Jordan

Tajikistan

Q:225 Mehbooba Mufti belongs to which of the

following political party?

Bharatiya Janata Party

Indian National Congress

Nationalist Congress Party

Peoples Democratic Party

None of these

Q:226 The Insurance Regulatory and Development

Authority of India (IRDAI) has formed a 10 member

panel to review norms related to insurance marketing

firm (IMF) with an aim to increase insurance penetration

in the country. Who is the head of this panel?

Subhash Chandra Khuntia

Suresh Mathur

T S Vijayan

Rajeev Sharma

Vishal Garg

Q:227 Government has set up a Chief Ministers

Subgroup to Coordinate Policy Approaches for

Agriculture and MGNREGS. Who is the convener of this

group?

Devendra Fadnavis

Lal Thanhawla

Pawan Kumar Chamling

Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Vijay Rupani

Q:228 Which of the following team has broken the

record for the highest score in a men's one-day

international cricket match?

Australia

India

England

South Africa

New Zealand

Q:229 Where is the headquarters of Organization of the

Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)?

Vienna

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Paris

Bern

Tokyo

Dubai

Q:230 Who launched ‘National Digital Library of India’

on the occasion of National Reading Day in New Delhi?

Rajnath Singh

Ramnath Kovind

Narendra Modi

Sushma Swaraj

Prakash Javadekar

Q:231 World Music Day is observed on which of the

following date?

11 July

8 May

18 July

21 June

12 June

Q:232 What is the theme for Yoga Day 2018?

Yoga for Fitness

Yoga for Peace

Yoga for Life

Yoga for Prosperity

Yoga for Nature

Q:233 19th all India Conference of Directors of Finger

Prints Bureaux will be held in which of the following

city?

Mumbai

Pune

Hyderabad

Kanpur

Shimla

Q:234 Which of the following city has been selected as

the 100th Smart City?

Shillong

Kota

Ajmer

Kanpur

Indore

Q:235 Which of the following village has been adopted

by the Khadi and Village Industries Commission in Delhi

for its Swachhata Abhiyaan?

Rampura

Ramsar

Jagatpur

Siwar

Jeetawala

Q:236 Who among the following is the recipients of the

Prime Minister's Award for outstanding contribution for

promotion and development of Yoga for the year 2018?

Swami Kuvalayananda

Niranjanananda Saraswati

Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Vishwas Mandalik

Jaggi Vasudev

Q:237 The City Award under the India Smart Cities

Awards has been given to which of the following city?

Pune

Surat

Ajmer

Ahmedabad

Patna

Q:238 Who is the author of “Vedvigyan Alok” book?

Swami Nikhilananda

S. Radhakrishnan

Acharya Agnivarat Naishthik

Swami Paramananda

Raj Bahadur Pandey

Q:239 Which of the following institute has won the

Prime Minister's Award for outstanding contribution for

promotion and development of Yoga for the year 2017?

The Yoga Institute, Mumbai

Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute, Pune

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Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, Chennai

Ashtanga Institute, Mysore

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center Kerala

Q:240 Who is the Minister of State (IC) for Power and

New & Renewable Energy?

Hansraj Gangaram Ahir

Arvind Subramanian

Piyush Goyal

R.K Singh

Suresh Prabhu

Q:241 World Refugee Day is observed on which of the

following date?

20 June

18 July

20 May

22 June

12 July

Q:242 Which of the following country has recently

announced that it was withdrawing from the UN Human

Rights Council?

Iran

China

India

USA

Russia

Q:243 Recently the 7th India Minerals and Metals forum

was inaugurated in which city?

New Delhi

Hyderabad

Mumbai

Raipur

Kollam

Q:244 Recently which state Government has Launched

Mobile App- ‘i-Hariyali’ to increase the state’s green

cover?

Uttar Pradesh

Punjab

Rajasthan

Telangana

Kerala

Q:245 On the occasion of 4th International Day of Yoga,

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a nature

center in which city via video link?

New York

Montreal

Paris

Berlin

Moscow

Q:246 Sunil Mittal will function as the Honorary

Chairman of which Institution from July 1?

International Chamber of Commerce

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce &

Industry

Industrial Finance Corporation of India

Unit Trust of India

Small Industries Development Bank of India

Q:247 B V R Subramanyam has been appointed as Chief

Secretary of which state?

Jharkhand

Jammu and Kashmir

Himachal Pradesh

Uttarakhand

Punjab

Q:248 Recently Anukreethy Vas has Crowned Femina

Miss India 2018. She hails from which stae?

Telangana

Kerala

Tamilnadu

Andhra Pradesh

Goa

Q:249 What is the theme of World Refugee Day, 2018?

Now more than ever, we need to stand

#WithRefugees

Refugees are people like you and me

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Refugees and their problems

Refugees to be taken care of

None of these

Q:250 First International Day of Yoga was celebrated in

which year?

2015

2016

2014

2017

2013

Q:251 UN MSME Day is observed on which of the

following date?

25 June

10 July

17 May

10 April

27 June

Q:252 Who is the chairman of the Group of Eminent

Personalities to study the Special Economic Zones (SEZ)

Policy of India?

Baba Kalyani

Amitabh Kant

Suresh Prabhu

Nitin Gadkari

Hasmukh Adhia

Q:253 Ratnagiri Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd is

located in which of the following state?

Kerala

Gujarat

Tamil Nadu

Maharashtra

Rajasthan

Q:254 Who won the re-election of Turkish president?

Muharrem Ince

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Juan Manuel Santos

Omar al-Bashir

Erna Solberg

Q:255 How many Van Dhan Kendras will be set up by

the Government across the country under the Van Dhan

Scheme of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs?

5000

2500

3000

8500

7500

Q:256 Who co-chaired the 15th Session of the India-

Australia Joint Ministerial Commission with the

Australian Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment,

Steven Ciobo, in Canberra?

Nitin Gadkari

Ananth Kumar

Ravi Shankar Prasad

Anant Geete

Suresh Prabhu

Q:257 Recently which of the following country has

agreed to work together with India on a project to develop

a naval base at the Assumption Island keeping each

other's concerns in mind?

Norway

Sudan

Seychelles

Japan

Germany

Q:258 How many Houses has Sanctioned under Pradhan

Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) in Three Years across the

country?

51 Lakh

78 Lakh

28 Lakh

36 Lakh

64 Lakh

Q:259 Which of the following company has signed an

MoU with Saudi Aramco to jointly develop and build an

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integrated refinery and petrochemicals complex at

Ratnagiri?

BASF

Dow chemical company

ADNOC

Panama Petrochem Ltd.

None of these

Q:260 Where is the capital of Turkey?

Jakarta

Rangoon

Ankara

Antalya

Istanbul

Q:261 Which is the world's most dangerous country for

women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being

forced into slave labour?

Syria

Afghanistan

India

Pakistan

Iraq

Q:262 Which of the following country will host a two-

day “World Tolerance Summit” in November?

Iran

Japan

India

Singapore

The United Arab of Emirates

Q:263 Which institute has announced an equity

investment of $100 million in India`s National

Investment & Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) to help various

development projects in the country?

World Bank

IMF

Asian Development Bank

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

None of these

Q:264 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)'s

Fourth Annual Meeting will be held in which of the

following country in July 2019?

Luxembourg

Germany

Canada

Singapore

Britain

Q:265 Who is the chairman of the committee constituted

for Standardization and Indigenization in Metro Rail?

Ashwani Bhagat

E. Sreedharan

Dr. MANGU SINGH

Durga Shanker Mishra

Sahib Singh Verma

Q:266 Who has been crowned as India's first 'Tribal

Queen'?

Panchami Majhi

Rashmirekha Hansdah

Meghna Mishra

Pallavi Darua

Kriti Mishra

Q:267 The book “Human Rights, Values and Cultural

Ethos” is a collection of essays and lectures written by

.........

Meher Vij

Salman Rushdie

Khushwant Singh

Dr. R.P. Dhokalia

Amrita Pritam

Q:268 Who has been awarded Best Actor in a leading

role in International Indian Film Academy Awards

(IIFA) 2018?

Nawazzuddin Siddiqui

Rajkumar Rao

Irfan Khan

Ranbir Kapoor

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Salman Khan

Q:269 Where is the headquarters of the Asian

Infrastructure Investment Bank?

Moscow

Beijing

Shanghai

Bern

Manila

Q:270 International Indian Film Academy Awards

(IIFA) 2018 held in which of the following city?

Manila

Pattaya

Bangkok

Dubai

London

Q:271 According to a Report what is the rank of India in

Cyber Attacks Globally?

10th

4th

6th

8th

12th

Q:272 Udyam Sangam-2018 is being organised by

which of the following ministry?

Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

Ministry of External Affairs

Ministry of Women and Child Development

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Ministry of Culture

Q:273 Who inaugurated the NIMHANS Digital

Academy?

Dr. Mahesh Sharma

Prakash Javadekar

Radha Mohan Singh

J P Nadda

Ravi Shankar Prasad

Q:274 Which ministry will organize a day-long Seminar

on Technology Partnerships for Steering POSHAN

Abhiyaan called ‘TECH-THON’?

Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

Ministry of External Affairs

Ministry of Women and Child Development

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Ministry of Culture

Q:275 4th National Review & Consultation on Swachh

Iconic Places conference held in which of the following

city?

New Delhi

Mumbai

Pune

Chennai

Hyderabad

Q:276 Which programme has received Gold Award at

the 52nd Skoch Summit 2018?

Sagarmala

Digital India Programme

Bharat Nirman

Beti Bachao Beti Padhao

Make in India

Q:277 Who among the following is the winner of world

food prize 2018?

Dr. David Nabarro

Dr. Akinwumi Adesina

Dr. Jan Low

Dr. Maria Andrade

Dr Sanjaya Rajaram

Q:278 Who established the World Food Prize in 1986?

Alfred Nobel

M. S. Swaminathan

Norman Borlaug

Verghese Kurien

Dr Modadugu Vijay Gupta

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Q:279 Sagarmala project is related to which of the

following ministry?

Ministry of Rural Development

Ministry of Road Transport and Highways

Ministry of Shipping

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate

Change

Ministry of Railways

Q:280 Who is the Union Minister of Health and Family

Welfare?

Thaawar Chand Gehlot

Narendra Singh Tomar

Ravi Shankar Prasad

Ananthkumar

J P Nadda

Q:281 Recently which of the following country has been

placed on the Grey list of countries that financially aid

terrorism?

Afghanistan

Syria

Pakistan

Iran

North Korea

Q:282 “Statistics Day” is observed on which of the

following date?

29th June

13th July

9th July

24th June

2th July

Q:283 The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has

restricted the manufacture of Oxytocin formulations for

domestic use to public sector from …….

1st July 2018

1st August 2018

1st September 2018

1st October 2018

1st March 2019

Q:284 In which of the following city the fourth National

Consultation Meeting of Ministers of States & UTs, in-

charge of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs

held?

Mumbai

Chennai

Pune

New Delhi

Bhopal

Q:285 How much capital infusion has been approved by

the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs for

strengthening of Export Credit Guarantee Corporation?

Rs.1000 crore Rs.1500 crore

Rs.2000 crore Rs.2500 crore

Rs.2800 crore

Q:286 Recently who joined UNESCO to promote safe

and secure online environment for children and help

empower our future digital citizens?

Sachin Tendulkar

MS Dhoni

Priyanka Chopra

Sonakshi Sinha

Aishwarya Rai

Q:287 The Centre is set to replace the apex higher

education regulator body University Grants Commission

(UGC) with which of the following commission?

Higher Education Commission of India

University Commission of India

Higher University Commission of India

Technical Education Commission of India

None of these

Q:288 Who is the Union Minister of Consumer Affairs,

and Food & Public Distribution?

Nitin Jairam Gadkari

Ram Vilas Paswan

D.V. Sadananda Gowda

Jual Oram

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Radha Mohan Singh

Q:289 Where is the headquarters of UNESCO?

Berlin Geneva

Paris Bern

New York

Q:290 Which of the following ministry has recently

approved the institution of "Special Operation Medal"?

Ministry of External Affairs

Ministry of Civil Aviation

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

Ministry of Home Affairs

Ministry of Human Resource Development

Q:291 Which of the following country has named 'worst

human trafficking country'?

Afghanistan Syria

North Korea Pakistan

Sudan

Q:292 Which of the following mobile application has

been launched which helps to track and trace missing and

abandoned children in India?

ReUnite ReTrack

ReTrace ReHub

ReHome

Q:293 Israel will gift 100 units of digital farming on an

experimental basis to which of the following Indian

state?

Kerala Tamil Nadu

Andhra Pradesh Gujarat

Maharashtra

Q:294 The Insurance Regulatory Development

Authority of India (IRDAI) has allowed Life Insurance

Corporation of India (LIC) to invest up to 51 percent in

which of the following bank?

IDFC Bank HDFC Bank

Yes Bank UCO Bank

IDBI Bank

Q:295 Who has been appointed as an additional

(independent) director of ICICI Bank?

Usha Ananthasubramanian

Girish Chandra Chaturvedi

Rajeev Rishi

Jatinder Bir Singh

Pawan Kumar Bajaj

Q:296 Who has been elected the president of the

International Kabaddi Federation?

Mukesh Kumar Jain

Janardan Singh Gehlot

Ashwani Kumar

Jai Kumar Garg

Ravi Krishan Takkar

Q:297 Which district has ranked first in First Delta

Ranking of Aspirational Districts released by NITI

Aayog?

West Sikkim Raipur

Dahod Surat

Indore

Q:298 Which airport's terminal 1 becomes first to offer

automated check-in facility to passengers?

Delhi Mumbai

Chennai Pune

Hyderabad

Q:299 Who is the Union Minister of Commerce &

Industry and Civil Aviation?

Suresh Prabhu

D.V. Sadananda Gowda

Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

Chaudhary Birender Singh

Jagat Prakash Nadda

Q:300 Who is the prime minister of Israel?

Gaston Browne

Abdul Hamid

Benjamin Netanyahu

Tshering Tobgay

Leo Varadkar

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