Current Affairs of June-2014

1. KKR wins IPL 7 trophy
2. Government eliminates all GoMs and EGoMs for better accountability and empowerment
3. UN posthumously honors 8 Indian soldiers among 106 UN peacekeepers
4. SBI’s Arundhati Bhattacharya amongst Forbes’ most powerful women
5. Huge coronal mass ejection on Sun observed through IRIS
6. IAF mountaineering squad explores unclimbed peaks in Arunachal Pradesh
7. Salvador Sanchez is the new president of El Salvador
8. Environment Ministry launches online system for green nod
9. Anand Mahindra first Indian to be honoured with Harvard Medal
10. Telangana now officially 29th state of India
11. CSO releases provisional estimates of national income for the financial year 2013-14
12. Sushil Kumar, Yogeshwar Dutt clinch medals in Italy
13. ‘Velocirobot’ : Robotic dinosaur which can faster than Usain Bolt
14. India ranked 2nd in global textile export: UN Comtrade
15. Uttar Pradesh Govt. to launch helpline for women in every district
16. RGCA’s Lab is India’s First NABL Accredited Aquaculture Pathology Lab
17. Union Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde dies
18. Obama administration demonstrates historic rules to cut coal pollution by 30%
19. Lalima: Female buffalo calf cloned by National Dairy Research Institute
20. West Bengal, Maharashtra sign agreement to help victims of trafficking
21. Pakistan Budget 2014 allocates Rs.700 billion for Defense
22. India’s HSBC services PMI expands for first time in nearly a year
23. Chester Nez, last of original Navajo code talkers of WW II, passed away
24. J&K Govt. increased retirement age of state employees to 60
25. ‘A Girl is a Half-formed Thing’ by Eimear McBride wins Baileys women’s prize for fiction
26. India Elected to the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
27. Former Airtel CEO Sanjay Kapoor becomes Micromax chairman
28. EU revokes drug export ban from Ranbaxy’s Toansa plant
29. Researchers develop roof tiles to combat air pollution
30. Afghan-US ties strained over the issue of Bergdahl-U.S. PoW Taliban swap
31. June 5 observed as World Environment Day 2014
32. Private schools come under the purview of RTI Act: Chief Information Commission
33. India’s Lieutenant General (retired) Abhijit Guha appointed member of UN panel on peacekeeping
34. Quebec becomes first province to legalize Right-to-Die
35. Vice Admiral Anil Chopra takes charge as the Western Naval Commander
36. Bashar al-Assad retains Presidency of Syria
37. Sumitra Mahajan: Speaker of 16th Lok Sabha
38. RBI hikes CRR for non-scheduled urban co-operative banks
39. Delhi LG sets up Expenditure Finance Committee
40. RBI’s second Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2014-15
41. Chandrababu Naidu takes oath as Andhra Pradesh CM
42. ICICI Bank leaves behind HDFC Bank as biggest private bank employer
43. Tennis French Open: Maria Sharapova wins women’s title
44. Tennis French Open: Rafael Nadal clinches men’s title
45. Never dispense with your debit/credit card PIN: RBI
46. Achook and Agrim commissioned into Indian Coastguard
47. RBI increases CRR to 4% for non-scheduled UCBs
48. Kudankulam is India’s first nuclear plant to produce 1,000 MW of power
49. Uttarakhand Cabinet gives nod to Pension Scheme for Farmers
50. P.K Mishra is PM’s Additional Principal Secretary
51. Petro Poroshenko takes oath as Ukraine President
52. Mudgal Panel: Sourav Ganguly joins Mudgal Panel probing IPL spot-fixing & betting scandal
53. Sikkim government reserves 12% jobs for BPL
54. Trucks carrying PDS foodgrains to be tracked with GPS
55. KYC norms for opening of bank accounts simplified by RBI
56. Reuven (Ruby) Rivlin elected Israel’s new President
57. Ranjit Kumar appointed as Solicitor General
58. PM launches book ‘Getting India Back on Track: An Action Agenda For Reform’
59. Madhusudhana Chary elected first Speaker of Telangana Assembly
60. Bharat Ratna JRD Tata award conferred upon Somasundaram
61. India test-fires BrahMos from indigenous warship INS Kolkata successfully
62. NABARD slashes refinance rates to promote investment in agriculture
63. Environment clearance to Navy’s Project Seabird (Karwar naval base)
64. June 12 observed as World Day Against Child Labor 2014
65. PM Modi releases FIFA World Cup postage stamps
66. Infosys appoints Vishal Sikka as new CEO
67. Madhya Pradesh to restore Mahatma’s Tolstoy Farm
68. Dilip Kumar’s autobiography ‘The Substance and the Shadow’ released
69. Cyclone Nanauk moves towards Oman, monsoon to reach Maharashtra, Gujarat in few days
70. Russia gives in-principle nod on India’s nuclear liability law
71. India, China decide to add a new fillip to economic ties
72. Delhi government gives nod to Rapid Rail corridors to Alwar, Meerut, Panipat
73. Internet not responsible for newspaper decline: Study
74. Gujarat gets NCA approval to raise height of Narmada Dam
75. UNGA elects Ugandan Foreign Minister as President of 69th session
76. RBI mulling over Payment bank as recommended by Nachiket Mor Panel
77. India becomes permanent member of Washington Accord
78. “Garuda-V”: Indo-French Air drill concludes at AFS Jodhpur
79. The Netherlands lift women’s hockey World Cup
80. Japan kills 30 minke whales despite ICJ order
81. Scientists locate massive underground water reservoir, ‘three times’ the size of Earth’s oceans
82. Maharashtra government approves proposal to bifurcate Thane district
83. Rasik Ravindra elected as member of UN body on ocean issues
84. Vice-President presented with Book titled “Warrior State” authored by T V Paul
85. Lt Gen Amit Sharma appointed Commander-in-Chief of SFC
86. BHEL commissions Rampur Hydro Electric Project in Himachal Pradesh
87. IUCN releases Red List of Threatened Species
88. Australia pips Netherlands to retain men’s hockey World Cup 2014
89. Queen Elizabeth confers Knighthood upon Indian-origin physicist Prof. Tejinder Virdee
90. “Gauravi”- India’s first One-Stop Crisis Centre opens in Bhopal
91. Russia turns off gas supply to Ukraine after talks fail
92. DLF is India’s first realty company to get ISO 9001: 2008 certification
93. Maharashtra legislation to ban dance bars across the state
94. NTPC seeks revocation of ban on Lata Tapovan Hydro Power Project
95. Juan Manuel Santos gets another term as President of Colombia
96. Jordanian envoy first Muslim to be elected UN human rights chief
97. June 17: World Day to Combat Desertification observed with the theme “Land Belongs to the Future – Let’s Climate Proof It”
98. “B2B” PM’s formula for stronger relationship with Bhutan
99. Government appoints Shaktikanta Das as Revenue Secretary
100. TCS en route to become world’s second biggest tech employer
101. Do away with the post of Revenue Secretary, merge CBDT, CBEC: Shome Panel on TARC
102. RBI uses OMOs to absorb excess rupee from the system
103. India ranked 143 on Global Peace Index 2014
104. Nita Ambani became First woman director on Reliance board
105. Ebola virus kills over 300 in West Africa: WHO
106. Delhi is India’s first kerosene-free city
107. Germany to organize “myCopter Project Day” in November 2014
108. Government sets up Panel to look into the cause of gas leakage in Bhilai Steel Plant
109. Defending champions Spain eliminated from FIFA World Cup race
110. BCIC recommendations on tax reforms accepted by Shome Committee
111. World Food Prize 2014 to India-born scientist Sanjaya Rajaram
112. Rajeev Topno appointed Private Secretary to PM Narendra Modi
113. GMR wins Maldives airport legal battle, demands compensation
114. Railway Ministry raised passenger fare by 14.2%, freights by 6.5%
115. Immunotherapists from US and Japan win the inaugural ‘Tang Prize’
116. Jnanpith Award 2013 to Hindi poet Kedarnath Singh
117. Government sets up Panel to design National Rubber Policy
118. Founder of Himalayan mineral water Dadi Balsara passed away
119. In a single gene, a path to fight heart attacks
120. June 20: World Refugee Day observed across the globe
121. Higgs Boson existence further confirmed
122. Jalpaiguri bifurcation takes the number of districts in Bengal to 20
123. Magnus Carlsen becomes first man to hold the Chess Triple Crown; but he is not the first player
124. Pen Pinter prize to novelist Salman Rushdie
125. Mayaram Committee’s definitions of FDI, FII accepted by the Government of India
126. UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav presents tax free budget
127. “Project Mausam”: Culture Ministry initiative to explore multi-faceted Indian Ocean
128. Canada’s York University confers honorary doctorate upon Ratan Tata
129. Iraq crisis could impact oil prices in India
130. Andhra Pradesh govt raises retirement age to 60, Telangana staff queue up for transfer to AP
131. June 23: United Nations Public Service Day
132. June 23: World observes International Widows day
133. Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area added in World Heritage list
134. Gujarat’s Rani-Ki-Vav gets World Heritage site status
135. Pyu Ancient Cities: Myanmar’s first site on World Heritage List
136. India enhances its nuclear transparency, ratifies Additional Protocol with IAEA
137. Provide information to SIT on black money: RBI directs banks and FIs
138. Understanding the collusion between El Nino and Monsoon
139. India denies patent to US pharmaceutical firm Abraxis BioSciences’ anti-cancer drug “Abraxane”
140. Gujarat govt provides 33% quota for women in police force
141. Obninsk plant: World’s 1st nuclear power plant turns sixty
142. Steel to be dearer by up to Rs 1,000 a tonne
143. Google to globalize “Project Loon” to provide internet to even the rural and remote areas of the world
144. PSUs have only 3 years to make 25% of their shares public: SEBI
145. 125th anniversary of Salar Jung museum
146. Air India Ltd becomes member of Star Alliance
147. Amma pharmacies to be launched across Tamil Nadu
148. India extends ban on import of milk items from China till June 2015
149. World Bank recommends reforms in power distribution
150. RBI permits NBFCs to work as Business Correspondents of banks
151. June 25 obeserved as World Vitiligo Day
152. UP Govt increased retirement age of State Election Commissioner to 68 years
153. June 25: World observes International Seafarer’s Day
154. Navratna Status granted to EIL and NBCC
155. Indian-origin judge V K Rajah is Attorney-General of Singapore
156. N. Srinivasan appointed as the first Chairman of ICC
157. Maharashtra govt approves 16% quota for Marathas, 5% for Muslims in jobs and education
158. France confers ‘Officer of the Legion of Honor’ upon actor Shahrukh Khan
159. RIMPAC 2014: World’s largest international maritime drill kicks off
160. June 26: International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking observed
161. Biochip developed to measure blood sugar via saliva
162. Project Android One: Google’s bid to build ultra cheap Smartphones
163. Union Government de-licensed manufacturing of defence items
164. Chung Hung Won retained as PM of S Korea
165. Jean-Claude Juncker will be next president of European Commission
166. Over 1 million children in India are out of school: UN report
167. Union Government modernizes NIC-1987 to NIC-2008
168. Okavango Delta: UNESCO’s 1,000th World Heritage Site
169. No visa-free entry for Bangladeshis: Home ministry
170. July 4 is the deadline for implementing Food Security Act
171. New Facelock Technology obviates the need to remember complex passwords
172. Saina Nehwal clinches Australian Open Super Series title
173. India successfully launched PSLV C-23 with 5 satellites
174. CCEA nod to bring onion and potato under Essential Commodities Act, 1955