Yak June 2017 Electrical Current Affairs Highlights (One-Liners)

Friends, hither are the Major Current Affairs Highlights of June 2017. These one-liners embrace all of import International, National, MOUs, Indexes, Banking, Technology, Books & Authors, Committees as well as Sports affairs of June calendar month (from 1st to 30th June  2017). We will  provide the pdf version soon, but nosotros advise you lot to write these on your ain so that you lot wont forget them again. All the Best as well as Happy Reading :)

June 2017 Current Affairs Highlights (One-Liners)

• 3rd International Yoga Day was observed on 21st June 2017.
• 5th June 2017 was observed equally the World Environment Day amongst the Theme "Connecting people to nature" [Host Country : Canada]
• 8th June 2017 was observed equally World Oceans Day amongst the Theme "Our Oceans, Our Future".
• 14th June 2017 was observed equally World Blood Donor Day‬ amongst the Theme “Give Blood. Give Now. Give Often”
  
• 15th June 2017 was observed equally Association of Southeast Asian Nations Dengue Day amongst the Theme “United Fight Against Dengue”
• 15th June 2017 was observed equally World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) amongst the Theme “Understand as well as End Financial Abuse of Older People: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Human Rights Issue”
• 17th June 2017 was observed equally the World Day to Combat Desertification as well as Drought amongst the Theme “Our land. Our home. Our Future”
• 17th SCO’s (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) was lately held inward Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan from eighth as well as ninth June 2017. Secretary General of SCO - Rashid Olimov
• 20th June 2017 was observed equally the World Refugee Day amongst the Theme #WithRefugees
• 23rd June 2017 was observed equally the International Widows Day amongst the Theme "Empowering Women for Greater Achievements"
• 23rd June 2017 was observed equally the World Public Service Day amongst the Theme ‘The Future is Now’
• 25th June 2017 was observed equally the Day of the Seafarer amongst the Theme "Seafarers Matter".
• 29th province of Bharat Telangana has celebrated the 3rd anniversary of its foundation on 2d June 2017.
• A Chinese malware named 'Fireball' has hitting 25 crore computers worldwide, infecting them amongst malicious code designed to modify the default search engine.
• A calendar month after WannaCry attacked systems worldwide, a novel ransomware called 'Petya' has hitting computers inward countries similar Ukraine, Russia, India, as well as US.
• A total of 23 Guinness World Records were laid at an International Yoga Day resultant inward Ahmedabad, Gujarat on 21st June 2017.
• According to a lately released Child Rights as well as You (CRY) Report on kid labour, to a greater extent than than 8 lakh children betwixt the historic menstruum grouping of 5 as well as 6 years inward Bharat are engaged inward kid labour. Uttar Pradesh topped the number of kid labourers (2,50,672 children) inward Bharat followed past times Bihar (1,28,087 children) as well as Maharashtra (82,847 children).
• According to the ‘One Family at a Time’ study conducted past times the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Indians working across the world had sent dwelling USD 62.7 billion inward 2016 making Bharat the top remittance-receiving terra firma surpassing China.
• According to the United Nations' annual population survey, the Global population volition hitting 8 billion inward 2023. According to this survey, Bharat volition overtake PRC to teach the world's virtually populous nation past times 2024.
• Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's coming together amongst United States of America President Donald Trump, the U.S. designated Hizbul Mujahideen primary Syed Salahuddin equally a 'Specially Designated Global Terrorist'.
• Aimed at minimising the adventure of injuries as well as casualties, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has signed an executive monastic tell banning the individual work of firecrackers inward the terra firma
• Aiming to cut back emissions as well as promote sustainability to assist India's smart metropolis programme, French Republic as well as the European Union cause got extended a grant of €3.5 i G one thousand (nearly ₹25 crore) to India.
• American global aerospace, defense, safety as well as advanced technologies fellowship Lockheed Martin as well as India’s Tata Advanced Systems cause got signed an understanding to make F-16 fighter planes inward India.
• Anil Ambani has lately announced that the merged entity of Reliance Communications as well as Aircel volition live called Aircom. RCom volition remove hold a 50% stake inward the novel company.
• As a part of the government’s anti-plastic drive as well as Green-Kerala Mission, the Kerala State regime has come upward out amongst a Green Protocol to create the weddings inward the province to a greater extent than nature-friendly.
• As many equally 65 countries volition live celebrating 'Azadi ke seventy Saal', a festival marker seventy years of Indian independence this year.
• As part of its 'Power For All' scheme, the Uttar Pradesh regime volition live providing gratis electricity connections to all urban Below Poverty Line (BPL) families.
• Asgardia, the first-ever terra firma planned to live floated inward infinite would live launching its maiden satellite inward August, billionaire founder Igor Ashurbeyli has lately announced.
• Astana World EXPO 2017, an International Exposition (large international exhibition designed to showcase achievements of nations) was lately held at Astana (Kazakhstan). Theme of this expo : "Future Energy"
• Barcelona frontwards Lionel Messi is going to launch Messi Experience Park, an Amusement common themed closed to him inward PRC inward 2019.
• Bengaluru became the 2d Indian metropolis after Delhi to teach a full-fledged subway system, next the inauguration of the in conclusion subdivision inward the project's starting fourth dimension phase.
• 'Beren as well as Lúthien', a novel Middle-earth honey story past times JRR Tolkien ('Lord of the Rings' author) has been published 100 years after beingness written.
• Bharti Airtel has got approvals from the Securities as well as Exchange Board of Bharat (SEBI), Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) as well as National Stock Exchange of Bharat (NSE) for the proposed scheme of merger amongst Telenor (India) Communications Private Ltd.
• BJP primary Amit Shah has announced that Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind volition live BJP-led NDA's candidate for the upcoming Presidential poll.
• Bollywood Actress Preity Zinta has launched Kavach Safety, an emergency answer service for women.
• Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan has bought the Cape Town-based side inward Cricket South Africa's novel T20 league.
• Brazilian prosecutors cause got filed corruption charges against President Michel Temer, accusing him of receiving over ₹97 lakh inward bribes. Termer is the Brazil's starting fourth dimension serving leader to facial expression upward a criminal trial.
• Britain as well as French Republic cause got announced a novel articulation motion to halt the network from beingness a condom infinite for terrorists equally they programme tougher activity to tackle online radicalisation.
• Britain as well as the European Union held Brexit negotiations on June xix equally planned initially. Great Britain had been a fellow member of the European Union for 44 years.
• China has announced plans to link its economical corridor inward Islamic Republic of Pakistan to its Belt as well as Road Initiative (BRI) involving India. The BRI is a part of China's initiative to link Europe amongst Asia.
• China has developed world's virtually powerful magnetic detector which tin discover hidden metallic element objects, including minerals as well as submarines. .
• China has overtaken Bharat to teach the World's Fastest Growing Economy after Bharat reported tedious economical growth for the 4th consecutive quarter.
• China is going to mail mini-ecosystems comprising of spud seeds as well as silkworm eggs to the Luna past times side past times side year. The displace is aimed at studying how the organisms develop inward Moon.
• China launched its first-ever X-ray infinite telescope, also its minute infinite telescope, to study the evolution of dark holes.
• Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison theater on compassionate grounds after beingness diagnosed amongst terminal liver cancer.
• Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's starting fourth dimension automated driverless subway trains are laid to start operations from Oct this yr on novel Magenta Line from Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden.
• Department of Science as well as Technology has launched VAJRA (Visiting Advanced Joint Research) Faculty scheme. This scheme enables NRIs as well as overseas scientific community to participate as well as contribute to inquiry as well as evolution inward India.
• E-commerce major Flipkart has debuted on MIT Technology Review's fifty Smartest Companies listing for 2017. Flipkart is the alone Indian fellowship on the list.
• Egypt's parliament has approved President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's proposal to extend the province of emergency inward the terra firma for 3 to a greater extent than months.
• Elon Musk-led aerospace startup SpaceX successfully launched a used Dragon spacecraft for the starting fourth dimension time inward the company's eleventh cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
• Elon Musk-led startup SpaceX's Falcon nine rocket has successfully launched 10 communication satellites into orbit.
• Estonia volition live opening the world's first-ever information diplomatic mission side past times side yr inward Luxembourg, to hold backup files of its vital information on cloud servers as well as double secure its information digitally.
• External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has inaugurated Know Bharat Programme (KIP) for NRI as well as PIO youth amongst a stance to provide them amongst an exposure to the terra firma of their source so that they tin empathize Bharat improve as well as to a greater extent than closely.
• External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has lately announced that all passports from forthwith on volition live inward English linguistic communication as well as Hindi languages equally against the existing passports which are alone inward English.
• Facebook's drone 'Aquila', a solar-powered drone to convey the network to rural places, completed its minute successful exam flying inward the Arizona desert.
• For the starting fourth dimension time inward India, Indore has installed a 14-foot-tall robot to command traffic.
• For the starting fourth dimension time inward the history of Manipur, Chief Minister Biren Singh-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) regime has launched a toll-free 24/7 helpline number '181' for women. This helpline volition assist struggle as well as cut back offense against women inward the state.
• For the starting fourth dimension time, Pakistan's Sindh regime has recruited 46 women inward the police's counter-terror subdivision for combat operations as well as news gathering.
• Former powerlifter Kavita Devi volition teach the starting fourth dimension Indian adult woman wrestler inward WWE, after getting selected for the company's first-ever tournament for women, Mae Young Classic.
• French President Emmanuel Macron's political party has won a clear parliamentary majority.
• Germany legalised same-sex marriage, amongst 393 parliamentarians voting to approve "marriage for everybody" as well as 226 voting against.
• Goa Revolution Day was observed on 18th June 2017 to scream upward the sacrifices of liberty fighters as well as martyrs of the Liberation struggle.
• Golden State Warriors cause got been crowned NBA Champions for the 5th fourth dimension after defeating LeBron James-led Cleveland Cavaliers inward the best-of-seven NBA Finals.
• Government has awarded a Rs 1,600-crore contract for constructing 109-km route connecting Paletwa river terminal to Zorinpui inward Mizoram border equally a part of the $484-million Kaladan multi-modal carry (KMTT) projects inward Myanmar which volition offering connectivity to Mizoram.
• Habibganj Railway Station (Bhopal) is going to teach India’s starting fourth dimension railway station to live redeveloped inward a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode.
• Haryana's Anish Bhanwala laid a junior world tape to win the Gold medal inward the 25-metre measure pistol at the ISSF Junior Shooting World Championship inward Germany.
• Health Secretary C K Mishra has inaugurated the ‘Vatsalya – Maatri Amrit Kosh’, a National Human Milk Bank as well as Lactation Counselling Centre at the Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC) inward New Delhi.
• Iceland has been named the World's Most Peaceful Country, topping the Global Peace Index for the 10th consecutive yr followed past times New Zealand as well as Portugal. Syrian Arab Republic has been named the to the lowest degree peaceful country, followed past times Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan as well as Iraq.
• In a bid to cutting downwardly air pollution inward the area, Amritsar's Golden Temple volition forthwith work solar release energy to ready 'langar' instead of LPG as well as wooden sticks. T
• In a displace honouring his motion promise, United States of America President Donald Trump pulled the terra firma out of the Paris climate agreement.
• In an endeavour to preclude route accidents, police clit inward Andhra Pradesh cause got launched a 'Face Wash as well as Go' initiative on national as well as province highways from 1 AM to 4:30 AM.
• In the first-ever study of dating Jupiter's age, an international grouping of scientists cause got confirmed that Solar System's largest planet is also the oldest.
• India as well as Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan are laid to operationalize their starting fourth dimension air-freight corridor inward the coming days. The starting fourth dimension flying volition live operated past times Ariana Afghan Airlines, which is the Afghanistan’s national carrier.
• India as well as Russian Federation are celebrating 70th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations betwixt the ii countries.
• India as well as Republic of Korea signed an understanding for $10 billion assistance for infrastructure evolution projects inward India, including smart cities.
• India as well as Switzerland are going to start exchanging financial draw concern human relationship information starting 2019, amongst the Swiss regime formally ratifying the global convention for information central on revenue enhancement matters amongst 38 countries.
• India as well as the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation cause got launched a partnership fund to promote sustainable evolution projects across the developing world.
• India has teach the 71st nation to bring together the United Nations TIR (Transports Internationaux Routiers) Convention.
• India has signed an understanding amongst Sri Lanka to provide USD 318 i G one thousand equally draw of credit for developing Sri Lanka’s railway sector.
• India has signed the OECD multilateral convention that aims to banking company check cross-border revenue enhancement evasion past times multinational companies. OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation as well as Development
• India has voluntarily contributed $100,000 to a United Nations fund to assist developing countries actively participate inward the give-and-take of revenue enhancement issues. With this, Bharat has teach the starting fourth dimension terra firma to voluntarily contribute.
• India has waived off a cumulative ₹3.1 lakh crore ($49.1 billion) inward farm loans till date, a written report past times information journalism theater IndiaSpend has revealed.
• India is Afghanistan's virtually reliable regional partner, the Pentagon has lately announced inward its starting fourth dimension Afghan report.
• India is drafting a policy to safeguard its interests inward Antarctica as well as is going to nowadays it at the wintertime session of the Parliament. [Being a consultative fellow member of the Antarctic Treaty, it is of import for Bharat to cause got clear directives to guide its activities inward the region.]
• India is going to build the world's highest railway draw (498-km) connecting Leh inward Jammu & Kashmir to parts of Himachal Pradesh including Manali.
• India is going to shift to a Jan to Dec financial yr from 2018, thereby ending the 150-year-old tradition of an Apr to March fiscal.
• India ranked 15th inward the global 4G availability list, according to OpenSignal's State of LTE report, upward nine places from its Nov 2016 rank of 24.
• India test-fired its indigenously developed Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QR-SAM) for the starting fourth dimension time from Chandipur.
• India wins Re-Election to United Nations Council On Economic, Social Issues. Bharat is amid the eighteen countries re-elected to the United Nations' Economic as well as Social Council (ECOSOC) for some other three-year term.
• India won 6 medals inward the Wushu contest of the 1st always BRICS Games, which was lately concluded inward Guangzhou, China.
• India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) completes 1000 world days inward orbit, which is to a greater extent than than 5 times the number of days it was designated to last.
• India’s Skipper Virat Kohli has created a tape past times becoming the quickest batsman to score 8000 runs inward one-day international cricket beating South Africa’s AB de Villier’s tape past times vii fewer innings.
• Indian boxer Ankush Dahiya clinched Gold Medal at the Ulaanbaatar Cup boxing tournament inward Mongolia.
• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur has developed a wireless technology called ‘AmbuSens‘ for remote monitoring of status of those patients who are ferried inward ambulances.
• Indian Men's as well as Women's throwball teams won Gold at the World Games inward Kathmandu.
• Indian source cricketer (Telangana) Sindhuja Reddy, is laid to live a part of the USA women's cricket squad inward the World Twenty20 Qualifiers inward Scotland.
• Indian professional person lawn tennis thespian Rohan Bopanna has teach the 4th Indian to win a Grand Slam, winning the French Open mixed doubles along amongst Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski.
• Indian shooters Jitu Rai as well as Heena Sidhu won Gold inward the 10-metre air pistol mixed squad resultant at the ISSF World Cup.
• Indian shooters Yashaswini Singh Deswal as well as Anish Bhanwala has bagged atomic number 79 inward the Women’s 10m Air Pistol as well as Men’s 25m Standard Pistol contest respectively inward the ISSF Junior World Championship held inward Germany.
• Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth defeated Japan's Kazumasa Sakai to win the Republic of Indonesia Superseries Premier title.
• Indian shuttler Sai Praneeth won the Men's singles championship at the Thailand Open, defeating Indonesia's Jonatan Christie.
• Indian lawn tennis thespian Leander Paes along amongst his Canadian partner Adil Shamasdin clinched the Men's doubles championship at the Aegon Ilkley Challenger Trophy inward Ilkley, England.
• Indian wrestler Jinder Mahal defeated 14-time WWE champion Randy Orton to retain his WWE Championship at Smackdown's Money inward the Bank event.
• India's forex reserves surged past times $2.404 billion to arrive at life-time high of $381.167 billion inward the calendar week to June 2 on draw concern human relationship of ascension inward unusual currency assets, the Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) announced.
• India's holdings inward American regime securities increased past times $7 billion inward Apr to arrive at $124.1 billion, the highest aeroplane since July 2016.
• India's Kidambi Srikanth has won the Australian Open Superseries championship past times beating Rio Olympics champion China's Chen Long.
• India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) inward its 40th flying successfully launched 31 satellites inward i locomote into a 505 km polar Sun-Synchronous Orbit.
• Israel has approved the construction of over 8,000 novel homes inward West Bank, making it the largest expansion of Jewish settlements inward the surface area inward 25 years.
• Israel is going to offering manufacturing of Spike manus held 'fire as well as forget' Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) to Bharat nether Make inward India.
• Kerala's traditional serpent boat racing, which is held during Onam, is laid to teach an IPL-like league-based sport amongst the initiatory edition of the Kerala Boat Race League scheduled to start inward August this year.
• Kolkata is going to host an exhibition tally betwixt Real Madrid Legends as well as Barcelona Legends on September 15. This tally volition live a tribute to Barcelona legend Johan Cruyff.
• Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko (20) became the starting fourth dimension always unseeded women's singles thespian inward the Open Era to win the French Open after defeating Romania's Simona Halep inward the final.
• Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan inaugurated the 16th North East Region Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (NERCPA) Conference at Imphal.
• Market Regulator Securities as well as Exchange Board of Bharat (SEBI) has formed a Committee on Corporate Governance headed past times Uday Kotak (MD of Kotak Mahindra Bank). The panel has been mandated to submit the written report inside a menstruum of 4 months.
• Mercedes' British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton registered his Formula One career's sixth Canadian Grand Prix championship inward Montreal.
• Minister for Science & Technology Dr. Harshvardhan has launched a Mobile App titled “Celebrating Yoga”. The aim of the app is to popularise Yoga as well as encourage people to exercise yoga for a scientifically healthy living.
• Minister of State for Power, Coal, New as well as Renewable Energy as well as Mines has launched the Energy Conservation Building Code 2017 (ECBC 2017). This Code prescribes the release energy performance standards for novel commercial buildings to live constructed across India.
• Mumbai is the virtually expensive Indian metropolis for expatriates as well as is ranked inward a higher identify major cities similar Paris, Canberra, Seattle as well as Vienna, a written report past times consulting theater Mercer revealed.
• Mumbai volition teach a suite of floating restaurants past times 2018.
• NASA as well as US-based researchers cause got revealed plans detailing diverse missions that could live sent to Uranus as well as Neptune past times mid-2030s.
• NASA has launched satellite 'KalamSat' which is developed past times Indian teenagers hailing from Tamil Nadu. It is the starting fourth dimension time that NASA has carried out an Indian students' experiment.
• Nepal has signed a major bargain amongst a Chinese fellowship PRC Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC) to develop a 1,200 MW hydroelectric project, the biggest hydro projection inward the landlocked terra firma that could resolve its perennial mightiness crisis.
• Nepal volition stair out Mount Everest over a menstruum of ii years, amid fears the Apr 2015 earthquake could cause got affected its stature.
• New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed an anti-child wedlock law to increment the marriageable historic menstruum from xiv to 18.
• NITI Aayog has launched SATH ‘Sustainable Action for Transforming Human capital’ amongst the State Governments for furthering the agenda of cooperative federalism.
• Odisha is laid to teach the starting fourth dimension province inward the terra firma to opened upward a blood banking company for cattle.
• Pakistan has claimed that its ally PRC volition fund its long-delayed ₹77-crore mega dam projection over the Indus basin inward Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
• Pakistan has issued its 1st third-gender passport to a transgender activist.
• Pakistan won their starting fourth dimension always Champions Trophy championship after beating defending champions Bharat past times 180 runs inward the tournament final.
• Panama has established formal diplomatic ties amongst PRC as well as broke all of its human relationship amongst Taiwan inward a displace that is seen equally a victory for PRC inward its drive to isolate Taiwan from the residuum of the world. [China claims Taiwan equally its ain territory.]
• PM Narendra Modi became the 1st unusual dignitary to cause got dinner at the White House amongst United States of America President Donald Trump.
• PM Narendra Modi became the 1st Indian Prime Minister to see State of Israel amongst his three-day see to the terra firma starting 4th July 2017.
• PM Narendra Modi presented the Overseas Citizen of Bharat carte to Portugal's Indian-origin PM Antonio Costa during his see to Lisbon.
• PM Narendra Modi, during his recent see to Portugal, launched the India-Portugal International Startup Hub amongst his Portuguese counterpart Antonio Costa.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has attended the 18th India-Russia annual Summit amongst Russian President Vladimir Putin at St Petersburg.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Kochi Metro, Kerala's starting fourth dimension subway rail system.
• Rafael Nadal has won his 10th French Open Title inward Men's singles category past times beating Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland.
• Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu flagged off the Gandhi Darshan tourist train, beingness run to commemorate 100 years of Sabarmati Ashram.
• Railways authorities cause got officially changed the scream of Mumbai's biggest station from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus.
• Real Madrid became the starting fourth dimension squad to win back-to-back UEFA Champions League titles, defeating Juventus at the Principality Stadium inward Cardiff.
• Responding to an RTI query on Subhash Chandra Bose, the Central regime has announced that Netaji died inward a airplane crash inward 1945.
• Retail giant Walmart has topped Fortune's annual listing of America's top 500 companies for the 5th consecutive yr amongst a revenue of $485.8 billion.
• Sachin Tendulkar joined stars from diverse fields including David Beckham, Hugh Jackman, Lewis Hamilton as well as Novak Djokovic amid others for UNICEF's 'Super Dads' campaign.
• Saudi Arabia has lately introduced a 'family tax' of 100 riyals (₹1,700 approx) on immigrants living there.
• Social media giant Facebook is developing a novel app called 'Talk' for teenagers that would come upward amongst parent-centric features. With the novel app, parents would live able to reckon as well as filter the people to whom their children are talking to.
• Social networking platform Facebook has announced India-specific tools that volition allow users laid upward a 'guard' on their profile pictures to preclude others from downloading as well as sharing them.
• South Africa's economy, i of Africa’s biggest, falls into recession.
• Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake was on a see to India. This is his starting fourth dimension see overseas equally Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Srinivas Gokulnath from Maharashtra created history past times becoming 1st Indian to consummate toughest bike race inward world 4,900-km RAAM inward solo category.
• Swedish Parliament voted 254-41 inward favour of adopting a climate mouth as well as pledged to arrive at net-zero greenhouse gas emissions past times 2045 to tackle climate change. This makes Sweden the starting fourth dimension terra firma to significantly strengthen its climate targets since the Paris Agreement inward 2015.
• Swiss lawn tennis thespian Roger Federer registered his career's 100th title, winning the Halle Open inward Germany.
• Tamil Nadu's Higher Education Minister KP Anbazhagan has announced that all transgender students volition teach gratis didactics inward the Manonmaniam Sundaranar University inward Tirunelveli.
• Technology giant Google has topped the 2017 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands list, amongst a create value of over $245 billion.
• Telangana Cabinet has approved an ordinance which volition create online rummy illegal inward the state.
• Telangana has launched a digital wallet named T-Wallet for people to create world as well as individual financial transactions. This is starting fourth dimension such initiative past times whatever province regime inward the country.
• Telecom giant Verizon has acquired Yahoo’s meat draw concern for $4.48bn (£3.51m), therefore ending Yahoo’s two-decade long run equally an independent company. [Verizon is the No.1 wireless operator inward the US].
• The World Bank has projected 7.2 per cent growth for Bharat this yr against 6.8 per cent in conclusion year.
• The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved $150 i G one thousand equity investment loan to the Bharat Infrastructure Fund. This loan volition live the bank’s starting fourth dimension equity investment to fund individual projects.
• The Australian regime has announced that Indian nationals tin apply for visitor visas online, starting July 1.
• The Board of Control for Cricket inward Bharat (BCCI) has constituted a especial 7-member commission to analyse the few contentious Lodha panel reforms which are beingness opposed past times the province units. Head of this Committee : Rajeev Shukla
• The BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) grouping has established a 1 i G one thousand dollar fund for boosting media cooperation.
• The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) declared that Aadhaar volition live a "must" for filing of Income Tax Returns or for obtaining a novel PAN from July 1.
• The Central Board of Excise as well as Customs (CBEC) has announced that July 1st volition live known equally ‘GST Day’.
• The Defence Research as well as Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully exam fired anti-tank ‘Nag’ missile inward Rajasthan.
• The Delhi Metro has introduced its ain smart watches, Watch2Pay. Watch2Pay volition enable commuters' faster entry as well as locomote out at subway stations.
• The Election Commission of Bharat has joined hands amongst the social networking giant Facebook to launch nationwide voter registration reminder aimed at reminding eligible Indian voters to register themselves on the electoral rolls.
• The European Space Agency has approved €1.05-billion Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission that volition search for infinitesimal ripples inward space-time called gravitational waves.
• The Federal Reserve raised involvement rates for the minute fourth dimension this year, citing continued economical growth. The United States of America primal banking company voted to heighten its key charge per unit of measurement target to a arrive at of 1% to 1.25%, the highest aeroplane since 2008 financial crisis.
• The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is laid to shift India's Under-17 World Cup matches from Bombay to Delhi on asking of India's sports ministry.
• The regime has approved the Interest Subvention Scheme for 2017-18 nether which it volition give an involvement subsidy of 2% per annum to farmers for brusk term loans of upward to ₹3 lakh.
• The regime has changed an over 50-year-old dominion past times setting a deadline of 6 months to consummate probes inward corruption cases involving regime employees. It has amended the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control as well as Appeal) Rules, 1965, inward monastic tell to speed upward investigation inward such cases.
• The regime has directed all colleges as well as universities to halt accepting students' fees inward cash as well as resort to digital modes from the side past times side academic session.
• The regime has given in-principle blessing for the disinvestment of state-run carrier Air India.
• The Haryana regime has changed the scream of Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) to Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP).
• The HRD ministry building has constituted a 9-member panel to frame a novel National Education Policy (NEP). Head of this Committee : K Kasturirangan (space scientist)
• The Indian Army has received its starting fourth dimension batch of modern bullet-proof helmets, ii decades after initiating the process.
• The Indian regime has approved the proposal for setting upward a Greenfield airdrome inward Jewar (Greater Noida). This airdrome is probable to live operational inward the side past times side five-six years.
• The Indian regime has increased the visa fee for the unusual nationals visiting Bharat past times upward to 50% across categories.
• The Indian Olympic Association's (IOA) primary northward Ramachandran has revealed that IOA has asked the regime for permission to bid for the 2032 Olympics as well as 2030 Asian Games.
• The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) GSAT-17 satellite was successfully launched aboard French rocket Ariane 5, making it the 3rd satellite launch inward a month.
• The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched India's heaviest rocket 'Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark III' carrying the 3,136 kg communication satellite GSAT-19.
• The International Cricket Council (ICC) has lately announced that the ICC World T20 resultant scheduled for 2018 volition live scrapped, amongst the side past times side edition of the tournament beingness scheduled for 2020.
• The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has officially included mixed gender relay racing as well as 3-on-3 men's as well as women's basketball game equally Olympic events for the Tokyo Games to live held inward 2020.
• The Nippon Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has revealed plans to mail its starting fourth dimension astronaut to the Luna past times 2030.
• The Malaysian Ringgit became the strongest Asian currency this quarter past times climbing twice equally much equally the Chinese Yuan, according to Bloomberg.
• The merger betwixt Flipkart as well as eBay Bharat has been approved past times the Competition Commission of Bharat (CCI).
• The Ministry of Home Affairs has launched a Twitter remove hold called BharatKeVeer for a fund to assist the families of paramilitary personnel martyred spell fighting extremists.
• The National Aeronautics as well as Space Administration (NASA) has successfully launched Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket that created colourful artificial clouds visible inward the skies of the US.
• The National Aeronautics as well as Space Administration (NASA) is launching an unmanned spacecraft named 'Parker Solar Probe' to the Lord's Day on 31st July 2018.
• The National Board of Wildlife has approved Rutland Island inward South Andaman to live the site for India’s long-range missile exam facility.
• The National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) has launched a spider web application for gratis Legal Services to Prisoners at the conference held at Indian Law Institute, New Delhi.
• The novel ₹1 note, which volition live printed amongst a novel design, is the alone notation to live printed past times the Central regime as well as non the RBI. It volition cause got 'Bharat Sarkar' on its masthead.
• The Islamic Republic of Pakistan regime has tasked the country's National Council of Arts amongst the responsibleness to rearrange the musical rendition of its national anthem 'Qaumi Taranah' using a world degree orchestra inward monastic tell to stand upward for cultural diversity. The anthem, which is also called 'Pak Sarzamin', was written past times Hafeez Jullundhri inward 1952 as well as was officially adopted inward 1954.
• The Pension Fund Regulatory as well as Development Authority has introduced "APY@eNPS", providing a consummate digital enrolment procedure for Atal Pension Yojana (APY).
• The Philippines' parliament has passed a law where singing the national anthem shall live "mandatory as well as must live done amongst fervour".
• The poverty-stricken unincorporated United States of America territory of Puerto Rico has voted inward favour of becoming the 51st United States of America province amongst 97% voters supporting the referendum.
• The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee has launched a mobile Application ‘Selfie amongst Daughter’. Aim of this Campaign : To motivate lodge to experience proud to live parents of a daughter kid which inward plough is expected to cause got a positive impact inward improving the kid sexual practice ratio.
• The Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies, Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum as well as Hindustan Petroleum signed an understanding to jointly laid upward the world’s largest refinery as well as petrochemical complex inward Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra.
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) has lately announced that India’s Current Account Deficit (CAD) narrowed during 2016-17 financial owing to a contraction inward the country’s merchandise deficit.
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) has started printing currency notes of ₹200 denomination, the 3rd denomination notes to live printed after demonetisation.
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) is going to innovate a novel batch of ₹500 currency notes, which volition cause got inset missive of the alphabet 'A'.
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) kept the Repo Rate unchanged at 6.25% during its bimonthly monetary policy review on seventh June 2017.
• The Royal Canadian Mint has unveiled a particularly designed two-dollar coin, or 'toonie'. This is world’s starting fourth dimension glow-in-the-dark money to teach into circulation.
• The State Bank of Bharat (SBI) has reduced rates for dwelling loans inward a higher identify ₹75 lakh past times 10 bps. The revised involvement rates volition live 8.55% per annum for salaried women as well as 8.60% per annum for others.
• The 'Stratolaunch' aircraft built past times Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen to launch rockets into space. This is the world's biggest aircraft amongst a wingspan of 385 feet.
• The Telangana regime has lately launched the website 'PashuBazar' to facilitate online sale or buy of cattle.
• The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal to innovate a Financial Resolution as well as Deposit Insurance Bill, 2017 which volition provide a comprehensive resolution framework for financial sector entities to bargain amongst bankruptcy province of affairs inward banks, insurance companies, as well as other entities.
• The Union Ministry of Law as well as Justice has cleared the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Karnataka Amendment) Bill 2017, as well as therefore legalising Kambala (traditional slush rails buffalo race of Karnataka).
• The United Nations Educational, Scientific as well as Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has named UAE's Sharjah equally the World Book Capital for 2019.
• The United Nations General Assembly has approved the establishment of a novel United Nations business office of counter-terrorism to assist Member States implement UN’s global counter-terrorism strategy. United Nations volition forthwith transfer the relevant functions out of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA) into the novel body.
• The United Nations held its first-ever Ocean Conference to renew fellow member nations' commitment to combatting rising ocean levels, pollution, as well as harmful line-fishing practices for the protection of world's waterways.
• The U.S. has cleared the sale of the state-of-the-art Guardian 22 unmanned Guardian drones to India. The bargain to sell UAV drones to Bharat is estimated to live worth $2 to $3 billion.
• The U.S. has dropped Republic of Iraq as well as Myanmar from a listing of the world's worst offenders inward the work of kid soldiers, despite multiple reports of continuous usage of children inward armies as well as militias inward the ii countries.
• The U.S. is going to declare PRC equally i amid the world’s worst offenders on human trafficking inward its annual Trafficking inward Persons Report. The proclamation would identify PRC inward the same category equally North Korea, Republic of Zimbabwe as well as Syria.
• The urban evolution government minister M. Venkaiah Naidu has launched ‘City Liveability Index’, the 1st Liveability index which volition rank the country’s 116 major cities on the footing of the character of life. The rankings based on the index would live released inward 2018.
• The United States of America Navy has commissioned a novel warship, USS Gabrielle Giffords, inward the scream of quondam Arizona congresswoman who was severely injured inward a 2011 shooting, equally a tribute to her perseverance.
• The West Indies cricket squad has been officially renamed equally 'WINDIES' spell the West Indies Cricket Board has rebranded itself equally 'Cricket West Indies' on its 90th anniversary.
• The World Bank has cleared a $250-million (over ₹1,610 crore) loan for making Indians to a greater extent than employable through re-skilling, nether the government's Skill Bharat mission.
• The World Bank has cleared a USD 250-million loan to assist the Skill Bharat mission. The loan amount would live used for making Indian youth to a greater extent than employable through reskilling.
• The World Taekwondo Federation has changed its scream to World Taekwondo after its acronym 'WTF' was found to cause got "negative connotations".
• The world’s starting fourth dimension hybrid ‘Aeroboat’ which has been built past times an Indo-Russian articulation venture has been unveiled at a start-ups resultant organized past times Russia’s state-run Skolkovo Foundation.
• To combat rising pollution as well as climate change, PRC has officially started edifice the world's starting fourth dimension 'Forest City'. The Liuzhou Forest City is expected to absorb nearly 10,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually as well as make 900 tonnes of oxygen.
• Two Chinese supercomputers Sunway TaihuLight as well as Tianhe-2 cause got been declared the fastest machines inward the world, according to a listing released past times researchers inward the United States of America as well as Germany.
• UK PM Theresa May has signed a 'confidence as well as supply' bargain amongst the Northern Irish Gaelic Democratic Unionist Party, allowing her to officially shape a minority government.
• UK PM Theresa May has told European Union leaders that whatever European Union citizen living inward Great Britain for v years volition live given "UK settled status" after Brexit.
• Under Kaushalya Karnataka scheme, the Karnataka regime is going to launch a science evolution programme for providing vocational preparation to domestic workers, which includes people employed equally cooks, theater assist as well as gardeners.
• Under the Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBM-G), rural Uttarakhand as well as rural Haryana cause got been declared equally the 4th as well as 5th Open Defecation Free (ODF) States of India. Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh as well as Kerala cause got already been declared equally Open Defecation Free.
• Union Health Ministry launches Intensified Diarrhea Control Fortnight (IDCF) across terra firma to cut back kid deaths due to Diarrhoea.
• Union Minister Hansraj Ahir has announced that the Centre is planning to laid upward 'cow sanctuaries' as well as initiate 'Project cow' on the lines of Project Tiger.
• US Defence Department Pentagon has signed a bargain to sell domestically manufactured F-15 fighter jets for $12 billion to Qatar despite President Donald Trump criticising the Gulf nation for allegedly supporting terrorism.
• US President Donald Trump has reaffirmed the back upward of the U.S. for India's permanent membership on a reformed United Nations Security Council.
• US-based aviation fellowship Cirrus Aircraft has launched the world's smallest as well as virtually affordable individual jet called 'Vision Jet' for ₹12.62 crore.
• Victims of acid attacks as well as people amongst autism, mental illnesses, as well as intellectual disabilities volition teach 1% reservation for primal regime jobs as well as promotions.
• Vijaya Bank has lately announced that it is going to develop equally many equally 100 digital villages inward diverse States across the terra firma equally part of its initiative to promote digital banking amid the rural population. As of now, Vijaya Bank is the alone world sector financial establishment to develop digital villages amongst focus on rural population.
• West Bengal's upper-case missive of the alphabet Kolkata volition teach India's starting fourth dimension underwater subway system, which volition overstep through the Hooghly river.
• Wipro has teach the starting fourth dimension Indian information technology theater to declare United States of America President Donald Trump a potential threat to business, past times officially mentioning it inward its filings.
• Yemen as well as Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya cause got followed the determination past times Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Arab Republic of Egypt as well as the UAE to cutting diplomatic ties amongst Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorism.
• Yuvraj Singh has became the 5th Indian as well as the 19th overall to characteristic inward 300 ODIs, after facing People's Republic of Bangladesh inward the Champions Trophy semifinal.

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