Important days:
1. June 1 –Global day of Parents
is observed to honor every parent all over the World for their
selfless commitment to children.
2. June 2- Telangana Statehood
Day. It became India’s 29th state on
June 2, 2014.
3. June 3- World Bicycle day .It was declared by UN on 12th
April 2018 to celebrate the first world bicycle day on June 3. This day highlights the use of bicycle as a
means of promoting sustainable development, improving physical education,
promoting health, preventing disease, etc,
4.
June 4- International Day of Innocent Children Victims of
Aggression was observed with the objective to
acknowledge the pain suffered by children throughout the world who are the
victims of physical, mental and emotional abuse.
National:
1.
An agreement with Kerala government to construct three marine
ambulances for state fisheries department was signed by Cochin Shipyard Ltd
(CSL). These three vessels will be designed by CSL
at its in-house design department. These vessels will be able to complement two
patients and will have a total crew capacity of seven, including paramedical
staff.
2.
India recycles only 5% of its e-waste and the country is one of
the biggest contributors of e-waste in the world according to the recent study
of ASSOCHAM-NEC on “Electricals & Electronics Manufacturing in India”. India generates around 2 million tonnes per annum (TPA) of
E-waste of which 12% constituted of telecom equipment alone. Apart from India,
the top e-waste generator countries are China, US, Japan and Germany. Among
Indian states, largest quantity of E-waste is generated by Maharashtra (19.8%
), followed by Tamil Nadu (13%), Uttar Pradesh (10.1%), Karnataka (8.9%),
Gujarat (8.8%) and Madhya Pradesh (7.6%). Out of the 2 million TPA e-waste
generated, only 4.38 Lakh TPA is recycled in India. The low quantum of
recycling of e-waste in India is due to lack of infrastructure, absence of strong
legislative framework etc.
3. “Taj Declaration to Beat
Plastic Pollution” was made in the presence of United Nations Environment
Program (UNEP) Executive Director Erik Solheim and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador
Diya Mirza. With an aim to make 500-meter
area around Taj Mahal litter free and phase out single use plastic. Union
Minister Mahesh Sharma administered a pledge to Agra Residents and this is
called as Taj Declaration. The declaration came ahead to the World Environment
day, June 5. The Environment day to be celebrated on June 5 has a slogan of
‘Beat Plastic Pollution’.
4. Humsafar Jodhpur Bandra
Express started its journey towards Bandra from Bhagat Ki Kothi Railway station
in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur on June 2, 2018. This was
flagged off by Union Railway Minister, Piyush Goyal. Special features to be
implemented in the train are, LED screen displays, Vending machines, bio-
toilets, smoke alarms and CCTVs. Each coach is also planned to have heating
chambers and refrigerating boxes to keep the homemade food of the passengers
fresh. Adequate arrangements have been made in the trains, including mobile
charging points, CCTVs and Bio Toilets. Humsafar Express are a completely
3-tier AC sleeper trains which started their operation from December 2016.
5. The 49th Conference of
Governors is going to held from June 4-5, 2018 in Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi
was inaugurated by President Ram Nath Kovind. The
conference will involve discussions on important agendas including clean India
mission, internal security, higher education and skill development. It will
also involve discussions on important thematic issues in various sessions.
6. The Haryana government decided
to provide sanitary napkins at just Re 1 to girl students of government schools
starting from August 2018 after a meeting with senior functionaries of school
education department and health department. The
scheme will cover women belonging to Below Poverty Line (BPL) families too.
Only 28 per cent of girls use sanitary napkins while 40 per cent of women use
cloth during menstruation, which leads to hygiene issues and diseases according
to a state survey. The CM also said that girls till the age of 18 years will be
provided with the napkins in schools, while those above the age limit will get
it through the through Public Distribution System at ration shops every month. The
move will provide huge relief to girls and women.
7. Himachal Pradesh Governor
Acharya Dev Vrat has announced that a sports academy will be established in the
state for underprivileged children so that the talent of India in sports could
be utilised. The academy would
be established in public-private partnership mode with combined efforts of
sportsmen, NGOs and the state government.
8. Haryana Government has
decided to give 15 day paternity leave to all male government employees to take
care of the new-born child. This
announcement was made by CM Manohar Lal Khattar. He also decided to raise the
strength of women in police force from existing 11 percent to 20 percent.
9. The Centre has asked Jammu
& Kashmir and other states to confine illegal Rohingya settlers to pre-identified
locations within their respective jurisdictions, record their personal
particulars, including biometric details and not to issue them Aadhaar number
or any other identity proof.The meticulous
preparation of their personal particulars has been sought so that these details
can eventually be shared with Myanmar for likely repatriation.The move
indicates the government’s intent to prevent a wider diffusion of Rohingya in
India beyond the camps and the Centre’s concern over possible presence of radical
elements among them and their involvement in crime.
10. In Haryana, each district
will now get one-stop centres to facilitate integrated services for women
affected by violence. At present
seven one-stop centres are functional in many districts and now Chief Minister
Manohar Lal Khattar has accorded approval for the setting up of 15 more centres
in other districts. One stop centre is hundred per cent centrally
sponsored scheme under the Nirbhaya Fund. The services would include
police assistance, medical aid, psycho-social counselling, legal aid and
counselling and temporary stay for five days.
11. The Union Government on
May 31, 2018 reconstituted the Press Council of India (PCI) for a three-year
term. However, the names under medium newspaper
category have not been declared yet as the matter related to it is sub-judice.
12. The Supreme Court (SC) on
May 31, 2018 directed the Centre to not to disburse any grants to the states
which have not yet registered domestic workers under the Unorganised Workers
Social Security Act, 2008. The ruling
came after the apex court was told that several states have still not complied
with its direction of January 11, 2018 in which it had directed the
registration of domestic workers, beginning from February 2018.
13. The Central Government has
constituted the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CMA) to address the dispute
over sharing of river water among Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry following
the directions from Supreme Court. The newly
constituted Cauvery Water Management Authority (CMA) has been created as per
the Cauvery Management Scheme earlier framed by Centre and approved by Supreme
Court. The authority will comprise a chairman, a secretary and eight members.
Out of the eight members, two will be full time, while two will be part
time members from centre’s side. Rest four will be part time members from
states. The main mandate of the CMA will be to secure implementation and
compliance of the Supreme Court’s order in relation to “storage, apportionment,
regulation and control of Cauvery waters”. CMA will also advise the states to
take suitable measures to improve water use efficiency. It will do so by
promoting use of micro-irrigation, change in cropping patterns, improved farm
practices and development of command areas. The CMA will also prepare an annual
report covering its activities during the preceding year.
International:
1. Nearly half of
Afghanistan's children are not attending school because of worsening security,
poverty and sex discrimination. The number of
children deprived of schooling is at its highest rate since 2002, the year
after the US-led ouster of the repressive Taliban regime, which had banned
girls from the classroom according to a new reprt of UN which was released on
June 3, 2018.
2. US President Donald Trump said
that he would agree to a fair deal on the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA), which is currently being renegotiated with Canada and Mexico, or there
would be no deal at all. Earlier, the
Canadian Prime Minister had accused US Vice President Mike Pence for the
collapse of the NAFTA negotiations.Trump, Trudeau and several other
world leaders are scheduled to meet next week in Canada at a G-7 meeting.
3. Denmark's Parliament on
May 31, 2018 banned the wearing of face veils (burqa and niqab) in public
places, a move that will criminalise Muslim women who choose to wear the niqab
or burqa.The law forbids the wearing of
full-face veils such as the niqab, balaclavas, face-covering ski masks, face
masks and fake beards. It does not outlaw headscarves, turbans, traditional
Jewish Kippa, protective masks, winter clothing such as scarves or costumes and
motorcycle helmets. Fines will range from 1000 Danish crowns (USD 160) for a
first offense to 10000 crowns for a fourth violation.
Science and Technology:
1. An Online Analytical Tool
to facilitate closer monitoring of flow and utilisation of foreign
contributions received by various organisations registered or permitted under
Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 was launched by the Union Ministry
of Home Affairs (MHA). FCRA 2010 provides for
regulation of acceptance of foreign funds/foreign hospitality by certain
individuals, associations, organisations and companies. The web-based tool will
help to effectively monitor hundreds of thousands of transactions undertaken by
such organisations and help stakeholders in Government to better regulate
acceptance and utilisation of foreign contributions.
2. A special kind of neutron
star for the first time outside of the Milky Way galaxy have discovered by the scientists
of NASA. It was discovered using data from NASA’s
Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large
Telescope in Chile. Neutron stars are the ultra dense cores of massive
stars that collapse and undergo a supernova explosion.
3. A new system to generate
more accurate and area specific forecast of extreme weather events including rains,
heat wave and cold wave named as new Ensemble Prediction System (EPS) has
launched by the Ministry of Earth Science (MoES). The most salient feature of new EPS is its high resolution for
short-medium range weather forecasts. Under the new system, the area of spatial
resolution (currently 23 km grid scale) will come down to 12 km. This would
help sending out district level warning and forecast extreme weather events as
before as five days. In its calculations, the system will use a newly procured
8 petaflops high-power computing system. The system was recently procured for
Rs. 450 crore. The new EPS system has been developed by three bodies under
Ministry of Earth Sciences viz. Indian Meteorological Department (IMD),
National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) and Indian Institute
of Tropical Meteorology.
First in State/India/World:
1. India received its first
shipment of its so far cheapest Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Russian
supplier Gazprom on June 4, 2018. At present,
Qatar is biggest supplier of Natural Gas to India. The recent shipment from
Russia has come under a 20 year deal between India’s State-owned gas company
GAIL India Ltd and Russian supplier Gazprom. A few weeks before India
had also imported its first ever LNG cargos from US under a long-term import
deal.
2. The foundation stone of India’s
first advanced forensic lab “Sakhi Suraksha Advanced DNA Forensic Laboratory” dedicated
for crimes related to women for timely deliver justice was laid in the campus
of Central Forensic Science Lab (CFSL), Chandigarh. There are four units viz. sexual assault and homicide unit,
paternity unit, human identification unit and mitochondrial unit. Apart from
Homicide and Sexual Assault and Unit, other three units are interlinked. They
will work to examine cases related to crime against women. The advanced lab in
par with international standards will contribute to address gap in forensic DNA
analysis of pending sexual assault cases in the country. The lab has been set
up as model forensic lab and will be replicated in other parts of the country. 5
more such advanced forensic labs will come up in Mumbai, Chennai, Guwahati,
Pune and Bhopal in the next 3 months bringing total minimum annual handling
capacity of labs to 50000 cases. The labs in Chennai and Mumbai will be set up
with funds from Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) while remaining 3
labs would be set up with funds by Ministry of Home Affairs.
3.
A MoU was signed with a
Kolkata-based export-import firm, to market Tripura’s pineapple in Dubai and
other foreign countries on 18th May 2018. The
first consignment of pineapples from the state of Tripura to be exported to
Dubai was flagged off by Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on June 3, 2018.He
also urged the farmers in the state to plant pineapples and bamboo in land
lying unused.
Defence:
1.
Malabar 2018 - The 22nd edition of the Tri lateral naval exercise
will be held off the coast of Guam in Philippine Sea from June 6-15, 2018 between
India, Japan and United States. Indian Navy
participation in this year’s exercises will include indigenous stealth frigate
INS Sahyadri, fleet tanker INS Shakti, anti-submarine corvette INS Kamorta and
P-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft. Japan is deploying its helicopter
carrier JDS Ise along with Kawasaki P-1 aircraft maritime patrol aircraft and
Soryu class conventional submarines. US is sending its aircraft carrier USS
Ronald Reagan along with strike complement of destroyers, nuclear attack
submarines and support ships in addition to P-8A maritime patrol aircraft. This
edition of annual exercise will focus on high-end war fighting skill sets,
subject matter expert and professional exchanges.
2.
RIMPAC-2018 - the world’s largest international maritime warfare
exercise Rim of the Pacific will be held from June 27 to August 2, 2018 in and
around Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The theme for this year’s exercise is “Capable, Adaptive,
Partners.” 26 countries, including India
participating in this exercise. Four countries Brazil, Israel, Sri Lanka and
Vietnamare are participating for first time. In this edition, RIMPAC for first
time will see participation of land-based unit in the live fire event. It will
see participation of 47 surface ships, five submarines, 18 national land
forces, and more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel. New Zealand will be
serving as sea combat commander in this edition of exercise, and Chile serving
as combined force maritime component commander. This will be for the first time
non-founding RIMPAC nation (Chile) will hold component commander leadership
position. New Zealand will be serving as sea combat commander in this edition
of exercise, and Chile serving as combined force maritime component commander.
This will be for the first time non-founding RIMPAC nation (Chile) will hold
component commander leadership position.
3. The maiden flight test of
new surface-to-air missile (yet to get formal name) powered by Solid Fuel
Ducted Ramjet (SFDR) propulsion Technology was conducted from Launch Centre-III
of Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, Odisha by DRDO. SFDR technology is jointly developed by India and Russia. It will
help both India’s surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles to perform better and
enhance their strike range, making them more lethal.
4. Agni- 5 missile was
successfully test fired from Dr Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast by
DRDO. Agni 5 ballistic missile is the brainchild
of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). This is the 6th test
fire of the state-of-the-art Agni 5 missile. Agni missile is a surface to
surface missile and is launched with the help of mobile launcher of the
Integrated Test Range at Dr Abdul Kalam Island formerly known as Wheeler Island.
Agni-5 is a nuclear capable long range missile with new technologies in terms
of navigation and guidance, warhead and engine. The three stage,17- meter tall,
two-meter wide Agni-5 missile has a range of 5000 km. It can carry a nuclear
war head weighing up to 1.5 tonnes. Agni-1 has a range of 700 km, Agni-2 with a
2000 km range, Agni-3 and 4 have a range of 2500 km to 3500km.
Schemes:
1. A new Health Insurance
Scheme for the journalists named as “Gopabandhu Sambadika Swasthya Bima Yojana”
has been launched by the state government in Odisha. The scheme has been named after Gopalbandhu Das (1877-1928) a
prominent social worker, reformer, political activist, journalist, poet and
essayist of Odisha. His contribution to art, culture and society to Odisha
earned him the epithet of Utkalmani (jewel of Odisha). His contribution to
journalism in the state was short but remarkable. In the decade of 1910, he had
launched a monthly literary magazine called Satyabadi through which he
tried to educate the masses. It provides Rs. 2 Lakh per annum health insurance
cover to all working journalists of the state. This scheme came into effect
from June 1, 2018 and will initially cover around 3200 journalists and their
family members from various media groups. The insurance coverage will be
applicable for cashless treatment in government and private hospitals. The
scheme will also cover the injuries and illness faced by journalists while performing
their duties.
2. The construction of
another 1.5 lakh affordable houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) for
benefit of urban poor has approved by the Union Ministry of Housing & Urban
Affairs. Andhra Pradesh tops the list of houses
with 56,512 units, followed by Uttar Pradesh (26,060), Madhya Pradesh (17,920),
Jharkhand (14,526) and Maharashtra (13,506). With this, cumulative houses under
PMAY(U) would be 47,52,751 houses. PMAY(U) aims provide houses to all poor in
urban areas by 2022. It is new version of Prime Minister’s Housing for all by
2022 vision. Its objective is to construct two crore houses across nation. It
covers entire urban area consisting of 4041 statutory towns with initial focus
on 500 Class I cities.
3. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak
Yojana (PMGSY)- The Union Finance Ministry has signed US $500 million (Rs 3,371
crore) loan agreement with World Bank to provide additional financing for
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) rural road projects. The loan has maturity of 10 years along with 3 year grace
period. It will provide additional financing for PMGSY Rural Roads Project to
build 7,000 km of climate resilient roads, out of which 3,500 km will be
constructed using green technologies. PMGSY fully funded centrally sponsored
scheme launched in 2000. It aims to provide single all-weather road
connectivity to all eligible unconnected habitations in the rural areas with
population of 500 persons and above (in plain areas)
and 250 persons and above (in Hilly States , desert Areas, Tribal
areas and selected Tribal and Backward Districts).
Union Ministry of Rural Development is nodal ministry for implementation of
Scheme.
Economy:
1.
The Indian mobile payment applications namely BHIM, RuPay and
UPI enabled remittance app of SBI was launched by PM Modi at ‘Business,
Innovation and Community Event’ held in Singapore where digital platform was
the main theme. RuPay digital payments system was
linked up with Singapore’s 33-year-old Network for Electronic Transfers (NETS)
that will enable RuPay users to make
payments at all NETS acceptance points across Singapore. SBI’s UPI based rupee
remittance app was also launched at
Singapore branch of the SBI which will
help to expand remittance offering. It will help Indian blue-collar workers
working in Singapore to send remittance of up to Rs 100,000 in quick, easy and
convenient way with the help of Virtual Payment Address (VPA). This service
will be available to all savings account holders of SBI Singapore.
2.
‘Financial Literacy Week’ is organized by the Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) across the nation from June 4 to June 8, 2018.This week will focus on four consumer protection messages like
'know your liability' for un authorized electronic banking transaction and good
practices for a safe digital banking experience. Among various messages, the
customers will be told through banners and posters that in case of un authorized
digital transaction if the bank is informed within 3 days, the liability of the
account holder is zero.
3.
The price of subsidized
LPG has also been increased by Rs 2.34 per cylinder in New Delhi. It will now cost Rs 493.55 per 14.2 kg cylinder in Delhi, Rs
496.65 in Kolkata, Rs 491. 31 in Mumbai and Rs 481. 84 in Chennai. The
price of non-subsidized cooking gas LPG was increased by 48 rupees per cylinder
on June 1, 2018 in New Delhi.The cost of the gas will now be Rs 698 in
Delhi, Rs 723.50 in Kolkatta, Rs 671. 50 in Mumbai and Rs 712.50 in Chennai.
Appointments/ Resignations:
1. Retired Justice Nasirul
Mulk took oath as the seventh caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan on June1,
2018. Mulk, was unanimously nominated
for the post by both the government and opposition.
Sports:
1. India's Suhana Saini (12yr
old from Haryana) claimed the gold medal in the Oman Junior and Cadet Open, an
ITTF Premium Circuit event by beating Egypt’s Hana
Goda in the Hopes Girls singles final 3-1 to annex the coveted title.
2. The third Asia Cup
International Bridge Championship in Goa from June 4 to June 11, 2018 would be
hosting by India. This will be contested in five categories namely men,
women, mixed, super-mixed and senior. It will see participation from
players belonging to countries including Australia, Bangladesh, Singapore,
China, Japan, Indonesia, Pakistan and Korea. The first round of matches
will be played from June 5-8. Four top teams in each category would then
progress to the knock-out stage. While the semi-finals would be held on
June 9, the finals and play-offs for the third place will be held on June 10.
3. Sanjita Chanu, who had won
a gold in the women's 53kg category in the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games,
was tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid, testosterone. She is two-time Commonwealth Games champion weightlifter.
Deaths
1. Noted journalist and chief
editor of Malayalam daily 'Janmabhoomi', Leela Menon( 85), passed away in Kochi on June 4, 2018 due to age related ailments.
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