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Important days:
1. June 19 - International Day for the Elimination of Sexual
Violence in Conflict was observed across the
world with an aim to foster solidarity with the survivors who endure
multiple, intersecting stigmas in the wake of sexual violence, including the
stigma of association with a terrorist group and of bearing children conceived
through rape by the enemy. The theme of 2018 is “Plight and Rights of
Children Born of War”.
2.
2018 - The year 2018 is
observed as “Year of Disabled Soldiers in Line of Duty” by Indian Army to
honour soldiers who have been disabled in line of duty. The major endeavour of this initiative is to provide one-time
financial assistance to disabled soldiers who have been boarded out from
service on medical grounds and are rendered non-employable due to their medical
or physical conditions. The primary focus of this initiative is to alleviate
sufferings of these soldiers, who have done their duty with utmost dedication
to nation and have been disabled for the life. It is also planning to showcase
talent of disabled soldiers by organizing sports and physical activities,
cultural events and their art exhibitions.
National:
1.
Women bear uneven
burden in family planning as they account for more than 93% of sterilisations
in the country according to 11th report of Common Review Mission of National
Health Mission (NHM). In 2017-18 (till
October) of the total 14,73,418 sterilisation procedures 93.1 % were female
sterilisation (tubectomies) and only 6.8 % were male sterilization (vasectomy).
2.
National Testing
Agency (NTA) will train paper setters to set better question papers and provide
better model answers as per the announcement made by the Union Ministry of
Human Resource Development (HRD). NTA is
expected to conduct some of the examinations that CBSE has been conducting till
now. It will take over all examinations from the CBSE (except the 10th and 12th
board examinations) from 2019 in phased manner. It will be also conducting
prestigious Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission to engineering
colleges like IITs and NITs and National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET)
for admission to all medical and dental colleges in the country (except AIIMS
and JIPMER, Puducherry). NTA was set up to relieve Central Board of Secondary
Education (CBSE) and other educational regulator bodies from burden of
conducting multiple examinations.
3.
Central Water
Commission (CWC) has signed collaboration agreement with search engine giant
Google for flood forecasting and dissemination of flood related information to
masses. This initiative will help crisis
management agencies to deal extreme hydrological events in better manner for
effective flood management in India under National Hydrology Project (NHP).Under
this Agreement, CWC and Google will share technical expertise to collaborate on
i) Improving flood prediction systems, which will help provide
location-targeted, actionable flood warnings, ii) High priority research
project utilizing Google Earth to help visualize and improve flood
management.iii) Cultural project to build online exhibitions on Rivers of
India.
4.
National Digital
Library of India (NDLI) launched by the Union Ministry of Human Resource
Development (HRD) on the occasion of National Reading Day (observed on June 17)
in New Delhi. NDLI has been developed by
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. It is single window platform
that collects and collates metadata from premier learning institutions in India
and abroad, as well as other relevant sources. It is open to all at free of
cost. It is digital repository 17 million-plus items containing textbooks,
articles, videos, audio books, lectures, simulations, fiction and all other
kinds of learning media) in 200-plus languages from more than 170 institutions.
NDLI’s objective is to make digital educational resources available to all
citizens of the country to empower, inspire and encourage learning.
5.
The Union Ministry of
New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has declared medium (5 GW by 2022) and
long-term (30 GW by 2030) targets for offshore wind power capacity addition. The target set for offshore wind power is moderate in
comparison to on-shore wind target of 60 GW and its achievement of 34 GW and
solar target of 100 GW by 2022. This is mainly because of challenges
considering difficulties in installing large wind power turbines in open seas. The
offshore wind turbines are of much larger dimensions and capacities than
onshore turbines.
6.
The Chief Ministers
Subgroup to coordinate policy approaches for agriculture sector and Mahatma
Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has constituted by
the Union government. The Chief Minister of
Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan will be its convener and CMs of Andhra
Pradesh, Gujarat, Bihar, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Sikkim along with
Member NITI Aayog, Ramesh Chand as its members. CMs Subgroup formation comes in
backdrop of vision of Central Government towards Doubling Farmers’ Income by
2022 which requires multi-dimensional and inclusive approach. It will submit
its report within three months from its date of constitution.
7.
A workshop on Cyber
Security Framework for Department of Defence was organized and inaugurated by
Ministry of Defence. This one day workshop
was organized with an aim to bring in synchronised approach for cyber security
based on frame work document released by the Department of Defence Production
in 2018. The framework is in line with National policies &
guidelines; and provides a common mechanism for all organizations to describe
their current cyber security posture & the target area for cyber security.
8.
Anukreethy Vas from
Tamil Nadu was crowned Femina Miss India World 2018 on June 19, 2018 at a
function held in Mumbai. Last
year's Miss World Manushi Chhillar awarding her the crown. Haryana’s
Meenakshi Chaudhary was announced as the first runner-up; Shreya Rao Kamavarapu
of Andhra Pradesh was adjudged the second runner-up.
9.
The Khadi and Village
Industries Commission (KVIC) has adopted Jagatpur village in Delhi for its
Swachhata Abhiyaan. Jagatpur is
destined to be one of the most beautiful villages in Delhi and NCR. The
sanitation drive by KVIC began with a plantation drive and ended with
cleanliness drive along the bank of the Yamuna river.KVIC is also
installing 20 park benches on the bank on Yamuna River. The next cleanliness
drive will be in Mumbai's Juhu Beach under KVIC’s Swachhata Mission.
10.
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.
11.
PM Narendra Modi will
lead the 4th International Yoga Day Celebrations in Dehradun on June 21, 2018. The Prime Minister will join thousands of volunteers,
performing Yoga asanas in the lawns of Forest Research Institute, Dehradun,
located in the lap of the Himalayas. The Prime Minister had earlier
participated in the International Yoga Day Celebrations at Rajpath in New Delhi
in 2015, at the Capitol Complex in Chandigarh in 2016, and the Ramabai Ambedkar
Sabha Sthal in Lucknow in 2017.
12.
The world's first
International Centre for Humanitarian Forensics was launched at Gandhinagar in
Gujarat. The launch of the Centre was
followed by an International Symposium on Humanitarian Forensics. It is a
joint venture of the Regional delegation of the International Committee of the
Red Cross in India, Bhutan, Nepal and the Maldives and also Gujarat Forensic
Science University. It is a joint venture of the Regional delegation of
the International Committee of the Red Cross in India, Bhutan, Nepal and the
Maldives and also Gujarat Forensic Science University.
13.
India and Australia
have agreed to strengthen counter-terrorism cooperation through regular
exchange of information and sharing of best practices on countering violent
extremism. The decision was taken during the
10th Meeting of the Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism in New Delhi. Both
sides assessed and exchanged views on prevailing terrorist threats in their
respective regions including the problem of cross-border terrorism in the Afghanistan-Pak
region.
International:
1.
As per the draft of
new document that was released in Dec 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO)
has classified gaming addiction as mental health disorder in its International
Classification of Diseases (ICD) 11. WHO
defines gaming disorder as pattern of gaming behavior (video-gaming or
digital-gaming) characterized by impaired control over gaming, increased
priority given to gaming over other activities to such extent that gaming takes
precedence over other interests and daily activities.
2. Nikki Haley, the US Permanent Representative to the United
Nations, on June 19, 2018 announced the withdrawal of the United States from
the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), accusing the council of bias
against US ally Israel. However,
Haley asserted that United States will continue to promote human rights outside
of the council and would consider rejoining it in the future, if reforms are
made.
Defence:
1.
ICGS Rani Rashmoni,
fast patrol vessel (FPV) has commissioned by the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) in
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. It is
named after legendary Rani Rashmoni of Kolkata. It has been designed and built
by Hindustan Ship Yard Ltd. It is 51 metre long, 8.36 metre wide and weights
346-tonne. It is fifth and last ship to be commissioned in the series of fast
patrol vessel (FPV) project of ICG. It can perform multifarious tasks such as
surveillance, search and rescue, interdiction, anti-smuggling and anti-poaching
operations. The ship will be based at Visakhapatnam under the administrative
and operational control of Commander, No.6 Coast Guard District Headquarters
(Andhra Pradesh).
2.
The Indian Army has
drawn detailed plan to develop Jaisalmer Military Station in Rajasthan as smart
facility patterned on Central Government’s Smart Cities Mission. The plan has been formulated in consonance with eight key areas
identified by central government for development of Smart Cities. It has
provisions for rainwater harvesting, centralized garbage disposal,
solar-security lights, underground electric cabling, solar-water heaters, LED
lighting and LPG supply through pipelines.
3.
Indra-2018 - the
tri-service joint military exercise between India and Russia will take place at
Indian military base in second half of 2018. In
this edition of exercise, combined military units of Russian Eastern Military
District will participate in military drills. Members of Indian defence forces
were also involved in planning of the exercise which included practical
operations of units besides consumer services, catering and medical support for
Russian units. In addition, they also agreed on procedure for receiving and
servicing of military transport aircraft in India. In this regard, Russian
military delegation visited India to discuss logistics of the exercise.
Economy/ Banking:
1.
The definition of
relatives under the ‘maintenance of close relative’ category of Liberalised
Remittance Scheme (LRS) to check outflow of funds and prevent misuse of facility
has narrowed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Henceforth, funds under this
category can be sent only to immediate relatives such as parents, spouses,
children and their spouses.
Schemes:
1.
7-Star Gram Panchayat
Rainbow scheme to give star rankings to its panchayats on the basis of seven
social parameters has launched.by Harayana Government.Under this scheme, seven social parameters under which
panchayats will be judged are sex ratio, education, hygiene, environment
preservation, governance and social participation. Stars of different colours
(mentioned below) are awarded to panchayats depending upon their performance in
each parameter. Pink star: It will be awarded to those panchayats that make
outstanding performance in improving sex ratio. Green star: It is for
protection of environment, white star for cleanliness. Saffron star: It is for
crime-free villages. Sky colour star: It will be awarded to village that will
have no drop out. Golden star: It is for good governance. Silver star: It will
be awarded for participation in development of villages. Gram panchayats
scoring maximum in all parameters will be recognized as Indradhanush Gram
Panchayats. They will get special grants for development works from Development
and Panchayats Department of the State Government depending upon their
performance. Villages winning six stars will be entitled to get additional
developmental works worth Rs 20 lakh. Villages with 5 stars rating will get
additional developmental works worth Rs. 15 lakh. Villages with 4 stars will
get additional developmental works worth Rs 10 lakh.
2.
National Health
Resource Repository (NHRR) Project has launched by the Union Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare. It is country’s first
ever healthcare establishment census to collect data of all public and
private healthcare establishments. It aims
to strengthen evidence-based decision making and develop platform for citizen
and provider-centric services by creating robust, standardized and secured
IT-enabled repository of India’s healthcare resources. The census will be
conducted under Collection of Statistics Act 2008.
Appointments/ Resignations:
1.
President Ram Nath
Kovind on June 20, 2018 approved the Governor's rule in Jammu and Kashmir
(J&K) following the resignation of Mehbooba Mufti as Jammu and Kashmir's
Chief Minister.
Deaths:
1. The world's oldest known Sumatran orangutan passes away in an
Australian zoo on June 18, 2018 due to age-related complications. She was aged 62. Puan, described as the grand old lady
of Perth Zoo had been at the zoo since 1968 and was officially
recognised by Guinness World Records.
2. Mimicry
artist, Padma Sri awardee Nerella Venumadhav passed away on June 19, 2018
following a brief illness at his home in Mattewada in Warangal city. He was 85.
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