News : June 2019

JUNE 2019

Appointments

Nayib Bukele : Prez El Salvador Rajiv Mehrishi : CAG : External Auditor of WHO from 2020-2023  FIFA Prez : Gianni Infantino :  HQ : Zurick : FIFA World Cup 2022 : Qatar France beat Croatia in FIFA 2018 Axis Bank : Chairman :Rakesh Makhija  Prayuth Chan-ocha : PM of Thailand Tijjani Mohammad-Bande (Nigeria): Prez of 74th Assembly of UN General Assembly Chairman Wipro : Rishad Premzi : Previous: Azim Premji Vice chairperson : for the re-constituted NITI Aayog : Rajiv Kumar CEO : Amitabh Kant American Philosophical society : International Member : Romila Thapar  Managing Director of GIFT city : Tapan Ray Kassym Jomart Tokayev : Second Prez of Kazakhstan  Earlier : Nur Sultan : Capital changed to Nur Sultan name Pro term speaker of 17th Lok Sabha : Virendra Kumar CEO of Reckitt Benckiser (British goods giant): Laxman Narasimhan Zuzana Caputova : First female Prez of Slovakia(Capital Bratislava) Mission Director of Chandrayan 2 : Ritu Karidhal - Rocket Women Project director : Muthayya Vanitha UN Environment Programme : Exec Director : Inger Andersen - Denmark ISI new general Director : Faiz Hameed  Pak : Operation swift retort against balakot National Drink : Sugarcane National Heritage : Panj Tirat US Secretary of Defence : Mark Esper Mohammed Ould Ghazouni : Prez : Mauritania (after 60 yr election held) Chief of India Coast Guard : Krishnaswamy Natarajan Director RAW : Samanth Kumar Goel IB Director : Arvind Kumar

Resignations/Retirements

Obituaries

Evergreen Tea Man of India : Brij Mohan Khaitan : Company : Williamson Magor Mohammad Morsi : Former Prez of Egypt

Awards

Order of the Aztec Eagle : Orden Mexicana del Aguila Azteca : Highest Civilian award to foreigner : By Mexico : Pratibha Patil Rajasthan : WHO No Tobacco Day Award 2019 Malayalam Actress Sheela : J C Daniel Award Jimmy Carter : George H W bush Inaugural award Greta Thunberg(Sweden) : Ambassador of Conscience Award by Amnesty International, London The most honourable 'Order of the Distinguished Rule of Nishan Izzuddeen’ of Maldives : Narendra Modi - First foreign trip - 2019 UN equator Prize 2019 : Deccan Development society Telagana - Worked on Nature based solution Danny kaye Humanitarian Award by UNICEF : Priyanka Chopra  54th Jnanpith Award : Amitav Ghosh : Book Gun Island Manas Order of the First Degree : Highest national Prize of Kyrgyzstan : Xi Jinping BBC World Service global champion : Akshaya Patra Miss India World 2019 : Suman Rao - Rajasthan 2019 : PM's Award for promotion and development of Yoga : Antoneitta Rozzi Swami Rajarshi Muni Bihar School of Yoga Japan Yoga Niketan 'Star of Jerusalem' by Palestine : Mohammad Munir Ansari PM Modi became 1st PM to visit : Palestine Israel Mongolia Rwanda

Sports

Champions League (EU) : Liverpool  beats Tottenham Europa League : Chelsea beats Arsenal UEFA Countries League : Portugal beats Netherland FIFA World Cup : Women :  held in France French Open 2019 - Single Men : Rafael Nadel(Spain) - 12 times Single women : Ashleigh Barty(Aus) IAAF changed name to World Athletics National : Women’s Single title in Squash : Joshua Chinappa US open Golf Tournament 2019 : Gary Woodland  Eoin Morgan : England captain hits 17 sixes in ODI against Afghanistan Earlier : Rohit Sharma , Chris Gayle , AB de villiers hits 16 sixes Winter Olympics : 2026 :

International

World Tobacco Day : 31 May - Theme : Tobacco and Lung Health World’s Southernmost city : Puerto Williams : Chile  World Env Day : 5 June : Theme : Beat Air Pollution Estonia , Niger , St Vincent and the Grenadines,Tunisia,Vietnam : Elected as Non-permanent members in UNSC for 2 year term beginning : Jan 2020 15 members : 10 non-permanent  5 permanent : China , US , UK , France , Russia Indian Air Force to buy 100 spice 2000 bombs worth 300 crore from Israel Ferry Service between : India and Maldives : New Prez : Ibrahim Mohamed Solih National Maritime Heritage Museum : India and Portugal - Lothal , Gujarat Guest Country at Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico : India  45th Summit of G7 Countries : Will be held in France , Biarritz Mount Sinabung Volcano erupted  - Sumatra Island, Indonesia Mount Etna : Sicily Italy Mount Agung : Indonesia Mount Krakatoa : Indonesia 2019 SCO Summit : Bishkek , Kyrgyzsthan Russia invite Narendra Modi - Chief guest for Eastern Economic Forum to be held in Vladivostok Russia also gave highest civilian order to Narendra Modi - Order of Saint Andrew The Apostle. Japan will invest 13000 crore to develop NE region. New king : Naruhito New era : Reiwg World’s highest operating weather stations : Installed on Mt Everest  Operation sunrise 2 : India and Myanmar Armies to save Kaladan project  Facebook will launch digital currency LIBRA in 2020 UN report India will overtake China in population by 2027 QS World University Ranking : MIT (Eight Consecutive time) IIT Bombay - 152 rank 5th Conference on Interaction and Confidence building measures in Asia (CICA) Summit 2019 - Dushanbe, Tajikistan Guthi Bill : Nepal : To bring temple trustee under govt 5th International Yoga Day : Theme : UN : Yoga for Climate Change Theme : India : Yoga for Heart Internal Olympic Committee : lifted sanctions on  India to host international sporting events Full membership to FATF : Saudi Arabia ASEAN members adopted Bangkok declaration to combat Marine Debris Japan gifted Museum of Peace to Manipur : in Memory of second world war Sister city agreement : Ahmedabad and Kobe (Japan)

National

Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar Airport , Indore , MP : International Airport Mohana Singh : First Women Fighter Pilot : Fly by Daytime : Hawk Advanced Jet Aircraft Nal - se - Jal Scheme : Piped water connection to every household : 2024 Kargil Vijay Diwas : 26 July 1999 : Will complete 20 years Rythu Bharosa scheme : started by Andra Pradesh   E-rythu : Mobile App Land portal : Bhudar UP : CM Yogi unveiled 7 foot tall status of Lord Rama (Kodamb Rama) at Shodh Sansthan museum , Ayodha World highest status of Lord Rama to be built in Ayodha near Saryu river 221 m , greater than Status of Unity ( 182 m)  ‘Pink Sarathi’ vehicles for Women safety : Started by Karnataka Chaukhandi Stupa : Buddhist Site - Declared as Monument and protected areas National Importance by ASI : Sarnath UP First Woman Prez of Bar council of UP : Darvesh Singh : Shot dead by the lawyer  E-Foreigner Tribunal : Set up in Assam - Guwahati : First ISO certified railway station from NGT Maharaja Bir Bikram : 3rd Int Airport of NE : Agartala , Tripura Kurnool Int Airport : Andhra Pradesh Kannur : Kerela Rourkela / Jharsuguda (new Name : Veer Surendra Sai): Odisha Hollongi : Arunachal Pradesh - Foundation laid by Narendra Modi Madhya Pradesh : Smart Gaushala CM Yuva Sambal Yojana (Akshat Yojana) : Rajasthan : Unemployed graduate will get upto Rs 3500 Back to the Village : Programme started in J&K India's first Cruise boat - Launched in Kerala Air Traffic Flow Management : Central Command Centre : Inaugrated in New Delhi Khadi School Uniform : Pilot project by UP Bihar ban felling of trees : Due to pollution and increasing heat wave Balakot strike mission name : Operation Bandar Odisha released Flood Hazard Atlas NITI Aayog health index 2019 : Big state : Kerala best Big State : UP worst Small state : Mizoram best MHA released ranking of Police Station 2018 1. Kalu PS : Bikaner 2. Campbell PS : Andaman & Nicobar 3. Farakka PS : WB

Polity

Govt approved extension of President's rule in J&K for a period of 6 months under article : Art 356(4) Om Birla : 17th Lok Sabha Speaker

Economics

Govt approved farmers : PM Kisan Pension Yojana : Min 3000  Entry Age : 18-40 Govt extended : PM Kisan Samman Yojana to all farmers GI Tag: Kala Jeera and Chulli(dried Apricot) : Himachal Pradesh GI tag : Kolhapuri Chappal : Wore in Maharashtra and Karnataka RBI committee for Housing Finance Securitisation market : Harsh Vardhan RBI : Jan-Mar 2019 : GDP growth : 5.8% SDG Gender Equality Index : 95/129 : Denmark - 1 and 129 : Chad 10th Rank of India in FDI inflow 2018 by UNCTAD World Investment report 2019 RBI : Total 22 Ombudsman in India 3 in Delhi 2 in Mumbai Bangladesh: Fastest growing economy by ADB FY 2018-19 amon 45 countries of Asia Pacific region IndusInd Bank included with Bharat Financial Inclusion = IndusInd Financial Inclusion Ltd Central Banking System for Banking Infrastructure (CISBI) will replace Master Office File(MOF)

Env & Ecology

Animals to be conferred as Legal person/ entity : Haryana (2nd state) First state to do so : Uttrakhand Orchidarium : First in Meghalaya (Shillong) First Arachnarium (Spider) museum : Jabalpur First Oil Museum : Guwahati World’s First Emission Trading System for Particulate particle : Gujarat MoEF declared area around Asola Bhatti wildlife Sanctuary,Gurugram as eco-sensitive zone First Dinosaur Museum cum park : Raiyoli - Mahisagar - Gujarat First Solar Kitchen only Village : Bancha - Betul , MP India will host 14th session of COP-14 of UN Convention to combat desertification Centra plans to add 500 GW renewable energy by 2030 2022 : 175 GW

Science & Tech

IIT Guwahati set up Space Technology Cell with ISRO IIT Delhi : Laptop for Blind : Braille Laptop : DOTBOOK Min of AYUSH : Mobile APP : Through GPS : Yoga Locator  Kharga Prahar : Punjab : Army Training exercise First ever project to get power from waste-to-energy plant (Ghazipur) : Delhi Metro Garuda : Air Force Training : India and France Varuna : Navy : India and France Facebook launched first interactive Game show : Confetti in India  North Central Railway : Track Live status : NAMAN App India : Launch its space station by 2030 First mission to study Sun name Aditya-L1  - Launch In 2020 First Village to have 100% solar powered houses : Amasebailu, Udupi,Karnataka  WHO : Campaign to adopt tool to reduce spread of Anti Microbial resistance : AWaRe National plan to eradicate TB : 2025 Plan to eradicate Malaria : 2030 : MERA India (Malaria Elimination Research Alliance) All panchayat to be connected by BharatNet broadband : 2020

Books

Making India Awesome : New Essays And Columns : Chetan Bhagat The Test of my Life : Yuvraj Singh The 3rd Pillar : Raghuram Rajan Celestial Bodies : Jokha Alharti , Oman - Booker Prize - 2019 My seditious heart : Arundhati Roy My Life , My Mission : Baba Ramdev Gun Island : Amitav Ghosh : Jnapith 2018 Lessons Life Taught me , Unknowingly : Anupam Kher

Culture