Appointments

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- NCSC Ministry of social justice and Empowerment - Ram shankar Kateria-L

Murugan President
- Ganesh Kumar(Chief General Manager Dept. IT)-Chandan Sinha - ED of RBI
- Sanjiv Singh IOC chairmanH (Refineries Director) CPCL - HURL
- Nirupama Rao(First woman ambassador to China, 1st foreign spokesperson-MEA) -
Public policy fellow to US think tank (Sino India ties)
- Vinay Dube (Jet Airways CEO)(delta airlines Sr. VP) - Cramer Ball -
- Amul Thappar (2nd Indian US Court of Appeals Judge-District Judge Kentucky-U.S.
Attorney)
- Sashi Sekhar Vempati (Prasar Bharathi CEO)-Rajeev singh -VP headed panel
- Sharad kumar Jain (Add. DG of NWDA - Ministry of Water Resources, River
Development and Ganga Rejuvenation) Ken-Betwa river link project (NIH Roorkee,
Scientist)
- Hosiar Singh - Copyrights office - DoPT approved- Ministry of Industrial Policy
and Promotion
- K G Karmakar, Gauri Shankar (Ind. Directors) IPPB - Appointments committee of
Cabinet.
- Lakshmi Vilas Bank appointed B K Manjunath as the part-time Chairman
- Girish Wagh appointed as the Commercial Vehicle Business Head of Tata Motors.
Satish Borwankar COO Tata Motors
- Gaitri Issar Kumar as ambassador to the European Union, Reenat Sandhu to Italy
replacing Anil Wadhwa and Ajit Vinayak Gupte to Denmark replacing Rajeev Shahare
- Ramanathan Ramanan head of Atal Innovation Mission ( to promote
entrepreneurship ) -NITI Aayog appointment
- Antnio Guterres (Secretary General) Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov ( Under-
Secretary-General, Board of Governors of (IAEA)) UN Counter-Terrorism Office
- Rajiv Gauba ( Secretary in the union ministry for home affairs) Rajiv Mehrishi
(old)
- IDFC Bank appointed Sunil Kakar as MD and CEO
- Kaushik Basu - President of International Economic Association - ( Kenneth Arrow,
Robert Solow, Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz)
- National Skill Development Corporation - Skill India Campaign - Priyanka Chopra
40 cr by 2022
- R K Pachnanda ( Director General, ITBP ) Krishna Chaudhary (old)
- Rajesh V Shah NIFT (Ministry of Textiles) chairperson replacing cricketer Chetan
Chauhan (Sports min of UP)

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Awards
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- NAAC Asia Pacific Quality Network (APQN) (for international Co-operation in

Quality Assurance)
- J P Nadda - Health Family welfare min - tobacco control- WHO Director-Generals
Special Recognition Award
- Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee - Legion d' Honneur - earlier Commandeur de l'
Ordre des Arts ET des Lettres- Palke award
- Poet Haraprasad Das - Kalinga Literary Award
- Kalinga International Literary Award- Anand Neelakantan
- Kalinga Karubaki Award- Paramita Satpathy(Odia)
- Michael AHearn - NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal
- Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute, Pune selected for PM's yoga award -
Cabinet_PM_foreign Secretary , AYUSH Veerendra Heggade (Selection panel)
- Qatar Airways voted as the Worlds Best Airline in 2017 (4th time) (Skytrax World
Airline Awards-UK advertising authority (ASA))
- Anti-hunger activist Ankit Kawatra (Feeding India) to be honoured by Queen
Elizabeth II
- Nisha Dutt(Intellecap CEO Hyd) bags Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award
(seventh Asian Awards in London) Earlier(Ratan Tata, Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh
Khan and singer Asha Bhosle)
- West Bengal government received UN award (Kanyashree Prakalpa-Girl education)
- President of India presented the Hindi Sevi Samman Awards
Ganga Sharan Singh Award - Prof S Shesharatnam, M. Govindarajan, Prof Harmedra
Singh bedi, Prof H Suvdani
Ganesh Shankar Vidhyarthi Puruskar- Baldev Sharma and Rahul Dev
Aatmaram Award - Girishchandra and Fani bhushan
Swami Vivekanand Award - Shridhar Pradakar and Shriranjan suridev.
- Defence Minister presented the Raksha Mantris Awards Arun Jaitley (Ordnance
Factories and the Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs)

Institutional Awards (2014-15) - Bharat Dynamics Limited, Hyderabad, Goa Shipyard

Limited, Goa

Best Performing Division (2014-15) - Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Ordnance

Factory Medak, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited

Institutional Awards (2015-16) - Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bharat Electronics

Limited

Best Performing Division (2015-16) - Naval Systems, Ordnance Factory Medak, Goa
Shipyard Limited

Excellence for design and Development: BEML Ltd

- Pune city police (Commissioner Rashmi Shukla received the award) received FICCI
Smart Policing Award 2017 (Buddy Cop, Damini squad, Lost & Found portal, Beat
Marshal Monitoring Sapience App, and Tenant Information System)
- Satyabrata Rout awarded with Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar ( S N School of Arts
and Communication, University of Hyderabad (UoH).) Matte Ekalavya- Machindra ETA
- Priyanka Chopra honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke Award (Internationally Acclaimed
Actress)

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Authors
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- Ministry of Utmost Happiness" authored by Arundhati Roy released (won the Booker
prize for her previous novel "The God of Small Things")
- Former Union minister Jairam Ramesh launched a book called "Indira Gandhi: A Life
in Nature"
- Book on Vajpayee Yug Purush, Bharat Ratna, Atal Ji released (Ramesh Pokhriyal)
(Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the 10th Prime Minister of India for term from 1998 to
2004. He was honoured with Bharat Ratna award in 2014.)
- David Grossman bagged the Man Booker International Prize 2017 (A Horse Walks
into a Bar Israelic comedy)
- The fifth Bhupen Hazarika Award (by Sarhad, a Maharashtra-based organization) was
given to Yeshe Dorjee Thongshi (Arunachal Pradesh writer)
- A. Surya Prakash Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting Venkaiah Naidu
launched a book titled The Emergency-Indian Democracys Darkest Hour

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Committees
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- SEBI Constitutes Committee (Shri Uday Kotak, Executive Vice Chairman and Managing
Director of Kotak Mahindra Bank) on Corporate Governance
- GST Council to set up Anti-profiteering Panel
- RBI reconstituted Oversight Committee and appointed three more members (head:
vigilance commissioner Pradeep Kumar) Bad loans
- Government constitutes a committee to prepare the final draft of National
Education Policy - (head: Scientist Dr K. Kasturirangan) old(T.S.R. Subramanian ).
- BCCI formed 7-member Committee (Rajeev Shukla) to oversee Lodha Panel Reforms

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Deaths
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- Mehrunnisa Dalwai (Hamid Dalwai) march to 'Mantralaya' in Mumbai seeking

abolition of triple 'talaq'.
- Adam West, popularly known as "TVs Batman", passed away (Back to the Batcave)
- Germany's former chancellor and architect of reunification in 1990 Helmut Kohl
(Euro-EU unity)
- concept of Public Interest Litigations (PILs) - The 17th Chief Justice of India
PN Bhagwati died-
- British actor Sam Beazley passed away TV show: Pride and Prejudice.Professor
Everard in Harry Potter
- Companion of the Order of Australia Constantine Mitsotakis Greece PM
- Lupin Founder & Chairman Dr. Desh Bandhu Gupta passed away (made an entry into
Japan, which is one of the toughest pharmaceutical markets in the world - Pharma)

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Defence
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- Prithvi II is the first missile to have been developed by the DRDO under the
Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme.
- Project 75 of Indian Navy (Six Scorpene-class submarines) INS Khanderi
- first all-weather tracked-chassis Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QR-SAM)
from a mobile launcher at Integrated Test Range at Chandipur in Odisha. DRDO and
Bharat Electronics Limited.
- INS Sahyadri on overseas deployment to Papua New Guinea (Act East policy)
- ATGM Nag was tested successfully Rajastan desert
- AUSINDEX-17 (Malcom Turnbull Vizag naval 2015)
- Floating Dock FDN 2 for the Indian Navy launched (Deshpande L&T Kattupalli,
chennai)
- Aeronautical Test Range (ATR) Jaitely Chitradurga,KA.
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Economy
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- India loses fastest growing economy tag after GDP in Q4 grew at 6.1% (China-
6.9%)
- The GDP growth rate for the full year (2016 17) stood at 7.1%. During the
previous quarter, (October-December) India's GDP grew at 7%.
- SEBI Approves Airtel and Telenor Merger
- RCom-Aircel merged wireless company to be called Aircom
- USA and South East Asia continued to be the major importers.Indias Seafood
Export at all-time High in 2016-17 (Frozen shrimp, fish)
- NHB approved merger of Aadhar Housing Finance and DHFL Vysya Housing Finance
(Competition Commission of India (CCI) and the National Housing Bank (NHB))
- Microsoft to acquire Israeli security firm Hexadite
- IRDAI took over administration of Sahara Life Insurance
- Verizon acquired Yahoo for $4.48bn
- India topped global remittance-receiving list (globe sent home 62.7 billion US
dollars)
- Export of spices & spice products achieved growth of 12 % in 2016-17 (1. Chili 2.
Cumin)
- CCI slammed Rs. 87 crore penalty on Hyundai Motor India (0.3 per cent of the
companys average relevant turnover in the last three financial years from 2013-14)
- DGCA suspended flying license of Air Carnival, Air Pegasus and Air Costa
- Tata Group, Lockheed Martin signed deal to manufacture F-16 fighter jets in India
- SpiceJet became world's top airline stock with 124% gain in 2017 (Bloomberg
Intelligence index)

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Environment
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- TATA Projects launched Green Thumb initiative

- National Board of Wildlife cleared Rutland Island for DRDOs Missile Testing
Project
- The Botanical Survey of India, 313 species of animal and 186 of plants have been
discovered Total: 1,00,693 animal species
- The Government of India, the Government of Himachal Pradesh and the World Bank
signed a $36 million
- The loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
has a 5-year grace period, and a maturity of 19 years.
- prompt corrective action: Dena bank , UCO, IDBI, IOB, CBI, BOM (Maharashtra)
bank (high net non-performing assets and negative return on assets)
- India to grow at 7.2% in 2017-18: World Bank (7.5% in 2018-19 and 7.7% in 2019-
20) (global growth forecast in 2017 and 2018 at 2.7% and 2.9% respectively)
- RBI observed June 5-9, 2017 as Financial Literacy Week (booklet FAME (Financial
Awareness Messages))
- NSE launched its exchange at GIFT City Gandhinagar
- The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to keep the policy repo rate under
the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) unchanged at 6.25%.
reverse repo rate (6%) marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate
at 6.50%
- Vijaya Bank set to develop 100 digital villages
- Axis Bank launched the environmental friendly biodegradable gift cards
- Indian Overseas Bank launched retail mart in Thiruvananthapuram
- Canara Bank tied up with New India Assurance Company
- IDBI Banks only PSB to receive high rating for code compliance
- SBI and Tirumala Milk products unite to provide loans to dairy farmers
- Axis Bank and Kochi Metro join hands to launch Indias first single wallet
contactless, open loop metro card
- RBI announced states fiscal deficit mounted to Rs 4.93 trillion in FY16
- RBI amended Banking Ombudsman Scheme
- Banks Board Bureau (BBB), headed by former comptroller and auditor general Vinod
Rai + Shubhalaxmi Panse and private equity player Pradip Shah

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Important Dates
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- 1 June 2017 The theme for this year is World Milk Day: Raise a Glass"
- World Environment Day June 5. The theme for 2017, Connecting People to Nature
- 8 June - World Oceans day. Our oceans, our future
- International Albinism Day observed worldwide on June 13
- 2017 World elderly abuse awareness day observed June 15
- June 21 observed as International Yoga Day
- International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking: 26 June "Listen
First - Listening to children and youth is the first step to help them grow healthy
and safe."
- National Statistics Day observed on 29 June (Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis)
(Minister of Statistics and Program Implementation, Shri D. V. Sadananda Gowda)
Baranagar and Kolkata

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International
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- General Assembly Elected Slovakia Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajck as President

of the 72nd session
- Leo Varadkar elected as the New Ireland PM
- Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Yemen, Libya and UAE have suspended their
diplomatic ties with Qatar
- Sher Bahadur Deuba elected Nepals Prime Minister
- Montenegro (split from Serbia) became NATOs 29th member
- India and Sri Lanka signed agreement for developing Railway sector
- India and 67 other countries signed OECD pact to check tax evasion by MNCs (BEPS
(Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) )
- India, Pakistan Become Full Members of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO
against NATO)
- EU, France grant 3.5m euros to curb emissions in India (Mobilise Your City
(MYC) )
- China launched worlds largest floating solar farm
- USAs Cirrus Aircraft unveiled worlds smallest & cheapest private jet (Vision
Jet)
- G7 Environment Ministers meeting conducted in Bologna, Italy
- World Bank approved over $500 million loan for Afghanistan to boost economy
- Cochin Airport which is a 100 per cent worlds first green airport generating
more energy than required
- Shri Bandaru Dattatreya participated in the ILC
- China unveiled Worlds first train that runs on Virtual Tracks
- Google fined 2.42 billion euros by the European Commission
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- A London court has declared three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker bankrupt
- Ministry of Environment Award for 2017 Shrihari Chandraghatgi
- Jammu and Kashmir governor NN Vohra has been appointed as the new president of
the India International Centre (IIC) and will replace eminent jurist Soli Sorabjee
who has stepped down
- Lewis Hamilton won the 2017 Canadian Grand Prix-

- IT & Electronics: India Bangladesh

- Merchant Shipping India Cyprus
- Agriculture: India Palestine
- youth matters/peaceful uses of outer space india Armenia
- Cooperatives India Mauritius
- CSIR Ethopia
- Prisoners India Somalia
- standardization and conformity assessment India Mali
- securities markets India Iran
- ANUGA - an international business platform for Food Industry to be held in
Cologne, Germany
- Archives/Public Administration and Governance Reforms India Portugal
- Social Security/ Water resources management India Netherlands
- cooperation in the textiles, clothing and fashion sectors between India and
Australia
- Traditional Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy between India and Sri Lanka
- VAJRA scheme to attract Indian scientists abroad
- India and Fiji signed MoU on defence cooperation
- India and Israel on National Campaign for Water Conservation in India
- India and the USA on Homeland Security
- India and Thailand sign MoU on Cooperation in Controlling Narcotic Drugs
- Ganeshan Neelakanta Iyer Table Tennis
- Sachin became part of the UN Campaign "Super Dads" UNICEF
- Indian American Raja Chari among 12 new astronauts chosen by NASA
- Padmalaya Nanda crowned Little Miss Universe Internet 2017
- Neeru Chadha elected as 1st Indian woman member of ITLOS
- Manushi Chhillar won the title of Femina Miss India World 2017
- Varanasi to get Indias first freight village
- Mysuru to have countrys first public bicycle sharing project
- Habibganj Railway Station to become Indias First Private Railway Station
(Bhopal)
- Gem & Jewellery Training Institute set up in Udupi
- Sumitra Mahajan inaugurated 16th NERCPA Conference at Imphal
- Indore became Indias first city to use robot to control traffic
- Indore was recently ranked number one clean city of India by the Government of
India.
- Bengaluru based Mypetrolpump becomes 1st in India to deliver diesel at home
- Delhi Police launched bicycle patrol
- Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis launched portal for job seekers, employers
"Mahaswayam"
- MITS Mega Food Park inaugurated at Rayagada, Odisha
- Odisha to get first automatic coastal warning for disasters in India
- Telangana Launched T-Wallet
- AP's Vizianagaram won MGNREGA national award
- Telangana launched single-woman pension scheme
- Kerala government implemented green protocol for weddings
- Tamil Nadu government signed MoU with Aviation Ministry for UDAN Scheme
- India's first underwater Metro to be launched in Kolkata
- CRY Report: Uttar Pradesh ranks First in Number of Child Labourers
- Sikkim inked MoU with British Council for education sector
- Telangana launched website for online cattle sale
- Open Defecation free states: Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala,Utarakhand,
haryana
- World Bank sanctioned 44 million dollars loan for ASPIRe
- Indias biggest municipal bonds programme launched in Maharashtra, Pune
- Haryana to implement health insurance scheme for poor
- Government doctors in UP to retire at 62
- UP government signed pact with ADB for strengthening of roads
- Odisha to set up the first Blood Bank in the country for cattle

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- Kohli, Dhoni, Yuvraj and Raina feature in ESPN World Fame 100 list
- Global Peace Index 2017: India ranks 137th (Iceland (1), New Zealand (2),
Portugal (3), Austria (4), Denmark (5))
- India slipped to 45th spot in IMD's World Competitiveness list (Hong Kong ,
Switzerland, Singapore , USA , Netherlands )
- India ranked at top position in Global Retail Development Index
- Virat Kohli only Indian in top 100 of Forbes list of worlds highest paid
athletes
- UNCTAD: India among Top FDI Destinations
- Forbes world's highest-paid celebrities list unveiled : Sean Combes, Beyonc
Knowles, JK Rowling
- GII Rankings placed India at 60th spot in most innovative global country
(Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands US, UK)
- Tapan Ray - Shaktikanta Das (Economic Affairs Secretary)
- Ramachandra Guha resigned as BCCI Administrator
- Super-Earth found 21 light years away
- NASA renamed solar probe mission to honor physicist Eugene Parker
- China launched its 1st X-ray space telescope with the name "Insight"
- Bercelonas Lionel Messi honored with fourth Golden Shoe (Europe)
- Real Madrid became first team to win consecutive UEFA Champions League titles
- B Sai Praneeth won Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold title
- Rohan Bopanna won maiden grand slam with French Open mixed doubles title
- Ramkumar Ramanathan lifts ITF mens Futures tennis title
- Muttiah Muralitharan inducted into ICC Hall of Fame (83rd)
- IOC approved new events for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
- Michael Venus-Ryan Harrison won French Open men's doubles title
- Jelena Ostapenko(Lativa) won French Open title 2017
- Shashikant Kutwal bagged gold at World Chess Championship
- Ace shooters Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu bagged gold medal in ISSF World Cup
(gabala, Azerbaijan)
- Lewis Hamilton clinched Canadian Grand Prix (56th)
- K Srikanth bagged Indonesian Open Super Series badminton title (3rd after China
open India Open, 4th Australia Open Super Series)
- Srinivas Gokulnath became 1st Indian to finish solo Race Across America
- Yashaswini Deswal bagged gold in 10m air pistol in ISSF Junior World Championship
- Ankush Dahiya won Gold at Mongolia boxing tournament
- Federer won his ninth Halle Open title (Total 18)