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“Darwaza Band”: The new campaign launched by the Union Government to promote
toilet use and freedom from open defecation across India's villages
 “Darwaza Band” is the name of the newly launched
campaign that primarily aims to change behaviour
of men defecating in open, who have toilets but are
not using them.
 The name “Darwaza Band” stands for shutting the
door on open defecation.
 The campaign was officially launched from Mumbai
on 30 May 2017 with actor Amitabh Bachchan
promoting it as its brand ambassador.
 The campaign also seeks to promote toilet use and freedom from open defecation across
the country’s villages. It has been supported by the World Bank.
 IT has been produced by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation under Swachh
Bharat Mission.
 Actress Anuskha Sharma is also part of the campaign and will be seen encouraging women
to stand up for this issue in their villages and assume a leadership role.
Holy City Varanasi to get India’s 1st freight village

 India’s holy city Varanasi will get the country's first 'freight village'
spread over around 100 acres. The plan to set up this project close to the
upcoming multi-mode terminal along the Ganga has attracted major
players including Dubai Port World and IL&FS.
 Sharaf Group of Abu Dhabi, a global player in shipping, logistics and
supply chain is also keen on the project.
 They added that the big facility will not only bring investment but also
generate jobs.
 A 'Freight Village' is a specialised industrial estate which attracts
companies that require logistics services and can cluster to improve their competitiveness.
 This will allow relocation of retailers, warehouse operators and logistics service providers
supplying the regional FMCG market.
 Due to its proximity to the main city, it will serve as a distribution centre and as a point of
transfer between long distance transport by truck, rail and waterway and short distance
distribution with delivery vans.
 'Freight Village' includes an inter-modal terminal, which facilitates integration between
different modes of transport.
 The World Bank has taken the lead to put in place the project which will provide
connectivity to the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor, the country's longest waterway,
and the national highway as well.
 Varanasi being a strategic location provides the opportunity to facilitate the transshipment
of about 30 million tonnes of domestic freight as well as another nine million tonnes of
export-import freight.
India to get 1st new conventional sub “INS Khanderi “after 17-year wait
 India will finally commission its first new conventional submarine in July-August after a
long gap of over 17 years, while the second one will begin its sea trials off Mumbai this
week.
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 This comes as a strong booster shot for Indian Navy, which is trying to retain its traditional
underwater combat edge over Pakistan, even as Chinese submarines are making regular
forays into the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).
 INS Kalvari (tiger shark) is the first of the six French diesel-electric Scorpene submarines
being built under the Rs 23,652 crore "Project-75" at Mazagon Docks in Mumbai.
 It will be inducted into the force after extensive sea trials in July or August.
 INS Khanderi, the 2nd of the six French diesel electric Scorpene submarines being built, is
slated to begin its long sea trials.
 The Navy is currently grappling with just 13 ageing conventional submarines, with just half
of them operational at any given time.
 India also has two nuclear-powered submarines, INS Arihant and INS Chakra, but the latter
does not have nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles because it has been acquired on lease from
Russia.
 The Scorpene project has, of course, faced huge time and cost overruns.
 INS Kalvari, for instance, was to be ready by 2012, with the other five coming by 2017.
 Now, with the third submarine INS Vela to be "launched" later this year, all the six will be
inducted by 2020 or so.
 Presently, India’s Navy chief Admiral is Sunil Lanba.
Telangana became the first state in the country to launch official e-wallet
 Telangana on 1 June 2017 became the first Indian state to have an official e-wallet by
launching the ‘T-Wallet’, the official digital wallet of the state.
 This is the first official e-wallet from any state government in India.
 Using this platform, the citizens not only can make payments to government and private
organisations towards various services but also receive the benefits from government like
pensions, scholarships and MGNREGS wages.
 It offers an ‘anytime anywhere’ platform for digital payments with no additional charge for
the citizens.
 The digital payment option has been available across formats such as online web browser,
smart phone, feature phone and even without a phone.
 The Microsoft Accelerator alum startup “Transaction Analysts” has partnered with
Telangana to develop T-Wallet which uses two factor authentications, through Aadhaar
Biometric or Aadhaar OTP to Aadhaar linked mobile number, for feature and no phone
users.
India slips to 45th spot in IMD's World Competitiveness list

 According to IMD, India has been ranked 45th in terms of
competitiveness in the annual rankings compiled by IMD
which saw Hong Kong topping the list.
 It has down four notches from last year.
 USA was "pushed out" of the top three slots while Hong Kong
consolidated its dominance of the annual rankings for the
second year in the list.
 The list has compiled by the International Institute for Management Development's (IMD)
World Competitiveness Center.
 Switzerland and Singapore were ranked second and third respectively, with the USA at the
fourth spot - its lowest position in five years and down from third last year.
 The Netherlands completed the top five, jumping up from eighth last year.
 Others in the top 10 list include Ireland at 6th, Denmark 7th, Luxembourg (8th), Sweden
(9th) and UAE at 10th.
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 As India slid, China improved its position by seven places to 18th, thanks to its dedication
to international trade.
 The bottom of the table, meanwhile, is largely occupied by countries experiencing political
and economic upheaval. Ukraine was ranked 60th, while Brazil was placed at the 61st
position and Venezuela at 63rd.
Top of the digital ranking:
1. Singapore
2. Sweden
3. the USA
4. Finland
5. Denmark
 The bottom five are Indonesia, Ukraine, Mongolia, Peru and Venezuela.
Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QR-SAM) successful test

 India conducted the first-ever successful test of the indigenously developed Quick Reaction
Surface-to-Air Missile from the Integrated Test
Range (ITR), Chandrapur in Odisha on 4 June
2017.
 This missile has been developed by the Defence
Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
in collaboration with Bharat Electronics Limited
(BEL).
 QR-SAM has been jointly developed by the
Defence Research and Development Organisation
(DRDO) and Bharat Electronics Limited.
 This missile system has the potential to engage multiple targets within a range of
approximately 30 km, with the configuration of two vehicles for area air defence.
 It is equipped to for quick reaction and the system is all weather enabled, a network-centric
one, which is also capable of search-on-the-move.
 The missile is a truck-mounted one with 360 degree rotatable, electronic-mechanically
operated, turret-based launch unit.
ISRO’s most powerful rocket GSLV Mk III places GSAT-19 communication satellite in
orbit
 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its most powerful rocket,
GSLV Mk III nicknamed 'Fatboy'.
 It has been fired by a high thrust indigenous
cryogenic engine in the first developmental flight
and placed the country's heaviest satellite in orbit.
 ISRO has demonstrated its mastery in developing a
cryogenic engine, a technology denied to it years
ago.
 The launch proves the homegrown launch vehicle's
capability of hurling up to four tonne payload into
higher orbits.
 It has also laid a strong foundation for its ambitious future projects, including
Chandraayan-II and a manned mission, besides venturing into the global heavy payload
market.
 GSLV Mk III-D1 carrying communication satellite GSAT-19 lifted off from the second launch
pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
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 Around 16 minutes after takeoff, the vehicle placed the satellite in the geosynchronous
transfer orbit.
India’s first ‘private’ railway station “Habibganj" given to a private entity for operation
and maintenance
 Habibganj in the suburbs of Bhopal will become
India’s first ‘private’ railway station if all goes
according to the plans prepared by the Indian
Railway.
 It will be country’s first railway station to be
redeveloped as a public-private partnership
(PPP).
 The operational and maintenance
responsibilities for the station have been given
to Bhopal-based Bansal Group for a period of eight years.
 It has also received four land parcels on a 45-year lease.
 It will invest Rs.100 crore to overhaul the station which was opened in 1979, and around
Rs. 350 crore to develop four commercial land parcels adding up to 17,245 sq.
 As per the plan, the station will be designed as a world-class transit hub with shopping
complex, adequate parking lot, eateries, forex kiosk and other facilities for passengers at
railway premises.
India among Top FDI Destinations : UNCTAD Report

 According to UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2017, India continues to remain as a
favourite destination for FDI even though tax related
concerns remain as a deterrent for the foreign
investors. According to the report, the favourite
destinations for FDI are the US, China and India.
 As per the report FDI inflows into a developing Asia
has reduced by 15% to USD 443 billion in 2016.
 This decline is the first since 2012.
 Other than South Asia, the decline has affected the three sub regions of Asia.
 However, the report has observed that an improved economic outlook in major economies
like ASEAN, China and India is expected to boost investor’s confidence thereby increasing
the region’s prospects for 2017.
 In Asian region, major recipients like China, India and Indonesia have renewed their
policies to attract FDI.
 This is expected to increase the FDI inflows in 2017.
 In South Asia, FDI inflows increased by 6% to USD 54 billion and outflows declined by 29%
to USD 6 billion.
 FDI inflows into India remained stagnant at USD 44 billion.
 India’s outward foreign flows declined by about one third. Cross-border merger and
acquisition deals have become important tools in the hands of the foreign multinational
enterprises to foray into the rapidly-growing Indian market.
 The report has also noted that signing of tax treaty with Mauritius would have contributed
to decline in instances of round tripping of FDI. for the first time, China has emerged as the
world’s second largest investor of FDI.
 BRICS grouping (Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Asia), which
accounts for 22% of the global GDP has received only 11% of the global FDI inflows.
 The World Investment Report has been published by the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development (UNCTAD) annually since 1991.
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 The report focuses on trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide, at the regional
and country levels.
 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964.
Petrol and Diesel Prices to be revised Daily from June 16

 State-run oil marketing companies such as Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Hindustan
Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) will revise the
prices of petrol and diesel daily from June 16 throughout the country.
 The move is aimed at countering the practice of undercutting by private retailers as well as
to bring India at par with the US oil market. Private retailers such as RIL and Essar are also
expected to switch to the new pricing mechanism.
 At present, State-run oil marketing companies revise rates of petrol and diesel on the 1st
and 16th of every month by taking into account the average international crude price in the
preceding fortnight and the currency exchange rate.
Top 200 global universities in World: Three Indian institutions placed it to the list
 For the first time, three renowned Indian institutions made it to the list of the top 200
global universities as was revealed in the latest QS World University Rankings 2018
released on 8 June 2017.
 Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay are the three
institutions that made it to the 2018 edition of this list.
 Top 200 institutions in the list the top 1% of approximately 26,000 universities surveyed
globally.
 IISc Bangalore has climbed from 190 to 152 this year, IIT-Delhi moved down from 172 to
185, while IIT-Bombay jumped from 219 to 179 in this year’s list.
 QS World University Rankings is prepared by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) WUR.
 It is a British agency, which ranks higher educational institutes, compares top universities
in the world based on six performance parameters across for sectors like Research,
Teaching, Employability and Internationalisation, plus a considerable 40 point weightage
to the institute’s stature.
Uttar Pradesh ranks First in Number of Child Labourers : CRY Report

 According to a recently released CRY Report on child labour, more than 8 lakh children
between the age group of 5 and 6 years in India are
engaged in child labour.
 Child Rights and You (CRY) is an NGO working towards
the up-liftment of underprivileged children.
 The organization got established in 1979 by Rippan
Kapur.
 As per the report, over 5 lakh children in India do not
attend school. A majority of them are involved in family
based employments.
 Uttar Pradesh ranks first in the number of child labourers (2,50,672 children) in the
country followed by Bihar (1,28,087 children) and Maharashtra (82,847 children).
 The report has identified that the high level of poverty and unemployment along with a
lack of adequate social security net are the important factors forcing children to work,
compromising with their learning.
 These children are often forced to migrate with their parents and assist in family
occupations such as working in brick kilns.
 The report cites that the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) suffers many
limitations and is now covering only 50% of the child labourers.
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 In the decade 2001-11, the working children in the age group of 10-14 years saw a
reduction of 30% but the child labourers in the age group of 5-9 years have seen an
increase of 37% from 2001.
 ICDS Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme is a centrally sponsored
scheme implemented by the states/UTs.
 The Scheme was launched on 2nd October 1975.
 The scheme has aim to improve the nutritional and health status of children in the age-
group 0-6 years; to reduce mortality, morbidity, malnutrition and school dropout; to
promote policy coordination and implementation for promoting child development; to lay
an adequate foundation for the psychological, physical and social well-being of the children
etc.
India launches free legal aid via video conferencing to villagers

 The “Tele-Law” initiative has launched by Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Law and
Justice, Electronics, and Information Technology.
 It will be piloted in 500 village councils in the
northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and
then rolled out across the rest of the country in a
phased manner.
 Villagers will access the service through newly
established "Common Service Centres” -single-
window centres providing online services to the
public in rural areas where there is little or poor
internet connectivity.
 Through the “Tele-Law” portal, people will be able to access lawyers - selected by the
government in their state capitals - and seek advice on anything from land disputes to
domestic violence cases via video conference.
 Hundreds of village women will also be trained up as paralegal volunteers and will act as
the first point of contact for rural citizens -explaining the advice given by lawyers and
assisting if further action is required.
 Their training will include understanding laws on social justice and fundamental rights.
 It will include women and child rights as well as labour-related legislation.
 Tele-Law will fulfill our commitment to ensure access to justice and empowerment of the
poor.
 The Common Services Centers and paralegal volunteers will offer easy legal advice to
litigants in rural India making them digitally and financially inclusive.
 An economic boom over the last two decades has lifted millions of Indians out of poverty
and boosted literacy rates in the country of 1.3 billion.
World’s largest refinery was signed among three India state-owned oil firms IOC, BPCL
and HPCL.
 A historic agreement to set up world’s largest refinery was
signed on 14 June 2017 between three India state-owned
oil firms IOC, BPCL and HPCL.
 This $30-billion refinery will be established at Ratnagiri
,Maharashtra.
 This proposed refinery will also be world’s largest
refinery.
 The 60 million tonnes capacity refinery at Babulwadi,
Taluka Rajapur in Ratnagiri district is being set up keeping in mind the future fuel demand
and the export potential of the country.
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 It is worth mentioning that Reliance Industries Limited (RIL’s) Jamnagar Refinery (Gujarat)
is at present world’s largest refinery.
 Indian Oil Corp (IOC) will be the lead partner with 50% stake while Hindustan Petroleum
Corp Ltd (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) will take 25% stake each.
 The refinery and the accompanying mega petrochemical complex will be set up in two
phases. Phase-1 will be 40 million tonnes together with an aromatic complex, naphtha
cracker and polymer complex.
 The refinery will produce petrol, diesel, LPG, ATF and feedstock for making petrochemicals
that are basic building blocks in plastic, chemical and textile industries.
India become number one Remittance Receiving Country : UN Report

 According to the ‘One Family at a Time’ study conducted by the UN International Fund for
Agricultural Development (IFAD), Indians working across the world had sent home USD
62.7 billion in 2016 making India the top remittance-receiving country surpassing China.
 Around 200 million migrants across the world have sent more than USD 445 million in
2016 as remittances to their families.
Top Remittance Receiving Countries:
1. India (USD 62.7 billion),
2. China (USD 61 billion),
3. Philippines (USD 30 billion)
4. Pakistan (USD 20 billion).
 Around 80% of the remittances across the world are received by 23 countries such as
India, China, the Philippines, Mexico and Pakistan.
Top Remittance Sending Countries:
1. USA
2. Saudi Arabia
3. Russia.
Global Innovation Index (GII) – 2017: India ranked 60th position

 According to WIPO, India’s place in a global list of most innovative nations Global
Innovation Index is 60th.
 The GII was released by Cornell University, INSEAD
and the WIPO.
 India moved into the top half of the Global
Innovation Index (GII) in 2017 by climbing six
spots to 60 in a survey of innovative capacity
among 127 countries.
 The country also maintained the top spot in the
Central and South Asia regions.
 Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, the US and the UK lead the 2017 GII rankings.
 China further improved its ranking to 22 from 25 last year.
 The list was released by Cornell University, INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) released on 15 June 2017.
Global Peace Index - 2017: India ranks 137th while Bhutan most peaceful in South Asia
 According to IEP, India has been considered as one of the most peaceful nations in South
Asia in 2017 and ranked at 137th globally.
 The Global Peace Index 2017 was prepared by the Australia-based Institute for Economics
and Peace (IEP).
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 Bhutan, which ranked 13, has been named as the most peaceful country in South Asia,
followed by Sri Lanka 80th, Bangladesh 84th, India 137th, Pakistan 152nd and Afghanistan
162nd.
 The level of peace around the world has improved slightly for the
first time since the Syrian war began in 2011.
 However, it noted that the incidents of terrorism have increased
during the period.
 The world has became 0.28 % more peaceful than 2016.
 The global level of peace has slightly improved this year by 0.28 %,
with 93 countries improving, while 68 countries deteriorated.
 Since 2008, the global level of peace deteriorated by 2.14 %, with
80 countries improving while 83 deteriorated.
 One of the major trends recorded over the last decade has been the growing inequality in
peace between the most and least peaceful countries.
 The GPI shows the difference in score between the least peaceful and most peaceful
countries has been increasing.
 The GPI measures the level of peace in various countries with help of authentic qualitative
and quantitative indicators of peace.
 The IEP is an independent non-profit making organisation oriented to focus world's
attention on peace.
Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad celebrates centenary years

 Mahatma Gandhi’s iconic Sabarmati Ashram in
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) completed 100 years of its
existence on 17 June 2017.
 It served as epicentre of the country’s freedom
struggle during Mahatma Gandhi’s stay there.
 Mahatma Gandhi lived in the ashram, situated on the
banks of Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad along with
his wife Kasturba from 1917 and 1930.
 It came into existence on 17 June 1917, exactly 100 years ago.
 It was from his base here that Mahatma Gandhi led the famous ‘Dandi March’ (also known
as the Salt Satyagraha) on 12 March 1930.
 It is worth mentioning that Gandhiji had initially established his ashram at the Kocharab
Bungalow of Jivanlal Desai, a barrister and friend of Gandhi, on 25 May 1915.
 But seeking to carry out many other activities like animal husbandry and farming, the
ashram was located to a larger area near Sabarmati River.
 So two years later, on 17 June 1917, the ashram was relocated to an area of thirty-six acres
on the banks of the river Sabarmati, and it came to be known as the Sabarmati Ashram.
 The ashram now has a museum, the Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Kochi Metro services

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Kochi Metro services on 17 June 2017.
 It is Kerala’s first metro train services (13.2 km in length) and
India’s eighth operational metro service.
 Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) was entrusted with the
task of constructing and commissioning this metro service and
it completed the task in record time of 4 years.
 India's seven cities having operational metro services are –
Kolkata, Delhi, Bengaluru, Gurugram (Gurgaon), Mumbai,
Jaipur and Chennai.
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 Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) is India’s first integrated multi-mode transport system.
 This means that by purchasing a single ticket, commuters will be able to travel in feeder
services along road and water.
 It is the first metro system is the first in the country to use Communication Based Train
Control (CBTC) technology for maximising train frequencies and minimising errors.
 It is also the first public transport system in the country that has reserved jobs for the
transgenders.
Taj Mahal Palace Hotel became the first hotel in India to get a trademark
 Taj Mahal Palace Hotel ,Mumbai became the first in India to get a trademark after its owner
got the building trademarked on 19 June 2017.
 The trademark was obtained by Indian Hotels Company (IHCL), which runs the Taj Mahal
Palace.
 This hotel building has been a defining structure of Mumbai’s skyline.
 It joined the elite and small club of trademarked properties in the world which includes the
Empire State Building in New York, the Eiffel Tower in Paris and Sydney Opera House.
 With IHCL trademarking the building, nobody can now use Taj Mahal Palace’s images for
commercial purposes without paying the company a licensing fee.
 The Taj Mahal Palace was built in 1903 by former IHCL chairman Cyrus Mistry’s family firm
Shapoorji Pallonji & Company.
 During World War I it was converted into a hospital.
 The hotel was one of the primary targets of 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks.
L&T developed Indian Navy’s first indigenously built Floating Dock FDN-2
 Indian Navy’s first indigenously built Floating Dock (FDN-2) has been developed by Larsen
& Toubro Ltd. (L&T). It was launched at L&T’s shipyard in
Kattupalli (Tamil Nadu) on 20 June 2017.
 This floating dock is 185 meters long and 40 meters wide
and will enable docking of all kinds of vessels, including
naval ships and submarines (excepting aircraft carriers and
tankers) of up to 8,000 tonnes displacement.
 It will be based in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and
will enhance the Navy’s technical repair infrastructure.
 The Navy already has one Floating Dock (FDN-1); this would be its second such facility.
 India's first indigenously developed floating dockyard, at Larsen & Toubro's greenfield
shipyard at Kattupalli near Chennai.
 This is the first floating dock commissioned after a gap of more than 30 years.
 FDN2 was commissioned by the ministry of defence in 2015 at an order value of Rs 468
crore and is expected to handle repairs of all destroyer ships, tankers, submarines - with a
displacement of nearly 8,000 tonnes.
 FDN2 is expected to leave for Port Blair, Andaman, in the next eight weeks - the place
where the Indian Navy's first floating dock -FDN1 -is anchored.
 Commissioning a dry-dock would cost anywhere up to Rs 2,000 crore, while this floating
dock has been built at a cost of Rs 468 crore.
President to launch GST on midnight of June 30 in Parliament

 The Goods and Services Tax (GST) will replace a patchwork of central and state levies on
goods and services and is one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's biggest reforms since
taking power in May 2014.
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 Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that the

country will transition to the Goods and Services Taxes
(GST) Bill on the midnight of June 30 to July 1.
 President Pranab Mukherjee will officially launch the Bill in
Parliament’s Central Hall.
 It is a more efficient system prone to checking evasion.
 The revenues will grow and the spending capacity of
governments at the Centre and the States will increase
which shall have a positive impact on the GDP.
 Most of the States had cleared State GST laws, with the exception of Kerala and Jammu and
Kashmir.
 The Bill will be officially launched late in the evening on June 30.
 All Members of Parliament, Chief Ministers, State Finance Ministers, GST Council members
and officials and all chairmen of the empowered committees on GST would be invited.
 In July and August extended the date for filing the monthly returns.
 Now industry and trade have to prepare themselves.
 The process of registration is going on well and because it's prone to checking evasion, in
the long run, the number of assessees will also increase.
 Of the approximately 80 lakh assessees in all taxes put together, 65 lakh had registered as
of last week.
 Industry's readiness would be determined by August 10, when the first returns would be
filed.
 The principle behind the tax rates suggests that revenue will be lower, but revenue won't
fall because an efficient system will reduce evasion.
 So the rates falling on some products will have some impact on inflation.
 There will be another impact on the compensation to States. Those who don't join don't get
that benefit of revenue loss compensation for 5 years.
Smart City Mission: Thirty cities were added to Union Government’s list
 This is the second anniversary of the launch of the Smart Cities Mission, been celebrated.
 The Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu announced addition of thirty
more cities in the list of cities under its Smart City Mission.
 With this the total number of smart cities has reached 90.
 Among the selected cities, Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala topped the challenge to be
included in this list.
 The other cities selected are Naya Raipur ( Chhattisgarh), Rajkot (Gujarat), Amravati
(Andhra Pradesh), Patna (Bihar), Karimnagar (Telangana), Muzaffarpur (Bihar),
Puducherry, Gandhinagar ( Gujarat), Srinagar ( J&K), Sagar (MP), Karnal (Haryana), Satna
(MP), Bengaluru (Karnataka), Shimla (H. P), Dehradun (Uttarakhand), Tirupur (T.N),
Pimpri Chinchwad (Maharashtra), Bilaspur ( Chhattisgarh), Pasighat (Arunachal Pradesh),
Jammu (J&K), Dahod (Gujarat), Tirunelveli, Thootukkudi and Tiruchirapalli (TN), Jhansi (
U.P), Aizawl (Mizoram), Allahabad and Aligarh (U.P). and Gangtok in Sikkim.
 There are 100 cities supposed to be selected for the Smart Cities Mission in total.
City Liveability Index” launched by the Union Govt.

 The first-of-its-kind “City Liveability Index” was launched by
Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on 23
June 2017.
 It will rank the India's 116 major cities on the basis of the
quality of life.
 The index will assess across India on a comprehensive set of
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79 parameters including availability of roads, education, healthcare and employment

opportunities.
 It will enable the cities to know where they stand in terms of the quality of life and the
interventions required to improve it.
 The ranking will be released in 2018.
India's population to surpass that of China around 2024: UNO

 According to UNO, India's population could surpass that of China around 2024.
 It projected to touch 1.5 billion in 2030.
 The World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision, published by
the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
 Currently, China with 1.41 billion inhabitants and India with 1.34
billion remain the two most populous countries, comprising 19 and
18 % of the total global population.
 The 2017 Revision of World Population Prospects is the 25th round
of official UN population estimates and projections.
 In its 24th round of estimates released in 2015, it was projected that
the population of India will surpass that of China's by 2022.
 The new estimates in 2024, India and China are expected to have roughly a population of
1.44 billion each.
 India's population is projected to continue growing for several decades to around 1.5
billion in 2030 and approaching 1.66 billion in 2050.
 The population of China is projected to remain stable until the 2030s, after which it may
begin a slow decline.
 India s population may eventually see a decline in the half century after 2050 to 1.51 billion
by 2100 but it will still be the most populous country in the world.
 In India, life expectancy at birth will be 71 years in 2025-2030, growing to 74.2 years in
2045-2050.
 The under-five mortality rate will decline from 32.3 deaths under age five per 1,000 live
births in 2025-2030 to 18.6 in 2045-2050.
 The current world population of 7.6 billion is expected to reach 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8
billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100.
 Ten countries are expected to account collectively for more than half of the world s
projected population increase over the period 2017-2050: India, Nigeria, Congo, Pakistan,
Ethiopia, Tanzania, the United States, Uganda, Indonesia and Egypt.
 Among the ten largest countries worldwide, Nigeria is growing the most rapidly.
 Consequently, the population of Nigeria, currently the world s 7th largest, is projected to
surpass that of the US and become the third largest country in the world shortly before
2050.
 Further, large and persistent economic and demographic asymmetries between countries
are likely to remain key drivers of international migration for the foreseeable future.
 Between 2015 and 2050, the top net receivers of international migrants (more than
100,000 annually) are projected to be the US, Germany, Canada, UK, Australia and Russia.
 The countries projected to be net senders of more than 100,000 migrants annually include
India, Bangladesh, China, Pakistan and Indonesia.
 In 2010-2015, around 46 % of the world s population lived in intermediate-fertility
countries, where women have on average between 2.1 and 5 births over a lifetime.
 Intermediate-fertility countries are found in many regions, with the largest being India,
Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Mexico and the Philippines.
 In 2045-2050, it is expected that slightly less than a third of the world s population will live
in countries with fertility in this range.
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 Most of the world's population will be living in countries with relatively low levels of
fertility, where women bear fewer than 2.1 children on average.
 Substantial improvements in life expectancy have occurred in recent years.
 Globally, life expectancy at birth has risen from 65 years for men and 69 years for women
in 2000-2005 to 69 years for men and 73 years for women in 2010-2015.
Uttarakhand and Haryana Declared Open Defecation Free States (ODF)

 Uttarakhand and Haryana have been declared as the 4th
and 5th Open Defecation Free (ODF) States of India under
the Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBM-G),.
 Earlier, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala have been
declared ODF.
 As per the government sources, nationally, the sanitation
coverage has increased from 42% to over 64% since the
launch of SBM.
 Uttarakhand has 13 districts, 95 blocks, 7256 gram panchayats and 15751 villages while
Haryana has 21 districts, 124 blocks, and 6083 gram panchayats.
 All these have been declared as ODF.
 At present, the total number of ODF states in the country have increased to 5 covering
more than 2 lakh villages and 147 districts across the country.
 It is noted that the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) was launched in October 2014 to achieve
universal sanitation coverage and to put focus on sanitation.
 The mission aims to achieve Swachh Bharat or make India clean by 2019, as a fitting tribute
to the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. T
 he SBM consists of two sub-missions Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin), implemented in
rural areas, and Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), implemented in urban areas.
 SBM-G seeks to eliminate open defecation in rural areas by improving access to sanitation
by ensuring the use of toilets, besides their construction.
Financial city Mumbai most expensive for expatriates in India: Mercer

 According to Mercer's 23rd annual Cost of Living Survey, Mumbai is placed 57th on the list
while New Delhi was placed at 99. Chennai (135), Bangalore
(166) and Kolkata (184) were the other Indian cities on the
list.
 Luanda, the capital of Angola, was the costliest city, driven
by cost of goods and security, followed by Hong Kong and
Tokyo at the second and third places, respectively.
 Others in the top 10 include Zurich at the 4th place,
Singapore (5th), Seoul (6th), Geneva (7th), Shanghai (8th),
New York City (9th), and Bern (10th).
 Overall, Indian cities have moved up the global ranking substantially. Mumbai has moved
25 notches up from being at 82 in 2016 while New Delhi has improved to 99 in 2017 from
130 in 2016, Chennai (135 this year from 158 in 2016), Bengaluru (to 166 from 180) and
Kolkata (to 184 from 194).
 The improvement of ranking of Indian cities was not just on account of internal factors, but
also because some global cities fell in ranking following currency volatility, especially in
Egypt, Turkey and the United Kingdom,
 The world's least expensive cities for expatriates, according to Mercer's survey, are Tunis
(209), Bishkek (208), and Skopje (206).
 The survey further said across continents, countries with highest current number of India
assignees are the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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 Across continents, countries with the highest expected increase in the number of Indian
international assignees are the UAE, the UK and Kenya.
 New York is used as the base city and all cities are compared against it and currency
movements are measured against the US dollar.
 The survey includes 209 cities across five continents and measures the comparative cost of
more than 200 items in each location, including housing, transportation, food, clothing,
household goods, and entertainment.
Delhi’s second airport will be set up at Jewar, Greater Noida

 Delhi’s second airport will be set up at Jewar, Greater Noida after the pertaining proposal
was cleared by the Civil Aviation Ministry on 24 June 2017? –
 The civil aviation ministry on 24 June 2017 cleared a proposal for setting up a green-field
airport in Jewar in Greater Noida, which is likely to be operational in the next five to six
years.
 This airport will serve as the second airport of Delhi and will cater to 30-50 million
passengers per year over the next 10-15 years.
 It will help reduce congestion at the Delhi international airport.
 The Delhi airport terminals can handle 62 million passengers annually. In 2016-17, it
handled 57.7 million passengers.
 The plan for building a second airport at Jewar for NCR was first submitted by the then UP
chief minister Mayawati in 2002.
Odisha to become First State in India to Open a Blood Bank for Cattle
 Odisha is set to become the first state in India to open a blood bank for cattle.
 The National Agriculture Development Programme (NADP) has approved the proposal and
now awaiting the approval from the state
government.
 The blood bank for cattle would be set up on the
premises of the Odisha University of Agriculture and
Technology (OUAT) at an estimated cost of Rs. 3.25
crore.
 The Central government provides 60% of the project
cost and the rest 40% would be funded by the Odisha state government.
 Under this initiative, the blood would be procured voluntarily from the cattle farmers.
 The blood bank will also have blood transfusion facility for cattle blood.
 The blood bank will help in preventing cattle deaths during deliveries and other ailments.
Coimbatore receives World’s Second Highest Green Rating

 SIERRA ODC building has been recognised as the world’s second highest ranking Green
Building.
 The building has scored 103 points out of 110 under
LEED certification.
 The SIERRA ODC is a three-storeyed building.
 It has been constructed by laying specific emphasis on
increasing the efficiency of resource use such as
energy, water or materials.
 The building has managed water use efficiency of 89%
by using water saving fixtures and curbing wastage.
 In the building, water is recycled 100%.
 The building is a carbon-neutral building.
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 The building was the first to implement a technology called Amorphous Silicon Thin
Building Vortec for the first time in South India.
 By using this technology, photovoltaic modules produce power at the low cost per watt.
 Green Buildings Green Buildings are designed and operated to reduce the overall impact of
the built environment on human health and the natural environment.
 The green buildings efficiently use energy, water, and other resources, protects occupant
health, improves employee productivity, and reduces waste, pollution and environmental
degradation.
 A Green Building has tremendous environmental benefits and provides a better place for
the occupants to live and work in.
 The aim of a green building design is to minimize the demand on non-renewable resources,
maximize the utilization efficiency of these resources, when in use, and, maximize the
reuse, recycling, and utilization of renewable resources.
ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission completes 1000 Earth Days in Orbit

 ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) completes 1000 earth days in orbit. The orbiter has
outlived its lifespan which is more than 5 times the number of days the orbiter was
designated to last in orbit.
 The MOM has at present completed 388 orbits of Mars and has sent 715 images back to
earth. According to the scientists, the MOM is in good health and shows no signs of slowing
down. India has plans to send Mangalyaan 2.0 and a new mission to Venus after 2020.
Black Money: Automatic Information Sharing with Switzerland from 2019

 Switzerland has ratified automatic exchange of financial account information with India
and 40 other countries.
 This will facilitate Switzerland to share information about suspected black money with
India and other 40 nations. According to the Swiss Federal Council, the implementation of
the exchange sharing agreement has been planned for 2018 and hence the first set of data
is likely to be exchanged in 2019.
Arunachal Pradesh Demands Separate Time Zone to increase Efficiency

 Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu has demand for a separate time zone for
the northeastern states to improve work efficiency and save electricity in the region.
 According to him, several daylight hours are getting wasted as government offices opens
only at 10am and closes as early as 4pm.
 Union Government on 16 June 2017 made quoting of Aadhaar mandatory for opening of
bank accounts as well as for any financial transaction of Rs. 50,000 and above.
 India's largest container port JNPT has been impacted by the latest malware attack
ransomware.Maritime conglomerate Maersk group confirmed that its operations were hit
by the cyber attack. It crippled some central banks and many large corporations in Europe.
 Election Commission to launch nationwide Voter Registration Reminder on Facebook. It is
the first time that Facebook's voter registration reminder has been rolled out across India.
The drive will be launched on 1 July 2017.
 Power Minister Piyush Goyal launches portal on weather information. The government has
launched a portal on weather information that will help discoms manage power
distribution.
 Positive growth registered in foreign & domestic tourists in 2016. Market Research
Division of Ministry of Tourism aggregates information on domestic and foreign traveler
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visits to States/Union Territories (UTs) gotten from Departments of Tourism of different

State Governments and UT Administrations. These numbers shows the result of 12.68%
and 5.92% growth respectively for domestic and foreign traveler.
 Union Government launches VAJRA scheme to attract Indian scientists abroad. The scheme
aims to bring together the Indian scientists abroad and India-based researchers for
conducting joint researches in India.
 Congress-led opposition names Meira Kumar as presidential nominee. Former Lok Sabha
Speaker Meira Kumar has been chosen by Congress-led Opposition as their presidential
candidate to fight against BJP-led NDA’s Ram Nath Kovind.
 TB patients have to submit Aadhaar details to avail cash benefits: Health Ministry. A recent
notification by the Union health ministry states that people suffering from tuberculosis will
now have to submit their Aadhaar details to avail cash benefits from the government for
their treatment.
 Initiatives launched by Union Government to promote Yoga worldwide. On the occasion of
third edition of International Day of Yoga, let's have a glance on all the projects and
initiatives launched by Union Government to promote Yoga worldwide.
 Union Government launches 'Celebrating Yoga' mobile app. Celebrating Yoga provides a
platform to share information and insights about peoples’ participation in Yoga activities
on the occasion of the International Yoga Day.
 Rural Development Ministry confers 144 awards to states and institutions. The Ministry of
Rural Development gave away 144 awards under various categories to states and other
organisations.
 Ministry of Culture launches ‘National Mission on Cultural Mapping of India’. Dr Mahesh
Sharma launched implementation of ‘National Mission on Cultural Mapping of India’ from
Goverdhan Block, Mathura of Uttar Pradesh.
 Indian Railways launches Mission Retro-Fitment to enhance the passenger experience. This
is one of the largest retro fitment project in the world as Indian Railways will refurbish and
retrofit 40000 coaches by 2022-23.
 Union Health Ministry launches Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight. It aims to create
mass awareness about the most effective and low-cost diarrhoea treatment that is a
combination of Oral Rehydration Salt (ORS) solution and Zinc tablets.
 Union Cabinet approves Interest Subvention to banks on short-term crop loan to farmers.
The scheme will help farmers getting short term crop loan up to Rs. 3 lakh payable within
one year at only 4 per cent per annum. The Government has allocated a sum of Rs. 20339
crore for the purpose.
 Union Cabinet approves proposal to introduce Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance
Bill 2017. The Bill aims at providing a comprehensive resolution framework for specified
financial sector entities to deal with bankruptcy situation in banks, insurance companies
and financial sector entities.
 India ratifies two ILO Conventions on elimination of child labour. The Indian government
on 13 June 2017 ratified two fundamental Conventions of the International Labour Office
(ILO) concerning the elimination of child labour.
 Centre to set up 100 AYUSH hospitals across country. The Centre has approved proposals
for setting up of 100 Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy (AYUSH) hospitals across
the country.
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 MHA panel to examine rules on people's movement near Indo-Myanmar border. The
committee led by special Secretary (Internal Security) will prepare standard operating
procedures common to all the four states so that militants, criminals and contraband are
filtered at the border without causing inconvenience to genuine people.
 Railways to Induct 40000 Refurbished Coaches for Rs 8000 Cr. The Indian Railways is
planning to induct about 40000 revamped coaches at an estimated cost of Rs 8,000 Cr to
provide world-class comfort to passengers.
 India emerges as 7th largest exporter of agri-products globally: Commerce Secretary.
Commerce Secretary Rita Teaotia, while addressing the 22nd APEDA Export award
function in New Delhi said that India has emerged as the 7th largest exporter of agri-
products globally.
 NITI Aayog launches SATH Program. SATH aims to identify and build three future ‘role
model’ states for health systems.
 SC partially stays linking of PAN with Aadhaar. Earlier in March 2017, the Union
Government proposed to make the Aadhaar card mandatory to file Income Tax Return
(ITR).
 Health Secretary inaugurates ‘Vatsalya – Maatri Amrit Kosh’, a National Human Milk Bank
and Lactation Counselling Centre. The Health Secretary said that the decline in maternal
and child mortality in India is much faster than the global average rate of decline and
thanked the frontline workers for their dedicated work.
 Union Cabinet approves Agreement between India and Somalia on transfer of sentenced
persons. The agreement will facilitate the Indian prisoners imprisoned in Somalia or vice-
versa to rejoin their respective nations.
 Government to appoint Nyaya Mitras to accelerate pending cases. The Union government
would be appointing Nyaya Mitras across the country to speed up the hearing of cases that
have been pending in the lower courts for the last 10 years.
 Union Government launches Skill for Life, Save a Life Initiative. Skills for Life, Save a Life
Initiative aims to upscale the quantity and quality of trained professionals in the healthcare
system.
 Union Government launches web platform INAM-Pro +. INAM-Pro+ is an upgraded version
of INAM-Pro, the web portal launched by the Ministry in 2015 as a common platform to
bring cement buyers and sellers together.
 Beti Bachao Beti Padhao: No provision for individual cash transfer. The announcement
came after Union Ministry of Women & Child Development noticed that certain
unauthorized organizations, NGOs and individuals are distributing illegal forms in the
name of cash incentive under Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme.
 Centre clears Kambala Bill, legalising the Buffalo race. The Ministry of Law and Justice has
cleared the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Bill 2017, which legalises the traditional
buffalo race – Kambala.
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International
‘Stratolaunch’: Massive airplane being constructed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen

 Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen constructed massive airplane
Stratolaunch’ building at the California desert for many years.
 It would be the world’s largest airplane with a wingspan wider
than Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose. It was unveiled for the
first time on 31 May 2017.
 It’s so big that it has 28 wheels and six 747 jet engines.
 It has a wingspan of 385 feet, or longer than a football field, a height of 50 feet. Unfueled, it
weighs 500,000 pounds. But it can carry 250,000 pounds of fuel, and its total weight can
reach as high as 1.3 million pounds.
 This airplane will be used to carry large rockets.
 The rockets would be tethered to the belly of the giant plane, which would fly them aloft,
and once at an altitude of 35,000 feet or so, the rockets would drop and “air launch” to
space.
U.S. President Donald Trump withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Agreement
 U.S. President Donald Trump recently announced the country’s withdrawal from the Paris
Climate Change Agreement alleging that it favours
world’s leading polluters like India and China, while being
unfair to his country.
 This historic agreement came into effect on 4 November
2016.
 He vowed to pursue a better deal for his country. During
his election campaign too, Trump had promised to
withdraw from the Paris climate deal finalised by over
190 countries in December 2015.
 Former U.S. President Barack Obama had approved the agreement in 2015 as he had
favoured a mechanism that gives more time to major developing countries like China and
India to beef up their tools to conserve environment.
 India, however, is expected to remain firm on its commitments, without taking any extra
responsibility regarding cutting down on emissions to compensate for US’s withdrawal.
 The agreement came into force on 4 November 2016, and 147 nations across the world
have already ratified the Agreement.
 The Paris Agreement aims to limit rise in global temperature well below 2 degrees Celsius
over pre-industrial times and make efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-
industrial levels by the end of 2100.
‘Fireball’: Chinese malware that infected over 250 million computers across the world
 ‘Fireball’, a Chinese malware infected over 250 million
computers across the world till 3 June 2017 with India
emerging as the biggest victim of it.
 ‘Fireball’ is the name of the Chinese malware that was
detected during starting days of June 2017.
 According to Check Point Threat Intelligence’s
findings this malware is presently acting as an adware
propelling the infected computer’s traffic to its website and generating ad-revenue.
 The malware manipulates the hijacked browser to turn the default search engines into fake
ones.
 It is working to boost advertisement for a Beijing-based digital marketing agency Rafotech.
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 India has emerged as the largest victim of ‘Fireball’ followed by Brazil.
Iran Parliament witnessed a major terror attack by operatives of Islamic State (IS)
 Parliament of Iran has witnessed a major terror attack by operatives of Islamic State (IS) on
7 June 2017 resulting in death of at-least 13 persons.
 Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the Iranian
parliament and Ayatollah Khomeini’s mausoleum in capital
Tehran on 7 June 2017.
 At-least 13 persons were killed in this unprecedented
assault, the responsibility for which was later taken by the
Islamic State (IS).
 This was the first attack claimed by IS inside Iran – the
tightly controlled Shi’ite Muslim country and one of the
powers leading the fight against IS forces in nearby Iraq and Syria.
 Iran blamed Sunni Saudi Arabia for this attack.
 The attack further fueled tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia as they vie for control of
the Gulf and influence in the wider Islamic world.
NASA: May 2017 is the second hottest month in 137 years

 According to NASA, May 2017 was the second hottest month in a span of 137 years when
modern record-keeping of average global temperatures had commenced. The temperature
of May 2017 was 0.88 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean May temperature from 1951-
1980.
 May 2016 is the hottest on record with 0.93 degrees Celsius warmer than the May mean
temperature. May 2017 temperature was 0.05 degrees Celcius cooler than the temperature
recorded in May 2016.
 It was only 0.01 degrees Celsius warmer than the third warmest May, which occurred in
2014.
KELT-9b : A massive exo-planet discovered by scientists

 KELT-9b is the name of the massive exo-planet discovered by scientists recently that is
located 650 light years from Earth.
 The Jupiter-like planet discovered by scientists recently that has been claimed to be hottest
known planet.
 With a day-side temperature peaking at 4,326 degree Celsius the newly discovered exo-
planet is hotter than most stars and only 926 degree Celsius cooler than our Sun.
 This Jupiter-like planet orbits a massive star KELT-9 every day and a half.
 The reason KELT-9b is so hot is because the star it orbits (KELT-9) is more than twice as
large and nearly twice as hot as our Sun.
Indian and Pakistan became full official members of SCO

 India and Pakistan became full members of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on 9 June 2017, ending an
administrative process that began two years ago.
 The SCO membership of both countries was announced by
the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
 Kazakh capital Astana hosted the annual Summit of SCO on
8 and 9 June 2017, which was the 17th Summit of the
organisation.
 India and Pakistan were admitted as observers in 2005 and
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began the administrative process of joining the organisation as full-fledged members in

2015.
 SCO is a Eurasian political, economic and security organisation.
 The creation was announced on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai, China by the leaders of China,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
 Now with India and Pakistan as its full members, the total membership of SCO is eight.
China unveils World’s First Train that runs on Virtual Tracks

 China has unveiled world’s first train that runs on a virtual track making use of sensor
technology instead of metal rails.
 The new trains are non-polluting as they are battery powered. The train is capable of
reaching a top speed of 70 kmph and can travel a distance of 25 km by just charging for 10
minutes.
 The train which is only about 32 metres long can carry up to 307 passengers. The new
trains are fitted with sensors which are capable of detecting the dimensions of the road
permitting it to follow the routes without the need for metal rails.
 So it can run without the presence of tracks. The new trains will make use of rubber wheels
on a plastic core and can be automatically guided without rails.
 This new technology has been copyrighted by the Chinese rail corporation. The train will
be rolled out for public use in 2018.
 It will be launched in the Chinese city of Zhuzhou in a bid to help to deal with traffic in the
area. The new train is expected to have a lifespan of around 25 years. The cost of the new
train is only a fifth of the price of a traditional subway system.
Jupiter is the oldest planet in solar system: Latest Report

 Jupiter is the oldest planet of the solar system has been confirmed, based on the
conclusions of a newly conducted research.
 A joint research conducted by the University of
Munster (Germany) and Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory in California (United States) has
confirmed that
 The research concluded that the giant planet began to
form about one million years after the coalescing of
the solar system.
 The researchers dated Jupiter’s formation and growth by analyzing the ages of certain iron
meteorites.
 It is worth mentioning that theoretical work has strongly suggested that Jupiter took shape
quite early in the solar system’s history, but the planet’s precise age had remained a
mystery.
World’s lightest and smallest satellite, “KalamSat launched by a NASA

 The world’s lightest and smallest satellite, “KalamSat”, named after the former India
President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam was launched by a NASA
rocket on 21 June 2017.
 The name of the 18-year old Tamil Nadu student Rifath
Sharook has made this satellite.
 The satellite “KalamSat”, weighing just 64 grams.
 A sounding rocket of NASA carried this satellite from
Wallops Island, a NASA facility.
 In its 12-minute flight, the satellite acted as a technology demonstrator and provided
impetus to plan economical space missions in future.
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 The Indian teen Rifath Sharook is a 12th-grade student from Tamil Nadu’s Pallapatti town.
 Sharook developed the satellite as part of a contest “Cubes in Space”, organised by US space
agency, NASA and idoodlelearning Inc., a global education company.
 This satellite has been made of reinforced carbon fibre polyme and which is lighter than a
smartphone.
 The main role of the satellite will be to demonstrate the performance of 3D-printed carbon
fibre.
NASA tests ROSA on Space Station for First Time

 NASA is testing the effectiveness of a flexible solar array, the Roll-Out Solar Array, or ROSA,
on space station for the very first time.
 ROSA is expected to one day power satellites and spacecraft. NASA had earlier tested the
ROSA technology in vacuum chambers on the Earth but this is the first time it is testing the
technology in space.
 ROSA is an advanced, flexible solar array that rolls out like a tape measure. The ROSA is
very much flexible so that it can be adapted to different sizes including very large arrays.
ROSA is expected to provide power for a variety of future spacecraft and satellites.
 ROSA will be an asset for satellite radio and television, weather forecasting, GPS and other
services used on the Earth.
World's highest rail track to commence in Leh overtaking China

 Indian Railway will set up world's highest rail track which to be commence at Leh in
Jammu and Kashmir.
 The Railways will kick off the final location survey
of the 498 km long Bilaspur-Manali-Leh line,
shortly.
 The strategically important rail project is touted
to become the highest rail track in the world,
overtaking China's Qinghai-Tibet Railway, coming
up at a high of 3,300 metres.
 The all-weather Leh rail network is one of the four
important railway connectivities identified by the defence ministry along the China border.
 Railway minister Suresh Prabhu will inaugurate the work for the final location survey on
June 27 at an estimated cost of Rs 157.77 crore.
 The survey is funded by the defence ministry.
 The proposed new rail line will connect all important locations between Bilaspur and Leh
namely Sunder Nagar Mandi, Manali, Tandi, Keylong, Koksar, Darcha, Upshi and Karu.
 The line connecting Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh to Leh in Ladakh region of Jammu and
Kashmir is expected to give immense "socio-economic benefits" to the region, including
tourism.
 The defence ministry had initiated rail line projects along China, Nepal and Pakistan
borders as strategic lines.
Syed Salahuddin PoK-based terrorist was declared ‘Global Terrorist’ by the U.S.
administration
 PoK-based terrorist Syed Salahuddin was declared ‘Global Terrorist’ by
the U.S. administration just before the historic meeting between
President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on
26 June 2017.
 The State Department of the United States issued a notification, naming
Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) leader Syed Salahuddin a “Specially Designated
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Global Terrorist (SDGT)”.

 This development was seen as a major win for India as its stand about Salaluddin being a
major anti-India militant was vindicated by the U.S. administration.
 Salaluddin is a native of Budgam district in central Kashmir.
 He had shifted to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) around 1989.
 He played a key role in fueling militancy in Kashmir for 27 years; training and arming youth
before sending them back to the Kashmir valley.
 He also heads the United Jihad Council, the umbrella body set up in the mid-1990s to
oversee terror outfits active in Jammu and Kashmir.
NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover finds evidence of Ancient Lake

 NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has found rocks at the edge of Endeavour Crater that might
have been a lake of liquid water. The scientists believe that the rocks were either
transported by a flood or eroded in place by the wind.
 NASA’s Opportunity rover has been investigating on and near the western rim of
Endeavour Crater since 2011. The Endeavour Crater is about 22 km across.
 Opportunity has found out a pattern of striations running east-west outside the crest of the
rim. The features have been observed just outside the crater rim’s crest above
“Perseverance Valley”.
World’s First ATM celebrates its 50th Birthday

 The world’s first ATM (automated teller machine) celebrates its 50th anniversary.
 In the past five decades, ATM machines have heralded a transformation in the way people
obtained and used cash.
 The ATM machines were the brainchild of Scottish
inventor Shepherd-Barron.
 The first ATM was opened on June 27, 1967, by Barclays
Bank in Enfield, north London.
 English actor Reg Varney became the first person to
withdraw cash from the first ATM machine. At present,
there are over 3 million cash machines across the globe.
 Around 70,000 cash machines are present in the UK
alone. The World’s most northerly ATM machine is present at Longyearbyen, Svalbard,
Norway.
 The most Southerly ATM is situated at the McMurdo station of the South Pole.
 To commemorate the 50th anniversary, Barclays Bank has transformed the first ATM that
it commissioned at its Enfield branch into gold.
World’s First Hybrid ‘Aeroboat’ Unveiled

 The world’s first hybrid ‘aeroboat’ which has been built by an Indo-Russian joint venture
has been unveiled at a start-ups event organized by Russia’s state-run Skolkovo
Foundation.
 The aeroboat is capable of travelling on land, water, snow and sand. It has been designed to
access difficult terrain, such as flooded or marshy areas in which the regular boats cannot
play because of shallow water, patches of dry land or by marine vegetation.
 The aeroboats can handle steep slopes and embankments without the requirement of
marine infrastructure such as jetties. The aeroboat will have a room for 10 passengers and
one crew member.
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EU slaps Google with 2.42 billion euros Fine

 The European Union’s competition watchdog has fined Google a record 2.42 billion euro for
breaching the anti-trust rules by illegally favouring its shopping service.
 The European Commission regulates EU competition rules.
 According to the European regulators, Google has abused its market dominance by offering
an illegal advantage to its another product, its comparison shopping service.
 The fine of 2.42 billion euro is the biggest fine for a single company in an EU antitrust case.
It exceeds the 1.06-billion-euros slapped on Intel in 2009.
 EU’s action has come after a 7 year-long investigation from the complaints received from
Google’s rivals such like Yelp, TripAdvisor, UK price comparison site Foundem, News Corp
and lobbying group FairSearch.
 The EU has asked Google to stop its anti-competitive practice in 90 days or be prepared to
face penalty payments up to 5% of Alphabet’s average daily worldwide turnover.
Panama forges Diplomatic ties with China and breaks away with Taiwan
 Panama has established formal diplomatic ties with China and broke all of its relationship
with Taiwan in a move that is seen as a victory for China in its drive to isolate Taiwan from
the rest of the world. China claims Taiwan as its own territory.
 Panama’s Stand Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela has announced that his country has
upgraded its commercial ties with China and has established full diplomatic links with
China.
 China is the second most important customer of the Panama Canal and the leading provider
of merchandise to a free-commerce zone situated in the city of Colon in Panama
Indian Warships reach Australia to take part in Bilateral Exercise AUSINDEX-17

 Indian warships have reached Australia’s port city of Freemantle to take part in a week-
long naval exercise off the Western Australian coast.
 Exercise Australia-India (AUSINDEX) was first conducted off the East Coast of India in
September 2015. AUSINDEX-17 will be the second overall bilateral drill between Indian
Navy and Royal Australian Navy.
Six Arab Nations Cut Diplomatic Ties with Qatar

 Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Yemen, Libya and UAE have suspended their diplomatic ties
with Qatar.
 All the six countries have announced that they would withdraw their diplomatic staff from
Qatar and eject Qatar’s diplomats from their territories. They have also planned to cut air
and sea traffic.
China launches its First X-ray Space Telescope

 China has launched its first X-ray space telescope to study black holes, pulsars and gamma-
ray bursts. The telescope weighing 2.5 tonne was sent to the space using China’s Long
March-4B rocket. The satellite was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
Verizon Completes Yahoo Acquisition

 Telecom giant Verizon has acquired Yahoo’s core business for $4.48bn (£3.51m), thus
ending Yahoo’s two-decade long run as an independent company. Verizon is the No.1
wireless operator in the US.
 5.6 million children at risk of waterborne diseases as rainy season hits communities
affected by Lake Chad crisis. Flooding and muddy roads in the region can severely limit
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humanitarian access to remote areas for several weeks, just as the needs of children and
families are sharply on the rise because of heightened insecurity across the region.
 British PM Theresa May wins confidence vote in parliament. With support from the small
ultra-conservative Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), May's legislative programme was
approved by 323 votes in favour.
 India makes voluntary contribution of USD 100000 to United Nations Tax Fund. The UN
Tax Trust Fund aims to support the work of the Committee of Experts on International
Cooperation in Tax Matters (the UN Tax Committee).
 Trump’s travel ban: Visa applicants from these 6 Muslim nations require close family ties in
US. The United States has set new criteria for visa applicants from six Muslim nations and
all refugees that require a close family or business tie to the United States.
 Chinese Navy launches biggest new generation destroyer, the Type 055 at the Shanghai
port. China has launched its biggest new generation destroyer that weighs around 10,000
tonnes. The launch is a part of the country’s massive expansion effort to become a global
naval power.
 US adds China to the list of Worst Human Trafficking Offenders. As per the report, India is a
source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children subjected to forced
labour and sex trafficking. Forced labour constitutes India’s largest trafficking problem;
men, women, and children in debt bondage—sometimes inherited from previous
generations—are forced to work in brick kilns, rice mills, agriculture, and embroidery
factories.
 China's fastest bullet train makes its debut run. China has launched its first self-developed
‘next generation’ bullet train 'Fuxing' with a maximum speed of 400kmh on one of the
country’s busiest lines -Beijing-Shanghai line.
 Bill in US Congress seeks to revoke Pakistan's major non-NATO ally status. A bipartisan bill
has been introduced in the US House of Representatives by two lawmakers that seeks to
revoke Pakistan's status as a major non-NATO ally (MNNA) to the US.
 China's largest power project in Russia starts operation. The CHP is the tangible result of
the Huadian-Teninskaya joint project. It was launched by China Huadian Hong Kong Co.
Ltd. and Russia's second regional power company TGC-2 in 2011, with a total investment of
USD 571 million.
 India becomes 71st country to ratify UN TIR Convention. India has become the 71st
country to ratify the United Nations International Convention on Road Transports (TIR)
that will help boost trade and regional integration across South Asia and beyond.
 Afghan President inaugurates first Afghanistan-India air corridor. Afghan President Ashraf
Ghani inaugurated the first Afghanistan-India air corridor during a ceremony at the Kabul
International Airport — a direct route that bypasses Pakistan and is meant to improve
commerce.
 Australia announces online visa applications for Indians from 1 July. The Australian
government has announced the introduction of an online visa application option for all
Indian nationals applying for Australian visitor visas.
 President Emmanuel Macron's party wins clear parliamentary majority. French President
Emmanuel Macron's En Marche has won a clear parliamentary majority in the 2017
legislative elections by winning more than 300 seats along with its MoDem allies.
 US adds 3 Islamic State group leaders to terrorism blacklist. The Trump administration has
blacklisted three senior members of the Islamic State group including the group's leader, a
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chief recruiter in India and a recruiter for attackers who carried out two deadly assaults in
Europe.
 France, UK announce action plan to stop terror propaganda on internet. The leaders of
France and Britain have announced an anti-terror action plan to crack down on
radicalisation through social media.
 EU imposes new anti-dumping duties on steel products from China. The European
Commission that has a series of standoffs with China over trade has found that Chinese
businessmen benefit from various practices that allow them to sell their steel products at
very low rates thereby swamping the markets with them.
 World's fastest elevator to be installed in skyscraper complex building in China. The test
was conducted for technology development of Hitachi elevators. However, the elevator in
Guangzhou will only run at its rated speed of 72 kilometers per hour when it is in service.
 Denmark repeals 334-year-old blasphemy law. Denmark was the only Scandinavian
country with a blasphemy law, which called for up to four months in prison upon
conviction, although most people were fined instead.
 UN expands North Korea blacklist in a first US, China sanctions deal. The UN Security
Council has unanimously passed a resolution expanding targeted sanctions against North
Korea after it launched its ninth ballistic missile of the year.
 India-Russia mark 70 years of diplomatic ties with St Petersburg Declaration. India and
Russia have signed the St Petersburg Declaration to mark the 70th anniversary of the
establishment of diplomatic relations between the two nations.
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Appointments-National/International
Rohingya Muslims Issue : UNHRC appointed Indira Jaising as member of three-member

committee
 The UN Human Rights Council on 30 May 2017 named a three-member committee to probe
alleged atrocities against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims.
 This committee features which noted Indian lawyer Indira Jaising as
its member.
 Decorated Indian lawyer and women’s rights campaigner, Indira
Jaising, Sri Lanka’s former human rights chief Radhika
Coomaraswamy and Christopher Dominic Sidoti, a prominent human rights advocate from
Australia, were appointed to lead the 3-member probe committee to probe alleged
atrocities against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims.
 The Geneva-based human rights council voted in March 2017 to create a Myanmar fact-
finding mission, in a politically sensitive move that faced fierce resistance from the civilian-
led government of Aung San Suu Kyi.
 It is worth mentioning that the north of Myanmar’s Rakhine state has been under lockdown
since October 2016, when the military launched a campaign to hunt down Rohingya
militants who staged deadly attacks on police posts.
Aleksandar Vucic sworn in as Serbia's new president

 Populist leader Aleksandar Vucic was sworn in as
Serbia's president.
 He pledge to work for peace and stability in the war-
weary Balkans while strengthening the country's
armed forces.
 Aleksandar Vucic is a former ultranationalist turned
self-declared pro-European Union reformer.
 He was formally stepped down from his prime
minister's post after winning the presidential election by a landslide in April.
 The opposition has alleged irregularities during the election campaign including muzzling
the media and accuses Vucic of autocratic rule.
 During three years as prime minister, Vucic repeatedly called EU membership Serbia's
strategic goal.
 At the same time, he has been strengthening ties with Serbia's traditional ally, Russia,
which has agreed to supply fighter jets and battle tanks to its military - heightening
tensions in the Balkans.
Neeru Chadha may be 1st Indian woman as member of international sea tribunal
 India is preparing to send its first woman as member of the
International Tribunal of the Law for the Sea (ITLOS).
 It is the top body to rule on issues relating to a crucial
international law where India has growing stakes.
 Neeru Chadha is the first woman chief legal adviser to the
ministry of external affairs.
 She was former legal adviser to the Indian UN mission, and
an acknowledged expert in maritime law, international
arbitration and on UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
(UNCLOS).
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Indian-origin Leo Varadkar become the next Prime Minister of Ireland

 Leo Varadkar , the Indian-origin minister who will become the next Prime
Minister of Ireland after he was voted leader of the country’s main
governing party on 2 June 2017 ?
 The 38-year old Leo Varadkar is the son of an Indian immigrant.
 He will become next Prime Minister of Ireland as he was chosen as the
leader by the ruling Fine Gael party on 2 June 2017. He will also become
the youngest person to hold the office and also one of the world’s youngest
prime ministers.
 Varadkar will also become Ireland’s first gay prime minister. He scored victory in the Fine
Gael leadership contest on 2 June, which took place after outgoing PM Enda Kenny
announced his resignation during May 2017.
 Varadkar faced a stiffer-than-expected challenge in the election from his rival, Simon
Coveney.
 Varadkar’s father Ashok, who comes from Mumbai, met his Irish mother Miriam while they
both worked at an English hospital in Slough in the 1960s.
Sharad Kumar Jain assumes charge as National Water Development Agency (NWDA)
director general
 Sharad Kumar Jain has assumed the additional charge of director
general, National Water Development Agency (NWDA).
 NWDA is under Ministry of Water Resources, River Development
and Ganga Rejuvenation.
 Mr. Jain is presently working with National Institute of Hydrology,
Roorkee.
 He succeeds S Masood Husain who has moved over as Member (WP&P), Central Water
Commission.
Veteral Nepali political leader Sher Bahadur Deuba sworn in as Prime Minister of Nepal
 Nepali political veteran Sher Bahadur Deuba was
administered the oath of office by President Bidya Devi
Bhandari as country’s new Prime Minister on 7 June 2017.
 Sher Bahadur Deuba took over as the 40th Prime Minister
of the Himalayan state Nepal.
 The 70-year old Deuba thus became Nepal’s Prime
Minister for the fourth time.
 He is overall 40th Prime Minister of the Himalayan
country.
 Earlier. on 6 June 2017 Nepali Parliament had elected him unopposed for the post.
 He received 388 votes in the 601-member Parliament in which 558 votes were polled.
 It is worth mentioning that Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal had tendered his resignation
from PM post during May 2017 just after completing nine-months in the seat.
SEBI approved Vikram Limaye as CEO and MD of NSE

 India’s markets regulator SEBI gave its final approval for Vikram Limaye conditional
appointment as CEO and MD of the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE) on 9 June
2017.
 His appointment was made conditional on him being relieved from the panel of cricket
administrators of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) formed by the Supreme
Court.
 Limaye is currently managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of IDFC Ltd.
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 His approval had been held up by his role on the panel overseeing the functioning of the
BCCI.
 Limaye will join the NSE, India’s largest stock exchange, only after he is released from the
BCCI committee of administrators.
Neeru Chadha become the first Indian woman appoints as judge of UN judicial body
 International law expert Neeru Chadha becoming the first
Indian woman to be appointed as a judge at the tribunal of
UN judicial body.
 Chadha, an eminent lawyer and the first Indian woman to
become the chief legal adviser in the ministry of external
affairs.
 She has won the election to the International Tribunal for the
Law of the Sea (ITLOS) for a nine-year term from 2017 to
2026.
 The ITLOS is a top UN judicial body that deals with disputes related to the law of the sea.
 Miss Chadha got 120 votes, the highest in the Asia Pacific group and was elected in the first
round of voting itself.
Ana Brnabic appointed as the first female gay Prime Minister of Serbia
 Ana Brnabic , a gay woman was appointed as the new Prime
Minister of Serbia.
 It is a historic move opposing the widespread homophobia
prevalent in the Balkans.
 The 41-year-old Ana Brnabic is a non-party technocrat and a
graduate of the University of Hull in England.
 She was appointed as the new Prime Minister, in the same
week as the appointment of Leo Varadkar as the first gay
Prime Minister of Ireland.
 Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who picked Brnabic to succeed him as prime minister
following his election as president in a landslide victory in April, is expected to remain the
most powerful figure in the country.
 Brnabic entered politics just last year when she became Serbia’s first openly gay minister.
 She heading the ministry for public administration and local self-government.
 She graduated in Hull with a marketing MBA in 2001, the post which she returned to Serbia
to work in the wind power industry and US-funded development projects.
 Brnabic will take charge as the country prepares for EU membership while retaining its
diplomatic ties with Russia, and a growing bond with Beijing.
India renominates Dalveer Bhandari for another term as ICJ judge

 Justice Dalveer Bhandari has been nominated by India as its candidate for another nine
year term as judge of the International Court of Justice
(ICJ).
 The 69 year old Bhandari was elected in April 2012 during
simultaneous balloting in both the General Assembly and
the Security Council to a seat on the International Court of
Justice.
 His current term runs through February 2018.
 The ICJ elections will be held in November and if elected,
he will serve a term of nine years.
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 During his term at the ICJ, Bhandari has been engaged actively in the work of the Court and
has delivered individual opinions in eleven cases covering a broad spectrum of subjects
such as maritime disputes, whaling in Antarctica, crime of genocide, delimitation of
continental shelf, nuclear disarmament, financing of terrorism and violation of sovereign
rights.
 Before joining the ICJ, Bhandari was a judge in the higher judiciary in India for more than
20 years. He had served as a senior judge in the Supreme Court of India.
Urban Development Secretary Rajiv Guaba to be Home Secretary

 Urban Development Secretary Rajiv Gauba will be the the new Home Secretary from
August 31, 2017.
 Subhash Garg will be as Secretary, Economic Affairs, in the Ministry of Finance (MoF).
 In total, 17 top officials were appointed to fill vacancies in important positions like
Economic Affairs, Telecommunications, Power, Personnel and Shipping.
 Mr. Gauba is a 1982-batch IAS officer. Currently, he is Secretary, Ministry of Urban
Development.
 Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary Information Technology, has been shifted as Secretary,
Telecommunication, which she was handling as additional charge.
 Ajay Mittal, Secretary, Information and Broadcasting, has been appointed new Secretary,
Personnel, in place of B.P. Sharma, who is superannuating this month.
 Ajay Kumar Bhallla, Director-General, Foreign Trade, has been appointed Secretary, Power
Ministry, where P.K. Pujari is superannuating on June 30.
Mohammed bin Salman promoted as new Crown Price of Saudi Arabia

 Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and country’s Defence
Minister was promoted as the new Crown Prince, replacing
his cousin Mohammed bin Nayef in a sudden
announcement on 21 June 2017.
 The decision by King Salman thus confirmed that the King’s
31-year-old son will be the next ruler of the kingdom.
 Prince Mohammed bin Nayef was relieved of all positions.
 On the other hand, Mohammed bin Salman became deputy
prime minister and retained his defence and other
portfolios.
 The surprise announcement followed two and half years of already major changes in Saudi
Arabia.
 Presently, the kingdom is facing escalating tensions with Qatar and Iran and is locked in an
air war in Yemen.
 Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, for years the kingdom's counter-terrorism chief who put
down an al Qaeda campaign of bombings in 2003-06, is relieved of all positions.
 Mohammed bin Salman has been responsible for running Saudi Arabia`s war in Yemen,
dictating an energy policy with global implications and spearheading plans for the kingdom
to build an economic future after oil.
 The royal succession in the world`s top oil exporter is closely scrutinised only makes the
rapidity of Mohammed bin Salman`s rise to power, and the speed with which his better
known cousins were brushed aside, more astonishing.
Russian Diplomat Vladimir Voronkov as Chief of newly established UNCCT

 Russian diplomat Vladimir Voronkov to head the newly established UN Counter-Terrorism
Centre (UNCCT), despite growing tensions between the US and Russia.
 He has appointed by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
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 The Vladimir Voronkov has been given the rank of Under-

Secretary-General.
 The new Under-Secretary-General would Chair the Task
Force and Executive Director of the UN Counter-Terrorism
Centre.
 The newly established UNCCT has been mandated to
oversee the counterterrorism efforts of 36 UN-funded
programmes under the ambit of a variety of UN agencies, 12
inter-agency working groups, Interpol, and the World Customs Organisation.
Palbinder Kaur Shergill becomes first turbaned Sikh woman to be appointed as Judge in
Canada Supreme Court
 Palbinder Kaur Shergill has become the first turbaned Sikh woman to be appointed as
Canada’s Supreme Court judge.
 The announcement was made by the minister of justice and attorney general of Canada
Jody Wilson-Raybould.
 The appointment of Shergill as Supreme Court Judge of Canada is considered as a milestone
for the Sikh community in Canada.
 Justice Palbinder Kaur Shergill was born in Rurka Kalan in Jalandhar district. At the age of
four, justice Shergill had migrated to Canada.
 Justice Shergill has fought various cases and has actively represented the interests of
Canadian Sikh community including the right of Sikh students to wear a ‘kirpan’ in schools.
Kaushik Basu takes over as President of IEA

 Kaushik Basu has taken over as president of the International Economic Association (IEA).
 Basu will serve a three-year term as the President.
 Kaushik Basu has served as India’s chief economic adviser from 2009 to 2012.
 He has also served as senior vice-president and chief economist at the World Bank from
2012 to 2016.
 At present, Basu is the C. Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University.
 In the recently concluded British parliamentary elections history was created as Preet Kaur
Gill, the first-ever female Sikh MP was elected. Preet Kaur Gill created electoral history as
won the Edgbaston seat as a Labour Party candidate, defeating ruling Conservative party’s
Caroline Squire. She became Britain’s first-ever female Sikh MP.
 The International Cricket Council (ICC) has appointed Imran Khawaja as its deputy
chairman. Imran Khawaja is Chairman of Associates counties and a veteran administrator
from Singapore. Recently, the ICC Full Council had brought a constitutional change
approving the creation of the post of deputy chairman.
 Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has appointed outgoing economy minister Mihai
Tudose as Prime Minister. According to the President of Romania, the decision has been
taken keeping in mind the political crisis that risked damaging the country’s record
economic recovery.
 Former Vice Chancellor of Ambedkar Open University, Manoj Soni, has taken Oath as the
member of the Union Public Service Commission.
 Indian-American Krishna R Urs appointed as US Ambassador to Peru. During three decades
of State Department service, Urs has specialised in economic issues and developed
extensive policy experience in the Andean region of South America.
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 Narinder Nath Vohra appointed as President of India International Centre. The

appointment was made after eminent jurist Soli Sorabjee quit the presidential post.
 Kenneth I Juster to be next US Ambassador to India. Juster, a lawyer from Harvard
University, knows India well and was deeply involved in successful bilateral negotiations
between the United States and India.
 In a first, UNICEF appoints Syrian refugee Muzoon Almellehan as Goodwill Ambassador.
Muzoon Almellehan fled the conflict in Syria along with her family in 2013.
 Theresa May unveils new Cabinet, appoints Damian Green as ‘deputy'. Theresa May has
appointed her close ally Damian Green as her first secretary of state, effectively her deputy
prime minister.
 Trump nominates Christopher Wray as new FBI director. US President Donald Trump has
nominated lawyer and former Justice Department official Christopher Wray as the new FBI
Director.
 Hoshiar Singh appointed as Registrar of Copyrights Office. The Copyrights Office was
established under Section 9 of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957.
 Indian-American Amul Thapar appointed as Judge in US Court of Appeals. Prior to his
appointment to the Court of Appeals, Thapar served on the District Court for the Eastern
District of Kentucky.
 Shashi Shekar Vempati appointed as CEO of Prasar Bharati. He was appointed on the
recommendation of the three member committee headed by Vice President M Hamid
Ansari.
 Nirupama Rao appointed public policy fellow to US think-tank. Former IFS officer and
Indian Ambassador to the United States, Nirupama Rao has been appointed as the public
policy fellow to a top American think-tank based in Washington.
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Person Resigned/Retired
Shaktikanta Das retires as Economic Affairs Secretary

 Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das announced his retirement as the Corporate
Affairs Secretary, after being associated with the Government of India for almost 37 years.
 He will be succeeded by Tapan Ray, who will take the
additional charges as the new Economic Affairs Secretary.
 Mr. Das has been associated with several crucial reforms of
the Ministry.
 He will continue to express his opinion on important matters,
now as a private individual.
 He was an IAS officer holding a Master's Degree from St.
Stephen's College, New Delhi.
 Prior to his tenure in the various ministries, Das served as a Non-Executive Director at
Indian Bank from December 9, 2009 to December 5, 2012.
 Hereafter, he took charge as the Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd and then the
Director at Life Insurance Corporation of India.
Anil Kumble steps down as India Cricket Coach

 India cricket coach Anil Kumble stepped down from his position after a widely-speculated
feud with Captain Virat Kohli, marking a bitter end to a highly successful tenure.
 The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirms that Anil Kumble has withdrawn
his services as the post of the Head Coach for the Senior India
Men's team.
 While the Cricket Advisory Committee had endorsed an
extension to his tenure as Head Coach but Anil Kumble has
decided not to continue as the coach.
 Kumble's decision comes in the wake of reports claiming rifts
between him and Kohli, and just two days after India's
embarrassing loss to Pakistan in the Champions Trophy final.
 His one year contract expired at the end of the Champions
Trophy but he was given the option to travel with the team to the West Indies for the
limited overs series.
 Presently, he is the chairman of the Cricket Committee of ICC.
 Travis Kalanick resigns as Uber CEO. Travis Kalanick, the Chief Executive Officer of Uber
has announced his resignation from the post.
 Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind resigns. Ram Nath Kovind was on 19 June 2017 declared
as the NDA candidate for upcoming Presidential Elections.
 Ramachandra Guha resigns as BCCI Administrator. The Committee of Administrators
headed by Vinod Rai was appointed by the Supreme Court in January 2017 to oversee BCCI
administration.
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Sports
French Open - 2017

 The French Open is a premier clay court tennis
championship event held between late May and early
June for duration of two weeks at the Stade Roland-
Garros in Paris.
 The event is the second of out of four annual Grand Slam
tournaments. The other three events are Australian
Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.
 The event has been named after the French aviator
Roland Garros. Garros was a Tennis Lover.
 French Open is also called “Roland Garros” or Les internationaux de France de Roland-
Garros or Tournoi de Roland-Garros.
Winners of 2017 French Open

Category Winner Runner-up
Men's Singles Rafael Nadal (Spain) Stan Wawrinka (Switzerland)
Women's Singles Jeļena Ostapenko (Latvia) Simona Halep ( Romania)
Men's Doubles Ryan Harrison (US) & Michael Venus(New Santiago Gonzalez (Mexico) and
Zealand) Donald Young (US)
Women's Doubles Bethanie Mattek-Sands (US) & Lucie Ashleigh Barty (Australia) and
Šafářová (Czech Republic) Casey Dellacqua (Australia)
Mixed Doubles Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada) & Rohan Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Germany)
Bopanna (India) and Robert Farah (Colombia)
K Srikanth Wins Australian Open Super series Title

 The world No.11 Kidambi Srikanth has sealed his second successive Super Series win by
defeating reigning Olympic champion Chen Long in the Australian Open summit clash in
Sydney. Chen Long is World No.6 and also the current All England champion.
 Srikanth had lost all of his previous five encounters with Chen Long. Srikanth has also
become the fifth player in the world to take part in three successive Super Series finals by
reaching the summit clash in Singapore, Indonesia and Australia.
 Srikanth had also won the Indonesian Open title. In the last edition of Australian Open
tournament, Srikanth was a semi-finalist.
B. Sai Praneeth won Thailand Open Grand Prix badminton championship

 B. Sai Praneeth of India captured the men’s singles title in the $1,20,000 Thailand Open
Grand Prix badminton championship in Bangkok on 4 June 2017.
 He defeated Indonesian fourth seed Jonatan Christie 17-21, 21-18, 21-19 in an hour and 11
minutes in the final.
 Women’s singles title was won by Ratchanok Intanon of Malaysia.
 This is the second Grand Prix badminton title for B. Sai Praneeth.
 His first Grand Prix title was Canada Open which he won in 2016.
Ace cricketer Virat Kohli becomes fastest to 8000 ODI runs

 India captain Virat Kohli has become the quickest batsman to 8000 runs in one-day
international cricket, beating AB de Villiers' mark in seven fewer innings.
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 Kohli crossed the 8000-run mark in his 175th innings, during the course of his unbeaten 96
off 78 deliveries against Bangladesh in ICC Champions
Trophy semi-final in Birmingham.
 South African captain de Villiers needed 182 innings to get to
8000 runs in August 2015, beating Sourav Ganguly's previous
record of 200 innings.
 In 2002, Ganguly had gone past Sachin Tendulkar's mark of
210 innings, entering the 8000 club in his 200th innings.
 Earlier this year, South Africa opener Hashim Amla had broken Kohli's record of being the
quickest to 7000 runs in ODIs, getting there in his 150th innings.
 Kohli had taken 166 to do so. Amla is also the fastest to 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000 and 6000
runs. Amla, 34, is currently at 7186 runs in 153 ODI innings.
Ace soccer player Sunil Chhetri fourth highest active international goal scorer
 Indian football team captain Sunil Chhetri became the fourth highest active international
goal scorer.
 He achieved this major international achievement on 13
June 2017 when he struck a decisive goal to guide his side
to a 1-0 win over Kyrgyz Republic in a fast-pace and
entertaining AFC Asian Cup qualifier match.
 He scored his 54th international goal in 94 matches to
snatch all three points from the favourite Kyrgyz Republic.
 Now, India one step closer to break into the AFC Asian Cup
after eight years.
 With this goal, Chhetri surpassed England’s star player Wayne Rooney who now sits on the
fifth position with 53 goals.
 Only Portugal star striker Cristiano Ronaldo, Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Clint Dempsey of
United States stand ahead of the 32-year-old Indian.
ICC Champions Trophy -2017: Pakistan beat India by 180 runs

 Pakistan beat defending champions India by 180 runs to wins their maiden ICC Champions
Trophy title on 18 June 2017.
 This is highest margin of victory by any team in
the final of an ICC ODI tournament.
 Pakistan batted first after being invited by
India and scored mammoth 338 runs for the
loss of wickets.
 Pakistan’s total was their highest in any ICC
tournament final.
 Opener Fakhar Zaman scored brilliant 114
runs and was adjudged ‘Player of the Match’. In reply India succumbed to just 158 runs in
30.3 overs.
 This was Pakistan’s first ICC Champions Trophy title. India has won the title twice (2005
and 2013).
 Hasan Ali, who took 13 wickets in the tournament (including 3 in the final), was declared
‘Player of the Series’.
 ICC Champions Trophy - 2017 was held in England and Wales from 1 June to 18 June 2017.
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Afghanistan and Ireland accorded the status of Test playing nations by the ICC
 Afghanistan and Ireland were approved as become cricket’s 11th and 12th Test-playing full
member nations by the ICC. This decision was taken by the ICC Board in a meeting held
London on 22 June 2017.
 Afghanistan and Ireland’s cricket boards had applied to the ICC to have their status
upgraded from Associates, and this was put to vote at the meeting on 22 June and
unanimously supported.
 Since 2005, both countries have demonstrated their readiness for five-day cricket through
their dominance in the Intercontinental Cup, the ICC’s first-class competition for
Associates.
 Australia, England, South Africa, West Indies, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka,
Zimbabwe and Bangladesh are the other countries accorded the status of Test-playing
nations. Bangladesh was the last country to get this status (in 2000).
 Indian shooters Yashaswini Singh Deswal and Anish Bhanwala has bagged gold in the
Women’s 10m Air Pistol and Men’s 25m Standard Pistol competition respectively in the
Junior World Rifle/Pistol Championship held in Germany.
 Kidambi Srikanth re-enters top 10 of BWF men’s rankings. India's ace shuttler Kidambi
Srikanth has re-entered the top ten of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) men's
singles rankings for the first time in ten months.
 Lasith Malinga gets one-year ban, fined for media remarks. Sri Lankan fast bowler, Lasith
Malinga has been handed over a suspension ban of six months after a disciplinary inquiry
found him guilty of breaching his contract.
 Dhanraj Pillay to get East Bengal football club's highest honour. Former Indian hockey
captain, Dhanraj Pillay would be conferred East Bengal football club's highest honour -
Bharat Gaurav -at its foundation day ceremony on 1 August.
 Intel partners with International Olympic Committee. The first Olympic Games activation
will take place at the Olympic Winter Games Pyeongchang 2018 in South Korea in February
2018. The Intel technology will provide real-time virtual reality viewing of the Olympic
Winter Games.
 Kidambi Srikanth beats Kazumasa Sakai to win Indonesia Open Super Series Premier title.
The tournament was held in Jakarta, Indonesia and has a total purse of $1000000.
 Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu clinch Mixed Team Air Pistol gold at ISSF World Cup. On the other
hand, France grabbed the bronze in the event by defeating Iran.
 Lewis Hamilton wins Canadian Grand Prix for sixth time. Hamilton was followed by
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel. The third position was grabbed by Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo.
 England beat Venezuela to win FIFA U-20 World Cup for first time. The only goal of the
match, played at the Suwon World Cup Stadium here, carried the signature of Everton
striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin 34 minutes in the game.
 Kohli sole Indian in Forbes list of highest paid athletes. Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli,
who has been ranked 89th, is the sole Indian sportsperson to feature in the 2017 Forbes
list of ‘The World’s highest paid athletes’.
 Muttiah Muralidaran inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. He was awarded the honour
along with Arthur Morris, George Lohmann and Karen Rolton by fellow ICC Cricket Hall of
Famers.
 Real Madrid becomes first team to win back-to-back Champions League titles. Real Madrid
defeated Juventus 4–1 to win a record-extending 12th title. With this victory, Real Madrid
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became the first team to successfully defend their title in the Champions League era, and
the first to do so since Milan in 1990.
 Ganeshan Neelakanta Iyer becomes first Indian to be inducted in ITTF URC. Following the
AGM of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) early in June 2017, the Board of
Directors of various committees met on the sidelines of the ongoing World Championships
and handpicked the best in the business for the job.
 World TT Championships: Mouma-Manika makes history by becoming first Indian pair to
reach quarters. In the quarterfinals, the Indian duo would take on the No. 1 and 2 Chinese
players, Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen, a lethal left and right combination.
 Cricket South Africa announces launching of T20 Global League. Cricket South Africa
unveiled the logo and name of their recently-launched Twenty20 league, the league will be
called the T20 Global League.
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Honours / Awards
Man Booker International Prize for 2017 given to David Grossman

 Israeli author David Grossman has won the Man Booker International Prize for 2017 for his
novel “A Horse Walks Into a Bar”.
 He beat out five other finalists, including fellow Israeli
author Amos Oz for the counterpart to Britain’s
prestigious Booker Prize.
 This novel is about a failing standup comic (Dovaleh
Greenstein) and his final performance. Grossman shared
this prize with book’s translator Jessica Cohen.
 The prize was previously a career honor, but changed last
year to recognize a single book in a bid to increase the
profile of international fiction in English-speaking countries.
 It is worth mentioning that Man Booker International prize is different from the annual
Man Booker Prize, which was also known as Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
 Man Booker International is an offshoot of Man Booker and is given every every two years.
Manushi Chhillar crowned Femina Miss India World 2017

 Haryana’s Manushi Chhillar on 25 June 2017 was crowned the 54th Femina Miss India
World 2017. The event was held at Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
 The first runner-up of the contest is Sana Dua from Jammu and Kashmir and the second
runner-up is Priyanka Kumari from Bihar.
 Chhillar was crowned by the outgoing Miss India
Priyadarshini Chatterjee.
 On the other hand, Vinali Bhatnagar won the Miss
Active crown whereas Vamika Nidhi won the
special award of Body Beautiful.
 Chhillar studied in St. Thomas School in Delhi
and Bhagat Phool Singh Government Medical
College for Women in Sonepat.
 This is the first time the participants wore Indian
dress at the finale designed by Manish Malhotra.
About Femina Miss India
 Femina Miss India is a national beauty pageant in India that annually selects
representatives to compete in Miss World.
 It is organised by Femina, a women's magazine published by The Times Group.
 Following a new format this year, the beauty pageant toured 30 states across the country.
Srinivas Gokulnath became the first-ever Indian to complete the 4,900 km Race Across
America (RAAM)
 Srinivas Gokulnath became the first-ever Indian to complete the
4,900 km Race Across America (RAAM), on 25 June 2017.
 He spent eleven days, 18 hours and 45 minutes after setting out
from California, Srinivas Gokulnath created history.
 It is considered to be the toughest cycle race in the world.
 In a feat that marks the Indian arrival on the endurance cycling
scene globally, Dr. Amit Samarth of Nagpur, followed him at the
finish line at Annapolis on American east coast.
 Team Sahyadri Cyclists, from Gokulnath’s hometown of Nashik
(Maharashtra), completed the race in the 4-men category in eight days and 10 hrs.
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 Among the nine men who finished, Gokulnath stood 7th while Samarth was right on his
heels at number 8. The race was won by Christoph Strasser.
 Unlike a stage race like the famed Tour de France, the clock is constantly ticking at RAAM,
and the riders have to pedal over 400 km a day to finish the race in the stipulated 12 days.
Sharjah named as World Book Capital by UNESCO

 UNESCO has named Sharjah as the World Book Capital for 2019.
 Sharjah was chosen for its efforts to make books accessible
to its entire population.
 Sharjah was selected to underline the efforts taken by it to
make books accessible for reading to as many people as
possible, especially the marginalised populations.
 It has followed an innovative and inclusive community-
focused activity programme to engage people, in particular,
the very large migrant population.
 Sharjah is the 19th city to be named as World Book Capital by the UNESCO.
 The earlier cities which were named as World Book Capital are: Madrid (2001),
Alexandria (2002), New Delhi (2003), Antwerp (2004), Montreal (2005), Turin (2006),
Bogota (2007), Amsterdam (2008), Beirut (2009), Ljubljana (2010), Buenos Aires (2011),
Yerevan (2012), Bangkok (2013), Port Harcourt (2014), Incheon (2015), Wroclaw (2016),
Conakry (2017) and Athens (2018).
 Sharjah has become the first among the Gulf Cooperation Council and third in the Arab
world and the Middle East to receive this prestigious recognition.
Nisha Dutt bags Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award

 Nisha Dutt, Chief Executive Officer of Intellecap has become the first Indian woman leader
to have been honoured with the “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” award at The 7th Asian
Awards in London.
 Nisha Dutt has been honoured in recognition of her work in making Intellecap a globally
known enterprise that focuses on social capital.
 Her key contribution lies in integrating technology with challenges of healthcare, financial
services, incubation and conceptualising programs such as Innovations Labs.
J P Nadda Conferred WHO Director-General’s Special Recognition Award

 Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda has been conferred the WHO
Director-General’s Special Recognition Award for global tobacco control.
 The award was presented to him by Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO
South-East Asia at the ‘National Consultation on Accelerating Implementation of WHO
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) for achievement of SDGs’.
 The UN has awarded its highest Public Service Award to the West Bengal government for
promoting girls' education. The 'Kanyashree Prakalpa' scheme was chosen among 552
projects from 62 countries which were nominated for the award.
 Indian anti-hunger activist Ankit Kawatra chosen for Queen’s Young Leaders Award. At
present, Feeding India works in 43 cities with 4500 volunteers and has served more than
8.5 million meals to vulnerable individuals such as children, women, old age citizens,
disabled people et cetera.
 Sonam Kapoor's fashion label Rheson wins PETA Award 2017. Her brand label Rheson was
awarded for a line of bags made exclusively of vegan materials.
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 Qatar Airways announced World's Best Airline at 2017 Skytrax World Airline Awards. On
the other hand, Air Asia won awards for being the Best Low-Cost Airline in Asia for a month
year in the row, and also as World's Best Low-Cost Airline Premium Cabin 2017.
 Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute selected for PM's Yoga Award 2017. The award
was instituted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of the Second
International Day of Yoga at Chandigarh on 21 June 2016.
 Yeshe Dorjee Thongshi chosen for Bhupen Hazarika Award 2017. The award will be
conferred on Thongchi at a function to be held in Jammu and Kashmir in September 2017
by Pune-based social organization Sarhad.
 Bihar’s ‘Project Jal Sanchay’ Chosen for National Award. Nalanda model of water
conservation, Project Jal Sanchay has been selected for the national award for excellence in
the Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee programme.
 Indian-American girl Ananya Vinay wins 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee competition of
US. As a winner, Ananya will be awarded with a USD 40000 cash prize, a trophy and other
awards, including a USD 2500 US savings bond from Merriam-Webster.
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Obituaries
Former CJI and pioneer of judicial activism, Justice PN Bhagwati passes away
 Former Chief Justice of India P N Bhagwati died in New Delhi at
the age of 95, after a brief illness.
 He was considered a pioneer of judicial activism in the country
for introducing the concept of PILs.
 The 17th Chief Justice of India, Bhagwati remained on the highest
judicial post between July 1985 and December 1986.
 He was a former Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court and was
appointed a judge of the Supreme Court in July 1973.
 As a Supreme Court judge, Bhagwati introduced the concepts of
public interest litigation (PIL) and absolute liability to the Indian
judicial system.
 As a champion of PILs, he had ruled there was no need for a person to have any locus standi
(the right or capacity to bring an action or to appear in a court) to knock the doors of a
court on the issue of fundamental rights.
 He was also instrumental in furthering the cause of prisoners when he ruled that they too
enjoyed fundamental rights.
 One of the important judgements pronounced by him was in the Maneka Gandhi passport
impounding case in 1978 in which he elaborated the concept of right to life, and ruled that
a person's movement cannot be restricted.
 He had ruled that a person had full right to hold a passport.
 He was the lone dissenting judge in the Minerva Mill case who upheld the 42nd
Constitution amendment during Emergency. It was struck down by a majority verdict.
 In the Minerva Mills case, the Supreme Court provided key clarifications on the
interpretation of the basic structure doctrine.
 The court had ruled that the power of Parliament to amend the Constitution is limited by
the Constitution.
Naga Rebel Leader SS Khaplang Dies At 77

 Shangwang Shangyung Khaplang, the chairman of the
underground Naga rebel group Nationalist Socialist Council
of Nagalim (Khaplang) or NSCN(K), died due to prolonged
illness.
 The 77-year-old Khaplang was a diabetic and suffered from
other health issues as well.
 Khaplang was also the founder of the United National
Liberation Front of Western South Asia, a Myanmar-based
joint platform of all Northeast rebel groups formed in 2015.
Father of German reunification, Helmut Kohl Passes Away

 Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who is hailed as the
father of German unification has passed away.
 He was responsible for unifying Germany after the 1989 fall of
the Berlin Wall despite facing stiff resistance from Margaret
Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev.
 East and West Germany were separated post World War II.
 After Soviet Union relinquished control of Eastern Europe,
Helmunt Kohl worked towards unifying East and West
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Germany by giving constant assurances to the Western leaders that a united Germany
posed no threat.
 Helmunt Kohl was the longest serving post-war chancellor of Germany since 1945.
 He served as chancellor for 16 years from 1982 to 1998.
 Initially Helmunt Kohl served as the chancellor of West Germany in 1982 and later became
the chancellor of Germany after reunification in 1990.
 He was also the driving force behind the introduction of the euro currency in the Germany
at a time when Germans were sceptical to give up their cherished deutschemark.
Lupin Ltd. founder Desh Bandhu Gupta passed away

 Desh Bandhu Gupta, founder and chairman of Indian pharma major Lupin Limited, died on
26 June 2017 in Mumbai at the age of 79.
 The Indian pharmaceutical company is acknowledged as
the fourth largest generic drugs maker by market
capitalization in the world today.
 He founded Lupin in 1968 with a capital of just Rs. 5,000,
which he borrowed from his wife Manju; the staff
comprised a peon-cum-packer and a part-time typist.
 His vision was to make quality medicines for life-
threatening diseases and hence he chose to combat
tuberculosis, which killed a large number of people in India.
 Over the years he steered Lupin from a domestic pharmaceutical company to the fourth
largest generic drugs maker by market capitalization in the world today.
 The company is today a Rs. 17,119-crore global pharmaceutical major with a presence in
over 100 countries.
 French politician Simone Veil died at her home in Paris at the age of 89. Simone Veil
survived the Holocaust and led campaigns for the legalisation of abortion in France in the
1970s.
 Leading Sri Lankan economist Saman Kelegama, who was highly regarded in South Asian
policy circles, passed away in Thailand at the age of 58 year.
 Noted poet S. Abdul Rahman who passed away. He was associated with Tamil language. S.
Abdul Rahman, also known by the title ‘Kaviko’ (emperor among poets), was an iconic
Tamil poet.
 Italian fashion legend Carla Fendi passes away. Carla, one of the five Italian sisters at the
helm of the iconic Italian label, was the public face of the company famous colourful
'baguette' bags.
 Ramakrishna Mission Chief Swami Atmasthananda passes away. Swami Atmasthananda
was elected as the President of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission on 3
December 2007.
 Veteran Telugu poet, writer C Narayana Reddy passes away. Padma Bhushan and Jnanpith
awardee C Narayana Reddy passed away following health complications. He was one of the
most distinguished Telugu poets of his generation.
 Ex-UN General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann dies. In 1961, D'Escoto
Brockmann was ordained as a priest of the Maryknoll Missionary Society in New York and
adopted the doctrine of liberation theology.
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Important Days
 June 1 : World Milk Day

 Theme of 2017: Raise a glass for milk
 June 5 : World Environment Day
 Theme of 2017: Connecting People to Nature
 June 8 : World Ocean Day
 Theme of 2017: Our Oceans, Our Future
 June 12 : World Day against Child Labour
 Theme of 2017: In conflicts and disasters, protect children from child labour
 June 14 : World Blood Donor Day
 Theme of 2017: What can you do? Give blood. Give now. Give often
 June 17 : World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
 Theme of 2017: Our Land. Our Home. Our Future
 June 18 : Goa Revolution Day
 Theme of 2017: No Theme
 June 20 : World Refugee Day
 Theme of 2017: Embracing Refugees to Celebrate our Common Humanity
 June 21 : International Yoga Day
 Theme of 2017: Yoga for Health
 June 23 : International Widows' Day
 Theme of 2017: Invisible Women, Invisible Problems
 June 23 : The United Nations Public Service Day
 June 26 : International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
 Theme of 2017: Listen First – Listening to children and youth is the first step to help them grow
healthy and safe
 June 29 : National Statistics Day
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Foreign Visits / Foreign Visitors
 Visit of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to Netherlands in between June 27, 2017.
 Visit of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to USA in between June 25-26, 2017.
 Visit of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to Portugal in between June 24, 2017.
 Visit of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to Kazakhstan in between June 8-9, 2017.
 Visit of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to France in between June 2-3, 2017.
Source of Information
 http://pib.nic.in
 http://india.gov.in
 http://www.ibef.org
 http://thehindu.com
 http://jagranjosh.com
 http://gktoday.in
Compiled By
Sanjay Singh
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MCQs on June-2017 Current Affairs
1. Goods and Services Tax (GST) was approved by the Parliament through…
A. 101st Constitutional Amendment Act B. 99th Constitutional Amendment Act
C. 98th Constitutional Amendment Act D. 102nd Constitutional Amendment Act
2. Who has become the first Indian woman to scale Mt. Everest from China side?
A. Radhika GR B. Anshu Jamsenpa C. Anita Kundu D. Arunima Sinha
3. PM Narendra Modi was on which of the following three-nation visit between June 24th -27th, 2017?
A. France, Portugal, America B. Portugal, United States, Netherlands
C. Israel, America, Portugal D. Russia, America, Netherlands
4. Who has been appointed as the new Economic Affairs Secretary?

A. Arvind Mayaram B. Shaktikanta Das C. Vijay Kelkar D. Tapan Ray
5. Which of the following states ranked highest in terms of implementation of urban reforms during
year 2016-17?
A. Telangana B. Odisha C. Andhra Pradesh D. Gujarat
6. Which committee has been formed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on
corporate governance?
A. Uday Kotak committee B. Naysa Modi committee
C. Tejas Muthusamy committee D. Saketh Sundar committee
7. What is the name of the President of Palestine who was on a state visit to India
A. Beta Szigvalo B. Mahmoud Abbas C. Benjamin Netanyahu D. Recep Tayyip
Erdogan
8. India’s first-ever Rural LED Street Lighting Project will be set up in which state?
A. Andhra Pradesh B. Kerala C. Uttar Pradesh D. Assam
9. According to the report released by the United Nations on June 21st, 2017, the population
estimated by year 2050 is …
A. 9.8 billion B. 11. 2 billion C. 8.6 billion D. 7.6 billion
10. The first-ever United Nations Oceans Conference has started in which country?
A. France B. United States C. Germany D. United Kingdom
11. Which University has got top position in the recently released QS World University Ranking?
A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) B. Stanford University
C. Harvard University D. California Institute of Technology
12. Which tennis pair have won the 2017 French Open mixed doubles tournament?
A. Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig
B. Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza
C. Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Robert Farah
D. Rohan Bopanna and Gabriela Dabrowski
13. In the ‘Global Innovation Index -2017’, India has been ranked at …
A. 66th B. 60th C. 65th D. 55th
14. Which city is hosting the 2017 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit?
A. Dushanbe B. Astana C. Beijing D. Tashkent
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15. Who among the following won the presidential election recently held in Iran?
A. Dr. Hassan Rouhani B. Ebrahim Raisi
C. Mustafa Mirsalim D. Mustafa Hashmi
16. The first-ever Indian Railways Human Resources Round Table Conference has started in which
city?
A. New Delhi B. Chennai C. Pune D. Kochi
17. India’s ranking in the ‘Global Peace Index -2017’ is…

A. 142nd B. 137th C. 144th D. 125th
18. Adam West, star of hit TV series “Batman” passed away. He hailed from which country?
A. Germany B. United States C. Russia D. Japan
19. Recently, Montenegro became the 29th member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Which of the two countries were included in the alliance prior to the recent enlargement?
A. Albania and Croatia B. Czech Republic and Poland
C. Latvia and Lithuania D. Slovakia and Slovenia
20. Who has won the 2017 French Open Men’s Singles Tennis Tournament?
A. Roger Federer B. Novak Djokovic C. Stanislas Wawrinka D. Rafael Nadal
21. Who was on top of ‘The Global Game Changers List 2017’ released by Forbes on May 16, 2017?
A. Mark Zuckerberg B. Mukesh Ambani C. Anil Ambani D. Azim progeny
22. Who has won the 2017 French Open Women’s Singles Tennis Tournament?
A. Kristina Mladenovic B. Garbine Muguruza C. Jelena Ostapenko D. Simona Halep
23. The Japanese Cabinet recently sanctioned the bill allowing King to step down. Currently the King of
Japan is-
A. Yoshihito B. Akihito C. Naruhito D. Maruhito
24. Which Indian pair have won gold in mixed team 10m air pistol event at 2017 International Shooting
Sport Federation (ISSF) Gabala World Cup?
A. Sanjeev Rajput and Anjali Bhagwat B. Apurvi Chandela and Jitu Rai
C. Anjali Bhagwat and Omkar Singh D. Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu
25. On June 8, 2017, Forbes released ‘The World’s 100 Highest Paid Athletes-2017’ list. Which Indian
player has figured in this list?
A. Mahendra Singh Dhoni B. Virat Kohli
C. Yuvraj Singh D. Shikhar Dhawan
26. Which Indian state has highest number of child labourers, as per latest Child Rights and You (CRY)
report 2017?
A. West Bengal B. Uttar Pradesh C. Maharashtra D. Bihar
27. On June 12, 2017, the prestigious American magazine Forbes released the list of 100 highest paid
celebrities in the world. Who is India’s highest paid celebrity in this list?
A. Akshay Kumar B. Prabhash C. Shahrukh Khan D. Salman Khan
28. According to the ‘World Investment Report-2017’ issued by UNCTAD on June 7, 2017, India, with $
44 billion of foreign direct investment inflows, is at which place in the list of the largest investment
recipient countries?
A. 9th B. 12th C. 10th D. 8th
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29. Which country has topped the global remittance-receiving list of 2016, as per latest UN report “One
Family at a Time”?
A. China B. Philippines C. Malaysia D. India
30. The latest communication satellite of India, launched on June 29, 2017 by European Ariane 5
Launch Vehicle from Kourou, French Guiana, is …
A. GSAT-15 B. GSAT-17 C. GSAT-19 D. GSAT-16
31. Who will be conferred with the 2017 Bhupen Hazarika National Award?
A. Samudra Gupta Kashyap B. Lou Majaw
C. Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi D. Jahnu Barua
32. Who was selected as the Player of the Series in the ICC Champions Trophy tournament held on June
18, 2017?
A. Shikhar Dhawan B. Hasan Ali C. Sarfraz Ahmed D. Junaid Khan
33. Who is the newly appointed Indian Ambassador to European Union (EU)?
A. Reenat Sandhu B. Gaitri Issar Kumar C. Ajit Vinayak Gupte D. Rajeev Shahare
34. Who was the winner of recently concluded IPL-10?

A. Kolkata Knight Riders B. Mumbai Indians
C. Rising Pune Supergiant D. Sunrise Hyderabad
35. Who has been appointed as the head of the newly created United Nations Counter-Terrorism Office
(UNCTO)?
A. Vladimir Voronkov B. Sergey Lavrov C. Vladimir Kolokoltsev D. Dmitry Medvedev
36. Who won the title of U-20 FIFA World Cup, 2017?
A. England B. Japan C. South Korea D. Spain
37. The world’s first ever data embassy will be established by which country?
A. Japan B. India C. Estonia D. China
38. Who became the first Indian player to win the men’s singles title of the Indonesia Open Super
Series?
A. B. Sai Praneet B. H.S. Pranay C. Srikanth Kidambi D. Chirag Shetty
39. Which Indian Anti Hunger activist will be honoured with the 2017 Queen’s Young Leaders award?
A. Sachin Bansal B. Ankit Kawatra C. Anil Agarwal D. Kunal Bahl
40. Who has been appointed as the first foreign coach for Indian female boxers?
A. Stefan Cottalorda B. Rafael Bergamasco C. Santiago Neiva D. Raven Powell
41. Which city has become the India’s first city to deliver diesel at home?
A. Guwahati B. Shillong C. Bengaluru D. Pune
42. What is the original name of Jindar Mahal, who recently became the WWE (World Wrestling
Entertainment) Champion?
A. Dilip Singh Rana B. Dilli Sardesai C. Raj Singh Dhesi D. Gulshan Kumar
43. Which Indian personality has been honoured with the “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” award at
The 7th Asian Awards in London?
A. Priti Patel B. Zayn Malik C. Nisha Dutt D. Asha Bhosle
44. Who amongst the following has been recently appointed as the President of India’s International
Center for International Cultural Institute (ICC)?
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A. Justice B.N. Krishna B. N.N. Vohra C. Dr. Vasudha Kamat D. Dr. K. Kasturirangan
45. Which city has become the India’s first city to use robot to control unruly traffic?
A. Indore B. Pune C. Kochi D. Raipur
46. Which of the followings countries’ Supreme Court has appointed Palbinder Kaur Shergill as the first
turbaned (amritdhari) Sikh woman Judge?
A. Mexico B. Canada C. UK D. Netherlands
47. Who will become the first Indian woman wrestler to compete in World Wrestling Entertainment
(WWE)?
A. Pinki Rani B. Kavita Devi C. Sakshi Malik D. Geeta Phogat
48. Muzoon Almellehan was recently appointed the new and youngest goodwill ambassador of which
international institution?
A. UNO B. Amnesty International C. UNICEF D. WHO
49. Which state government of India has won the prestigious UN Public Service Award for year 2017?
A. West Bengal B. Karnataka C. Odisha D. Sikkim
50. Desh Bandhu Gupta, who passed away recently, was the founder and president of which major
pharmaceutical company?
A. Cipla B. Ranbaxy C. Lupin D. Sun Pharma
51. Which Indian shooter has bagged gold in the Women’s 10m Air Pistol at the ISSF Junior World
Rifle/Pistol Championship?
A. Nandini SIngh B. Yashaswini Singh Deswal
C. Anjali Bhagwat D. Apurvi Chandela
52. The Government of India renominated Justice Dalveer Bhandari as the candidate for the post of …
A. Ambassador to the United Nations
B. Ambassador to the European Union
C. Judge to the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
D. Attorney General of India
53. Which Indian movie has won the Best Action Movie award at the Shanghai International Film
Festival (SIFF)?
A. Sultan B. Baahubali: The Conclusion C. Dangal D. Rustom
54. Who among the following has been made the brand ambassador of the Goods and Services Tax
(GST)?
A. Ajay Devgan B. Anupam Kher C. Amitabh Bachchan D. P.V. Sindhu
55. Who has won the 2017 Miss World title in Body Building Championship?
A. Niharika Gupta B. Bhumika Sharma C. Pinki More D. Teena Kumari
56. Swami Atmasthanand Maharaj, who passed away recently, was associated with …
A. Narayana Seva Sansthan B. Ramkrishna Math
C. Isha Foundation D. Gayatri Parivar
57. Who is the author of the book “The Emergency-Indian Democracy’s Darkest Hour”?
A. Surya Prakash B. Uma Vasudev C. Janardhan Thakur D. Uma Vasudev
58. Senior IFS officer Reenat Sandhu has been appointed as the next ambassador of India to …
A. Canada B. Germany C. Italy D. Belgium
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59. Who has become the first Indian to complete the 4,900-km Race Across America (RAAM) in solo
category?
A. K K Sengar B. Nishant Sharma C. Srinivas Gokulnath D. Amit Samarth
60. Who has recently been appointed as the new Home Secretary of India?
A. Subhash Garg B. L.C. Goyal C. Rajiv Gouba D. Durga Shankar Mishra
61. Who is the new President of International Economic Association (IEA)?

A. Kaushik Basu B. Alaka Malwade C. H R Khan D. Raghuram Rajan
62. Who has been appointed as the new Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia?
A. Mohammed bin Nayef B. Mohammed bin Salman
C. Mohammed bin Nazarbayev D. Mohammed bin Nahyal
63. Which Indian Bollywood actress has been appointed as the new brand ambassador for
government’s flagship Skill India campaign?
A. Aishwarya Rai B. Sonam Kapoor C. Deepika Padukone D. Priyanka Chopra
64. Who was recently elected as the first Indian woman judge of the International Tribunal for the Law
of the Sea (ITLOS), a United Nations judicial body dealing with disputes related to sea law?
A. Ruchira Kamboj B. Neeru Chadha C. Nirupama Rao D. Meena Chadha
65. Who has become the new member of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)?
A. K. R. Damle B. V. S. Hejmadi C. Manoj Soni D. R. N. Banerjee
66. Who among the following is credited with introducing Public Interest Litigation in India?
A. H. J. Kania B. Justice P N Bhagwati
C. Mehr Chand Mahajan D. M. Patanjali Sastri
67. Which country has officially started building the world’s first forest city?
A. Japan B. Singapore C. Bhutan D. China
68. Ruchira Kamboj has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to …
A. Australia B. Sri Lanka C. South Africa D. Myanmar
69. Who will be the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India?
A. S K Khurana B. O P Rawat C. Nasim Zaidi D. Achal Kumar Jyoti
70. Who of the following have been included, besides Sachin Tendulkar, in UNICEF’s ‘Super Dad’
campaign?
A. Mahershala Ali, B. Novak Djokovic, C. Hugh Jackman D. All of the above
71. India’s largest Fresh water aquarium has opened in which state?
A. Gujarat B. West Bengal C. Tamil Nadu D. Jharkhand
72. Who has been elected as the first female Sikh MP in Britain in the latest elections?
A. Asha Gill B. Manpreet Kaur C. Harpreet Gill D. Preet Gill
73. Which Indian state has been conferred with the award of excellence at the 2nd Global Skill
Development Summit (GSDM – 2017)?
A. Uttar Pradesh B. Uttarakhand C. Assam D. Manipur
74. The book ‘Trade, Tariffs and Empire: Lancashire and British Policy in India’ was authored by…
A. Basudev Chatterjee B. Ram Vilas Sharma C. Neelkanth Sastry D. Shobha de
75. Which city has been has been named as 'the World Book Capital' for 2019 by UNESCO?
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A. Dhaka B. Moscow C. Sharjah D. Dublin
76. Who has recently been elected as the President for the United Nations 72nd General Assembly?
A. Mogance Liketoft B. Peter Thompson C. Miroslav Lajcak D. Andreas Kiska
77. India has ranked _________ among 128 countries on 2017 Social Progress Index report launched on
June 21, 2017 by Social progress Imperative (SPI)
A. 88th B. 93rd C. 98th D. 103rd
78. Recently who has been appointed as chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes?
A. L. Murugan B. Prof. (Dr.) Ram Shankar Katheria
C. K Ramulu D. Dr. Yogendra Paswan
79. June 29, is celebrated as ‘National Statistics Day’ in Indiato mark the birth anniversary of:
A. M Visvesvaraya B. Prof. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
C. Dadabhai Naoroji D. C V Raman
80. Sher Bahadur Deuba, who was elected as Nepal’s prime minister for the fourth time, became the
……Prime Minister of Nepal.
A. 40th B. 41st C. 39th D. 42nd
81. China's indigenous next generation bullet train with a maximum speed of ____ kmph made its debut
on June 26, 2017, on the country's busiest Beijing-Shanghai line.
A. 400 kmph B. 500 kmph C. 600 kmph D. 700 kmph
82. Who amongst the followings has been appointed as the new Director General of National Water
Development Agency?
A. S. Masood Husain B. Dr. Sharad Jain C. A.D. Bhardwaj D. Dr. R. K. Bhatnagar
83. On June 22, 2017, India created history after NASA launched the world’s lightest satellite, built by
18-year old Tamil Nadu student Rifath Sharook and his team. Named as Kalamsat, after former
President APJ Abdul Kalam, the tiny satellite weighs around __________ grams.
A. 32 grams B. 48 grams C. 64 grams D. 80 grams
84. Syed Gyyur-ul-Hassan Rizvi recently took over as the chairman of …

A. National Minorities Commission B. National commission
C. All India Muslim Personal Law Board D. None of the above
85. On June 23, 2017, Central Government released a commemorative postage stamp on completion of
50 years of:
A. The Finance Act, 1967 B. The Banking Act, 1967
C. The Agriculture Act, 1967 D. The Passports Act, 1967
86. Shashi Shekar Vempati has been recently appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of ….
A. Prasar Bharati B. Defence Research and Development Organization
C. Jet Airways D. Google
87. What was the theme of ‘International Yoga Day’ 2017, celebrated in June 21, 2017?
A. ’Yoga for Long Life’ B. ’Yoga for Mental Peace’
C. ’Yoga for Health’ D. ’Yoga for Stress Management’
88. Who was recently elected as the new Director General of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.)?
A. Dr. Margaret Chan B. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
C. Dr. Lin Don D. Antony Lake
89. Which among the following has been adjudged as the Best Airline at 2017 World Airline Awards?
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A. Emirates B. Singapore Airlines C. Qatar Airways D. Lufthansa
90. Roger Moore, who passed away recently, was a …

A. Scientist B. Doctor C. Environmentalist D. Actor
91. Indian Wushu team won how many medals in the Wushu competition of the BRICS Games, which
concluded on June 19, 2017, in Guangzhou, China?
A. 4 medals B. 5 medals C. 6 medals D. 7 medals
92. Who has been appointed as the first CEO of the Paytm Payment Bank Ltd.?
A. Renuka Chowdhury B. Shiksha Sharma C. Renu Satti D. Renuka Sharma
93. Ram Nath Kovind has resigned from the post of ______ following his nomination as the National
Democratic Alliance's presidential candidate.
A. West Bengal Governor B. Bihar Governor
C. Tamil Nadu Governor D. Karnataka Governor
94. Mountaineer Anshu Jamsenpa, who recently succeeded in climbing Mount Everest for the fifth time,
belongs to …
A. Arunachal Pradesh B. Manipur C. Sikkim D. Assam
95. The World Twenty20 Championship's seventh edition which was scheduled to be held next year
has been postponed to:
A. 2019 B. 2020 C. 2021 D. 2022
96. Which building recently became the country’s first trademarked building?
A. Taj Mahal Palace Hotel B. Hyderabad House
C. Oberoi Hotel D. Rashtrapati Bhavan
97. Sailani Islands (New Water Tourism Site) is located in which of the following districts of Madhya
Pradesh?
A. Ratlam B. Khandwa C. Jabalpur D. Indore
98. Where is the new All India Institute of Medical Sciences being set up in Assam as recently approved
by the Cabinet?
A. Haflong B. Tezpur C. Silchar D. Kamrup
99. Who amongst the following has been selected for Femina Miss India, 2017 title?
A. Aditi Arya B. Manushi Chhillar C. Sana Dua D. Priyanka Kumari
100. On June 22, 2017, Sahitya Akademi announced the annual Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar-2017
in 24 Indian languages. Who will be conferred with the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar of Hindi
language?
A. Nighat Sahiba B. Chandan Kumar Jha C. Hemchandra Belwal D. Taro Sidik
101. Who is the winner of the International Dublin Literary Award- 2017?
A. Mia Couto B. Daniel Hoan C. Jose Eduardo D. Anne Enright
102. Who among the following has been awarded with the Man Booker International Prize for 2017?
A. Jessica Cohen B. Jonathan Cape C. David Grossman D. Helen Mort
103. Who was given the CEAT International Cricketer of the Year Award for year 2016-17?
A. Shubham Gill B. Joe Root C. Steve Smith D. R. Ashwin
104. Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda was recently conferred the WHO Director-
General’s Special Recognition Award for …
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A. AIDS Control.
B. global tobacco control
C. determining the prices of Generic Medicines
D. bringing change in the healthcare sector
105. Two Indian peacekeepers awarded with the Dag Hammarskjöld medal posthumously by the
United Nations are-
A. Ravi Kumar and Arjun Thapa B. Brajesh Thapa and Ravi Kumar
C. Kiran Kumar and Dinesh Pandey D. Vikas Kumar and Ravikumar
106. The central government has recently constituted a committee to prepare the final draft of the
National Education Policy under the chairmanship of …
A. Dr. T V Kattimani B. Dr. K. Kasturirangan
C. Dr. Manjul Bhargava D. Dr. Vasudha Kamat
107. Where did Prime Minister Narendra Modi launch ‘Agro-Marine processing scheme ‘SAMPADA’
recently?
A. Tripura B. Arunachal Pradesh C. Assam D. Gujarat
108. Recently, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation decided to introduce two new
circuits of the Shahi Rail Maharaja Express. What is the name of these two circuits?
A. Southern Medha, Southern Tourism B. Southern Sojourn, Southern Jewels
C. Southern Mumbai, Southern Trivandrum D. Southern Rogers, Southern Siggings
109. ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C38 successfully launched the 712 kg Cartosat-2 Series
Satellite along with how many co-passenger satellites on June 23, 2017?
A. 30 B. 25 C. 31 D. 35
110. Where was the 8th Clean Energy and Second Mission Innovation Ministerial Meeting held during
June 6-8, 2017?
A. New York B. Tokyo C. Beijing D. New Delhi
111. Where was the 8th session of the Implementation Review Group of the United Nations
Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) organized during June 19-23, 2017?
A. Beijing B. Vienna C. Montreal D. Tokyo
112. Which of the countries below is the global host country for World Environment Day 2017?
A. Italy B. Canada C. India D. Japan
113. When is ‘World No Tobacco Day’ observed?

A. 29th May B. 26th May C. 28th May D. 31st May
114. Recently, the world’s smallest and cheapest private jet has been launched by U.S. based company
Cyrus Aircraft for Rs 12. 62 crore. What is the name of this jet?
A. Real Jet B. Vision Jet C. Laser Jet D. Nano Jet
115. India’s first underwater metro will be constructed in which city?

A. Delhi B. Kolkata C. Kochi D. Chennai
116. As per NITI Aayog, India's economy is expected to grow at ______% in the fiscal ending in March
2018
A. 7% B. 7.25% C. 7.5% D. 7.75%
117. What was the theme of ‘World Environment Day’ 2017, celebrated on 5th June, 2017?
A. ‘Small Islands and Climate Change’
B. ‘Think, Eat, Save’
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C. 'Connecting People to Nature'

D. 'Seven Billion Dreams; One Planet; Consume with Care’
118. Leo Varadkar, an Indian-origin doctor, is set to become the youngest Prime Minister of:
A. New Zealand B. Ireland C. Sweden D. Norway
119. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will launch Solar Probe mission in which
year?
A. 2018 B. 2019 C. 2020 D. 2021
120. On June 3, 2017, which entity successfully launched its first recycled supply ship to the
International Space Station (ISS)?
A. Boeing B. NASA
C. SpaceX D. European Space Agency
121. Who is the author of the novel ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’?
A. Jhumpa Lahiri B. Chetan Bhagat C. Arundhati Roy D. Shobha De
122. Which among the following is the highest-ranked Indian university in Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)
World University Rankings 2018?
A. IIT-Bombay B. IIT-Delhi C. IIT-Kanpur D. IIT-Kharagpur
123. Who among following won the Under-14 doubles title of the Asian Junior Tennis Championships
at Pune on June 10, 2017?
A. Dhanya Shah and Sanmay Gandhi B. Vishesh Patel and Shashidhar Kota
C. Dhanya Shah and Shashidhar Kota D. Dhanya Shah and Vishesh Patel
124. Who among the following Sri Lankan Cricketer has been inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of
Fame in London on June 8, 2017?
A. Arvinda de Silva B. Muttiah Muralitharan
C. Sanath Jayasuriya D. Chaminda Vaas
125. Group of Seven (G7) Environment Ministers Meeting was held on 11th and 12th June, 2017 in:
A. Italy B. France C. Germany D. Canada
126. What was the theme of ‘World Blood Donor Day’ 2017, celebrated on June 14, 2017?
A. Give Blood. Give Now. Give Often B. Blood connects us all
C. Thank you for saving my life D. Safe blood for saving mothers
127. On June 14, 2017, public sector oil firms IOC, BPCL and HPCL signed an agreement to jointly set
up the world's largest refinery and petrochemical complex at____________ district of Maharashtra.
A. Ratnagiri district B. Raigad district C. Nashik district D. Nagpur district
128. Which cricketer has become the quickest batsman to score 8000 runs in one-day international
cricket?
A. Shikhar Dhawan B. AB de Villiers C. Chris Gayle D. Virat Kohli
129. Second annual meeting of the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)was held on June 16,
2017 in:
A. China B. South Korea C. Brazil D. Russia
130. Which office market in India has been ranked 9th most expensive prime office market in the
world?
A. Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) B. S G Highway in Ahmadabad
C. Connaught Place in Delhi D. M G Road in Bengaluru
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Holy City Varanasi to get India’s 1st freight village

India slips to 45th spot in IMD's World Competitiveness list

Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QR-SAM) successful test

India among Top FDI Destinations : UNCTAD Report

Petrol and Diesel Prices to be revised Daily from June 16

Uttar Pradesh ranks First in Number of Child Labourers : CRY Report

India launches free legal aid via video conferencing to villagers

India become number one Remittance Receiving Country : UN Report

Global Innovation Index (GII) – 2017: India ranked 60th position

Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad celebrates centenary years

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Kochi Metro services

President to launch GST on midnight of June 30 in Parliament

 Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that the

City Liveability Index” launched by the Union Govt.

79 parameters including availability of roads, education, healthcare and employment

India's population to surpass that of China around 2024: UNO

Uttarakhand and Haryana Declared Open Defecation Free States (ODF)

Financial city Mumbai most expensive for expatriates in India: Mercer

Delhi’s second airport will be set up at Jewar, Greater Noida

Coimbatore receives World’s Second Highest Green Rating

ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission completes 1000 Earth Days in Orbit

Black Money: Automatic Information Sharing with Switzerland from 2019

Arunachal Pradesh Demands Separate Time Zone to increase Efficiency

visits to States/Union Territories (UTs) gotten from Departments of Tourism of different

‘Stratolaunch’: Massive airplane being constructed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen

 India has emerged as the largest victim of ‘Fireball’ followed by Brazil.

NASA: May 2017 is the second hottest month in 137 years

KELT-9b : A massive exo-planet discovered by scientists

Indian and Pakistan became full official members of SCO

began the administrative process of joining the organisation as full-fledged members in

China unveils World’s First Train that runs on Virtual Tracks

Jupiter is the oldest planet in solar system: Latest Report

World’s lightest and smallest satellite, “KalamSat launched by a NASA

NASA tests ROSA on Space Station for First Time

World's highest rail track to commence in Leh overtaking China

Global Terrorist (SDGT)”.

NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover finds evidence of Ancient Lake

World’s First ATM celebrates its 50th Birthday

World’s First Hybrid ‘Aeroboat’ Unveiled

EU slaps Google with 2.42 billion euros Fine

Indian Warships reach Australia to take part in Bilateral Exercise AUSINDEX-17

Six Arab Nations Cut Diplomatic Ties with Qatar

China launches its First X-ray Space Telescope

Verizon Completes Yahoo Acquisition

Rohingya Muslims Issue : UNHRC appointed Indira Jaising as member of three-member

Aleksandar Vucic sworn in as Serbia's new president

Indian-origin Leo Varadkar become the next Prime Minister of Ireland

SEBI approved Vikram Limaye as CEO and MD of NSE

India renominates Dalveer Bhandari for another term as ICJ judge

Urban Development Secretary Rajiv Guaba to be Home Secretary

Mohammed bin Salman promoted as new Crown Price of Saudi Arabia

Russian Diplomat Vladimir Voronkov as Chief of newly established UNCCT

 The Vladimir Voronkov has been given the rank of Under-

Kaushik Basu takes over as President of IEA

 Narinder Nath Vohra appointed as President of India International Centre. The

Shaktikanta Das retires as Economic Affairs Secretary

Anil Kumble steps down as India Cricket Coach

French Open - 2017

Winners of 2017 French Open

K Srikanth Wins Australian Open Super series Title

B. Sai Praneeth won Thailand Open Grand Prix badminton championship

Ace cricketer Virat Kohli becomes fastest to 8000 ODI runs