Daily Current affairs for 25 th to 27th June 2017 ( English)
1. The world
No.11 Kidambi Srikanth won the Australian Open Super series
title by defeating Olympic champion Chen Long in
the Australian Open summit clash in Sydney.
2. 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.
3. The HRD
ministry has constituted a new nine-member panel headed by
space scientist K Kasturirangan to frame a new
National Education Policy (NEP).
4. The
World Bank has cleared a USD 250-million loan to
aid the Skill India mission.. Skill India Mission Operation
(SIMO) will be a six- year programme in support of National Policy
for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (2017-23). The loan amount would be
used for making Indian youth more employable through reskilling. Under the
programme, persons in the age group of 15-59 will acquire skill training
irrespective of their employment status.
5. 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.
6. Nashik’s
army doctor Srinivas Gokulnath and Nagpur’s
doctor Amit Samarth has created history by becoming the first
Indians to complete the 4,900-km Race Across America (RAAM) in
the solo 18-59 age category.
7. Satellite-based
chip systems developed by ISRO will be used to alert
road users at unmanned level crossings about approaching trains.
These chips will also help the railways in tracking train movement on a
real-time basis. Initially, on a pilot basis the ISRO-developed
integrated circuit (IC) chips will be installed in the Mumbai and
Guwahati Rajdhani trains. Hooters will be installed at 20 unmanned
level crossings on Rajdhani routes for Guwahati and Mumbai.
8. President
Klaus Iohannis has appointed outgoing economy minister Mihai Tudose as Prime
Minister and thus paved the way for the formation of a new leftist
Social-Democrat-led government in Romania. The Prime
Minister-designate Mihai Tudose will have 10 days to gain the vote of
confidence.
9. Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has become the first
foreign leader to have a White House dinner after the US
President Donald Trump assumed power. India
and the US have asked Pakistan to make sure that its soil is not used for
cross-border terror strikes. Both the countries have asked Pakistan to
expeditiously bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai and Pathankot attackers to
justice.
10. Kaushik
Basu has taken over as president of the International
Economic Association (IEA). He will serve as the President for a
three-year term. He served as India’s chief economic adviser from 2009 to
2012. He also served as senior vice-president and chief economist at the
World Bank from 2012 to 2016.
11. The Board
of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has constituted a special
seven-member committee headed by Rajeev Shukla. to
analyse the few contentious Lodha panel reforms which are
being opposed by the state units. The other members of the
committee include former India captain Sourav Ganguly, T.C.
Mathew (Kerala Cricket), Naba Bhattacharjee (North East representative), Jay
Shah (Gujarat Cricket Association), BCCI Treasurer Anirudh Chaudhary and BCCI
acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary.
12. The Food
Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has come out
with draft regulations for organic food products to ensure the
authenticity of organic foods. The Food Safety and Standards
Authority of India (FSSAI) has invited comments from the public regarding the
provisions of the draft regulations. FSSAI’s regulation mandates that labelling
of organic foods should provide full and accurate information regarding the
organic status of the organic foods. Organic food products must carry a
certification mark or a quality assurance mark provided by the notified
certification bodies. Organic farm produce means the product obtained from
organic agriculture, while organic food means food products that have been
produced in accordance with specified standards for organic production. FSSAI’s
regulations have exempted organic food marketed by the original
producer or producer organisation through a direct sale from
verification compliance. However, this exemption will not be applicable to
processed organic products.
13. Former
Indian Hockey captain Dhanraj Pillai would be conferred East
Bengal foot ball club’s highest honour – Bharat Gaurav at
its Foundation day ceremony on August 1, 2017.
14. China has
launched its first self developed next generation bullet train ‘
Fuxing’ with a maximum speed of 400 kmh on one of the country’s busiest
lines –Beijing – Shanghai line
15. Desh
Bandhu Gupta , Founder and chairman of Lupin, India’s second largest
Pharamaceutical company has passed away in Mumbai
16. US
declared Pakistan based Hizbul Chief Syed Salahuddin as global
terrorist.
17. India
and Portugal have signed 11 agreements on various
field during PM Modi’s visit to Portugal
18. Manushi
Chhillar of Haryana has crowned as Femina Miss India
World 2017 . The event was held at Yash Raj studio in Mumbai,
Maharashtra.
19. June
26 – International day against Drug abuse and Illicit Trafficking was
observed with the theme “Listen first – Listening to Children and youth
is the first step to help them grow healthy and safe”
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