Daily Current Affairs for 30th June 2017 ( English)
1. Indian American Krishna R Urs
was appointed as the United States (US) Ambassador to Peru by
Donald Trump administration
2. Union
Government launched new bidding mechanism named Open
Acreage Licensing Process (OALP) and the National Data Repository (NDR) for
the first major oil field auctions to be held from 1st July
2017.
3. Indian
Vice President Election to be held on 5th August,2017 through
a secret ballot.
4. A
study warns that nearly one-fifth of the world population will
become climate change refugees by 2100 due to
rising ocean levels.
5. Union
cabinet has approved MoU between India and
Israel on National Campaign for water conservation in
India.
6. Rajiv
Kumar , a 1981 batch IAS officer of UP cadre was appointed as
the chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh
7. June
29 – International Day of Tropics was celebrated with an aim to raise
awareness to the specific challenges faced by tropical areas and the far
reaching implications of the issues affecting the world’s tropical zone.
8. Maharashtra
Government issued Government Resolution (GR) on loan
waiver, in this Women farmers will be given top
priority.
9. Indian
ace Shuttler Kidambi Srikanth has re- entered the top 10 of
the Badminton World Federation men’s single rankings for
the first time in 10 months.
10. British
PM Therasa May won the vote of confidence in Parliament by
winning 323 votes in favour.
11. Leaders
of the World’s largest 20 economies will be converging at the 12th G20
Summit on 7-8 July at Hamburg, a major port city in
Northern Germany to discuss counter terrorism
12. Indian
origin boy Arnav Sharma ( 11 yr old) in UK got
162 IQ point in Mensa IQ test which is more than Einstein
and Hawking.
13. According
to Switzerland’s central bank data, Indian’s money in Swiss bank down
to CHF 676 million.
14. The
Delhi Development Authority’s ( DDA) much awaited new housing
scheme that includes construction and delivery of around 13000
houses has been launched.
15. Three
Neolithic Skull fragments has been discovered at a stone
age temple in Turkey.
16. NSSO(
National Sample Survey Organisation) released report titled
key indicators of Unincorporated Non – agricultural
enterprises in India based on the information collected under 73rd round
of its survey conducted during July 2015 to June 2016 .
17. NALSA has
launched a web application for free legal services to prisoners. Through
this , the State Legal services authorities and District Legal
services authorities can feed the data for each individual prison
inmate.
18. PAN
card won’t be invalid if not linked with Aadhaar by 1st July by
IT department. After 1st July, 2017 it will become mandatory .
19. 5.6
million children are at increased risk of water borne diseases as the
rainy season begins in conflict affected areas of countries around Lake
Chad according to UNICEF.
20. Asian
Development Bank has pledged USD 10 billion support for
infrastructure building and immediate development needs of less-developed
states in India.
21. Narendra
Kumar Sinha, a 1980 batch IAS officer from Bihar has assumed charge
as Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting ,
succeeding Ajay Mittal .
22. The NASA has
successfully launched Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding
rocket that created colourful artificial clouds visible
in the skies of the US. The rocket was launched from its Wallops
Flight Facility in Virginia.
23. Anti-hunger
activist Ankit Kawatra has been awarded the Queen’s
Young Leaders Award for 2017 by Queen Elizabeth II at
a ceremony in the Buckingham Palace. The Queen’s
Young Leaders Award recognises exceptional work towards solving
hunger and malnutrition in India. Ankit Kawatra is the founder
of Feeding India, an organisation which works towards eradicating
hunger and food wastage in India.
24. Germany has legalised
same-sex marriage in line with a host of
other European countries.
25. 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.
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