Daily Current Affairs for 15th to 17th June 2017 ( English )
1. India has been ranked
low 116 out of 157 nations on the 2017 Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG) Index and Dashboard report released by
Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and Bertelsmann Stiftung. India has scored 58.6 .Top countries are Sweden
(1st), Denmark (2nd), Finland (3rd), Norway (4th), Czech Republic (5th),
Germany (6th), Austria (7th), Switzerland (8th) and Slovenia (9th).United
States was ranked 42nd on the Index, Russia and China ranked 62nd and 71st
respectively.
2. India has contributed
an additional $1 million to India-UN Development Partnership Fund launched
to support sustainable development projects across the
developing world. Already India had made
an initial contribution of $1 million when the fund was created. The amount was
allocated for the implementation of a project benefiting seven Small Island
Developing States in South Pacific Ocean.
3. India’s first solar powered
diesel multiple unit (DEMU) broad gauge train has launched by Indian
Railways. The train will run from Sarai Rohilla in Delhi to Farukh
Nagar in Haryana. It will replace an existing non-solar powered rake on the
same route. It is 1600 Horse Power (HP)
train with all solar powered coaches. These solar panels have been manufactured
under ‘Make in India’ initiative. The energy generated by these solar panels
will be stored in batteries and will be used during the night.
4. Scientists from Harvard
Medical School for first time have encoded a small movie clip in the
DNA of living bacterial cells by using the CRISPR (clustered
regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.) gene-editing
technique and then played it back. Scientists have found out that
despite the genetic modification, the bacteria thrived and multiplied. The film
stored in the DNA of bacteria was also well preserved and was intact even in
new generation of bacteria.
5. July 15- The World Youth
Skills Day is
observed globally every year to raise awareness about the importance of
investing in youth skills development. 2017
Theme is “Skills for All”.
6. India and European Union
(EU) have
established Investment Facilitation Mechanism (IFM) which will
allow for a close coordination between EU and India with an aim to promote and
facilitate EU investment in India.
7. For the third
consecutive time in the past two years, Raipur’s Swami
Vivekananda Airport was ranked first in Customer Satisfaction
Index (CSI) Survey among 49 airports in the country. It has achieved
4.84 score on a five point scale index. It was followed by Udaipur (2nd),
Amritsar (3rd) and Dehradun (4th) airports which have scored 4.75, 4.74 and
4.73 respectively.
8. India’s Sundar Singh Gurjar (21) won gold
medal in the men’s javelin throw event at World Para Athletics Championships held
in London, United Kingdom. Sundar
Singh Gurjar hails from the Karauli district in Rajasthan.
9. The United States House of
Representatives has passed
an amendment to National Defense Authorisation Act (NDAA), 2018, a $621.5
billion defence expenditure bill to advance defence cooperation with India. The amendment asks the State Department and Pentagon to develop
a strategy to addresses common security challenges, the role of US
partners and allies in India-US defence relationship, and role of the defence
technology and trade initiative.
10. India’s Harinder Pal Sandhu (28) won the Victorian
Open squash tournament by defeated Rex Hedrick of Australia held
in Melbourne, Australia.
11. Switzerland’s Roger Federer won 2017
Wimbledon title in the men’s single category by defeating
Marin Cilic of Croatia It was Federer’s record eighth Wimbledon
title and overall 19th Grand Slam. Garbiñe Muguruza (Spain) defeated
Venus Williams to win her first Wimbledon title in the women’s single
category. Łukasz Kubot (Poland) and Marcelo Melo (Brazil) pair defeated
Oliver Marach (Austria) and Mate Pavić (Croatia) pair to win 2017
Wimbledon title in Men’s Doubles category. Russian pair Ekaterina
Makarova and Elena Vesnina defeated Chan Hao-ching (Chinese Taipei)
and Monica Niculescu (Romania) to win 2017 Wimbledon title in Women’s
Doubles category. Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and Martina Hingis (Switzerland) defeated
Henri Kontinen (Finland) and Heather Watson (United Kingdom) to win 2017
Wimbledon title in mixed Doubles category.
12. Scientists from the Geological
Survey of India (GSI) have discovered the presence of millions
of tonnes of precious metals and minerals deep under the waters within
the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of peninsular India. They have confirmed the
presence large amount of lime mud, phosphate-rich and calcareous sediments,
hydrocarbons, metalliferous deposits and micronodules.
13. The Insolvency and
Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has notified regulations for
inspection and investigation of service providers registered with it.
Under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) implemented by IBBI, service
providers are insolvency professional agencies, entities, professionals and
information utilities. The investigation
authority has to serve a notice intimating the entity concerned about the probe
at least 10 days in advance.
14. Scientists from the University
of Cambridge have developed super-stretchy and strong artificial
(synthetic) spider silk, almost entirely composed of water. The fibres of the synthetic spider silk are spun from hydrogel,
a soupy material which is 98% water. The remaining 2% of the hydrogel is
made of naturally available silica and cellulose.
15. Former Sikkim CM Nar
Bahadur Bhandari passed away.
16. Lilly Singh was appointed as the UNICEF’s
Global Goodwill ambassador.
17. The only female medal
winner of the Fields Medal bagged by Maryam Mirzakhani passed away.
18. NAZA’s New horiozon space
craft unveiled
new maps of Pluto and Charon
19. Farooq Abdullah ( former J&K CM
)and PK Kunhalikutty ( Indian Union Muslim League) took oath
as Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha on 17th July
2017
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