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Category Wise Current Affairs from January 2015 to June 2015
1) Awards and Honours
2) Appointments
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4) Indian Affairs
5) International Affairs
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7) Sports
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Current Affairs Jan to June
AWARDS AND HONOURS
Name of the Award
Business Person of the Year
State Pre-Eminent Science
and Technology Award
2015 Space Pioneer Award
Award Winner
Larry Page
Yu Min – Nuclear Scientist
ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission
(MOM) Team
Asian Tour’s Players Player of Anirban Lahiri
the Year
Ballon d’Or 2014 Award
Cristiano Ronaldo
Governor of the Year
Raghuram Rajan
National e-Governance
Award
Vyas Samman Award 2014
Jammu and Kashmir
National Tiger Conservation
Authority Award
Vikram Sarabhai Memorial
Award
Sahitya Akademi Award
Periyar Tiger Reserve
NSC Award for Best Electoral
Practices
Social Media Person of the
year 2015
Giraffe Hero Award
Best Indian Language
Website in India
Hindu Literary Prize 2014
CV Anand
Martin Luther King Award
Frank Islam
DSC Prize for South Asian
Fiction
Kushwant Singh Memorial
Prize
Sanjay Chopra Award
Bapu Gaidani Award
Jhumpa Lahiri
Geeta Chopra Award
Bharat Award (These 4 are
National Bravery Awards)
Kamal Kishore Goyanka
MYS Prasad
Prabhu Nath Dwivedi
Amitabh Bachchan
Subash Chandra Agarwal
Navbharattimes
...
DayTodayGK
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Given by
KK Birla Foundation
Given for encouraging local
public in managing reserve
Given by Indian Science
Congress Association
Given for his work called
‘Kanakalochanaha’
Given by Election
Commission of India
Given by Internet and Mobile
Association of India
He is RTI Activist
Given by Internet and Mobile
Association of India
Given for his book “Book of
Common Signs”
Given for his contribution in
international service and civil
engagement
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Given
for Zakir’s services to Islam
Given by US for Sengupta’s
book named Recasting India:
How Entrepreneurship is
Revolutionizing the World’s
Largest Democracy
Fourth Marathi Writer to win
the literary honour
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Given by Prime Minister
Modi to Power minister
Sujan Singh Pathania
Given for their contribution
in the fields of missile
technology and remote
sensing
Given by American Chemical
Society Division of Analytical
Chemistry
Given at the 65th Berlin
International Film Festival
Given for his contribution to
the Automotive Industry
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Captain Niloofar Rahmani
from Afghanistan Air Force
2
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Tabassum Adnan- founder
of Khwendo Jirga from
Pakistan
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Life-Time Achievement
Award- Surendra R Patel
2
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Best Amateur
Photographer of the YearSasikumar
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DayTodayGK
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Given by Pacific Area Travel
Writers Association
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The theme for Professional
Photographer category –
“Hamara Bharat Swachh
Bharat“
...
Awarded at the sixth edition
of the National Laadli Media
and Advertising Awards
Given for her enormous
contributions to medical
research
Given for her contribution in
contemporary art landscape
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Given for his book named
“Family Life”
Given for regional leadership
in the South and Southeast
Asia category for closing the
gender gap in politics
Current Affairs Jan to June
Name of the Award
Major Dhyan Chand Lifetime
Achievement Award
Dada Saheb Phalke Award
Bharat Ratna
Gandhi Peace Prize 2014
Abel Prize 2015
Bishwaratna Dr Bhupen
Hazarika International
Solidarity Award
Femina Miss India 2015
Sir Richard Hadlee Medal
Award Winner
Balbir Singh
Given by Hockey India
Bollywood Actor Shashi
Kapoor
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Madan Mohan Malviya
ISRO
46th winner of this highly
celebrated award
It is India’s highest Civilian
Award
Given for ISRO’s contribution
in nation’s development
Abel Prize – Considered as
Nobel Prize in Mathematics
Given by Assam Chief
Minister Tarun Gogoi
Dr
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PM Narendra Modi
2
...
ICICI CEO Chanda Kochar
4
...
Bhatia
Yashwant Sinha
www
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2014 Miss India – Koyal Rana
It is the highest cricketing
honor of New Zealand
Given by the UAE Minister
Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak
Al Nahyan
Kumaran Asan - Famous
Malayalam poet
Given by United Kingdom
Lahiri was the co-creator of
super heavy element 117
Time Magazine releases Top
100 People in many
categories every year
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Haridutt Sharma Award
Anurradha Prasad
Top Civilian Supervisor of the
Year
Harkeert Singh Saini
Dr
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DayTodayGK
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Given for his novel
“Umbrella Man“
He is well known for his
knowledge and efforts in
keeping peace
He is the Executive CoChairman of NDTV
For his Truth versus Hype
For his The News Hour show
Given for his huge
contributions to science and
Indo-Japanese science cooperation
He is the sixth recipient to
win this eminent award
Given under the category of
handling 25 to 40 million
passengers per annum
He has been jailed by the
regime for more than three
years
Charlie Hebdo - Famous
satirical magazine of France
Given for his work on the
conservation of the Great
Indian Bustard
Given for improving delivery
of public services
He is Indian-American
Professor in US
The Championship held at
Washington, D
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Given for his device that
shuts down the undersea oil
spills in a speedy manner
She is the editor-in-chief of
News-24 Channel
He is an Indian-American
policeman and the award
was given by Houston Police
department
Current Affairs Jan to June
Name of the Award
Award Winner
Most Reputed Company in
India
Aditya Birla Group
England Men’s Cricketer of
the year
England Women’s Cricketer
of the year
England Development
Programme Cricketer of the
Year award
Disability Cricketer of the
Year
Indians - Radcliffe Fellowship
Joe Root
United Nation’s Dag
Hammarskjold Medal
Lance Naik Nand Ram &
Raju Joseph
Oxford University Award
Gurnimrat ‘Nimmy’ Sidhu
Lifetime Achievement Award
Filmmaker and writer
Subhash Ghai
Indians in Forbes’ World’s
100 most Powerful Women
1
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ICICI bank head Chanda
Kochhar
3
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HT Media Chair Shobhana
Bhartia
Vanya Shivashankar and
Gokul Venkatachalam
US spelling bee competition
Charlotte Edwards
Saqib Mahmood
Luke Sugg
Shivani Agarwal and
Maharaja Pandit
Bangladesh Liberation War
award
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Norway’s The Bjornson Prize
for freedom of expression
Edward Snowden
King and Queen of Social
Media
Shah Rukh Khan and
Priyanka Chopra
www
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Key Points
Based on Nielsen’s
Corporate Image Monitor
(CIM) 2014-15 survey
Given by the England and
Wales Cricket Board (ECB)
Given by the England and
Wales Cricket Board (ECB)
He is Lancashire’s right-arm
seamer
He belongs to England’s
Visually Impaired team
The Fellowship is given by
Harward University for 50
scholars every year
A total of 126 police, military
and civilian personnel were
awarded the UN medal
Sidhu is currently the head of
science at Oaks Park High
School in north-east London
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The winners will each receive
over USD 37,000 in cash and
prizes
Given for his outstanding
support for the country’s
independence from Pakistan
in 1971
The Bjornson Prize is named
after a Norwegian Nobel
literature laureate
Given by a leading Bollywood
digital portal
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Commander of the Most
Excellent Order of the British
Empire
Japan’s Fukuoka Prize 2015
SA Hasan
Best Welfare Organization of
the Year 2015 Award
National Union of Seafarers
of India
Best Test Player of 21st
Century
Sachin Tendulkar
Orden de la Democracia
Simon Bolivar en el grado de
cruz Caballero
Sangita Kalanidhi Award
Viswanath Tripathi
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
President Pranab Mukherjee
Suresh Kalmadi
ISRO
Wesley Hall
Ramachandra Guha
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
MoorthiDevi Award
Key Points
He won the award for a
second consecutive time
Given by the Belarus State
University at a ceremony in
Belarus
He is the CEO of Doha Bank
Awarded for his contribution
towards the development of
athletics in the continent
The Award was given for her
novel “How to be Both”
Given for ISRO’s Mangalyaan
80th player in the World to
be inducted in Hall of fame
He is the present Surgeon
General in US
He has campaigned for
reforms via his organization
called Monitor of Human
Rights in Saudi Arabia
...
Based on online poll
conducted by Cricket
Australia’s website
It is Columbia’s Highest
Civilian Award
Given by Music Academy
Given for his book
“Vyomkesh Darvesh”
For Awards and Honours – Group Awards – Check Study Materials
Section at www
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Current Affairs Jan to June
APPOINTMENTS
Name of The Persons
R K Srivastava
A
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Mittal
Arvind Panagariya
Sindhushree Khullar
Aziz Qureshi
AS Kiran Kumar
Hari Shankar Brahma
Pahlaj Nihalani
Sunil Sood
Atul Khare
Prof Kaptan Singh Solani
Divya Prakash Sinha
Durga Prasad
Kalyan Singh
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Shekhar Sen
Ashton Carter
Dr
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Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India
Chairperson of the Central Board of Film
Certification (CBFC)
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Governor of Punjab
Security Secretary in the Union Cabinet Secretariat
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Governor of Himachal Pradesh
30th Foreign Secretary of India
Chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi
New US secretary of defence
Secretary in the Ministry of Housing & Urban
Poverty Alleviation (HUPA)
...
Italian president
Secretary of India
Director General of the Council of Scientific &
Industrial Research (CSIR)
member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy
and Negotiations
MD & CEO of Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX)
Chief Data Scientist and Deputy Chief Technology
Officer for Data Policy
Independent Director on the board of Mukesh
Ambani led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL)
...
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Secretary of Delhi
Ambassador for north-east India
MD & CEO of CRISIL
Group President and Chief Operating Officer of
Wipro
Chief Financial Officer of Google Inc
Spokesperson in the External Affairs Ministry
India’s first Cyber Security Chief
16th governor of Mizoram
Chairman of the highly influential Indian Premier
League (IPL) governing council by the Board of
Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
Director of ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), Bengaluru
President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Khadi and Village
Industries Commission (KVIC)
...
Ambassador to France
Criminal court judge in New York City
Head a new investigating team to further
investigate the IPL-6 spot-fixing and betting scandal
Fifth general secretary of CPM
Wipro board
US Surgeon General
www
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Current Affairs Jan to June
Name of the Persons
Posts/Departments
Jyoti Prashad Rajkhowa
Sanjay Gupta
K Sivan
Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav
Ganguly, VVS Laxman
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
Meena Hemachandra
Air Marshal Birender Singh
Dhanoa
Pawan Munjal
R Seshasayee
Rahul Dravid
KV Chowdary
Vijai Sharma
RC Tayal
MK Sharma
Nikhil Seth
Anuj Mathur
Srivari Chandrasekhar
Nokesh Arora
Jack Dorsey
Steffi Graf
Anshula Kant
Zaheer Abbas
Dennis Muilenburg
Vindo Rai
Mukesh Khanna
Arunachal Pradesh Governor
Chairman of Engineers Ltd
VSSC Chief
Advisory Panel of BCCI
First Woman President of Mauritius
Executive Director of RBI
IAF’s new Vice Chief
Chairman of HERO Motocorp
Executive Chairman of Infosys
Coach of India A and Under 19 Teams
Central Vigilance Commissioner
Chief information Commissioner
Director General of National Security Guard
Non-Executive Chairman of ICICI Bank
Head of UNITAR
CEO of Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance
Director of CSIR-IICT
Softbank President
Twitter CEO
Brand Ambassador of Kerala’s Ayurveda
Deputy Managing Director and CFO of SBI
President of International Cricket Council
CEO of Boeing
Independent Director of IDFC
Chairperson of Children Film Society of India
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I Hated Every Minute Of Training, But I Said, “Don’t Quit
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SEBI framed new set of rules for listing
and trading of municipal bonds on stock
exchanges to boost the centre’s ‘smart cities’
initiative and also helps to channel the
household investments into urban
infrastructure development
...
The Government of India has signed an
agreement with Asian Development Bank
(ADB) for $75 million loan to improve water
resource management in three towns of
Karnataka namely, Byadagi, Davanagere and
Harihar in the Upper Tungabhadra sub-basin
...
3
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4
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This project will provide services
ranging from cashless banking to digitised
school teaching
...
The Reserve Bank of India has relaxed the
Know Your Customer (KYC) norms for
existing clients of Non-Banking Finance
Companies (NBFCs) based on risk their
profile
...
ICICI Bank has launched country’s first
‘contact less’ debit and credit cards, that
would work on the Near-Field
Communication (NFC) technology
...
Kotak Mahindra Bank approved the
merger with ING Vysya Bank with a share
exchange ratio of 725:1000
...
HDFC Bank is the only Indian bank among
the world’s 50 most valued lenders in 2014
with a market capitalization (M-Cap) of $41
billion
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40 billion and ICICI Bank is at 55th
position with M-Cap of $33
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9
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3% in
2015 and 6
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10
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9% in 2015 and 6
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11
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has
signed an MoU on Supervisory Cooperation
and Exchange of Supervisory Information
with Brazil’s Central Bank- Banco Central do
Brasil (BCB)
...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) gave
more power to banks to restructure external
commercial borrowings (ECBs) of companies
...
b) To change the ECB loan from one
company to another in case of reorganization or merger
...
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Current Affairs Jan to June
14
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2%
28
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IAG to raise stake in Indian joint venture
with SBI to 49%
29
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Jiji Memon is the CEO of Mudra
Bank
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16
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3
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17
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18
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19
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20
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30
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31
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32
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33
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21
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1
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State Bank of India launches RuPay
Platinum Debit Card
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22
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HDFC among the World’s Top-10 List of
Consumer Finance Firms
23
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36
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RBI signs $400 million currency swap
pact with Sri Lanka
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ICICI Bank launched an app named
eftCheque to replicate cheque book
25
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2857
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39
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SEBI approved guidelines to govern
international financial services centres
(IFSC)
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SBI extends overdraft facility against FD
for online customers
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SBI launches contactless debit and credit
card with Rs 1 lakh fraud cover
...
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According to the UN WESP report, India’s
economic growth is expected to surpass
China’s economic growth, with GDP
projected to zoom by 7
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42
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43
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44
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The government of India has decided to
infuse Rs 6,990 crore in nine public sector
banks (PSBs) out of the current year’s
budget to strengthen their capital base
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46
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47
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The Reserve Bank of India, the foreign
exchange reserves of India has raised to USD
333
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FDI in India doubles to 2
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The top sectors which received the
maximum FDI are
• Telecom Industry – 2
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29 billion dollars
• Automobile – 1
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21 billion dollars
• Software – 971 million dollars
51
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89 billion dollars
• Singapore – 4
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57 billion dollars
• United States – 1
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42 billion dollars
52
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ICICI links with UAE bank Emirates NBD
for rapid money transfers
54
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55
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Bank of Baroda signs agreement UAE
Exchange for instant money transfer
57
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The RBI has
put a fine of Rs 15 lakhs on each banks
58
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5% in 2015-16 and 8% in 2017-18
59
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7%
for current fiscal
60
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28 billion
61
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Reserve Bank of India allocated Rs 10 K
Crore to SIDBI
63
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DayTodayGK
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PM Modi to launch three Social Security
Schemes
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65
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47 million or Rs 530 crore)
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GOI approves revised Double Taxation
Avoidance Agreement with South Korea
67
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Government of India relaxes FDI norms
for NRIs, PIOs, and OCIs
69
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The Reserve Bank of India has decided to
set up a Central Fraud Registry to check out
the impact of frauds on banks’ financials
71
...
The
bank launched Business Debit MasterCard,
Platinum Credit MasterCard and
International Travel MasterCard to improve
customers’ payment experiences
...
ICICI launches voice password facility for
users
76
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The Reserve Bank of India is in
discussions with the central government for
the reduction of cash usage
...
The government as well as the
RBI are doing many things to promote
cashless transactions
...
78
...
The RBI
has now allowed banks to spread losses on
sale of bad loan to such ARCs up to March
2016
...
79
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0% to
7
...
The Cash
Reserve Ratio has been kept unchanged at
4%
...
75% and the marginal standing facility rate
and Bank Rate to 8
...
80
...
The announcement was
made by the commission’s Chairman Bimal
Jalan
...
Former finance secretary Sumit Bose and
former RBI deputy governor Subir Gokarn
are members of the Commission
...
Singapore’s DBS Bank seeks RBI nod to
set up arm in India
74
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RBI plans IT wing to deal with cyber crime
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Current Affairs Jan to June
81
...
The ATM will
not allow users to withdraw cash unless their
face matches their IDs
...
82
...
36 percent (including education
cess) to 14 percent takes effect from June 1
...
83
...
The new
repo rate will be 7
...
Consequently the
new reverse repo rate will 6
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A rate cut
by RBI would need to be accompanied by
steps to boost liquidity
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25%
• Reverse Repo Rate – 6
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25%
• Bank Rate – 8
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5%
84
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This will give a boost to the
infrastructure development
...
85
...
HDFC’s rival Reliance
MF remains at the second place, with a PAT
of Rs 357 crore during the last fiscal
...
Maharashtra leads the mutual fund
landscape or MF Chart in India with an
assets base of Rs 1
...
The
Marathi state is followed by Delhi with Rs
28,058 crore, Karnataka with Rs 27,625
crore, Gujarat with Rs 25,402 crore, and
West Bengal with Rs 21,189 crore
...
Bangladesh has given permission to the
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) to
run its business in the insurance market
...
88
...
89
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90
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The RBI had
received a total of 72 applications for small
finance bank licences and 41 applications for
payment bank licences
...
www
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com
Current Affairs Jan to June
91
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It has pushed Singapore to the
second slot in 2014-15
...
In 2013-14, Singapore
had replaced Mauritius as the top source of
FDI into India
...
According to Paris-based think tank
OECD, Indian economy saw the “strongest
growth” in the first quarter of 2015 among
large economies, including China, the US,
Germany and Canada
...
1 per cent, up from 1
...
92
...
PayZaap
is a complete digital payment and purchase
solution, a one-stop online portal offering
customers ‘great deals at one place’
...
Customers
don’t have to enter their information again
and again
...
PayZapp will
help its customers do multiple transactions
...
Singapore has emerged as one of the top
three locations attracting India’s outbound
investments during June, 2013 – May, 2014
period
...
3 per cent of India’s
outbound investments during June 2013May 2014 period
...
1 per cent, followed by
Mauritius with 15
...
93
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Clive Harris of World Bank said
that the top five countries with the highest
investment commitments in 2014 are Brazil,
Turkey, Peru, Colombia and India
...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has
announced that non-resident Indians (NRIs)
can make investments in chit funds in India
on a non-repatriation basis without any
ceiling
...
The Chit funds for NRI will encourage
flow of capital into the country
...
India’s financial markets regulation
framework stood up at the highest ratings
from the global bodies of banking and capital
market regulators, with RBI and SEBI being
rated better than their competitors in China
and the US
...
98
...
99
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The island nation
was blacklisted by India in 2013 for not
sharing tax information under the Taxation
treaty
...
100
...
101
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By using this platform,
the bank customers can obtain forex rates
without having to physically visit the branch
...
www
...
com
Current Affairs Jan to June
102
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The users can simply log into their bank
account via net-banking or mobile banking
and avail of this loan at a click
...
107
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Australia will be the Sixth
largest shareholder
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RBI has Eased norms for accessing
foreign funds
...
According to global financial major Bank updated on 25th June 2015 and they
of America-Merrill Lynch report, global
allowed banks to borrow from international
investors have reduced their exposure to
financial institutions for general banking
emerging market equities due to weak
business without seeking its permission
...
India topped the 109
...
100 denomination
global emerging market investors’ country
would now come with extra security featurepreference chart followed by China and
numerals in ascending size in the number
Poland in the second and third place,
panels
...
100 denomination
respectively
...
ICICI Bank has announced an
with this type of new numbering pattern
...
com to provide
New Pattern
easier trade finance to India-based sellers on
• the numerals in both the number panels
the portal
...
com will also get access to ICICI
size from left to right
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guarantees and cross-border remittances
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Deposits of non-residents (NRs) in
Kerala banks have crossed Rs 1 lakh crore in
other denominations
...
From Rs
110
...
terminals) across the country, which will
double the number of places where card
106
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The bank is also
Nations, India leads regional inflow of
launching a huge campaign to promote cash
Foreign Direct Investment or FDI in South
withdrawal of up to Rs 1,000 at these PoS
Asia accounting for $ 34 billion investment
during 2014
...
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Current Affairs Jan to June
Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY)
• PMJJBY will offer a renewable one year life cover of Rs 2 lakh
...
• It covers death due to any reason
...
• The scheme would be administered through LIC or other Life Insurance companies
...
• Age Group – 18-70 years (must be savings bank account holders)
• Annual Premium – Rs 12 per annum
...
Atal Pension Yojana (APY)
• The pension scheme will focus on the unorganised sector
...
• The minimum pension amount is depend on the contribution option exercised on entering
at an age between 18 and 40 years
...
• The fixed minimum pension would be guaranteed by the government
...
India has emerged as the second
biggest stakeholder in the 57-nation Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank after a
meeting of its chief negotiators in Singapore
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85 per cent share followed by India with
10
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112
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According to
the data provided by the RBI, United Bank of
India’s 21
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113
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114
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Indian economy, which is little more
than USD 2 trillion, recorded a growth rate
of 7
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India is presently
the third largest economy in Asia after China
and Japan
...
According to the US Embassy, India is
one of the fastest growing FDI sources for
the United States with investors from the
country more interested in US’ aerospace
and textile sectors
...
The total stock of FDI from
India to the United States is USD 11 billion
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Government of India has renamed
9
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• Sun Temple at Konark, Odhisa has
• NITI Aayog will serve as a ‘Think Tank’
been the coveted with Adarsh
of the government
Monument tag by the Archaeological
Survey of India
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GOI blocks 32 websites for ISIS
Propaganda and Anti-Indian views
...
GOI has commissioned India’s first Hispeed rural broadband network using the
• Action was taken following an
National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) in
advisory given by an Anti Terrorism
the Idukki district of Kerala
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3
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4
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5
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6
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• inaugurated the museum on the
occasion of the 13th Pravasi Bhartiya
Divas (PBD)
7
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8
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11
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• More than 500 people had walked in
13 kilo meter long forest trail which
Lord Gautama Buddha had once
walked to reach Rajgir from Bodh
Gaya around 2,543 years ago
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Union Government merges PIO and OCI
cards
13
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The villages are Karnali,
Pipaliya, Valida, and Baglipura
...
International Kite Festival was celebrated
at Gujarat
15
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16
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Current Affairs Jan to June
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18
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19
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Was handed over to the Indian Air
Force by the Defence Minister Manohar
Parrikar
20
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21
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22
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Global Talent Competitive Index 2014
• India ranked 78th globally out of 93
countries
...
24
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Red Sari – a Controversial Book on Sonia
Gandhi is out in India (Author – Javier Moro)
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The Government of India set up a High
Level committee chaired by Shanta Kumar
on restructuring the Food Corporation of
India (FCI) on August 20, 2014
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• Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh
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India celebrated its 66th Republic Day on
January 26’2015
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• Theme for the 66th Republic Day
Parade was Nari Shakthi which
means Women Empowerment
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8,000
crore in Gujarat
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Himachal Pradesh has succeeded in
reducing Poverty – World Bank
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• The scheme was launched from
Haryana, which has the lowest Child
Sex Ratio in country (879 girls per
1,000 boys)
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The 15th Sustainable Development
Summit was held in New Delhi
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Chhattisgarh CM declares Valentine's
Day as 'Matru-Pitru Diwas'
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The Top
five are Finland, Norway, Denmark,
Netherlands, and Sweden
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The Finance Ministry of India has
imposed anti-dumping duty on all imports of
graphite electrodes from China based on
recommendations of the Directorate
General of Anti-Dumping Duty for the next
five years
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has
inaugurated the 10th Aero India show at the
Yelahanka Air Force Station, Bengaluru
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The event "Udyanotsav" was inaugurated in New Delhi
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Rashtrapati Bhavan
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18th National Conference on eGovernance concluded in Gandhi Nagar,
Gujarat
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The card will carry crop-wise
recommendation of fertilizers required for
farm lands
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IRCTC introduces Cash on Delivery for
Train Tickets
• Anduril Technologies via their
website and their mobile application
– BookMyTrain
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It was inaugurated by West
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in
the City’s Park Street Area
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The state Government of Odisha has
appointed Justice Madan Mohan Das as
Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry
probing chit fund scam in Odisha
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According to the Research Firm Canalys,
the budget smartphone maker Micromax
overtook Samsung Electronics as the leading
supplier in India’s smartphone market
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Indian Coastal Guard Commissioned ICGS
Amogh at Paradip Port (Odisha)
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• The three-day event was inaugurated
by Chief Minister N Chandrababu
Naidu
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Hyderabad hosted its annual Hyderabad
International Auto Show (HIAS)
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• This website will provide a platform
for Indian citizens living abroad to file
consular grievances online
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The card
currently enables the railway passengers to
pay for reserved and unreserved tickets that
can be used at ticket counters
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India has signed an agreement with
Spain on ‘Mutual Protection of Classified
Information‘ to provide the framework for
enhanced cooperation in the defence sector
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More than 20 ships from the Western and
Eastern Fleet of the Indian Navy were
involved
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Union government launched an initiative
to hold live chats with people on social
media
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The
Varanasi to Kathmandu Bus service is called
the “Bharat-Nepal Maitri Bus Seva” (IndiaNepal Friendship Bus Service)
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British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
has released the controversial documentary
– India’s Daughter, which is about the 16th
December Delhi gang-rape despite
Government’s ban
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The first India-Nepal Friendship Motor
Rally was concluded at lawns of India Gate
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A total of twenty four teams
and about 90 riders were participated from
both the countries
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The Union Heavy Industries
Minister Anant Geete said that Government
has decided to close the 5 sick Public Sector
Undertakings that include HMT and its three
units, and Hindustan Shipyard
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Union Minister of Chemicals and
Fertilizers, Ananth Kumar launched Pharma
Jan Samadhan Scheme, which is a web
enabled system created by National
Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), for
redressal of consumers’ grievances relating
to pricing and availability of medicines
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Delhi government has decided to enforce
ban on the storage, sale, and purchase of all
kinds of raw chewable tobacco products
such asgutkha, khaini and zarda in the
National Capital
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The Supreme Court has struck down the
controversial decision to grant reservation to
Jats Community in jobs and educational
institution terming it Negative and
retrograde governance
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Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore [MoS for
Information and Broadcasting] inaugurated
the first national workshop on photography
and videography at New Delhi
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Industrialist Ratan Tata will head “Kaya
Kalp“, a new innovative council of Indian
Railways, which is formed to turn around the
ailing state-run rail network
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The Union Cabinet of India gave its
approval to thePradhan Mantri Kaushal
Vikas Yojana (outcome-based skill training
scheme)
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1500 Crores
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Union Government brought 52 new
drugs under National Pharmaceutical Pricing
Authority (NPPA) control to keep check on
prices of essential medicines
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The
conference was named as International
Counter-Terrorism Conference 2015
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The SC has confirmed that the Aadhar
card is not compulsory, and further, officials
who insist on them will be taken to task
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IRCTC launched the debit card service for
the passengers
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Astra is 3
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in, a public policy portal that
attempts to put into perspective policy
matters using an “ancient yet
contemporary” approach
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After Polio, the government has again
roped Mr
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It is launched in
association with social networking
service Twitter
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The Ministry of Railways appointed Ajay
Shankar committee to review the
performance of the Public Private
Partnership (PPP) cell functioning under the
Railway Board
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Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu flagged
off the first goods train from Lumding to
Silchar in Assam
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HP vidhaan sabha
became the first state assembly in India to
launch this app to facilitate smart-working
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India will host the seventh Asian
Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk
Reduction (AMCDRR) in 2016
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The Sixth Asian Ministerial Conference on
Disaster Risk Reduction was held in Thailand
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They were
commissioned by Lieutenant General Ajay
Kumar Singh (retd)
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Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has
been barred by the Delhi High Court
(HC) from making, marketing or selling its
anti-diabetes medicines on the ground that
it had prima facie infringed the patent of US
drug giant Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD)
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Andhra Pradesh government, National
University of Singapore (NUS) and
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) have
signed MoU to work on Ease of Doing
Business in the state
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80 crore
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60
crore members
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The telecom regulatory of India (TRAI)
has proposed a single emergency number
‘112’ for all kind of emergency phone calls
across India, including for police, fire and
ambulance, similar to the all-in-one
emergency number ‘911’in the United States
of America
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The fifth SAARC Health Ministers
Meeting was held in New Delhi
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The industry has set a record in production
of nuclear fuel
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The
number closes to 1,252 MT of uranium
bundles, which is close to double the annual
fuel requirement of atomic reactors in India
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Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has
undocked the India’s first Scorpene
submarine at Mazagon Dock Limited
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Diesel is prime source of air pollution in
Delhi
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Nirmala Sitharaman, the minister of
State for Ministry of Commerce & Industry,
has unveiled Foreign Trade Policy (FTP)
2015-2020
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Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu
announced that Amaravati will be the name
of the new capital city of Andhra Pradesh
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FAME stands
for Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of
Hybrid and Electric vehicles
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Union government has allowed the
pharmaceutical companies to hike the rates
of 509 essential medicines by 3
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These
medicines used for treating various ailments
like hepatitis B and C, fungal infections,
diabetes, and cancer
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India successfully test-fired its nuclearcapable Dhanush ballistic missile with a
strike range of 350 km from a naval ship off
the Odisha coast
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The MoC was signed by Union
Minister of Road Transport & Highways and
Shipping Nitin Gadkari and US Secretary of
Transportation Anthony Foxx in New Delhi
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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has
instructed the Real Estate Sector in the
National Capital Region to look over the air
pollution caused by dust discharging from
construction sites
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Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley unveiled rules and regulations for this
global financial hub
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FM transmission of Vividh Bharati
Service was launched by Union Information
and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley on 14
April 2015
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The task force will be chaired by B
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Navalawala and take up all issues for
expediting the work on interlinking of rivers
in the country
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India has successfully test fired its
indigenously developed surface-to-surface
missile Agni-III, the nuclear capable ballistic
missile having a range of more than 3,000
km from Wheeler Island off Odisha coast
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India’s second largest state-owned oil
explorer, Oil India Limited has commissioned
a 54 MW wind energy project in Gujarat and
Madhya Pradesh
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Under this, a customer will be offered
additional services like insurance coverage
for baggage while booking e-tickets on the
IRCTC website
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The Finance Minister of India, Mr Arun
Jaitely has informed the members of the
BRICS nations that, India will soon nominate
the candidate for the Presidential post of the
100 billion USD New Development Bank,
which will be headquartered at Shanghai
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AS per UN report India is the V biggest
producer of e-waste in the world
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7 million tonnes of electronic
and electrical equipment in 2014 alone
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E-Samiksha is
designed by National Informatics Center
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Bayer CropScience, the world’s leading
innovative crop science company, has
inaugurated a multi-crop breeding station at
Karnal in Haryana
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The annual Chardham yatra
commenced on 21st April 2015 with the
opening of the sacred portals of the
Himalayan shrines of Gangotri and
Yamunotri after a six-month winter break
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They are Badrinath, Dwarka, Puri,
and Rameswaram
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Indian Navy’s new stealth destroyer,
Visakhapatnam, designed indigenously and
fitted with advanced features, was launched
in Mumbai
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Ambedkar
International Center in New Dlehi and
promised that the NDA government at the
center would complete the work within 20
months
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The GOI has approved three highway
projects with a total cost of Rs 5,150 crore in
Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra
with the total length of more than 300 km
and with an approximate cost of Rs 5,150
crore
...
Instant messaging and calling Mobile
Application Viber has said that the company
has more than 40 million Viber users in India
and the company has achieved this feat in
less than two years after starting operations
in India in December 2013
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present, India is at sixth position with 5
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The Kudermukh national park in
Karnataka and Rajaji National Park in
Uttarkhand have been finally got the
approval to be declared as Tiger Reserves
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GOI said 350 drugs had been brought
under price control, and it will provide
additional benefit of over Rs 3000 crore to
customers
...
According to the report released
by Symantec, the leading security solutions
provider, India ranks second among the
nations that were targeted with cyber
attacks through social media in 2014,
following the United States of America
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PM Modi has inaugurated India’s
Healthcare Tourism Portal at the “SAARC
Trade Mart” in the Global Exhibition on
Services at Pragati Maidan, Delhi
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Government approved a proposal from
Tesco Overseas Investment Ltd (Tesco), a UK
company, for foreign investment of not less
than USD 110 million to carry out business of
multi-brand retail trading in India
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Following the action from the
International Paralympic Committee (IPC),
the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has
also suspended the Paralympic Committee
of India (PCI)
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Uttar
Pradesh had the highest number of
enrolments with 10
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The National Green Tribunal has
Maitri“
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Those
through the road route
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5,000
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The Indian Army has conducted a
air pollution in Delhi-NCR
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PM Narendra Modi raised 14000 crore
weaponry and platforms employed in the
for his Project, named, Bharat Mala like Shri desert region
...
Bharat Mala is the name given Western Command based in Bhatinda,
to a ambitious programme of the Modi
Punjab
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Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has held a
Mizoram, linking that to a road network in
security exercise, Theera Vetta, in the
coastal states, from Maharashtra to Bengal
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The exercise was intended to
augment the preparedness of the security
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usual was dominated by wealthy countries
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United States’ Ambassador to India
Canada occupied the top five
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A 10-day naval exercise ‘Varuna’
initiate steps to renew the 2010 agri pact
between India and France began on 23 April between the two big democracies of the
2015 off the Goa coast
...
edition of this naval exercise which hosted
naval assets of both countries
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The Rajasthan Government has
allocated more than Rs 12 crore for Project
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A financial support of Rs 3 crore
smartphone maker, Xiaomi
...
The Great
has invested an undisclosed amount in the
Indian Bustard is also known locally as
company
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With this
the total number of countries under the
scheme has gone up to 76
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee has declared Nadia District as the
first Open Defecation Free (ODF) district in
India
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The scheme will be properly
implemented by Industrial Finance
Corporation of India (IFCI) Ltd
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In a shocking ranking, India has slipped
down by three ranks to 140 from last year in
Mother’s Index rank
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India is one of the 10 countries
in the world with the greatest survival divide
between wealthy and poor urban children
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etc
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The Bill seeks to
provide protection to the whistleblowers,
who disclose sensitive information related to
act of corruption, misuse of power, or
criminal offence by a public servant
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Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has
announced that the defence ministry has
cleared procurement worth Rs
...
He also announced that of the total
procurement, around 90% is coming under
PM Modi’s “Make in India” campaign
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Doordarshan is going to telecast a serial
on Modi’s community to highlight the
eminent and successful people from the oilpressers community
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The refinery will prepare cow-urine
extract for use in the formulation of various
products
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Mahesh Sharma, the MoS for Culture
(Independent Charge), Tourism
(Independent Charge) and Civil Aviation has
inaugurated the first ever Science Centre
and Planetarium set up by the National
Council of Science Museums in the Union
Territory of Puducherry
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The Indian Army has inducted the
surface to air missile Akash into its arsenal
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16,000 crore
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The Government of India has decided to
provide free diagnostic tests, which include
several blood tests, x-rays and advanced CT
scans, for those visiting public health
facilities
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The deadline is October
2017
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The naval base
at Porbandar is strategically important and it
will boost security of Gujarat’s 1600-km
coastline
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The National Green Tribunal has put an
order to every household in Delhi to pay
Environmental Compensation every month
for cleaner Yamuna
...
This order is applicable for
unauthorized colonies too
...
Sixth edition of National Conference on
Nuclear Energy was held in New Delhi
...
It was organized by
Associated Chambers of Commerce and
Industry of India (ASSOCHAM)
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Gujarat State Government has decided
to set up a high level task force to observe
and study the growing habitat of Asiatic
Lions in the state
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The training
program will commence on July
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Union Communication and IT Minister
Ravi Shankar Prasad has launched a
dedicated E-Commerce Centre of India
Posts, a postal system fully operated by
Government at Safdarjang, New Delhi
...
The Government of India has approved
two new projects at a cost of Rs 217
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As per the new guideline,
only the photographs of the President, Prime
Minister and the Chief Justice of India (CJI)
are allowed on government advertisements
...
The Union Cabinet has given its
approval for the ambitious Namami Gange
Program which integrates the efforts to
clean and protect the Ganga river in a
comprehensive manner
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20,000 crore for the next
5 years
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According to the study conducted by
Indian and British biologists, the population
of ‘Humpback Mahseer’, a freshwater fish,
which is found only in Cauvery Basin of Tamil
Nadu, has been reducing drastically
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It will be the first IIIT
to be set up in the state
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The National Hydroelectric Power
Corporation has received the environmental
clearance for setting up of multipurpose
hydropower cum flood moderation project
in Dibang, Arunachal Pradesh
...
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The project
has been named as Defence Trade and
Technology Initiative
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Meghalaya has achieved 100 percent
success in implementing Union
Government’s flagship scheme for financial
inclusion-Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna
(PMJDY)
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Kavaratti is the last of the four antisubmarine warfare class stealth corvettes
being built for India under Project 28
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The Indian Air Force (IAF) has
successfully carried out the landing of IAF’s
Mirage 2000 combat jet on Yamuna
expressway near Mathura
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9 crore
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182
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5,000 crore for the growth of
Department of AYUSH
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The
proposed amendment gives joint custody
rights of a child to both parents in case of
divorce
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The Indian Air Force (IAF) has finally
purchased the prestigious Distinguished
Flying Cross (DFC) and Bar from a London
Auction house
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The top five countries are,
Lithuania, Latvia, , Russia, US, and South
Africa
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The central government has withdrawn
the nomination of Delhi for UNESCO’s World
Heritage City tag
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Anyone can upload
visuals and details of missing children and
help track them
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The total
fund requirement for the cost of 15 PSLVs,
programme elements, programme
management and ‘launch campaign’ are
estimated to be Rs 3090 crore
...
DayTodayGK
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India and Vietnam have signed a Joint
Vision Statement on defence cooperation for
2015-2020
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The announcement was
made by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar after a
meeting with his Council of Ministers
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AIADMK general secretary Jayaraman
Jayalalitha has sworn in as the Chief Minister
of Tamil Nadu for the fifth time
...
Jayalalitha returns to power
after eight months as she was forced to quit
over corruption charges
...
According to the United Nations annual
Hunger Report, India is home to the highest
number of hungry people in the world
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India has surpassed
China in hunger list
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India and Germany have decided to
strengthen their bilateral defence ties
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The theme of the summit
is “Ideas and Solutions to transform North
East India through Information
Communication Technology”
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Prime Minister Modi Ji has launched a
television channel for farmers named DD
Kisan to mark the completion of his
government’s first year in office
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The Top three are
Sweden, New Zealand, and Norway
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India ranked at 100th position on a
global Human Capital Index, compiled by
World Economic Forum (WEF), which
measures the countries in terms of the
economies leveraging their human capital
...
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The 68th
WHA session began on 18 May 2015 and it
will conclude on 27 May 2015
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Google is in discussions with the
Arunachal Pradesh government for
deploying Chromebook laptops for school
students
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India has
been ranked 119th out of 130 countries
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DayTodayGK
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On US defence secretary Ashton Carter’s
visit to India, the two countries are going to
ink their new 10-year defence framework
...
The signing of new defence framework was
decided during Barack Obama’s visit to India
in January
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Noida is all set to get an internationallevel cricket stadium-cum-sports city with a
capacity of 50,000 people
...
Noida is planning to host
international and national IPL, ODI and test
matches in the venue
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According to the U
...
-based World Justice
project named The Rule of Law Index 2015,
India ranks 59th among 102 countries
worldwide
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It is an initiative of
Indian Academy of Pediatrics in partnership
with Women and Child Development,
UNICEF and also Supported by Vodafone
India
...
3
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8
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This unit will lead to generation
of more than 5,000 jobs in the city
...
India’s fastest train, the Gatimaan Express
has finished its sixth and final trial
...
The train covered
the 195-km journey in 115 minutes and
reached a maximum speed of 160-plus
kmph
...
India has lost a long-pending poultry
import case against the US at the World
Trade
Organization (WTO)’s
dispute
settlement body
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The imports were
banned because of unsubstantiated bird flu
5
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two nation’s tour viz Sweden and Belarus,
has witnessed the signing of six agreements 10
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The President has aimed at transforming one water scared
said that India is fully committed to deeper village in each district of the country to
and a more diversified relationship with water surplus village
...
was launched by Union Minister of Water
Resources, River Development and Ganga
Rejuvenation Uma Bharti in Jaipur,
Rajasthan
...
DayTodayGK
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India’s first green police station has been
inaugurated at Maurice Nagar in north Delhi
...
The police
station has various provisions for
preservation and safety of the environment
...
The Food Safety and Standards Authority
of India (FSSAI) on 8th June 2015 ordered
testing of various noodles, pasta and
macaroni brands, including Top Ramen,
Foodles and Wai Wai, manufactured by
seven different companies to check
compliance of norms
...
Doordarshan is going to launch a weekly
news programme in Sanskrit on June 28
...
The Sixteenth World Sanskrit
Conference is being organised in Bangkok
from June 28 to July 2
...
The Foreign Exchange Earnings(FEEs)
from tourism in the country have grown by
23
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Government’s e-visa facility was
launched in November 2014, has led to a
huge growth in tourist arrivals to the
country
...
Government of India is going to sign a
contract worth over $2
...
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It is
followed by the IITs in Kharagpur, Mumbai,
Chennai, Guwahati, and Kanpur
...
The finance ministry has imposed anti- government engineering college in India and
dumping duty on certain stainless steel BITS Pilani occupies the first place amongst
products imported from China, Malaysia and private colleges
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N C Mathur, President Indian
Stainless Steel Development Association 20
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NCR
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The Kadapa airport in Andhra Pradesh including the three districts in NCR in a
will be named after ‘Annamayya’, the meeting of the National Capital Region
famous poet, Union Civil Aviation Minister Planning Board (NCRPB) here
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Raju along with
Union urban development minister Venkaiah 21
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the airport
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Cochin Shipyard has launched the
16
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The name of
capacity of Haryana’s Panipat refinery by the vessel is ‘ICGS ARNVESH’ and was
34% to 20
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launched by K Belina, wife of R-Admiral K
Ravikiran
...
DayTodayGK
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India has reached a historical milestone
in defence shipbuilding by undocking the
first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant at
the Cochin Shipyard
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will undergo a series
of fitment and trial processes before it is
ready for propulsion and inducted into the
Navy
...
The Tourism Ministry along with the
Petroleum Ministry has decided to observe
the ‘Nabakalebar Rath Yatra’ in Odisha as an
international tourism event this year, It will
take all possible measures for its global
branding and promotion
...
The Union Cabinet, headed by the Prime
Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has given its
nod for the proposal to promulgate the
Negotiable
Instruments
(Amendment)
Ordinance,
2015
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The National Blood Transfusion
Council has made available directory of all
2760 licensed blood banks at National
Health Portal
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The Union Cabinet of India has approved 19 years
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29
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started a contest for clicking “selfie with
daughter”
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Indian army conducted a cross border launched by Bibipur village panchayat
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30
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The troops are believed to have Pool with a sum of Rs
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financial burden of foreign nuclear suppliers
...
Coal India (CIL) has become the sixthlargest mining company in the world in
terms of market capital, says a recent PwC
report
...
27
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“Chandigarh is
the happiest city of all and Guwahati is the
least happy
...
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On completion, this will emerge as the
largest such integrated facility in India
...
DayTodayGK
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Indian Railways has decided to make its
tracks on two routes viz Kanalus-DwarkaOkha and Porbunder-Wansjalya routes in
Gujarat, free from discharge of waste from
toilets
...
This will be a
unique milestone in the ‘Swachh Bharat’
mission
...
The Union Minister for Communications
Ravi Shankar Prasad launched half-an-hour
free Wi-Fi Internet facility in the Taj Mahal
...
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The m-wallet will be
35
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withdrawn for any unutilized fund and allow
The Domestic carrier is all set to introduce withdrawal from SBI ATMs
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Software Giant Tata Consultancy Services
2015
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dedicated to Research and Development at
its campus in Hyderabad
...
The government of India has launched an feet facility can accommodate 200 engineers
online portal for job seekers in the micro, who would be researching on futuristic
small and medium enterprises (MSME) technologies
...
The portal – www
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dcmsme
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in
– will also help the industry to find skilled 42
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multi-million dollar aerospace contract with
European consortium Airbus at the Paris Air
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Mahindra Group
ordered re-conduct of the examination subsidiary Mahindra Aerospace bagged the
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directed the re-examination in view of large- died on June 16, 2015 following a short
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The Gujarat government inaugurated a 5 North-Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO,
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suspended the recognition of the PA
Sangma’s National People’s party for its
‘failure’ to file the election expenditure
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principally comprise of 40 GW (solar) rooftop
and 60 GW through large and medium scale
grid connected solar power projects
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crore
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Indian Railways has renamed Haridwar
Mail as Yoga Express
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Indian Space Research Organization
(ISRO) has announced that it will provide
navigational support to the Indian Railways
through
‘GAGAN’
(GPS-aided
geoaugmented navigation) system
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Senior IAS officer G Gurucharan was has technology-based tools that will provide
given additional charge of Director General, safety at unmanned level crossings
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replace the 29 year-old Bureau of Indian the ability to enhance access to information
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The government of India has approved browsing will be chargeable and the tourists
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Maharashtra for widening of stretches of NH
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According to Mercer’s Study, Mumbai
continues to be India’s most expensive city
and is ranked above Dallas, Frankfurt and
Vancouver, according to a recent survey
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Prime Minister of India
Narendra Modi mooted the idea of a
satellite serving the needs of SAARC member
nations
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According to the Global Doping report by Indian spaceport at Sriharikota
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Agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh
athletes showed positive results and it is launched an insurance portal for farmers
confirmed that they had used banned that will help with queries and getting cover
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Russia has maximum The Mission Mode Project in Agriculture
number of dope offenders with 212 testing under National e-Governance Plan (NeGP-A)
positive and Turkey stays second with 155 aims to achieve rapid development of
dope offenders
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The Cabinet Committee on Economic information for the farmers of the country
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The Haryana Government launched a
under the National Dairy Plan- I (NDP-I)
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Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh were attention on girl child
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The first One-Stop Crisis Centre for
inhabited by tribal population
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Punjab has celebrated the 350th year of the end of June month under the Nirbhaya
foundation of Sri Anandpur Sahib on June 19′ Fund
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The holy city, which is also the birth Child development ministry
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counselling, legal and police assistance,
ensuring anonymity of the victim
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India has inked a total of eight MoUs provided
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Nagpur is all set to conduct a three-day
expand engagement in different sectors
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It is
delegation level talks between Prime expected that around 130 well known
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This will
weaken its effectiveness as monetary policy
tool and may expose RBI’s reserves to risk
from commodity prices, the central bank has
told the finance ministry
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Online retail major Snapdeal partnered
with the Himachal Pradesh government to
launch a ‘special e-commerce zone’ in
Dharamshala that will facilitate sale of local
handicraft and other products through its
marketplace
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topped in Patent filing in India during year
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notification has clearly said that the
prohibition on import of milk and milk
products (including chocolates and chocolate
products and candies/ confectionery/ food
preparations with milk or milk solids as an
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West Bengal’s IIT-Kharagpur would be
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Two of the BRICS Nations, India and and Jammu and Kashmir to manage any kind
South Africa have renewed an agreement to of untoward situation along border districts
extend cooperation in the field of social of the two states
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The GOI has approved the signing of an
agreement with Japan to increase
systems for the next three years
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Rajasthan has topped the list of states property (IP)
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The
1147 megawatt
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Gujarat came second with an and Promotion (DIPP) and the Japan Patent
Office (JPO)
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The app and webportal was
launched by Union Minister of Water
Resources, River Development and Ganga
Rejuvenation Uma Bharti in New Delhi
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Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu will
inaugurate the Integrated Security System
(ISS) in Mumbai
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72 crore at four
railway stations in the metropolis comprising
CST, Dadar, Kurla and LTT
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Union Government has launched the first (FOB) to facilitate passenger movement
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India and US have signed a series of inaugurated Chennai Metro Rail Limited’s
agreements on health, cooperation in areas passenger services between Alandur and
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The main aim of these three ambitious The Indian Railways is ranked at the eighth
schemes is to develop Indian cities and place in the list of world’s biggest employers
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The Indian Armed Forces ranked at ninth
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Mantri Awas Yojana and altogether these
three schemes costs Rs 4 lakh crore
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Facebook also launched a
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Indian-origin J Y Pillay was re-appointed as
the Chairman of the Presidential Council of
Advisers (CPA) for a period of four years
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ranking of the World’s safest airlines and
also the budget carriers
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The US President Barack Obama and UK
Prime Minister David Cameron announced
joint measures in combating cyber threats in
the bilateral summit held in Washington DC
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Due to the pressure from the US, Pakistan
has banned the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and
the Haqqani network
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Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz
has passed away on Friday (23rd of January,
2015)
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months back due to the presence of fruit
flies in the consignments
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Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and the
entire cabinet quit their posts a day after the
Rebels announced the President had yielded
to their demands
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In a secret vote, Thailand’s militarystacked parliament has impeached former
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from
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She was impeached for her corruption in a
Ebola following a 42-day period without a
new case of the deadly virus
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outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus
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United Nations Chief Ban Ki-moon has
appointed Indian sociologist Saraswathi
Menon in a peace building panel of seven
members
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Miss Colombia Paulina Vega has been
crowned Miss Universe, beating out
contestants from more than 80 other
countries
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The annual
IP index evaluates a total of 30 countries and
India occupies 29th position
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The cruise will visit three
South-East Asian nations including Malaysia
and Vietnam
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The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China
and South Africa) are planning to form a new
fund known as the 'Green Fund' under the
New Development Bank to undertake green
projects and promote environmental
prosperity and development throughout the
world
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Singapore is all set to host a three day
conference on Tamil language computing
and Tamil Internet (Tamil Internet 2015) by
the end of May 2015
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The British government declared that it
would contribute more than 50 million
dollars to the International Monetary Fund
(IMF)
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of 350 kilometers
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Britain becomes the first country in the
world to allow a “three-parent” In Vitro
Fertilization (IVF) technique
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The Colima volcano is also referred as the
Volcano of Fire and also it is the most active
volcano in Mexico
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Syriza MP Zoe Konstantopoulou has been
voted as the new Greek Parliament
President
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MoUs were signed on Agricultural
cooperation, Nalanda University, and
Cultural co-operation
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The Northern shores of Japan were hit by
a minor tsunami as a strong undersea
earthquake struck off the coast
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The
former foreign minister and an eminent
NATO official defeated her rival Ivo Josipovic
in the election
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Exercise Surya Kiran – The VIII IndiaNepal Battalion level Combined Military
Training, commenced on February 23rd at
Integrated Army Training Centre, Saljhandi in
Nepal
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India’s Bharti Airtel has partnered with
UNICEF to provide health, education and
youth-focused content to its customers in 17
African countries
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Google acquired Facebook mobile
marketing startup Toro, which is best known
for its Facebook ad campaigns
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The
company used to go by the name of Red Hot
Labs
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The fifth Joint Trade Committee meeting
between India and Myanmar was held in Nay
Pyi Taw, Myanmar
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China has announced its 'all weather
chaired by Nirmala Sitharaman and
friendship' with Pakistan by opening its
Myanmar Minister U Win Myint
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The new embassy was opened on
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Australia on 20 February 2015
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The Government of Jamaica has
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Jamaica is the biggest
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Xi Jinping, the President of China has
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ships that will dock at Cypriot ports would
mostly be used in counter-terrorism and
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provide work permits to spouses of H-1B visa
holders from 26 May 2015
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Similar to the European Union, the
US laws, spouses of H-1B visa holders are not
Association of South East Asian Nations
eligible to work
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The formation of ASEAN
and professional spouses who have settled
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India and the United States held their
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US multi-billionaire and Microsoft cofounder Paul Allenhas discovered the
famous War ship of World War II – Japan’s
Musashi and it’s sister ship Yamato in
Sibuyan Sea, a seabed of Philippines
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It is one of the largest
battleships in history
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A statue of Mahatma Gandhi has been
unveiled in London’s Parliament Square by
Finance Minister Arun Jaitely
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Pakistan successfully test fired its first
indigenous all-weather armed drone Burraq
and a laser guided missileBarq
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The drone Burraq has
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Magazine called Forbes every year in March
since 1987
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Facebook has acquired the shopping
the richest person, a title which he has been search engine TheFind
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to improve Facebook ads experience and lift
its digital advertising business
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The GOI and the Central Asian Republic
new audio message
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The United States of America has
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Research Institute’s report showed that
China’s share of the global arms market rose
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accounts for 31 per cent of the share of
global exports, while Russia holds 27 per
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military equipment and technology
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin
two years Japan had signed similar deals
Netanyahu wins the election by defeating his
with Britain and Australia
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Netanyahu’s Likud Partyhad
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Mohamed Nasheed was sentenced to 13
years in prison after being found guilty of
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Nasheed ordered the arrest of a
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The Top 5
dangerous countries are Iraq, Syria, Nigeria,
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Saudi Arabia, the second largest Arab
World, has pledged to provide $274 million
to Yemen as a humanitarian aid for the
chaos-wracked country
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The 43
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incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan by
securing 52
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involve total of five ships and four aircraft
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A planet has been named after Indian
Chess Master Viswanathan Anand
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Japan’s magnetic levitation or Maglev
train has set a new world record in speed by
hitting 603km/h in a test run near Mount
Fuji
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Pedro Cateriano Bellido was appointed
as seventh Prime Minister of Peru by the
President Ollanta Humala
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Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir has
been re-elected with 94
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The
was sacked by Peruvian Congress amid
major opposition parties have boycotted the
allegations of corruption
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Mohammed bin Nayef was appointed as
removal of UNSC resolutions and sanctions
Crown Prince and as Deputy Prime Minister
against Iran in exchange of greatly limiting
Iran’s uranium-enrichment programme
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framework agreement is called Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)
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CISCO’s Chief Executive John Chambers
would step down in July after 20 years , will
be replaced by company veteran Chuck
Robbins
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Former Hewlett-Packard Co Chief
Executive Carly Fiorina announced she is
running for president, and took a shot at
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton
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The Barack Obama administration has
approved ferry service to Cuba from Florida
for the first time in the last 5 decades
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China has expressed its eagerness in
cooperating with India on deep seabed
mining in the Indian Ocean
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The drills were watched by the
coast guard chiefs of 17 Asian nations
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This
google startup campus will mainly help
entrepreneurs and start-ups
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British Prime Minister David Cameron
and his Conservative Party have won
ultimate majority in the recently held UK
Election and have won 331 seats out of 650
seats
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North Korean
leader Kim Jong-Un, who personally oversaw
the test, hailed the newly developed missile
as a “world-level strategic weapon”
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After losing thousands of its people to
the deadly virus, Liberia has been finally
declared free of the Ebola virus by the World
Health Organization
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resulting to be one of the most expensive
auction
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Larsen B ice shelf, Antarctica’s massive
ice shelf was partially collapsed in 2002
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countries are currently relied on technology
developed by Israel and United States
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TCS is the
only Indian brand to appear on the US’ top
100 brand rankings
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or
the NATO has announced that its next
summit will take place July 8-9, 2016 in
Warsaw, Poland
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China will be the
largest shareholder in the AIIB followed by
India and Russia
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The militants of Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria (ISIS) have taken full control of the
ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, which us an
UNESCO designated World Heritage site
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planes and 3600 troops from nine countries
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India and Bangladesh will soon join
hands through an agreement for Internet
connectivity through the InternationalGateway
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The United Nations Security Council
(UNSC) has unanimously adopted a
resolution to protect journalists, who are
working in conflict zones
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Jordan, France and the U
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participated in the drill in the coastal city of
Aqaba
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In a historical and landmark move, the
United States has removed Cuba from its list
of state sponsors of terrorism
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Ireland has passed the same-sex
marriage referendum by 1,201,607 votes to
734,300
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total turnout of voters was 60
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The hotel will be built
on a 4
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The hotel
has been named Abraj Kudai and will cost
about $3
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The hotel’s area
is almost equivalent to 80 football fields in
the United States
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India has signed a historical agreement
with Iran for the development of Chabahar
port which will give India sea-land access
route to Afghanistan bypassing Pakistan
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With this agreement
India can reach Afghanistan via sea-land
access route and also completely bypassing
Pakistan
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China has set up a gold sector fund which
involves 65 countries and the ancient Silk
Road
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1
billion dollars in three phases
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Russia has started its air defence drill in
the Ural mountains and western Siberia
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The four days of exercise is meant to
help the military prepare for a larger drill in
September
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Facebook has launched a ‘Lite’ version of
its application that was developed for people
using Android smartphones in places where
wireless data bandwidth is very less
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Swiss banks, would also
terminate relationships with existing clients
who are found to have access to illegal
assets in their accounts
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid
homage to the martyrs of the 1971 War of
Liberation in Dhaka
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The MoU is an initiative under
India Make in India movement
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32 thousand crores in the
country’s rickety power sector
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Narendra Modi will be the first Indian
Prime Minister to visit Israel and Palestine
soon
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India had
established “full” diplomatic relationship
with Israel in 1992 though it had recognised
the country in 1950
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At 92, Harriette Thompson, The Charlotte,
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, resident completed the San Diego Rock
‘n’ Roll marathon with an unofficial finishing
time of 7:24:36, making her the oldest
woman to run a competitive 26 miles and
385 yards
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Northern Ireland becomes the first
country in the United Kingdom to criminalize
paid sex
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The maximum
penalty could also result in a year-long jail
term
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has
announced that the Group of Seven wealthy
democracies also known as the G7 Countries
have agreed to cut greenhouse gases by
phasing out the use of fossil fuels by the end
of the century
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African countries have signed The
Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) that give
enhancements for creation of Africa’s largest
free-trade zone
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It is basically done to ease the
movement of goods among 26 member
countries which represent more than half
the continent’s GDP
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A Chinese court sentenced former state
security, Zhou Yongkang to life in prison for
corruption and other crimes, consequent of
g a Communist Party pledge to prosecute
high-level malfeasance and using a secret
process that sidestepped risky political
outcomes
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Rupert Murdoch, the 84-year old media
baron, will hand over the chief executive
reins at entertainment conglomerate
Twenty-First Century Fox Inc to his 42-yearold son James
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The US government has opened an
investigation against two of the biggest
Indian outsourcing companies for possible
H1-B visa violations
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Kunming, capital of the southwestern
Yunnan Province
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7 billion dollars are signed
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The United States has overtaken Saudi
Arabia as the world’s biggest oil producer in
2014
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9 per cent more
oil in 2014 at 11
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5 million bpd
production
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8 million bpd oil
production was placed third
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Ahead of the first UN Yoga Day to be
observed on June 21, the MoS for External
Affairs, Retd General VK Singh has
inaugurated first India-China Yoga College at
Yunnan Minzu University in Kunming, China
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India, Australia and
Japan are look at the possibility of a
trilateral exercise
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His Information
Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman confirmed to Al
Jazeera that he has left
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India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal will
sign a historic regional motor vehicle pact on
15th June 2015 in the Bhutanese capital
Thimphu
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The controversial move has not
been supported by the Israel Medical
Association (IMA)
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The FDA has ruled that trans
fat is not “generally recognized as safe” for
use in human food
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Investment from India
increased by 65 per cent, making it the UK’s
third largest source of FDI accounting for
over 9,000 new and safeguarded jobs
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As per the data released by Swiss
National Bank, Indian money in Swiss banks
fell by over 10 per cent last year to 1
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This is
the second lowest amount of funds held by
Indians in the Swiss banks and follows an
increase of over 40 per cent in the previous
year, 2013
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India is going to sign a free trade
agreement with Eurasian Economic Union
(EAEU) to boost trade and economic ties
with the region
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The island’s
community shop, which sells gifts, crafts and
groceries and is staffed by volunteers, was
ransacked
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Russia to add more intercontinental
ballistic missiles: Russia will add more than
40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to
its nuclear arsenal this year, president
Vladimir Putin says
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Pakistan is all set to finalize a deal with
Russia to buy Mi-35 attack choppers, a sign
of increasing defence ties between the Cold
War-era adversaries
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Pakistan had been pursuing the
helicopter purchase deal since 2009
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India has sought French investment in
aviation sector while asking aerospace
companies from France and other nations to
manufacture their products in the country
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India can explore investments in various
sectors in the African nation
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Australia could be next destination of an
active Indian diaspora the lines of USA,
Canada and UK with increasing number from
here choosing the country down under as
home as migration figures show that Indians
have beaten Chinese to become number one
in the migrant category during 2013-14
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The Senate passed an annual $612 billion
defense policy bill including extra war
funding for the Pentagon that brought a veto
threat from the White House
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according to a new study
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45 megabits per second followed by
the airport in Chattanooga, Tennessee,
where the speed was measured at 30
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The ban will come into effect from
July 1
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Philippines has been holding naval drills
with US since 1995
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The Navy Drill named as Cooperation
Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) with
US
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Japan marked the 70th anniversary of
the end of the Battle of Okinawa on June 23′
2015, the bloodiest battle in the Pacific War,
which killed a quarter of the population of
Japan
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In 1945, the strategic island was seen
by the Allies as a launchpad for an invasion
of Japan
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Kimoon has appointed an independent panel
to review the UN’ handling of allegations of
child sexual abuse by French soldiers in
Central African Republic
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The operation has been named as EU
NAVFOR Med
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The agreement includes the
issues of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive
waste, production of radioisotopes and their
applications in industry, medicine and
agriculture
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The world’s biggest online social network
knocked the world’s largest retailer Walmart
out of the top 10 list of the highest-valued
companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500
index
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The World Resources Institute (WRI), a
global research organization, has released
the data of emitters of green house gases
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Now Japanese
clubbers will be free to dance all night after
the past 67 years
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India accepted Russia’s invitation and
confirmed that it will be a partner country at
the ‘INNOPROM 2016′ industrial fair
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The name of the bank was changed as
new partner countries are likely to join the
BRICS group of emerging economies
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Islamic State group fighters entered the
northeastern city of Hasaka in Syrian
Kurdistan and seizing two neighbourhoods
from Syria’s government forces in heavy
clashes
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development also comes at a time when
India and Mauritius are discussing
amendments to their bilateral tax treaty
amid apprehension by India that the island
nation is being misused to route
unaccounted money
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Same-sex marriages are now legal across
the entirety of the United States
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Five of the nine court
justices determined that the right to
marriage equality was enshrined under the
equal protection clause of the 14th
amendment
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An unmanned American SpaceX Falcon-9
rocket has broken apart in flames minutes
after lifting off from Cape Canaveral in
Florida
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The rocket, which had 18 straight
successes prior to this flight, was in the
process of sending a cargo ship to the
International Space Station
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The tax treaty
provides for the framework to avoid double
taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion
with respect to taxes so as to promote
bilateral economic cooperation
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The world's highest proportion of
migrant settlers in a developed
nation with over 25% of Australians
born in another country
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Russia & America are less than 4 km
apart at the nearest point
The Argentine city of Ushuaia is the
southernmost city in the world
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92% of all new sold cars in Brazil use
ethanol as fuel, which is produced
from sugar cane
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for this year event is Science and Technology
for Human Development
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DRDO has successfully tested an advanced
electronic warfare (EW) suite
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The estimated
cost of the project is Rs
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Neutrinos are subatomic particles produced
by the decay of radioactive elements
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NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered
more than 1,000 alien planets since it’s
launch in March 2009
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Cortana is female voice-controlled
application
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The satellites are constructed by Mitsubishi
Electric and launched by Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries
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NASA has launched a rocket called Delta
2 (Earth observing mission) from
Vandenberg Air Force base in California, for
measuring water moisture in soil
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org to India
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org is
Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg’s
initiative to provide free internet to mobile
phone users in developing countries
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org is “Internet for All“
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Beagle 2 is a British Spacecraft launched in
2003 by the European Space Agency and it
successfully landed on Mars
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Without
these plates, it is not possible to
communicate with the Spacecraft from
Earth
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Astronomers have discovered a star that
Canaveral Air Force Station on its third
is 11
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The rocket is carrying the National
Earth-size planets
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satellite
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India successfully test-fired the
supersonic cruise missile BrahMos from the
destroyer INS Kolkata, the navy`s most
powerful and newest warship, in Arabian
sea
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Of
the 27 operational satellites, 11 are
communication satellites, 12 are earth
observation satellites, 3 are navigational
satellites and 1 is Mars orbiter mission
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India successfully test-fired its
indigenously developed surface-to-surface
missile Prithvi II from a test range at
Chandipur in Odisha
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With this App it is
possible for the people of Pune and Delhi to
find out exactly how toxic the air in their
neighborhood is
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The World Health Organization (WHO)
has approved a rapid test kit for Ebola virus,
which can deliver the result in just fifteen
minutes
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The
kit is made by Corgenix in the US and named
as ReEBOV Antigen rapid test kit, which now
has approval from WHO
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Australian researchers have developed
the world’s first ever 3-D jet engines
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It is believed that this breakthrough
will lead to cheaper, stronger, lighter, and
highly fuel efficient jet engines for the
future
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Researchers have found out a novel way
to treat Alzheimer’s disease
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Now they are able to send a drug across the
blood-brain barrier using a combination of
microbubbles and ultrasound waves
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World’s first electric satellites were
successfully lifted off by a Space Exploration
Technologies rocket from Cape Canaveral Air
Force Station, United States
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The
vaccine is developed by Hyderabad-based
Bharat Biotech and the Department of
Biotechnology
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has
spotted massive saltwater ocean under the
icy crust of Jupiter’s largest moon
Ganymede
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It is the largest
number ever discovered at once
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The drug will be sold in India by
Cipla under the brand name ‘Hepcvir’
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India’s Polar Remotely Operated Vehicle
(PROVe), indigenously built by National
Institute of Ocean Technology, was
operationalized for research on 25th March
2015 in North Antarctica after 2 month of
rigorous research
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Scientists at the Stanford University
School of Medicine have discovered a
method that can change the dangerous
leukemia cells in the lab to mature into
harmless immune cells called macrophages
that may help fight cancer
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Indian Space Research Organization
(ISRO) has successfully launched fourth
navigation satellite Indian Regional
Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS)-1D
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Amy Mainzer, astronomer
at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
California, named Asteroid 316201 after
Malala
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Facebook has unveiled a new voicecalling Hello app for Android phones
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Other releases include a news-reading app
Paper or the video sharing app Riff
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These planets were
discovered by Automated Planet Finder
(APF) Telescope located at Lick Observatory
in California and W M Keck Observatory,
Hawaii
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In an extraordinary achievement, NASA
has successfully completed the maiden test
of a battery-powered plane with 10 engines
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mobile app to book rail tickets in unreserved The plane flies efficiently like an aircraft and
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The plane is
need not take a print out of the ticket and he named as Greased Lightning, also known as
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This app will also
reduce the long queues at the railways ticket 39
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version of the BrahMos Supersonic Cruise
Missile from the Car Nicobar Islands
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New catfish species named Glyptothorax
senapatiensis was recently discovered by
scientists from the Zoological Survey of India
(ZSI)
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The missile
was fired in two developmental trials to
prove its long range capability
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Earth System Science Organization-India
Meteorological Department and Power
System Operation Corporation Ltd (POSOCO)
have signed a memorandum of
understanding for positive use of weather
information in the power sector
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Researchers have developed a molecular
pump, which can transport key proteins
needed for cells to function effectively
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The US FDA is yet
to approve any therapeutic drugs or vaccines
against the virus
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It is effective in mice
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The US Army Engineers has developed a
Blast Proof Wallpaper to protect the soldiers
from explosions
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This drug will help to reduce
the deleterious effects of radiation exposure
following a nuclear incident
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The robotic X-37B space plane has been
launched in United Launch Alliance Atlas V
rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air
Force Station
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The new and updated version of the
indigenously developed Pinaka Mark II
rocket has been successfully test-fired from
Indian Army’s Chandan firing range near
Pokhran using a multi-barrel launcher
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A team of Indian students have amazed
the world by clinching the global 30,000 euro
from Airbus
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MERS virus have been
detected in South Korea and around 680
people who might have come into contact
with the infected patients, have been placed
in isolation
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Senior ISRO scientist G Ayyappan took
charge as the Project Director of the
ambitious GSLV Mark III programme under
development at the Vikram Sarabhai Space
Centre (VSSC)
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An Indian-American scientist and his
colleague have identified a new, lessinvasive method to give diagnostic
information on kidney disease and its
Variant severity
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This system on carrier
proteins was modeled by J
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A new study published online today in the
journal Science finds that the rate of global
warming during the last 15 years has been as
fast as or faster than that seen during the
latter half of the 20th Century
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Researchers have developed a highly
sensitive nanomechanical sensor that can
detect cancerous tumours as well as viral
disease markers for HIV, hepatitis and
herpes
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Camel less tahn 4 years might be the
source of MERS
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They
informed that more than 90% of animals
comes in contact with the infection by the
age of two and virus was more common in
calves than in adults
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India is going to test a reusable launch
vehicle on July 2015
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ISRO said that the reusable
launch vehicle technology is in the initial
stages
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The first launch is scheduled
in July and this will help improve cost
effectiveness
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ISRO will also launch Astrosat, India’s first
dedicated satellite for astronomy by
September this year
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Diabetes has emerged as a major disease
burden for India over the past two decades
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The
probe became the first spacecraft to land on
a comet when it touched down on the icy
surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in
November 2014
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The Advertising Standard Council of India
(ASCI) has launched its consumer complaint
mobile application – ASCIOnline, to provide
consumer complaint services on a mobile
app
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In a totally new level of move, our tech
savvy Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji has
launched his own mobile app named
”Narendra Modi”
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The App provides a unique opportunity to
receive messages and e-mails directly from
the PM
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An Indian scholar has launched an Urdu
mobile App for smartphone users which
provides information related to Haj and
Umrah pilgrimages in Saudi Arabia
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The BX1E has been produced by China
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It can
charge within two hours, allowing a flight
time of 45 minutes to one hour, at a
maximum speed of 160 km per hour
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Scientists have named a newly
discovered galaxy after Portuguese football
player Cristiano Ronaldo
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30year-old Cristiano Ronaldo is also known as
CR7 after his initials and jersey number
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NASA has a humanoid robot on board
the International Space Station (ISS)
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It will be India’s second lunar
exploration mission
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Facebook’s artificial intelligence lab can
recognize people in photographs even when
their faces are hidden
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The “undo send” feature
had already been available for the past six
years in Google’s experimental labs, but that
required Gmail users taking extra steps to
get it
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Yuki Bhambri
Apurvi Chandela – Bronze
New Zealand defeated
Australia
Lewis Hamilton
Jitu Rai – Bronze
Novak Djokovic defeated
Tomas Berdych
China’s Lin Dan
Bayern defeated Wolfsburg
Magnus Carlsen defeated
Rauf Mamedov
Railways defeated Uttar
Pradesh
BNP Baripas Open
(Women’s Double Title)
Tennis/United States
BNP Baripas Open
(Men’s Double Title)
Tennis/United States
Indian Open Super Series
(Men’s Title)
Indian Open Super Series
(Women’s Title)
Badminton
Malaysian Grand Prix 2015
World Women’s Chess
Championship
Miami Open Tennis (Men’s)
Racing
Chess
Miami Open Tennis
(Women’s)
Miami Open Tennis
(Men’s Doubles)
Tennis
Miami Open Tennis
(Women’s Doubles)
Tennis
ITF Futures Tournament Title
ISSF Rifle and Pistol World
Cup
Sultan Azlan Shah
Tournament
Chinese Grand Prix Formula
One
ISSF Rifle and Pistol World
Cup
Monte Carlo Masters
Tennis
Shooting/Changwon, South
Korea
Hockey
Badminton Asia
Championships
German League Title
Shamkir Chess International
Tournament
Senior Men’s National
Hockey Championship
Wuhan
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Tennis
Racing
Shooting
Tennis
Football
Chess
Hockey
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American boxer Floyd
Mayweather Jr defeated
Manny Pacquiao of
Philippines
Roger Federer defeated
Pablo Cuevas
Andy Murray defeated Phillip
Kohlscreiber
Rory MiIllroy defeated Gary
Woodland
Jaiveer Singh – Gold
Yuki Bhambri and Adrian
Menendez-Maceiras
Petra Kvitova defeated
Serena Williams
Nico Rosberg
Vikas Gowda – Gold
Rohan Bopanna and Florin
Mergea
Andy Murray defeated
Rafael Nadal
Novak Djokovic defeated
Roger Federer
China defeated Japan
Nico Rosberg
Mumbai Indians defeated
Chennai Super Kings
Britain’s James DeGale has
defeated American Andre
Dirrell
Gold Winners
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Praveen Rana
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Narsingh Yadav
Arsenal defeated Aston Villa
Deepika Kumari – Bronze
Dilwar Singh
Vikas Gowda – Gold
World Welterweight title
Boxing
Istanbul Open
Tennis
Munich Open
Tennis
WGC World Match Play
Championship
Federation Cup Athletics
Championships
Doubles Title in ATP
Challenger Event
Madrin Open WTA
Golf
Spanish one Formula Grand
Prix
Jamaican International
Madrid Open (Doubles)
Racing
Madrid Open
Tennis
Italian Open Title
Tennis
Sudirman Cup
Monaco Grand Prix
IPL Championship
Badminton
Racing
Cricket
International Boxing
Federation super
middleweight
International Wrestling
Tournament
Boxing
FA Cup
2015 Archery World Cup
Pedal For Kashmir
Asian Athletic Championship
Football
Archery/Turkey
Cycling/Jammu and Kashmir
Discuss Throwing/Wuhan,
China
Woman
Steeplechaser/Wuhan, China
Football
Tennis/Paris
Lalita Babar
Asian Athletic Championship
Barcelona defeated Juventus
Serena Williams defeated
Lucie Safarova
UEFA Championship League
French Open 2015
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Steeplechase
Tennis
Tennis
Discuss Throwing
Tennis
Wrestling/Italy
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Stan Wawrinka defeated
Djokovic
Lewis Hamiltion
First – China
Second – Qatar
Third – India
Anantjeet Singh
Andy Murray defeated Kevin
Anderson
Roger Federer defeated
Andreas Seppi
First – Russia
Second – Germany
Third – France
Jordan Speith
Viswanathan Anand finished
Second
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Bhakti Sharma has set a world record in swimming by crossing 1
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Englishman Stephen Constantine was appointed as head coach of Indian men’s
football team for the second time
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India will be hosting the ICC Twenty20 World Cup in 2016 (11th March to 3rd April)
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Bangladesh – 2016 Under-19 World Cup and 2019 World Cup qualifiers
New Zealand – 2018 Under-19 World Cup
West Indies – 2018 Women’s World Twenty20
Datuk Nicol David of Malaysia has created a new world record in Squash
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New Zealand‘s Captain Brendon McCullum recorded the fastest-ever World Cup fifty,
by reaching the landmark against England in just 18 balls
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Cristiano Ronaldo has been voted as the best player ever in premier league history
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West Indies opening batsman Chris Gayle became the first batsman to score a
double century in a World Cup
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Virat Kohli became the first Indian batsman to score a century in a World Cup game
against Pakistan on February 15, 2015
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Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara became the second batsman to cross 14,000
runs in One Day International (ODI) cricket after the legendary Sachin Tendulkar
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Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara slams his fourth consecutive ton in the World
Cup 2015 series and he also becomes the first batsman to score 4 consecutive
centuries in ODIs
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A two-year-old girl archery prodigy Cherukuli Dalli Shivani from Vijaywada achieved a
stunning feat by setting a new record and entering her name into the India Book of
Records
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84 seconds at the
Jamaica International Invitational in Kingston
The International Federation of Football Association (FIFA) World Cup 2022 will be
held in Qatar in the months of November and December
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Australian cricketer Michael Clarke has announced his retirement from One Day
Internationals (ODI) cricket format
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1 in Women’s double ranking on 13th April 2015
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New Zealand cricketer and former captain Daniel Vettori has announced his
retirement from international cricket
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Sachin Tendulkar inducted into Laureus Sports Academy
England’s fast bowler, James Anderson becomes England’s highest wicket-taker in
test cricket
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Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, 23 year old from Mohali, has became the first Indian ever to
play a competitive match for the senior side of a first division European side
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Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has announced his retirement from one-day
internationals
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Kamalpreet Singh broke hisown record, by a hammer throw national record with an
effort of 72
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Indian contingent left the Doha International Boxing Tournament 2015 as the top
team with 4 gold, one silver, and two bronze medals
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Captain of Chennai Super Kings: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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Orange Cap Winner: David Warner (Sunrisers Hyderabad)
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Emerging Player of the Season: Shreyas Iyer (Delhi Daredevils)
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Kapil Dev, the former Indian cricket team captain, has launched a golf team for the
upcoming Louis Philippe cup
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The fifth Youth Delphic Games will be held in Goa from February 1 to 14, 2016
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The Delphic Games will attract 7000 participants from more than 125
countries
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According to the latest valuations released by Football-Observatory
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Devika Malik, an athlete and multi medal winner has been selected as one of the
Queen’s Young Leaders Award winners from across all the Commonwealth Nations
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Satnam Singh Bhamara, a 19-year-old from the small village of Ballo Ke, Punjab,
became the first Indian-born player ever selected in the NBA Draft (Dallas Team)
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Teaming up with Spain’s Marcel Granollers at the Nottingham grasscourt
tournament, he reached the century milestone in men’s doubles
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Shashi Bala was a former captain for Indian hockey team for women and was
presently posted as hockey coach for RCF Kapurthala was among the three persons
killed in a car accident
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Sepp Blatter has resigned as FIFA president he is under corruption investigation in
the United States
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The fifth Youth Delphic Games will be held in Goa from February 1 to 14, 2016
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The Delphic Games will attract 7000 participants from more than 125
countries
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Indian Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been ranked at 23rd position in Forbes’
List of 100 highest paid athletes in the world
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The top position is maintained by American boxer Floyd Mayweather with
earnings of $300 million
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Messi of Barcelona FC in Spain’s La Liga is the most valuable soccer player in the
world
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Satnam Singh Bhamara, a 19-year-old from the small village of Ballo Ke, Punjab,
became the first Indian-born player ever selected in the NBA Draft (Dallas Team)
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Teaming up with Spain’s Marcel Granollers at the Nottingham grasscourt
tournament, he reached the century milestone in men’s doubles
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Shashi Bala was a former captain for Indian hockey team for women and was
presently posted as hockey coach for RCF Kapurthala was among the three persons
killed in a car accident
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Sepp Blatter has resigned as FIFA president he is under corruption investigation in
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OBITUARY
Name of the Person
Arate Manjunatha
Peter Gomes
Mrinalini Mukherjee
Krishna Murari Kishan
Diptosh Majumdar
Rajinder Puri
Govind Pansare
Duggabatti Rama Naidu
Asraf-ul-Haq
Nirad Mohapatra
Michele Ferero
Ernest Sternglass
Adya Sharma
Justice Rana Bhagwandas
RC Sakthi
Aloysius Vincent
Hukam Singh
Ram Sundar Das
Lia Van Leer
Vinod Mehta
Bombay S Kamal
Boris Nemtsov
Sir Terry Pratchett
K Baskaran
KS Lavkumar Khachar
Leonard Nimoy
Krishnarao Ganpatrao Sable
Lee Kuan Yew
Narayan Desai
Brigadier (Retd) Thenphunga Sailo
Yusuf Ali Kechery
Sunita Tomar
Kailash Vajpeyi
Malli Mastan Babu
Jayakanthan
EM Hanifa
Richie Benaud
Guenter Grass
Hrushikesh Moolgaonkar
Bidyut Chakraborty
Surya Bahadur Thapa
Stanislav Gross
JB Patnaik
Associated Field
Yakshagana Artiste
Former Delhi State Football Player
Sculptor
Photo Journalist
Senior Journalist
Cartoonist and Political Activist
Senior Communist Party Leader
Multilingual Indian Film Producer
Assam born actor
Odia Filmmaker
Creator of Nutella Choclate
Physicist
Pioneer of Mobile Theatre in Assam
First Hindu Chief Justice of Pakistan
Tamil Director
Cinematographer
Former Chief Minister of Haryana
Former Chief Minister of Bihar
Pioneer of Israeli Cinema
Journalist
Singer
Former Russian Deputy Prime Minister
Fantasy Author
Sports Journalist
Ornithologist
Star Trek Actor
Bard and Marathi folk legend
Founder of modern Singapore
Veteran Gandhian
Former Chief Minister (CM) of Mizoram
Veteran poet and film personality
Poster Girl of India’s Anti-Tobacco Campaign
Hindi Poet
Ace Mountaineer of India
Tamil Writer
Tamil Muslim Devotional Singer
Legendary Cricket Commentator
German Nobel Laureate Novelist
Retired Air Chief Marshall
Assamese Film Director
Former Nepal Prime Minister
Former Czech Republic Prime Minister
Former Odisha CM and Assam Governor
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Name of the Person
Sir Christopher Alan Bayly
Monte L Merrick
Ansrew Lesnie
Bimba Modak
Ben E King
RK Laxman
Philip S Goodman
Ruth Rundell
Michael Blake
Oscar Holderer
Dr Amalendu Guha
Alexandre Lamfalussy
Elizabeth Wilson
Suchitra Bhattacharya
BB King
Dean Potter
Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri
Bob Belden
John Nash
Irwin Rose
MN Buch
Associated Field
Historian
Novelist and Screen Writer
Lord of the Rings Cinematographer
Marathi Film and Stage Actress
Singer
Cartoonist
Writer and Director
Crime Writer
Oscar Winning Screen Writer
German Engineer
Historian and Social Scientist
Hungarian Economist (Father of Euro)
Actress
Bengali Writer
Singer and Guitarist
Extreme Athlete
Economist
Jazz Musician
US Mathematician
Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
Former IAS Officer and referred as “Architect
of Bhopal”
British Actor
Former Test Cricketer
Editor at New York Post
Actor
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IMPORTANT DAYS OBSERVED - JANUARY TO JUNE
January
Date
Observed Day
January 1
Global Family Day
World Day of Peace
World Day for Orphans
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
World Hindi Day
National Youth Day
Indian Army Day
World Hug Day
World Leprosy Day
India Tourism Day
Indian Republic Day
International Customs Day
International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the
Holocaust
January 6
January 9
January 10
January 12
January 15
January 21
January 25
January 26
January 27
February
Date
Observed Day
February 1
February 2
February 4
February 5
February 6
February 11
February 13
February 14
February 20
February 21
February 23
February 24
February 25
Indian Coast Guard Day
World Wetlands Day
World Cancer Day
Kashmir Solidarity Day
International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation
World Day of Sick
World Radio Day
Saint Valentine’s Day
World Day of Social Justice
International Mother Language Day
World Rotary Day
Central Excise Day
World Sustainable Energy Day
“There is Nothing Impossible To Him Who Will Try” –
Alexander The Great
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March
Date
Observed Day
March 1
March 3
Zero Discrimination Day
World Wildlife Day
International Sex Workers Rights Day
International Women’s Day
CISF Raising Day
World Kidney Day
International Day of Happiness
World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People
International Day for the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination
World Poetry Day
World Down Syndrome Day
International Day of Forests
World Water Day
World Meteorological Day
World Tuberculosis Day
International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning
Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of
Victims
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of
Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing
Staff Members
World Theatre Day
March 8
March 10
March 13
March 20
March 21
March 22
March 23
March 24
March 25
March 27
April
Date
April 1
April 2
April 4
April 6
April 5
April 7
April 12
April 13
April 17
April 18
April 22
Observed Day
April Fools’ Day
World Autism Awareness Day
International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in
Mine Action
International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
Indian National Maritime Day
International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda
World Health Day
International Day of Human Space Flight
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Day
World Haemophilia Day
World Heritage Day – International Day for Monuments
and Sites
World Earth Day
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Date
Observed Day
April 23
World Book and Copyright Day
English Language Day
World Day for Animals in Laboratories
World Malaria Day
World Intellectual Property Day
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
International Dance Day
Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare
International Jazz Day
April 24
April 25
April 26
April 28
April 29
April 30
May
Date
Observed Day
May 1
International Labour Day
May Day
World Naked Gardening Day
World Laughter Day
World Press Freedom Day
International Fire fighters’ Day
World Asthma Day
World Red Cross Day
Mother’s Day
National Technology Day
International Day of the Family
World Telecommunication and Information Society
Day
World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and
Development
Anti Terrorism Day
International Day for Biological Diversity
International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
International Day of UN Peacekeepers
Goa Statehood Day
World No Tobacco Day
May 2
May 3
May 4
May 5
May 8
May 10
May 11
May 15
May 17
May 21
May 22
May 23
May 29
May 30
May 31
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