IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS
OF JUNE 24th, 2019
IMPORTANT
CURRENT AFFAIRS OF JUNE 24th, 2019
1.
Japan today gifted Manipur a museum of peace built
on the memories of one of the fiercest battles of the 2nd World War.
a. The
inauguration of the Imphal Peace Museum at Red Hill,
about 20 km southwest of Manipur’s capital Imphal, marked the 75th
anniversary of the Battle of Imphal.
b. Important
Points to Note :
i) Around 70,000
Japanese soldiers, alongside those of Subhash Chandra Bose’s Indian National
Army, died in battles with the British-led Allied forces in areas around Imphal
and Kohima from March to June 1944.
ii) The last of
these battles was fought at Red Hill, where the Japanese War Memorial was built
in 1994 to mark the 50th anniversary of the battle.
2.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will
meet US President Donald Trump during the G-20
summit in Japan this week for key talks to clinch a deal to end the
bruising trade war.
3.
Bangladesh Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh
Hasina formally inaugurated the 70th founding day programmes
of the party by hoisting the national flag in Dhaka.
a. In a message
Sheikh Hasina said that party along with the people would build a hunger and
poverty free, happy and prosperous 'Sonar Bangla' as dreamt by
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh.
4.
The United Arab Emirates has become the 1st
country in the Gulf to launch a new reporting platform developed by
the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to curb organised
crimes.
a. The UAE’s
Financial Intelligence Unit launched the new anti-money laundering platform 'goAML'.
b. All financial
entities and Designated Non-Financial Businesses or Professions have to
register on this system.
5.
Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today
introduced Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in
Lok Sabha.
a. This bill
proposes the voluntary use of Aadhaar as an identity proof for opening bank
accounts and for procuring mobile phone connections.
b. It also
proposes to give children an option to exit from the biometric ID programme on
attaining 18 years of age.
6.
NITI Aayog will release the 2nd edition of 'Healthy States,
Progressive India' report in New Delhi tomorrow.
a. The Report
will be released by NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Dr. Rajiv Kumar in
presence of NITI Aayog Member Dr. V K Paul, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh
Kant,Health Secretary Preeti Sudan and representatives from World
Bank.
b. The report
takes a comprehensive look at health in terms of health outcomes, governance
and processes and impact of policy interventions.
7.
Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari today
announced that the ministry is going to modify the format of driving licenses
to smart card type driving licences.
a. The inistry
has prescribed a common standard format and design of the Driving Licence for
the whole of the country.
b. This
Ministry, through its flagship application called SARATHI developed
by NIC, has a common countrywide database of all driving license holders.
c. The SARATHI
application has the feature to identify duplicate records online in real time
and access information about the challans if any.
8.
To keep the state government better prepared to tackle natural
disasters, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik recently
unveiled a Flood Hazard Atlas for the state
a. This atlas
will help identify the flood-prone areas of the state so that necessary plans
can be made to deal with the situation.
b. The atlas has
been prepared after analysing the data on flood between 2000 and 2018 in the
state.
9.
Author Vinit Goenka released his new
co-authored book titled ‘Function of Data Sovereignty: The Pursuit of
Supremacy’.
a. He is founder
member of Centre for Knowledge Sovereignty (CKS), which is an
endeavour to acquire knowledge through experts of eminence in respective field.
10.A panel of
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reviewing the size of capital
reserves the central bank should hold has again delayed submitting its
report due to lack of consensus.
a. It will
submit the report after the federal budget in July. The committee had
previously deferred the submission on June 12.
b. The
six-member panel was headed by : Bimal Jalan (former RBI Governor)
11.Reserve Bank
of India (RBI) Deputy Governor Viral Acharya has resigned
today, 6 months before the scheduled end of his term in office.
a. Acharya will
return to the New York University Stern School of Business in August to teach.
b. Important
Note : With Viral Acharya's resignation, the Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) is now left with 3 deputy governors. They are :
i) N S
Vishwanathan
ii) B P
Kanungo
iii) M K Jain
12.The government is looking
at demerging National Insurance Company, United India Insurance
Company and Oriental Insurance Company into smaller
units.
a. Following
this, it will consider the strategic sale of a few operations to the private
sector.
13.Saudi
Arabia has become the 1st Arab country to be granted full
membership of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) following
the group's annual general meeting in the US.
a. The kingdom's
accession came as the global money laundering watchdog celebrated the 30th
anniversary of its first meeting held in Paris in 1989.
14.Mercedes' British driver
and defending world champion Lewis Hamilton registered
his 6th win of the season after winning the French Grand Prix today.
15.Exactly 125 years after
the Olympic Games were revived, the International Olympic
Committee(IOC) today formally opened its new headquarters
in Lausanne, Switzerland.
a. The new
headquarters costs 145 million US Dollars.
b. IOC
President : Thomas Bach
16.South-East
Asian countries will jointly bid to host the 2034 Football World Cup.
a. The FIFA
World Cup has held only once in the continent when Japan and South Korea were
joint hosts in 2002.
b. Qatar will
bring it back to Asia in 2022.
c. Note : The ASEAN
countries are Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Brunei.
17.In Boxing, India's
junior women pugilists clinched 7 medals, including 5 gold, while the
team was adjudged the best of the tournament in the Black Forest
Cup in Villingen, Schwenningen, Germany.
a. Haryana's
Neha (54kg) and Karnataka's Anju Devi (50kg) claimed the honours of best boxer
and promising player of the tournament.
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