IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS OF JUNE 18th,
2018
1.
Following the informal summit between Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese
President Xi Jinping, the Chinese envoy to
India Luo Zhaohui today unveiled a 4-point
vision for future cooperation with India. The four points are :
a. Sign a
Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation
b. Negotiate
a bilateral Free Trade Agreement
c. Enhance
connectivity a
d. Work
for early harvest on boundary issues
2.
Spiritual Guru Ravi Shankar inaugurated
the largest ever celebration of International Day of Yoga in The
Netherlands.
a. Several
thousands have assembled at the prestigious museum square in Amsterdam to
experience the day-long wellness festival.
3.
The SAARC Development Fund
(SDF) is going to launch a Social Enterprise Development Programme
(SEDP) as part of its social window.
a. The
programme will be implemented in all SAARC member states with
objective of identifying and building social enterprises by using mix
of grants and concessional returnable capital.
b. It
intends to fund around 80 enterprises across the 8 SAARC member states (Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri
Lanka) annually.
4.
The plenary meeting of the Nuclear
Suppliers Group (NSG) was recently held at Jurmala, Latvia.
a. In this
meeting, China announced that will oppose India's entry into the Nuclear
Suppliers Group (NSG) whose plenary session is underway in Bern.
5.
Important Points to Note :
a. Latvia
assumed chairmanship of NSG for 2018-19.
b. With
this, Latvia became 1st Baltic state to chair the NSG.
6.
Railway Minister Piyush
Goyal has announced that, the target of replacing
bio-toilets with vacuum bio-toilets in trains
will be achieved 100 percent by March, 2019.
a. He
said, the vacuum toilets will be odour-free and the tracks will be cleaner and,
it will cut down water usage by 1/20th.
7.
Ivan Duque was
elected as the next President of Colombia .
a. He will
be Colombia's youngest ever President.
8.
ICICI Bank is
reportedly planning to appoint Sandeep Bakhshi (CEO of
ICICI Prudential Life), as the bank's interim CEO, replacing Chanda
Kochhar.
a. Bakhshi
has been the chief of the life insurance arm since August 2010.
9.
The Banks Board Bureau (BBB) has
recommended 22 general managers to be elevated as Executive
Directors at the various Public Sector Banks (PSBs).
a. The
Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) headed by Prime Minister will take the
final decision in this regard and will release the names.
b. This is
the first major exercise undertaken by reconstituted BBB, headed by newly
appointed Chairman B P Sharma.
10.
The UK High Court has ordered embattled liquor
tycoon Vijay Mallya to pay a minimum of 2 lakh
pounds towards the costs incurred by 13 Indian banks in their legal
battle to recover alleged dues.
11.
The indigenously upgraded artillery gun Dhanush (also
known as Desi Bofors) has successfully completed the third and final user
trials and is ready for induction into Indian Army.
a. Note :
Dhanush is upgraded version of Swedish 155-mm Bofors howitzers,
which India procured in the mid-1980s.
12.
Russia has successfully
launched Glonass-M positioning satellite on board
of Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space centre in
Mirny, Arkhangelsk Oblast.
a. The
satellite is part of GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System)
Network which provides real-time positioning data for surface, sea and airborne
objects around globe, at accuracy reportedly at par with US Global Positioning
System (GPS).
b. Note : With
this launch, there are now total 26 Glonass satellites in orbit.
13.
“The
Shiva Trilogy” author Amish Tripathi is going to release a new
book titled “Suheldev & the Battle of Bahraich”.
a. The
book is said to revolve around Raja Suheldev, a semi-legendary
Indian king from Shravasti (Uttar Pradesh) and the battle fought by him in 1025
AD that drove the Turks away for 170 years.
14.
20-time Grand Slam champion Roger
Federer (Switzerland), has won the Stuttgart Open
2018 title in Men's singles category by defeating Milos Raonic
(Canada).
a. This is
Federer's 98th career singles title.
15.
Spanish tennis star Rafael
Nadal was the official race starter at the 86th edition
of the 24 Hours Le Mans classic endurance race.
a. The
race, being contested by 180 drivers in crews of three, also features Formula
One champions Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button.
b. Important
Note : The Le Mans race is the world's oldest active sports
car race in endurance racing.
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