IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS OF JUNE 22nd, 2018
1.
The inaugural India, United
States 2+2 Dialogue will be held on 6th
July 2018 in Washington. DC.
a. US
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and Secretary
of Defense James Mattis will host External
Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
b. This
dialogue will focus on strengthening strategic, security, and defence
cooperation as both countries jointly confront global challenges.
2.
The number of hungry people in the
world has risen for the first time in more than a decade,
according to a recently released UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
report 2018.
a. According
to this report, there are now approximately 38 million more
undernourished people in the world.
3.
External Affairs
Minister Sushma Swaraj held
talks with the President of European Commission Jean-Claude
Juncker and President of the European
Parliament Antonio Tajani in Brussels on the last leg
of her four-nation tour.
4.
The Uttarakhand High Court
has banned water sports in the state until the
government frames a policy to regulate them.
a. Adding
that sports like river rafting are "serious", the
court observed, "Sports for pleasure cannot be permitted to end in
disaster."
b. It also
expressed concern over environmental damages, remarking that the state is not
maintaining the sanctity of river Ganga.
5.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has
banned Al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and Islamic
State in Khorasan Province (ISKP) under anti-terror law, Unlawful
Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967.
a. AQIS is
an affiliate of al Qaeda and ISKP is Afghanistan wing of Islamic State (IS).
b. Note : UAPA
is anti-terrorist law aimed at effective prevention of unlawful activities
associations in India.
6.
India has announced it plans to
make the Chabahar port operational by 2019, even as the US
reimposed sanctions on Iran after withdrawing itself from the nuclear
deal.
a. Chabahar
port is a seaport in Chabahar located in southeastern Iran, on
the Gulf of Oman.
b. It
serves as Iran's only oceanic port, and consists of two separate ports
named Shahid Kalantari and Shahid Beheshti, each
of which has five berths
c. The
port is aimed at opening a trade route to Afghanistan and central Asia by
bypassing Pakistan.
7.
India has raised import duties
on almost 30 items including agricultural and steel products
in protest against the US imposing higher levies on products shipped from the
country.
a. Earlier,
US hiked tariffs on certain steel and aluminium products which had tariff
implication of $241 million on India.
b. Note :
China, EU and other trading partners have also hiked tariffs in protest.
8.
Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravishankar’s
consumer goods venture Sri Sri Tattva has launched an in-house apparel brand
– BYOGI.
a. Banking
on the hype related to yoga, BYOGI will have ranges of ethnic wears, yoga wears
and yoga accessories like mats.
9.
Koko, a
46-year-old gorilla who mastered sign language has died today.
10.
Renowned mimicry and ventriloquism
artist Nerella Venumadhav (85) passed away.
a. Hailed
as the pioneer and maestro of mimicry, Mr Venumadhav was the first
Indian mimicry and ventriloquism artist to have performed at the UN
headquarters.
11.
Veteran Pakistani diplomat Jamsheed
Marker (95) passed away,
a. Marker
served as Pakistan’s ambassador continually for 30 years, earning him the title
of ‘ambassador to more countries than any other person’ in the
Guinness Book of Records.
12.
Renowned humourist, satirist Mushtaq
Ahmed Yousufi (94) passes away.
a. Some of
his most popular works include Chiragh Talay, Khakam-ba-dahan,
Zarguzasht, Aab-E-gum and Sham-e-Shair-e-Yaaraan.
13.
The International Chamber of Commerce
(ICC) today named Bharti Enterprises’ chairman Sunil Bharti
Mittal as honorary chairman after his two-year
long tenure as the chairman comes to an end.
a. Mittal
is being replaced by Unilever Chief Executive Paul Polman as
the Chairman.
14.
B V R Subrahmanyam, a
senior IAS officer of the Chhattisgarh cadre, was appointed as the Chief
secretary of Jammu and Kashmir.
15.
Syrian child activist Bana
Alabed who live-tweeted her experiences in war-torn Syria will be
honoured by US-based think tank Atlantic Council, with Freedom
Award for "defending freedom".
a. Note :
Alabed also featured on the TIME magazine's list of 25 Most Influential People
on the Internet in 2017.
16.
The Commonwealth Games 2018 gold-medal winning
shuttler Kidambi Srikanth, was adjudged as the Sportsperson
of the Year for 2017 by the Sports Illustrated India
magazine today.
a. Here
are the award categories in which the athletes were felicitated:
b. Team of
the Year: Women’s Cricket Team
c. Coach
of the Year: Stephen Constantine
d. Editor’s
Choice for Excellence (Team): Aizawl FC
e. Editor’s
Choice for Excellence (Male): Jitu Rai
f. Young
Sportsperson of the Year: Manav Vikas Thakkar
g. Community
Development in Sport: Sailen Tudu
h. Comeback
of the Year: Sushil Kumar
i. Gamechanger
of the Year: Shubhankar Sharma
j. Outstanding
Contribution to Sport: Leander Paes
k. Lifetime
Achievement Award: Dhanraj Pillay
l. Special
Award Living Legend: Balbir Singh Sr.
m. Sportsperson
Of The Year: Kidambi Srikanth
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