IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS OF
JUNE 10th, 2018
1. Prime
Minister Narendra Modi arrived Qingdao
(China) on two-days visit.
a. During
this visit, he will attend the annual summit of Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
b. Several
pressing global issues including future of Iran nuclear deal, the impact of US
sanctions on Russia and situation in the Indo-Pacific region, will be discussed
in the summit.
c. Besides
Modi, other leaders attending the summit include Chinese President Xi
Jinping,Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Hassan
Rouhani and Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain.
d. Important
Points Note :
e. PM
Narendra Modi is the first Indian Prime Minister to attend the
summit after India became a full member in 2017 along with Pakistan.
f. The
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is an intergovernmental international
organisation which came into force in 2003.
g. The SCO
currently has 8 member countries (India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan,
Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan) which represents around 42
per cent of the world’s population and 20 per cent of the global GDP.
2. Chinese
President Xi Jinping has
accepted PM Narendra Modi's invitation for an informal summit in
India next year.
3. North
Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived
in Singapore today for his historic summit with US President Donald
Trump, which is scheduled to be held on 12th June 2018.
a. Note : The
trip to Singapore represents the farthest Kim has traveled from North Korea
since taking power after his father's death in 2011.
4. The United
Nations General Assembly (UNGA)elected South Africa,
Indonesia, Dominican Republic, Germany and Belgium as
non-permanent members of the Security Council.
a. Their
terms will begin on January 1 next year, with the non-permanent members being
elected for a two-year term.
b. The
Security Council is composed of 15 members, five permanent and 10
non-permanent.
5. Maharashtra has
been ranked the most vulnerable state in the
draft National Disaster Risk Index.
a. Maharashtra
was followed by West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh.
6. The Bihar government
is planning to ban Khaini (chewing tobacco), on health
grounds.
a. The
state has written to the Centre to notify khaini as a food product in order to
ban it.
7. English
Actress Eunice Gayson (60), the first to be officially
considered a 'Bond girl', has passed away.
a. Eunice
portrayed the character Sylvia Trench in the 1962 film 'Dr.
No', the maiden film for the spy character James Bond, and the second film
'From Russia with Love'.
8. Renowned
chef, food critic and writer Anthony Bourdain (61) has died of
a suspected suicide.
a. Bourdain
is best known for his CNN series “Parts Unknown”.
b. He
became popular with his best-selling book “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures
in the Culinary Underbelly”, which was an expose on the world of haute
cuisine.
9. A
22-year-old Sikh soldier Guardsman Charanpreet Singh Lall today
created history by becoming the 1st to wear a turban instead of a
bearskin hat during the Trooping the Colour parade (an
annual parade that marks the birthday of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch
Queen Elizabeth II).
10. India and China today
signed 2 Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs). They are,
a. MOU on provision
of hydrological information of the Brahmaputra river in flood season
by China to India.
b. MOU
for exporting rice from India to China, one of the world’s biggest
rice markets.
11.
Chinese President Xi Jinping today
awarded China's 1st Friendship Medal to Russian
President Vladimir Putin.
a. The
medal is China's highest state honour for foreigners and is presented to those
who made outstanding contributions to China's modernisation drive.
12.
Romanian professional tennis player, Simona
Halep has won French Open 2018 in women's singles
category by defeating USA's Sloane Stephen.
a. This is
her maiden Grand Slam title.
13. Bangladesh has won
the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup by defeating India in the
finals at Kuala Lumpur today.
a. This
was the second time Bangladesh defeated India in this edition of Asia
Cup.
b. Note :
India's Harmanpreet Kaur has been named as the Player
of the Series.
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