1.Sushma Swaraj leaves for New York for
International Yoga Day event
i)External Affairs
Minister Sushma Swaraj today left for New York where she is going to
participate in the International Yoga Day event being organised by the Indian
Mission at the United Nations.
ii)She will
represent India next week in Nepal at a global donors' conference aimed at
raising funds for the earthquake-hit country(Nominated by PM Shri Narendra
Modi).
2.Haryana launches Village Mentoring Project(VMP) to
uplift villagers.
i)The Haryana
Government today launched a Village Mentoring Project (VMP) to improve
healthcare and education of the villagers with a special emphasis on girl
child.
ii) The project
would create awareness among the villagers about various issues including
educating girl child, health, financial matters etc
3.China launched world’s first electric passenger
aircraft BX1E.
i)China launched
the world’s first electric passenger aircraft named BX1E that could be used in
pilot training, tourism, meteorology and rescue operations.
ii)The aircraft was
designed together by Shenyang Aerospace University and Liaoning General
Aviation Academy located in the northeastern Liaoning Province of China.
4.Serbia edge Brazil in final to clinch Fifa U-20
World Cup title.
i) Serbia pulled
off a historic 2-1 win in extra time to beat heavily favoured Brazil in the
final of the Fifa Under-20 World Cup in Auckland on Saturday.
ii) Serbia, playing
in the FIFA U-20 World Cup for the first time as an independent nation, will
leave as its champions.Auckland's North Harbour Stadium. Nemanja Maksimovic's
decisive, 118th-minute goal settled the final 2-1 in favour of the delirious
Serbians, and left five-time champions Brazil to settle for silver.
5.Brightest Galaxy in Early Universe named after
Cristiano Ronaldo as CR7
i)Scientists in
third week of June 2015 named a newly discovered galaxy after Portuguese
football player Cristiano Ronaldo. The galaxy was labeled as CR7 (COSMOS
Redshift 7).
ii)CR7 is three
times brighter than the brightest distant galaxy known till now, called Himiko.
This brightest galaxy was discovered in the early universe that contains the
first generation of stars. For this discovery, they used ESO’s Very Large
Telescope (VLT).
6.PM to launch 3 flagship schemes for urban revamp
on June 25.
i) The three big
ticket projects —Smart Cities Mission,
Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and the Housing
for All, now named as Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), are worth Rs. four
lakh crore.
ii)It marks a
red-letter day in the history of urban development in the country with the
simultaneous launch of AMRUT, PMAY and Smart Cities Mission.
iii) The Prime
Minister will also release operational guidelines for the three urban missions
besides unveiling logos and tag lines, according to a senior Urban Development
Ministry official.
7.Nikesh Arora appointed SoftBank President
i)India-born former
Google executive Nikesh Arora has been appointed the President of Japan’s
telecommunications giant SoftBank Corp that paid the “rising star” a whopping
US$135 million for the financial year 2014.
ii)Arora, 47, who
earlier held the vice president’s post, was appointed company president and
chief operating officer at a general meeting of shareholders here yesterday.
8.India Unlimited’ to boost synergies between Indian
and Swedish entrepreneurs.
i)India Unlimited ∞
- a platform for connecting India and Sweden in every field where both stand to
gain.
ii)Seeking
synergies between Swedish and Indian entrepreneurship, Indian mission in Sweden
has launched ‘India Unlimited’ platform.
iii)The aim of the
platform ‘India Unlimited’ is promoting Brand India in Sweden and Brand Sweden
in India.
9.State Government initiative to make Arunachal an
organic state.
i) In a bid to make
Arunachal Pradesh a hundred per cent organic state, the State government
decided to launch “State Soil Health Mission”.The programme aims at proper
documentation of soil health and preparation of soil map.
ii)Arunachal
Pradesh government which is among the top five states for devolution of powers
to Panchayati Raj, has initiated steps to strengthen the urban local
self-governance to enhance revenue base of urban local bodies.