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JUNE CIVIL AFFAIRS

International Current Affairs

• Julia Gillard become Australia’s first women Prime Minister replacing Kevin Rudd following a sudden revolt against him.
• No more time for sorrow’ written by Robert Beeman. The author predict that terrorist will set off an atom bomb in the USA by 2013.
• Tuvalu become 187th member of IMF (International Monetary Fund). The island is located in the Pacific Ocean.
• Kyrgyzstan voted for a new constitution in a referendum. It is Central Asia’s first parliament democracy.
• G-20 summit held at Toronto, Canada. India- Canada Atomic treaty signed. According to this , India will get Uranium without any error.
• G-8 summit at Hundsville, Canada
• Israel attacked 6 ships which was carrying food for Palestine
• German president Host Kolar resigned.
• French paper ‘Ley Monday’ is going to sell. It is the no. 1 newspaper in France. This paper is owned by Writers.
• USA banned Iran from Uranium mining from America.
• India Pakistan Secretary level Conference. Nipupama Rao and Salman Basher.

National Current Affairs

• In the Global Peace Index 2010, India ranked at 128.
• 2010 Failed State Index- Somalia top the list followed by Zimbabwe, Sudan & Chad. India is ranked at 87 place out of 177 countries. Norway in ranked at the bottom of the list.
• President Rule imposed in Jharkhand.
• Govt. of India is investing Rs. 16500 crore in the banks to strengthen the basement .The banks are
1. Bank of Maharashtra
2. Central Bank
3. IDBI Bank
4. Union Bank
5. UCO Bank
• Amar Singh launches a new party ‘Akhil Bhartiya Lok Manch’.
• South African president Jacob Zuma visited India.
• Turkmenistan President Gurbaguly Bardimuhamedov visited India.
• Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited India. India signed 7 pacts with Sri Lanka. India will assist in building 50000 houses in the northen & eastern provinces of Sri Lanka.
• Bangladesh Govt has requested to rename the train linking West Bengal to Tripura via Banglades as ‘ Sonar Tori’. Earlier the name of the train as envisaged in the Railway Budget 2010 is ‘Epar Bangla Opar Bangla’. Sonar Tori is a collection of poems written by Rabindranath Tagore, whose 150th birth anniversary is being celebrated in 2010.
• Maharastra will become first state in the country to have a real estate regulatory authority.
• BWA- Broadband Wireless Access. The BWA spectrum was auctioned by the Govt. BWA Spectrum is essential for rolling out WiMAX services enabling hand held devices and laptops to access Intranet. It will allow firms to offer high speed Net, Web telephony & TV Services. The govt fixed Rs.1750 crore as base rate for BWA license. The auction was held for 117 rounds and in 16 days. Rs.12848 crore was the pan India BWA license price which was won by Infotel Broadband services ( in all 22 circles). The Govt auctioned the BWA license for a total of Rs.38,543 crore. Mumbai had the highest bid of Rs.2293 crore followed by Delhi with Rs.2241 crore respectively.
• Relience Industries limited (Mukesh Ambani) adopted Infotel (95% of shares). So the price of BWA licence should be paid by RIL. Infotel was owned ny Mahendra Mahatha group.
• India signed Civil Nuclear agreement with Canada. The agreement was signed by Manmohan Singh and Canada’s PM Stephen Harper. Canada is the 8th nation to enter into such an agreement with India. Canada served nuclear ties with India in 1974 when India conducted its first nuclear test at Pokhran in 1974. India’s nuclear power programme is based on the CANDU ( Canada Deuterium Uranium) reactor.
• India become a full fledged member of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a 34 member inter governmental body that devises policies at both national & international levels to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. FATF membership will enable Indian authorities to access information on suspect accounts in nations such as Switzerland & UK. India become its 34th member.
• 211.7 crore loan from World bank at a interest of 0.87% interest to strengthen the dams in Kerala (exept mullaperiyar dam). 100 cr for KSEB and 111.7 for irrigation. Total of 47 dams included in this project. 80% of the total project cost is taken by World bank and 20% should take by state govt. World bank provided loans to Orissa, TN and MP also.
• India indigenously made Laser Bomb was success.
• Industrial growth rate increased to 17.6% due to the increase in production growth rate (19.4 % )
• 700 crore to Kerala for the development of National highways.
• SHABLA- Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for empowerment of Adolsense girls. 11-18 years (9^th to 12^th
• 55000 ton rice (@ 11.85/Kg) and 40000 ton wheat (8.45/Kg) for Kerala.

World Tamil Conferance ( Classical )

World Tamil Conferance at Coimbature from 23-27 June. First “Chemmozhi

Award’ goes to Aska Papola ( Finland)-10 lakh Rs

Sports Current Affairs

• French Open 2010
• Men’s singles – Rafael Nadal defeated Robin Soderling. He is the second person after Bjorn Borg to win 5th French Open titles.
• Women’s singles- Francesca Schiavone (Italy) defeated Samantha tosur (Australia). She became first Italian women to won the French open.

• Saina Nehwal defeated Choo Wong Mew to win women’s single title in Yonex-Sunrise Indian Open badminton championship. In the Men’s singles Yunus Alamsyah won the title.
• Saina Nehwal defeated Japan’s Sayaka Sato to win women’s singles title in Indonesian Open Super Series 2010.
• Indian Ronjan Sodhi won the double trap gold medal at ISSF World Cup in Lonato, Italy.
• India defeated Sri Lanka to won Asia Cup(Cricket) 2010. India won the title after 15 years i.e. it won the cup in 1995.
• Saina Nehwal won the Women’s singles title in Singapore Super Series badminton championship 2010 defeating China’s Tzu Ying Tai. It was her 2nd consecutive title.
• 3000th ODI( One day international) cricket match was played between England & Australia.

Persons in News

• Former CJI K G Balakrishnan is appointed as Chairman of National Human Rights Commission.
• Kireeth Parreq committe – Petroleum prizing
• J G Menon – nabard Chief General Manager
• Kamala Prasad (Indian) elected as the new president of Trinad and Tobango.
• O P Bhatt has been elected as Chairman , Indian Banker’s Association for the year 2010-11.
• Krishna Thirath – Cabinet Health Minister.
• Shoese Saramaagu- 1998 Nobel prize winner for literature dead. (Blendness-Novel)
• Barbara Kingslover , an Us writer got the Orange prize for her novel “The Lakuna”. The award is given for the best female writer
• Tenzin Norzon, a resident of Varanasi crowned as Miss Tibet 2010.
• J G Farrell won the Lost Man Booker Prize for his novel ‘Troubles’.
• Sachin Tendulkar conferred with Indian Air Force’s honorary rank of Group Captain. Till now 21 persons have been granted honorary ranks by the IAF. The first person was Raja of Jawhar- Raja Yaswant Rao in 1994. Tendulkar is the first sportsperson to be conferred with this honour.
• Sheela Thomas – principal secretary of VS Aachuthananthan.
• Sharad Pawar will be 7th President of ICC. He become 2nd Indian after Jagmohan Dalmia to occupy the position. He succeeded David Morgan.
• Wrestler and 1970’s Asian Games Gold medalist, Chandagi Ram Kaliram died.
• Kovilan passed away. Vettaparambil Vellappan Ayyappan . He wrote 10 stories and 12 novels.

Misc Issues

• India and France held a joint air combat exercise in France called ‘Garuda IV’.
• Cyclone Phet hit Gujarat coast .
• Indigenous developed vaccine ‘Vaxiflu-S’ against swine flu (H1N1) is launched.
• Mars-500 : An experiment to study the effect of long isolation to better understand how a real space crew should cope with stress and fatigue. The experiment is conducted by Russia, China and The European Space Agency at Moscow. A total of 520 days are required to travelled to and back form Mars planet.
• Capital Gate Tower in Abu Dhabi has been certified at world’s furthest leaning manmade tower. The tower leans at 18 degrees, over four times angle of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
• World Blood Donor Day- 14 June. Theme of 2010 is ‘Celebrating your gift of blood’.
• World Environment Day – 5 June. Theme of 2010 is ‘Biodiversity : Connecting with Nature’.
• Statistics Day- 29 June. Celebrated in honour of Prof P C Mahalanobis.
• Govt made it mandatory for companies listed on the stock exchange to raise public shareholding to 25 %.
• Craig Venter created first living cell created synthetically by human being.
• Bharti Airtel acquire Kuwait based Zain Telecom’s African business for $ 10.7 billion or Rs. 48,150 crore. Bharti now become 5th largest telecom company in the world.
• Broadband users in India as on March 2010 was 8.75 million.
• Forbes list 1011 billionaires in the world. It included 14 women, 7 of whom are from China.
• India has 1.27 lakh millionaires in 2009, a rise of 50.9 %. HNWI (high net worth individual) are defined as those having investible assets of $ 1 million or more. Hongkong topped the global growth in HNWI followed by India.
• Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace & Sustainable Development is being set up in New Delhi.
• Indhira Gandhi Paryavan Award 2008 for Isha Foundation, TN. This award is provided for environment protection.
• Vaksi Flue – Indian made vaccination for H1N1.
• First travelling bank in India –Palakkad dist bank in Attapady region.
• Denki Feve-Spread br “Adees Albopictus” mosquitoes. There are 4 type of viruses . Denki 1-4 .

June 4 – International day of of innocent childrens victims of Agression.

June 5 – World Environmental day

June 26 – World Anti-drug day

June 27 – World Diabetes day

June 28 – World Poor day