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1.  Former National Investigation Agency (NIA)

chief Sharad Kumar has been appointed as
the vigilance commissioner in Central
Vigilance Commission (CVC).

2.  Arvind Saxena has been appointed by the

government as the acting Chairman of the
UPSC.

3.  Suranjan Gupta has taken over as the executive director in the
EEPC India, the apex organization of engineering exporters who account
for one-fourth of the country's total merchandise exports.

4.  Union government has formed a new committee under the

chairmanship of former Chief Statistician Prof. T.C.A Anant to bring
more transparency in employment-related data releases.

5. Omar-al-Razzaz is the new Prime Minister of Jordan.

6.  General Motors recently announced Indian origin Dhivya

Suryadevara as Chief Financial Officer.

1. Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS)

has developed a mobile-based application
‘utsonmobile'. The application enables booking
and cancellation of unreserved tickets, issue,
and renewal of season and platform tickets and
other hosts of services.

2.  Ministry of Railways has launched Rail

MADAD (Mobile Application for Desired
Assistance During travel) Application to expedite and streamline
passenger grievance redressal.

1.  Private sector Karur Vysya Bank has

entered into a bancassurance partnership
with Aditya Birla Health to provide health
insurance services to customers. 

2.  RBI has eased investment norms for

foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) in debt,
especially into individual large corporates.
This move is aimed at attracting more overseas flows and thereby help to
arrest recent fall in rupee and also lift recent fall in demand for corporate
bonds.

3.    As per new RBI directive, the NPA recognition for all MSMEs
(both registered and non-GST entities) will be 180 days – for dues
up to December 31, 2018. However, the relaxed NPA norms will be
brought back to 90 days – in a phased manner – starting January 1, 2019,
for GST registered MSMEs.

4. HDFC Bank to raise Rs 24,000 crore in foreign direct investment

(FDI) to fund its business growth. With the raising of this capital, FDI in the
bank would hit the regulatory ceiling of 74 percent.

5.  Marg ERP limited, a leading Inventory and Accounting software

solution company has partnered with ICICI Bank, to offer an
integrated payments platform to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise
(MSME) customers, using MARG's accounting software.

6.  Karnataka Bank Ltd has launched ‘KBL-Deposit Only Card’ that
enables hassle-free cash deposit transactions at the bank’s 24X7 e-lobby
services.

1.  SEBI has constituted an expert

committee to recommend a suitable framework
to allow direct listing of Indian companies
overseas.

2.  Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC)

has decided to transfer its own in-house
lithium-ion (Li-ion) cell technology to
successful Indian industries and start-ups on a
non-exclusive basis in automobiles for Rs. 1 crore.

3.  The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has introduced a ‘tri-party

repo market’ platform, a mechanism to deepen the corporate bond
market liquidity.

4.  The US has surpassed India to become the top destination for
greenfield FDI investment in 2017, according to FDI Report 2018.

In Asia Pacific region China was on top in terms of FDI in the total number of
new projects and capital investment, followed by India.

5.  Flipkart-owned PhonePe has partnered with cab aggregator Ola

that will allow riders to book rides using the former’s payment platform.

1.  Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries

(RIL) is the highest ranked Indian firm
(ranked 83) in Forbes magazine's 'Global
2000' list this year. The number of Indian
companies on the list in 2018 is 58 same as last
year. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China
is ranked 1 for the sixth consecutive year.

1.  India will host first military exercise of

the BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-
Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation)
Countries in September 2018 in Pune,
Maharashtra.

2.  The 10th Meeting of Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis

(GAELF) was held in New Delhi, India. 

3. The 106th Indian Science Congress will be held at Lovely Professional

University (LPU) in Jalandhar, Punjab.

The theme for the five-day science congress is ‘Future India: Science &
Technology’.

4. Union Minister Shri Nitin Gadkari released a book ‘Water productivity

mapping of major Indian crops’ published by NABARD at New Delhi
recently.

5. Green Mizoram day: June 11

6. The World Day Against Child Labour: June 12

The theme is ‘Generation Safe & Healthy’.

7. World Blood Donor Day: June 14

Theme: ‘Be there for someone else. Give blood. Share life’.

8. World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD): June, 15

Theme:  “Moving from Awareness to Action through a Human Rights based

approach”.

9. International Day of Family Remittances (IDFR): June 16

10. World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD): 17 June.

Theme - Land has true value – invest in it.

1.  India recently extended a financial aid of Rs

99 million to Nepal for the construction of 2,700
shallow tube well irrigation systems. The
assistance has been extended as part of the
final payment for the Nepal-Bharat Maitri
Irrigation Project.

2. Indian scientists have discovered for first

time distant planet revolving around Sun-like
star. The planet has been named as EPIC 211945201b (or K2-236b).

3.  A national disaster risk index prepared by the Union home ministry puts
Maharashtra at the top of the chart followed by West Bengal, Uttar
Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh, while Delhi is most at risk among Union
territories (UTs).

5. Dhanush, India’s first indigenous long-range artillery gun, clears

final test at Pokhran; and is now ready for induction.

6.  The Haryana government has raised the upper age limit of entry
into government service from 40 to 42 years.

7.  Assam government will introduce awareness programme called

‘Sanskar’ in all the development blocks and gaon panchayats to tackle
superstition incidents.

9. NITI Aayog has come up with the Composite Water Management

Index as a useful tool to assess and improve the performance in the
efficient management of water resources. Gujarat has emerged the top
state in composite water management in the country.  Jharkhand, Haryana,
Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have been the worst performers.

11.  The Union Cabinet has approved a postage stamp between

Department of Posts and Viet Nam Post. The jointly issued passport is
on the theme “Ancient Architecture”.
1.  The World Health Organisation (WHO) has
lauded India’s effort of reducing maternal
mortality ratio (MMR) by 77%, from 556
per 10000 live births in 1990 to 130 per
10000 live births in 2016.

2.  The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)

plenary meeting took place on in Jurmala,
Latvia after Latvia assumed chairmanship of
NSG for 2018-19. With this, Latvia became a first Baltic state to chair the
NSG.

3.  Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently inaugurated the first

Representative Office of Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), in Vietnam.

1.  India’s football team captain Sunil Chhetri

became joint second highest international
goal scorer among active players along with
Lionel Messi. He achieved this feat against
Kenya whom India defeated to win the
Intercontinental Cup.

2. Legendary Brazilian tennis player Maria

Bueno, also known as the "queen" of tennis,
died recently.

3. Bangladesh women’s team beat Indian women’s cricket team to

win their maiden Asia Cup trophy. The event was held in Kula Lumpur,
Malaysia.

4. The 2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships (18th edition) took

place at Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium in Gifu, Japan. India finished third
with 17 medals (5 Golds).

5. French Open Results: Rafael Nadal (Men’s singles category) defeated

Dominic Thiem in the finals. Simona Halep (women singles)  defeated
Sloane Stephens to win women’s singles title.

6.  The 2026 Football World Cup will be jointly held in the United
States, Mexico, and Canada.

7. Indian long-distance runner, Gavit Murli Kumar, clinched the Gold

medal in the Gouden Spike meet at Leiden, Netherlands.

8.  New Zealand batter Amelia Kerr created history recently when
she blasted highest unbeaten 232 against Ireland to become the
second woman to score an ODI double-hundred at Dublin.

9.  Recently Shikhar Dhawan became the first Indian to score a test
century before Lunch. He achieved the feat against Afghanistan.

10.  20th International Umakhanov boxing Tournament was held in

Kaspiysk, Russian Federation. Saweety Bora won gold, Brijesh Yadav,
and Virender Kumar won silver in men events. 

1. Veteran journalist and author Adiraju

Venkateswara Rao passed away in
Hyderabad recently.

2.  Mulubha Jadeja former cricketer from

Saurashtra passed away recently.  

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