1) Muhammad Ali (Boxing) passed away at a
hospital in Phoenix area (US) Parkinson
2) Nita-Ambani become the first Indian woman to be nominated as a member of the
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Nita Ambani also headed of Hero Indian Super League (ISL) and Mumbai
Indians.
Sir Dorabji Tata was the first Indian representative
in the IOC.
3) ‘Swadheen Bharat Subhas Sena’ is led by
Ram Vriksha Singh Yadav, a disciple of Mathura-based Tulsidas Maharaj also
known as “Jai Gurudev”.
4) Gotthard base tunnel is World’s longest (57KM) and deepest rail tunnel Switzerland –Alps Mountain
Japan’s 53.9km Seikan rail tunnel
50.5km UK and France into third place.
5) Odisha first state in India policy to give
transgender (BPL) people social welfare benefits, such as a pension, housing
and food grains.
6) India higher growth rate of Internet users
3
billion or 42% of the world’s population.
7) Pulgaon (wardha-MH) is Asia’s largest arms
depot
BrahMos missile to AK-47.
8) Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) won the 9th
Indian Premier League (IPL) against RCB by 8 runs
9) 65 years retirement age of government
doctors
60-62 State Retirement age
10) Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
found Potassium Bromate and Potassium Iodate
in Bread thyroid triggering.
FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority
of India) decided to remove potassium bromate from the
list of permitted additives.
1982 study of Japan had found it to cause
cancer
11) BS Bassi appointed as UPSC Member
12) Set up India Post's
payments bank with 100 percent Government equity.
13) BRICS bank to issue first yuan
denominated bonds
14) Rahul Johri has assumed charge as first
ever Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
15)
Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) economic corridor is a modern
version of the Silk Road.
China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is an
extension to proposed Silk Road.
Chinese
President Xi Jinping-led regime in 2013. Myanmar to India (the New Silk Road
Economic Belt).
the Maritime Silk
Road begins from the south of the land mass via the South China Sea, then going on towards Indo-China, South-East Asia
and then traversing around the Indian Ocean by
reaching out to Africa and Europe.
16)
The Green Climate Fund (GCF)
is a fund within the framework of the UNFCCC
(United Nation Framework of Climate Change Conferences) founded as a
mechanism to redistribute money from the developed to the developing world, in
order to assist the developing countries in adaptation and mitigation practices
to counter climate change. 33 countries have pledged $10 billion.
17)
National
Agriculture Market-NAM
The Online
national agriculture market will provide more options to farmers for selling their produce.
Socio-economic indicators provide data on Education, gender,
poverty, housing
amenities, employment and other economic
indicators.
19)
Inner Line Permit (ILP)
- Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram (MAN)
20)
20) GST
21) CPI-WPI
22)
23)
24)
“The Afghan-India Friendship Dam” was
earlier known as “Salma Dam” and is on Chist-e-Sharif in western Afghanistan’s
Herat province neighbouring Iran.
All equipment and material required for
the dam were transported from India to Bander-e-Abbas port of Iran via sea
route and then along 1200 km by road from
there to Islam Kila border post at Iran-Afghanistan border and then further 300
km by road from the border post to the site.
14 years in difficult
condition. Around Rs. 1,400 crore were spend
on construction of this dam.
25) Novak
Djokovic (Serbia) won his 12th major
title has he defeated Andy Murray (Britain) in French Open singles’ final He became only
the eighth man in history to have won all four tennis Grand Slams
26)
Garbine Muguruza (Spain) won French Open women’s single’s against Serena
Williams in
27)
The 15th Asia Security Summit commonly known
as ‘Shangri-La Dialogue’, is held at Singapore Included 28 Asia-Pacific states
including India.
The first Asia Security Summit was held
in 2002.
28)
HDFC ERGO General Insurance Co. Ltd. acquired
L&T General Insurance Co. Limited for Rs.551 crore
29)
Switzerland 77% voters completely rejected
to provide the entire population with a basic income, with no work required ($2,500) monthly to each adult, and $625 for each child.
The referendum came after reformers
mustered more than the 100,000 signatures
30)
The devaluation meant that the effective value of the rupee went from Rs.4.76 against the dollar to Rs.7.50 per dollar. That worked out to be a
devaluation of 57% (1966)
31)
Himachal Pradesh became the first state in the country to have a Green State
Data Centre (SDC) to minimize power requirement and increase power utilization
efficiency.
32)
Guwahati declares Gangetic River Dolphin as its ‘city animal’
33)
Rajasthan Government has launched mobile application RajVayu
for sharing information about air quality index of Jaipur,
Udaipur and Jodhpur.
34)
Facebook India has appointed Umang Bedi as
managing director take over from Kirthiga Reddy
35)
Walmart retains top position in Fortune 500 list for the fourth consecutive year.
36)
Suresh Prabhu launches Tiger Express train on the World Environment Day
37)
Haryana Government launches Asia’s first Gyps Vulture Reintroduction Programme at
the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre at Pinjore.
38)
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar launches Right to Public Grievance Redressal Act within 60-days. Face
a penalty of from 500 rupees to 5000 rupees. All the 42
Departments
39)
India's first Mr Universe Manohar Aich has passed away in Kolkata. He was 104
year old.
40) Insurance Self-Network Platform (ISNP) proposed
norms for selling and servicing of insurance policies through e-commerce
platform
41) The Other Backward Caste (OBC) quota
benefit for the Professor and Associate Professor posts has been scrapped by
the University Grants Commission (UGC). Now will be applicable for the level of
Assistant Professor only.
The
reservation for SC is 15%, ST is 7.5% OBC category can only avail the benefit
of 27% reservation.
42) Deshauna Barber was crowned Miss USA 2016
She is the first Army Reserve officer
She
will now go on to represent the United States in the Miss Universe pageant.
43) ‘Swachh Yug’ To make villages located
along Ganga open defecation-free
44) World Oceans Day 8th June
45) Union Government to form new reserve battalion named Maharana Pratap
46) India ranked 141
on Global Peace Index
Syria as the least peaceful country.
Iceland world's most peaceful country.
47) India becomes third largest oil consumer
United States, China , India, Japan (4)
48) Thailand becomes the first Asian country
to eliminate mother to child HIV
49) Names of 4 new Periodic Table elements
announced by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
113,
115, 117 and 118 were Nihonium (Nh), Moscovium (Mc), Tennessine (Ts) and Oganesson
(Og) respectively.
50) Sharapova banned for two years over
doping
51) Axis Bank launches India’s first certified Green bond at London Stock
Exchange
Green Bonds: Bonds basically are debt instruments
which help issuer to get capital while the investors receive fixed income in
the form of interest. In the case of Green Bonds, the issuer gets capital from
the investors only if the investment (capital) is being raised to fund green
projects relating to renewable energy or emission reductions etc.
52) World's
highest-paid athletes: Cristiano Ronaldo earnings of 88 million US Dollars,
53) Hindustan Turbo Trainer-40 (HTT-40),
country’s first indigenous basic trainer aircraft
has been developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
54) Peter Thomson (Fiji) was elected
as the President of the 71st edition of
the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) while 70th UNGA headed by
Mogens Lykketoft (Denmark)
55) NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) instrument
measured the first time methane emissions from Earth’s
surface.
56) Civil Aviation Policy 2016-Capping
of airfares at Rs 2,500 for an hour-long flight
57) The Union Cabinet approved the merger of five associate banks as well
as Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) with State Bank of India (SBI). The merger will
create Rs 37-lakh crore banking behemoth with over 50 crore customers.
State Bank of Bikaner and
Jaipur, State Bank of Travancore, State Bank of Patiala, State Bank of Mysore
and State Bank of Hyderabad as well as Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) will be
merged with State Bank of India (SBI)
58) Goods and Services Tax (GST) Empowered Committee Chairman Amit Mitra,
Tamil Nadu opposed GST regime.
59) 146,133 people died in road accidents in 2015 in the country, highest
number of deaths in Delhi
60) Google Street View declined to
give the security clearance by Indian Government.
61)
62) World largest Energy user of US (19.39 million bpd) and China (11.96
million bpd). Japan fourth spot
63) Sikkim become the first state in India to have an open government
data portal
64) Microsoft Inc. acquire professional social platform
LinkedIn for $26.2 billion Microsoft CEO Satya
Nadella
65)
66) Norway has become the first country to officially prohibit
deforestation
67) Mudrarakshasha, noted Hindi literature and drama writer passed away
68) India ranked 141 out of 163 countries on 2016 Global Peace Index
Iceland (1st), Denmark (2nd), Austria (3rd)
Top least peaceful countries: Iraq
(161st), South Sudan (162nd) and Syria (163rd).
India’s neighbours: Bhutan (13th), Nepal (78th), Bangladesh (83rd), Sri
Lanka (97th), China (120th) and Pakistan (153rd)
GPI is an annual report published by the Sydney (Australia) based
Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) since 2007.
GPI uses 22 indicators to measure levels of world peace
69) Champaran Satyagrah Express train flagged off The Champaran
Satyagraha of 1917 was Mahatma Gandhi’s first Satyagraha in India.
70) Google, Tata Trusts launch ‘Internet Sathi’ in West Bengal to empower
rural women
71) China launches 23rd BeiDou Navigation
Satellite
Satellite launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest
China's Sichuan Province
72) 14 June: World Blood Donor day
73) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar launched Child
Labour Tracking System (CLTS)
74) Gujarat island Shiyal Bet (Amreli) gets electricity for first time
75) President Mukherjee receives the highest civilian award 'the National
Grand Crois’ of Ivory coast
76) Florida bank issues first US credit card for use in Cuba
77) 'A new world' - the Official slogan for Rio Olympics
78) Raghu ram Rajan 23rd RBI Governor (chief
economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) 2003-07) RBI Governor He
took over from D. Subbarao
79) 50 years completed of ‘Shiv Sena’
80) India’s first three women fighter
pilots are – Bhawana Kanth (Begusarai, Bihar), Avani Chatuvedi (Satna, MP) and
Mohana Singh (Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan)
Air
Force Academy Hyderabad
Women pilots were first
included in IAF for helicopters and
transport aircrafts in 1991.
81) Chetan Chauhan former cricketer and two-time BJP MP appointed as
Chairperson of the National Institute of Fashion
Technology (NIFT)
82) Microsoft Became the first
corporate entity in the United States to enter the marijuana business from “seed to sale”
83) 100% FDI under government approval
route for Defence (to modern technology)
Broadcasting
(Direct to Home (DTH), teleports, cable networks, mobile TV, headend-
In-the Sky Broadcasting
Service (HITS)
100% investment in brownfield
pharma.
Aviation
(airports, automatic route for the entire 100%.
Earlier, the automatic route was
available till 74% of equity.
Trading 100% FDI in trading, including through e-commerce,
Single brand retail trading
84) Mumbai city has the highest car density in India
85) The second bullet train Delhi-Varanasi first was Mumbai-Ahmedabad
corridor
86) Titan, a Cray X40 system installed
at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is now at
the third position, with 17.59 quadrillions of calculations per second.
87) PPF holders can now prematurely close the PPF deposit scheme after
completing five years the normal term of a PPF account is 15 year.
88) Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru first-ever from India
to find a place in the top 30 Asian universities in the Asian University
Ranking 2016 by the UK’s Times Higher Education (THE)
The National University in
Singapore was ranked the best, followed by Nanyang Technological University
(also in Singapore) and Peking University in China.
89) Nikesh Arora India-born President of Japanese internet and
telecommunications giant Softbank
90) SpaceX successfully launches two
commercial satellites EUTELSAT 117 West B and ABS-2A. using SpaceX’s reusable
Falcon 9 rocket which had lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in
Florida, US.
91) UN Women announces Anne Hathaway as ‘goodwill ambassador’ to promote
gender equality
92) 20 June: World Refugee Day
93) International Yoga Day: 21st June
(2015)
94)
95) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
launched 20 (17 Foreign-3 Domestic) satellites PSLV C-34
Satish Dhawan Space Centre at
Sriharikota (AP)
2008, launched
10 satellites in a single rocket. In 2014, Russia launched 37 satellites
in a single mission.
96) ₹10,000-crore ‘Fund of Funds for
Start-ups (FFS)’ with an aim to generate 18
lakh jobs. Which manage by SIDBI
97) 51.9% People of United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union
(EU) after 43 years in a historic referendum. England and Wales voting strongly
for ‘Brexit’, while London, Scotland and
Northern Ireland backed staying in the EU.
UKIP –UK Independence party leader
Nigel Farage, who has campaigned for the
past 20 years for Britain to leave the EU hailed it as the UK’s “independence
day” but the Remain camp called it a “catastrophe”. 27 C in EU
98) Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)
meeting held at Seoul (South Korea) 48 Countries & 1974.
Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation (SCO-2001)
Tashkent (Uz)
China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan India, Pakistan (2015)
99) Anil-Kumble was selected as the new Head Coach of Team India for a
period of one year
100) Chile won football’s Copa America defeated Lionel Messi-led
Argentine team by 4-2 in
101) BrahMos supersonic missile system was integrated with Fighter plane
Su-30MKI
102) Panama Canal-Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.
103) Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)
founded by G-7. India became 35th
members. Governments sharing common interests in the non-proliferation
of missiles, unmanned air vehicles, and related technologies.
104) N.S. Vishwanathan was appointed
as the new Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will take over
from H.R. Khan,
Urjit Patel, S.S. Mundra and
R.A. Gandhi are the other three deputy governors at present.
105) Human Capital Index (HCI) Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF) India
rank is 105th
The list was topped by
Finland.
106) Sweden started pilot testing on world’s first-of-its-kind ‘Electric
Road’ as a probable aid to heavy transport on public roadways
107) Model Shops and Establishments (Regulation
of Employment and Conditions of Services) Act, 2016 would allow cinema halls,
restaurants, shops, banks and other such workplaces to be open around the clock
108) Majuli island became declared as District
109) The Union Cabinet has approved the
proposal of extending the deadline for implementing the Ujjwal Discom Assurance
Yojana (UDAY) by a year to March 31, 2017.
110) Union Cabinet approves Mega Spectrum
Auction will have spectrum bands of 700MHz, 800MHz, 900MHz 1800MHz, 2100MHz,
2300 MHz and 2500 MHz available for sale.
111) Union Cabinet approves pact for the avoidance of double taxation with Belgium
112) Neil O’Brien dies at 82
113) Andhra Pradesh joins UDAY scheme
114) PM Narendra Modi launches Smart city Mission Projects in Pune
115) Union HM Rajnath Singh inagurates 22nd
meeting of Eastern Zonal Council at Ranchi
116) International Indian Film Academy –IIFA Awards 2016 held in Madrid, Spain
Bollywood
stars, Deepika Padukone (Female) and Ranveer Singh (Male)
117) N Srinivasan re-elected as the president
of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) for the 15th consecutive term.
118) National
Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) Ltd.
119) Anti-submarine indigenous torpedo Varunastra inducted in Navy
120) India successfully test fires ballistic
missile ‘Barak-8'(S-A) from Integrated Test
Range (ITR) at Chandipur. Developed jointly with the Israel.