Important Current Affairs 18th Jun 2018

Important Current Affairs 18th Jun 2018

Current Affairs 18th Jun 2018: NATIONAL NEWS

Reservation in promotion for Scheduled Castes / Scheduled Tribes: Central Government
 
●        After the Supreme Court's decision on June 15, 2018, the Central Government has directed all the departments and state governments to implement reservations in the promotion for scheduled castes and scheduled tribe employees.

Common Standard for Biscuits, Sugar and Milk
 
●        For the first time in India and its neighboring countries, the resignations have been adopted for adopting common standards for biscuits , refined sugars and milk products , which will reduce their need to check border points and boost their business in South Asia.
●        Apart from India in SAARC countries, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Maldives are included.

MNCs must store personal data of Indians in India
 
●        Justice BN Srikrishna Committee on Data Protection can suggest that internet companies like Google and Facebook should store Indian data within the country.
●        He can restrict the scope of the suggestion to sensitive personal information.

CCTV cameras will be used in IRCTC kitchen
 
●        Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said that the monitoring of the CCTV camera in the IRCTC kitchen will be monitored so that cleanliness is kept in cooking, it will also be made available to the public so that people will be able to see the process and monitor it.
●        During a program, Goyal said that by March 2019, all trains will be covered with bio-toilets.
●        They appealed to the passengers not to garbage the toilet, otherwise they become blocks and cause problems.
 
 
Cases filed against 5 including Salman Khan in US
 
●        In the US , five Bollywood celebrities, including Salman Khan , have been sued.
●        It includes Katrina Kaif, Sonakshi Sinha, Ranveer Singh and Prabhu Deva.
●        The Vibrant Media Group was supposed to have a concert in 2013, but the show was canceled.
●        For this, five celebrities were paid advance.
●        It is alleged that after the cancellation of the concert, the rupees have not been returned till date.

This year 1500 people will visit Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage
 
●        For the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, the first first batch of 60 people left here on Monday.
●        This was flagged off by Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh.
●        He hoped that the devotees would easily complete this tremendous journey of the Himalayas.

Current Affairs 18th Jun 2018: GLOBAL NEWS

Finance Minister Hodges Remes Lennikov resigns due to economic crisis in Argentina
 
●      Argentine Finance Minister Hodges Remes Lennikov has resigned from his post.
●      The Argentine government removed power and production ministers from the post.
●      Former President Eduardo Duhalde will be the new production minister in place of the same production minister Francisco Cabrera.
 
 
Macedonia changed the country's name to 'Republic of Northern Macedonia'
●        Macedonia has announced the name of the Republic of Northern Macedonia, on 17 June 2018, changing its country name.
●        This decision of Macedonia has ended with the conflict with Greece over the last several years.
●        An agreement was reached with the dialogue between the two countries.
 
Seychelles canceled naval project with India
 
●        The President of Seychelles, Danny Forer, has canceled the project to build a military base with the help of India on the Ascension Island.
●        The President of Seychelles said at the press conference earlier this month that he would not have any talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding the Ascension Island project during India tour.
●        Seychelles President Danny Forer come to India on 25-26 June
 
Zomato will invest Rs 100 crore in Loyola hospitality
 
●        The battle between online food delivery companies have increased.
●        The look of the top companies is now on making the captive supply of the kitchen so that their customers can get food supply .
●        In order to expand its Cloud Kitchen operations in Bangalore, Zomato has made preparations to invest around Rs 100 crore in pieces in Bangalore-based Loyola Hospitality .

China-Pakistan will start film on seepcak, shooting in 2019
 
●        China and Pakistan will create a movie centered on the economic corridor.
●        Through this, both of them want to show their deep friendships to the public.
●        The project, which started under Belt and Road project, is estimated to cost about $ 50 billion.
●        This project will pass through Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, due to which India has opposed it.
 

Thailand's King Vajiralongkorn became the inheritor of two lakh crores
 
●        In Thailand, King Vajiralongkorn has got the proprietary rights of the royal family's assets of Rs 2 lakh crore.
●        After the demise of his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 2016, his properties were taken over by the military government.
 
 
Dubai hotel's celebrity chef Atul Kochhar removed for anti-Islamic remarks
 
●        The world's renowned chef, Atul Kochhar, has been fired from Dubai's Marriott Hotel to tweet anti-Islam.
●        Just a few days before, Atul had a tweet while expressing anger over the issue of Hindu terrorism shown in Priyanka Chopra and his serial Quantico.
●        In it, he criticized Priyanka and also commented on Islam religion.
 
Documents related to Operation Blue Star will be made public, orders given by the British court
 
●        A UK judge has given instructions to make documents related to Operation Blue Star in India in 1984.
●        The British Government's involvement in this operation is to clean more involvement in doing so.
●        Justice Murray Shanks has been chairing the First Tier Tribunal for three days in London in March.

Current Affairs 18th Jun 2018: ECONOMY

Samsung has paid a tax of Rs 90,000 crore worldwide
 
●        South Korean company Samsung Electronics spent $ 13.6 billion or 15 trillion won (about Rs 90 thousand crore) in taxpayers across the world in 2017.
●        Compared to 2016, the company's expenditure on tax is 70 percent higher. This figure has been revealed in the Business Report released on Monday on Samsung.
 

Google will invest $ 55 million in China's Jedi.com
 
●        Google is investing $ 55 million in China's big e-commerce company Jedi.com.
●        Google wants to strengthen its place in the online commerce industry with this investment.