Important Current Affairs 22nd Jun 2018

Important Current Affairs 22nd Jun 2018

Current Affairs 22nd Jun 2018: NATIONAL NEWS

Prime Minister laid the foundation stone of the commerce building
 
●        Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the new office building of the central government's commercial office in New Delhi today.
●        Emphasizing the need to increase the export on this occasion, the Prime Minister said that the states should be made active partners in this effort.
 
Government will get revenue of Rs 466 crore from IPO
●        66.75 times more applications for IPO of Government Enterprise Rights
●        Under the rights IPO, the government is selling 12.6 percent or 2.52 crore equity shares.
●        It includes 12 million shares to be given to employees.
 

Prime Minister will inaugurate AIIB's third annual meeting
●        The financial department of the Ministry of Finance and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will jointly organize the third annual meeting of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in Hotel Trident / Oberoi and NCPA Mumbai on 25-26 June 2018.
●        The Asian Infrastructure Forum will also be inaugurated this year.
 
Home Minister participated in an ceremony organized for oil refinery in Mongolia
●        During the function organized for oil refinery located in Altens Cherry Soum of Mongolia, Central Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today that this event will prove to be milestone for bilateral relations between India and Mongolia.
●        Recalling the visit of the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to the historic Mongolia in 2015, the Home Minister said that during the visit, the Prime Minister had announced the grant of a one billion dollar credit line to Mongolia.
 
Maritime and Ship Building Excellence Center established laboratories in Mumbai and Vizag
●        Skill Development, Startup, My Time and Shipbuilding Excellence Center for the Maritime and Shipbuilding Area have announced to set up 24 laboratories.
●        6 laboratories in Mumbai and 18 laboratories will be installed in Vizag.
●        CEMS also shared a list of courses to be started.
 
Workshop on the end of pipe cleansing of dirty water falling in Yamuna and Ghaggar river in New Delhi
●        A workshop was organized by the Public Health Engineering Department of Haryana on the end of the filthy pipe refinery falling in the Yamuna and Ghaggar rivers today.
●        There was a detailed discussion on pollution in Yamuna river.
●        New technology was also discussed in the workshop for sewage treatment.
 
 
Nitin Gadkari inaugurated Swami Vivekananda culture center in Dushanbe
●        Union Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Conservation, Road Transport and Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari said in Dushanbe that India is trying to turn Chabahar port into Iran by 2019.
●        Gadkari was addressing the people of Indian community at the inauguration of the Swami Vivekananda Culture Center in the Indian Embassy located at Dushanbe.
 
 

Women and Child Development Ministry gets 'Best Performing Social Sector Ministry' Skoch Award for her achievements and initiatives
●        While fulfilling the promises made by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and praising it for significant achievements and initiatives during the last four years, Skoch has been awarded the 'Best Performing Social Sector Ministry' award by the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
●        Women and Child Development Minister, Mrs. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi received this award from the Ministry in a program organized in New Delhi today.
 
 
In Delhi, waste water will be made consumable by the year 2021
●        Considering the water crisis in the state and the dependence of other states on the basis of the Delhi government, the waste water management plan has been approved.
●        Under this, the water board has started preparing to use the treated water.
●        In order to overcome the shortage of water under chairmanship of Delhi Jal Board Chairman and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, 21 June 2018 was approved to start work on the scheme.
●        Under this scheme, the water purified will be released in Yamuna, which will also give clean water to Yamuna and adequate water will be available to Chandrawal and Wazirabad plants.
 

World's First Humanist Forensic Center established In Gujarat
 
●        The world's first International Humanist Forensic Center started in Gandhinagar, Gujarat on June 20, 2018.
●        This is a joint venture of the regional delegation of the International Committee of Red Cross in India, Bhutan, Nepal and Maldives and Gujarat Forensic Science University.
●        It is a center of excellence that will use forensics for humanitarian services.
●        Its purpose is to serve the nation and the world when necessary.
●        After the launch of this, an international seminar was organized on the humanist forensics.
 
India imposed import duty on 29 US products
 
●        While answering the American business action, India has increased import duty on 29 items, including almonds, walnuts, apples, black gram and lentils.
●        This will make these items imported from the US more expensive in the country.
●        Ministry of Finance says that the increased import duty will be effective from August 4.
●        Import duty on black gram and chickpea gram was increased from 30 percent to 70 percent.
●        Lentils have been increased from 30 percent to 40 percent.
●        The import duty on almond kernel has been increased from Rs 100 to Rs 120 per kg.
●        The import duty on Sabood almonds has been increased from Rs 35 to Rs 42 per kg.
 
 
Atul Gawande became head of Berkshire, Amazon, & the shared company of JP Morgan
●        Berkshire Hathaway, Amjason and JP Morgan handed their joint venture to Atul Gawande .
●        The three giants of the world who chose on Wednesday, are such a medical person who has been criticizing the activities of the medical industry.
●        The new venture of the three companies will operate from the American city of Boston.

Current Affairs 22nd Jun 2018: GLOBAL NEWS

The President paid homage to national heroes in Cuba
●        President Shri Ramnath Kovind arrived in Cuba in Santiago tomorrow.
●        This is the final stage of the trip to three countries - Greece, Suriname and Cuba.
●        In Santiago de Cuba, the President paid homage to the Santa Efigenia graveyard and paid homage to Cuban national heroes-Jose Marti, Fidel Castro, Carlos Manuel-de-Cespedes and Marianna Grazellas.
 

 Moody's downplayed credibility of Pakistan by reducing it from stable
 
●        Global rating agency Moody's Investor International has reduced the credibility of Pakistan to a stable and negative.
●        Ratings agency has lowered the rating of foreign countries with the view of pressure on the country's weakness and reserve foreign exchange reserves .
●        Moody's said in a statement issued on Wednesday that the inflow of money from abroad has reduced in Pakistan and the foreign exchange reserves have come down.
●        Pakistan's credibility scenario has been reduced at such times, while the general elections are scheduled to be held on July 25.
 
 
Intel CEO resigns 
●        Brian Crankey , chief executive officer of Intel Corp, the largest chip maker , resigned on Thursday.
●        Earlier, it was found in the investigation that he had a mutual consent relationship with an employee who is against the company's policy.
●        Brian has become one of the people of business and politics in the world who had to step down from the post in keeping an inappropriate relationship.
 
 
Russia's Sistema sells entire stake in Reliance Communications
 
●        Russia 's Sistema JSFC has sold its entire 10-percent stake in Reliance Communications in several phases in the last few months.
●        Systema has left the intention of buying the remaining telecom assets such as RCom's subsidiary cables, enterprise business and data center.
●        The reason for this is his differences with Anil Ambani 's RCom.