Important Current Affairs 7th Jun 2018

Important Current Affairs 7th Jun  2018

Current Affairs 7th Jun 2018: NATIONAL  NEWS

Prime Minister interacted with the beneficiaries of different health care schemes going on in the country through Video Bridge
●        Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today communicated with the beneficiaries of different health care schemes going on in the country through the Video Bridge.
●        The Prime Minister communicated with the various beneficiaries of government schemes through the Video Bridge for the fifth time.

Ashwani Lohani jointly with NCPCR launched "Awareness Campaign with the support of Railways on the protection of children"
●        Mr. Ashwani Lohani, Chairman of the Railway Board, with the President of National Child Rights Protection Commission, Ms. Stuti Kakkar, today, as an attempt to spread awareness, children, wasted children, smuggled children, their families Started awareness campaign for the protection of children separated from the people.
 
 
1500 tribal products are listed on e-marketing portals
 
●        Trifed has arranged the sale of tribal products through e-commerce companies like Amazon, Flipkart, Paytm and GEM.
●        More than 1500 different tribal products are listed on these e-commerce portals.
●        During the year 2017-18, the products worth 5 lakh rupees were sold.
 
Ministry of Water Resources approves two major irrigation and four flood management projects of six states
●        The Consultative Committee of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Protection Ministry yesterday gave approval to two major irrigation / multipurpose and four flood management projects of six States / Union Territories in the meeting held in New Delhi yesterday.
●        The total cost of these projects is 84,748 crores.
 
 
Colonel Rajyavardhan Rathore approved the upward revision in pension for talented sportspersons
●        As a major step towards the welfare of the players, Colonel Rajyavardhan Rathore, Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, has approved the upward revision in pension for talented sportspersons.
●        Under this amendment, the current rate of pension has been doubled for those who win medals in international sports events.

India's maternal mortality rate decreased by 22 percent
 
●        India has recorded a significant decrease of record 22 percent in the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) from the year 2013 in India.
●        This information was given on the basis of the data collected by the Sample Registration System (SRS) on June 06, 2018.
●        According to the report, in India 2011-13, the maternal mortality rate was 167, which was reduced to 130 in 2014-16.

Air India raised tariff on additional luggage in domestic flights
 
●        Public Air India said on Wednesday that it has its domestic flights range overweight charge storage 100 to Rs 500 per kg increase per kilogram bucks.
●        Air India is currently charging a fee of Rs 400 per kilogram on additional weight.
●        The new rate will be applicable from June 11.
 
 
Mukesh Ambani's salary is Rs 15 crore
 
●        Mukesh Ambani , the country's richest industrialist , has received a salary of Rs 15 crore for 10th year from his company Reliance Industries .
●        Ambani has no voluntary increase in salary for the last ten years.
●        Ambani has fixed his salary, other benefits, allowances and commission Rs 15 crore since 2008-09.
 
  
Action can be taken against Videocon Industries under the Bankerspeace Act
 
●        Videocon Industries, a large-known company in the field of electronics items in the country, can be prosecuted under bankruptcy laws.
●        Under the leadership of SBI, banks lending to the company had filed a petition in the National Company Law Tribunal seeking it.
●        On Wednesday, the tribunal accepted the petition.
●        In the next 180 days, a new owner can be searched for the company through bidding.
 

Labor Minister to increase salary limit to 21 thousand
 
●        After a one-year delay, the Labor Ministry can now increase the ceiling of salary from Rs 15,000 to Rs 21,000 to increase the number of subscribers within the purview of pension.
●        This will result in an additional burden of about Rs 2,500 crore per year on the public exchequer.
●        On increasing the wage limit, nearly 6 million people will be eligible to receive a minimum pension of 1,000 rupees under the Government Employee Pension Scheme.

Current Affairs 7th Jun 2018: DEFENSE
 

Army personnel will buy personal clothes
●        The Seventh Pay Commission has given monetary compensation to the army personnel so that the soldiers are allowed to buy clothes individually for uniform under the army's management.
●        Annual allowance of Rs 10,000 has been paid to all the jawans instead of individual selected clothes.
●        Accordingly, the army has arranged to buy good clothes from CSD shops.

DAC approves equipment purchase proposals worth more than Rs 5,500 crore for defense forces
●        The Defense Purchase Council (DAC) meeting was held here under the chairmanship of Defense Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman and approved equipment purchase proposals worth more than Rs 5,500 crore for defense forces.
●        In order to achieve the goal of indigenization and self-reliance in the field of defense purchase, DAC has allowed the purchase of 12 high power radars for the Indian Air Force under the 'Buy IDDM (Indian)' class.

Current Affairs 7th Jun 2018: SPORTS

Rajnath Singh will honor the players of Jammu and Kashmir
●        Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh arrived in Srinagar on a two-day state visit today.
●        Under the first program, Mr. Rajnath Singh joined the Sports Conference of Srinagar.
●        At this conference, 3000 participants, students and enthusiasts from Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh participated.

Current Affairs 7th Jun 2018: APPOINTMENT

Cornellis Ricvik appointed new CEO of Go-Air
●        Go-Air, the economical airline service company has appointed Cornelius Risvik as its new Chief Executive Officer.
●        Their appointment has come into effect from 04 June 2018.
●        He will report to the company's chairman, managing director and board of directors.

Current Affairs 7th Jun 2018: ECONOMY

RBI decides to grant small financial bank status to urban co-operative banks
 
●        The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to grant the status of small financial bank on the basis of voluntary basis to the urban co-operative banks on June 06, 2018.
●        The decision to allow urban cooperative banks, who meet the fixed standards for small financial banks (SFBs), is allowed to be converted into SFB on a voluntary basis.
 

ITC's Top 8 FMCG Brands Sales went Above $ 2 Billion
 
●        Total number of ITC's top Top FMCG brands' total sales crossed $ 2 billion in fiscal year ending March 2018.
●        Three packaged food brands - Sunfeast biscuits, bingo chips and snacks and Blessings flour have contributed the most to the company's sales.