Around INDIA
# The Election Commission disqualified Mr. Narottam
Mishra (Minister in the Madhya Pradesh Government) from membership of any state
legislature and contesting polls for the next three years for filing wrong
accounts of election expenditure
# Government has granted in-principle approval for a
greenfield airport at Jewar in Greater Noida in view of the rapidly growing
flying requirements of the NCR region
# Government has begun work on developing Greenfield
airports at Chennai, Pune and Vizianagaram: Civil Aviation Ministry
TAMIL NADU
# Chief Minister, Mr. Edappadi K. Palaniswami
announced a reward of Rs. 10 lakh for Md. Rifath Shaarook, a teenager from
Karur Dt who headed a six-member team that designed a satellite (KalamSat)
named after former President, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam which was launched by NASA
# Health Minister, Mr. C. Vijaya Baskar said that, the
NEET will be the basis for MBBS/BDS admission and 85% of the seats meant for
Tamil Nadu students would be reserved for those from the State board; the
remaining seats in the State quota would be for students of other boards.
Overall 15% of the medical seats have been allotted to the all - India quota
# Assembly adopted bills, extending the tenure of
Special Officers of all local bodies up to Dec 31, 2017
# Greenfield airports likely to come up in Walajabad /
Madhuranathakam (both in Kancheepuram Dt) or Alamathy / Gummidippondi (both in
Thiruvallur Dt)
# J. Jayabharathi (Manushi) won the Sahitya Akademi
Yuva Puraskar for "Aathik Kathalin
Ninaiuv Kurippukal" (Poetry)
STATES SCAN
# Jammu & Kashmir: with Facebook banned, youths in
the State launched a new social media called as "Kashbook"
# Maharashtra: Chief Minister, Mr. Devendra Fadnavis
announced a Rs. 34, 000 crore loan waiver with an emphasis on marginal farmers;
the measure will wipe out loans of up to Rs. 1.5 lakh outstanding against
agriculturists
# Maharashtra: Government launched a mobile app
"My Plant" to record data regarding tree plantations in the State
# Maharashtra: Government issued a notification
appealing its employees to contribute a day's salary to provide financial
assistance to families of farmers in the suicide-prone regions of the state
# Nagaland: Home Minister Mr. Yanthungo Patton said he
would request the Centre to sign a ceasefire agreement with the National
Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K), banned by the Home Ministry
for attacks against security forces.
# Odisha: Puri to host annual Rath Yatra today
# West Bengal: Government's "Kanyashree
Prakalpa" scheme was awarded the first prize in the United Nations Public
Service Award for Asia Pacific
- The scheme is a targeted conditional cash transfer
scheme aimed at retaining girls in schools and other educational and skill
development institutions and preventing child marriage
BILATERAL ISSUES
# India and Portugal launched a unique startup Portal
- the India-Portugal International StartUp Hub (IPISH) - in Lisbon
# India and Portugal signed MoUs for creation of an
India Portugal Space Alliance and for advancing collaborative research.
WORLD
# Canada: An Indian - origin Sikh woman human rights
activist (Palbinder Kaur Shergill) has been appointed a judge of the Canadian
Supreme Court of British Colombia in New Westminster, the first turbaned Sikh
to be appointed to the judiciary of the country
# USA: NASA to launch a satellite named CHESS
(Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph) to study vast
interstellar clouds on June 27
ECONOMICS
# Most of the populous and larger states' fiscal
deficits soars: RBI's "Handbook of Statistics on States 2016-17"
# RBI's "Handbook of Statistics on States
2016-17"
- Most number of factories: (1) Tamil Nadu (2)
Maharashtra (3) Gujarat
SPORTS
# ICC Women's World Cup cricket began in London
# India's K. Srikanth grabbed a third successive
Superseries final spot at the Australian Open; to meet China's Chen Long in the
finals
MISC
# Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2017 was dominated by
regional langage poets, who took away sixteen awards for their exceptional
poetry works
# Book "Advice & Dissent: My Life in Public
Service" by Y. V. Reddy
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