Around INDIA
# The ruling BJP and its allies won only
three of the 14 bypolls (4 Lok Sabha seats and 10 Assembly Seats)
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The Kairana Lok sabha seat in Western Uttar
Pradesh was a prestigious battle as the BJP had fielded Mriganka Singh,
daughter of Hukum Singh, whose passing away in Feb 2018 necessitated the bypoll
– against the opposition’s Tabassum Hasan, who won by a margin of 44, 618
votes.
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Contesting on a RLD ticket, Ms. Hasan’s
thumping victory once again underscored the importance of grand alliance as her
candidature was supported by the SP and BSP
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Kairana is the third straight defeat for
the BJP in Lok Sabha bypolls in Uttar Pradesh after Phulpur and Gorakhpur
# The Indian Railways conducted a one-day
workshop ‘Mission Raftaar’ in which officials discussed ways to increase the
average speed of freight and passenger trains. Issues such as “punctuality,
rolling stock, removing bottlenecks in terms of traffic, elimination of
unmanned level crossings were discussed” at the workshop. ‘Mission Raftaar’
aims at doubling the average speed of freight trains and increasing the average
speed of coaching trains by 25 kmph over a five-year period.
TAMIL NADU
# Government
filed a caveat in the Supreme Court apprehending that Vedanta Ltd may move the
top court against the closure and disconnection of power supply to its copper
smelter plant in Thoothukudi
# In the steepest drop in the last 15
fiscal years, the revenue generated through liquor sales fell by about Rs. 200
crore and stood at Rs. 26, 794 crore during 2017-18 against Rs. 26, 995 crore
during 2016-17 due to the closure of several private bars
# Caste violence between Dalit community
and a caste Hindu for failing to accord temple honour and sitting cross-legged
in the presence of a caste Hindu killed 3 persons (all Dalits) in Kachanatham
village in Sivagangai District
# 17th World Tamil Internet Conference will
be held in Coimbatore with the theme “Intellectual
Tamil Search Engines” from Jul 06 – 08, 2018
STATES SCAN
# Andhra Pradesh: After 4 years of
bifurcation, the State now got its own State Symbols
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Neem: State Tree
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Black Buck: State Animal
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Rose-Ringed Parakeet: State Bird
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Jasmine: State Flower
BILATERAL ISSUES
# 26 countries including India will
participate in the biennial RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific) military exercise in
and around the Hawaiian islands and Southern California from June 27, 2018 to
Aug 02, 2018 with the theme “Capable,
Adaptive, Partners”
# Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi met his
Malaysian counterpart, Mr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad in Kuala Lumpur; Mr. Modi
becomes the first world leaders to meet Mr. Mahathir after he became the
world’s oldest elected leader
# Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi
launched three Indian mobile payment apps (BHIM, RuPay and SBI apps) in
Singapore at a business event aimed at internationalization of the country’s
digital payment platform
# The trilateral war games / naval
exercises (Ex. MALABAR – 2018) between India, USA and Japan to take place in
the Guam in the Philippine sea from June 06 – 15, 2018; India’s INS Sahyadir,
INS Kamorta, INS Shakti and P-8I long range maritime patrol aircraft are
participating in the exercise
WORLD
# Denmark: Danish parliament passed a law
banning the Islamic full – face veil in public places, becoming the latest
European country to do so (France was the first country to ban this in Europe
in 2011)
# USA: renamed is strategically important
Pacific Command (PACOM) as the U. S. Indo – Pacific command, in a move widely
seen as a public expression of America’s keenness to count India as key partner
in strategic planning. The Trump Administration has already seen using the term
Indo – Pacific instead of Asia – Pacific in official documents
ECONOMICS
# Government expects the growth of the
country in 2018 will be of 6.7%
# Chhattisgarh, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir,
Mizoram, Odisha and Punjab started to implement the e – way bill system for
intra – state movement of goods from June 01, 2018; Tamil Nadu from June 02,
2018 and West Bengal from June 03, 2018
# Asian Development Bank approved $375
million loan in Madhya Pradesh for a project to improve irrigation facilities
and to help the farmers’ income
# The Government’s effort to privatise Air
India came to abrupt halt as it received zero bids from potential players
SPORTS
# M.
C. Mary Kom to skip Asian Games
MISC
# Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi was
awarded with “Santokbaa Humanitarian Award” by President, Mr. Ram Nath Kovind
for his contribution to the betterment of society in Surat, Guajarat
# PeTA (People for Ethical Treatment of
Animals) announced its Hero to Animals Award for Assam – based Hindi
singer-actor Zubeen Garg
# June 01: World Milk Day
# June 01: Global Parents Day
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