One
Line Fodder [April – June 2015]
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TRAI
recommends 112 as nationwide emergency number; Just JS Verma Committee favoured
nationwide emergency number
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20
new products in GI tags; number of GI tags increased to 235
·
Tourist
Visa on Arrival scheme now changed as e-Tourist Visa [Union Home Ministry]
·
Union
Government appointed a committee to look up the issues in interlinking of
rivers in India [committee to be headed by BN Navalawala]
·
Union
Government decided to transfer training and apprentice divisions of the
Directorate General of Employment and Training (DGET) from the Union Labour
Ministry to Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
·
State
Government of Kerala launched Subodham
project, to help people in the state to overcome addiction to liquor
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Odisha
Government launched a cheap
meal scheme Aahar for providing subsidised food to urban poor.
·
Bharatiya
Mahila Bank won the Asian Banker Achievement Award 2015
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Hindi
film actor Anil Kapoor was conferred with the prestigious Pandit Dinanath
Mangeshkar Award 2015
·
Indian-origin
diplomat Gopinath Pillai awarded the Outstanding Service Award for his services
in Singapore by the National University of Singapore (NUS).
·
Narendra
Modi conferred the 50th Jnanpith Award on eminent Marathi litterateur
Bhalchandra Nemade
·
Former
Union Finance Minister and veteran BJP leader Yashwant Sinha was conferred with
the Officier de la Légion d’Honneur (Officer of the Legion of Honour) in
recognition of his valuable contribution to thought on international issues
·
Sangeeta
Bhatia, an Indian-origin scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), won the prestigious 2015 Heinz Award in the Technology, the Economy, and
Employment category
·
Microsoft’s
Indian-origin CEO Satya Nadella was honoured with the White House Champions of
Change
·
Indian
Army conducted exercise "Akraman" in Rajasthan
·
A
minor planet (4358) is named after Vishwanathan Anand
·
Asteroid
316201 was named after Malala
·
The
Supreme Court of India (SC) appointed Vivek Priyadarshi to head the team
probing the Indian Premiere League (IPL) scandal
·
New
Zealand cricket team captain Brendon McCullum was conferred with the Sir
Richard Hadlee Medal for 2014-15.
·
Apurvi
Chandela has become the second Indian shooter to be qualified to represent
India in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
[first being Jitu Rai]
·
Japanese
bullet train Maglev created a new world speed record of 603 kilometer per hour
(kmph) in a test run near Mount Fuji.
·
Palestine
joins ICC (International Criminal Court)
·
The
world's first legally approved HIV self-test kit that reveals results in 15
minutes has gone on sale in Britain
·
The
Haryana Government issued a notification that forests in Aravalli ranges are
not a forest.
·
Satyam
founder Ramalinga Raju gets 7 years jail term for corporate scam
·
Seoul
– Global Earth Hour capital 2015; Thane – national Earth Hour capital 2015
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The
fourth Lighthouse Museum of India was opened at Kannur, Kerala to promote
lighthouse tourism. The other three lighthouses museums have been set up at
Alappuzha in Kerala, Chennai and Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu
·
The New York Times won two prestigious
Pulitzer prizes for coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
·
Pratap
Singh, a 15-year-old Indian-origin schoolboy in the United Kingdom, was awarded
with the 500 pounds Institute of Physics (IOP) Prize.
·
G.K.
Reddy Memorial National Award to late veteran journalist Vinod Mehta.
·
14
year old Karan Menon, Indian-American student, has won the prestigious National
Geographic Bee award.
·
At
the 8th US National Scripps Howard Spelling Bee championships, two
Indian-American kids Vanya Shivshankar and Gokul Venkatachalam were jointly
declared winners. It marked the eighth consecutive year that Indian-American
students have taken the title starting from the year 2008 onwards.
·
An
Indian-origin teacher Gurnimrat Nimmy Sidhu named for University of Oxford
Inspirational Teacher Award
·
Belgium’s
most prestigious and largest university in the city of Leuven, 26 km from
Brussels, has honoured India’s world renowned poet, artist and humanist
Rabindranath Tagore by erecting his statue in the university premises.
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“Namaste
Russia” festival in Moscow
·
Indian
Air Force (IAF) Mirage -2000 Lands at Yamuna Expressway
·
Jordan
has kicked off a military exercise (Eager Lion Military Drill) with some 10,000
participants from 18 countries, many members of a U.S.-led military coalition
against the Islamic State group, which controls much of neighbouring Iraq and
Syria.
·
'Sardar
Patel', the latest Naval establishment of Indian Navy, was commissioned at
Porbandar, Gujarat
·
Indian
Coast Guard (ICG) held Theera Veta defence exercise in Arabian Sea
·
New
species of fish called Pethia Striata have been found by ecologists in Tunga
river of Kudremukh National Park, Karnataka
·
Researchers
from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discovered the
world’s first fully warm-blooded fish species named Opah
·
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi released commemorative coin on Swami Chinmayananda
·
Manabi
Bandopadhyay became the first transgender principal of Krishnagar Women's
College in Nadia district, West Bengal.
·
Punjab became the first state in India to
issue Soil Health Cards to farmers.
·
Steffi
Graf appointed as Kerala’s Ayurveda brand ambassador
·
Scientists
named a newly discovered galaxy after Portuguese football player Cristiano
Ronaldo. The galaxy was labeled as CR7 (COSMOS Redshift 7). Cristiano Ronaldo is also known as CR7 after
his initials and jersey number.
·
Forbes
released the list of 2015 World's 100 Highest-Paid Athletes. The list has been
topped by Floyd Mayweather and the only Indian to figure in the list is
Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
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