Daily Current affairs - June 12th, 2017 for all competitive exams
The government of India has
launched ‘Tele Law’ service to provide legal aid for the people living in
rural areas through video conferencing.
- Under the scheme, a portal called
‘Tele-Law’ will be launched, which will be available across the Common
Service Centre (CSC) network.
- This will connect the citizens to
legal service providers with the help of technology enabled platforms.
- ‘Tele-Law’ will enable people to
seek legal advice from lawyers through video conferencing available at the
Common Service Centres (CSC).
India, UNOSSC launch
partnership fund to promote sustainable development
India and the UN Office for
South- South Cooperation have launched a partnership fund that will support
sustainable development projects across the developing world.
- Managed by UNOSSC, the India-UN Development Partnership Fund will support
Southern-owned and led, demand-driven, and transformational sustainable
development projects across the developing world.
India awards road contract to
complete Kaladan project in Myanmar
The contract for building
109-km road connecting Paletwa river terminal to Zorinpui in Mizoram border has
been awarded by the government. The construction is expected to start after the
monsoon in October.
- The Kaladan project connects
Sittwe Port in Myanmar to the India-Myanmar border.
- The project was jointly initiated
by India and Myanmar to create a multi-modal platform for cargo shipments
from the eastern ports to Myanmar and to the North-eastern parts of the
country through Myanmar.
India, Mauritius sign MoU to
institutionalize cooperation between Parliaments
India and Mauritius have signed an MoU to
institutionalize cooperation between Parliaments of the two
countries.
- The MoU was signed by Lok Sabha
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and Speaker of National Assembly of Mauritius
Santi Bai Hanoomanjee in Port Louis.
- Mrs. Mahajan was on a five-day
visit to Mauritius from 6th of June with a Parliamentary delegation.
Kolkata to get India's first
underwater Metro
Kolkata, the ‘City of Joy’ is about to experience a
wonder in the form of an underwater Metro train which will run beneath
the Hooghly river. It’s one of the path-breaking projects in India as
never before a tunnel has been dug beneath a flowing river.
- The entire project is 16.6 km
long, out of which 10.8 km runs under the ground. Of this 10.8 km, 502
meters is under the water. The project connects Howrah to the west and
Salt Lake to the east.
- The project is expected to be
completed by December 2019.
Scientists conjure up largest
virtual universe:
Researchers from the
University of Zurich have simulated the formation of our entire universe with a
large supercomputer.
- A gigantic catalogue of about 25
billion virtual galaxies has been generated from 2 trillion digital
particles.
- This catalogue is being used to
calibrate the experiments on board the Euclid satellite, that will be
launched in 2020 with the objective of investigating the nature of dark
matter and dark energy.
Floating solar farm reflects
China’s clean energy aims:
China has launched the
world’s largest floating solar farm. The 40-megawatt power plant has 1,60,000
panels resting on a lake that emerged after the collapse of a coal mine in
central Anhui province.
- It is part of Beijing’s effort to
wean itself off a fossil fuel dependency that has made it the world’s top
carbon emitter, with two-thirds of its electricity still fuelled by coal.
Limaye to quit BCCI post, to
head NSE
Veteran banker Vikram Limaye will quit the Committee of
Administrators (CoA) for the BCCI on July 14 to take over as the Managing
Director and CEO of the National Stock Exchange (NSE).
- The Securities and Exchange Board
of India (SEBI) has cleared Mr. Limaye’s appointment, provided he gives up
his role in the cricket panel.
India likely to be power
surplus in FY18
India may become a power surplus country in the current
fiscal as the energy shortage and peak power deficit was less than 1% in April
with many States reporting nil electricity deficit.
- As per the Central Electricity
Authority’s report for April, the energy shortage was 0.5% icompared with
1.4% a year earlier. In April, the energy shortage was 0.1% each in the
western, southern and eastern region.
Poet, essayist Haraprasad Das
gets Kalinga Literary Award
Legendary poet and essayist Haraprasad Das was conferred
with the covetous Kalinga Literary Award for his work and
contribution to literature at the fourth edition of Kalinga Literary Festival
(KLF).
- The three-day literary festival
was inaugurated by Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
Transgender appointed social
development officer
The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) had
appointed a transgender as a social development officer.
- Sadhana Kinnar, originally known
as Sadhana Mishra, hails from Keonjhar town and holds an MA in Social Work
and Business Administration.
- This is for the first time in the
country that a transgender has been appointed in the private sector
QS World University Rankings
2018
QS World University Rankings
2018 have been released. The QS World University Rankings are published
annually by British company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
- The QS rankings give highest
weightage of 40% to academic reputation, followed by faculty-student ratio
and citations per faculty (20% each), and employer reputation (10%).
- Only 12 Indian institutions and
universities have made it to the top 700 this year with IIT-Delhi topping
at 172 rank while IISc, Bengaluru gets 190th rank. IIT- Bombay is at 179th
Jairam Ramesh’s book on the
naturist in Indira Gandhi launched
The book “Indira Gandhi – A life in Nature”, was
launched by Congress president Sonia Gandhi at the Indira Gandhi Memorial.
- The book was authored by Former
Union minister Jairam Ramesh. The 488-page book was launched to mark the
birth centennial year of the former Prime Minister.
Nadal
returns as the king of clay with La Decima
Rafel Nadal claim a record 10th French Open crown
by defeating Stan Wawrinka with 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 .
- With this win, Nadal notched up
another record of becoming the first player in the Open Era to win 10
titles at the same Grand Slam event.
- Having won his 15th Grand Slam
title, the Spaniard is now second behind Roger Federer on the all-time
list for the most number of Grand Slam titles won.
The French Open 2017- Complete
list of Winners
The French open title 2017 was held recently
from 22 May-11 June 2017 at Roland Garros in Paris, France. Here is
the complete list of all the winners in different categories of The French
Open 2017.
- French Men's Singles Open Title-
Spain's Rafael Nadal (10th French Title) defeated Stan Wawrinka
(Switzerland).
- French Women's Singles Open Title-
Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko (1st Grand Slam Title) defeated Simona
Halep (Rome).
- French Men's Doubles
Title- Michael Venus (New Zealand) and Ryan
Harrison (USA) defeated Santiago Gonzalez and Donald Young.
- French Women's Doubles
Title- Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) and Lucie
Safarova (Czech Republic) defeated Ashleigh Barty and Casey
Dellacqua.
- French Open Mixed Doubles title- Rohan
Bopanna (India) and Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada) defeated
Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Robert Farah.
Shashikant Kutwal wins gold at
world chess championship for differently-abled
Shashikant Kutwal has won the gold medal at
the 17th World Individual Chess Championship for differently-abled.
- The World Chess Championship was held in Slovakia. Shashikant Kutwal is a railway employee with Pune Division.
