Daily Current affairs - June 26th, 2017 for all competitive exams
UN General Assembly decided
to observe 26 June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit
Trafficking as an expression of its determination to strengthen action and
cooperation to achieve the goal of an international society free of drug abuse.
- The theme for 2017 is: "Listen
First - Listening to children and youth is the first step to help them
grow healthy and safe."
Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister Costa launch unique Start-up portal
Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister Costa recently launched a unique
startup Portal – the India-Portugal International StartUp Hub
(IPISH) – in Lisbon.
- This is a platform initiated by Startup India
and supported by Commerce & Industry Ministry and Startup
Portugal to create a mutually supportive entrepreneurial partnership.
Forum set up to resist child
marriage
33 boys and girls recently
formed the ‘Odisha Child Marriage Resistance Forum’ and resolved to prevent
untimely marriages and spread awareness among parents.
- Children who have resisted parental and societal
pressure to get married before the legal age have joined hands to bring an
end to the regressive practice in Odisha.
Metro rail tunnels under Hooghly set a record:
The Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) has completed the construction of
India’s first set of underwater transportation tunnels.
- The two tunnels, 16.1 metres apart, with a diameter
of 5.5 metres each, link the two banks of the Hooghly river — Howrah
Maidan and Sealdah on one side with Kolkata on the other.
- The tunnels are at a depth of 13 metres below the
riverbed, and 30 metres from the land surface.
EC disqualifies Minister in M.P.
The Election Commission has disqualified 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.
- Membership of the minister was revoked under
section 10A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, to be read with
Sections 77 and 78 of the Act. This relates to providing wrong
information to the Commission on expenses incurred during the polls.
World Book Fair in Delhi from
Jan 6
The National Book Trust
(NBT) will host the next World Book Fair from January 6 here, with environment
as the theme of the event.
- The Trust, an autonomous institution under the Union
Ministry of Human Resource Development, is also looking at the possibility
of having the European Union (EU) as a guest this time around.
- The NBT has been organising the fair since 1972. The
first book fair it organised saw 200 participants flock to Delhi. Every
book fair since 1998 has seen more than 1,000 participants from across the
globe.
Dangal wrestles its way to
success at BRICS film fete
The mega success of Aamir
Khan’s blockbuster film Dangal in China echoed strongly at the second
BRICS film festival, where filmmakers and actors brainstormed on ways to
collaborate to anchor the soft power of the five-nation group.
- The second edition of the film festival of the five
emerging economies — the first was held in New Delhi last year — began
with the screening of the filmWhere Has Time Gone? .
- Participants in the festival showed keen awareness
to instituitionalise the BRICS’ soft power, by considering working
together.
NASA’s CHESS to study interstellar clouds
NASA is launching a sounding rocket CHESS to study vast interstellar
clouds and know about the earliest stages of star formation.
- Deep in space between distant stars, space is not
empty. Instead, there drifts vast clouds of neutral atoms and
molecules, as well as charged plasma particles called the interstellar
medium — that may, over millions of years, evolve into new stars and
even planets. These floating interstellar reservoirs are the focus of the
NASA-funded CHESS sounding rocket mission, which will check out the
earliest stages of star formation.
- The Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar
Spectrograph will measure light filtering through the interstellar medium,
which provides crucial information for understanding the lifecycle of
stars.
States’ fiscal deficit soars to Rs 4.93 trillion in FY16
RBI has released second edition of it’s statistical publication titled
‘Handbook of Statistics on States 2016-17‘.
- The publication follows the ‘one-indicator-one
table’ approach and covers all sub-national statistics on socio-
demographics, state domestic product, agriculture, industry,
infrastructure, banking and fiscal indicators across the states over a
period ranging from 1950-51 to 2016-17.
- It also offers data on state-wise availability of
power, per capita availability of power, installed capacity of power, and
power requirement, length of national highways, roads and state highways,
and railheads.
Kanyashree Scheme For Girls In Bengal Wins UN Award
The West Bengal government is among the winners to receive the
prestigious UN Public Service Award for its initiative to combat
child marriage and ensure education to the girl child in the state.
- The West Bengal government was among the 12
institutions from 11 countries that were recognised by the world body
on UN Public Service Day, commemorated on June 23rd.
- India was named first in the Asia-Pacific group for
the category: ‘Reaching the Poorest and Most Vulnerable through Inclusive
Services and Participation’.
Srikanth’s clinched 4th title
A resolute K. Srikanth
clinched his fourth Superseries title with an incredible straight-game triumph
over reigning Olympic and World champion Chen Long in the final.
- It is the Indian’s second successive crown after the Indonesia Open Superseries Premier last week.
