International Affairs
Today (3rd Sunday of June) is Father's Day.
This
day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal
bonds, and the influence of fathers in society.
India
is
going to setup a joint panel of
parliamentarians with the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) in a bid to boost
bilateral strategic ties.
The
decision was taken when UAE's Federal National Council Speaker Amal Abdullah
Al-Qubaisi met Indian Ambassador TP Seetharam today.
This
panel will aim to facilitate parliamentary visits between both the nations.
Foreign
Secretary S Jaishankar was on a visit to China
to discuss India's membership to
the Nuclear Suppliers Group.
This
comes amid reports of Beijing trying to block India's entry to the 48-member
anti-proliferation group.
Note :
The decision on India's membership will be taken during the NSG plenary meeting
to be held from June 23-24.
Canada's
parliament has passed a contentious bill to allow medically-assisted death for terminally ill people.
This
move makes Canada one of the few countries where doctors can legally help sick
people die.
Assisted
suicide is currently legal in just a few countries, including Switzerland, the
Netherlands, Albania, Colombia and Japan.
The
practice is legal in the US states of Washington, California, Oregon, Vermont,
New Mexico and Montana.
National Affairs
The Union Ministry of AYUSH released a Yog Geet (Yoga Song) in connection with the
celebration of International Day of Yoga–2016.
This
3 minutes and 15 seconds song
was written by Deeraj Saraswat
in Hindi language and composed by
Sumanto Ray.
The Haryana
government today gave its approval to set up an AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy)
University, the first-of-its-kind in India.
Note :
The university, to be formed by upgrading Shri Krishna Government Ayurvedic
College in Kurukshetra, would offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses in
all the AYUSH systems.
The Delhi government
has decided to disburse old age,
physical disability, and widow pensions on a monthly basis starting
July, instead of making quarterly payments.
The
move is aimed at easing the financial problems faced by the beneficiaries in
the city, reportedly comprising of 3.88 lakh old people, 1.6 lakh widows and
63,000 people with physical disabilities.
Under
a revised central sector scheme, the Ministry
of Social Justice and Empowerment will now bear the entire expenditure
incurred by SC and OBC students on
coaching for competitive examinations.
Earlier,
the government paid a maximum coaching fee of ₹20,000 per candidate.
The
Ministry will also empanel reputed coaching institutes to provide quality
coaching to the said students.
Punjab
has
become the first state in India to
provide free treatment to confirmed
cases of Hepatitis C.
Chief
Minister Parkash Singh Badal launched the 'Mukh Mantri Punjab Hepatitis C Relief Fund',
with an initial contribution of ₹20 crore, for providing the free treatment.
Note :
According to reports, around six lakh people require Hepatitis C treatment in
Punjab.
Science & Technology
UK astronaut Tim
Peake and his crewmates, America's Tim Kopra and Russia's Yuri
Malenchenko, returned to Earth after spending six months on the
International Space Station.
His
mission took him on about 3,000 orbits of Earth, covering around 125 million
km.
The International
Astronomical Union has named a 9.8-kilometre
wide crater on Mars after Nepal's earthquake-hit village of Langtang.
The
village, which served as a Himalayan base camp, was one of the worst hit
villages in the 2015 Nepal earthquake, killing more than 200 people.
Business & Economy
California
is
now the 6th largest economy in
the world with its gross state product at $2.46 trillion, leapfrogging France,
which dropped to seventh, with a GDP of $2.42 trillion.
The
most populous US state is also ahead of India, which is in eighth place with a
GDP of $2.09 trillion.
Markets regulator SEBI
has eased the norms for overseas
fund managers to relocate to India, under which they need not fulfil the
minimum investment requirement of ₹25 lakh.
Further,
the requirement of such firms to report their overseas funds was removed.
Note :
The government had announced taxation incentives for overseas fund managers
willing to relocate to India during the 2015-16 Budget.
The Union Railway
Ministry has launched two
policies related to Parcel Cargo
Train Express and Parcel Leasing.
They
are,
Liberalised
Comprehensive Parcel Leasing Policy (CPLP)
Liberalised
policy on Parcel Cargo Express Trains (PCET).
Awards & Honors
The Kannada film 'Thithi' has won 2 awards (Best Film & Best Script Writer)
at the 19th Shanghai International Film
Festival.
The
awards were part of the 'Asia New Talent Awards' where 'Thithi' was the only
nomination from India.
Kerala
Tourism has won 4 awards
at ‘FilmAT’ which is one of the
biggest international film festivals dedicated to tourism, art and ecology in
Poland.
‘Responsible Tourism’ initiative started by Kerala Tourism has won three awards under
categories of the Best Promotional
Social Campaign, Protection of Nature, and Eco-Food categories respectively.
The
tourism board’s ad film ‘The Great
Backwaters of Kerala’ has won the ‘Best Editing Award’.
Note :
The FilmAT festival is associated with the International Committee of Tourism
Film Festivals.
Sports
Australia
has
won the 2016 Champions Trophy title
of Hockey by defeating India.
Note :
With this victory, Australia created
history by winning the title for record 14 times.
Aida
Gemanque (106), known as Grandma Iaià, became the oldest Olympic torchbearer, when she
lit the cauldron in the Brazilian city, Macapa.
She
broke 101-yr-old Alexander Kaptarenko’s record, who carried the torch at the Sochi
2014 Winter Olympics.
Note :
Grandma Iaià holds a Guinness record for being the oldest skydiver at 103,
giving her the nickname ‘Extreme Granny’.
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