Current Affairs – June 18, 2018 – One Liner
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June 18 – Goa Revolution Day
- Assam is scheduled to launch a cancer care foundation, the first for any State government in India for making treatment of the disease more affordable and ensuring care for patients till survival.
- Kandanathi is the biggest petroglyph site in Andhra Pradesh, an exploration by an archaeology researcher of Yogi Vemana University has revealed.
- The State’s first and exclusive lemon market at Nakrekal, and a sweet lime market for farmers in Nalgonda.
- Mysuru-based startup encourages farmers to produce indigenous and patent-free seeds of a variety of crops.
- Visva-Bharati University (VBU), founded by Rabindranath Tagore, will set up a yoga centre inside the campus, named yoga gram (village). The centre is aimed at increasing awareness about yoga.
- Thimpu-based SAARC Development Fund will soon be launching a social enterprise development programme (SEDP) to fund 80 entities annually across the 8-member states including India.
- Treating latent TB of the endometrium (inner lining of the uterus) improves pregnancy outcomes in infertile women
- The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), for the third successive time, received an order of Rs 8 crore from Air India for the supply of amenity kits consisting of Khadi herbal beauty care products for its international passengers.
- The Centre will set up the country’s biggest data centre in Bhopal with a by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
- PepsiCo Foundation has decided to commit a $4.26 million grant to WaterAid, a non-profit entity, to provide safe water access to communities in the southern states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.
- India and Italy agreed to boost cooperation in counter-terrorism and cybersecurity and to revitalise bilateral ties.
- Prime Minister is going to have a direct dialogue with farmers across the country, for the first time in which various initiatives related to doubling the income of farmers by 2022 will also be discussed on June 20, 2018.
- The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Prakash Javadekar inaugurated the 5 day Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon 2018 Hardware edition in New Delhi.
- A 3-day National Yoga Olympiad was inaugurated at the National Council of Educational Research and Training in CIET in New Delhi.
- The annual Asia and Oceania region intergovernmental ministerial meeting on anti-doping began in Colombo with representatives from 29 countries including India.
- The Department of Commerce in coordination with Embassy of India at Beijing commissioned a study on “Enhancing Indian Exports of Pharmaceutical products to China” for entry of the Indian generic drugs.
- The app OTS Cabs which is short for Ottunar Thozhargal Sangam, indicating an association of drivers, is set to be launched on the Android and iOS platform in Chennai.
- American Brooks Koepka putted brilliantly to win the US Open Golf, becoming the first player in almost 30 years to successfully defend his title.
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