Current Affairs – June 21, 2018 – One Liner
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June 21 – Fourth International Yoga Day
2018 theme – “Yoga for Peace”
June 21 – World Music Day; Clean Air Day 2018; World Giraffe Day
- 4th International Yoga Day held at the Forest Research Institute campus in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.
- A Guinness World Record was created in Rajasthan’s Kota city, where more than 05 lakh people performed yoga.
- Kerala has decided to scrap the plantation tax in view of the crisis in the sector.Kerala is the only State in the country which levies the tax.
- The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, participated in the 4th International Yoga Day celebrations in Paramaribo, Suriname.
- PM Modi addresses at the inauguration of the Nature Cure Centre in New York, USA via video conferencing.
- Tehran’s largest football stadium was to admit thousands of women together with men for the first time since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gave birth to a baby girl becoming only the second world leader to do so while in office.
- Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, discovered a sub-Saturn or super-neputune size planet around a Sun-like star. The planet will be known as EPIC 211945201b or K2-236b.
- The 46-year-old western lowland gorilla named Koko died who knews sign language.
- First time in the country’s conservation history T-2, a three-year-old tiger from the Kanha Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh introduced it to Odisha’s Satkosia Tiger Reserve.
- India & Tajikistan agree to enhance mutual cooperation for sustainable water development.
- 19th All India Conference of Directors of Finger Print Bureaux in Hyderabad.
- The Ministry of HRD has issued fresh guidelines for Selection of Teachers for National Awards.
- Project Gandiva to make Andhra Pradesh No.1 in Sports in the country in 10 years.
- Top 100 brands in U.S.
- 58th rank – Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS)
- The number of refugees worldwide registered an annual increase of 13% according to a UNHCR report.
- ‘Compendium of Finger Print equipment – 2018’ & ‘Award of excellence in identification’ released by The Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir.
- Prime Minister’s Award – Vishwas Mandlik of Nashik and The Yoga Institute in Mumbai (for outstanding contribution to promotion and development of yoga)
India Smart Cities Award – 2018
- Surat Smart City – ‘City Award’; Bhopal and Ahmedabad – ‘Innovative Idea’ Award
- Atul Gawande – CEO of health firm jointly formed by Amazon, Buffett, JPMorgan
- Uzhavan mobile app, launched by the Tamil Nadu Agriculture Department for farmers.
- Punjab State Government has launched a mobile application ‘i-Hariyali’ to order free plant saplings.
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