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 Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu flagged off --Tiger Trail
Circuit Train from Delhi Safdarjung Station.

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Afghanistan President Dr Ashraf Ghani

jointly inaugurated --Afghan-India Friendship Dam with in Herat, earlier
known as Salma Dam.

 The Indian government and Asian Development Bank (ADB)--$200 million

loan to upgrade 176-km roads in Jharkhand.

 Haryana Government -- Asia’s first ‘Gyps Vulture Reintroduction

Programme’ at Pinjore.

 Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar -- Right to Public Grievance Redressal

Act.

 Asia’s largest annual security forum-- Shangri-La Dialogue-- inaugurated in

Singapore to talk about security issues.

 Odisha --first in the country to give transgender people social welfare

benefits - such as a pension, housing and food grains.

 Manohar Lal Khattar --Jai Jawan Awas Yojna (JJAY), an initiative to provide
affordable housing to serving and retired JCOs and Other Ranks at
Bahadurgarh, Haryana.

 Ministry of Health and Family Welfare--enhanced the age of superannuation

of all doctors of the Central Health Service to 65.

 Asia’s largest technology trade show-- COMPUTEX has kicked off in Taipei,
Taiwan.

 China --launched three (one domestic and two foreign) satellites namely
Ziyuan III 02 satellite and two NewSat satellites.

 India joined -- Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation

(HCoC) to further strengthen global non proliferation.

 India gifted-- 2,000 bicycles to poor dalit girls in different government

schools of Nepal.

 Nitin Gadkari -- Setu Bhartam project in Himachal Pradesh from Palampur

town in the Kangra District.
 Union Minister Smriti Irani -- experts from universities like Cambridge, MIT,
and University of Pennsylvania -- to help design syllabi of higher education
institutions.

 Himachal Pradesh -- first state in the country to have a State Data Centre
(SDC).

 The Centre -- to build a satellite port in Goa, 35 km from the state's

Mormugao Port Trust.

 Shigemi Hirata, Japanese man, -- Guinness World Records as the world's

oldest university graduate.

 The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF)--Three-year $1.5 billion loan to Sri

Lanka’s economic reform agenda.

 Assam Assembly-- passed Assam Ease of Doing Business Bill, 2016.

 The country's first wine theme park 'La Cité du Vin'--inaugurated in France.

 Sachin Tendulkar's name to be used in Kerala Government's Anti-Drug

Campaign.

 Delhi Government -- ‘DVAT M SEWA’ mobile app through which city traders
can register themselves with the VAT.

 The Assam state capital -- first city in the country to have its own city
animal --Gangetic River dolphin as its mascot.

 Delhi-- approves solar policy with 1 GW target by 2020.

 India -- co-chair of Working Group on Maritime Situational Awareness

under Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS).

 Centre -- to introduce International Yoga Award Scheme with a view to

promote yoga. Theme -- Yoga for Holistic Health - Recent Researches.

 Central Government --To open 100 Jan Aushadhi Kendras in Bihar.

 Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje -- mobile application RajVayu for

sharing information about air quality index of Jaipur, Udaipur and Jodhpur.

 Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal --Surya Mitra mobile App at National
Workshop on Rooftop Solar Power in New Delhi.

 Thailand -- first Asian country to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of

HIV.
 India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) -- $120 million loan pact to
improve irrigation and water management infrastructure in Odisha.

 India and the US -- setting up of two financial assistance programmes

worth $60 million for supporting India’s much-needed clean energy
initiatives including in solar power and other renewables.

 Swachh Yug: The campaign to make gram panchyats along the Ganga
River open defecation free.

 Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das -- medical insurance of 2 lakh will

be launched for Below Poverty Line (BPL) families for the treatment of
serious ailments.

 Indian Railways -- to install bio-toilets in all coaches to ensure the entire rail
network is a zero discharge zone by 2019, earlier decided 2021.

 Norway --to ban petrol and diesel cars by 2025.

 Walmart -- topped the Fortune 500 list for the fourth consecutive year.

 India's first cafe based on the popular television sitcom 'F.R.I.E.N.D.S' has
opened up in Kolkata.

 Mirza Imtiyaz Judicial Commission -- to probe Mathura violence.

 Rajiv Gauba Committee --on Decongestion of Traffic in Delhi submitted its

report to the Union Ministry of Urban Development.

 The first consignment comprising of 60 MT Type-II Paraffin Wax was

flagged off to Rok Industries, Kenya, from Assam's Numaligarh Refinery
Ltd (NRL) Marketing Terminal.

 India Post –To release a commemorative postage stamp on '100 Years of

TATA POWER'.

 Aiming to create state of art infrastructure for labour intensive units and
employment generation-- in Andhra Pradesh with an assistance of Rs 125
crore.

 World Bank --cuts 2016 global growth forecast to 2.4%.

 Microsoft -- To open its Cyber Security Engagement Center (CSEC) in

Gurgaon, India.

 New York-- renames Manhattan street as-- 'Muhammad Ali Way'.

 Asian Development Bank -- approved a USD 100 million (around Rs. 660
crores) loan-- to strengthen a key irrigation system and improve water
management in Tamil Nadu.

 NATO -- Joint Military Exercise Anaconda-16 in Poland.

 ‘Internet Saathi', --a joint digital literacy programme of Google India and
Tata Trusts-- set to roll out across 400 villages and reach one lakh women
in Purulia district in West Bengal.

 Thanamir-- Second Completely LED Village in Nagaland.

 Indo-Korean joint coast guard exercise will be held off Chennai coast--
Sahyog Hyeoblyeog.

 Venkaiah Naidu -- ‘Swachh Map’ mobile application of the Rajkot Municipal

Corporation (RMC),Gujarat.

 Ratan Tata, Chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, has invested in e-ticketing

portal Kyazoonga.

 Karnataka and Goa -- to join the UDAY scheme.

 Himachal Pradesh-- set up a garment bank in the state run Kamla Nehru
Hospital Shimla for new born babies.

 Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh -- to set up a Central Marine Police

Force to protect the national coastline.

 Baltimore’s National Aquarium -- to create an Oceanside dolphin sanctuary.

This will be first of its kind sanctuary for the marine mammals in North
America.

 Arktika, --the most powerful nuclear icebreaker launched by Russia.

 China-- opened its first Disneyland in Shanghai.

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated -- ‘Rajasva Gyan Sangam’--first

joint annual conference of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and
the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC).

 Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani -- Vidyanjali, a school

volunteer programme in New Delhi.

 West Bengal Panchayat Minister Subrata Mukherjee -- bilingual grievance

redressal app, ‘Panchayat Pratikar’
 India to provide -- Rs 48.84 million to Nepal for the construction of a
college.

 India -- to provide unique identification cards to persons with disabilities.

 NITI Aayog -- to set up 500 Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) in schools across the
country.

 Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar --Child Labour Tracking System (CLTS).

 Telangana -- To set up of a Pharma City in Rangareddy and Mahbubnagar

districts.

 Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) --setting up of 1000

Mega Watt (MW) Wind Power Project connected to transmission network of
Central Transmission Utility (CTU).

 Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) --commissioned 195 MW unit at

Muzaffarpur Thermal Power Station in Bihar.

 Union Government approved-- Ramayana and Krishna Circuits under

Swadesh Darshan Scheme of the Union Ministry of Tourism.

 The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)--elected Israel to chair its

Legal Committee for the first time in the world body’s 71-year history.

 New elements of periodic table-- Nihonium (Nh), Moscovium (Mc),

Tennessine (Ts), and Oganesson (Og).

 Norway -- first country in the world to prohibit deforestation.

 Shiyal Bet, an island in Gujarat's Amreli District-- got electricity supply for
the first time.

 Sikkim -- first state in India to have an open government data portal linked
‘sikkim.data.gov.in’.

 Dharmendra Pradhan, the Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum and Natural
Gas--To represent India at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum
(SPIEF) in St Petersburg, Russia.

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new five point charter for tax
administrators -- ‘RAPID' -- Revenue, Accountability, Probity, Information
and Digitisation.

 Union Railways Ministry --Champaran Satyagrah Express train at a function

in Motihari, Bihar. Run between Bapudham, Motihari to Anand Vihar, Delhi.
 3,049 people perform --largest Karma dance in Madhya Pradesh enters
Guinness world records.

 HelpAge SOS App--launched by Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi at Raj

Nivas.

 Piyush Goyal -- Vidyut Pravah and Urja-Urban Jyoti Abhiyaan Mobile app in
Goa to enhance consumer connectivity.

 China -- to operationalise the 'exascale supercomputer' by 2020--named

Tianhe -3.

 Water4crops Project-- 9 million euro Indo-EU project on water-scarce

agricultural sector.

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan President Maithripala

Sirisena – inaugurated-- newly renovated Duraiappah Stadium in Jaffna.

 Flying Officers Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh--

commissioned as India's first three women fighter pilots.

 India and South Korea -- 'Korea Plus', an initiative to promote and facilitate
Korean investments in India.

 Two small Tamil Nadu villages Agaramangudi and Purasakkudi where two
physics Nobel Laureates - C.V. Raman and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar -
had their roots-- will be networked by Wi-Fi hotspots on June 20.

 Dynamatic Technologies --topped the Fortune Next 500 list of Indian

companies.

 Pakistan-- will become a formal member of the Shanghai Cooperation

Organisation (SCO) next week.

 The European Council on Tourism and Trade (ECTT)--Named Cambodia as

the World Best Tourism Destination for 2016.

 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of The Art of Living, will inaugurate--
International Day of Yoga at the European Parliament

 Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $26.2 billion.

 India and Qatar  to boost bilateral ties on tourism and trading
enhancement.

 India and Morocco water resources management, television

broadcasting, institutional co-operation and cultural and educational
exchanges, further providing venues for enhanced cooperation.

 The Government of India and the World Bank  9.2 million US dollar grant
agreement under the World Bank-Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Programme for the Efficient and Sustainable City Bus Service Project.

 India and Tunisia  Information Technology and promotion of traditional

handicrafts.

 India and United States  to enhance cooperation on energy security,

clean energy and climate change in New Delhi with an aim to promote
sustainable growth.

 Directorate General of Civil Aviation of India (DGCA) and the French Civil
Aviation Authority –>to implement Technical Cooperation Programme
(TCP) for promotion and implementation of Standards and Recommended
Practices of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

 Telangana & California (US)  for cooperation in fields of business

innovation, alternative energy, and education.

 The Indian Army, under its welfare and development initiative Operation
Sadbhavna & Tata Motors for the training of youth from Kashmir as
automobile service technicians.

 Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) & Gujarat International

Finance Tec-City Company Limited (GIFTCL) and GIFT SEZ Limited (GIFT
SEZ)  to establish a representative office in India.

 Tata Trusts and Madhya Pradesh government  on implementing

interventions in healthcare areas like nutrition, mental health and cancer
care in the state.

 New Delhi based Energy and Resources Institute & Kisan Sanchar Limited
(IKSL)to work together in empowering farmers.

 India and Singapore  to enhance the scale of existing bilateral military

interaction and decided to expand the interaction between the armed
forces.
 BMW India Financial Services & ICICI Lombard General Insurance to offer
motor insurance solutions for BMW customers.

 NTPC &South Western Railways (SWR)  for doubling a section of the

latter under customer funding concession.

 India and United Kingdom  to study small-scale processes and large-

scale monsoon variability.

 India Post & NASSCOM will launch "Own your post box " scheme at
Hardy Towers, Ramunjam IT City, Taramani

 Airport Authority of India (AAI), National Skill Development Corporation

(NSDC) and National Skill Development Fund (NSDF)  for scaling up skill
development initiatives in the aviation sector.

 To help farmers in availing the finance against receivable due from Farm 
Fresh Foods Limited (FFL) & SBI.

 India and the US  Defence, counter-terrorism, Wildlife Trafficking, Energy

Security, Clean Energy and Climate Change.

 Reebok & Ministry of AYUSH and NDMC  to organize rejuvenating Yoga

sessions across the country from 4th June to 21st June, 2016.

 Google & TATA Trust To reduce digital gender gap in rural india.

 New Development Bank (NDB) and China Construction Bank Corp (CCB)
on strategic cooperation, focusing mainly on infrastructure funding in the
five BRICS countries.

 The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) & Qatar Investment
Authority (QIA)  for facilitating investment in India's infrastructure.

 Food Corporation of India (FCI) & Adani group for construction of two
silos to store wheat, at an estimated cost of about Rs 80 crore.

 National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) & AP Food

Processing Society of Andhra Pradesh  to establish Smart Agribusiness
Platform Networks of Andhra Pradesh (SAPNAP).

 India & Namibia in the implementation of its “Vision 2030” & on Capacity
building for civil servants & setting up of centre of excellence in
Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

 Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) & Canadian Space Agency

(CSA) on cooperation in the field of outer space.
 Tata Group & Uber to offer vehicle purchase and ownership solutions to
drivers on the Uber platform.

 Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) & Axis Bank

India’s first open loop contactless car.

 Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) and Bharti Airtel  to deliver

high-speed data network coverage across 325 cities in the Asia-Pacific,
Middle-East, Africa, Europe and the US.

 Facebook & Deepika Padukone's The Live Love Laugh Foundation and
NGO Aasra to launch its suicide prevention tool in India.

 For India’s membership of the International Continental Scientific Drilling

Program (ICDP) consortium Union Government & Helmholtz Centre
Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for geosciences.

 India and Taiwan for cooperation in the field of Agriculture and Allied
Sector.

 India and Ghana to strengthen co-operation in varied fields.

 Tata Power Co. Ltd to acquire renewable energy company Welspun
Renewables Energy Pvt. Ltd in a bid to grow its clean energy portfolio to
2.3 gigawatts (GW).

 Boeing, TATA  To establishes Aerospace facility in Hyderabad.

 Microsoft & AICTE  to build app for HRD ministry's SWAYAM (Study
Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds) platform.

New Appointments:
 Navin Agarwal  Director General (DG)/ Chief Executive Officer (CEP) of
National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA).

 CR Sasikumar  Managing Director of State Bank of Travancore (SBT)

 Mr. NK Chari  Managing Director of the State Bank of Mysore (SBM)

 Bollywood actor Dia Mirza  ambassador for Swachh Bharat Mission's

youth-based Swachh Saathi programme.
 Reliance Foundation’s Founder and Chairperson Nita Ambani  nominated
as a member by the International Olympic Committee.

 Shahid Rasool  Director of Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for

Asia

 American Fashion designer and AIDS activist Kenneth Cole  international

goodwill ambassador .

 Karnataka woman Nandini Singla Ambassador to Portugal.

 Kulmeet Bawa Managing Director Adobe for South Asia.

 Ashok Ganapathy  Director of Bharti Airtel Ltd.

 Facebook appointed Umang Bedi Managing Director for India.

 Senior IAS officer and Patna Divisional Commissioner Anand Kishore 

Chairman of beleaguered Bihar School Examination Board Chairman
present incumbent of Lalkeshwar Prasad Singh .

 Dr P Rama Mohana Rao  new Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu.

 Major General Per Gustaf Lodin Chief Military Observer and Head of
Mission for the UN Military Observer Group (UNMOGIP) in India and
Pakistan.

 G Kalyanakrishnan  New Chief Executive of Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC),

Hyderabad.

 Pedro Pablo Kuczynski  Peru's Presidential Election.

 G Ragesh Chandra  Secretary to Puducherry Chief Minister V

Narayanasamy.

 Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir  next US ambassador to Malaysia. replacd

Joseph Y Yun.

 Senior IAS officer Supriya Sahu  Director General of Doordarshan.

 United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
appointed Anne Hathaway-- global Goodwill Ambassador.

 IAS officer Dr. M Beena Managing Director of the Kerala Industrial

Infrastructure Development Corporation (KINFRA)

 DBS Bank India Niraj Mittal  Managing Director and Head of Institutional
Banking for the country.
 Sunil Bharti Mittal Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce
(ICC).

 Fijian diplomat Peter Thomson  President of 71st session of United

Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

 Gunit Chadha resigned as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Asia Pacific

region of Deutsche Bank.

 Ranu Langthasa  chairperson of the North Cachar Hills Autonomous

Council (NCHAC) in Assam.

 Justice Rakesh Ranjan Prasad  Chief Justice of Manipur HC.

 Congress veterans Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kamal Nath  general

secretaries in-charge of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.

 Satya Pal Jain  part-time member of the 21st Law Commission of India.

 RBL Bank (formerly known as The Ratnakar Bank Limited) Brijesh Mehra
head of corporate banking at RBL. At present, he is the Country
Executive at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) india.

 Senior legal service officer Suresh Chandra  Union Law Secretary .

 Rishi Kumar Shukla Madhya Pradesh's new DGP.

 Goa government senior lawyer Saresh Lotlikar  to the post of state

Advocate General.

 Former cricketer and former BJP MP Chetan Chauhan  chairman of the

National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT).

Banking News :

 The BRICS Development Bank/ New Development Bank (NDB) -- to issue its
first yuan-denominated bonds, which is also known as 'green bands'.

 The Income Tax (I-T) Department has launched an ATM-based validation

system for online filing of income tax returns, SBI has initiated the facility.

 The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) -- received approval from the RBI to
start an online bidding platform for the Sovereign Gold Bond (SGB)
scheme.
 Yes Bank to commit Rs 250 cr by 2020 towards environment sustainability.

 Axis Bank has launched India’s first internationally-listed certified green

bond to finance climate change solutions around the world at London
Stock Exchange (LSE).

 State Bank of India (SBI) & Spain's CaixaBank -- to provide loans to Indo-
Spanish joint ventures and local enterprises.

 The State Bank of India -- a 200-crore 'IT Innovation Start-up Fund’ to invest
in startups operating in the financial technology space.

 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued – S4A- Scheme for Sustainable
Structuring of Stressed Assets. main aim of these guidelines is to
(i) Strengthen the lenders’ ability to deal with stressed assets and
(ii) Put real assets back on track of entities facing genuine difficulties by
providing an avenue for reworking financial structure.

 DCB Bank launched a “card-less and PIN-less” ATM in Bengaluru-accepts

Aadhaar number and Aadhaar fingerprint (biometric).

 Reserve Bank of India has notified the increase in the limits of foreign
portfolio investors in YES Bank from 60% to 74%

 Karnataka Bank Ltd has bagged CFBP (Council for Fair Business Practices)
Jamnalal Bajaj award for fair business practices.

 Max Life, Max Financial to merge with HDFC Life.

Sports News :

 World number one Novak Djokovic beat Britain's Andy Murray to win his
first French Open title
Women’s singles -Garbine Muguruza (Spain) -defeated Serena Williams
(United States).
Men’s doubles-- Spanish pair of Feliciano López and Marc López
Mixed doubles-- Leander Paes (India) and Martina Hingis (Switzerland)
 Sri Lanka seamer Nuwan Kulasekara -- retirement from Tests.

 Judoka Avtar Singh has qualified for the Rio Olympics.

 Former World Cup silver medallist Seema Tomar of India finished fifth in
women’s trap event at the ISSF Shotgun World Cup.

 Shubham Jaglan-- bagged his first-ever European Junior Championship at

the Craigielaw Golf Club in Longniddry, Scotland.

 Cristiano Ronaldo -- most famous athlete in the world in the list of 100 most
famous athletes released by ESPN.

 Official mascot for South Korea’s 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics--

white tiger cub “Soohorang”
-official mascot for South Korea’s 2018 Pyeongchang Paralympic Winter
Games--“Bandabi”, an Asiatic black bear

 Copa America cup for 2016 is being hosted by United States.

 Rohan Bopanna -- returned to top-10 in the ATP ranking doubles chart,

securing a direct entry into Rio Olympic Games.

 Lucknow -- host the junior men’s hockey World Cup from the 8th of
December this year.

 Tintu Luka won silver at Josef Odlozil Memorial Athletics Meet in Prague.

 Promising mixed Martial Arts player Manish Sikhre-- to represent India at

the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation's (IMMAF's) World
Championship event in Las Vegas.

 Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo -- first footballer ever to top Forbes'
list of highest-earning athletes.

 Tamil Nadu teenager and International Master NR Visakh created history --

first Indian to clinch the Mumbai Mayor's International Open Chess
Tournament.

 Abhinav Bindra-- chosen as India's flagbearer at Rio Olympics.

 Leander Paes to partner Rohan Bopanna at Rio 2016 Olympics & Sania
Mirza-Bopanna in mixed-doubles.
 USA Women’s Senior National Team won gold at the FINA Women Water
Polo World League Super Final.

 Lewis Hamilton from Great Britain -- Canada Grand Prix title of Formula
One. second title of the season after Monaco Grand Prix.

 Saina Nehwal --trumps Sun Yu to bag second Australian Open title.

 KL Rahul -- first Indian to score a century on his ODI debut, after registering
100*(115) against Zimbabwe

 Official slogan for the 2016 Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games--A New
World.

 Australia won Champions trophy hockey & defeated india in London.

Awards List :

 Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik -- gold medal in people's choice prize
at world championship festival in Bulgaria.

 Tamilnadu V.O. Chidambaranar Port -- National Award for Excellence in

Cost Management for the year 2015 .

 A Qatar-based Indian banker Dr. R Seetharaman -- 2016 ‘Green Economy

Visionary award’.

 Two Indian-origin women- Neerja Sethi & Jayshree Ullal -- have featured on
the Forbes' annual list of America's 60 wealthiest and most successful self-
made women entrepreneurs.

 N Ramachandran, the president of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) --

awarded the prestigious Olympic Order by the International Olympic
Committee (IOC).

 Deshauna Barber, Army Reserve officer of United States (US)-- crowned as

the Miss USA 2016.

 Four Indians have featured in Forbes' 13th ‘World’s 100 Most Powerful
Women’ list announced.
SBI Chair-MD Arundhati Bhattacharya (ranked 25), ICICI Bank CEO Chanda
Kochhar (40), Biocon Founder-Chair Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (77),
 and HT Media Chair Shobhana Bhartia (93). Topped by- German Chancellor
Angela Merkel.

 US-India Business Council (USIBC) Global Leadership Awards -- Sun

Pharmaceuticals Dilip Shangvhi and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin --Order of Friendship to-- United Nations

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

 Indian-origin Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya -- Regius Professorship

in Manufacturing by Queen Elizabeth II.

 Tata Power Solar -- Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) award
for rooftop solar power projects.

 English Director Ridley Scott -- 30th American Cinematheque Award at the

Beverly Hilton.

 Russia has honoured Kudankulam nuclear power plant site director R.S.
Sundar -- 'Order of Friendship'.

 The Airports Authority of India (AAI) -- National Award for Best Performing
Central PSU for Roof Top Solar Power initiatives.

 Syed Nayeemuddin, former Indian football team coach-- Mohun Bagan

Ratna.

 Canadian poet, novelist and environmental activist Margaret Atwood -- 2016

PEN Pinter Prize.

 President Pranab Mukherjee -- National Order of the Republic of Ivory

Coast, the highest civilian award of the West African country.

 Malaysia’s AirAsia Group chief Tony Fernandes -- status of Overseas

Citizen of India (OIC) by the Indian government.

 Akhil Sharma -- 2016 International Dublin Literary Award for his semi-
autobiographical novel “Family Life.”

 Indian short film "Leeches", starring Sayani Gupta-- Audience Choice

Award at the Seoul International Women's Film Festival (SIWFF).

 Little Miss Princess of Asia 2016---Bethool Ajmal from Kerala.

  National award for best performing central PSU for Green Energy
initiatives--Airports Authority of India

 Diabetes specialist Shashank S Shah -- Vivian Fonseca Scholar Award

2016.

 Kerala Tourism's, 'Responsible Tourism' initiative -- three awards at the

11th edition biggest international film festivals dedicated to tourism, art and
ecology, in Poland.

List of important Committees related to Banking & Finance :

Ramanujam committee - To avoid obsolete laws

Ajay Shankar -- To review functioning of PPP Cell
H R Khan-- To evaluate unclaimed PPF and Post Office Savings
Bimal Jalan :-- To head the Expenditure Management Commission
Deepak Mohanty --Data and Information Management in the RBI
Arvind Mayaram -- To clear definition to the FDI and FII
Nachiket Mor --To permit NBFC’s to work as Business correspondence &
Financial Inclusion
P J Nayak--Governance of Boards of Bank in India
T.K. Vishwanathan --To provide Bankruptcy code for small and medium
enterprises (SMEs).
K.V. Kamath--to examine the financial architecture for Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSME) sector.
G N Bajpai--Guidelines for national pension system (NPS) schemes in private
sector.
SS Nadkarni --Trading In Public Sector Banks
James Raj --Functioning Of Public Sector Banks
A Ghosh--Frauds & Malpractices In Banks
BD Thakar--Job Criteria In Bank Loans (Approach)
Shri M. Narasimham Committee--Banking Sector Reforms
Shri Raghuram Rajan-- Financial Sector Reforms & Basel -3 Norms
B Sambamurthy--Report of the Technical Committee on Mobile Banking
Urjit Patel--Report of the Expert Committee to Revise and Strengthen the Monetary
Policy Framework
S.S.kholi- on willful defaulter
Nachiket Mor- Payment Bank & Small Finance Bank- Usha Thorat
Dave Committee--Mutual Funds Functioning
Abid Hussain --:Development Of Capital Markets
Mrs. KS Shere --Electronic Fund Transfer
P K Sinha--committee has been constituted to shortlist candidates for RBI
Governorship
 Books-Authors in JUNE :
-The Greatest: My Own Story and The Soul of a ButterflyBoxing Legend
Muhammad Ali.
-The Unseen Indira Gandhi  Dr KP Mathur.
-“The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India” Urvashi Butalia.
-Iron Fist, Velvet GloveMahesh Nair.
-President Pranab Mukherjee received the first copy of a book titled The
Education Presiden.
- The World in 2050- Striving for a More Just, Prosperous and Harmonious Global
Community  Harinder S. Kohli.
-India vs Pakistan : Why Can’t we just be friendHusain Haqqani.
-The Gene: An Intimate History Siddhartha Mukherjee.
-Goa UndercoverMadhumita Bhattacharyya.
-Losing My ReligionVishwas Mudagal.
-India’s Wars: A Military History (1947-1971)Arjun Subramaniam.

Obituaries in JUNE :
-Eminent actress and theatre personality Sulabha Deshpande from Mumbai.
-India's first Mr Universe Manohar Aich from Kolkata.
-Bollywood actor and Comedian Razzak Khan.
-Tamil actor and director Balu Anand.
-Eden Garden's renowned curator Prabir Mukherjee in Kolkata.

-Moto2 rider Luis Salom from spain.

-The former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali.

-Amber Gurung-- legendary Nepali musician and composer of the country’s
national anthem.
-Viktor Korchnoi, regarded as one the greatest chess players in Wohlen,
Switzerland.
-Veteran journalist K.K. Katyal.
-Editor of the English daily Pledge M A Khader.
-Former Kerala Assembly Speaker T S John.
-In Madhya Pradesh, ruling BJP MLA Rajendra Dadu.
-The former Chairman of Karnataka Bank Mr. M.S. Krishna Bhat

-Canada's hockey icon Gordie Howe.

-Veteran journalist Inder Malhotra in Delhi.
- Manimala Devi, veteran Odia actress.
- Famous American Television actress Ann Morgan Guilbert.
-Assam Pradesh Congress Committee President Anjan Dutta.
-Gregory Rabassa-American Literary Translator.
-Veteran Tamil film director AC Tirulokachandar.
-Hindi writer Mudrarakshasa in Lucknow.
-Donald Carr, the former captain of England Cricket team.
- Playwright and actor Achyut Lahkar-father of the Bhryamyman or Mobile Theatre
of Assam and gave birth to mobile theatre in Assam.

-Former Maharashtra Director General of Police Suryakant Jog.

Days-Themes in JUNE :
-5 JuneWorld Environment DayZero tolerance for the illegal trade in wildlife.
-3 June International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression.
- 8 June World Oceans DayHealthy Oceans, Healthy Planet
-15 June World Elder Abuse Awareness Day & Global Wind Day
-June 14World Blood Donor DayBlood connects us all
-June 12Anti Child Labour dayEnd child labour in supply chains - It's
everyone's business!

- June 15  World elder abuse awareness day

-17 June World Day to Combat DesertificationInclusive cooperation for

achieving Land Degradation Neutrality”.

-June 23  International Olympic Day, United Nations Public Service Day.

-June 26  International Day against Drug abuse and Illicit Trafficking, International
Day in support of Victims of torture.
 Defence Joint exercises :

India, Japan and US navies -- Malabar Exercise

18 ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)-- Military Exercise Force
Eighteen.
India, Seychelles joint military exercise-- LAMITYE in Victoria, Seychelles.
India and China-- Sino-India Cooperation 2016 in Chushul-Moldo in Jammu and
Kashmir.
International Fleet Review (IFR) 2016 --by Indian Navy in Visakhapatnam, Andhra
Pradesh.
France and India-- Varuna naval exercise.
SLINEX.-Sri Lanka India Naval Exercise.
INDRA military exercise -- India and Russia in Rajasthan.
Simbex - Indian Navy with Republic of Singapore Navy.
IBSAMAR --India, Brazil and South African navies.
KONKAN - A bilateral Naval Exercise between Indian Navy and Royal Navy of
Britain.
AUSINDEX-Indian and Australian Navy Bilateral Maritime Exercise.
Sahyog-Kaijin -Joint exercise of Coast Guards of India and Japan.
Naseem Al Bahr - Joint navy exercise of India and Oman.
Indradhanush-- India-UK.
India-France Air Exercise --Garuda.
Mithra Shakti exercise-- India and Sri Lanka in Pune.
Hand-in-Hand. ---India-China joint military training exercise in Kunming.
Exercise Shakti --- India and France armies.
Exercise Nomadic Elephant- --Indian Army exercises with the Mongolian Army.
Exercise Yuddh Abhyas -- Indian and United States Armies since 2005.
Surya Kiran -- India Nepal joint military exercise.
Shaheen (Eagle)-5-- China and Pakistan Air Forces in Pakistan.
Trident Juncture Military Exercise -- North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Italy.
Indo-Korean joint coast guard exercise will be held off Chennai coast--Sahyog
Hyeoblyeog