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Legend Magazine LEGEND MAGAZINE (JUNE - 2018) Current Affairs and Quiz, English, Banking Awareness, Simplification Exclusively prepared for RACE students Issue : 13 | Page : 68 | Topic : Legend of June | Price : Not for Sale CURRENT AFFAIRS ➢ The surface-to-surface missile was Government launches ‘JANAUSHADHI launched with the help of a mobile launcher from SUVIDHA’ under PMBJP: NATIONAL launch pad-4 of the Integrated Test Range ➢ The Government launches ‘JANAUSHADHI Government launches new scheme (ITR) at Dr Abdul Kalam Island in the Bay of SUVIDHA’ – Oxo-biodegradable Sanitary ‘SevaBhojYojna’: Bengal. Napkin – under the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya ➢ The Ministry of Culture, Government of Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) . India has introduced a new scheme namely ➢ This was the sixth trial of the state-of-the- ➢ The Affordable sanitary napkins at Rs.2. 50 'SevaBhojYojna' with a total outlay of Rs.325. art Agni-5. per pad now available at over 3600 Janaushadhi 00 Crores for Financial Years 2018-19 and ➢ Navigation systems, very high accuracy Ring Kendras functional in 33 States/UTs across India. 2019-20. Laser Gyro based Inertial Navigation This would ensure ‘Swachhta, Swasthya and ➢ The scheme envisages to reimburse the System(RINS) and the most modern and Suvidha’ for the underprivileged Women of Central Government share of Central Goods and accurate Micro Navigation System (MINS) had India. Services Tax (CGST) and Integrated Goods ensured the missile reached the target point ➢ According to the National Family Health and Service Tax (IGST) on purchase of raw within few meters of accuracy. Survey 2015-16, about 58 percent of women items such as ghee, edible oil, aged between 15 to 24 years use locally prepared atta/maida/rava/flour, rice pulses, sugar, MoEFCC, TERI sign MoU to set up a Resource napkins, sanitary napkins and tampons. burra/jiggery etc which go into preparation of Efficiency Cell at the Ministry: food/Prasad/langar/bhandara offered free of cost ➢ MoEFCC and TERI entered a Memorandum Malabar Exercise 2018 to be held in by religious institutions. of Understanding (MoU) to set up a resource Philippine Sea ➢ The objective of the scheme is to lessen the efficiency cell in the Ministry. ➢ India and its two strategic partners, the US financial burden of such Charitable Religious ➢ The main objectives of the Cell are to provide and Japan will hold the Malabar naval Institutions who provide Food/Prasad/Langar a platform to mainstream resource exercise in the coast of Guam in the (Community Kitchen)/Bhandara free of cost efficiency in public policy. Philippine Sea. without any discrimination to ➢ The initiatives were unveiled by Secretary, ➢ It aims to deepen cooperation in the Indo- Public/Devotees. The charitable religious MoEFCC, Shri CK Mishra and Director General, Pacific region where China has been expanding its institutions including temples, gurudwara, TERI, Dr Ajay Mathur, at an event at Vigyan military footprint. mosque, church, dharmik ashram, dargah, Bhawan in New Delhi. ➢ Indian Naval Ships Sahyadri, Shakti and monasteries, which fulfill the following criteria are ➢ At the event hosted by TERI, the European Kamorta of the eastern fleet would be eligible for the grant. Union and MoEFCC also signed a Joint participating in the 22nd edition of the Malabar Declaration of Intent (JDI) to support the exercise from June 7 to 16 June. The Navy will Home Minister Launched Online Analytical implementation of the EU Resource Efficiency send it to the exercise, in its first overseas tool to monitor Foreign Contributions: Initiative (EU-REI) Project in India, with a deployment. P 8I surveillance and anti- ➢ Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh has specific objective to foster the efficient and submarine warfare aircraft. launched an Online Analytical Tool to facilitate sustainable use of natural resources in India. ➢ It is for the first time the Malabar exercise is closer monitoring of the flow and utilisation being conducted off Guam, a US Territory. of foreign contributions received by various Govt launches 'Krishi Kalyan Abhiyaan' in 25 Malabar 2017 was held in July last year on the organisations registered or permitted under the villages: eastern seaboard of India, off Chennai and Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, ➢ The Ministry of Agriculture and farmers’ Visakhapatnam. 2010. welfare in line with the Prime Minister Narendra ➢ This web-based tool enables decision-makers Modi’s vision of doubling farmers’ income by Ministry of WCD Holds National Consultation in various Departments of Government to 2022 has launched the Krishi Kalyan Abhiyaan on Child Protection: scrutinise source of foreign funds and their from 1st June, 2018. ➢ The Ministry of Women and Child actual use in India. ➢ It will be continued till 31st July 2018 so as to Development organised National ➢ Foreign Contributions worth Rs.18,065 aid, assist and advice farmers on how to improve Consultation on Child Protection in New crores were received by such organisations from their farming techniques and raise their incomes. Delhi. The conference deliberated on the Juvenile foreign donors during financial year 2016-17. ➢ The Krishi Kalyan Abhiyaan will be undertaken Justice (Care and protection of Children) Act, in 25 Villages with more than 1000 population 2015 and Protection of Children from Sexual India Successfully Test Fries Indigenously each in Aspirational Districts identified in Offences Act (POCSO) 2012. Developed Nuclear Capable Agni 5: consultation with Ministry of Rural ➢ The first part of the National Consultation ➢ India has successfully test-fired its Development as per directions of NITI focused on deliberations with regard to JJ Act, indigenously developed nuclear-capable Long Aayog. 2015 and POCSO Act, 2012, Trackchild, Range Ballistic Missile Agni-5, which has a Childline (1098) . strike range of 5,000 km, off the Odisha coast. Chennai | Puducherry | Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore| Tirunelveli | Trivandrum | Ernakulam| Bengaluru | Chandigarh |Legend Magazine | June - 2018| 2 ➢ The Ministry of Women and Child ➢ The scheme is to be implemented over a ➢ It aims to help applicants seeking Development is implementing various laws and period of five years from 2018-19 to 2022-23, information under the Right To Information Act. schemes viz Juvenile Justice (Care and with World Bank assistance. The government has The portal can be accessed on the home page of Protection of Children) Act 2015, the allocated Rs 450 crore for this in the Budget for the commission's website 'eci. nic. in'. Protection of Children from Sexual Offences 2018-19. ➢ There is also a gateway for making online Act 2012 (POCSO) Act and Child Protection ➢ The scheme aims to improve ground water payment of requisite fees under the RTI Act. Services (CPS) . management in priority areas in the country There will be timely notification alerts to RTI through community participation. The priority applicant via SMS and E-Mail. Government Announces Rs 8000 Crore areas identified under the scheme fall in the Package to Sugar Mills: states of Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya QS World University Rankings 2019: ➢ The Union government has announced a Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar ➢ The IIT-Bombay has emerged as the package of more than Rs 8,000 crore aimed to Pradesh. country’s best university in the latest edition provide relief to sugarcane farmers and to of the QS World University Rankings released. clear their dues. Central Govt forms panels for 'Prime ➢ IIT-Bombay moved up 17 places (162 rank) ➢ A buffer stock of 30 LMT (lakh metric tonnes) Ministers of India' Museum Project: this year to displace IIT-Delhi as India’s top of sugar will be created with Rs 1,200 crore. ➢ The Union Culture Ministry has formed ranked institution. The latter has also been ➢ According to statistics from Centre for three high-powered panels towards setting up overtaken by IISc-Bangalore, which gained 20 Monitoring Indian Economy, sugarcane a unique museum on the 'Prime Ministers of positions to 170 rank. production in 2017-18 was the third highest India' in New Delhi. ➢ IIT-Delhi’s performance remained unchanged ever in the country at 35. 5 million tonnes. ➢ The Culture Ministry has been planning to set this time (172 position) . up a modern museum that will tell the story of ➢ Overall, 24 Indian universities are featured in India among Top Five Countries in E-Waste all the prime ministers of the country at the the 2019 edition of the QS Ranking. Generation: Study premises of the iconic Teen Murti Estate in the ➢ Globally, Massachusetts Institute of ➢ According to ASSOCHAM-NEC, India is Chanakyapuri area, which was the official Technology remains the world-leader for the among the top five countries in generating e- residence of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal seventh year in a row. Stanford University, waste. The other countries topping the chart of e- Nehru. Harvard University, Caltech and Oxford University waste generation are China, USA, Japan and ➢ There are three panels that includes Shakti follow, in that order. Germany. Sinha Content Committee, Swapan ➢ In India, Maharashtra contributes Dasgupta Committee and the Project India: 22 percent reduction in Maternal the largest e-waste of 19. 8 per cent. implementation Committee headed by Mortality Ratio ➢ E-waste generated in India is about 2 million Shakti Sinha. ➢ India has registered a significant decline in TPA, the quantity that is recycled is about Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) recording a 438,085 TPA. Baba Kalyani heads the committee to study 22-per cent reduction in such deaths since ➢ E-waste typically includes discarded computer SEZ Policy: 2013, according to the Sample Registration monitors, motherboards, Cathode Ray Tubes ➢ The government has constituted a group System (SRS) . (CRT) , Printed Circuit Board (PCB) , mobile headed by Bharat Forge Chairman Baba ➢ Kerala topped the list with 46 MMR, followed phones and chargers, compact discs, headphones Kalyani to evaluate policy on the country’s by Maharashtra with 61 and Tamil Nadu with etc.
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