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Current Affairs Monthly Capsule and Quiz June 2018 Current Affairs Monthly Capsule and Quiz June 2018 1 WiFiStudy World Oceans Day is held every year on 8th June to raise awareness of the vital importance of our oceans and the role they play in sustaining a healthy planet. IN Ships arrive Guam to participate in Ex- The conservation action theme for World Malabar 2018 Oceans Day 2018 is “Preventing Plastic Indian Naval Ships Sahyadri, Shakti and Kamorta of Pollution and Encouraging Solutions for a the Eastern Fleet arrived at Guam on 07 June to Healthy Ocean”. participate in the 22nd edition of Exercise Malabar, off Guam, USA from 07 to 16 June 2018. QS World University Rankings 2019: IIT Exercise Malabar, which started as a bilateral exercise between the US Navy and the Indian Bombay, IISc move up Three Indian universities feature in the top 200 Navy in 1992, has evolved over the years universities of the QS World University with the participation of the Japanese rankings 2019. Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) from These includes-Indian Insitiute of 2007. Technology (IIT), Bombay, Indian Institute Malabar 17 was held in July last year on the of Science (IISc), Bangalore and IIT Delhi. Eastern Sea Board of India, off Chennai and IIT-Bombay is now the top institute in the Visakhapatnam. country at 162 rising 17 positions from 2018, It is for the first time that the exercise is IIT-Delhi retained its 2018 position with a being conducted off Guam, a major US rank of 172 while the Indian Institute of Naval Base in the Western Pacific. Science has overtaken IIT-Delhi and is It would be of interest to note that the US has ranked 170. recently named their Hawaii-based Pacific The list has been topped by Massachusetts Command as the U.S. Indo-Pacific Institute of Technology for the seventh year Command. in a row. India ranks 137th on Global Peace Index 2018 According to a report by an Australian think tank, G7 summit 2018 held in Canada The 44th G7 summit was held on June 8–9, 2018, in India has moved up four places to the 137th rank La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada.This was the sixth time among 163 countries on the 2018 Global Peace since 1981 that Canada has hosted the meetings. Index. The summit received significant attention due to a Iceland remains the most peaceful country in significant decline of relations of members with the the world, a position it has held since 2008. United States. New Zealand, Austria, Portugal and Due to this, the summit was dubbed the "G6+1" by Denmark also sit in the top five most France and some members of the media. peaceful rankings. Points to Remember Syria remains the least peaceful country in Earlier it was known as G8, but in March the world, a position it has held for the past 2014, the G7 declared that a meaningful five years. discussion was currently not possible with Russia in the context of the G8. Since then, World Oceans Day: 8 June 2 WiFiStudy meetings have continued within the G7 Indians form 2nd largest group of international process. students in US The G7 is a group consisting of Canada, With 1,86,000 Indian students currently studying in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United the United States, India is the second highest sender Kingdom, and the United States. of foreign students to the US, next only to China. US consul general in Kolkata, Craig Hall, 58 Indian companies in 2018 Forbes 'Global said that the United States is the top 2000' list destination for foreign students worldwide Fifty-eight Indian companies featured on the 2018 and the number of Indian students in the US Forbes ‘Global 2000’ list of the world’s largest has more than doubled in the last 10 years. public sector companies, the same number as last year. International ICT conference to be held in Nepal The Mukesh Ambani-led oil-to-telecom The Computer Association Nepal (CAN) is conglomerate, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), organizing an international-level 'Information and rank at 83, retaining its top spot as the most Communication Technology (ICT) Conference- valued Indian company on the list. 2018' in Kathmandu on June 17-18. HDFC Bank, the country’s largest financier, The objective of the conference is to took the second spot among Indian exchange information on the improved companies, ranking at 202. practices of information technology. Overall, Industrial & Commercial Bank of Various international experts will attend and China is ranked 1 for the sixth consecutive present their working papers on the occasion. year. Experts from China, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea 11th World Hindi Conference to be Held and UNDP are participating in the two-day in Mauritius conference. The 11th World Hindi Conference World Day Against Child Labour: 12 June (WHC) is being The World Day Against Child Labour, which is held organized from every year on June 12, is intended to foster the 18-20 August worldwide movement against child labour in any of 2018 in Mauritius its forms. by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of The International Labour Organization India in association with the Government of (ILO), the United Nations body that Mauritius. regulates the world of work, launched the The main theme of the Conference is “Hindi World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 in Vishwa Aur Bharatiy Sanskriti”. order to bring attention and join efforts to The first World Hindi Conference was held fight against child labour. in 1975 in Nagpur, India. Since then, ten such Conferences have been held in different World Blood Donor Day parts of the world. Every year on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day (WBDD). 3 WiFiStudy The event, established in 2004, serves to The 15th of June every year marks the United raise awareness of the need for safe blood Nations internationally recognised day – World and blood products, and to thank blood Elder Abuse Awareness Day. donors for their voluntary, life-saving gifts The day came about as a result of UN of blood. resolution 66/127. The theme for Blood Donation Day in 2018 The day aims to focus global attention on the is 'Be there for someone else. Give blood. problem of physical, emotional, and Share life.’ financial abuse of elders. The theme for 2018 World Elder Abuse Mukesh Ambani tops Forbes' 2017 list of India's Awareness Day is “Moving from Awareness 100 richest tycoons to Action through a Human Rights based Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) chairman Mukesh approach”. Ambani has topped Forbes annual list of Indias 100 richest tycoons of 2017, With a net worth of $38 World Day to Combat Desertification and billion, which is equal to the entire GDP of the Drought: June 17 former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. The World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD) The richest newcomer in the list is Wadia is being celebrated worldwide on 17th June. Group of companies Chairman Nusli Wadia World Day to Combat Desertification and (No. 25, $5.6 billion). Drought is observed every year to promote At $19 billion, the net worth of Wipro's public awareness of international efforts to Azim Premji - who jumped two places up combat desertification. over last year to become the second richest Theme of WDCD 2018 is “Land has true Indian on the list - is almost equal to value – invest in “. Afghanistan's GDP. NSG plenary meeting held in Jurmala, Latvia Record-Breaking Astronaut Peggy Whitson The 28th Plenary Meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Retires from NASA Group (NSG) was held in Jurmala, Latvia On Astronaut Peggy Whitson, who 14th and 15th June 2018. has spent more time in space The NSG plenary meeting than any other American, was chaired by Ambassador Jānis Zlamets retired from NASA on June 15. of Latvia. Iowa native Whitson, The NSG reviewed the developments since 58, earned a doctorate the last meeting in Bern in 2017. in biochemistry from Rice University in 1985. International Decade for Action: Water for She went to work at NASA's Johnson Space Sustainable Development 2018-2028 Center in Houston a year later, as a National Union Minister for Water Resources, River Research Council Resident Research Development & Ganga Rejuvenation and Road Associate. Transport & Highways and Shipping Shri Nitin Gadkari is scheduled to visit Republic of Tajikistan World Elder Abuse Awareness Day: 15 June to represent India in the high-level Conference on 4 WiFiStudy “International Decade for Action: Water for outside in their neighborhoods or in public Sustainable Development, 2018-2028” on 20-21 spaces and parks. June 2018. The first all-day musical celebration was United Nations and Government of Republic originated by the France. of Tajikistan are jointly organizing the International Day of Yoga: 21 June Conference to discuss key water related International Day of issues of sustainable development goals Yoga, or commonly adopted by UN member countries. and unofficially Tajikistan is a strategic partner country in our referred to as Yoga extended neighbourhood. Day, is celebrated The country has a leading role in pioneering annually on 21 June global water related issues. since its inception in 2015. An international day for yoga was declared India-Greece business forum meeting unanimously by the United Nations General On the occasion of the official visit of the President Assembly (UNGA). of the Republic of India to Athens, from June 18 – Yoga is a physical, mental and spiritual 19, 2018, a Business Forum the “Greece-India practice originated in India. Business Forum” was organized on Tuesday the The theme for Yoga Day 2018 is "Yoga for 19th of June, in Athens.
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