Current Affairs 9th June 2019
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NATIONAL
1. India elected to the Executive Board of first UN-Habitat Assembly. India has been elected to the Executive Board of the first UN-Habitat Assembly, announced by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. India has been elected to the Executive Board of the first UN-Habitat Assembly at the Plenary Session of the Assembly being held in Nairobi.
2. Madhya Pradesh to tentatively have new UNESCO heritage site. Orchha town in Madhya Pradesh has a plethora of historical sites with the Bundela dynasty architectural style. The Archaelogical Survey of India has included that heritage town of Orchha in a tentative list of UNESCO world heritage sites. It was included in the proposal sent by the ASI to the UN body in April 2019.
3. VD Savarkar’s birth anniversary being celebrated. Swatanryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s birth anniversary is being celebrated on 28th May. Born on 28th May in 1883 near Nasik in Maharashtra, Savarkar was popularly called Veer Savarkar.
4. India’s first all-women medium-lift chopper crew flies the battle mission. Two women IAF officers from Punjab were part of the country’s first all-women crew to fly a medium-lift helicopter Mi-17 V5.
5. Govt sets up tribunal for adjudicating ban on LTTE. -The government has constituted the Unlawful Activites Tribunal to adjudicate whether or not there is sufficient cause for declaring the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is comprised of sitting Judge of Delhi High Court Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal.
6. New version of Akash missile test-fired successfully. The DRDO successfully test-fired the new version of the Akash surface-to-air defence missile system with a new indigenously-developed seeker in Balasore off the Odisha coast.
INTERNATIONAL
1. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz ousted in the no-confidence vote. Austrian Parliament hs removed Chancellor Sebastian Kurz from office as he lost the no confidence in a special Parliamentary session. His previous coalition ally, the far-right freedom Party and the opposition Social Democrats backed the no-confidence motions.
BANKING
1. Indian Overseas Bank launches ‘Bank on Wheels’ facility. Indian Overseas Bank has announced that it hsaa launched ‘Bank on Wheels’ facility in 14 of its lead districts in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, besides Vijayawada. The mobile van facility will enable the public, especially senior citizens, conveniently get door-step banking facility available at identified locations of the lead districts.
APPOINTMENTS
1. Maldives Ex-Leader Mahomed Nasheed Tipped As New Speaker. The former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has been nominated as the country’s parliamentary speaker. Nasheed was unanimously chosen to head the People’s Majlis, or the parliament, by his Maldivian Democratic Party which won a near three-quarter majority in the 87-member assembly in April.
2. Indian Army officer appointed the commander of UN Mission in South Sudan. UN Secretary, General Antonio Guterras, has appointed Indian Army officer, Lieutenant General Shailesh Tinaikar, as the new Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan.
