Current Affairs 18th June 2016

Current Affairs 18th June 2016

National News:

• Karnataka, Goa sign pact to join Uday scheme: Piyush Goyal
• UGC approves new guidelines for Deemed universities
• Garment bank set up in Himachal Pradesh
• India and Namibia call for reform in UN Security Council
• Rajnath approves setting up central marine force
• Railway Ministry launched Liberalised Policies on Parcel Leasing and Parcel Cargo Train Express
• National Civil Aviation Policy 2016 released
• Government imposes 20% duty on export of sugar
• Union Cabinet approves MoU between ISRO and Canadian Space Agency
• India, Namibia sign two MoUs

International News:

• US: Philadelphia introduces soda tax to fight obesity
• India, Bangladesh launch transhipment facility
• North America to have its first sanctuary for dolphins
• Arktika, the most powerful nuclear icebreaker launched by Russia
• First Chinese Disneyland opens in Shanghai

New Appointments:

• Obama nominates Indian-origin as ambassador to Malaysia
• Senior IAS officer Supriya Sahu appointed as Director General of Doordarshan
• Hollywood actor Anne Hathaway appointed as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador

Banking:

• SBI launches Rs.200 Crore fund for fintech startups
• RBI approves common rural bill payment centres

Business and Economy:

• ESIC to provide free health checkup to subscribers
• Blackberry partners HCL for selling software
• Revlon acquires Elizabeth Arden in $870 million deal
• Tata, Uber tie up for solutions to cab drivers

Awards and Honours:

• Italy’s Osteria named world’s best restaurant
• Syed Nayeemuddin, former Indian football team coach, to be conferred with MohunBagan Ratna

Science & Technology:

• India-made trainer plane makes inaugural flight
• Chinese surgeon to transplant human head for first time in the world
• Scientists for the first time grow living bone in lab

Sports:

• India in their 1st Champions Trophy hockey final
• Nine-year-old sets swimming record in US

Obituaries:

• Veteran Odia actress Manimala Devi passes away
• Famous TV actress Ann Morgan Guilbert dies