Current Affairs 1st June 2016

Current Affairs 1st June 2016

National News:

• Betting racked busted by Hyderabad Police
• All gram panchayats to have WiFi by 2018: Govt
• Turning FTII into a Digital Media University proposed
• With 4 new vaccines, govt to revamp immunisation drive
• 15 jawans killed in fire at Army depot in Maharashtra
• Maharashtra central jails get community radio stations
• Assam bans smoking in public transport vehicles
• Maneka Gandhi to release Draft Trafficking of Persons Bill on 31^st May
• India has the world’s largest postal network

International News:

• Taiwan’s Problem Is the Economy, Not China
• Pakistani Singer Salma Agha to Get Overseas Citizen of India Card
• UK is world’s most corrupt country: Mafia expert

New Appointments:

• SurajitKar Purkayastha appointed new DGP in West Bengal
• Ashok Lavasa named the new Finance Secretary
• Sunil Lanba takes over as Chief of Naval Staff

Banking & Business:

• No TDS for PF withdrawals up to Rs.50k from June 1
• FDI inflows rise 29 %
• Sandeep Goyal raises Rs.100 cr for tech startups
• Flipkart starts zero-interest EMI on electronics
• DLF to sell 32 screens to PVR for Rs.433 cr
• BSE plans to sell up to 30% stake within 2016-17
• Snapdeal opens data sciences centre in the US

Awards & Honours:

• Virat Kohli named T20 Player of the year, Ashwin best bowler at Ceat Award event
• AR Rahman conferred Japan’s Fukuoka Grand Prize

Science & Technology:

• International Space Station’s inflatable room successfully installed
• Manohar Parrikar inaugurates submarine assembly workshop in Mazgaon
• NASA successfully deploys space station’s inflatable room

Sports:

• Rajyavardhan’s son wins Gold at shotgun event
• Gurpreet Singh Sandhu becomes first Indian to play in top flight European League game
• Cook youngest player to reach 10,000 Test runs
• Weir sets world record in 1-mile wheelchair race

Obituary:

• Kannada writer JavareGowda popularly known as ‘De Ja Go’ passes away
• BJP Leader and Former MP RudraMadhab Ray Dead