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1. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is the new

President of Kazakhstan (Capital: Nursultan,
Currency: Tenge).

2. Thawarchand Gehlot, Union Minister of

Social Justice and Empowerment was recently
appointed as Leader of Rajya Sabha (Council
of States).

3. Tapan Ray has been appointed as the Managing Director (MD) of

India’s first international financial services center-Gujarat International
Finance Tec-City (Gift City).

4. Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Krishnamurthy Subramanian and the

former MD-CEO of IDBI Bank B Sriram were recently appointed as
part-time members of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI).

1. RBI has constituted a high-level committee

under the chairmanship of VG Kannan,
Chief Executive of Indian Banks’ Association to
examine the issue of ATM charges.

2. According to a new report “Benchmarking

India’s Payment Systems”, released by RBI
the share of e-Money in India’s payment
systems has raised to 21.5 percent in 2017 from 0.8 percent in
2012.

3. Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) (Headquarter: Mumbai) will

provide Line of Credit (LoC) worth $245 million to Ghana and
Mozambique for agricultural and railway projects. 
1. An MOU was signed between Union
Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) and
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
for data exchange between two regulatory
organizations and to tighten regulatory
oversight.

2. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to India

grew by 6 percent to USD 42 billion in
2018, with strong inflows in the manufacturing, communication and
financial services sectors, and cross-border merger and acquisition
activities, according to a World Investment Report released by
UNCTAD.

The report also ranked India among the top 20 host economies for FDI
inflows in 2017-18.

3. According to American multinational banking firm, Goldman Sachs,

India’s economic growth is estimated to rise to 7.2 percent in 2019-
20.

4. Facebook launched its first interactive Game Show “Confetti”. It

will challenge participants to answer pop culture trivia questions for a
chance to win Rs 3 lakh as cash prize every day. The interactive game is
exclusive to Facebook Watch.

1. The 16-year old climate activist, Greta

Thunberg of Sweden won Amnesty
International’s ‘Ambassador of Conscience’
Award 2019 for mobilizing public opinion about
Global Warming worldwide.

2. Former US president Jimmy Carter won the inaugural George H.

W. Bush Award for Statesmanship in recognition of his contributions to
relations between U.S. and China.

3. The Women Sangams (groups) of Deccan Development Society,

Telangana (DDS) were honored with Equator Prize 2019 by United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for their contribution to
ecology and innovations in rainfed millet cultivation.
4. PM Modi was conferred with Maldives’ highest honour- ‘Order of
the Distinguished Rule of Nishan Izzuddeen’ in Male, Maldives during
his two-day state visit to the island country.

5. Actor Priyanka Chopra will be awarded Danny Kaye Humanitarian

Award by United Nations International Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF).

6. Renowned author Amitav Ghosh was felicitated with 54th Jnanpith

Award for his outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Indian
Literature in English. His latest novel is Gun Island.

7. The automobile Giant Mahindra Group won the Gold Award in

South Africa.

1. G20 Ministerial meeting on Trade and

Digital Economy was recently held in
Tsukuba, Japan.

2. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has

adopted a National Strategy for Wellbeing
2031 to make UAE a world leader in quality of life by undertaking
various strategic objectives and initiatives.

3. Union Finance Minister, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman participated in

G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in
Fukuoka, Japan.

4. Second Global Disability Summit was recently held in Buenos

Aires, Argentina.

5. The Indian Navy recently hosted a Maritime Information Sharing

Workshop 2019 edition under the aegis of the Information Fusion Centre-
Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR) at Gurugram, Haryana.

6. World Oceans Day: June 8

Theme: Gender and the Ocean

7. World Brain Tumor Day: June 8

8. World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL): June 12

Theme: Children should not work in fields but on dreams

9. International Albinism Awareness Day (IAAD): June 13

Theme: Still Standing Strong

10. World Blood Donor Day (WBDD): June 14

Theme: Safe blood for all

1. Recently Kheer Bhawani Mela was

organised at famous Ragnya Devi temple in
Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K).

1. Indian Air Force signed Rs.300 crore

deal with Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense
Systems, to procure a batch of SPICE 2000
guided bombs.

2. India and Portugal will cooperate in

setting up of a national maritime heritage
museum at ancient Indian site of Lothal in
Gujarat.

3. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena gifted Indian Prime

Minister Narendra Modi a Samadhi Buddha statue (Buddha in
meditation posture), during Modi’s visit to Sri Lanka.

4. Chaukhandi Stupa, an ancient Buddhist site located in Sarnath,

Uttar Pradesh (UP) has been declared as ‘protected area of national
importance’ by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).

5. The Centre government has set a target of providing clean drinking

water to all by 2024. It includes increasing coverage of piped water to
households from the current 18% to 100% by 2024.

6. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani inaugurated India’s first Dinosaur

Museum-cum-Park at in Balasinor town of Mahisagar district.

7. Bancha in Betul district of Madhya Pradesh became the first village

in India to have zero wooden stoves.
1. Sri Lanka’s national carrier Sri-Lankan
Airlines has been named the ‘World’s Most
Punctual Airline’ for a second consecutive
time by global flight tracker, ‘Flightstats.

2. India has been ranked at the 141st position among 163 countries
on the annual Global Peace Index released by the Institute for Economics
and Peace (IEP). Iceland (Capital: Reykjavik, Currency: Krona)  remains
as the most peaceful country in the world.

3. As per a UK based NGO ‘Save the children’, India was ranked 113
in the End of Childhood Index tracking the wellbeing of children with a
score of 769 out of 1000.

4. Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries is the top-ranked Indian

company (global rank 71) in the ‘world’s 2,000 largest public
companies’, compiled by Forbes magazine. Total there are 57 Indian
companies in the list, the overall chart has been topped by the Industrial
and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC).

1. Eminent historian, writer Romila Thapar

has been elected as an international
member of American Philosophical Society
(APS).

2. Mount Sinabung volcano erupted in

Sumatra Island of western Indonesia.

3. India has been designated as Guest of

Honour at 33rd Guadalajara International Book Fair to be held in the
month of December in Mexico.

4. The  Indian government has extended the financial aid of 1.6

billion Nepalese rupees to Nepal for the rebuilding of houses in Nuwakot
and Gorkha districts, Nepal.

5. A joint team of German-Russian scientists will recently launch a

space telescope- Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG). It will create a
three-dimensional (3D) X-ray map of the universe and unveil unknown
supermassive black holes, dark energy and stars.
1. International Association of Athletics
Federations (IAAF) (Headquarter: Monaco)
will re-brand itself as World Athletics, the
change would be effective from the month of
October.

2. British Lewis Hamilton who drives for

Mercedes has won the Canadian Grand Prix.

3. Indian billiards player Sourav Kothari won the 2019 Pacific

International Snooker Championship, held in Melbourne, Australia.

4. Rafael Nadal of Spain won the French Open Tennis tournament

(his 12th French open title) defeating Dominic Thiem of Austria in the
men’s singles event. Ashleigh Barty (Australia) won the women’s
singles title defeating Marketa Vondrousova (Czech Republic).

1. The renowned playwright, actor and

Jnanpith awardee Girish Karnad passed
away at the age of 81 in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

2. Renowned Tamil playwright and comedy

actor Mohan Rangachari, popularly known
as ‘Crazy’ Mohan, passed away in Chennai,
Tamil Nadu.

3. Former BJP Rajya Sabha MP and senior journalist Rajnath Singh

'Surya' passed away recently.

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