one-liners current affairs (30 May, 2016)

           (30 MAY, 2016)

• Indian Railways has conducted the first ever trail run for high-speed Talgo trains of spain on the Bareilly-Moradabad stretch in Uttar Pradesh with speeds averaging 80-115 kmph.

Extra Knowledge:            

World’s first bullet train run in India by (2023)

UP is the largest state in terms of population.

Governor of UP: Shri Ram Naik

• Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar inaugurated the second submarine assembly workshop of the Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL)
• INS Kalvari, the first submarine of this class is expected to join the Indian Navy by end of 2016.

Extra Knowledge:            

Manohar Parrikar’s constituency is Panaji Constituency in the Goa Legislative Assembly  

India’s first aircraft carrier was INS Vikrant (IAC-I)

• With aims to improving the security of data transmission scientist at the Chinese Academy of sciences, China will launch the world’s quantum communication satellite in July.

Extra Knowledge:            

China’s President: Xi Jinping 

Currency of China: Renminbi  

Longest river of China: Yangtze River

• Actor R Madhavan, has become the goodwill ambassador of LEPRA India Organization that fight against disease like leprosy and tuberculosis.

Extra Knowledge:            

LEPRA India is a non-government organisation working in the fields of leprosy, tuberculosis, malaria, HIV or AIDS and community health. It is also known as the Lepra Society.

AIDS stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome

Smallest bacteria: Mycoplasma Gallicepticum

• Suresh Charwal, a veteran film and television actor, has passed away in Mumbai.
• Sunrisers Hyderabad has defeated Royal Challengers (RCB) by 8 runs to clinch the IPL title for the first time at the Chinnaswamy Stadium Bangalore.

Extra Knowledge:            

IPL AWARDS:

Best Batsman Award (Orange Cap) – Virat Kohli 1973 runs with 4 centuries

Best Bowler Award (Purple Cap) – Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Total 23 wickets)

• Lewis Hamilton wins Monaco F1 Grand Prix

Extra Knowledge:            

First F1 race was held in Silverstone, United Kingdom in 1950

• Goa is celebrating its 29^th statehood day today. 

Extra Knowledge:            

In 1987 Goa became the 25^th state of India.

CM of Goa: Laxmikant Parsekar 

Capital of Goa: Panaji

Governor of Goa: Mridula Sinha

• India celebrate Hindi Journalism Day

Extra Knowledge:            

In how many states Hindi is the official language: Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

Udant Martand was the first Hindi Newspaper of India.

• The working hours of college professors has been reduced to 14 hours a week from 16 hours a week, as per University Grants Commission.

Extra Knowledge:            

The first women University was established by 20 June, 1916 at Pune in India

• Royalty paid by companies on thermal coal purchases to the coal-bearing states has been reduced by three percentage points to 11%, an inter-ministerial committee recommended.

• Dialysis centres will be started in every district of the country to provide treatment to Kidney patients, Government has decided.

Extra Knowledge:            

The technique of Dialysis was invented by Willem Kolff's 

• India television serial ‘Balika Vadhu’ has been named in Limca Books of Records as the ‘longest Running Daily Soap’ in Hindi with over 2,000 episodes.This serial was based on Child Marriage and is a big hit.

• Alastair Cook became the youngest Cricketer and the first Englishman to score 10,000 test runs.

Extra Knowledge:            

The first test match cricket was played between England and Australia in 1877 

• David Weir, a British wheelchair races, today became the first wheelchair races to complete a mile-long race in under three minutes.

Extra Knowledge:            

First Olympic Games were played in Olympia in the Greek city-state of Elis in 776 B.C 

Who won most of no. of Gold Medals in an Olympic: Swimmer Michael Phelps (18 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze) 

Winter Olympic games was introduced in _____

• Manavaditya Singh Rathore, son of Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, clinched the Gold Medal in the Men’s Junior Trap event of the International Junior shotgun cup in Finland.

Extra Knowledge:            

In 2004 Athens, Olympics Rajyvardhan Singh Rathore won Silver Medal.

Capital of Finland: Helsinki 

Currency of Finland: Euro 

PM of Finland: Juha Sipila

• Discus thrower Seema Punia qualifies for Rio with a 62.62 m effort at the Pat Young’s throwers classic 2016 at Salinas (California) in the United States.

Today Word

Per-il-ous (adjective)

/ˈpɛrɪləs/

: Full of danger

Synonyms: dangerous, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, parlous, unsafe

Antonyms: Harmless, innocent, innocuous, safe

Examples:

The perilous impact this has a citizens health.

Source: The Times of India

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