current affairs one liners 8th june, 2016

current affairs one liners 08 June, 2016

• India will soon open its Sixth consulate in Seattle to cater to the needs of large number of India-Americans living in the northwestern part of  the U.S.

• Mr. Modi and Mr. Obama announced that the United States and India will be Travel and Tourism partner countries for 2017, and committed to facilitate visas for each others nationals. 

• The Delhi government has approved the  first solar policy which aims at making the capital an environment-friendly solar city.

• Lucknow will host the Junior Men’s hockey World Cup from the 8^th of December this year according to International Hockey Federation.

• India came closer to the first of four nuclear regimes it is trying to gain entry into, with countries belonging to the 34-member Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) raising no objection to India’s membership later this year.  

• Admission to the MTCR would open the way for India to buy high-end missile technology also making more realistic its aspiration to buy state-of-the-art surveillance drones such as the US President.

• The Hindu’s former Delhi Chief of Bureau and Veteran Journalist K.K Katyal passed away in a Delhi hospital on Wednesday after a brief illness. Mr. Katyla was 88.

• The Forbes' 100 most powerful women in the World list 2016, topped by German chancellor Angela Merkel. Also four Indian women, including SBI Managing Director Arundhati Bhattacharya and ICICI Bank Managing Director Chanda Kochhar are in the new list of Forbes’ world’s 100 most powerful women who are building billion dollar brands.

• TI Cycles of India, a part of the Murugappa Group, has set up Green field project in Punjab on Wednesday. The state-of-the-art bicycle manufacturing factory has come up at Rajpura with a total investment of Rs 105 crore.

• In its Global Economic Prospects Report released, the Washington-based institution expected the World Economy to Grow 2.4 per cent in 2016, 0.5 percentage point lower than the bank’s forecast in January.

• Russian female weightlifters Marina Shainova and Nazezhda Eustyukhina, who are the 2008 Olympics silver and bronze medalists respectively, tested positive for doping substances.

• With India trying to boost in relations with African countries, President Pranab Mukherjee will embark on a six-day visit to Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and Namibia from June 12.

• This will be first ever visit of the President to Cote d’Ivoire after both countries established diplomatic relations, while it will be the first at the highest level in over two decades to Namibia.

• Independent MLA Sheikh Abdul Rasheed was today Marshalled after he disrupted the proceedings in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly demanding a statement from the government over the arrest of Syed Shabir Ahmad Shah, a Muslim leader in Jammu.

• Mining giant NMDC and Manganese Miner MOIC have announced share buyback programmes worth close to Rs 8,400 crore, a major portion of which will go to the government, which owns 80 percent in both the PSU’s.

• As many as 225 showrooms will be inaugurated in the Tex valley, a textile mall started under the comprehensive Power Loom Cluster Development scheme of the Union Ministry of Textiles near here on June 9.

• Adani Enterprises is in the process of setting up a copper smelter project with a capacity of one million tonnes per annum at an investment of 10,000 crore at Adani Port Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) in Gujarat.

• Amazon will invest an additional $ 3 billion in its India operations to take in investment in the country to over $ 5 billion, the American e-commerce giant’s founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said.

• The Bermuda Cricket Board (BCB) has banned all-rounder Kavon Fubler from cricket for seven years for smashing the stumps and abusing an umpire after being given out leg before wicket (Lbw) during a Premier Division game.

EXTRA KNOWLEDGE 

UNO (UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION) 

• The charter of the UN was signed at San Francisco on June 26, 1945
• The name United Nations was given: US President Roosevelt. 
• UNO formally established on Oct 24, 1945.
• First regular session was held in London in Jan, 1946 & Trygve Le (Norway) was elected the first Secretary General. 
• Headquarters located at First Avenue, UN Plaza, New York City, New York, US. It is 17 acre tract of land donated by John D. Rockfeller. The building is 39 storeys. 
• The official languages of the UN are English, French, Chinese, Russian, Arabia & Spanish, while the working languages are English and French only.
• New members are admitted to the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council. 
• The present membership of UN is 193

GENERAL ASSEMBLY 

The General Assembly meets in regular session beginning in September each year.

SECURITY COUNCIL

5 members are permanent and the remaining 10 members are non-permanent.

INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE 

The Headquarters of the International Court of Justice is: Hague (Netherlands)

The court consists of 15 judges.

The judges of the court are elected by the General Assembly along with the security council for a nine year term. 

SECRETARIAT 

Secretary-General of the U.N is elected for five years and eligible for re-election. 

SOME IMPORTANT U.N. AGENCIES

Name of Agency                Estd. in             Headquarters 

International Labour               1919               Geneva

Organisation (ILO)                 1948                Geneva

International Atomic               1957                Vienna

Energy Agency (IAEA)   

International Civil Aviation      1947                Montreal

Organisation (ICAO)

International Monetary Fund  1945                Washington D.C.

(IMF)

Universal Postal Union            1947               Borne       

(UPU)

United Nations Environmental 1972               Nairobi

Programme (UNEP)

Food and Agricultural             1945               Rome

Organisation (FAO)

World Meteorological              1950              Geneva

Organisation (WMO)

International                            1947              Geneva

Tele-communication 

Union (ITU)

 

Today’s Word

Pro-pen-si-ty (noun)

: a strong natural tendency to do something 

Pro-pen-si-ties (plural)

Examples:

• The criminal propensities of the family extended over several generations.
• a neighbor who has an unfortunate propensity for snooping

synonyms: aptness, proneness, tendency, way