One-liners current affairs 01-06-2016
- To declare undisclosed incomes, the income declaration scheme has been launched by the Government, which seeks to provide an opportunity to all persons who have not declared their income correctly in previous years to come forward and declare undisclosed income will open today and will remain in force till 30th of September 2016.
Extra Knowledge:
- The prime minister has approved the proposal of the ministry of Health and Family welfare for enhancing the age of superannuation of all doctors of the Central Health Service to 65 years with effect from 31st May 2016.
Extra Knowledge:
The minister of Health and Family
welfare is Shri. Jagat Prakash Nadda
- Asia’s largest technology trade show COMPUTEX has kicked off in Taipei, Taiwan on 31st of May 2016.
- The trade show has been organized by TAITRA (Taiwan External Trade Development) and TCA (Taipei Computer Association). The trade show has 4 main themes of COMPUTEX: IOT applications, innovations and startups, business solutions and gaming.
- The world’s longest and deepest rail tunnel, running under the Switzerland and Alps, has inaugurated in Switzerland. The 57-kilometer long gotthard base Tunnel has connected Northern and Southern Europe and shorten travel time for many rail routes.
Extra Knowledge:
Till now, the Japan’s Seikan tunnel was the longest rail tunnel in the world.
India’s longest railway tunnel is
Pir Panjal which is 11km long
India longest railway bridge is Vembanand
(4.62 km) length
- China has launched three satellites namely Ziyuan III or satellite and two NewSat Satellites from the Taiyuan satellite launch centre in Northern Shanxi Province.
- A 9.2 million US dollar grant agreement under the World Bank Global Environment Facility (GEF) programme for the efficient and sustainable city Bus Service project has been signed between the Government of India and the World Bank.
Extra Knowledge:
That became of member of World
Bank in Dec 27, 1945
- India and Morocco conclude five MOU’s to enhance cooperation in various fields including covering fields as diverse as water resources management television broadcasting, institutional co-operation and cultural and educational exchanges, further providing venues for enhanced cooperation.
Extra Knowledge:
PM of Morocco: Abdelilah
Benkirane
Capital of Morocco: Rabat
Currency of Morocco: Moroccana
Dirham
- Today Admiral Sunil Lamba takes over as Chief of Naval Staff he has succeeded Admiral RK Dhowan.
Extra Knowledge:
Recently Indian navy took part in
Malabar Naval Exercises
- BS Bassi has been appointed as UPSC member by the President Pranab Mukherjee
Extra Knowledge:
All the members of UPSC are
appointed by President of India
Present Chairman of UPSC is Deepak
Gupta
- Comedian Razzak Khan passes away
- Sir Lanka’s pace man Nuwan Kulasekara retires from Test Cricket.
Extra Knowledge:
India played its first Test Match
with England in 1932
The first ever day-night test
cricket between Australia & New Zealand countries.
Today’s Word:
Indolent (adjective)
: not liking to work or be active
in-do-lently-adverb
Example:
- An indolent boy who had to be forced to help out with chores
Synonyms: Idle, Lazy, Shiftless,
Slothful.
Antonyms: industrious
- Today is International Sex Workers Day
Extra Knowledge:
Sex trade is one of the oldest
working trades that exists even today.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate Afghan-India Friendship Dam (also known as Salma Dam) during his visit to this country this Saturday.
Extra Knowledge:
Capital of Afghanistan: Kabul
President of Afghanistan: Ashraf
Ghani
Currency of Afghanistan: Afghan
afghani
- The government today approved the signing of memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of India (DGCA) and the French Civil Aviation Authority-Direction Generale de I’ Aviation Civil (DGAC) of France.
Extra Knowledge:
Paris is situated on the banks of
Seine river
The world famous Eiffel Tower is
in Paris
- Today (2nd June) is the day when Telangana became the 29th State of India after Andhra Pradesh was split into two states.
Extra Knowledge:
Capital of Telangana: Hyderabad
Official Language of Telangana: Telugu
Chief Minister of Telangana: K.
Chandrashekar Rao
- Telanaga government has announced the creation of 15 new districts across the state.
- Now the matrimonial websites to authenticate users with their identity proofs to check the misuse of such platforms the government has it mandatory.
Extra Knowledge:
IT Ministry: Ravi Shankar Prasad
- Against Ballistic Missile proliferation, India has joined the Hague code of conduct (HCOC) by notifying the HCOC central contact in Vienna through diplomatic channels.
Extra Knowledge:
The headquarter of international court
of Justice is The Hague (Netherlands)
- Two-Indian-origin women have been featured on Forbes' annual list of ‘America’ Richest self made women. It consultancy Syntel Co-Founder Neerja Sethi is ranked 16th and computer networking CEO Jayshree Ullal is ranked 30th with a $470 million networth. The list is topped by ABC supply owner Diane Hendricks ($ 4.9 billions)
Extra Knowledge:
The richest person: Bill Gates
- As per list released by ESPN Cristiano Ronaldo is the most famous athlete in the world in the list of 100 most famous athletes.
Extra Knowledge:
Indian Cricketer Virat Kohli is
placed eighth in the list.
Cristiano Ronaldo belongs to Portugal
country
Maximum times which country has
won the FIFA World Cup: Brazil
- Today Novak Djokovic with an earnings of $100 million in prize money, became the first player in tennis history.
Extra Knowledge:
Novak Djokovic is from which
country: Serbian
Today’s Word:
enun-ci-ate
: to make a clear statement of (ideas,
beliefs, etc)
: to pronounce words or parts of
words clearly
enun-cia-ble (adjective)
enunciation (noun)
enunciator (noun)
Examples:
- enunciate your words, and then you won’t have to repeat them so often.
- today the President enunciated a new foreign policy.
- a paper that enunciates the goals of the environmental organization.
Synonyms: Articulate
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