one liners current affairs 13th June 2016

Keeping yourself abreast with the latest happenings is not only important for enhancing our awareness but it also plays a pivotal role in any Competitive Exams, be it IAS, KAS, Bank PO, SSC and any other. It is a scoring subject and one can easily get above 90% in this which can be a game changer. But, to do so it requires incessant serious efforts. Reading regularly is impertinent, but it is such a subject which is time consuming and there are other important subjects as well to deal with.

one liners current affairs 13th June, 2016

Today is International Albinism Awareness day

Theme for year 2016: Celebrate Diversity, Promote Inclusiveness and Protect Rights of people with Albinism. 

Norway has become the first country in the world to prohibit deforestation. 

The step was taken by Norwegian Government based on official recommendations of Norwegian Parliament's standing committee on Energy and Environment as a part of the Action plan on Nuture Diversity.

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PM of Norway: Erna Solberg

Currency of Norway: Norwegian Krone

Capital of Norway: Oslo    

Swavalamban Mission (VNSSM), a Task Force on Farmers, which was headed by Kishore Tiwari (agriculture expert), submitted its report to Maharashtra Government. The task force was appointed to address agrarian issues and has suggested a five point agenda to bring at least 80% of farmers into the institutional credit net.

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CM of Maharashtra: Devendra Fadnavis

Maharashtra has the maximum no of dams in the country

Ajanta and Ellora caves are in Maharashtra 

The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to ban all types of 'private airborne activity' with in one kilometer of any security installation in Jammu for 60 days. The permission would be mandatory for such activities in other areas of the district. 

'Operation clean up' has been launched by the Bihar Education Department under which all the 228 B.Ed and degree colleges even coaching institutes of the state will be probed to ensure the quality of education.

 

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National Parks in Bihar: Valmiki National Park & Wildlife Sanctuary

CM of Bihar: NItish Kumar

Governor of Bihar: Shri Ram Nath Kovind

'Kosi' is knows as the "sorrow of Bihar".

Microsoft has signed a deal acquire the social network Linkedin for $26.2 billion in cash.

President Pranab Mukherjee became the first Indian President to visit Ghana. The President is on a 3-Nation tour to Africa. 

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Capital of Ghana: Accra Ghanaian

Currency of Ghana: Ghanaian cedi

After Bilateral talks between President Pranab Mukherjee and his Ghana counter part John Mahama Ghana and India signed 3 agreements. 

1st Agreement: Exemptions on visa requirements for holders of diplomatic passports.

2nd Agreement: MOU between India and Ghana on the establishment of a Joint Commission.

3rd Agreement: Cooperation between both countries foreign ministries.   

2016 International Dublin Literary Award was conferred on Indian American author Akhil Sharma for his semi-autobiographical Novel 'Family life'.   

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has notified the increase in the limits of foreign portfolios investors in Yes Bank from 60% to 74% under the portfolio investment scheme.  

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First Governor of RBI: Sir Osborne Smith

RBI was nationalised on: 1st January, 1949

CEO of Yes Bank: Rana Kapoor

Tagline of Yes Bank: Experience our Expertise

Headquarter of Yes Bank: Maharashtra 

China has successfully launched a 23rd BeiDou Navigation satellite to support its global navigation and positioning network.   

Achyut Lahkar (85), known as the father of the Bhramyaman or mobile Theater of Assam passed away.

The Indian 4 x 400m relay team set a new national record clocking 3:02.17 secs, at the international sprint and Relay Teams cup in Erzurum, Turkey. 

Previous record was 3.02.62 secs.

Saina Nehwal will be given 10 lakh by the Badminton Association of India (BAI) for winning the Australian open super series in Sunday. 

Australian Super Series 2016 Winners are:

Hans-Kristian (Men's Single)

Saina Nehwal (Women's Singe)

Markus Fernaldi Gideon (Indonesia) and Kevin Sanjaya (Indonesia) - Men's Double 

Bao Yixin (China) and Chen KingChen (China): Women's Doubles 

Mixed (Doubles)- Lu Kai (Chaina) and Huang Yaqiong (China) 

Today's Word

con-de-scen-sion (noun)

: the attitude or behaviour of people who believe they are more intelligent or better than other people.

Example: 

my younger brother sometimes ignores me and sometimes his condescension attitude irritates me.

Synonyms: 

Arrogant, Ego, Proud

Antonyms: 

Modest, Humble, Polite