one liners current affairs 21 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 21 June 2016

1. The government announced fresh liberalisation of FDI rules throwing open food retail, airlines and private security firms to higher overseas investment.

Up to 100% FDI in defence sector.

Up to 74% FDI in brownfield pharmaceuticals under automatic route.

100% FDI brownfield airport projects under automatic route.

100% FDI in Civil aviation 

FDI up to 49% in Civil aviation under automatic route, beyond 49% through govt. approval.

100% FDI under autoamtic route for cable networks, DTH and Mobile TV.

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What is FDI: Foreign Direct Investment

2. Government of India has given its final approval for setting job of greenfield electronic park within the Infovally complex, a dedicated IT hub, on the outskirt of Bhubaneswar in Odisha.  

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CM of Odisha: Naveen Patnaik

Governor of Odisha: S.C Jamir

Odisa famous dance: Odissi dance

3. A unique initiative 'Maitree Ek Gyan Yatra' to link primary schools to high schools to colleges has been launched by the Assam Government. The purpose of the programme is to change the mindset of the teachers, as in some places in states teachers of a school considered it below their dignity to teach the lower level students.

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CM of Assam: Tarun Gogoi

Capital of Assam: Dispur

4. On the recommendation of FSSAI, the Union government has banned the use of cancer-causing chemical Potassium Bromate as food additive.       

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FSSAI stands for: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India

Chairman of FSSAI: Ashish Bahuguna

Headquarter of FSSAI: New Delhi

5. Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram and Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan have launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana to provide free to cost LPG Cooking Gas connections to women from BPL households in Sambalpur, Odisha. 

6. US Scientists team has created the world's first Microchip that has 1,000 processors and is thought to be the fastest chip designed in a University lab. It is named as the "KiloCore" chip and has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transisters .

7. Hindustan Aeronautics limited (HAL) has unveiled indigenous Basic Trainer Aircraft HTT-40 in Bengaluru 

8. Virginia Raggi, a leading member of the populist anti-corruption Five Star movement was elected as Rome's First Female Mayor.

9. As per a study of UK-based organisation Global Witness; 2015 was the deadliest year for the environmental activists with at least 185 being killed.

10. India and Thailand have signed two agreements in culture and educational sectors to boost bilateral ties.   

MOU between India's Nagaland University and Thailand's Chiang Mai University.
Agreement for to extension of the Cultural Exchange Programme (CEP) between both countries for 2016-19.  

11. Mr. Jogi, Former Chhattisgarh CM; who recently quit congress formed his new political party as 'Chhattisgarh Janta Congress'. 

12. A Committee headed by Chief Secretary Pu Lalmalsawma has been constituted by the Mizoram government to examine boundaries of the existing districts and sub-divisions in the state and give suggestions for the creation of new districts. 

13. The Income Tax Department has announced that it will block the PAN of wilful tax defaulters in a big to check their activities.

14. Nikesh Arora has resigned from the post of President and COO of SoftBank.

15. In a recently released report, Apple has topped as 'Top Attractors' list of the most sought-after companies by professionals across the world. 

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CEO of Apple: Tim Cook

16. Swedish National Football team captain Zlatan Ibrahimovic announced that he will retire from International Football after the Euro 2016.

Today's Word:
Per-pet-u-ate
: to cause (something that should be stopped, such as a mistaken idea, or a bad situation) to continue
: banay rakhna, sthayee banana 

Per-pet-u-a-tion (noun)
Per-pet-u-a-tor (n)

Example:
: we hope to perpetuate this holiday tradition 

Synonyms: 

eternalize, immortalize