ONE-LINERS CURRENT AFFAIRS 31 MAY, 2016

           (31 MAY, 2016)

• Today is World No Tobacco Day

Extra Knowledge:            

• The Tobacco cultivation in India was introduced by Portuguese in the 17^th Century.

• The threshold limit of PF withdrawal for deduction of tax (TDS) from existing Rs 30,000 to Rs 50,000. So there will be no deduction for PF withdrawals of up to Rs 50,000. The provision will come into effect from June 2, 2016.

• The PEC University of Technology of Chandigarh and Union Ministry of Railways have signed an MOU for setting up of Kalpana Chawla chair on Geospatial Technology for Indian Railways at the University.

Extra Knowledge:            

• Kalpana Chawla, was the first woman of India origin in space.

• During the Homeland Security Dialogue which is going to be held in Washington, in July. India and US are all set to sign two key agreements.

Extra Knowledge:            

• Charles Johnson is the Secretary of Homeland Security.

• The smallest state of USA is Rhode Island

• The  first President of USA was George Washington

• Who was the President of USA when UNO was established? Franklin D. Rossevelt  

• The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has signed an agreement with the Government of India to provide a loan of Rs 1,548 crore to improve the quality of Urban healthcare services in Tamil Nadu.

Extra Knowledge:            

• Which city of Japan is called Manchester of Japan: Osaka

• The most expensive city of the world is Singapore

• Currency of Japan Japanese Yen

• Public Sector Company NBCC (India) is going to Ganga cleaning project in Bihar. It will carry out projects across  19 towns in Bihar. The estimated cost of the project to company is about Rs 600 crore.

Extra Knowledge:            

• The longest tributary of Ganga is Yamuna

• Origin place of Ganga is Gangotri

• In Bangladesh Ganga is known as Padma

• The Ganga meets the Yamuna at Allahabad

• ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has signed a pact with the trading arm of Azerbaijan’s state energy company SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic) to foray into oil trading.

Extra Knowledge:            

• ONGC was established on August 14, 1956

• Reliance Industries has sold its stake in African fuel retailer Gulf Africa petroleum corporation (GAPCO) to total S.A of  France for an undisclosed sum. 

Extra Knowledge:            

• Largest country of Africa: South Sudan

• President of South Sudan: Salvakiir Mayardit

• Currency of South Sudan: South Sudanese Pound

• Longest river of Africa: Nile River (4,160 miles)

• Highest mountain of Africa: Mount Kilimanjaro

• Largest desert of Africa: Sahara Desert

• Snapdeal has established a data sciences centre in San Carlos, California. The centre is headed by Nitin Sharma, Senior Vice President Data Services.

Extra Knowledge:            

• Founder of Snapdeal Rohit Bansal, Kunal Bahl

• CEO of Snapdeal Kunal Bahl

• Suragit Kar Purkayastha Appointed Director General of West Bengal Police.

Extra Knowledge:            

• Bengali is the second largest spoken language in India after India

• West Bengali CM: Mamta Banerjee

• The Hooghly river flows through Kolkata (Calcutta) & Howrah city.

• The 1980 batch IAS Officer; Ashok Lavasa, was recently appointed as the Secretary, Expenditure in the Finance Ministry.

• Watal was appointed as Principal Advisor in NITI Aayog.

• D Javare Gowda, a Noted Kannada writer passed away. He was popularly known as ‘Deja Gow’ in literary circles.

• Former Lok Sabha MP Rudra Madhab passed away.

Extra Knowledge:            

• Speaker of Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan

• Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha M Thambidurai

• Total strength of Lok Sabha is  545

• Total strength of Rajya Sabha is 245

• AR Rahman was conferred with Japan’s Fukuoka Prize 2016.

• Virat Kohli named T20 player of year in Ceat Award event.

• Former India Captain Dilip Vengasarkar was conferred with the Life Time Achievement Award.

• Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer were awarded ‘The Young player of the year Award’ and ‘Domestic Cricketer of the year’ respectively.

• Joe Root, was named as the Ceat International Cricketer of the year as well as International Batsman of the year award.

• R Ashwin was named international Bowler of the Year.

• Rohit Sharma, was named Indian cricketer of the year.

• New Zealand duo of Kane Williamson and Martin Guptil also awarded as the ‘Test Cricketer of the Year’ and ‘ODI Cricketer of the year’ respectively.

• Alastair Cook (from England) became the youngest batsman to cross 10,000 runs mark Sachin had that record before

Today’s Word

Bur-geon

: to grow or  develop quickly

Example:

The trout population in the stream is burgeoning now that the water is clean.

Synonyms: accelerate, accumulate, appreciate, increase, build up, climb, enlarge, mount, proliferate, roll up, spread, swell, wax

Antonyms: Contract, decrease, diminish, dwindle, lessen, recede, wave.

Happy Reading

Sumir Bhat