one liners current affairs 7th June 2016

one liners current affairs 7th June 2016

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday began his three-day US visit by laying a wreath at the Tomb of Unknown soldiers and paying homage to Indian-American Astronaut Late Kalpana Chawla at Airlington National Cemetery here.

EXTRA KNOWLEDGE

Kalpana Chawla was an Indo-American Astronaut and the first woman of Indian origin in space. She first flew on space shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator. 

Prices of 56 important medicines used in treatment of cancer, diabetes, bacterial infections and high blood pressure, may come down as NPPA has fixed ceiling rates with the government fixing their ceiling prices under the drug pricing control mechanism.

In a major political development in Tripura, Six Congress legislators on Tuesday joined the Trinamool congress. 

EXTRA KNOWLEDGE

CM of Tripura: Manik Sarkar 

Capital of Tripura: Agartala

Governor of Tripura: Tathagata Roy

David Gilkey, a veteran news photographer and video editor for National Public Radio, and an Afghan translator, Zabihullah Tamanna were killed while on assignment in Southern Afghanistan.


Reserve Bank of India has announced the second Bi-monthly monetary policy statement for the year 2016-17

  Repo Rate: 6.5%
  Reverse Repo Rate: 6.00%
  CRR: 4%
  LAR: 6%
  MSF: 7%
  Bank Rate:  7%

EXTRA KNOWLEDGE

Repo rate is a rate at which banks borrow from RBI for short periods up to 7 or 14 days but predominantly overnight. 

 

CRR is a cash reserve ratio under CRR a certain percentage of the total bank deposits has to be kept in the current account with RBI which means banks do not have access to that much amount for any economic activity or commercial activity. Banks can't lend the money to corporates or individual borrowers, banks can't use that money for investment purposes. So, that CRR remains in current account and banks don't earn anything on that.  

SLR: Statutory liquidity ratio is the amount of money that is invested in certain specified securities predominantly central government and state government securities: Once again this percentage is of the percentage of the total bank deposits available as per as the particular bank is concerned.

Reverse Repo Rate is the rate at which the central bank of a country (RBI in care of India) borrows money from the commercial banks within the country.

A Bank rate is the interest rate at which a nation's central bank lends money to domestic banks.    

Gangetic River Dolphin has been named as the city animal of Guwahati, with this Guwahati has became the first city in the country to have its own 'city animal'.

EXTRA KNOWLEDGE

Ganga originates from: Gangotri Glacier 

Alakananda and Bhagirathi meet at: Devprayag 

Farakka barrage is the largest barrage on Ganga

Government has launched a compaign 'Swachh Yug' as its efforts to make villages located along Ganga open defection free. 

It is a collaborative effort of three Union Ministries, to bring about behavioral change among people staying in villages along the holy river.

Rajasthan became the first state in the country by launching a mobile app. "Raj Vayu" for sharing information about air quality index of Jaipur, Udaipur and Jodhpur.

The app. has been designed by Rajasthan state pollution control Board jointly with Indian Institute of Tropical meteorology. 

EXTRA KNOWLEDGE

Rajasthan was the first state to implement Panchayti Raj system

Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court: Navin Sinha  

Udaipur is known as India White City as well as City of Lakes.

To improve irrigation and water management infrastructure in Odisha.  The government and Asian Development Bank has signed a $ 120 million loan agreement.    

EXTRA KNOWLEDGE

ADB (Asian Development Bank) Headquarter: Mandaluyong (Manila), Philippines

President: Takehiko Nakao

Founded: December, 1966

Former Adobe Executive Umang Bedi has  been appointed as India MD

EXTRA KNOWLEDGE

Facebook was founded: Feb. 4, 2004

Founder: Mark Zuckerberg

Ashok Ganapathy has been appointed as Director of Airtel Business

Kulmeet Bawa is now the MD for South Asia. He has been appointed by adop.

N Ramachandran, an Indian Olympic Association President, has been awarded with "Olympic Order" by the International Olympic Committee for his outstanding services to the Olympic Movement.

Deshauna Barber has crowned as the Miss USA 2016 at the Miss USA Competition 2016 held at the T-mobile Arena off the Las-Vegas strip.

In fortune 500 list Walmart is at the top.

As per Forbes magazine report Serena Williams has now became the World's highest-paid Sports Woman supassing Maria Sharapova.

For Swachh Sathi programme Dia Mirza a Bollywood actress, will be a ambassador.

Qatar today released 23 Indian prisoners, in a special gesture just after the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.