Weekly G.K Updates from (June 15,2015 - June 21,2015)

Weekly G.K Updates from (June 15,2015 - June 21,2015)

• BSNL Launched its free roaming services across all over India, It will allow to its customer to receive incoming call at no cost while on roaming.

• Union Govt. (MSME) launched a digital Employment Exchange for Industries (EEX) portal "www.eex.dcmsme.gov.in" which will connect employers and job seekers.

• PM Narendra Modi launched book titled " Education of Muslims - by Professor JS Rajput"

• The government  appointed to Nilesh Sathe (CEO of LIC Nomura Mutual Fund Asset Management Company), as the member  of  Life insurance regulator IRDAI.

• Indian Railway changed the name of Train No (19031/19032)-- Ahmedabad-Haridwar-Ahmedabad-- famously known as Haridwar Mail  as "Yoga Express".

• Prolific striker -- Sunil Chhetri  became the first Indian footballer to score 50 international goals during his team's 2018 World Cup qualifying match against Guam.

• Book titled Modi - Incredible emergence of a star in Chinese language written by Tarun Vijay, The book is a biography based on the life and economic vision of Narendra Modi.

• IPS officer Archana Ramasundaram has been moved out of the CBI and appointed as Director of 'National Crime Records Bureau' (NCRB).

• State owned telecommunications giant Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced to set up 40,000 Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) hot spots across the country.

• Union Cabinet approved Solar Power capacity target to 1 lakh MW under JNNSM by 2022.

• The Union Government  decided to increase the number of workdays under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural 

• Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) from 100 days to 150 days in drought-affected areas of the country. 

• Beno Zephine becomes first 100% blind officer in IFS. She was working as P.O for SBI.

• NOWCAST launched, It will be used to send SMS alerts on extreme weather data like thunderstorm and squall originated by India Meteorological Department (IMD) to over one crore farmers whose mobile numbers are registered on government’s mKisan portal.

• India-born former Google executive Nikesh Arora has been appointed the President of Japan’s telecommunications giant Soft Bank Corp.

• June 21 observed as International Yoga Day.

Weekly G.K Updates from (June 8,2015 - June 14,2015)

Weekly G.K updates from (June 8,2015 - June 14,2015)

• R C Tayal appointed as new Director General of National Security Guard (NSG)

• ISRO awarded by US' National Space Socity for its Mangalyan Mars Orbit Mission (MOM).

• ICICI Bank Appoints MK Sharma As Non-Executive Chairman for Five Years.

• Anantjeet Singh Naruka won GOLD in the skeet match  in the 7th International junior shotgun cup that concluded in Finland.

• NCR now got more bigger;  Jind & karnal of Haryana, Muzaffarnagar of U.P added in National Capital Region (NCR).

• Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), has decided to launch its own e-commerce portal in the next three months, proposed name 'e-Lala' will provide a direct interface between sellers and consumers, thereby eliminating the commission which the sellers need to pay.

• Microsoft started re-branding of Nokia Priority Stores as Microsoft Priority Resellers.

• Kapil Mishra suceed Mr. Tomar as new Delhi's Law Minister. Mr. Tomar had down after being arrested over allegations that he had faked his law degree.

• SEBI' in action against illicit fund-raising in a big way, SEBI has cracked down on nearly 200 such activities in last one year relating to fraud against gullible investors.

• Stanford scientist  Manu Prakash,  has now come up with a computer that works by moving water droplets.

• Gopkumar appointed as  CEO of broking, distribution business in Reliance Capital.

• Dr. Srivari Chandrasekhar appointed as Director of CSIR- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT).

• CEO of Twitter Inc. resigned on June 11, 2015. He served the company for Five years.

• June 14, observed across the world as 'World Blood Donor Day' .

• Minister of State for external affairs VK Singh inaugurates first India-China Yoga College at Yunnan Minzu University, China.

Weekly G.K Updates from (June 1,2015 - June 7, 2015)

Weekly G.K Updates from (June 1,2015 - June 7, 2015)

• Dilwar Singh of Haryana won 'Pedal' for Kashmir cycling race.

• Deepika Kumari won bronze in Antalya Archery World Cup.

• Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa sworn-in as Arunachal Pradesh Governor

• Edward Snowden won a Norwegian prize for freedom of expression

• India has jumped six places to 141st position in the latest rankings released by world football’s governing body FIFA

• R.Seshasayee appointed as Non-Executive  Chairman of the Board of Infosys Limited.

• Essel Group formed a 50:50 joint venture (JV) with the Rajasthan government to set up solar parks in the state with Rs. 4K Crore.

• Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and his wife Bhuvaneswari performed bhoomi pooja at around 8.49 a.m. for the new capital — Amaravati — at Mandadam village in Guntur district.

• 'Reliance Power' signed an agreement to invest $ 3 billion in setting up a mega power plant and a floating LNG import terminal in Bangladesh which faces acute power shortages.

• S Christopher, 59, as Secretary, Department of Defense Research and Development-cum-Director General, Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

• BCCI has announced Rahul Dravid as the coach of India A team and Indian U 19 cricket team.

• SpiceJet signed deal with IRCTC to sell tickets to wait listed railway travelers.

• Former Singapore Foreign Minister Mr. G Yeo will be the new Chancellor of the Nalanda University, the Ministry of External Affairs announced, Mr. Yeo was awarded the Padma Bhushan in the year 2012 in recognition of his contribution in the field of “public affairs.”

• Former greats Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, and VVS Laxman on Monday joined the BCCI in a newly-constituted advisory panel to guide the board in all matters related to the game.

Weekly G.K Updates from (May 22, 2015 - May 31, 2015)

Weekly G.K Updates from (May 22, 2015 - May 31, 2015)

• IRCTC's ticketing arm now partnered with "My Dala" to provide deals and offers to customers.

• Indian Air Force IAF's Mirage-2000 successfully test landed on the Yamuna Expressway of U.P

• Finance Ministry sanctioned Rs. 5233 crore fuel subsity to IOC and BPCL to cover the revenue loss that IOC & BPCL suffered on selling LPG on Government rates.

• T R Zeliang succeed N Rio and appointed as the new CM of Nagaland.

• AIADMK general secretary Jaya lalitha was on Saturday sworn in for the fifth time as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu with 28 ministers on May 23, 2015.

• Kathleen Stephens named Interim US Ambassador to India and will serve charge until a new permanent ambassador is nominated and confirmed by US Govt.

• 'Infosys' won 'Ashden Award' for Sustainable buildings at Royal Geographical Society, London.

• 'Greenway Grameen' won 'Ashden  Clean Energy Award' for Women and Girl's.

• Madhv Mantri, a India's wicket-keeper-batsman in 1950, passed away. He was also president of 'Mumbai Cricket Association'.

• Indian Film 'Massan' won critics prize at 68th  Cannes film festival

• India-Singapore bilateral naval exercise "SIMBEX-15" commenced in Singapore.

• Mercedes driver 'Nico Rosberg' of Germany won 'Monaco Grand Prix' of Formula One

• Mandeep Kaur won two gold medals at  Women's World Junior Boxing Championship.

• Manoj Mishra appointed as CMD of National Fertilizers Ltd. (NFL)

• ICICI launched voice password Facility for Phone Banking which authenticates customers based on their voice pattern and allow them to execute banking through the bank's call center in  secure and convenient manner.

• Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chanda Kochhar, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Shobhana Bhartia have been named in Forbes Magzine's of 12th annual list of World's 100 most powerful women.

• AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa was on Saturday sworn in for the fifth time as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu with 28 ministers.

• Nirbhay Sharma Sworn-in as Governor of 'Mizoram'.

• Abhinav Bindra qualified for Rio Olympics 2016 through one of the Olympic quotas.

• Mumbai Indians crowned IPL 2015 champions after thrashing Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at Eden Gardens.

• Power Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha was appointed as the next Cabinet Secretary of the government. He will succeed Ajit Seth who has been holding the position for the last four years. 

• Eminent scientist Dr. Selvin Christopher has been appointed as the Director General (DG) of Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) along with the rank of a secretary. 

• The Finance Ministry announced that the new Service Tax Rate @ 14% would be applicable from 1st June.

• Former Intelligence Bureau Chief Ajit Kumar Doval, considered one of the finest operational brains, was on Friday appointed as the National Security Adviser (NSA) to Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi.

• World observed 'No Tobacco Day'  on 31st May.