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.