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AWARDS AND HONORS
IOC honours IOA chief N Ramachandran with Olympic Order
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded the prestigious Olympic Order to Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president N Ramachandran. The award is given in acknowledgement for Ramachandran’s outstanding contribution to the Olympic movement. N Ramachandran said he was “truly humbled and honoured” with the highest award of the Olympic movement. Ramachandran became IOA president in February 2014. Former IOA president, the late B.S. Adityan was also honoured with the same award, in 1995.
Quick Link – N Ramachandran with Olympic Order
INDIAN AFFAIRS
Guwahati first Indian city to have a city animal
Guwahati, the Assam state capital has become the first city in the country to have its own City Animal with the Kamrup Metropolitan district administration declaring the Gangetic River Dolphin as the mascot. The district administration had organised online and off-line voting among three protected creatures, which are on the verge of extinction, to decide the mascot.
Quick Link – Gangetic River Dolphin
All train coaches to have bio-toilets by 2019
Indian Railways will fit bio-toilets on all its coaches by 2019, two years ahead of schedule. By 2019, all 55,000 coaches of Indian Railways would be fitted with 1,40,000 bio-toilets. Till 31 March, 2016, Indian Railways have installed around 35,000 bio-toilets in 10,000 railway coaches and are quite confident of achieving this target.
Train toilets in India have always emptied human waste on to railway tracks, an unhygienic practice that also corrodes tracks. Under its Swachh Rail-Swachh Bharat (Clean Rail-Clean India) programme, railways had planned to phase out such toilets by 2020-21.
Quick Link – Bio-toilets by 2019
Andhra to get two high-speed railway lines
Railway minister Suresh Prabhu announced a number of major railway projects for Andhra Pradesh, including a high-speed rail line between new capital Amaravati and Bengaluru. He, however, remained non-committal on the establishment of a new railway zone with headquarters at Visakhapatnam, alleging that the erstwhile UPA government did not “specify” it in the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014.
Quick Link – Two high-speed railway lines
Kerala coastline to be plastic and garbage-free
The sprawling and picturesque coastline of Kerala will soon become a “plastic and garbage-free” zone with the state government drawing up a comprehensive action plan to make the coastal areas clean and beautiful. Fisheries Minister J Mercykutty Amma said steps would be taken to remove plastic and other garbage piled across the 590 km-long state coastline by the end of this month.
Quick Link – Plastic and garbage-free
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
India’s PM Modi gets Swiss pledge on tackling tax dodgers
Switzerland has promised to work with Indian authorities to tackle tax dodgers who stash money in Swiss bank accounts to avoid Indian taxes. After talks in Geneva with Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann and round-table discussions with Swiss businessmen, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the two countries had agreed to make combating tax evasion and “black money” a shared priority.
Quick Link – Modi gets Swiss pledge
Walmart retains top position in Fortune 500 list
In 2016 rankings, Walmart is the top dog on the Fortune 500 list for the fourth consecutive year. Rounding out the top 10 in the 62nd annual rankings, based on total revenues for their fiscal years: ExxonMobil, Apple, Berkshire Hathaway, McKesson, UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health,General Motors, Ford Motor and AT&T.
Apple, which was the most profitable company on the list, with $53 billion in profits, was among companies making big moves this year, jumping to No. 3 from No. 5 last year. Other movers in the top 25 included Amazon.com (No. 18) and Walgreens (No. 19), which moved into the top 20 from No. 29 and No. 35 last year. And Microsoft (No. 25) made the top 25 for the first time, up from No. 31 last year.
Quick Link – Fortune 500 list
World Environment Day 2016 : June 5
World Environment Day (WED) is one of the greatest annual events celebrated across the globe on 5th June. The objective of the event is to raise awareness about the leading issue of the sustainability of our environment. It was initiated in 1973 by the United Nations General Assembly and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to address colossal issues like global warming, deforestation and food shortages among many others.
This year’s theme for World Environment Day is ‘Join the race to make the world a better place’.
Quick Link – WED
FOREIGN RELATIONS
India, Qatar ink 7 agreements to boost cooperation
India and Qatar have signed seven agreements, including one on finance intelligence to check money laundering and terrorism financing and another to woo foreign investment in the infrastructure sector from the gas-rich Gulf state. Cooperation and investment in areas of skill development and education, health, tourism and sports between the two countries were the other agreements signed by Indian and Qatar officials in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani.
Quick Link – 7 agreements
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Telemedicine market may rise to $32 mn by 2020
India’s telemedicine market which has been growing at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 20 per cent holds the potential to cross $32 million (mn) mark by 2020 from the current level of over $15 mn. Improved access to specialists, increased patient satisfaction with care, improved clinical outcomes, reduction in emergency room utilisation, cost savings are certain key benefits of telemedicine.
Quick Link – Telemedicine
Airbus unveils world’s 1st 3D-printed aircraft
Dwarfed by huge jets all around, the mini-plane Thor was nonetheless an eye-catcher at the Berlin Air Show – the small Airbus marvel is the world’s first 3D-printed aircraft. Windowless, weighing in at just 21 kilos (46 pounds) and less than four meters (13 feet) long, the drone Thor, short for “Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality” resembles a large, white model airplane.
Quick Link – 3D-printed aircraft
ENVIRONMENT
Arctic Sea may get ice-free for 1st time in 100k yrs
The Arctic is on track to be free of sea ice this year or next for the first time in more than 100,000 years, a leading scientist has claimed. Provisional satellite data produced by the US National Snow & Ice Data Centre shows there were just over 11.1 million square kilometres of sea ice on 1 June this year, compared to the average for the last 30 years of nearly 12.7 million square kilometres. This difference – more than 1.5 million square kilometres – is about the same size as about six United Kingdoms.
Quick Link – Arctic get ice-free
SPORTS
Novak Djokovic wins 2016 French Open title
World number one Novak Djokovic beat Britain’s Andy Murray to win his first French Open title and complete the career Grand Slam. The Serbian won 3-6 6-1 6-2 6-4 to win his 12th major title and become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four Grand Slams at once.
Murray had hoped to secure the third leg of his own career Slam, having already won Wimbledon and the US Open. The Scot, 29, was Britain’s first male finalist in Paris since 1937. Second seed Murray played superbly to win the first set but could not convert a break point early in the second, and Djokovic took control to win in three hours.
Quick Link – French Open title
OBITUARY
Veteran theatre and film actor Sulabha Deshpande passes away
Sulabha Deshpande, one of the finest actors of Indian theatre and cinema, passed away at her Mumbai residence after a prolonged illness. The veteran actor, considered to be one of the pioneers of the experimental theatre movement that swept Bombay in the 1970s, was 79. She had also acted in memorable roles in movies like Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978), Gaman (1978), Bazaar (1982) and Ijaazat (1987). Among the recent movies, she had appeared in the Gauri Shinde-directed English Vinglish (2012).
Quick Link – Sulabha Deshpande passes away
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