DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 3RD JUNE 2017
(DAILY NEWS INDIA)
1.
VARANASI TO GET INDIA’S FIRST FREIGHT VILLAGE
i.
India’s 1st ‘freight village’ will be developed by the Inland Waterways
Authority of India in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
ii.
The freight village, a one-of-its-kind infrastructure platform, will attract
companies that require logistics services and can cluster to improve their
competitiveness.
iii.
The facility will come around the proposed multi-modal terminal adjacent to the
city on the banks of the river Ganga.
iv.
This will allow relocation of retailers, warehouse operators and logistics
service providers supplying the regional FMCG market.
2.
PUNJAB & UK JOIN HANDS TO PROMOTE SKILL DEVELOPMENT
i.
The United Kingdom and the Punjab government join hands for imparting skill
training and technical education to the students to provide better employment
opportunities in abroad. Under this agreement, the UK would send skill
development experts to Punjab to impart technical education and skill
development training.
ii.
It was announced by Charanjit Singh Channi, Technical Education Minister with
Britain Deputy High Commissioner Andrew Ayre at Chandigarh.
iii.
The Punjab Government is planning to focus on providing quality education to
the students to get jobs in the leading industries around the world.
3.
US TO WITHDRAW FROM PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT: DONALD TRUMP
i.
President Donald Trump has announced that he would withdraw the United States
from the 2015 Paris agreement to fight climate change.
ii.
Trump stated that the Paris accord would weaken the U.S. economy, cost U.S.
jobs, and weaken American national sovereignty.
iii.
Trump also said that the Paris accord has put the country at a permanent
disadvantage to the other countries of the world.
iv.
Paris Climate Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change that deals with greenhouse gas emissions
mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020.
4.
ECONOMY EXPECTED TO GROW BY 7.5 PER CENT IN CURRENT FISCAL: NITI AAYOG
i.
Arvind Panagariya, an economic adviser has said India’s economic growth is
expected to grow by 7.5 % in this fiscal year.
ii.
Asia’s third-largest economy grew by 7.1% year-on-year in 2016-17, slower than
8 percent growth a year ago.
iii.
Panagariya, a vice-chairman of the government’s main economic advisory body
said on a conference that economic growth would accelerate further to above 8 %
by 2019.