DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 30 JUNE 2018
(DAILY NEWS INDIA)
1.
INDIA NO LONGER A NATION WITH WORLD’S LARGEST POOR POPULATION:
WORLD BANK
i. As per
Future Development blog of the World Bank’s Brookings Institute titled as ‘The
start of a new poverty narrative’ India is no longer a nation having world’s
largest poor population.
ii. Nigeria has
overtaken India with the largest number of extremely poor people at 87 million
in early 2018.
iii. This has
been computed for 188 countries and territories, developed and developing,
across the world. India is moving down in global poverty ranking.
iv. From 125
million poor people in 2016, India had just 73 million people in the poorest of
the poor index as of May 2018.
2.
UAE’S EMIRATES AND US CROP ONE HOLDINGS TO BUILD WORLD’S LARGEST
VERTICAL FARM IN DUBAI
i. The United
Arab Emirates (UAE) flagship carrier Emirates Airline has launched a joint
project with US Crop One Holdings to build the world’s largest vertical farming
facility near Dubai’s Al Maktoum International Airport.
3.
INDIA 4TH AS WEB ATTACKS ON THE RISE GLOBALLY: AKAMAI
TECHNOLOGIES
i. Cloud
delivery network provider Akamai Technologies announced that India ranked
fourth in the list of top 10 target countries for Web Application Attacks.
ii. Registering
over 2.8 crore attacks, India also ranked eighth globally in the list of Web
Application Attack source countries.
4.
NORWAY: THE BEST IN WORLD IN TRAFFIC SAFETY
i. According to
European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) and reports from newspaper
Aftenposten, Norway has least traffic accidents in the world.
5.
MCX LAUNCHES ‘COTTON MISSION’ FOR MAHARASHTRA FARMERS
i. The Multi
Commodity Exchange of India LTd. (MCX) signed a MoU with the Maharashtra
government to create a value chain with final market linkages for thousands of
cotton farmers in Vidarbha.
ii. Government
is committed to doubling farmer’s income by 2022
iii. The
Government has increased the budgetary allocation of Agriculture and Farmer
Welfare Ministry in the budget 2018-19 to Rs 58,080 cr from51,576 cr in
2017-18.
6.
NTPC RANKED 25TH IN INDIA’S GREAT PLACE TO WORK LIST
i. NTPC
announced that it has been ranked 25th in the list of India’s Great Place to Work
for 2018.
ii. NTPC is the
only public sector undertaking in the top 25 of the India’s Great Place to Work
for 2018 list.
7.
SONAKSHI SINHA JOINS HANDS WITH UNESCO TO PROMOTE SAFE
CYBERSPACE FOR CHILDREN
i. Indian
actress Sonakshi Sinha has joined hands with UNESCO to promote a safe and
secure cyber environment for youngsters.
8.
INDIAN-ORIGIN LAWYER DEDAR SINGH GILL APPOINTED JUDICIAL
COMMISSIONER OF SINGAPORE’S SUPREME COURT
i. Dedar Singh
Gill, an Indian-origin intellectual property litigator in Singapore has been
appointed judicial commissioner of Singapore’s Supreme Court by Singapore
President Halimah Yacob.
9.
JANARDAN SINGH GEHLOT ELECTED INTERNATIONAL KABADDI FEDERATION
(IKF) CHIEF
i. This
announcement was made after the Annual General Congress (AGC) of IKF.
10. YOUSAF SALEEM
SWORN-IN AS THE FIRST-EVER VISUALLY IMPAIRED JUDGE OF PAKISTAN
i. Yousuf
Saleem, a visually impaired lawyer has become the first-ever visually impaired
judge of Pakistan.
ii. Yousuf
Saleem is 25 years old. He hails from Lahore. On 26th June 2018, he took the
oath to be sworn in as a civil judge at Punjab Judiciary Academy.
11. ISSF JUNIOR WORLD CUP
IN SUHL, GERMANY
i. In the
Junior men 10m air rifle final, India’s Hriday Hazarika shot 248.7 points and
won gold medal.
ii. In the 10m
air pistol event India’s Saurabh Chaudhary with 243.7 points won the gold medal
and also created a new world record
12. INTERNATIONAL DAY OF
PARLIAMENTARISM – 30 JUNE
i. 30 June
2018, is celebrated as the first International Day of Parliamentarism.
ii. On 30th June
1889 the Inter-Parliamentary Union was established.
