1. Student activists Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita and Asif Iqbal Tanha walked out of Tihar prison on 17 June, hours after a court ordered their immediate release in the north-east Delhi riots ‘conspiracy’ case.
2. The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways informed to Director Generals of Police, Principal Secretaries of Transport Departments and Transport Commissioners of all States and UTs for extension of documents related to Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 till September this year.
3. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee moves Calcutta high court, challenging assembly election result in Nandigram where BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari emerged victorious.
4. Lok Janshakti Party leader Chirag Paswan yesterday rejected his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras’s election as the party president, saying the meeting organised in Patna was ‘unconstitutional’ and lacked even minimum attendance of its national executive members.
5. Lockdown likely to end on June 20 in Telangana: except in a few places in Khammam and Nalgonda districts where Covid-19 cases are yet to come under control.
6. Drones could soon be used for delivering COVID-19 vaccines in remote and hard to reach geographies in the country. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has invited expression of interest from drone operators to “develop a delivery model”.
7. PM Modi will launch ‘Customized Crash Course programme for COVID-19 Frontline Workers today (18 June).
The launch will commence the programme in 111 training centres spread over 26 states.The programme aims to skill and upskill over one lakh COVID Warriors across the country.
8. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin called on PM Modi in New Delhi on Thursday.
9. Third wave of the viral infection is unlikely to affect children much . As per the survey, conducted in five selected states by the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) , the uninfected children were seen developing antibodies better than the uninfected adults.
10. Union Public Service Commission has released the timetable for UPSC ESE Prelims 2021. The Engineering Services Examination Preliminary 2021 will be conducted on July 18, 2021.
11. CBSE Class 10th Board Exams result to be declared by July 20; Class 12th exams result to be out by July 31.
12. Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh inaugurated a 20-kilometre double lane road at Kimin in Lakhimpur district of Assam.
12 border roads constructed by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO). India’s Act East policy is directly connected with the development of the eight Northeast states.
13. Cabinet clears corporatisation of Ordnance Factory Board, to be split into 7 entities.
The govt expects the seven new professionally-managed entities – likely to come up by the year-end – to increase their share in the domestic market through better capacity utilisation and also tap new export opportunities and its 41 factories into seven corporate entities to improve its functioning as the main supplier of arms, ammunition and clothing to the armed forces.
14. Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal R.K.S. Bhadauria, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC will be the chief guest and reviewing officer of the Combined Graduation Parade (CGP) to be held at Air Force Academy (AFA) Dundigal, on June 19 (Saturday) to mark the successful completion of pre-commissioning training of flight cadets of various branches of Indian Air Force (IAF).
15. Indian Army has invited applications for NCC special entry scheme 50th course. The application forms are available online and the deadline for submission of the forms is July 15.
16. Indian Army Recruitment 2021: The Indian Army has invited applications from eligible female candidates for the recruitment of 100 Soldier General Duty (Women Military Police).Interested candidates can apply online for Indian Army Soldier GD Recruitment 2021 till July 20 at the official website of the Indian Army, joinindianarmy.nic.in.
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Ch. Naveen Kumar |
Very informative news
In short crisp.