TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. Eid-ul-Azha, the festival of sacrifice celebrated with religious fervour and gaiety in various parts of the country and abraod yesterday. The devotees offered Eid namaaz or prayers in Eidgahs and mosques.
2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the 17th installment of more than 20 thousand crore rupees under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh today.
3. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu visited the Polavaram project construction site yesterday, marking his first visit since assuming office as the Chief Minister.
4. BJP has appointed State election-in-charge and co-in-charge for the ensuing assembly polls in the Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir.
*The party has appointed Bhupender Yadav as State election in-charge and Ashwini Vaishnaw co-incharge for Maharashtra assembly polls. Dharmendra Pradhan and Biplab Kumar Dev have been made state election incharges for Haryana. For the Jharkhand assembly election, Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been appointed State in-charge and Himanta Biswa Sarma as co-incharge. Union Minister G Kisan Reddy has been given the charge for Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections.
5. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will keep the Raebareli seat and vacate Wayanad Lok Sabha seat. Talking to reporters in New Delhi, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will fight from Wayanad Lok Sabha in Kerala. Mr Kharge said that the party has decided that Rahul Gandhi should retain Rae Bareli’s seat since it is close to the gandhi family.
6. On 19th morning, the PM Modi will visit the ruins of Nalanda and he will also inaugurate the campus of Nalanda University in Rajgir, Bihar.
7. Telangana state government has decided to cancel 62,600 double bedroom houses (2BHKs) that were sanctioned but not constructed during the previous BRS government’s nine-year tenure. Instead, the sources said, the Congress government has decided to provide Indiramma houses to the beneficiaries.
8. The BJP is working to build a consensus for the election of the Speaker’s post among alliance partners as well as the Opposition parties by deploying one of its senior most faces – Union Defence minister Rajnath Singh.
9. Heat wave to severe heat wave conditions are likely to continue over many parts of Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi during the next two days. The weather office has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Assam-Meghalaya during next three days.
LEGAL REPORT
#Chief Justice of India:
Shri Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
#Minister Of Law & Justice : Arjun Ram Meghwal
#International Court Of Justice Prz. : Nawaf Salam
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1. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) questioned former Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party stalwart B S Yediyurappa for three hours on Monday in connection with a POCSO case registered against him.
2. The Union Home Ministry on Monday handed over the probe into the recent terror attack on a bus in Jammu and Kashmir to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), officials said.The decision came a day after Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed security situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
3. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has made significant changes to the Political Science textbook, NCERT has shortened the chapter on Ayodhya from four pages to two pages and removed the name of Babri Masjid with the word three-dome structure.
4. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Zonal Commissioner for Khairatabad, Bhorkade Hemant Sahadeorao, was transferred on Sunday, a day after the demolition of an illegal security outpost near former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s residence in the city.
GHMC Commissioner Amrapali Kata raised concerns over the demolition, which was initiated on the orders of a minister without notifying superiors. Consequently, Hemant has been directed to report to the General Administration Department (GAD).
“””””””””” MISHAPS “”””””””””
1. Nine people were killed and at least 60 injured when the Agartala – Sealdah Kanchanjunga Express collided with a goods train near New Jalpaiguri station in West Bengal yesterday morning. The collision occurred near Rangapani station, approximately seven kilometers from New Jalpaiguri, causing two rear compartments to derail.
Railway sources said, a container train overshot the signal and hit the rear portion of the Kanchanjungha Express. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed grief over the tragic train accident.
2. In Tamil Nadu, three fishermen drowned near Rameswaram yesterday as their boat sank in the deep sea due to an accident. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has expressed shock over the incident and has announced an ex gratia of three lakh rupees each to the family of the deceased.
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FINANCE
#Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman
#Commerce & Industry :
Piyush Goyal
#RBI Gvrnr: Shaktikanta Das
#President of the World Bank : Ajay Banga
#IMF MD: Kristalina Georgieva
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USD ₹ 84 (Approx)
💷 GBP ₹105(Approx)
€ Euro : ₹ 90(Approx)
🇨🇳 Yuan ¥ : ₹ 12
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GDP(PPP ) :
purchasing power parity (PPP)
$13.119 trillion
GDP (nominal)
: $3.73 trillion
(Nominal means total market value of all goods and services produced in a country’s economy) .
GDP growth : 8.4% (Q3 2023-24)
India is the fifth largest economy in the world.
Inflation rate : Retail Inflation 5.69% in Dec 2023
Population : 143.86 cr
(17.7% of the total world population).
Unemployment : 10.09% (Oct2023)
Per capita: This income is also known as average income as it is calculated by dividing the total income of the country by the total population of the country.
GDP per capita
$2,845 (Nominal; 2024)
$9,983 (PPP; 2024)
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India’s textile exports grew by 9.59 percent in May this year compared to the previous year despite unfavourable economic conditions in major markets such as the European Union (EU), the US, and West Asian nations.
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
#Information and Broadcasting Minister:
Ashwini Vaishnaw
#Chairman of The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) :
R Madhavan
#Chairman of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC): Prasoon Joshi
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The 18th Mumbai International Film Festival is underway in Mumbai. A total of 314 films from 59 countries across 61 languages are there in the MIFF programming this year. The 6-day film festival will culminate on 21 June.
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DEFENCE
#Supreme Commander of Armed Forces: The President
#Def Minister: Rajnath Singh
#Def Minister of State :–
#Union Home : Amit Shah
#National Security Advisor : Ajit Doval
#Chief of Defence Staff:
Gen Anil Chauhan, PVSM UYSM AVSM SM VSM
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1. Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday chaired a high-level meeting in the national capital to review the security situation in the conflict-hit Manipur.
2. Ministry of Defence (MoD) has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to public sector undertaking (PSU) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for procurement of 156 Light Combat Helicopters (LCH) ‘Prachand’ to augment battle capabilities of the armed forces, especially to operate at high altitudes. 90 LCH ‘Prachand’ are for the Army Aviation Corps, and 66 are for the Indian Air Force (IAF).
The defence ministry has given state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) a tender worth around Rs 50,000 crore to procure Light Combat Helicopters (LCH) – the largest single order given for acquisition of choppers to an Indian company.
3. Nine nuclear-armed nations including the US, Russia, France, China, India and Pakistan, continued to modernise their nuclear arsenals and several of them deployed new nuclear-capable weapon systems in 2023. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said.
4. India and the United States are currently in an advanced stage of talks for the joint manufacture of the latest generation of Stryker armoured infantry combat vehicles (ICVs) as part of their defence-industrial cooperation roadmap.
5. In Jharkhand, a zonal commander among four maoists were killed in an encounter with security forces in West Singhbhum district of the state. Police sources said, it was a planned ambush. The security forces recovered arms and ammunition from the slain Naxals. The encounter took place yesterday morning in the forest area.
6. The Indian Navy will hold trials in Spain to test the critical equipment for its Project 75 India to get six advanced submarines by the end of this month.
7. Punjab Police in association with the Border Security Force (BSF) and Village Defence Committees (VDCs) will carry out a one-week drive against drugs in Fazilka district.
Why is Fazilka District targeted?
The focus on youth and women to gather actionable intelligence about the demand and supply of drugs. Of the 553-km-long Punjab border with Pakistan, 108 km is in Fazilka district. Fazilka police had last month arrested seven persons, including two brothers, and seized around 5.5 kg of heroin being smuggled into India from across the border.
18 Jun (Tuesday)
Vedic Ritu/ Vasant Ritu
Drik Ritu : Grishma (Summer)
पक्ष :: Shuklapaksh
Vikram Samvat – 2081
Shaka Samvat – 1946
Month : Jyeshta 12 (Amanta) Jyeshta 26 (Purnimanta)
Nakshatra : Swati (up to 3:56 pm) Vishaka
Tithi : Dwadashi
Rahu : 03:49 PM – 05:30 PM
Yamaganda 09:06 AM – 10:47 AM
In Bharat there are 28 states and 8 Union territories.
Population of Bharat:
142 cr (2023)
President of Bharat ,
Smt Droupadi Murmu
Vice President
Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar
Prime Minister : Shri Narendra Modi
Speaker Lok Sabha :
Minister of Parliamentary affairs : Kiren Rijiju
Rajyasabha Seats : 245 (233 Elected + 12 Nominated)
Loksabha : 550 members (530 States 20 Union Territories)
Chief Election Commissioner:
Shri Rajiv Kumar
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