TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. The Union Cabinet has approved a minimum support price of at least cost plus 50% for 14 crops ahead of the Kharif (summer) sowing season. The minimum support price of paddy has been increased by Rs 117.
(a) The MSP for paddy for the season has been increased by 5.35%, or Rs 117, to Rs 2,300 per quintal.
(b) The minimum support of cotton has also been increased to 7,121 for the normal variety and 7,521 for another variety, which is Rs 510 higher than the previous MSP.
(c) The MSP for Millets like jowar has been set at Rs 3,371, for ragi it is Rs 4,290, for bajra it is 2,625 and maize is at Rs 2,225.
2. The government has decided to develop Vadhavan port in Maharashtra, and develop the first offshore wind terminal in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. The government has also taken decisions for development of Varanasi airport and National Forensic Infrastructure enhancement scheme.
3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir starting today. During his visit, PM Modi will lay the foundation stone and inaugurate 84 major developmental projects worth over One Thousand Five Hundred crore rupees in the Union Territory.
4. Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president and former Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will be the leader of the opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly.
5. National Capital Delhi continues to grapple with the water crisis with long queues of people forming at water tanker distribution points across the city.
6. In flood affected Sikkim, rescue, relief and restoration operations are on in full swing to mitigate the sufferings of the affected people particularly of the most affected parts of Lachung and Chungthang in Mangan District. Around 1300 stranded tourist have been evacuated by Tuesday from the flood affected areas to safer places.
7. Ahead of Haryana Assembly polls, former Haryana Congress leader Kiran Choudhry and her daughter Shruti Choudhry have joined BJP. They were inducted into the party in the presence of Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini.
8. Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday, 18 June launched a programme to upgrade the Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) as Advanced Technology Centres (ATCs) to hone the skills of the youth and to meet the industry needs.
9. The Telangana state government is planning to bring Bhumatha portal in the place of Dharani soon. It is making efforts to introduce a Bill in the upcoming session of the Legislative Assembly to amend the Telangana RoR Act (Right of Records) to facilitate the introduction of the Bhumatha portal.
10. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has appointed IAS officer Ashwani Kumar as the Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) with immediate effect.
11. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu will Amaravati on Thursday to review the ground situation vis-a-vis the capital construction initiatives.
12. Dwaraka Tirumala Rao is new DGP of Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh.
13. The Mumbai civic body is planning to open CD Barfiwala flyover in Andheri to vehicular traffic from July 1 as it has completed the parallel alignment with Gokhale bridge.
14. The Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala, a renowned Ayurvedic institution, celebrated a significant achievement as its managing trustee and chief physician, P. Madhavankutty Varier, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science (DSc) degree by the Kerala University of Health Sciences (KUHS).
15. Sri Lankan cricket icon Muttiah Muralitharan will invest Rs 1,400 crore in phases to set up a beverage and confectionery unit at Badanaguppe in Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka.
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. A Delhi court yesterday extended the judicial custody of Delhi Chief Minister and AAP Convenor Arvind Kejriwal and another accused Vinod Chauhan till the 3rd of July in a money laundering case related to the Delhi Excise policy scam.
2. The Centre on Wednesday announced cancellation of the UGC-NET examination following prima facie indications that integrity of exam compromised. To ensure the highest level of transparency and sanctity of the examination process, the Ministry of Education, Government of India has decided that the UGC-NET June 2024 Examination be cancelled.
3. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has raised questions over the relocation of statues of major leaders in the Parliament House complex. He demanded that the statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and other national leaders must be relocated to their original locations in the complex.
The Lok Sabha Secretariat had already denied the allegations of relocation of statues of great leaders saying that these statues have not been removed from the Parliament House complex. It emphasized that statues are being installed systematically and respectfully inside the Parliament House complex.
4. Over 20 people from Kallakurichi district in the northern part of Tamil Nadu were hospitalised and at least 10 persons died after suspected consumption of illicit ‘packet arrack’, officials said on Wednesday.
Chief Minister M K Stalin has ordered a CB-CID probe to ensure comprehensive investigation and the government transferred Kallakurichi District Collector Sravan Kumar Jatavath and Superintendent of Police Samay Singh Meena was suspended.
5. Temperature In Delhi: More than 20 people lost their lives due to heat strokes and rising temperatures in the National Capital Region (Delhi-NCR) on Wednesday. Citing the adverse weather situation, the Center has issued an advisory for the citizens requesting everyone to stay indoors as much as possible. The advisory underlined going out in direct sunlight between 12 noon to 3 pm could be dangerous.
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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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LPG : ₹ 803/14.2 Kg
1. The Centre has received another proposal to immediately constitute the Eighth Pay Commission to revise the basic pay, allowances, pension and other benefits of the central government employees and pensioners. In a letter addressed to the Cabinet Secretary, Government of India, Shiv Gopal Mishra, Secretary, National Council (staff side, Joint Consultive Machinery for central government employees), pointed out why the central government should form the 8th Pay Commission on priority.
2. Paytm has named Rajeev Krishnamuralilal Agarwal, former whole-time director of SEBI, as its non-executive independent director for a five-year term.
3. Ajith Kumar KK has been appointed as the Managing Director and CEO of Dhanlaxmi Bank for a three-year term starting 20 June, 2024.
4. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, has committed $105 million (approximately Rs 871 crore) to Brookfield’s Bikaner Solar Power project in Rajasthan. This investment will be in the form of non-convertible debentures, supporting the expansion of renewable energy infrastructure in India.
5. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has revoked the licence of Purvanchal Co-operative Bank, located in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, citing inadequate capital and bleak earning prospects.
6. Nvidia, the startup at the centre of the artificial intelligence boom, has become the world’s most valuable company, knocking Microsoft off the top spot. Nvidia’s market capitalisation hit $3.335 trillion on June 18, as shares of the chipmaker rose by 3.5 percent to $135.58.
7. Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chaired the first round of Pre-Budget consultations with leading economists in New Delhi ahead of the General Budget 2024-25 yesterday.
8. State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s largest lender on Wednesday announced plans to raise Rs 20,000 crore through long-term bonds in the ongoing financial year 2024-25 via public issue or private placement. The funds would be used for infrastructure projects and affordable housing units.
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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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1. Ace Bollywood playback singer Alka Yagnik has revealed suffering from rare sensory neural nerve hearing loss. Bollywood’s music industry offers prayers for her speedy recovery.
2. The renowned wildlife filmmaker Subbiah Nallamuthu has been conferred with the prestigious 18th V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the field of non-feature and wildlife documentary filmmaking. The award was presented to him by the Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, L. Murugan, at the inaugural ceremony of the 18th Mumbai International Film Festival in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
3. Two terrorists were killed and two security personnel injured in an encounter that broke out on Wednesday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
The forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in Watergam area of Baramulla.
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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. INS Surat Begins Sea Trials. Surat will be the next major combatant to join the Indian Navy’s arsenal. It will serve with her sister ships as the lead ship of the class that includes INS Visakhapatnam, INS Mormugao and INS Imphal.
2. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), a well-known Indian state-owned aerospace and defense company, was recently given a unique contract worth about Rs 50,000 crore by the UK Ministry of Defence. This is the biggest single order for helicopters that has ever been given to an Indian company. The money will be used to buy Light Combat Helicopters (LCH), also known as “Prachand.”
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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
20 Jun (Thursday)
Vedic Ritu/ Vasant Ritu
Drik Ritu : Grishma (Summer)
पक्ष :: Shuklapaksh
Vikram Samvat – 2081
Shaka Samvat – 1946
Month : Jyeshta 14 (Amanta) Jyeshta 28 (Purnimanta)
Nakshatra : Anuradha (up to 6:10 pm) Jyeshta
Tithi : Trayodashi (up to 7:50 am)Chaturdashi
Rahu : 02:09 PM – 03:49 PM
Yamaganda 05:45 AM – 07:26 AM
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