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Jun 5, 2017

[CA] News - June 05, 2017

Around INDIA
# Only 5 of the 545 members in the Lok Sabha clocked 100% attendance
# Aadhaar card a must for kerosene subsidy and Atal Pension Yojana
# India to launch its heaviest satellite (dubbed as "Fat Boy") today; GSAT-19E with GSLV - MkIII - D1
Solid Waste Management in Delhi besides Gurugram, Faridabad, Noida and Ghaziabad is set to turn a new page today with the launch of segregation of Municipal Solid Waste at source like households, hotels, restaurants etc . henceforth, wet waste will be collected in Green bins and dry waste in Blue bins.
Central government said it was open to suggestions from various groups on the May 23 Cattle slaughter notification and was not viewing it as a prestige issue
# In a transformational move, the Army is all set to open up combat positions for women, a gender barrier broken by only a few countries
Kamlang Tiger Reserve (Arunachal Pradesh) is India's 50th Tiger Reserve
Union Water Resources Minister, Ms. Uma Bharti said t hat it would take 10 years completely to clean the River Ganga, and it would be done in a phased manner
STATES SCAN
# Karnataka: Public bicycle sharing project was launched in Mysuru; the city with a population of 12 lakh people, is the first in India to have such a system
# Maharashtra: farmers call bandh today demanding farm loan waiver and support price for their produce
# Puducherry: Chief Minister, Mr. Narayanasamy said that, Lt. Governor shouldn't act beyond
BILATERAL ISSUES
# Union MoS for Parliamentary Affairs, Me, S.S. Ahluwalia, led an Indian Parliamentary delegation on a three-day visit to Norway for promoting and strengthening parliamentary relations between the two countries.
WORLD
# Ireland: Indian origin Mr. Leo Varadkar is set to be country's next Prime Minister
# UK: 7 killed and 48 injured in a terrorist attack (done by ISIS) in London; third terror attack in three months in UK (Manchester, Westminster and London);3  terrorists shot dead by Police
ECONOMICS
# Reliance Communications (RCom) Chairman Anil Ambani announced that the merged entities of RCom and Aircel will be called as "AirCom"
SPORTS
# India's B Sai Praneeth won Thailand Open Badminton 2017
# Real Madrid won the Champions League 2017; with this Real Madrid becomes the first team to successfully defend the trophy in the Champions League era
MISC
# June 05: World Environment Day; theme: "Connecting People to Nature – in the city and on the land, from the poles to the equator"; Host City/Country: Canada


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