Gist of current affairs from June 2013 Megazines

Gist of current affairs from June 2013 Megazines

With this post, Last six months GA is covered.  Good luck to those who are taking their exam on 19th or 20th 

• Nicholas Maduro elected  as president of Venezuela.
• Jnanpith award  for year 2012 to Telugu writer R. Bharadwaja .
• Pulitzer prize for fiction won bt author Adam Johnson for his novel , The Orphan Marster’s Son.
• Ponds femina miss India 2013 winner Navneet Kaur dhillon , 2^nd  Shobhita Dhulipala 3^rd Zoya AfroZ.
• 60^th National Film award – Best Actor – Irfan Khan (Pansingh Tomar), Best Actress Usha Jadhav for marathi film Dhagg,  Best feature film – Paan Singh Tomar.
• Chris Gayle –  (Jaimacan cricketer) Fastest century 100 in 30 balls during  IPL match also reached up to highest individual score in T-20 Game.
• Rahi sarnobat beceme the first lady pistol shooter from India who won Gold in  International Shooting sports Federation world cup in korea .
• Shankuntala devi,  a Mahematical wizard and guiness book record holder for fastest mental calculations passed away,
• European Union tightened up bank lending rules. The new rules called CRD-4 ( Capital requirement directives) are similar to the Basel III rules.
• Currency swap agreement between Brazil and China worth 30 billion dollars.
• 20^th March – International Happiness day. Declared by UN.
• SAARC ministerial level meeting on Poverty alleviation held in Nepal. Kathmandu is headquarter of SAARC.
• India and Mauritius signed  on cooperation in the field of Election management and Administration. President Kailash Puryaag and Prime minister Navin Ramgoolam
• Election commission  announced that it is planning to issue driving license type plastic voert cards . New voter cards with color photos will be first issued in North eastern states Assam and Nagaland.
• The Govt. of India approved the project for National Optic Fibre Network (NOFN) connecting 250000 Gram panchayats in the country through Optical cable. An special company named Bharat Broadband Network Limited has already been established for this purpose.
• SC rejected Novartis (Swiss drug company) appeal to patent updated version of  cancer drug called Glivec.
• Malkhamb declared as state sport by Madhya Pradesh.
• Border Gavaskar Trophy 2013  India won 4-0  defeating Australia. R. ashwin given man of the series.
• India is the largest recipient of  remittances in the world receiving 69 billion dollars according to  World bank’s migration and development report. India is followed by China (60 b) , The Philipines (24 b) and Nigeria and Egypt (21b each).
• World bank has announced a four year plan for seven low income states of India to bring down poverty.  It has proposed to lend 3 to 5 billion dollars every year for a period of next 4 years. States are Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh , odisha Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
• CCEA Cabinet committee on Economic Affairs decided to de control sugar . This will abolish the rule for sugar mills to sell sugar to the government at a disounted price for PDS and other regulations on mills selling sugar in open market.
• India first to test super sonic missile from underwater plateform . No country of the world has tested this combination. The missile was Bramhos (a joint venture of India and Russia) and test fired from a submarine underwater.
• India and Finland to cooperate in solar energy applications .