June 25, 2017

25th June 2017 Important Daily Current Affairs

Daily Current Affairs of 25th June 2017

International Current Affairs

This day is observed as an expression of thanks to the seafarers for their contribution to the economy and civil society of the world.

The observance of the day also acknowledges the risks and personal costs endured by seafarers while being in their jobs.

PM Narendra Modi presented the Overseas Citizen of India card to Portugal's Indian-origin PM Antonio Costa during his visit to Lisbon yesterday.

Important Note : During a visit to India in January, Costa was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman by the President.

Pakistan has issued its 1st third-gender passport to a transgender activist.

MOUs & Agreements

India and Portugal have signed 11 agreements after in-depth talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Portuguese counterpart Antonio Costa.

Note : This is the first-ever bilateral visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Portugal.

Both countries agreed to set up a joint Science and Technology fund of four million euros.
The agreements signed by them are :

MoU on Nano Technology
MoU on Biotechnology
MoU on Collaborative Research
MoU on Public Administration & Governance Reforms
MoU on Cultural Cooperation
MoU on Youth & Sports
MoU between Portugal India Business Hub & Indian Chamber of Commerce
MoU on Cooperation in the fields of Higher Education and Scientific Research
MoU for the creation of an India Portugal Space Alliance for advancing collaborative research.
Protocol amending the Double Taxation Aviodance Agreement
MoU between Portugal India Business Hub & AICEP Portugal Global

National Current Affairs

For the first time in the history of Manipur, Chief Minister Biren Singh-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has launched a toll-free 24/7 helpline number '181' for women.

Science & Technology

China has developed world's most powerful magnetic detector which can find hidden metallic objects, including minerals and submarines.

The device is different from conventional designs because it uses a large number of probes and a superconductive computer chip cooled by liquid nitrogen which increases its signal sensitivity, reports said.

Sports Current Affairs

India's Kidambi Srikanth has won the Australian Open Superseries title today by beating Rio Olympics champion China's Chen Long.

This is the second consecutive Superseries title for world number 11 Srikanth, who won the Indonesia Open last week.
This is Srikanth's first win over Long, having lost to the world number six in all of their five earlier meetings.

Haryana's Anish Bhanwala set a junior world record to win the Gold medal in the 25-metre standard pistol at the ISSF Junior Shooting World Championship in Germany today.

The 15-year-old registered a score of 579, going past the previous record of 574 set in 2002.
Note : India also bagged the team silver, moving to second place in the medals tally.

The World Taekwondo Federation has changed its name to World Taekwondo after its acronym 'WTF' was found to have "negative connotations".
India opened their ICC Women's World Cup 2017 campaign with a 35-run win over hosts England in a match which saw Indian captain Mithali Raj break two world records.

Raj scored her career's 47th fifty, overtaking England's Charlotte Edwards to record most fifties in women's ODI cricket.
Raj also became the only woman player to score seven consecutive ODI fifties.

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