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Daily Current Affairs of 30th June 2017
International Current Affairs
- Germany legalised same-sex marriage today, with 393 parliamentarians voting to approve "marriage for everybody" and 226 voting against.
- The reform gives gay and lesbian couples full marital rights, including child adoption.
National Current Affairs
- Railways authorities have officially changed the name of Mumbai's biggest station from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus.
- The Centre approved the change last month after the Shiv Sena demanded the addition of 'Maharaj' as a sign of respect to the Maratha king.
Places in News
- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has named UAE's Sharjah as the World Book Capital for 2019.
Awards & Honors
- An anti-hunger activist, Ankit Kawatra, has been awarded the Queen's Young Leaders Award for 2017 by Queen Elizabeth II at a ceremony in London's Buckingham Palace.
- The 25-year-old is the founder of Feeding India, an organisation that aims to eradicate hunger and food wastage in India.
- Arnav Sharma, an 11-year-old Indian-origin boy in the UK has secured the top possible score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test, two points higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
New Appointments
- U.S. President Donald Trump has appointed an Indian-American named Krishna R Urs as the new US Ambassador to Peru.
- Shuttler PV Sindhu will be appointed as a revenue divisional officer in Andhra Pradesh, after the AP State Public Service Commission approved her appointment.
- Last month, the state legislature had passed a Bill amending an Act to appoint Sindhu as an officer in the government.
- Saurashtra Cricket Association's former chief Niranjan Shah has been added as an invitee to BCCI's Special Committee.
- The committee was instituted to overlook the implementation of the Lodha Panel reforms, as ordered by the Supreme Court.
- The eight-member committee's first meeting will be held in Delhi on July 1, with Supreme Court's hearing on the matter scheduled for July 14.
Deaths
- Singer Sabita Chowdhury (72) passed away.
- She is the wife of late music composer Salil Chowdhury.
- She was known for her Bengali songs like 'Jaare jaa jaa mono paakhi', 'Oi jhilmil jhauer boney', among others.
Science & Technology
- The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has revealed plans to send its first astronaut to the Moon by 2030.
- The announcement comes as India and China develop their indigenous space programmes.
- Facebook's drone 'Aquila', a solar-powered drone to bring the internet to rural places, completed its second successful test flight in the Arizona desert.
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has successfully launched Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket that created colourful artificial clouds visible in the skies of the US.
- The rocket was launched from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Banking, Business & Economic Affairs
- The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) today announced that July 1st will be known as ‘GST Day’.
- It will be celebrated in all offices of CBEC just like in case of Central Excise Day and International Customs Day, the board said.
- This comes ahead of the launch of GST, which is scheduled for July 1.
- The GST launch event will start today at 11 pm at the Parliament House.
- This event will start with the national anthem, followed by remarks by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
- It will be followed by an address by the Prime Minister and the President, after which GST will be launched.
- The government has prohibited dual maximum retail price (MRP) for same products including soft drinks and water bottles at multiplexes, airports, and malls.
- Further, it has also made it mandatory for all packaged commodities to have increased font size for "best before" and "date of manufacturing", among others.
- These amendments will be effective from January 1, 2018.
- The Malaysian Ringgit became the strongest Asian currency this quarter by climbing twice as much as the Chinese Yuan, according to Bloomberg.
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