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Daily Current Affairs of 24th June 2019
International Current Affairs
- Japan today gifted Manipur a museum of peace built on the memories of one of the fiercest battles of the 2nd World War.
- The inauguration of the Imphal Peace Museum at Red Hill, about 20 km southwest of Manipur’s capital Imphal, marked the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Imphal.
- Important Points to Note :
- Around 70,000 Japanese soldiers, alongside those of Subhash Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army, died in battles with the British-led Allied forces in areas around Imphal and Kohima from March to June 1944.
- The last of these battles was fought at Red Hill, where the Japanese War Memorial was built in 1994 to mark the 50th anniversary of the battle.
- Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet US President Donald Trump during the G-20 summit in Japan this week for key talks to clinch a deal to end the bruising trade war.
- Bangladesh Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated the 70th founding day programmes of the party by hoisting the national flag in Dhaka.
- In a message Sheikh Hasina said that party along with the people would build a hunger and poverty free, happy and prosperous 'Sonar Bangla' as dreamt by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh.
- The United Arab Emirates has become the 1st country in the Gulf to launch a new reporting platform developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to curb organised crimes.
- The UAE’s Financial Intelligence Unit launched the new anti-money laundering platform 'goAML'.
- All financial entities and Designated Non-Financial Businesses or Professions have to register on this system.
National Current Affairs
- Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today introduced Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in Lok Sabha.
- This
bill proposes the voluntary use of Aadhaar as an identity proof for
opening bank accounts and for procuring mobile phone connections.
- It also proposes to give children an option to exit from the biometric ID programme on attaining 18 years of age.
- NITI Aayog will release the 2nd edition of 'Healthy States, Progressive India' report in New Delhi tomorrow.
- The Report will be released by NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Dr. Rajiv Kumar in presence of NITI Aayog Member Dr. V K Paul, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, Health Secretary Preeti Sudan and representatives from World Bank.
- The report takes a comprehensive look at health in terms of health outcomes, governance and processes and impact of policy interventions.
- Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari today announced that the ministry is going to modify the format of driving licenses to smart card type driving licences.
- The inistry has prescribed a common standard format and design of the Driving Licence for the whole of the country.
- This Ministry, through its flagship application called SARATHI developed by NIC, has a common countrywide database of all driving license holders.
- The SARATHI application has the feature to identify duplicate records online in real time and access information about the challans if any.
- To keep the state government better prepared to tackle natural disasters, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik recently unveiled a Flood Hazard Atlas for the state
- This atlas will help identify the flood-prone areas of the state so that necessary plans can be made to deal with the situation.
- The atlas has been prepared after analysing the data on flood between 2000 and 2018 in the state.
Books & Authors
- Author Vinit Goenka released his new co-authored book titled ‘Function of Data Sovereignty: The Pursuit of Supremacy’.
- He is founder member of Centre for Knowledge Sovereignty (CKS), which is an endeavour to acquire knowledge through experts of eminence in respective field.
Recent Committees in News
- A panel of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reviewing the size of capital reserves the central bank should hold has again delayed submitting its report due to lack of consensus.
- It will submit the report after the federal budget in July. The committee had previously deferred the submission on June 12.
- The six-member panel was headed by : Bimal Jalan (former RBI Governor)
Banking, Business & Economic Affairs
- Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor Viral Acharya has resigned today, 6 months before the scheduled end of his term in office.
- Acharya will return to the New York University Stern School of Business in August to teach.
- Important Note : With Viral Acharya's resignation, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is now left with 3 deputy governors. They are :
- N S Vishwanathan
- B P Kanungo
- M K Jain
- The government is looking at demerging National Insurance Company, United India Insurance Company and Oriental Insurance Company into smaller units.
- Following this, it will consider the strategic sale of a few operations to the private sector.
- Saudi Arabia has become the 1st Arab country to be granted full membership of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) following the group's annual general meeting in the US.
- The kingdom's accession came as the global money laundering
watchdog celebrated the 30th anniversary of its first meeting held in
Paris in 1989.
Sports Current Affairs
- Mercedes' British driver and defending world champion Lewis Hamilton registered his 6th win of the season after winning the French Grand Prix today.
- Exactly 125 years after the Olympic Games were revived, the International Olympic Committee(IOC) today formally opened its new headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
- The new headquarters costs 145 million US Dollars.
- IOC President : Thomas Bach
- South-East Asian countries will jointly bid to host the 2034 Football World Cup.
- The FIFA World Cup has held only once in the continent when Japan and South Korea were joint hosts in 2002.
- Qatar will bring it back to Asia in 2022.
- Note : The ASEAN countries are Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Brunei.
- In Boxing, India's junior women pugilists clinched 7 medals, including 5 gold, while the team was adjudged the best of the tournament in the Black Forest Cup in Villingen, Schwenningen, Germany.
- Haryana's Neha (54kg) and Karnataka's Anju Devi (50kg) claimed the honours of best boxer and promising player of the tournament.
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