Current Affairs Update – 18th June, 2016

Hello and welcome to exampundit . Here are the important Current Affairs of 18th June, 2016. These are important for the upcoming SBI PO Mains 2016.

• India and South Korea have
  launched Korea Plus, a special platform to promote and facilitate Korean
  Investments in India.
• Korea Plus will act as a mediator
  in arranging meetings, assisting in public relations and research/evaluation
  and provide information and counselling to Korean companies investing in India.
• An MOU for establishing Korea
  Plus was signed in January 2016 following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit
  to South Korea in May 2015.

• Boeing and Tata Advanced Systems
  Limited (TASL) have joined hands to set up a facility here to co-produce Boeing
  AH-64 Apache helicopter fuselages and other aerostructures.
• Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar
  on Saturday laid the foundation stone of Tata Boeing Aerospace Limited (TBAL)
  at the aerospace Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Adibatla on the city outskirts.
• The facility will also deal in integrated
  systems in aerospace.
• The Hyderabad production facility
  will eventually be the sole producer of AH-64 fuselage globally.
• The AH-64 Apache is the world’s
  most advanced multi-role combat helicopter and used by the US forces as well as
  many other countries, including India.

• Creating history, Avani
  Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh today became the first women fighter
  pilots to be formally commissioned by the Indian Air Force.
• Batting for gender parity in the
  armed forces, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, who was chief guest at the
  combined graduation ceremony at Air Force Academy, Dundigal on the city
  outskirts, termed the event as a “milestone” as it also the first
  time that women have been given a combat role.
• Expressing happiness, the three
  women pilots, who successfully completed pre-commissioning training by the
  Flight Cadets of various branches of IAF, said they consider themselves
  “fortunate” and were excited to take on their duties.
• The trio will go to Bidar in
  Karnataka for their stage-III training for a year on Hawk advanced jet
  trainers, before they get to fly supersonic warplanes.
• Six female cadets were competing
  to become fighter pilots after the government, in a landmark move, approved an
  IAF plan in October to induct them as fighter pilots.
• However, only three female
  trainees were selected for the fighter stream.
• Parrikar, who reviewed the
  passing out parade, conferred ‘President’s Commission’ on behalf the President
  to 130 Flight Cadets, including 22 women trainees, who were commissioned as
  Flying Officers.

• India and Namibia on 16 June 2016
  signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) on capacity building for civil
  servants of Namibia and to set up of centre of excellence in Information and
  Communications Technology (ICT).
• The agreements were signed after
  a dialogue between President Pranab Mukherjee and his Namibian counterpart Hage
  Geingob.
• Namibia is committed to honour
  the deal signed with India in 2009 to supply Uranium for civil use.
• Namibia is the fourth largest
  producer of uranium and assured India that it study the framework New Delhi has
  signed with 12 other countries including UK, US, Australia, Sri Lanka, France
  and South Korea besides others.

• Microsoft was on 17 June 2016
  selected as the technical partner to build a mobile Application (app) for Union
  Human Resources Ministry’s SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young
  Aspiring Minds) platform.
• The platform will launch 2000
  Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for over three crore students in 2016.
• Microsoft signed a deal of 38
  crore rupees with All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) to build and
  run the app for three years. Later, it will be taken over by AICTE.
• Microsoft will deploy a team of
  dedicated people to set up the state-of-the-art application.

• The Indian hockey team settled
  for a silver medal in its best ever Champions Trophy performance after the
  spirited side went down 1-3 to world champions Australia in a
  controversy-marred summit clash penalty shootout here.
• Only Harmanpreet Singh was able
  to score in the shootout, while SK Uthappa, SV Sunil and Surender Kumar all hit
  wide off the target. Just four attempts were required from the two teams as
  Australia had gained a winning 3-1 lead.
• Aran Zalewski, Daniel Beale and
  Simon Orchard scored for Australia, while Trent Mitton’s try was blocked by
  goalkeeper PR Sreejesh.
• India thus improved on its bronze
  medal show in the 1982 edition.

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