Current Affairs Update – 28th June, 2016

Hello and welcome to exampundit . Here are the important Current Affairs of 28th June, 2016. These are important for the upcoming SBI PO Mains & UBI PO PBDBF Exams 2016.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on
  25 June 2016 launched several projects for 20 Smart Cities in Pune under the
  Smart City Mission.
• The Projects were launched
  exactly a year after Union Government launched the flagship Smart City Mission
  in June 2015 by releasing the Mission Guidelines.

• Projects were launched in 20
  cities selected in the first batch of mission through a city challenge
  competition.
• Pune stood second in the selected
  cities.
• Projects launched in Pune include
  slum rehabilitation, street and pedestrian walkway, modern buses with
  alternative fuels, traffic demand modelling project and city common mobility
  card.
• Ahmedabad has launched sewage
  treatment plant, housing project, smart learning in municipal schools.
• Bhubaneswar, which topped the
  list in the city challenge, has launched a railway multi-modal hub, traffic
  signalisation project and urban knowledge centre.
• In New Delhi Municipal Council, a
  mini-sewerage treatment plants, 444 smart class rooms, WiFi, smart LED
  streetlights, city surveillance, command and control centre were launched.
• The 20 selected cities would be
  linked through video conferencing.

• PM Modi also inaugurated the Make
  Your City SMART contest aimed at continuing citizen participation in the
  planning. Suggestions and designs suggested by the citizens will be
  incorporated by respective smart cities.
• A Smart Net Portal was also
  inaugurated to enable the cities under different urban missions to share ideas
  and source solutions for various issues during the implementation of various
  missions.

• Ola, the mobile transportation
  app, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Haryana government
  to create over 10,000 entrepreneurs in the state.
• As part of the MoU, Ola will
  invest Rs. 350 crore over the next five years to train men and women for
  entrepreneurship. Ola will also work with the state government to introduce
  mobility solutions such as Ola Auto, Ola Bike, Ola Share and Ola Shuttle across
  the state.
• Haryana is banking on technology
  and skill development amongst the youth for further development in the region.

• N S Vishwanathan is new deputy
  governor at Reserve Bank of India. Currently he is serving as an executive
  director at the central bank.
• The Appointments Committee of the
  Cabinet (ACC) made the announcement on 28 June.
• Vishwanathan will succeed H R
  Khan as the Deputy Governor of RBI on July 3, 2016.
• RBI has provision for four deputy
  governors, two of whom are appointed from outside while the other two Deputy
  Governors are traditionally appointed from those working within RBI.

• Gudni Johannesson on 26 June 2016
  won Iceland’s presidential election. The history professor who ran as an
  independent in the election was able to secure 39.1% of the vote.
• He will succeed Olafur Ragnar
  Grimsson, who served 20 years as head of state.
• The elections were held in the
  backdrop of the Panama Papers leak in April, which implicated several top
  officials of the country.
• Johannesson, a history professor,
  who is a newcomer in the politics decided to run for the presidency after the
  leak and rode a wave of anti-establishment sentiment.
• Halla Tomasdottir, a
  businesswoman without party affiliation, came second with 27.9%. While David
  Oddsson, a former conservative prime minister and central bank governor won
  just 13% of the vote.

• Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva
  Abhiyan (PMSMA), an initiative of the Narendra Modi Government, was launched in
  June 2016.
• The scheme aims at boosting the
  health care facilities for the pregnant women, especially the poor. It also
  seeks to protect pregnant ladies from infectious diseases.
• Under the scheme, the pregnant
  ladies will be given free health check-up and required treatment for free on
  9th of every month. The scheme will be applicable for pregnant women to avail
  in every government hospitals across India.

• All kinds of medical checkups
  under the scheme will be completely free.
• Tests will take place at the medical
  centres, government and private hospitals and private clinics across the
  country.
• Women will be marked differently
  based on their health problems so that doctors can easily detect the problem.
• The scheme is applicable only to
  the women in their pregnancy period of 3 to 6 months.
• The women belonging to semi
  urban, poor and rural areas will be given preferences.

• Uttar Pradesh government in June
  2016 declared that all natural calamities including unseasonal heavy rain,
  lightning, Loo and storm and others will be treated as state disaster.
• As per the decision all victims
  of these disasters will be given relief as per provisions made under State
  Disaster Relief Fund by the Union government.
• A large number of people suffer
  due to these natural causes every year and the new system introduced will
  greatly benefit the victims and their kin. He also apprised that the
  notification in this regard has also been issued.
• Besides, bus stations across all
  75 districts of state will soon have sanitary napkin vending machines. For this
  purpose, the state government is working to install coin-based automatic
  sanitary napkin vending machines at bus stations. Expected to be launched on World
  Population Day on July 11, the project would be rolled out in three phases.

• Sweden on 22 June 2016
  inaugurated a test stretch of an electric road. With this, the country has
  become one of the first countries in the world to conduct tests with electric
  power for heavy transports on public roads.
• The test was conducted on parts
  of road E16. It involved a current collector on the roof of the truck cab
  feeding the current down to a hybrid electric motor in the truck.

• The tests will continue up
  through 2018.
• They will provide knowledge of
  how electric roads work in practice.
• It will offer a glimpse on
  whether the technology can be used in the future.
• The experiment is based on the
  government’s goal of energy efficiency and a fossil fuel-free vehicle fleet by
  2030. It will also contribute to strengthening Sweden’s competitiveness.

• Xerxes Sapur Desai, the man who
  founded Titan Co Ltd, died on 27 June 2016 following a prolonged illness in
  Bengaluru. He was 79.
• Desai played a key role in
  introducing India to its first quartz watch in the late 80s when he set up
  Titan Co. Ltd (part of Tata Sons), after enduring years of resistance from
  state-owned HMT Watches.

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