Daily One Liner Current Affairs 1 June 2018

Hello and welcome to exampundit. Here are the important Daily One Liner Current Affairs 1 June 2018. These are important for the upcoming SBI PO & SBI Clerk Exams.

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Financial

  • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has ended the special dispensations granted earlier for non-banking financial corporations (NBFCs) owned by the government.
  • HDFC Bank has once again been recognized with the Champion Security Award at the 14th Visa Asia Pacific Security Summit. For the second time in a row, the bank has won the award in the India and South Asia category.
  • India and Singapore have agreed to improve access for businesses in each other’s markets as they concluded the second review of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA).
  • The Odisha government launched a health insurance scheme for working journalists in the state on Friday. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the scheme, called “Gopabandhu Sambadika Swasthya Bima Yojana”.
  • India’s first advanced ultra-supercritical thermal power plant would be set up in the Sipat station of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) in Chhattisgarh.
  • The price of non-subsidised cooking gas LPG was increased by 48 rupees per cylinder on June 1, 2018 in New Delhi.

Non-financial

  • Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi on Friday laid the foundation stone of an advanced DNA forensic laboratory as part efforts to reduce the backlog of cases needing advanced forensic analysis. Built at a cost of Rs 99.76 crore from the Nirbhaya Fund, the state-of-the-art ‘Sakhi Suraksha’ lab, will come up at the Central Forensic Science Laboratory campus in Chandigarh.
  • India and Singapore on Friday signed Memorandums of Understandings (MoU) and agreements in the area of cyber security, nursing and personnel management and public administration among others.
  • A Union home ministry-sponsored online analytical tool was launched today to facilitate closer monitoring of the flow and utilisation of foreign contributions received by NGOs and other organisations registered under the FCRA.
  • Social networking giant Facebook on May 31, 2018 partnered with the National Commission for Women (NCW) to launch a Digital Literacy Programme.
  • The Union Government on May 31, 2018 reconstituted the Press Council of India (PCI) for a three-year term. However, the names under medium newspaper category have not been declared yet as the matter related to it is sub-judice.
  • In Haryana, each district will now get one-stop centres to facilitate integrated services for women affected by violence.
  • The West Bengal government has appointed Virendra Kumar as the new director-general of police.
  • Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez took over as Spain’s prime minister on Friday, after parliament toppled his predecessor Mariano Rajoy in a no-confidence vote triggered by a corruption scandal involving members of his centre-right party.
  • Giuseppe Conte was sworn in as prime minister of Italy’s new populist government today after a last-ditch coalition deal ended months of political deadlock and narrowly avoided snap elections in the eurozone’s third largest economy.
  • Pandavani folk singer Teejan Bai has been chosen as a recipient of this year’s Fukuoka Prize. She has been announced the winner of the Arts and Culture Prize. The Fukuoka Prize, which has been awarded yearly since 1990 in Fukuoka, Japan, is conferred on outstanding individuals or groups that preserve and create the unique and diverse cultures of Asia.
  • Denmark’s Parliament on May 31, 2018 banned the wearing of face veils (burqa and niqab) in public places, a move that will criminalise Muslim women who choose to wear the niqab or burqa.
  • Two-time Commonwealth Games champion weightlifter Sanjita Chanu, who had won a gold in the women’s 53kg category in the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, was tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid, testosterone.
  • World Milk Day 2018 is observed on June 1, 2018. The theme of World Milk Day 2018 was “Raise a Glass”.

 

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