Current Affairs 12 June 2013 1. NIOT has installed ETWS installed at Rangachang in Andaman and Nicobar Islands to predict Tsunami within three minutes of being triggered. 2. Indian railway will start the services of booking travel tickets through SMS. The services will start from July 2013. 3. Union government of India on 11 June 2013 doubled the special monetary allowance given to gallantry award recipients. 4. The first meeting of the Cauvery Supervisory Committee was held on 8 June 2013 which decided to review the position of storage levels. 5. CBI on 11 June 2013 registered an FIR against Naveen Jindal, Dasari Narayana Rao and five private companies in context of getting coal block in Jharkhand. 6. South Korea on 11 June 2013 called off the high-level talks with North Korea, as scheduled to begin in Seoul on 12 June 2013. 7. The Competition Commission on 10 June 2013 has approved acquisition of a manufacturing facility of Unichem Laboratories by pharma firm Mylan Laboratories. 8. World Day against Child Labour was celebrated on 12 June 2013. The theme this year was, No to Child Labour in Domestic Work. 9. The cap on online repatriation of export proceeds was raised by to 10000 US dollars by RBI to arrest the slide in the value of rupee and boost Forex inflows. 10. Microsoft India on 11 June 2013 announced its partnership with the Kolkata-based JIS Group for setting up its innovation centre. 11. Vidya Charan Shukla, a former Union Minister and Congress veteran from Chhattisgarh, died on 11 June 2013 of multiple organ failure. 12. FEEs for May 2013 increased by more than 9 percent and the FTAs went up by 3.2 percent in the same period. 13. India and a top US science body in Month of June 2013 have forged an international organisation to develop space solar power. 14. State Government and Police of Assam have been ordered by the Gauhati High Court to enquire the role on Ajmal in Assam Violence and submit a report. 15. Raj Kundra was suspended from IPL for his alleged involvement in betting on IPL matches by BCCI on 10 June 2013. 16. The Karnataka state government on 11 June 2013 amended the Karnataka Police Act, 1963 17. Retail inflation declines for third straight month, stands at 9.31 pc in May ……….. 18. Falling for the third straight month, retail inflation stood at 9.31 percent in May due to easing of prices of edible oil and protein-based items, even as vegetable prices inched up sharply. 19. The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday approved the merger of Mahindra Satyam (MSat) with Tech Mahindra while dismissing the petitions of some shareholders seeking to stall the proposal in its current form so as to safeguard their financial interest. 20. Rupee recovered by 19 paise to 58.20 against Dollar in early trade on Wednesday at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market after RBI announced steps to check free-fall in Rupee, raising the limit for online repatriation of export proceeds by over three-fold to USD 10,000 – 21. Nearly 30,000 people from Odisha led by BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik gathered at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on Wednesday to protest against the Centre’s apathy towards the State’s demand for the special category status…..“It has been a very long-standing demand of Odisha for special category status. The State satisfies the existing criteria for special status. 22. Spain beat Ireland 2-0, leave for Confederations Cup…….Spain completed their preparations for the Confederations Cup late on Tuesday with a 2-0 friendly defeat of the Republic of Ireland in New York. 23. A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the State government to take over the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA), with all its property, and run it as a sports organisation for the betterment of aspiring young cricketers. 24. Volkswagen Group announced on Tuesday it was recalling some Golf, Jetta, Polo, Passat and Caddy models in Australia made between June 2008 and September 2011.the recall, initially affecting 25,928 vehicles, would be extended to cover some Audi and Skoda models produced by the Volkswagen Group…..As many as 38,000 vehicles could be recalled in Australia……………Customers complained that the cars were suddenly losing power. 25. The industrial production growth has slipped to 2 per cent in April on account of dismal performance of manufacturing, mining and power sectors coupled with lower output of capital goods. ……….The factory output measured in terms of index of industrial production (IIP) had seen a contraction of 1.3 per cent in April last year, according to official data. 26. नेताजी सुभाषचंद्र बोस के साथी व आजाद हिंद फौज के योद्धा सागर सिंह का निधन हो गया. 27. भारत के राजस्थान स्थित महाजन फील्ड फायरिंग रेंज में भारत और रूस के बीच एक संयुक्त सैन्याभ्यास इंद्र-2013 का आयोजन अक्टूबर 2013 में करने का निर्णय लिया गया है. 28. मई 2013 माह में विदेशी पर्यटकों से होने वाली विदेशी मुद्रा आय वर्ष 2013 के मई माह के मुकाबले नौ फीसदी अधिक रही. 29. रिजर्व बैंक ने डॉलर के मुकाबले रूपये की गिरती कीमत को रोकने के लिए विदेशी मुद्रा के भण्डार को बढ़ाने के परिप्रेक्ष्य में कदम उठाये. 30. रूपया अब तक के न्यूनतम स्तर पर, एक डॉलर की कीमत 58.16 रूपये 31. रूपया 10 जून 2013 को अमेरिकी डॉलर के मुकाबले 110 पैसे की गिरावट के साथ अपने अब तक के न्यूनतम स्तर 58.16 प्रति डॉलर तक चला गया. 32. भाजपा के पूर्व अध्यक्ष लालकृष्ण आडवाणी का भारतीय जनता पार्टी के संसदीय बोर्ड, राष्ट्रीय कार्यकारिणी और चुनाव समिति से इस्तीफा.
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