Current affairs- 11 June :: 1) What is the name of a new skill development scheme launched in 24 Naxal-affected districts of the country by the Ministry of Rural Development recently, which aims to provide training and employment to an anticipated 50,000 youth in the 10-35 years age group, for a period of three years? – Roshni (This scheme was launched on 7 June 2013 in Chattisgarh and Jharkhand. This scheme is a 100-crore project and is funded by union and state governments, with the union providing 75% of the funding) 2) How much penalty was imposed on ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and HDFC Bank by the Reserve Bank of India on charges of violating several RBI norms? – Penalty of Rs. 5 crore on Axis Bank, Rs. 4.50 crore on HDFC Bank and Rs. 1 crore on ICICI Bank (RBI imposed this penalty after investigating allegations on these three top private banks alleged by cobrapost, which had also charged these banks of indulging in money laundering. However, RBI didn’t reveal any prima facie evidence of money laundering) 3) Senior BJP leader LK Advani on 10 June 2013 resigned from 3 important posts he held in the party, in apparent opposition to Narendra Modi’s elevation to head of the Lok Sabha Poll Campaign Panel of the party a day ago. Which are these three posts? – The National Executive, the Parliamentary Board and the Election Committee 4) Which Yorkshire cricketer became the youngest player to play an English County match, by featuring in a match on 10 June 2013? – Matthew Fisher (Fisher, aged 15 years and 212 days, played against Leicestershire and took one for 40 from seven overs as well as scoring 10 runs off four balls. He broke the 1922 record set by Glamorgan’s Royston Gabe-Jones in 1922, by 62 days) 5) BCCI on 10 June 2013 suspended Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra from cricketing activities after holding an emergency meeting of the working committee in New Delhi. BCCI also unveiled a 12-point “Operation Clean-up” in a bid to restore the credibility of IPL. A two-member panel, which is currently investigating into Chennai Super Kings’ (CSK) Gurunath Meiyappan and CSK, was also given the task of also investigating into affairs of Raj Kundra and his team Rajasthan Royals. Who are the two members of this panel? – Justice T Jayaram Chouta and Justive R Balasubramaniam 6) China recently achieved an incredible breakthrough in diverting river water to its arid areas by linking two mighty rivers. Which are these two rivers? – Yangtze and Huang He (The first phase of a five-decade project to integrate the waters from the mighty Yangtze and Huang He rivers was completed recently. Water from the lower reaches of the Yangtze, which is Asia’s longest river, flowed through the lower reaches of Huang He, which is also called the Yellow River. This river diversion project was conceived by Mao Zedong in 1952, and approved by the State Council in December 2002) 7) The Andhra Pradesh High Court on 11 June 2013 approved the merger of Mahindra Satyam with Tech Mahindra while dismissing the petitions of some shareholders seeking to stall the proposal so as to safeguard their financial interest. This merger, when completed, will lead to creation of country’s ………largest software services firm. – 5th (Mahindra Satyam (MSat) was earlier known as Satyam Computer and was taken over by the Mahindra Group following alleged frauds committed by company’s former Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju. Mahindra Group now plans to merge MSat with Tech Mahindra, which is an IT firm established by the group in 1986) 8 ) Senior Congress leader and former union minister Vidya Charan Shukla died on 11 June 2013 at Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon, where he was undergoing treatment since 26 May 2013. He sustained serious injuries in the Maoist attack of 25 May 2013 in Chhattisgarh, in which almost all top state leadership of Congress was wiped out. Shukla was son of which legendary Congress leader from Madhya Pradesh, who was the first Chief Minister of the re-organised Madhya Pradesh? – Ravishankar Shukla (VC Shukla was a 9-time Lok Sabha member and was union minister under two former Prime Ministers – VP Singh and Narasimha Rao) 9) Which present Congress MP was accused of alleged cheating and graft by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in its fresh First Information Report (FIR) in the coal scam, which was filed on 11 June 2013? – Naveen Jindal (Former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao was also accused in this report. Rao, a former Congress Rajya Sabha MP, held position of Minister of state for Coal between 2004 and 2008) 10) What is the name of China’s fifth manned space mission that was launched into space on 11 June 2013, that will be the longest manned mission till-date comprising of 15-days? – Shenzhou-10 (The spacecraft will dock with the Tiangong space laboratory module and it carried three Chinese astronauts, including China’s second female astronaut) 11) Which company on 11 June 2013 surpassed state-run energy giant ONGC to become the county’s second most valued firm in terms of market valuation (capitalisation)? – ITC (ITC’s market capitalisation stood at Rs. 2,64,908 crore on 11 June, which was about Rs 972 crore more than ONGC’s Rs. 2,63,936 crore value. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) continued to remain highest capitalised Indian company on bourses with a market capitalisation of Rs. 2,93,318 crore) 12) What is the name of the whistleblower who exposed the US Government’s internet spy program and who is being wanted by the CIA presently? – Edward Snowden (Snowden is a former employee of US investigation agency CIA. He also worked as a contractor for National Security Agency (NSA). He later disclosed details of classified NSA programme to the press, which also included top secret NSA programmmes including the PRISM surveillance program involving electronic snooping of various countries) 13) What is the name of a new film production house jointly promoted by producer Anurag Basu and actor Ranbir Kapoor, which would be started soon? – “Picture Shuru Productions” (Ranbir acted in Anurag Basu’s acclaimed film “Barfi” and the duo is featuring together in another film “Jagga Jasoos”, which will be released through this newly proposed production house)
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