Economic, Environment, Science & Sports Current Affairs of Last two Weeks---------------------------------------------------------------------------►-Economic: 1. NABARD and SFAC signed a MoU for development of Small Farm Producers. 2. Prime Minister has dedicated 25 km-long Katra-Udhampur railway line of Jammu to the nation and named it as Shree Shakti Express. 3. Indian Railways successfully conducted trail run of a semi-high-speed train between Agra and Delhi. 4. CCEA approved inclusion of onion and potato under the purview of stock holding limits of Essential Commodities Act 1955, to curb price rise. 5. Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry on 26 June 2014 delicensed manufacturing of defence items. ►-Environment: 1. Meteorologists of the US has upgraded Storm Arthur to a hurricane as it churn off the North Carolina coast on the eve of Independence Day. 2. MoEF has approved proposal of Maharashtra Government to notify Bor Wildlife Sanctuary as 47th Tiger Reserve of India and sixth of the state. 3. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on 24 June 2014 released a report titled The Environment Crime Crisis at the first United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya. The Report is a rapid response assessment by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and INTERPOL. 4. GHNPCA inscribed in the World Heritage List by the World Heritage Committee in Doha. 5. 367 exotic new species were discovered in the greater Mekong region in Southeast Asia. ►-Science: 1. NASA on 2 July 2014 launched Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), a satellite designed to track carbon dioxide. 2. SRO has launched PSLV C23 that carried five satellites from four nations from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. 3. The Royal Astronomical Society,London on 24 June 2014 unveiled the NASA plan to build AT LAST in Portsmouth 4. Earth’s largest water reservoir might be located deep inside the Earth’s mantle 5. New titanium Oxide tiles were developed by the research team from University of California to fight against Air Pollution. ►-Sports: 1. ISSF ranked Indian shooter Jitu Rai as world’s number 1 in the mens 10m air pistol category. 2. Indian cueist, Pankaj Advani won his maiden IBSF 6-Red World snooker title at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt by defeating Kacper Flilpiak of Poland. 3. Indian Olympic Association announced the dates of 35th National Games. The games will be held from 31 January to 14 February 2015 in Kerala. 4. The in-exile-President of BCCI, N Srinivasan has been appointed as the first Chairperson of ICC for a period of two years from 2014 to 2016. 5. Jitu Rai on 19 June 2014 became the first Indian to win three medals in successive ISSF Shooting World Cup.------
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:40:18 +0000
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