current affairs of june 8-9 2013 : 1) Who replaced Ms. Aruna Roy in the 12-member National Advisory Council (NAC), an advisory body led by Sonia Gandhi? – Virginius Xaxa, an eminent sociologist (Xaxa has immense experience in the field of tribal welfare and is a professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The reconstituted NAC now includes A K Shiv Kumar, Anu Aga, Ashis Mondal, Deep Joshi, Farah Naqvi, Mihir Shah, Mirai Chatterjee, Narendra Jadhav, N C Saxena, Pramod Tandon and Virginius Xaxa, in addition to chairperson Sonia Gandhi) 2) After stopping airlines from charging passengers extra charges for choosing window and aisle seats, the civil aviation ministry has decided that it will define the number of seats for which airlines can charge more as part of the unbundled service system. What is the maximum number of preferential seats that a flight can have in a normal flight, such as Airbus 320 or Boeing 737? – 12 (Aviation ministry also decided that even a middle row seat can be among the 12, something it had objected to earlier) 3) Union govt. recently reduced the number of areas under the Armed Forces Special Power Act, 1958 (AFSPA) in the state of Tripura in view of decline in cases of insurgency in the state. How many police station areas are now under AFSPA after this reduction? – 32 (Now AFSPA will be effective fully in 25 police station areas and partly in 7. AFSPA was first put into effect in 40 of the total 70 police station areas in the state in February 1997, when the conflict between the insurgents and security forces was at its peak) 4) According to a figure presented at an international conference in Geneva on 7 June 2013, the United Nations is launching its biggest ever humanitarian appeal, seeking $5.2 billion to fund relief operations in a country afflicted with civil war for years. Which country is this? – Syria (This figure of %5.2 billion is a sharp increase from the $3 billion the UN had previously estimated it would need this year) 5) United States Govt. recently confirmed that it had been secretly collecting communication information from national and international communication traffic through its security agency National Security Administration (NSA). This process is known as electronic snooping and it includes huge variety of private and public data secretly accumulated from computer and telephone networks. Which country is the largest target of US electronic snooping, according to a report of British newspaper The Guardian? – Iran (NSA collected more than 14 billion reports from Iran. Iran is followed by Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt and India in this list. The extent of NSA’s surveillance of Indian communication traffic is greater than its electronic snooping efforts in China, Russia and Saudi Arabia) 6) What is the name of the CEO of Jet Airways, who resigned from his post recently? – Nikos Kardassis (Kardassis resigned in an effort to facilitate restructuring of top management in the company following its deal with Etihad) 7) Who won the women’s title of French Open 2013 on 8 June 2013? – Serena Williams of the US (She defeated Russia’s Maria Sharapova by 6-4, 6-4 to claim 16th Grand Slam title of his career. This was Serena’s second French Open title) 8) Which two important portfolios were retained by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, as his cabinet took the reins of Pakistan recently? – Defence and Foreign Affairs
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