1.Newly constituted Banks Board Bureau, headed by former DoPT Secretary B P Sharma, will shortlist candidates for about 30 top-level vacancies in the public sector banks.The BBB has its genesis in the recommendations of The Committee to Review Governance of Boards of Banks in India, May 2014.The Bureau started functioning from April 01, 2016 as an autonomous recommendatory body.
2.Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal flagged off Humsafar Jodhpur Bandra Express at Bhagat Ki Kothi Railway Station in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur.Adequate arrangements have been made in the trains, including mobile charging points, CCTV and Bio Toilets.
3.IAF chief B S Dhanoa will begin a four-day visit to Brazil to explore possibilities of deeper defence cooperation between the two countries.The visit would also strengthen relationships and enable engagement in productive exchanges between the two air forces.The air chief marshal is embarking on the goodwill visit at the invitation of his Brazilian counterpart.
4.The Reserve Bank of India has chosen ‘customer protection’ as the theme for the Financial Literacy Week beginning on June 4.The event ending on June 8 will focus on creating awareness among customers of banks about financial products and services, good financial practices and going digital.Bankers, Financial Literacy Counsellors and other stakeholders will participate to create awareness.
5.India has successfully test-fired it’s indigenously developed nuclear capable long-range ballistic missile Agni-5 from Dr. Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast.The missile has been developed by DRDO and has a strike range of 5,000 kilometers.
6.Himachal Pradesh’s CM Jai Ram Thakur said the tourist season and the increasing population led to water scarcity in Shimla.Water available in traditional sources has gone down this year, he added.Shimla is facing acute water shortage for over 10 days, prompting residents to request tourists to not visit the city.
7.Environment-friendly, clean & equipped with amenities of international standards for tourists, 13 Indian beaches will soon get the Blue Flag certification.Beaches of Odisha, Maharashtra & other coastal states will be the 1st in not just India, but in Asia, to get the Blue Flag certification.The Indian beaches are being developed by the Society for Integrated Coastal Management (SICOM).
8.An orchid at National Orchid Garden in Singapore was named ‘Dendrobium Narendra Modi’.Now three flowers are named after PM Narendra Modi.Last year, a fast-growing Israeli Chrysanthemum was named ‘MODI’ during the PM Modi’s visit to the nation.An orchid grown in Sikkim was named ‘Cymbidium Namo’ in 2016 by the state CM Pawan Chamling.
9.A ‘Taj Declaration to Beat Plastic Pollution’ was adopted. Efforts would be made to make the 500-metre area around the 17th-century monument litter-free.Steps would also be taken to phase out single-use plastic there.Minister of State for Environment Mahesh Sharma said India and the whole world was grappling with pollution due to plastics.
10.India will import its first ever cargo of LNG from Russia under a long-term deal.State-owned gas utility GAIL India Ltd will bring the shipload of LNG from Gazprom at Petronet LNG Ltd’s import terminal here, official sources said.
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