1. Vijai Sharma appointed as Chief Information Commissioner of IndiaVijai Sharma was appointed as the Chief Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission (CIC), New Delhi. He will have tenure of 5 years or till he attain the age of 65, whichever is earlier.
Prior to this appointment, he was serving as an Information Commissioner in Central Information Commission since 2012. Vijai Sharma is a 1974 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh Cadre.
Vijai Sharma’s name for post of Chief Information Commissioner was finalized on 1 June 2015 by Selection Committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His appointment was further approved by President Pranab Mukherjee.
2. KV Chowdary appointed as Chief Vigilance Commissioner
1978-batch IRS officer KV Chowdary was appointed as the Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC). He was appointed by President Pranab Mukherjee on the recommendation of Selection committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
With this appointment, Chowdary became first non-IAS officer to head the CVC since it was formed in 1964. He is a 1978-batch IRS officer of the Income Tax cadre.
Prior to this appointment, Chowdary was working as an Adviser to the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team which is probing black money cases. Earlier, he had also served as Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).
3. ICICI Bank to appoint MK Sharma as non-executive Chairman
ICICI Bank board has approved the appointment of M K Sharma as the new non-executive Chairman of the Board for a period of 5 years. MK Sharma was formerly the Vice Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
Sharma will succeed KV Kamath, who would step down from the Board to take on a bigger role as the first President of New Development Bank, established by the BRICS nations.
“The appointment of the new non-executive Chairman is subject to the prior approval of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and would be effective July 1, 2015 or the date of receipt of RBI approval, whichever is later,” ICICI Bank said in a statement.
Sharma was an independent Director on the Board of ICICI Bank for eight years from 2003 to 2011 and is an independent director of several companies.
At present, he is an independent Director of two subsidiaries of the Bank, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company and ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company.
4. Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy written by Saptarshi Sarkar
The book Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy was written by Saptarshi Sarkar and was published in April 2015 by HarperCollins India.
The biography of former Indian Cricket Captain Sourav Ganguly deals with his cricketing career.
In the book, the author throws light on some of the issues related to Ganguly’s career like underrated all-rounder, Lord of the left handers, relation with Aussies, brand Ganguly, etc.
Earlier, two books were published on Ganguly - Sourav Ganguly by Vinod Tiwari and Sourav Ganguly, the maharaja of cricket by Debashish Datta which were published in 2005 and 2007 respectively.
5. Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Canada Grand Prix of Formula 1
Mercedes racing driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won the 2015 Formula 1 Canada Grand Prix title by winning the final race held in Montreal, Canada.
In the final race, while, his team mate Nico Rosberg of Germany stood at the second position, Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany was at the third position.
Sergio Perez (Mexico) and Nico Hulkenberg (Germany) of Force India stood at the 11th and 12nd positions respectively.
For Hamilton, it was the fourth victory at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Montreal’s Isle Notre-Dame, where he earned his first Grand Prix win in 2007.
Earlier in 2015, he won the Australian, Chineese and Bahrain Gran Prix titles.
6. Momota and Ratchanok won Indonesia Open Badminton titles
Japanese rising star shuttler Kento Momota and Thailand's Ratchanok Intanon won the men’s and women’s singles respectively of the Indonesia Open Badminton tournament.
Indonesia Open Badminton tournament was held at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta, Indonesia. The total prize money at stake was 800000 US dollars.
Kento Momota defeated Denmark's defending champion and third seed Jan O. Jorgensen 16-21, 21-19, 21-7. Kento Momota is World No.9. This was the 20-year-old's second victory in a Super series event.
In the women's singles final, former world champion and world No.6 Ratchanok defeated Japan's world No.35 Yui Hashimoto 21-12, 21-10. Meanwhile South Korea's Ko Sung Hyun and Shin Baek Choel beat China's Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan 21-16, 16-21, 21-19 in 53 minutes to win the men's double title.
In the women's singles final, China's Tang Jinhua and Tian Qing defeated Indonesia's Nitya Krishinda Maheswari and Grysia Polii 21-11, 21-10. The mixed doubles title went to Xu Chen and Ma Jin, who beat Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei 21-17, 21-16.
India's campaign ended following Parupalli Kashyap's loss to Momota in the semi-final.
7. Manchester United Football Club became World’s most valuable brand with 1.2 billion US dollars
The Manchester United became the World’s most valuable brand in the World football with 1.2 billion US dollars. Also, it became the first club to pass the 1 billion US dollar mark.
It was revealed in the study titled Football 50 2015 released by the Brand Finance, a leading brand valuation and strategy consultancy.
The United has beaten Bayern Munich and Real Madrid to reclaim their position as the biggest brand in world football.
The Club’s record-breaking deals drive up the brand value which includes UK broadcast deal for Premier League rights commencing from the 2016-17 season worth 7.8 billion US dollars.
Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based at Old Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. It was founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878 and the name was changed to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.
8. Flood of fire written by Amitav Ghosh
Booker Prize awardee Amitav Ghosh released his new novel Flood of fire. With the novel, he has concluded the Ibis trilogy, his fictional recreation of the events leading up to the first opium war of 1839-42.
The Ibis trilogy is a work of historical fiction by Amitav Ghosh. It comprises Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011), and Flood of Fire (2015). The story is set in the first half of the 19th century. It deals with the trade of opium between India and China run by the East India Company and the trafficking of coolies to Mauritius.
It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to reinstate the trade. Among those consigned is Kesri Singh, a soldier in the army of the East India Company. He makes his way eastward on the Hind, a transport ship that will carry him from Bengal to Hong Kong.
With all the verve of the first two novels in the trilogy, Flood of Fire completes Ghosh's unprecedented reenvisioning of the nineteenth-century war on drugs. With remarkable historic vision and a vibrant cast of characters, Ghosh brings the Opium Wars to bear on the contemporary moment with the storytelling that has charmed readers around the world.
Cyclonic storm ASHOBAA was in news after it developed into a cyclonic storm from only a depression that formed over the Arabian Sea. The cyclone is centered at 17.9°N and 67.2°E and is lying about 590 km west-southwest of Mumbai and 470 km southwest of Veraval, Gujarat.
According to Skymet Meteorology Division in India, the cyclone would carry heavy rainfall at most places over coastal Karnataka, Konkan and Goa as well as south Gujarat. It will also carry strong winds ranging 70 to 120 kilometers per hour.
ASHOBAA is the first tropical storm of the pre-monsoon season in the Indian seas which developed into a cyclone after sustaining strength.
ASHOBAA is expected to affect the Indian monsoon as in 2014 cyclonic storm Nanauk in Arabian Sea affected the progress of monsoon. It was supposed to hit Mumbai by 10 June 2014 but finally arrived on 15 June 2014.
10. Denudation in mangrove vegetation of Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary
The Mangrove Forest Division (MFD) of Bhitarkanika in first week of June 2015 revealed that Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary of Odisha is witnessing an alarming denudation in large tracts of mangrove vegetation.
The Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary is one of India’s biggest estuarine crocodile habitats and a major coastal eco-system.
According to MFD, the denudation or saline blank formations have been noticed in Bhitarkanika forest block, which is measured at 1700 acre. It said that the denuded patches, spotted in Mathadia, could be over 30 acres in this block area.
The denudation has been noted among the Avicennia and Excoecaria species, popularly known as Bani and Guan.
The denudation (blank formations) of the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary is a cause of worry for following reasons
• As mangroves are just not a lifeline for the eco-system which is a home to a rich flora and fauna but it also acts as an environment cushion for the coastlines.
• The excessive salinity creates a blank formation over a period of time as the existing vegetation dies.
• Most mangrove species have a salinity resistance that ranges from 5 ppt to 35 ppt. Only Avicennia marina species can tolerate up to 70 ppt salinity
11. SBI Life launches tablet service to digitise documentation process
In a bid to go paperless, SBI Life Insurance today introduced ‘Connect Life’, a tablet-based service to digitise the entire documentation process.
"It begins with a built-in need analysis calculator that offers a customer the right products to choose from, filling the proposal form with a facility of paying premium and uploading necessary documents from the tablet. Distribution partners from all the sales channels of SBI Life can sell insurance products through this facility,” SBI Life said in a statement.
The product brochures and videos help them make an informed choice with recommendations from the need analysis report and SBI Life's expert distribution partners. The customer can fill in the proposal form, upload his/her documents, instantly pay the premium and be assured of making an informed and right decision, it further said.
12. IIT Delhi ranked best engineering college in India
IIT Delhi has been ranked as the best engineering college in India while Kolkata’s Jadavpur University leads the pack among government colleges, according to a report.
In the recently released EDU-RAND 2015 rankings, IIT Delhi is at the top of the list, followed by the IITs in Kharagpur, Mumbai, Chennai, Guwahati, and Kanpur.
Kolkata’s Jadavpur University is ranked the best government engineering college in the country, while BITS Pilani occupies the first place amongst private colleges.
1. Vijai Sharma appointed as Chief Information Commissioner of IndiaVijai Sharma was appointed as the Chief Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission (CIC), New Delhi. He will have tenure of 5 years or till he attain the age of 65, whichever is earlier.
Prior to this appointment, he was serving as an Information Commissioner in Central Information Commission since 2012. Vijai Sharma is a 1974 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh Cadre.
Vijai Sharma’s name for post of Chief Information Commissioner was finalized on 1 June 2015 by Selection Committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His appointment was further approved by President Pranab Mukherjee.
2. KV Chowdary appointed as Chief Vigilance Commissioner
1978-batch IRS officer KV Chowdary was appointed as the Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC). He was appointed by President Pranab Mukherjee on the recommendation of Selection committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
With this appointment, Chowdary became first non-IAS officer to head the CVC since it was formed in 1964. He is a 1978-batch IRS officer of the Income Tax cadre.
Prior to this appointment, Chowdary was working as an Adviser to the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team which is probing black money cases. Earlier, he had also served as Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).
3. ICICI Bank to appoint MK Sharma as non-executive Chairman
ICICI Bank board has approved the appointment of M K Sharma as the new non-executive Chairman of the Board for a period of 5 years. MK Sharma was formerly the Vice Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
Sharma will succeed KV Kamath, who would step down from the Board to take on a bigger role as the first President of New Development Bank, established by the BRICS nations.
“The appointment of the new non-executive Chairman is subject to the prior approval of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and would be effective July 1, 2015 or the date of receipt of RBI approval, whichever is later,” ICICI Bank said in a statement.
Sharma was an independent Director on the Board of ICICI Bank for eight years from 2003 to 2011 and is an independent director of several companies.
At present, he is an independent Director of two subsidiaries of the Bank, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company and ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company.
4. Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy written by Saptarshi Sarkar
The book Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy was written by Saptarshi Sarkar and was published in April 2015 by HarperCollins India.
The biography of former Indian Cricket Captain Sourav Ganguly deals with his cricketing career.
In the book, the author throws light on some of the issues related to Ganguly’s career like underrated all-rounder, Lord of the left handers, relation with Aussies, brand Ganguly, etc.
Earlier, two books were published on Ganguly - Sourav Ganguly by Vinod Tiwari and Sourav Ganguly, the maharaja of cricket by Debashish Datta which were published in 2005 and 2007 respectively.
5. Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Canada Grand Prix of Formula 1
Mercedes racing driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won the 2015 Formula 1 Canada Grand Prix title by winning the final race held in Montreal, Canada.
In the final race, while, his team mate Nico Rosberg of Germany stood at the second position, Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany was at the third position.
Sergio Perez (Mexico) and Nico Hulkenberg (Germany) of Force India stood at the 11th and 12nd positions respectively.
For Hamilton, it was the fourth victory at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Montreal’s Isle Notre-Dame, where he earned his first Grand Prix win in 2007.
Earlier in 2015, he won the Australian, Chineese and Bahrain Gran Prix titles.
6. Momota and Ratchanok won Indonesia Open Badminton titles
Japanese rising star shuttler Kento Momota and Thailand's Ratchanok Intanon won the men’s and women’s singles respectively of the Indonesia Open Badminton tournament.
Indonesia Open Badminton tournament was held at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta, Indonesia. The total prize money at stake was 800000 US dollars.
Kento Momota defeated Denmark's defending champion and third seed Jan O. Jorgensen 16-21, 21-19, 21-7. Kento Momota is World No.9. This was the 20-year-old's second victory in a Super series event.
In the women's singles final, former world champion and world No.6 Ratchanok defeated Japan's world No.35 Yui Hashimoto 21-12, 21-10. Meanwhile South Korea's Ko Sung Hyun and Shin Baek Choel beat China's Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan 21-16, 16-21, 21-19 in 53 minutes to win the men's double title.
In the women's singles final, China's Tang Jinhua and Tian Qing defeated Indonesia's Nitya Krishinda Maheswari and Grysia Polii 21-11, 21-10. The mixed doubles title went to Xu Chen and Ma Jin, who beat Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei 21-17, 21-16.
India's campaign ended following Parupalli Kashyap's loss to Momota in the semi-final.
7. Manchester United Football Club became World’s most valuable brand with 1.2 billion US dollars
The Manchester United became the World’s most valuable brand in the World football with 1.2 billion US dollars. Also, it became the first club to pass the 1 billion US dollar mark.
It was revealed in the study titled Football 50 2015 released by the Brand Finance, a leading brand valuation and strategy consultancy.
The United has beaten Bayern Munich and Real Madrid to reclaim their position as the biggest brand in world football.
The Club’s record-breaking deals drive up the brand value which includes UK broadcast deal for Premier League rights commencing from the 2016-17 season worth 7.8 billion US dollars.
Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based at Old Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. It was founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878 and the name was changed to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.
8. Flood of fire written by Amitav Ghosh
Booker Prize awardee Amitav Ghosh released his new novel Flood of fire. With the novel, he has concluded the Ibis trilogy, his fictional recreation of the events leading up to the first opium war of 1839-42.
The Ibis trilogy is a work of historical fiction by Amitav Ghosh. It comprises Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011), and Flood of Fire (2015). The story is set in the first half of the 19th century. It deals with the trade of opium between India and China run by the East India Company and the trafficking of coolies to Mauritius.
It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to reinstate the trade. Among those consigned is Kesri Singh, a soldier in the army of the East India Company. He makes his way eastward on the Hind, a transport ship that will carry him from Bengal to Hong Kong.
With all the verve of the first two novels in the trilogy, Flood of Fire completes Ghosh's unprecedented reenvisioning of the nineteenth-century war on drugs. With remarkable historic vision and a vibrant cast of characters, Ghosh brings the Opium Wars to bear on the contemporary moment with the storytelling that has charmed readers around the world.
Cyclonic storm ASHOBAA was in news after it developed into a cyclonic storm from only a depression that formed over the Arabian Sea. The cyclone is centered at 17.9°N and 67.2°E and is lying about 590 km west-southwest of Mumbai and 470 km southwest of Veraval, Gujarat.
According to Skymet Meteorology Division in India, the cyclone would carry heavy rainfall at most places over coastal Karnataka, Konkan and Goa as well as south Gujarat. It will also carry strong winds ranging 70 to 120 kilometers per hour.
ASHOBAA is the first tropical storm of the pre-monsoon season in the Indian seas which developed into a cyclone after sustaining strength.
ASHOBAA is expected to affect the Indian monsoon as in 2014 cyclonic storm Nanauk in Arabian Sea affected the progress of monsoon. It was supposed to hit Mumbai by 10 June 2014 but finally arrived on 15 June 2014.
10. Denudation in mangrove vegetation of Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary
The Mangrove Forest Division (MFD) of Bhitarkanika in first week of June 2015 revealed that Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary of Odisha is witnessing an alarming denudation in large tracts of mangrove vegetation.
The Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary is one of India’s biggest estuarine crocodile habitats and a major coastal eco-system.
According to MFD, the denudation or saline blank formations have been noticed in Bhitarkanika forest block, which is measured at 1700 acre. It said that the denuded patches, spotted in Mathadia, could be over 30 acres in this block area.
The denudation has been noted among the Avicennia and Excoecaria species, popularly known as Bani and Guan.
The denudation (blank formations) of the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary is a cause of worry for following reasons
• As mangroves are just not a lifeline for the eco-system which is a home to a rich flora and fauna but it also acts as an environment cushion for the coastlines.
• The excessive salinity creates a blank formation over a period of time as the existing vegetation dies.
• Most mangrove species have a salinity resistance that ranges from 5 ppt to 35 ppt. Only Avicennia marina species can tolerate up to 70 ppt salinity
11. SBI Life launches tablet service to digitise documentation process
In a bid to go paperless, SBI Life Insurance today introduced ‘Connect Life’, a tablet-based service to digitise the entire documentation process.
"It begins with a built-in need analysis calculator that offers a customer the right products to choose from, filling the proposal form with a facility of paying premium and uploading necessary documents from the tablet. Distribution partners from all the sales channels of SBI Life can sell insurance products through this facility,” SBI Life said in a statement.
The product brochures and videos help them make an informed choice with recommendations from the need analysis report and SBI Life's expert distribution partners. The customer can fill in the proposal form, upload his/her documents, instantly pay the premium and be assured of making an informed and right decision, it further said.
12. IIT Delhi ranked best engineering college in India
IIT Delhi has been ranked as the best engineering college in India while Kolkata’s Jadavpur University leads the pack among government colleges, according to a report.
In the recently released EDU-RAND 2015 rankings, IIT Delhi is at the top of the list, followed by the IITs in Kharagpur, Mumbai, Chennai, Guwahati, and Kanpur.
Kolkata’s Jadavpur University is ranked the best government engineering college in the country, while BITS Pilani occupies the first place amongst private colleges.
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