Page-12 of Current Affairs - June, 2017

India-Afghanistan Air freight Corridor to Open Up Soon

June 17, 2017

India and Afghanistan are set to operationalize their first air-freight corridor in the coming days. The first flight will be operated by Ariana Afghan Airlines, which is the Afghanistan’s national carrier. The flight which will initially operate once or twice in a month ..

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates Kochi Metro 

June 17, 2017

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated Kochi Metro, which will be Kerala’s first metro line. The Construction of the Kochi Metro which was entrusted to the DMRC has been completed in a record four-year period. Prime Minister has inaugurated the first ..

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Australia's Vivid Sydney enters Guinness World Records for Maximum Number of light installations

June 17, 2017

The World’s largest festival of light, music and ideas, Vivid Sydney has entered into Guinness World Book of Records. The Guinness World Record have given the Vivid Sydney installation Dreamscape the title for the ‘Largest interactive lighting display’. Vivid Sydney installation Dreamscape has ..

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Black Money: Automatic Information Sharing with Switzerland from 2019

June 17, 2017

Switzerland has ratified automatic exchange of financial account information with India and 40 other countries. This will facilitate Switzerland to share information about suspected black money with India and other 40 nations. According to the Swiss Federal Council, the implementation ..

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Helmut Kohl, father of German reunification Passes Away

June 17, 2017

Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who is hailed as the father of German unification has passed away. He was responsible for unifying Germany after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall despite facing stiff resistance from Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev. East and ..

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RBI: India's Current Account Deficit narrowed in 2016-17

June 16, 2017

According to Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India’s current account deficit (CAD) narrowed during 2016-17 fiscal owing to a contraction in the country’s trade deficit. The CAD for the last fiscal narrowed down to 0.7% of the GDP from that of ..

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NASA: May 2017 is the second hottest month in 137 years 

June 16, 2017

According to NASA, May 2017 was the second hottest month in a span of 137 years when modern record-keeping of average global temperatures had commenced. The temperature of May 2017 was 0.88 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean May temperature from 1951-1980. May ..

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Government makes Aadhaar Mandatory for Opening Bank Accounts

June 16, 2017

The government has made Aadhaar mandatory for opening bank accounts as well as for carrying out financial transactions above of Rs 50,000. In addition, the government has asked all the existing account holders to link Aadhaar numbers to their bank accounts ..

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