June - 18
1. Domnique Strauss Kahn – he was in the news for getting accused of sexual assault charges against him in the month of May 2011. He had to leave his position as Managing Director of International Monetary Fund following this.
2. Steel Plants in India are a unit of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)
3. VVPAT - Vote Verifiable Paper Audit Trail – Developed to ensure greater verifiability of the Voting system. Particularly, it has been developed to overcome the deficiencies of EVMs.
4. N. SantoshHegde – A civil society member in the Lokpal Bill Drafting Committee. He is also Karnataka Lokayukta.
5. JyotrimoyDey – The journalist who was shot dead in Powai this month. He was reporter of MID-Day.
6. The last Indian to serve on ICJ – Justice R.S. Pathak (1989-1991)
7. DCNS – A French Naval Defence Major.
8. ASHA – Accredited Social Health Activists – will be given monetary incentive from the Centre to provide contraceptives at doorstep.
9. Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station – It was devastated following March 11 Earthquake in Japan, which caused civil nuclear radiation crisis.
June - 20
1. Union Environment has proposed to declare the initial stretches of the Bhagirathi River as ECO SENSITIVE ZONE under Environment Protection Act, 1986.
2. UmaBharti, despite remaining in controversies with BJP, rejoined it under UP unit. (She was ex- CM of M.P. and was very famous BJP leader at one point of time)
3. Angel Gurria – Secretary General, OECD – stated that Food prices are likely to increase by 30% by 2021.
4. Aung San SuuKyi – National League for Democracy Leader in Myanmar, who was under house arrest for a long period of time.
5. Lokpal under Lokpal Bill consists of 11 members. It includes Prime Minister, Leader of Opposition, CEC, CAG, 2 Supreme Court Judges, and 2 High Court Chief Justices.
6.“Cloth Bank” – Scheme launched by Rajasthan Cosmo Club Foundation under which school uniforms would be distributed to several children.
7.Western Ghats – Karnataka Government in not in consensus with the Centre for the inclusion of Western Ghats in UNESCO World Heritage List.
8. NoRKS – Non-Resident Keralites – Under a threat to lose their base in Saudi Arabia, because of Saudi Arabia’s New Labour Policy “Nitakat”
June - 21
1. Chairman, Public Accounts Committee - MurliManohar Joshi
2. Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister - S. Jaipal Reddy
3, POSCO – Steel Company, facing agitation started by farmers for forceful land acquisition in the State of Orissa.
4. MPLADS – Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme
5. Koraput – Orissa District having Highest Child Vulnerability Rate in the Country
6. President, Russia - Dmitry Medvedev.
June - 22
1. Kargil Review Committee – Concerned with the revamp in Defence Management – New high-powered task force has been formed under the leadership of Naresh Chandra, former bureaucrat
2. External Affairs Minister – S.M. Krishna
3. Kanimozhi – DMK Leader, accused in the 2G spectrum allocation case. Recently, she was in the news when several courts rejected to grant her bail.
4. Suresh Tendulkar – Tendulkar committee which made recommendations regarding higher number of people that need to be covered under BPL schemes. And eminent economist, passed away recently.
5. AgustaWestland – Ango-Italian Helicopter Company – India has placed an order of three-engine AW101 helicopters with this company for transportation of VIPs.
6. Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare – GhulamNabi Azad
7. “Solar Fest” – A public outreach programme conducted by Science Popularisation Association
of Communicators and Educators (SPACE) to celebrate summer solstice.
8. Mohammed KhalilChishty – Doctor hailing from Pakistan, whose mercy petition was recently considered by the Rajasthan Government. Undergoing Life-imprisonment over a murder which took place in the Ajmer Sharif Dargah premises in 1992
9. Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) - facilitating online allocation of budgets to various departments, networking of different units of treasury, Accountant-General and banks and collation of data on revenue earnings and expenditure on a real-time basis in Rajasthan – Launched by Rajasthan Government
10. Chairman, State bank Of India – PratipChaudhari
11. Auto World Expo 2011 – Chennai (Tamil Nadu)
June - 23
1. Speaker, LokSabha – Meira Kumar
2.Communal Violence Bill and Food and Security Bill have been drafted by National Advisory Council with Sonia Gandhi as its Chairperson.
3.Organisation Of Islamic Conference – referred Jammu and Kashmir as an “Occupied” State in its report.
4. K.G. Balakrishnan – Chairman, National Human Rights Commission and Former Chief Justice of India – Facing allegations of disproportionate assets.
5. Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011 – Act passed by the West Bengal Government to redistribute the land which was earlier allocated to Tata Motors – Subsequently, it has been challenged by Tata Motors in Calcutta High Court.
6. International Merlin Award/ Magician’s Oscar – bagged by GopinathMuthukad – 2nd Indian to win this award.
7. Ban-ki-Moon – Secretary General, United Nations – UN General Assembly voted him unanimously for 2nd term. UN Headquarters – New York
8. UN Secretary General takes oath of office from UN General Assembly President, and currently its president is Joseph Deiss.
9. Business Leader of the World Award – International Business School INSEAD honoured Sunil BhartiMittal with this award.
June - 24
1. Indian Foreign Secretary – NirupamaRao
2. RSBY – RashtriyaSwasthaBimaYojana – extended to cover registered domestic workers.
3. Union Information and Broadcasting Minister – AmbikaSoni
4. Rotterdam Convention – related to the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade,
5. British High Commissioner to India – Richard Stagg
6. M.S. Swaminathan – Winner of 1st World Food Prize – 1987 – This award was instituted by Norman Borlaug
7. 2011 World Food Prize - President of Ghana, John AgyekumKufuor, and the former President of Brazil, LuizInácio Lula da Silva
June - 25
1. SIT – Special Investigation Team – Probing into Gujarat 2002 riots – Satyapal Singh has been appointed as its new Chairman – Satyapal Singh wants to relieve himself from this post.
2. 36th Session of World Heritage Committee – Bangkok in 2011 – Matter for providing world heritage status to Western Ghats was to be discussed in this session.
3. AIDWA – All India Democratic Women’s Association
4. Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency – Yukia Amano
5. CEO, Infosys – Kris Gopalakrishnan
June - 26
1. NSG – Nuclear Suppliers Group – banned enrichment and reprocessing technology and Equipment (ENR) to the countries outside NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) – India has not signed NPT
2. CLT – Creative Learning and Teaching – Scheme in the State of Rajasthan for improving the quality of education
3. New York State has passed a bill legalizing gay marriage.
4. Union Home Minister – P. Chidambaram
June - 27
1. US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) – David Coleman Headley, who was involved in 2008 Mumbai Attacks, was working under DEA when he became associated with LeT
2. RTE – Right to Educated – Act was passed in the year 2010
3. Rajiv Gandhi AdhivaktaPrashiksanYojana( Rajiv Gandhi Advocate’s Training Scheme ) – scheme launched by Central Government to train young advocated under its 12th 5 year plan.
4. NCPCR – National Commission for Protection of Child Rights
5. June 26 – International Day against Drug Abuse and Illict Trafficking