2014 CURRENT AFFAIRS-JUNE

June 2014

1 June 2014 : Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India with Hyderabad as its capital. K. Chandrasekhar Rao, the chief of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) was sworn-in as the first Chief Minister of Telanagana.

Automated Teller Machine or Automatic Teller Machine (ATM), is an electronic telecommunications device that enables the customers of a financial institution to perform financial transactions without the need for a human. According to RBI regarding to deployment of White Label ATMs (WLAs) existing rules/regulations only banks are being permitted to set up Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) in India. Banks have played a major role in encouraging ATM adoption and modifying behavioral strategies in the domain of personal banking.

1 June 2014 : KKR won the seventh edition of Indian Premier League 2014 by defeating KXIP by three wickets in the final played at Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Man of the Match: Manish Pandey.

1 June 2014 : Former left wing rebel leader Salvador Sanchez Ceren was sworn-in as the President of El Salvador on 1 June 2014.

2 June 2014 : Scientists at the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) on 2 June 2014 cloned female buffalo calf, Lalima

2 June 2014 : Peter Mutharika was sworn-in as President of Malawi.

3 June 2014 : India's Rural Development Minister, Gopinath Munde, dies in a road accident while on his way to Delhi Airport.

3 June 2014 : South Africa appointed Hashim Amla as test cricket captain. He succeeds Graeme Smith, who retired in March 2014.

4 June 2014 : On 4th June 2014 the 40th G-7 summit 2014 had successfully at the council of European ,Brussels. This is the first time that Europe Union hosted the 40th G-7 summit.The 40th G-7 summit 2014 is successfully organised and managed by the Herman van Rompuy the European Council President and European Commission President. This summit has been consider as the most powerful summit because some power full nations like European Council President ,European commission President,Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Let us leran some about the background of 40th G-7 summit 2014.Actually summit is about to happen in Sochi Russia but due the violation of Russia over Ukraine issue Europe Union and USA decided to organize in Brussels.The G7 leader also excepted the decision and make it happen

4 June 2014 : Chester Nez died - The language he once was punished for speaking in school became Chester Nez's primary weapon in World War II. Before hundreds of men from the Navajo Nation became Code Talkers, Nez and 28 others were recruited to develop a code based on the then-unwritten Navajo language. Locked in a room for 13 weeks, they came up with an initial glossary of more than 200 terms using Navajo words for red soil, war chief, braided hair and hummingbird, for example, as well as an alphabet. Nez never tired of telling the story to highlight his pride in having served his country and stress the importance of preserving the Navajo language. The 93-year-old died June 4 of kidney failure with plenty of appearances still scheduled.

French Open 2014 Champions

Men's singles Spain Rafael Nadal defeated Serbia Novak Djokovic, 3–6, 7–5, 6–2, 6–4 Women's singles Russia Maria Sharapova defeated Romania Simona Halep, 6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–4 Men's doubles France Julien Benneteau / France Édouard Roger-Vasselin defeated Spain Marcel Granollers / Spain Marc López, 6–3, 7–6(7–1) Women's doubles Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei / China Peng Shuai defeated Italy Sara Errani / Italy Roberta Vinci, 6–4, 6–1 Mixed doubles Germany Anna-Lena Grönefeld / Netherlands Jean-Julien Rojer defeated Germany Julia Görges / Serbia Nenad Zimonjić, 4–6, 6–2, [10–7]

13 June 2014 : Indian scientist Rasik Ravindra was elected as member of UN’s body focused on oceans and law of the sea by securing support of all 111 members.

13 June 2014 : India on 13 June 2014 became a member of select group of 17 countries who are permanent signatories of Washington Accord. The Washington Accord is an international accreditation agreement for professional engineering academic degrees, between the bodies responsible for accreditation in its signatory countries. Established in 1989, the signatories as of 2014 are Australia, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong China, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.

14 June 2014 : Malayalam writer C Radhakrishnan selected for the prestigious Moortidevi Award for 2013 for his novel Theekkadal Katanhu Thirumadhuram.

22 June 2014 : The Pyu ancient cities are added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list, the first such site in Myanmar. The city-states were founded as part of the southward migration by the Tibeto-Burman-speaking Pyu people, the earliest inhabitants of Burma of whom records are extant. The city-states—five major walled cities and several smaller towns have been excavated—were all located in the three main irrigated regions of Upper Burma: the Mu River Valley, the Kyaukse plains and Minbu region, around the confluence of the Irrawaddy and Chindwin Rivers. Part of an overland trade route between China and India, the Pyu realm gradually expanded south. Halin, founded in the 1st century AD at the northern edge of Upper Burma, was the largest and most important city until around the 7th or 8th century when it was superseded by Sri Ksetra (near modern Pyay) at the southern edge. Twice as large as Halin, Sri Ksetra was the largest and most influential Pyu center.

23 June 2014 : Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is elected to a second term with over 80% of the vote.

27 June 2014 : The “eco-sensitive zone” around the Okhla Bird Sanctuary will vary from 100 metres to the west of the sanctuary to 1,200 metres in the north, according to Forest Department officials. A three-member team comprising Joint Director (Wildlife) Shiv Pal Singh and two members from the Forest Department of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh visited the site on June 27 and submitted their recommendations.

Guidelines for Declaration of Eco-Sensitive Zones

As per a directive issued by the National Board for Wildlife in 2005, a radius of 10 km around sanctuaries – which in the instance of Okhla will affect a number of proposed real estate projects – is to be considered an eco-sensitive zone. The State governments were asked to notify their own norms for the same, but till last year the UP government had not done so with respect to the Okhla Bird Sanctuary, that comprises wetlands along the Yamuna. This area attracts several hundred species of birds and was notified as a protected area in 1990.