Current affairs June 2014 Gk,sports,politics,etc....

Ace Indian shuttler who has won the USD 750,000 Star Australian Super Series defeating Spain's Carolina Marin in finals in Sydney	Saina Nehwal
The measure of the smallest force detected by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley, using a combination of lasers and a unique optical trapping system is	42 yoctonewtons (there are appx 3 x 1023yoctonewtons in one ounce of force.)
The bi-annual anti-terrorist drill conducted jointly by the police of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andhra Pradesh which started on Jun 25 is code named	Operation Hamla
The former BCCI President who has been appointed the Chairman of International Cricket Council replacing Alan Isaac of New Zealand	N Srinivasan
The periodical started by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan in 1870 which has launched its online edition	Tehzibul Akhlaq
The regular venue of International Film Festival of India for the past few years, which has been formally declared to be the permanent venue of the festival by Government of India	Goa
The public sector companies which have been granted the status of Navratna Undertaking by the Government of India	Engineers India Limited and National Buildings Construction Corporation Limited
The MSP (Minimum Support Price) for paddy (common) for the kharif season of 2014-15 has been fixed at	Rs. 1360 (hiked by Rs. 50 from previous year)
The painting of water lilies by a French artist Claude Monet, which was sold for a huge sum of 31.7 million pounds (the second highest price ever paid for the artist at an auction) in an auction by Sotheby's in London.	Nympheas
The initiative by Indian Government's Department of Electronics and Information Technology to enable delivery of public services electronically through the mobile platform which has been awarded 2014 United Nations Public Service award	Mobile Seva
Okavango Delta which became the 1000th site to be included in the World Heritage Sites list by UNESCO is located in	Botswana
The national park located in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh which has been included in the World Heritage Sites list by the UNESCO	Great Himalayan National Park
The 11 century step-well in Patan district of Gujarat which has been included in the World Heritage Sites list by the UNESCO	Rani-ki-vav
The company involved in zinc-lead-silver business, which has entered into agreement with Government of Rajasthan to build 30,000 toilets for poor families in rural areas under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyaan programme	Hindustan Zinc
The scheme of West Bengal government launched in 2013 to provide scholarship to girls from economically-backward backgrounds, which has been given international recognition by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) and UNICEF is named	Kanyashree Prakalpa
The iconic bungalow Meherangir, in Mumbai which was sold for Rs 372 crore by the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) belonged to	Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha
The renowned Hindi poet and author of works like Abhi bilkul abhiand Yahan se dekho who has been chosen for the 2013 Jnanpith Award (he is the 10th Hindi writer to receive the honour)	Kedarnath Singh
The Indian-born Booker Prize winning author who has been chosen for 2014 Pen Pinter prize established in memory of famous British playwright and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter	Salman Rushdie
The renowned poet whose poems alongwith the 1330 couplets of Tirukkural were translated into Mandarin by Taiwanese poet Yu Hsi	Subramanya Bharathi
The Indian origin girl who has been hailed as 1 of the 10 Champions of Change honoured by the White House for their exemplary leadership in their communities	Pratishtha Khanna
The Indian-born plant scientist who has been chosen for the USD 250,000 2014 World Food Prize for his contribution in increasing global wheat production by more than 200 million tonnes in the years following the Green Revolution	Dr Sanjaya Rajaram
The city which has become India's first kerosene-free city with the successful implementation of A Kerosene-Free City Scheme, 2012	Delhi
The Indian technological company which has become the third largest employer of people in the technology sector in the world after IBM and Hewlett Packard	TCS
Jordan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, who has been chosen to be the next UN Human Rights Commissioner succeeding Navi Pillay from September 2014	Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein
The JV-model Hydro Electric Project between Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) and Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) in Bhutan foundation stone for which was laid by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi	Kholongchu Hydro-electric Project
The country which has won the Men's Hockey World Cup defeating The Netherlands 6-1 in the finals at Kyocera Stadium (India finished at 9th position)	Australia
The country which has won the Women's Hockey World Cup defeating Australia 2-0 in the finals at the Kyocera Stadium in The Hague (The Netherlands).	The Netherlands
One of the largest living elephants of Tsavo East National Park of Kenya which was killed by poachers using poisoned arrows (earlier in May 2014, an elephant named Mountain Bull also fell to poachers)	Satao
The eminent Malayalam scientist-turned-writer who has been chosen for the prestigious Moortidevi Award for 2013 for his novel Theekkadal Katanhu Thirumadhuram	C Radhakrishnan
Ugandan Foreign Minister who has been elected the President of the 69th session of UN General Assembly in New York (the session opens in September 2014)	Sam Kutesa
The steel plant in Durg district of Chhattisgarh where a gas leak has resulted in the death of six people, including two Deputy General Managers	Bhilai Steel Plant
The fifth reactor of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS-5) set an Asian record with an uninterrupted run, generating power at its full capacity of 220 MWe almost every day for	678 days
The city from which low cost airline Air Asia launched its first domestic flight to Goa's Dabolim airport	Bangalore
The former member of executive Board of SAP AG who has been chosen to be the new CEO and MD of Infosys technologies from 01 Aug 2014	Vikas Sikka
The California based satellite imaging firm which is set to be acquired by internet giant Google for $500 million	Skybox Imaging
The supersonic anti-ship cruise missile which was test-fired for the first time from a warship built in India, the yet-to-be-commissioned destroyer INS Kolkata, off the coast of Karwar in Karnataka	Brahmos
The 37-second 175-megabit video transmitted from International Space Station to Earth using a new laser communications instrument called Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) had the message	Hello, World!
The member of Israel's Likud party who has been elected to be Israel's new President succeeding Shimon Peres on July 27, 2014	Reuven Rivlin
The well-known chemist who specialized in the creation of mind-altering drugs and popular drug Ecstasy who died in California on 02 June 2014	Alexander Shulgin
The Spanish tennis professional who has won the French Open Men's title (for the 9th time, winning 14 Grand Slam titles in all) defeating Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the final	Rafael Nadal
The Russian tennis player who has won the French Open Women's title defeating Simona Halep of Romania in the finals (This is her 5th Grand Slam and 2nd French Open title)	Maria Sharapova
The nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu, the first reactor at which has achieved its full capacity of 1000 MW of power generation	Kudankulam
The Irish author who has been awarded the Baileys Women's Prize for fiction for her first novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing,	Eimear McBride
The BJP leader and the first woman to win Lok Sabha elections for the eighth time, who has been chosen the Speaker of Lok Sabha	Ms. Sumitra Mahajan
The slogan for World Environment Day 2014 observed on June 05 with the theme Small Islands and Climate Change	Raise Your Voice, Not the Sea Level
The Indian industrialist who has become the first Indian recipient of the Harvard Medal awarded for his dedication, generosity and service to the Harvard University	Anand Mahindra
The current position of India in textiles export as per data released by UN Comtrade in Global Textiles	Second (China is at the top)
The Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj and Lok Sabha MP from Beed constituency in Maharashtra, who died in a road accident on 03 June 2014	Gopinath Munde
The solar powered plane which completed its first test flight by flying for two hours and 17 minutes in Switzerland.	Solar Impulse 2
The fifth Indo-French bi-lateral air exercise being conducted at Jodhpur in Rajasthan from 02 to 13 June is named	Garuda V
The IPL team which has won the IPL 2014 tournament for the second time defeating Kings XII Punjab at Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	Kolkata Knight Riders
The village in Nagaland which has been declared country's first tobacco-free village	Gariphema
The 76-year old King of Spain since 1975, who has decided to abdicate the throne in favour of his son Felipe	King Juan Carlos

Launch of PSLV-C23

Launch Date - 30 June 2014
Launch Station - Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota
Satellites put into space

1. SPOT satellite from France
2. AISAT from Germany
3. NLS7.1 and NLS7.2, both from Canada
4. VELOX-1 from Singapore.

27th launch of PSLV of which 26 have been successful in a row. PSLV has so far put 67 satellites into orbit, of which 40 were from 19 countries.

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Telangana - Points to remember

Formation Day - 02 June 2014
First Chief Minister - K. Chandrashekhar Rao
Area rank in India - 12th largest
Population rank in India - 12th largest
State Legislature - 119 MLAs and 40 MLCs
Parliament - 17 MPs of Lok Sabha and 7 MPs of Rajya Sabha
Number of districts - 10 (Adilabad, Nizamabad, Medak, Hyderabad, Nalgonda, Mahbubnagar, Ranga Reddy, Khammam, Warangal and Karimnagar)
State Festivals - Bonalu (Ashada Jatara) and Bathukamma
Note: The first Governor of Telangana, Mr. ESL Narsimhan was also sworn in by Andhra Pradesh High Court Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta.

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New districts in Maharashtra and West Bengal

1. Maharashtra's 36th district Palghar carved out of Thane district

2. West Bengal's 20th district Alipurduar carved out of Jalpaiguri district

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Revised MSP rates for Kharif crop 2014-15

Commodity	MSP 2013-14	MSP 2014-15
Paddy	Rs. 1310/-	Rs. 1360/-
Paddy Grade A	Rs. 1345/-	Rs. 1400/-
Cotton, Medium Staple	Rs. 3700/-	Rs. 3750/-
Cotton, Long Staple	Rs. 4000/-	Rs. 4050/-
Tur dal	Rs. 4300/-	Rs. 4350/-
Urad dal	Rs. 4300/-	Rs. 4350/-
Moong dal	Rs. 4500/-	Rs. 4600/-