Abhishek Srivastava

Current Affair Magazine for UPSC CSE examination. This course is an exhaustive compilation of June 2018 current affairs which is segregated into National issues, Polity and governance-related issues, etc. This will be highly beneficial for not only Prelims 2018 but also for Mains examination.

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(Hindi) IAS Express: June 2018

Overview of the course (in Hindi)

Recently, at the 42nd session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO at Manama in Bahrain, India’s nomination of the “Victorian and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai” was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list.
As recommended by the World Heritage Committee, India accepted the renaming of the ensemble as “Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai”.

UNESCO World Heritage site (in Hindi)

Adopt a Heritage and SIP (in Hindi)

MMR improvement, Smart Cities Award (in Hindi)

Poshan and Sewa Bhoj yojna (in Hindi)

World Environment Day and Dam safety bill (in Hindi)

The state government of Gujarat has recently announced its wind-solar hybrid power policy
2018 to promote setting up of wind as well as solar power projects at one location. The
policy aims to make optimum utilisation of land and grid lines
Key Facts
' The 'Wind-Solar Hybrid Power Policy-2018' will remain in force for five years.
It will provide encouragement to renewable power producers supplying to the grid as well
as to those having captive use.
The policy would enable the developer of an existing solar project to use the same land
for setting up wind and solar power units.
. It would also allow them to use the common transmission line to evacuate the power.
A power project could also be set up on a land being used for wind farms

National hydrology project and Wind Solar hybrid project (in Hindi)

Atal Bhujal Yojana, World ocean day ( in Hindi)

Blue flag and e waste (in Hindi)

Science and Technology Misc. (in Hindi)

Ayushman Bharat (in Hindi)

The 44th summit of the Group of Seven (G7), which was held from June 8–9, 2018 in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, ended in complete disarray with US President Donald Trump blasting off host Canada and abruptly retracting his support for a joint statement, signed by every nation in the group.

G7 summit (in Hindi)

Pakistan had earlier been included in the ‘grey list’ from 2012 to 2015.
 
•FATF had earlier taken the decision to place Pakistan on its grey list during a plenary meeting in February 2018. 

• At that time, China, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, leading the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) that votes as one bloc, were against Pakistan being put in the grey list. 

• The grey list puts countries under the scanner for not implementing the objectives of the task force.

• As per FATF rules, three votes from the FATF's members are needed for not putting a country in the grey list.

Pakistan in FATF grey list (in Hindi)

India has refused to endorse Chinese President Xi Jinping’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) project as part of a joint declaration at the 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Qingdao.
It was for the first time that the Indian prime minister attended the SCO summit after India and Pakistan became full-fledged members of the grouping.

India opposed OBOR at SCO (in Hindi)

India fetched 136th rank among 163 countries on the 2018 Global Peace Index that was released on June 7, 2018 by the Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP), an Australian think tank.

While, Iceland managed to retain its position as the most peaceful

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Overview of the course (in Hindi)

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MMR improvement, Smart Cities Award (in Hindi)

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