Latest Current Affairs- June 2013
Latest Current Affairs from first Week of June 2013 in PDF-
useful for all competitive Examinations!!!!!
Q1. Who won the French Open 2013 Women’s
Singles?
Ans. Serena
Williams
Note: She defeated No. 2 Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-4 to secure her second
French Open title. It was the 31-year-old American's 16th Grand Slam title win.
Q2. Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan
Singh was on four days visit to an Asian country recently. Name the country?
Ans. Japan.
Note: The Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, visited Japan from
27-30 May 2013 for the Annual Summit of the Prime Ministers.
Q3. Name the world's largest online
retailer who in Month of June 2013 entered into Indian e-commerce market with
the launch of its marketplace offering books, movies and television shows for
sale?
Ans. Amazon.com.
It will be called Amazon.in in India
Q4. World Environment Day was observed
on 5 June 2013. What was the theme this year?
Ans. Think, Eat,
Save Reduce Your Foodprint.
Note: It aims at an anti-food wastage and loss campaign to encourage
people to reduce their foodprint. It also calls for more awareness about the
environmental impact of the food choices people make and empowers them to make
informed decisions.
World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General
Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human
Environment.
Q5.
In a landmark judgment on 3 June 2013, which commission held that
political parties are answerable to citizens under the Right to Information Act
(RTI Act)?
Ans. Central
Information Commission (CIC).
Note: Present Chief Information Commissioner is Satyananda
Mishra.
Q6. Name the sports channel to whom on 7
June 2013 the High Court of Delhi directed to provide live signals of ICC
Champions Trophy 2013 in England to Doordarshan without any commercials till
its further orders?
Ans. ESPN
Note: ICC Champions Trophy tournament started in England on 6 June 2013
and will continue till 23 June 2013.
Q7. Who was recently re-elected as the
Chairman of Indian Banks' Association (IBA)?
Ans. K R Kamath
Note: He is the chairman and managing director of Punjab National Bank
(PNB) and was re-elected as the Chairman of IBA for 2013-14 tenure.
Q8. The Ministry of Tourism (MoT)
recently roped in which corporation for maintenance as well as cleanliness of
Taj Mahal as well as five more tourist destinations, under the Campaign Clean
India?
Ans. Oil and
Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC)
Q9. Recently government decided to set
up India's highest Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) at Nyoma, Leh district of which
Indian State?
Ans. Jammu and
Kashmir. It will be at an altitude of about 14000 feet.
Q10. The government hiked the import
duty on Gold and Platinum on 05 June 2013. What is the present import duty?
Ans. 8 per cent.
Note: Earlier it was 6 per cent. The hike is aimed at curbing import of
gold, which is mainly responsible for the rise in Current Account Deficit (CAD)
impacting on the country's foreign exchange reserves as well as the rupee
value.
Q11.
Where was the first all-women police station started functioning from 4
June 2013?
Ans. Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
Q12. Who appointed as the new National
Security Adviser of US President Barack Obama on 5 June 2013?
Ans. Susan
Elizabeth Rice
Note: Presently she was the American ambassador to the United Nations.
She replaced Tom Donilon.
Q13. Nawaz Sharif on 5 June 2013 took
oath to the office of the Prime Minister of Pakistan for his third term after
formally being elected as the Prime Minister by the National Assembly. He
returned back to power almost after how many years?
Ans. 14
Note: He was forced to leave the office in a military coup and went into
exile. He was sworn-in by the President Asif Ali Zardari at a function in an
ornate hall at the Presidency.
Q14. Name the operating system launched
by Windows recently as the updated version of its Windows 8?
Ans. Windows 8.1
Q15. Name the bullet train series
successful tested by Japan recently, which are designed to travel at speeds of about
311-500 mph?
Ans. L0 Series
Trains (maglev bullet trains)
Q16. Coca-Cola, the largest soft-drink
maker of the world, opened its bottling plant in which country on 4 June 2013
as part of its planned five-year 200 million US dollar investment?
Ans. Myanmar
Q17. SBI reduced interest rate on fixed
deposits of maturity up to one year by...................... percent to 7.25
percent?
Ans. 0.25
Q18. Who became the first woman to be
elected to the FIFA Executive Committee (ExCo) for a full term of four years at
the FIFA Congress in Mauritius held on 30 May 2013?
Ans. Burundi's
Lydia Nsekera
Q19. Who was, on 3 June 2013, elected as
the Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan?
Ans. Ayaz Sadiq,
he was a Leader of Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N)
Q20. Under the provisions of which act
did Sreesanth and 25 others arrested in connection with IPL spot-fixing scandal
denied bail recently?
Ans. Maharashtra
Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
Note: MCOCA was
formulated in 1994 to tackle organized crime which abetted narco-terrorism and
raised huge amount of illegal money.
Q21. Indian Skipper MS Dhoni received
the ICC ODI Championship Shield and a cheque of 175000 US dollars. State the
reason for it?
Ans. for leading
the number One ODI team on the annual 1 April cut-off date.
Note: Indian team claimed the number-one spot from England after winning
the series 3-2 in January 2013. India won eight out of 13 ODIs while losing
five in the 12-month period between 1 April 2012 and 1 April 2013.
Q22. Who became the youngest Indian to
scale the Mount Everest on 21 May 2013?
Ans. Raghav Joneja
Note: He broke the record set by Nameirakpam Chingkheinganba of Manipur's, who climed the everest at the
age 16 years seven months and 11 days.
Q23. RBI extended Time for opening up of
New Banks by.................... Months recently?
Ans. Six
Q24. Name the young Bollywood actress
who committed suicide on 3 June 2013 at her Juhu residence in Mumbai?
Ans. Jiah Khan.
Note: She debuted in Ram Gopal Varma's Nishabd, opposite veteran actor
Amitabh Bachchan in the year 2007.
Q25. Who was recently named as the New
Prime Minister of Palestine?
Ans. Rami Hamdallah
Q26. Direct Benefit Transfer for LPG
(DBTL) Scheme Launched in 18 Districts of India from 01 June 2013. Minister of
Petroleum & Natural Gas, M. Veerappa Moily launched the scheme from which
district of Karnataka?
Ans. Tumkur near
Bangalore
Q27. Who resigned as Chairman of IPL on
1 June 2013 in the wake of the raging spot-fixing scandal?
Ans. Rajeev Shukla
Q28. World Ocean Day was celebrated
across the world on 8 June 2013. What was the theme this year?
Ans. Together, we
have the Power to Protect the Oceans is the theme for 2013.
Note: For the first time, World Ocean day was introduced in 1992 at Rio
de Janeiro with a motive of raising awareness of people towards the crucial
role that sea plays in our lives.
Q29. Name the book released by Vice
President of India, Hamid Ansari on 6 June 2013, which is authored by Rukhsar
Amrohvi?
Ans. Dard-e-Dil
Likhun Kab Tak” (in Urdu and Hindi)
Note: Rukhsar Amrohvi is the daughter of the legendary film director and
writer Kamal Amrohvi. The book, Dard-E-Dil Likhun Kab Tak is a compilation of
poems composed by poetess Rukhsar Amrohvi and some rare pictures of the
historic moments of Indian Cinema.
Q30. Who won the IMPAC Dublin Literary
Award 2013?
Ans. Kevin Barry.
Irish author for his novel City of Bohane
