Sunday, 4 October 2015

CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR THE MONTH JUNE 2015

CORPORATE AFFAIRS, TECHNOLOGY, E-COMMERCE

  1. UBER has appointed Amit Jain as India President.
  2. Nazara Technologies hires Manish Agarwal as its new CEO.
  3. GO-AIR has appointed Wolfgang Prock-Schauer as its new CEO.
  4. Pawan Munjal made as the Chairman of Hero Moto Corporation.
  5. Vinayak Bahuguna appointed as the CEO of asset reconstruction company ARCIL.
  6. PUMA which made its debut in India in 2006 posted a profit of Rs 767 Crores in 2014 calendar year.
  7. FMCG firm Emani Ltd acquired ' Kesh King ' for Rs 1,651 Crores.
  8. Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has bagged its largest ever order worth Rs 17950 Crores to set up a 4000MW Power Project.
  9. Delhi Government refuses licences to OLA, UBER & Taxi For Sure.
  10. WIPRO announces average salary hike of 7%
  11. Ratan Tata acquires stake in fashion portal Kaaryah.
  12. Airtel raises Rs 6400 crores from Global Investors.
  13. ' Amanico Ortega ' the spanish magnate who pioneered fast fashion retail becomes World's Second Richest Person.
  14. 2.75 Lakh jobs created in July-December 2014 in eight key sectors through Make In India and Skill India Initiatives.
  15. Facebook hires Alcatel-Lucent Top Executive Munish Seth as its Country Manager of Connectivity Solutions for Indian region.
  16. Karan Sarin named marketing head of One Plus India Operations.
  17. Matrix Cellular is planning to raise Rs 500 Crores through an IPO.
  18. Hemant Kumars leaving Ruia Is appointed as CFO of Reliance Retail's.
  19. Vice Admiral HS Malhi is appointed as CEO of Reliance Defence.
  20. Infosys appointed R seshasayee as its non-executive Chairman.
  21. Competition Commission of India has slapped a penalty of Rs 64 Crores on GlaxoSmithkline Pharmaceuticals.
  22. Anshu Jain Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank quits.
  23. The market value of shares of Sun TV drops by 22%.
  24. PVR to buy DT cinemas for Rs 500 crores a wholly owned subsidiary of DLF.
  25. Padmasree Warrior quits as Chief Technology Officer at CISCO.
  26. Neel Mohan Vice-President of display advertising is leaving GOOGLE to join Dropbox. His share in Google was $100 million.
  27. Car Sales grew at 7.7% this month.
  28. Asheesh Mehra who headed Infosys Technologies BPO operations in Japan and Middle East, Asia Pacific regions has resigned from the company. He has launched his own BPO Antwork with a seed capital of Rs 51 Crores.
  29. Anand Chandrasekaran is new product Chief at Snapdeal.
  30. Spice Jet Vice-President of revenue management Fares Killpady has resigned.
  31. Wipro initiates talks to acquire UK's outsourcing group Equiniti valued at Rs 9000 Crores.
  32. Blackberry India's Head Sunil Lalvani has resigned.
  33. Housing.com buys realty business intelligence for Rs 10 Crores.
  34. FoxConn in talks to manafacture I-Phones in India.
  35. Mukesh Ambani's owned Reliance Jio InfoComm will make its launch in December.
  36. James Murdoch a harvard dropout will be appointed as the Twenty-First Century FOX.
  37. R Ganesh has been appointed as the CEO And MD of Tata Assets Management.
  38. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo to quit as CEO.
  39. Vinod Sahay the head of sales and marketing for intermediate and medium and heavy commercial vehicles has resigned.
  40. Cash Rich Cairn India merges with debt laden Vedanta Resources in Rs 14500 Crores deal.
  41. HSBC to cut 50,000 global jobs as it is exiting operations from brazil and turkey.
  42. Former HUL Vice-Chairman MK Sharma will be the new ICICI Bank chairman. 

Economy, Politics, Crimes, Entertainment, World and Sports News

  1. India to buy 36 French Rafale Fighters as of now.
  2. State asks schools to deserve International Yoga Day on June 21.
  3. Air Pollution causes 1 in 8 deaths globally says WHO.
  4. KV Chowdary and Vijai Sharma could be India's New Central Intelligence Commissioner & Chief Information Commissioner.
  5. FIFA president Sepp Blatter resigns.
  6. Mumbai among top 10 tourists destinations in Asia Pacific region.
  7. 20 soldiers killed in deadliest attack on army in Chandel District of Manipur
  8. Ministry of Home Affairs has denied Security Clearance to its 33 television channels and 40 odd radio channels run by Sun Network.
  9. NRI remittances to kerela soar 17%. Before it was Rs 93884 crores now it is Rs 1.1 Lakh Crores. India gets the most remittances in the world it was about Rs 4.2 lakh Crores.
  10. Mumbai Metro Is the 8th Densest network in the world with 9.20 crores passengers using 12 km.
  11. During May 2015 city's airport handled 36 lakh flyers a record.
  12. Centre to spend Rs 1 lakh crores to build smart cities by 2020.
  13. J. Jayalalithaa has assets worth Rs 118 Crores.
  14. Indian government extending $2 billion line of credit to Dhaka which is expected to create 50,000 jobs in India. India has already provided $862 million line of credit to Bangladesh.
  15. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has been given Z- Plus Security.
  16. Ghatkopar busiest metro station with 41 Lakh footfalls per month.
  17. The global diabetes rate up by 45%.
  18. Union Home Ministry has cancelled the FCRA licence of 4470 odd NGO's.
  19. Guiness World Record created for largest Swachch Bharat Poster which measures 36,180 sq.ft , 180 ft breadth and 201 ft Length.
  20. Shah Rukh Khan to buy trinidad and tobago franchise in Carribean League.
  21. 487 farmers committed suicide in state in last 2 months.
  22. India's coal consumption was highest in the world at 11.4% in 2014.
  23. Crop planting 9% lower than 2014.
  24. Onion exports lower in FY 2014-15 lowest in 9 years.
  25. E- Rickshaws to hit the road in Mumbai region.
  26. Diabetes has increased 45% globally and 123% in India between 1990 and 2013.
  27. A lizard was found in a air India passengers lunch on Delhi- London Flight.
  28. BSNL will start free roaming from Monday which will allow mobile customers across the country to receive incoming calls at no cost.

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