CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR THE MONTH JUNE 2015
CORPORATE AFFAIRS, TECHNOLOGY, E-COMMERCE
- UBER has appointed Amit Jain as India President.
- Nazara Technologies hires Manish Agarwal as its new CEO.
- GO-AIR has appointed Wolfgang Prock-Schauer as its new CEO.
- Pawan Munjal made as the Chairman of Hero Moto Corporation.
- Vinayak Bahuguna appointed as the CEO of asset reconstruction company ARCIL.
- PUMA which made its debut in India in 2006 posted a profit of Rs 767 Crores in 2014 calendar year.
- FMCG firm Emani Ltd acquired ' Kesh King ' for Rs 1,651 Crores.
- Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has bagged its largest ever order worth Rs 17950 Crores to set up a 4000MW Power Project.
- Delhi Government refuses licences to OLA, UBER & Taxi For Sure.
- WIPRO announces average salary hike of 7%
- Ratan Tata acquires stake in fashion portal Kaaryah.
- Airtel raises Rs 6400 crores from Global Investors.
- ' Amanico Ortega ' the spanish magnate who pioneered fast fashion retail becomes World's Second Richest Person.
- 2.75 Lakh jobs created in July-December 2014 in eight key sectors through Make In India and Skill India Initiatives.
- Facebook hires Alcatel-Lucent Top Executive Munish Seth as its Country Manager of Connectivity Solutions for Indian region.
- Karan Sarin named marketing head of One Plus India Operations.
- Matrix Cellular is planning to raise Rs 500 Crores through an IPO.
- Hemant Kumars leaving Ruia Is appointed as CFO of Reliance Retail's.
- Vice Admiral HS Malhi is appointed as CEO of Reliance Defence.
- Infosys appointed R seshasayee as its non-executive Chairman.
- Competition Commission of India has slapped a penalty of Rs 64 Crores on GlaxoSmithkline Pharmaceuticals.
- Anshu Jain Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank quits.
- The market value of shares of Sun TV drops by 22%.
- PVR to buy DT cinemas for Rs 500 crores a wholly owned subsidiary of DLF.
- Padmasree Warrior quits as Chief Technology Officer at CISCO.
- Neel Mohan Vice-President of display advertising is leaving GOOGLE to join Dropbox. His share in Google was $100 million.
- Car Sales grew at 7.7% this month.
- 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.
- Anand Chandrasekaran is new product Chief at Snapdeal.
- Spice Jet Vice-President of revenue management Fares Killpady has resigned.
- Wipro initiates talks to acquire UK's outsourcing group Equiniti valued at Rs 9000 Crores.
- Blackberry India's Head Sunil Lalvani has resigned.
- Housing.com buys realty business intelligence for Rs 10 Crores.
- FoxConn in talks to manafacture I-Phones in India.
- Mukesh Ambani's owned Reliance Jio InfoComm will make its launch in December.
- James Murdoch a harvard dropout will be appointed as the Twenty-First Century FOX.
- R Ganesh has been appointed as the CEO And MD of Tata Assets Management.
- Twitter CEO Dick Costolo to quit as CEO.
- Vinod Sahay the head of sales and marketing for intermediate and medium and heavy commercial vehicles has resigned.
- Cash Rich Cairn India merges with debt laden Vedanta Resources in Rs 14500 Crores deal.
- HSBC to cut 50,000 global jobs as it is exiting operations from brazil and turkey.
- Former HUL Vice-Chairman MK Sharma will be the new ICICI Bank chairman.
Economy, Politics, Crimes, Entertainment, World and Sports News
- India to buy 36 French Rafale Fighters as of now.
- State asks schools to deserve International Yoga Day on June 21.
- Air Pollution causes 1 in 8 deaths globally says WHO.
- KV Chowdary and Vijai Sharma could be India's New Central Intelligence Commissioner & Chief Information Commissioner.
- FIFA president Sepp Blatter resigns.
- Mumbai among top 10 tourists destinations in Asia Pacific region.
- 20 soldiers killed in deadliest attack on army in Chandel District of Manipur
- Ministry of Home Affairs has denied Security Clearance to its 33 television channels and 40 odd radio channels run by Sun Network.
- 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.
- Mumbai Metro Is the 8th Densest network in the world with 9.20 crores passengers using 12 km.
- During May 2015 city's airport handled 36 lakh flyers a record.
- Centre to spend Rs 1 lakh crores to build smart cities by 2020.
- J. Jayalalithaa has assets worth Rs 118 Crores.
- 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.
- RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has been given Z- Plus Security.
- Ghatkopar busiest metro station with 41 Lakh footfalls per month.
- The global diabetes rate up by 45%.
- Union Home Ministry has cancelled the FCRA licence of 4470 odd NGO's.
- Guiness World Record created for largest Swachch Bharat Poster which measures 36,180 sq.ft , 180 ft breadth and 201 ft Length.
- Shah Rukh Khan to buy trinidad and tobago franchise in Carribean League.
- 487 farmers committed suicide in state in last 2 months.
- India's coal consumption was highest in the world at 11.4% in 2014.
- Crop planting 9% lower than 2014.
- Onion exports lower in FY 2014-15 lowest in 9 years.
- E- Rickshaws to hit the road in Mumbai region.
- Diabetes has increased 45% globally and 123% in India between 1990 and 2013.
- A lizard was found in a air India passengers lunch on Delhi- London Flight.
- 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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