Current Affairs Today: 8 June 2016 Latest News and Updates

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National affairs.

• The agreement between the two countries India and Japan of the nuclear deal will now probably wait for a long period of time or even more than a year as the Japanese diplomats say that the technical details of the agreement have to be discussed yet.
• Rashtriya Janta dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav said on 7th June 2016 that the central government is responsible for scrapping the 27th percent reservation which was for the backward class ( OBC) for the professors and the other associates in the central universities and he ended saying that he would initiate a protest in the country to expose the government of the Bhartiya Janta party on this issue.
• The congress be strong and comments that yes the leaders are leaving the party and it had happened many times when the party was not in power and this shows who stands with you in bad times as well and yes Mr. Gurudas Kamat( Maharashtra leader ) has decided his retirement from the politics but we are still in talks with him and he shall come back soon.
• Mandya ankedowda a 66-year-old man has collected over 10 lakh books in the past 33 years in nearly 22 Indian languages and several foreign languages and his first ever book was costing him around 25 paise  and he is the largest personal book collector in the country.

International affairs.

• Former political prisoner’s Aung san Suu Kyi led government in the Myanmar has convicted a BBC reporter and sentenced him to Jail for about three months with the hard labour after he was been convicted of assaulting a police officer while he was covering a protest of the students .
• India and the united states both have agreed to initiate domestic processes to Ratify the Paris agreement on the climate   change  which has been negotiated over around 190 countries in the world in the month of December of the year 2015.
• Around 25 Indian students who were studying in the first semester and had enrolled in the field of computer science program at western Kentucky university has been asked to either return back to their country or find a placement in any other school as they were not matching the standards of the university.
• Ananta Gopal ( 70-year-old ) a Hindu priest in the Bangladesh( in Naldanga Bazar) was attacked around 9.30 in the morning by three men who slit his throat with the sharp-edged weapons when he was going to perform a ritual of Hindu pooja  in the western Jhinaigah district.

Politics

• Union water resource minister “ Uma Bharti” threatens an agitation the National Board for wildlife committee  to clear the Ken Betwa interlinking project  as since December 2015 a 9000 crore project that is expected to be around 700,00 hectares in the drought-ravaged  Bundelkhand is been  reviewed by a committee constituted by the National Board for wildlife committee.
• Arundhati Bhattacharya (chairman of the state bank of India) have been ranked 25th

in the latest Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful people and four other women of India in the list.

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• The opposition leader of the congress party “ Abdul Mannan” and the west Bengal assembly leader have accused Prime minister Narendra Modi as he had made fake promises and claims regarding the Shradha Scam investigation.

Bussiness

• According to the civil aviation minister “ Ashok Gajapathi, “ the centre will protect its airlines and will restrict the foreigner carrier to take advantage of the India’s economic growth and the tourism sector.
• A proposal on behalf of the country will be submitted to the world trade organization WTO on the Trade facilitation Agreement in service and the objective of this is to gain flexible global trade services.
• According to the commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the foreign direct investment has gone up to a 42 percent since the NDA government assumed office in the may of the year 2014.

Sports

• From July 6, 2016, the team, India will be on a tour for test series matches of 49 days of west indies and will depart from for home on August 23rd, 2016 .
• As earlier the BCCI had formally announced for the invitation of the coach for the Indian team it didn’t announce for the assistant coaches. According to the information the BCCI is going to favour the newly appointed coach an edge over the advantage to rope his experts and of his choice as assistant coach and this is known as “ Sidekick culture” according to the fraternity.
• The west Bengal sports Minister Aroon Biswas said that there is a possibility of the ISl under 17 world cup to move out of the Kolkata as the stadium is not yet renovated as per as the guidelines of the FIFA and in case it doesn’t get ready for the tournament then the Isl has to be moved out of the Kolkata stadium.

Science and technology.

• The union government is now planning to develop a suite of the BT cotton genes that is basically used to integrate to traditional varieties and is made available to the farmers as an alternative to the current technology which is majorly sourced from the Mahyco Monsanto biotech India Ltd.
• According to a Physical review Letters on the June 7th, a proposed milestone in the study of Gravitational waves LISA , the laser interferometer space Antenna project has received an encouragement after its first result from the LISA pathfinder.
• Umang Bedi ( an adobe executive ) to join as the managing director of the India of a social networking giant Facebook.