Current Affairs - June 3, 2017 Current Affairs

Leo Varadkar will become the next Prime Minister of Ireland after winning the leadership of the Fine Gael party. He will succeed Enda Kenny and become the first gay Prime Minister.

Manika Batraand Mouma Das made history by becoming the first Indian pair and entered the quarterfinals of the World Table Tennis Championships.

Reliance Communications' executive Punit Garg said that the merged wireless company with Aircel will be called Aircom. RCom can monetize 49 percent tower co stake in future though sale or a listing process, while further debt reduction options will include sale of direct-to-home business. RCom has been engaged in discussions with its lenders in order to finalise a debt resolution plan.

Minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari on Thursday launched INAM PRO+-an e-commerce platform for construction and infrastructure raw material for government and private procurement.

Bank of India conducted a mass-contact programme, 'Star Mahotsav', across its branch network. The thrust was on contacting every customer at their door step either for recovery of bad loans, disbursement of retail loans including housing and vehicle loan, disbursement under MSME and agriculture and promotion of its products, including debit and credit card, POS machine, and internet banking service.

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur has come up with a wireless technology for remote monitoring of patients' condition ferried in ambulances. Christened 'AmbuSens', the technology has been developed in the SWAN lab of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of the institute. It is is capable of wireless monitoring of various physiological parameters like ECG, heart-rate, temperature and blood-pressure.

The 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will be held at Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic in the month of July. Ralang Road directed by Karma Takapa will represent India at the festival. It has been nominated for the Crystal Globe Award along with 11 other films from around the world.

The United Nations General Assembly elected Slovak foreign minister Miroslav Lajcak to be its next president. He will succeed Fiji's former ambassador to the United Nations, Peter Thomson, in September and chair the assembly's 72nd session that month.

State Bank of India and the World Bank announced that they had financed 100 MW of rooftop solar projects worth Rs400 crore in India. SBI got a loan of $625 million from the World Bank via Grid-Connected Rooftop Solar PV (GRPV) projects undertaken by developers, aggregators, end-users, for installation of rooftop solar systems.

The Haryana Cabinet has approved the extension of Metro rail from Narela (Delhi) to Kundli (Sonepat District). The Narela to Kundli extension (4.86 km long) will have three stations namely Narela Sector 5, Kundli and Nathupur.

Samsung India signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) for setting up two new Samsung Technical Schools in Bengaluru and Jamshedpur. Samsung already runs 10 schools in the States of Rajasthan, Kerala, Bihar, Delhi and West Bengal.

The West Indies cricket team has been officially renamed as 'WINDIES' while the West Indies Cricket Board has rebranded itself as 'Cricket West Indies' on its 90th anniversary. It will apply to all teams representing the Board and will be used on all team playing shirts.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has initiated prompt corrective action (PCA) for Dena Bank in view of high net non-performing assets and negative return on assets. Prompt Corrective Action is the action which will not have any material impact on the performance of the bank to improve its activities.In the month of May, RBI had initiated PCA for IDBI Bank and UCO Bank in view of negative assets.