1) Jal Kranti Abhiyaan
Union Minister of Water Resources, River Development and
Ganga Rejunivetion, Uma Bharti on
launched nationwide Jal Kranti
Abhiyan (campaign) from Jaipur, Rajasthan.
The aim is to consolidate water conservation and management
in the country through a holistic and integrated approach involving all
stakeholders, making it a mass movement.
2) Highlights of PM Modi’s visit to Bangladesh
A) India, Bangladesh make history with land swap
i. India and Bangladesh on Saturday sealed a historic
agreement that will settle a 41-year-old land boundary dispute through exchange
of territories, removing a major irritant in bilateral ties.
ii. The two sides exchanged documents regarding the Land
Boundary Agreement (LBA) that was passed unanimously by the Parliament last
month in the presence of Mr. Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh
Hasina.
B) India and Bangladesh inked 22 agreements.
Some of them are as follows:
i) Human trafficking.
ii) Smuggling of fake currency.
iii) Setting up an Indian Economic Zone
3) Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
UK Author Ali Smith on 3 June 2015 won the 2015 Baileys
Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel How to be Both.
4) India A and India Under-19 Cricket Team new Coach
BCCI has announced Rahul Dravid as the coach of India A team
and Indian U 19 cricket team.
5) Delhi Metro gets first driver-less train from South Korea
6) Govt picks new DRDO chief, scientific advisor to defence
minister
The government appointed S Christopher, 59, as Development-cum-Director
General, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
