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June 15th Current Affairs

1)A report on Composite Water Management Index prepared by NITI Aayog was launched by Nitin Gadkari.Gujarat state topped in the report ,whereas Tripura adjudged as number 1 in North Eastern and Himalayan States.Composite Water Management Index is an important tool to assess and improve the performance of States/ Union Territories in efficient management of water resources.
2)Piyush Goyal inagurated the three 100 MW Solar Power Projects of Neyveli Lignite Corporation India Limited (NLCIL) and dedicated it to the nation.

3) Odisha government signed an MoU with US based Lightning analysing firm Earth Networks for Lightning detection and warning system in the state in a move to reduce lightning strike incidents.
4)South Central Railway (SCR) has become the first railway zone in the country to complete 100% LED Lighting in all the stations which comes under SCR.
5)Union Minister DoNER, Jitendra Singh, the Northeast is the only region in India for which the Centre has formulated a Regional Road Corporation to boost development.
6)In the Forbes 2018 Global 2000 list,Reliance Industries is at 83rd place which is the only company from India to be placed in the top-100 list.
7)23rd European Union Film Festival (EUFF) will be held in New Delhi,India on 18th June.
8)10 day Educational Tour for Yoga Professionals has been organized by Association of Tourism Trade organizations in assiciation with Ministry of AYUSH and Tourism of Kerala Government.
9)Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan inaugurated the ‘School Chale Hum Abhiyan 2018’ in Bhopal.The motive of this scheme is that no child should be deprived of schooling.
10)Shikhar Dhawan became the first Indian to score a century before lunch on the first day of the one-off test match against Afghanistan in Bengaluru.He became the sixth batsman in the world to achieve this in test format.
11)India Women’s Cricket team opener Smriti Mandhana will become the first Indian player to appear in Kia Super League – the women’s cricket super league in England.
12)PhonePe announced that, it has partnered with cab aggregator Ola, to enable riders to book rides using PhonePe’s payment platform.

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