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June 21st Current Affairs

1)World's first International Centre for Humanitarian Forensics was launched in Gandhinagar,Gujarat which will provide services during the disaster and Emerhencies.  
2)Tamilnadu state government set up a committee named Staff Rationalisation Committee headed by  S.Audeseshiah to evaluate the staff structure in various departments to downsize its workforce.  
3)In order to counter terrorist threats in India and Australia,10th Meeting of Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism was held in New Delhi.The next meeting of Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism will be held in Australia in 2019.
4)To Revolutionize fish production in the Country MPEDA(Marine Products Export Development Authority) is going to launch its multi species Aquaculture Complex in Kochi.  
5)Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Radha Mohan Singh assured Nepal that India will provide support to Nepal in agriculture and discussed ways to strengthen Nepal's agriculture sector.
6)7th India Minerals and Metals Forum was inagurated in New Delhi. 
7)Kolkata based Jiya Das became the first yransgender Operation Theatre technician.Jiya Das is working in a city based super speciality hospital in Kolkata.
8)In order to Encourage Setting up of wing and solar power projects at one location Gujarat State Government has announced Wind Solar Hybrid Power Policy 2018.
9) 19th All India Conference of Directors of Finger Prints Bureau was held in Hyderabad.It is a 2 day conference on Automatic Fingerprint Identification System.
10)Idea and Vodafone India are in process of merging their businesses to form Vodafone Idea Ltd. 
11)Sunil Mittal to be the Honarary Chairman of International Chamber Of Commerce.
12)Conference on International Decade for Action Water for Sustainable Development 2018-2028 will be held in Dushanbe,Tajikistan.
13) SBI's Managing Director B.Sriram has been appointed as the MD and CEO of IDBI Bank for temporary term of 3 months.
14)USD 4.26 Million was granted to International Non Profit Organisation water aid to provide safe water access to the Kerala,AndhraPradesh and Karnataka by the Pepsico Foundation.
15)Jammu and Kashmir Governor NN Vohra has appointed IAS officer BVR Subrahmanyam as the new Chief Secretary of the state.
16)To make working better and faster for Charities and Non governmental organisations an app called WORKPLACE FOR GOOD was launched by Facebook.  
17)Instagram has launched a New App called IGTV for publishers to create full screen videos.It is a step towards competing with YouTube to attract video creators.
18)Vishwas Mandlik of Nashik and The Yoga Institute in Mumbai are the winners of 2018 Prime Minister’s Award for outstanding contribution to promotion and development of yoga.


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