Current Affairs: News Headlines: June 19, 2018

Following are the key current affairs headlines in newspapers for June 19, 2018

INDIA

• President Ram Nath Kovind meets his Greek counterpart Prokopis Pavlopoulos and PM Alexis Tsipras in Athens
• Central Water Commission (CWC) to collaborate with Google for flood forecasting and dissemination of flood related information to the masses
• European Union Film Festival begins in New Delhi, to be held in 11 cities and conclude on August 31
• Indian Coast Guard Ship ‘Rani Rashmoni’ commissioned in Visakhapatnam
• Goa Revolution Day celebrated on June 18
• Army to develop Jaisalmer Military Station as smart facility on pattern of Smart Cities
• Maharashtra: Social activist Pushpa Bhave selected to receive ‘Rajarshi Shahu Puraskar’ in Kolhapur
• Telangana: ‘COP CONNECT’, a mobile app to support communication needs of the police department, launched in Hyderabad
• BJP President Amit Shah lays foundation stone of 19 new cancer hospitals in Guwahati
• Noted social activist Jiten Chakraborty dies in Guwahati at 82

Finance, Business and Economy

• BSE Sensex closes at 35548.26 points (–73.88), NSE Nifty at 10799.85 (–17.85)
• Services exports in 2017-18 rose 8.8% to US$ 174.76 billion while services imports rose 10.2% to US$ 105.21 billion; services trade surplus improved 6.6% to US$ 69.55 billion
• Govt to expand its BPO promotion scheme for rural youth to 1 lakh seats, plans largest National Data Centre in Bhopal
• Yes Bank receives approval from market regulator SEBI for acting as custodian of securities

WORLD

• 41-year old Ivan Duque elected new President of Colombia
• Martin Bregman, who produced Al Pacino-starrer cult hits “Scarface” and “Dog Day Afternoon”, dies at 92
• South Korea begins 2-days of war games to defend Dokdo islands against Japan
• WHO includes “gaming disorder” as a mental health condition in its International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
• International Information and Communication Technology (ICT) 2018 held in Kathmandu on June 17-18
• EU rolls over for another year tough sanctions imposed over Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine
• Sustainable Gastronomy Day observed on June 18

SPORTS

• FIFA World Cup: Brazil-Switzerland Group E match ends in 1-1 draw at Rostov-on-Don, Sweden beat South Korea 1-0 in Group F match at Nizhny Novgorod, Belgium beat Panama 3-0 in Group G match at Sochi
• Mexico’s Raia Marquez becomes only the third player to play at five World Cups
• All India Badminton Senior Ranking Tournament in Bengaluru: Sourabh Verma (Men’s) and Sai Uttejitha Rao (Women’s) win Singles titles
• US golfer Brooks Koepka wins US Open title at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Course in New York.

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Month: Current Affairs - June, 2018