24 June 2017

One Liner Current Affairs of The Day: 24 June 2017


1. ISRO successfully launches earth observation satellite Cartosat-2 Series along with 30 nano-satellites into orbit.

2. Govt announces another 30 cities under Smart City Mission.

3. International Widows’ Day (23 June 2017) observed globally.

4. Facebook Launches UK Initiative to Counter Online Extremist Material.

5. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) launches Web Portal for smooth GST implementation.


6. Rajiv Gauba to be next Union Home Secretary.

Other Appointments
Durga Shanker Mishra will replace Rajiv Gauba as the Urban Development Secretary. He is the Additional Secretary in the same ministry.
•Culture Secretary N K Sinha will be the Information and Broadcasting Secretary in place of Ajay Mittal, who will now be the DoPT secretary.
•Executive Director in World Bank Subhash C Garg will be the new Department of Economic Aairs Secretary.
Aruna Sundararajan will be the new Telecom Secretary. She is at present the Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). Ajay Prakash Sawhney will be the new MeitY Secretary in place of Sundararajan.
•NHAI chief Yudhvir Singh Malik will be the Road, Transport and Highways Secretary.
Deepak Kumar will be the next Chairman of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
Ajay Kumar Bhalla was confirmed as the Power Secretary. He is at present the Director General of Foreign Trade. He will succeed P K Pujari, who retires on 30 June 2017.
•Food Processing Industries Secretary Avinash Kumar Srivastava will be the Secretary of Department of Consumer Affairs.
•New and Renewable Energy Secretary Rajeev Kapoor was named as the Secretary of the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals.
Ravi Kant, a 1984 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, will be the new Shipping Secretary.
•Border Management Secretary Sanjeevanee Kutty was appointed as Secretary of Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare in Defense Ministry.
Arun Kumar Panda was appointed as the Secretary in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.

7. Union Government launches Visiting Advanced Joint Research Faculty (VAJRA) scheme to attract Indian scientists abroad.

8. Haryana declared as 5th Open Defecation Free state.

9. India's Forex Reserves Hit Record High, increased by $799 million.