June 2010 Current Affairs

Current Affairs June 2010:

• Julia Gillard became Australia’s first women Prime Minister replacing Kevin Rudd following a sudden revolt against him.

• In the Global Peace Index 2010, India ranked at 128.

• 2010 Failed State Index- Somalia top the list followed by Zimbabwe, Sudan & Chad. India is ranked at 87 places out of 177 countries. Norway in ranked at the bottom of the list. 

•  President Rule imposed in Jharkhand.

• Bangladesh Govt has requested to rename the train linking West Bengal to Tripura via Banglades as ‘ Sonar Tori’. Earlier the name of the train as envisaged in the Railway Budget 2010 is ‘Epar Bangla Opar Bangla’. Sonar Tori is a collection of poems written by Rabindranath Tagore, whose 150th birth anniversary is being celebrated in 2010.

• Maharastra will become first state in the country to have a real estate regulatory authority.

• French Open 2010:

1. Men’s singles – Rafael Nadal defeated Robin Soderling. He is the second person after Bjorn Borg to win 5th French Open titles. 
2. Women’s singles- Francesca Schiavone (Italy) defeated Samantha Stosur (Australia). She became first Italian women to won the French open. 
3. Men’s Doubles- Daniel Nestor & Nenad Zimonjic defeated Lukas Dlouhy & Leander Paes. 
4. Women’s Doubles- Serena Williams & Venus Williams defeated Kveta Peschke & Katarina Srebotnik.
5. Mixed Doubles – Katarina Srebotnik & Nenad Zimonjic defeated Yavoslava Shvedova & Julian Knowle.

• Former CJI K G Balakrishnan is appointed as Chairman of National Human Rights Commission.

• Sachin Tendulkar conferred with Indian Air Force’s honorary rank of Group Captain. Till now 21 persons have been granted honorary ranks by the IAF. The first person was Raja of Jawhar- Raja Yaswant Rao in 1994. Tendulkar is the first sportsperson to be conferred with this honour.

• Sharad Pawar was selected as a 7th President of ICC. He became 2nd Indian after Jagmohan Dalmia to occupy the position. He succeeded David Morgan.

• Capital Gate Tower in Abu Dhabi has been certified at world’s furthest leaning manmade tower. The tower leans at 18 degrees, over four times angle of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

• Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace & Sustainable Development is being set up in New Delhi.

World Blood Donor Day- 14 June. Theme of 2010 is ‘Celebrating your gift of blood’.

World Environment Day – 5 June. Theme of 2010 is ‘Biodiversity: Connecting with Nature’.

Statistics Day- 29 June. It is celebrated in honour of Prof P C Mahalanobis.