June 21

With the increase in milk production and procurement by the Karnataka Milk Fede
ration, the government has decided to extend the Ksheera Bhagya scheme the suppl
y of milk to 1.04 crore schoolchildren studying in schools and in anganwadis fro
m three days to five days a week.
* At present, 8.5 lakh litres of milk is being supplied to schoolchildren daily.
* The government has also decided to transfer an incentive of Rs. 4 a litre of m
ilk directly to the accounts of farmers through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) sc
heme.
* All farmers, who are supplying milk to milk unions, have been told to open ban
k accounts in the next one month.
The Cabinet sub-committee on NTR Sujala Sravanthi scheme to provide packaged dr
inking water to every habitation in Andhra Pradesh has tentatively decided to la
unch the first phase of the scheme from October.
* Technology to be adopted for treatment of water and supply of 20 litres of min
eral water at Rs. 2 for every household.
Union Government constituted an independent High Level Committee to inquire int
o the incident of gas leakage in Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh that occurre
d on 12 June 2014.
* The independent High Level Committee will be headed by K.K. Mehrotra former CM
D of Metallurgical and Engineering Consultants (India) limited along with three
other members. The other three members will be
* K.A.P Singh, former MD of Bokaro Steel Plant
* SB Mathur, Director General of the Directorate General of Factory Advice Servi
ce & Labour Institute in Mumbai.
June 22
Model Rhea Pillai has filed a case of domestic violence and harassment against
her estranged live-in partner ace tennis player Leander Paes and his father in a
Mumbai metropolitan magistrate court.
* The couple has already been fighting for the custody of their eight-year-old d
aughter.
Campa Cola residents, in a last ditch attempt to save their homes, appealed to
President Pranab Mukherjee . In their mercy petition, residents have asked Mr. Muk
herjee to intervene on humanitarian grounds.
* Campa Cola Compound is an apartment complex in the southern part of Worli in S
outh Mumbai, India. The Campa Cola Compound was constructed on land leased to Pu
re Drinks Ltd.
* During the construction period, the authorities issued notices to the builders
to stop work. The builders were fined and they paid the penalty and resumed wor
k.
* After the construction was completed nobody prevented the buyers from occupyin
g their apartments or the buildings from forming co-operative housing societies.
International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor Indias civilian atomic programme.
* The new government has ratified the Additional Protocol, a commitment given un
der India-U.S. nuclear deal by the previous dispensation to grant greater ease t
o International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor Indias civilian atomic programme.
* The IAEA had in March 2009 approved an additional protocol to Indias safeguards
agreement consequent to a pact reached with the agency the previous year to pla
ce its civilian nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards.
ADB extends loan period for Kerala project.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB), which is financially assisting the multi-cro
re projects of the Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project (KSUDP), has ext
ended the loan period by two years.
June 23
Import ban on milk items from China extended till June 2015. The government has
again extended the ban on imports of milk and its products from China for one m
ore year till June 2015.
* Prohibition on import of milk and milk products (including chocolates and choco
late products and candies/ confectionery/ food preparations with milk or milk so
lids as an ingredient) from China is extended for one more year, i.e., till 23.6
.2015 or until further orders, whichever is earlier, Directorate General of Forei
gn Trade (DGFT).
* India had first imposed the ban in September 2008 due to presence of melamine,
used for making plastics and fertiliser.
World Bank President Jim Young Kim has said India can save more than 27,000 liv
es and create over 128,000 jobs if it builds 1,000 kilometres of new bus rapid t
ransit (BRT) lanes in the next 20 years.
* Speaking at the release of a report Climate-Smart Development, according to whic
h $3-4 billion is needed to develop 1,000 km of BRT corridors in about 20 cities
across India within 6-12 years, Mr. Jim said India could also reduce greenhouse
gas emissions by about 42 million tons.
* The analysis estimates that investment of $3-4 billion would be needed to deve
lop 1,000 km of BRT corridors in about 20 cities across India within 6-12.
A world class campus with all modern facilities is being developed at a cost of
Rs. 35 crore for the Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (IITTM)
southern centre here at Golagamudi in the vicinity of Nellore town.
* The construction activity has picked up momentum in a single block of 10 acres
land, which is adjacent to the proposed cricket stadium to be constructed by th
e Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) here.
Tatas aim to build aircraft for Ruag Aviation
* The Tata Group said it aims to bring out a fully built aircraft for Ruag Aviat
ion makers of Dornier 228 new generation aircraft, parts of which are to be made
in India by TASL.
June 24
Mamata to set up wax museum in Kolkata.
* A wax museuem the replica of Madame Tussauds' in central London is likely to b
e inaugurated soon in West Bengal, with a king-size model of Shah Rukh Khan, an
all time favourite actor of Bengals Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee.
* The names of other Bollywood stars featured in Chief Ministers list of wax mode
ls are Lata Mangeshkar and Amitabh Bachchan
Modi for first high-speed train by 2017.
* The Government is keen on running Indias first high-speed train (HST) between A
hmedabad and Mumbai.
* This HST will be part of Mr. Modis vision of a diamond quadrilateral of bullet
trains between major metros.
The Vaticans new cricket team is going on tour, fielding a largely Indian team t
o play an Anglican squad at the Kent County Cricket Club and the royal households
XI at Windsor.
* The September 12-20 Light of Faith Tour aims to forge closer ties between the Ca
tholic and Anglican churches, which split in 1534 after English King Henry VIII
was refused a marriage annulment.
* A half-millennium later, the two churches remain divided on a host of issues,
including female bishops.
The Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh
was accorded the Unesco World Heritage Site status.
* The Unesco World Heritage Site Committee at Doha in Qatar granted the status t
o the park under the criteria of ''exceptional natural beauty and conservation o
f biological diversity''.
* The GHNP has now come in the league of In