22 June 2012 Current Affairs
Australian high commissioner Visits Uttar Pradesh Australian High Commissioner Peter Varghese on22 June paid a courtesy visit to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and expressed interest in cooperation and technology transfer between his country and the state for river cleaning, energy sector and agriculture.
CM's office gutted in Mantralaya fire
A devastating fire in the Maharashtra government secretariat, including offices of the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief
Minister, on 21 June . left two persons dead and 16 injured and destroyed large number of files, raising questions on whether any sabotage was the cause.
PPP Loyalist Ashraf Elected Pakistan Prime Minister
Pakistan on 21June evening goy its new prime minister in pakistan peoples party(PPP) loyalist Raja Parez Ashraf,who enters he office with a corruption case, already in the supreme court,that earned him the nickname 'Raja Rental'.
Harish Bhat Is New CEO Of Tata Global
Harish Bhat has been appointed as chief executive officer and managing Director of the company. He will take over from percy poria, who returns on June 30,2012.
Moody's Cut Rating Of 15 Top Global Banks
Rating agency Moody's downgrades 15 of the world's biggest banks on 21 June lowering credit rating by one to three notches ti reflect the risk they faced from volatile capital market activists. Margan staley, Bank of America corp & citi group, Goldman sochs group, swizerland's central bank e.t.c are in this list.
Humpy Emerges Joint Winner
India's koneru Hamoy and Anna Muzychuk of sloveria shared the title in the FIDE women's grand Pix chess at Kazan, Russia on 22june .
Jwala -Diju Duo Crashes out
Olumpic -bound shuttlers G.Jwala & V. Diju on 22 June , crashed out of the singapore open super series their last torunment before London olympics.
India Wins Kabaddi Gold
Indian women won the gold in kabaddi by defeating Thailand in the final of the Third Asian Beach Games being held in Haiyang(china).
Miami Heat Crowed Champion
The King is celebrating his first coronation and the Miami Het is NBA champion again.Le Brong'King' James collected a triple- double by scorinf 26 points and Miami heat sominated the visiting oklahoma city .Thunder on 21 June to win the championchip series 4-1.
IKEA To Invest Rs.10k-cr In India
Amidst a slew of rating downgrade by the international agencies swedish home furnishing major LKEA on June 22 approached the government with a proposal to invest 1.5billion evros(Rs.10,500 crores) to set up 25 stores in the country uner single brand retail FDI.
Free Madicines For All Scheme TP Be Rolled Out From October
Scheme's outlay pegged at Rs.28.500 Cr. center to bear 75% of the cost.facility to be available at all govt hospitals. India's Ambitious polices to provide free medicines to all patients attending a government health facility across the country will be rolled out from October.
Rio+20 Summit Held In Rio deJaneiro ,Brazil
Rio+20 summit was held in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil.The leader of 172 states and government marked their presence at the conference.The basic theme of the conference was " Green economy in the context of sustainable development poverty eradication and institutional frame work for sustainable development".