Current Affairs Dated June26 to July 3,2010

National


1. UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi laid foundation of ‘Rohtang Tunnel’ at Dhundi near Manali. It will be an all weather alternative route to Ladakh from Manali in Himachal Pradesh.

2. Fuel Prices hiked.

3. Indian Air force conducts joint exercise with French and Singapore air force- “Garuda 2010”.

4. Navy launches two water-jet propelled fast attack craft- INS Cankarso and INS Kondul.

5. TamilNadu has been given highest allocation under the World Bank assisted programme of Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP).The project also covers Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa.

6. 26 CRPF men are killed in Narayanpur district of Chattisgarh.

International

1. SAARC Home Ministers conference held in Islamabad.

2. China and Taiwan sign historic trade pact.


3. India joins “Thirty Metre Telescope” the next generation astronomical observatory in Hawaii.

4. Guinea had its first ever democratic poll.

Business


1. Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and Reliance Natural Resources Limited (RNRL) sign gas supply pact.

2. UK-based Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) sells its retail banking business to HSBC in India.

Sports

1. BCCI cancel IPL media right contract with World Sports Group (WSG).

2. Commonwealth games- Queen’s Baton arrives at Attari-Wagah border.Suresh Kalamdi holds it.

3. Saina Nehwal completes her hatrick by retaining the Indonesia Open Super Series badminton.

4. Sebastin Vettel won the European Grand Prix.

People in News

1. Sharad Pawar-Elected as new president of International Cricket Council (ICC).

2. Saina Nehwal- Brand ambassador for Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR).

3. Grigori Perelman-Solved century old puzzle on Poincare Conjecture, a theorem about the nature of multi dimensional space.

4. Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar announced his resignation.