Daily Current Affairs | 21th June 2016 Current Affairs
- 21 June: Yoga day
- The TOP 500 list declared SERC as the fastest supercomputer in India is located at IISc, Bangalore
- Sunway TaihuLight Chinese supercomputer was declared as the fastest in the world by the TOP500 List
- Thithi Kannada movie won the best film award under the Asia New Talent Awards Category at the 19th Shanghai International Film Festival
- Tata Power agreed to buy Welspun Renewable Energy Pvt Ltd for 1.4 billion US dollars
- Aida Gemanque of Brazil, 106-year old woman, became the oldest Olympic torch bearer in the world
- Rajasthan decided to establish model madarasas with modern education in every district
- Max Life and Max Financial Services agreed to merge with HDFC Life
- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley released a commemorative silver coin on the occasion of 300th Martyrdom Day of Sikh General Banda Singh Bahadur
- Odisha launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
- Dubbed the Gateway to Hell, a volcano in South Iceland that can explode in near future according to experts Hekla
- Anand Desai, Head of the Expert Committee set up on examining the Specific Relief Act 1963, submitted its report to government
- Inland Waterways Authority of India and India Ports Global Private Limited signed MoU for implementation of the three additional works on Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport Project
- Virginia Raggi was elected as the first female mayor of Rome
- The chemical of Potassium bromate (KbrO3) use was banned as a food additive by Union Government on recommendation of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
- The village of Nepal after Langtang’s a Martian crater was named by the International Astronomical Union
- Punjab is first Indian state to launch Mukh Mantri Hepatitis C Relief Fund
- Indigenous Basic Trainer Aircraft HTT-40 was developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
- State Bank of India was named in Hall of Shame list 2016 that listed Banks funding Cluster Bomb Makers
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