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Daily G.K. - Top Stories

06 Jul 2016

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Venezuela Willing to Restore Ties with the US

  • Crisis-hit Venezuela is willing to restore diplomatic relations with the United States after a six-year freeze.
  • This announcement came two weeks after top US diplomat Thomas Shannon met with Venezuela's President in a bid to help tackle the country's economic and political crisis.
  • The two countries have not exchanged ambassadors since 2010.
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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

Coal Production Rises

  • India has reached a point where the country's largest producer, state-run Coal India Ltd, is looking at exporting the fuel as growth in production has outpaced consumption.
  • Coal production rose 8.5% to 536 million tonnes in 2015-16.
  • NTPC, the biggest consumer of Coal India Ltd and the largest coal user in the country, will not import any coal this fiscal.
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Juno Enters Jupiter's Orbit

  • Juno spacecraft as it entered Jupiter's orbit after five years.
  • Juno was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 5, 2011.
  • Juno is the second spacecraft to orbit Jupiter, following the Galileo probe which orbited from 1995–2003.
  • Juno is the first solar-powered mission to Jupiter.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS

Modi’s New Cabinet

  • Narendra Modi inducted 19 news ministers in his Cabinet and carried out a reshuffle of the portfolios of his ministers.
  • The complete list of cabinet ministers is as follows: Rajnath Singh - Home Affairs, Sushma Swaraj - External Affairs, Arun Jaitley - Finance & Corporate Affairs, M. Venkaiah Naidu - Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, Information & Broadcasting, Nitin Jairam Gadkari - Road Transport and Highways & Shipping, Manohar Parrikar – Defence, Suresh Prabhu – Railways, D. V. Sadananda Gowda - Statistics & Programme Implementation, Uma Bharati - Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation, Najma A. Heptulla - Minority Affairs, Ramvilas Paswan - Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Kalraj Mishra - Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - Women & Child Development, Ananth Kumar - Chemicals & Fertilizers, Parliamentary Affairs, Ravi Shankar Prasad - Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology, Jagat Prakash Nadda - Health & Family Welfare, Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati - Civil Aviation, Anant Geete - Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises, Harsimrat Kaur Badal - Food Processing Industries, Narendra Singh Tomar - Rural Development, Panchayati Raj Drinking Water & Sanitation, Chaudhary Birender Singh – Steel, Jual Oram - Tribal Affairs, Radha Mohan Singh - Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Thaawar Chand Gehlot - Social Justice and Empowerment, Smriti Zubin Irani – Textiles, Harsh Vardhan - Science & Technology, Earth Sciences, Prakash Javadekar - Human Resource Development.

High Courts of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras

  • Almost two decades after ‘Madras’ became ‘Chennai’, ‘Bombay’ became ‘Mumbai’ and Calcutta became Kolkata, the High Courts in all the three cities finally adopted the respective city names by the act of Parliament.
  • From now on Calcutta High Court will be known as Kolkata High Court, Bombay High Court as Mumbai High Court and Madras High Court as Chennai High Court.
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