Current Affairs Recap of the Day: 1 June 2016

•    A massive fire broke out at the Central Ammunition Depot (CAD) in- Pulgaon

•    Uttar Pradesh Government on 31 May 2016 approved the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of- Varanasi

•    The Direct Tax Dispute Resolution Scheme 2016 that came into effect on 1 June 2016 was incorporated into this chapter of the Finance Act, 2016 – Chapter X 


•    The age of superannuation of all doctors of Central Health Services was extended by Union Government to – 65 years from previous 62 years

•    The state that decided to raise the retirement age of state government doctors as per the age of doctors of Central Health Services as notified by Union Government is – Haryana

•    Gotthard Base Tunnel, world’s longest railway tunnel, was recently inaugurated in - Switzerland

•    The National Buildings Construction Corporation Limited recently announced to launch a Ganga cleaning project in – Bihar

•    The Government of India and the World Bank recently signed an agreement to - improve efficiency of City Bus Services 

•    India recently launched the Chamber of Commerce and Industry with this country to accelerate the pace of economic development between the two nations - Morocco

•    The country recently visited by the Vice President of India Hamid Ansari to strengthen bilateral ties with India is – Morocco

•    Asia’s largest technology trade show that kicked off in Taipei, attracting more than 1600 companies from 30 countries to showcase their latest products is named as - COMPUTEX

•    Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the hike in the minimum support price (MSP) of paddy for kharif season 2016-17 by 60 rupees to - 1470 rupees per quintal 

•    The UN children's agency, UNICEF, has decided to scale up operations to support twenty two thousand migrant children in - Greece

•    The state cabinet has decided to give 6 percent additional dearness allowance to state government staff from 1 January 2016 is - Madhya Pradesh

•    The country in which forty tiger cub bodies have been found in a freezer at a Buddhist temple accused of wildlife trafficking and animal abuse - Thailand

•    The state that decided to celebrate 'Gramoday Se Bharat Uday Abhiyan' every year - Madhya Pradesh

•    The World Milk Day that is observed annually on 1 June was first celebrated by UN Food and Agriculture Organization in - 2001

•    The Global Day of Parents that is observed annually on 1 June was proclaimed by UN General Assembly in - 2012

•    He was appointed as a member of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) by President Pranab Mukherjee - Bhim Sain Bassi, former Delhi Police Commissioner

•    The person was appointed as the Finance Secretary - Ashok Lavasa, an IAS officer of 1980 batch of Haryana cadre

•    The provisional estimates of national GDP for 2015-16 released by Central Statistical Office (CSO) is pegged at – 7.6%

•    The number of core industries which comprise nearly 38 percent of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) - Eight

•    Asia’s largest technology trade show COMPUTEX was started on 31 May 2016 in- Taipei

•    He assumed the office of Secretary in the Union Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs - Prabhas Kumar Jha

•    The first ever national plan that was released in India to make it disaster resilient - National Disaster Management Plan