Current Affairs Recap of the Day: 21 June 2016

•    Theme of International Yoga Day 2016 - Connect the Youth

•    The TOP500 list declared SERC as the fastest supercomputer in India is located at - IISc, Bangalore

•    This Chinese supercomputer was declared as the fastest in the world by the TOP500 List - Sunway TaihuLight



•    This Kannada movie won the best film award under the Asia New Talent Awards Category at the 19th Shanghai International Film Festival – Thithi

•    The Indian energy company that agreed to buy Welspun Renewable Energy Pvt Ltd for 1.4 billion US dollars – Tata Power

•    This 106-year old woman became the oldest Olympic torch bearer in the world - Aida Gemanque of Brazil

•    This state decided to establish model madarasas with modern education in every district - Rajasthan

•    Max Life and Max Financial Services agreed to merge with this life insurance company - HDFC Life

•    Finance Minister Arun Jaitley released a commemorative silver coin on the occasion of 300th Martyrdom Day of Sikh General - Banda Singh Bahadur

•    The state that launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana - Odisha

•    Dubbed the Gateway to Hell, a volcano in South Iceland that can explode in near future according to experts – Hekla

•    Head of the Expert Committee set up on examining the Specific Relief Act, 1963 that submitted its report to government – Anand Desai

•    Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) and India Ports Global Private Limited (IPGPL) signed MoU for implementation of the three additional works on - Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport Project

•    The populist anti-corruption Five Star Movement (M5S) activist who was elected as the first female mayor of Rome is - Virginia Raggi

•    The chemical whose use was banned as a food additive by Union Government on recommendation of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) - Potassium bromate (KbrO3)

•    The village of Nepal after whom a Martian crater was named by the International Astronomical Union - Langtang

•    First Indian state to launch Mukh Mantri Hepatitis C Relief Fund - Punjab

•    Indigenous Basic Trainer Aircraft (BTA) HTT-40 was developed by - Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

•    Indian Bank that was named in Hall of Shame list 2016 that listed Banks funding Cluster Bomb Makers - State Bank of India