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CURRENT AFFAIRS CAPSULE – 16 JUNE 2019

June 18, 2019
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Akshaya Patra, a Bengaluru-based non-profit organisation (NGO) running one of the world’s largest school meals project in India was awarded BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) World Service Global Champion Award for the programme. Founded by Madhu Pandit Dasa in 2000, Akshaya Patra today feeds 1.75 million children all over India with freshly prepared meals.
Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters has selected a list of 22 writers as recipients of Bal Sahitya Puraskar and 23 writers for Yuva Puraskar for 2019. The Executive Board of Sahitya Akademi under the chairmanship of its President, Dr. Chandrashekhar Kambar approved the selection of awardees. Sahitya Akademi was founded on 12 March 1954.
The 16th Asia Media Summit was organised in Siem Reap province, Cambodia from 12 June to 14 June 2019 to deliberate on many issues pertaining to media & broadcasting industry. The two-day summit was held under topic of Media Digitalization Focusing on Developing Markets. It called for regulation-making to fight against fake news and cyber-crimes. The 15th summit was held in India.
In FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) World Ranking Indian football team remains static at 101st place and Belgium continued to top. Introduced in December 1992, the FIFA Ranking ranks men’s national teams in association football. The world champions France was ranked 2nd. United States drops six ranks to 30.
India will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of Operation Vijay also called Kargil Vijay Diwas for over three days from 25 July to 27 July 2019 at Dras and New Delhi to commemorate victory in Kargil war with pride, honour and inspiration with theme- Remember, Rejoice and Renew. Kargil War was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).
Peter Gilchrist defeated India’s Sourav Kothari in final to win the 2019 Pacific International Billiards Championship played at the Yarraville Club in Melbourne, Australia. In June 2019, Kothari had become the 1st Indian billiard player to win a Triple Crown event of Australia by bagging the International Reventon Classic Snooker Champion. English-born Singaporean, Peter Gilchrist won World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) World Championships in 1994, 2001 and in 2013.
The National Geographic Society (NGS), a US based non-profit scientific and educational organizations announced successful installation of world’s highest operating weather stations on Mount Everest. This installation was part of National Geographic and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Everest. The station is aimed at monitoring and understanding of climate change as they will help continuously monitor upper reaches of atmosphere which is critical to tracking and predicting weather patterns around the world.