1. India has started its second IT corridor in China. The name of this IT corridor, Digital Joint Opportunity Plaza Platform (SIDCOP) has been kept. The objective of establishing IT Corridor in China is to make Indian IT companies easily accessible in the larger Chinese market.
2. Mia Mottley has been appointed as Prime Minister of Barbados. Motley is the first woman to be appointed as Prime Minister in Barbados. This is a country located in the Caribbean island.
3. Ellen Stofan is the Former Chief Scientist at NASA. He has been appointed as Director of Air and Space Museum. This museum gets information about the history of the aviation field. It is the world's largest aviation museum. This museum was established in Washington in 1946.
4. Geeta Kapoor was Indian film actress. She had worked in more than 100 films. Geeta was known for the role played in the movie "Pakija" and "Razia Sultan". She has passed away recently.
5. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 31, 2018, launched three Indian digital payment systems - RuPay, BHIM app and UPI by SBI at the 'Business, Innovation and Community Event' in Singapore.
6. Manipur is a state in which the establishment of the first Central Sports University of India was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.
7. Ayush has commonly used acronym which has been adopted by the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology to mean "Traditional and non-conventional system of health care and healing which include Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, Homoeopathy etc."
8. The Nobel laureate from Bangladesh is Muhammad Yunus. He has been awarded the 11th Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences Humanitarian Award 2018.
9. Justice R.K. Agrawal has been appointed as the President of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC). He has replaced Justice D.K. Jain, who retired recently.
10. RK Singh, Minister of State for Power, launched the web portal and an app called 'PRAAPTI' that stands for 'Payment ratification and analysis in power procurement for bringing transparency in invoicing of generators'. It was established in 1988 and it is headquartered in New Delhi.
11. The Ministry of Women and Child and Development, Government of India signed a MoU with Department of Women and Child Development, Government of Uttar Pradesh, in New Delhi. This signed for the management of Home of Widows at Sunrakh Bangar, Vrindavan. The Ministry of Women and Child Development has constructed this shelter home for widows with a capacity of 1000 inmates.
12. Bhubaneswar becomes the 4th National data center of National Informatics Centre (NIC) after Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune. The new cloud-enabled National Data Centre aims to offer round-the-clock operations with secure hosting for various e-governance applications of Central and State Governments.
