India This Week: 2 June-8 June 2014

India this week brought to you by Jagranjosh.com intends to equip the students and aspirants of various competitive exams with calendar of most important events that has happened in India the week 2 June – 8 June 2014. It will help them revise and recollect the important news and events just before the exam.

2 June 2014
•    Telangana became the 29th State of India
•    Chandrashekhar Rao sworn-in as the First Chief Minister of Telengana
•    India became 2nd largest textiles exporter after China: UN Comtrade
•    Scientists at NDRI cloned female buffalo calf Lalima

3 June 2014
•    Union Rural Development Minister Gopitnath Munde died
•    TERI Environment Survey 2014 highlighted that environment in India is worsening
•    UP government ordered establishment of women helpline in each district of State
•    Jammu and Kashmir increased retirement age of employees to 60
•    RBI announced second Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement
•    IICA signed MoU with Grant Thornton to implement CSR Rules of Companies Act 2013

4 June 2014
•    Private schools come under the provision of RTI Act: CIC
•    Nitin Gadkari got additional charge of Union Ministry Rural Development
•    Kamal Nath sworn-in as Pro tem Speaker of 16th Lok Sabha
•    India slipped to 3rd position in ICC ODI rankings
•    Indian Services sector expanded for the first time in eleven months: HSBC’s PMI

5 June 2014
•    Indian Army launched the Army Veterans Grievance Handling portal
•    Abhijit Guha appointed as member of UN expert panel on peacekeeping
•    Sanjay Kapoor appointed as Micromax Chairman
•    Union Ministry of Environment and Forest launched online Environment clearance
•    Assam Agriculture University and ICAR signed MoU for opening KVK in Baksa district

6 June 2014
•    Sumitra Mahajan elected as Speaker of 16th Lok Sabha
•    Anil Chopra took over as Commander-in-Chief of Western Naval Command
•    Madhuri Dixit appointed as brand ambassador of health campaign, Mamta Abhiyan
•    UP Government constituted SIT to probe gang rape and murder case of Badaun

7 June 2014
•    Kawa Music Group of Jaipur to perform at XX Commonwealth Games 2014
•    Union Government launched anti-tobacco advertisement, The Price We Pay

8 June 2014
•    Chandrababu Naidu sworn-in as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
•    Book titled Getting India Back on track – An Action Agenda for Reform released
•    Sourav Ganguly joined Supreme Court appointed Mudgal Committee
•    Mumbai Metro train service began