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Misc Issues

• India and France held a joint air combat exercise in France called ‘Garuda IV’.
• Cyclone Phet hit Gujarat coast .
• Indigenous developed vaccine ‘Vaxiflu-S’ against swine flu (H1N1) is launched.
• Mars-500 : An experiment to study the effect of long isolation to better understand how a real space crew should cope with stress and fatigue. The experiment is conducted by Russia, China and The European Space Agency at Moscow. A total of 520 days are required to travelled to and back form Mars planet.
• Capital Gate Tower in Abu Dhabi has been certified at world’s furthest leaning manmade tower. The tower leans at 18 degrees, over four times angle of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
• World Blood Donor Day- 14 June. Theme of 2010 is ‘Celebrating your gift of blood’.
• World Environment Day – 5 June. Theme of 2010 is ‘Biodiversity : Connecting with Nature’.
• Statistics Day- 29 June. Celebrated in honour of Prof P C Mahalanobis.
• Govt made it mandatory for companies listed on the stock exchange to raise public shareholding to 25 %.
• Craig Venter created first living cell created synthetically by human being.
• Bharti Airtel acquire Kuwait based Zain Telecom’s African business for $ 10.7 billion or Rs. 48,150 crore. Bharti now become 5th largest telecom company in the world.
• Broadband users in India as on March 2010 was 8.75 million.
• Forbes list 1011 billionaires in the world. It included 14 women, 7 of whom are from China.
• India has 1.27 lakh millionaires in 2009, a rise of 50.9 %. HNWI (high net worth individual) are defined as those having investible assets of $ 1 million or more. Hongkong topped the global growth in HNWI followed by India.
• Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace & Sustainable Development is being set up in New Delhi.