Current Affairs 11th June 2019

Current Affairs 11th June 2019 - Important Points

• Yuvraj Singh announces retirement from international cricket on - 10th June 2019
• India to hold 1st ever simulated space warfare exercise  in - July last week
• India to train 1000 civil servants of Maldives over next - 5 years 
• India and Portugal to set up National Maritime Heritage Museum in - Gujarat

Current Affairs 11th June 2019 - Details

Yuvraj Singh announces retirement from international cricket on - 10th June 2019

Yuvraj Singh, 2011 World Cup hero & one of India’s most celebrated cricketers has declared his retirement from international cricket, bringing an end to his renowned cricketing career with immediate effect. Singh done the declaration in a press conference in Mumbai on June 10th, 2019, together with his wife Hazel Keech and his mother, Shabnam Singh.
The 37 years old all-rounder Yuvraj stated that, After 25 years in & around the 22 yards and almost 17 years of international cricket on and off, he has decided to move-on. This game taught him how to fight, how to fall, to dust off, to get-up again & move forward. 
Singh’s famous 6 sixes
Yuvraj Singh was named the Indian vice-captain at the opening ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa. In
India's Super-8 match against England at Durban, Yuvraj hit 6 consecutive sixes in an over by
England’s Stuart Broad, making the fastest-ever fifty in a T20 game, off just 12 balls, which was also the
fastest in any form of international cricket.
2011 Cricket World Cup Triumph
While many thoughts that they had seen Yuvraj Singh’s peak, he exceeded his previous achievements with his dream run in the 2011 ICC World Cup. Yuvraj Singh scored 362 runs in the tournament with single hundred and 4 half-centuries. He also picked up 15 wickets including a 5-wicket haul.
Yuvraj Singh’s fight with Cancer
Yuvraj Singh agonized with respiratory difficulties through 2011.Following the World Cup, Yuvraj Singh
was diagnosed with a cancerous tumour stage-1 in his left lung and he undertook chemotherapy treatment at the Cancer Research Institute in Boston, USA as well as the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Centre, Indianapolis, Indiana.

India to hold 1st ever simulated space warfare exercise  in - July last week

India to organise it’s 1st-ever simulated space warfare exercise in the last week of July, 2019. It
has been termed IndSpaceEx. This exercise will essentially be a ‘table-top war-game’, with all
shareholders from the military and scientific community participating in it.
All military shareholders, including those from the scientific community, will take part in it. Main aim
of the exercise is to understand the possible trials in space warfare and to counter China's rising
influence in this domain, which poses a major threat to India's national security interest.
More about IndSpaceEx
India took the 1st step towards developing a credible counter-space capability under ”Mission
Shakti” when it released a 19 tonnes interceptor missile to abolish the 740 kgs Microsat-R satellite,
at an altitude of 283 kms in a ‘hit-to-kill mode’ on 27 March, 2019.
The purpose of the move is to understand the probable challenges in space warfare and to handle
China's growing influence in this domain, which poses a major threat to India's national security
interest.
When India tested A-Sat, China began evolving military capabilities in space in terms of lasers,
electromagnetic pulse weapons.
IndSpaceEx emphasizes the seriousness with which India is taking the essential to counter likely
threats to its space assets from nations like China.

India to train 1000 civil servants of Maldives over next - 5 years 

India’s leading civil services training institution, National Centre for Good Governance inked a MoU
with Maldives Civil Services Commission for capacity training of 1000 civil servants of Maldives over
coming 5 years. This MoU was inked during PM Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Maldives capital.
Key Highlights

• In April 2019, National Centre for Good Governance had trained 28 Maldives civil servants, thus this fruitful engagement encouraged 2 nations to enter into an MoU and take their capacity building
  collaboration forward.
• Other than Maldives, National Centre for Good Governance had also effectively conducted training programs for civil servants of Bangladesh, Myanmar and Gambia.
• All expenses of training program will be borne by Union Ministry of External Affairs.
• According to the MoU, National Centre for Good Governance will be nodal institution for designing and  execution of customised training modules that will be undertaken during training, and it must take into account all needs of Maldives Civil Services Commission.
• The training program areas will have public policy and governance, public administration, IT, e-governance & service delivery, agro-based practices, best practices in fisheries in coastal areas, urban development and  planning, Self-Help Group initiatives, ethics in administration and challenges in implementation of SDGs.

India and Portugal to set up National Maritime Heritage Museum in - Gujarat

India and Portugal will collaborate in formation of a national maritime heritage museum at ancient Indian site of Lothal in Gujarat. Lothal that literally means the mound of dead, was one of port cities of Indus Valley Civilization/Harappan Civilization.
Key Highlights

• In March 2019 Government of India assigned a grant for constructing maritime museum and foundation stone for project was laid by PM Narendra Modi.
• Then during Portuguese Defence Minister João Gomes Cravinho visit to India in April 2019, early discussions were organised between India and Portugal for developing maritime museum.
• The planned maritime museum in Indian is likely to come-up on lines of same museum at Lisbon, which is administered by Portuguese Navy.
• Museum Project will be executed by Union Ministry of Shipping through its Sagarmala program, along with participation of State government, Archaeological Survey of India and other shareholders.
• Indian Navy is also intense to be a stakeholder in project and Portuguese Navy has decided to assist the former with their experience of directing maritime museum in Lisbon.