Current Affairs Revision for all Upcoming Exams 

1) One of independent India’s biggest sporting icons, ace sprinter Milkha Singh, died after a month-long battle with COVID-19, during which he lost his former national volleyball captain wife Nirmal Kaur to the same ailment. He was cremated with full state honours in Chandigarh. 

➨The Padma Shri awardee, who was nicknamed ‘The Flying Sikh’ for his accomplishments, was 91 and is survived by his golfer son Jeev Milkha Singh and three daughters.

2) A 1,098 carat diamond believed to be the third largest gem-quality stone ever to be mined, has been discovered in Botswana.

➨It is the third largest in the world, behind the 3,106 carat Cullinan stone recovered in South Africa in 1905 and the 1,109 carat Lesedi La Rona unearthed by Lucara Diamonds in Botswana in 2015.

3) The Maharashtra Govt has completed the construction of nearly 3 lakh 23 thousand houses for the rural region and handed over the possession to the beneficiaries.

➨Under Maha Awas Abhiyan, another four lakh 68 thousand houses are being completed and would be handed over in a month.

▪️Maharashtra :- 

Shani Shingnapur Temple 

Siddhivinayak Temple 

Shri Saibaba Sansthan Temple

Trimbakeshwar Temple 

Bhimashankar Temple 

Grishneshwar Temple

4) Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched ‘Customized Crash Course programme for Covid 19 Frontline workers’. 

➙The launch commenced the programme in 111 training centres spread over 26 states.

5) Ahead of the WTO's ministerial conference later this year, the government has appointed a private person Aashish Chandorkar as ‘Counsellor’ in India's Permanent Mission in the World Trade Organisation for three years.

▪️World Trade Organisation :-

Headquarters - Geneva, Switzerland

Founded - 1 January 1995

Membership - 164 member states

➨Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the World Trade Organisation (WTO)- Brajendra Navnit

6) Google announced that it is launching its News Showcase feature in India and is partnering with 30 news organisations.

➨The move is aimed at incentivising and supporting local publishers to curate high-quality content on the search engine's News and Discover platforms. 

➨This initiative is part of Google's investment campaign to support quality journalism in India.

7) Bihar CM Nitish Kumar launched an exclusive mobile App to ensure regular monitoring and tracking of all those covid-19 patients who are in home isolation across the state. 

➨The App has been named as ‘HIT Covid App’. Here ‘HIT’ stands for home isolation tracking.

✸Bihar CM - Nitish Kumar

➭ Governor - Phagu Chauhan

➭Mangala Gowri Temple

➭Mithila Shakti Peeth Temple

➭Valmiki National Park

8) United Nations Global Compact has recognised Sumant Sinha, Chairman & MD of ReNew Power, as one of the ten SDG Pioneers 2021, for his work to advance access to clean and affordable energy.

✸United Nations Global Compact :-

Formation - 26 July 2000

Type - Framework and Mechanism

CEO & Executive Director - Sanda Ojiambo

9) Padma Shree awardee and former national president of the Indian Medical Association Dr KK Aggarwal has passed away after battling Covid-19 for several days at New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

➭A cardiologist by profession, he was also the head of the Heart Care Foundation of India. He also received the Dr BC Roy Award in 2005 and Padma Shree in 2010.

10) Larsen & Toubro Infotech, a global technology consulting and digital solutions company has been recognized as the Global Innovation Partner of the Year by Snowflake, the Data Cloud Company. 

➨LTI received this prestigious recognition during Snowflake Virtual Partner Summit held on June 16, 2021.

11) NATO leaders expanded the use of their all for one, one for all, mutual defense clause to include a collective response to attacks in space.

➨Article 5 of NATO’s founding treaty states that an attack on any one of the 30 allies will be considered an attack on them all. Until now, it has only applied to more traditional military attacks on land, sea, or in the air, and more recently in cyberspace.

▪️North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) :-

Formation - 4 April 1949

Headquarters - Brussels, Belgium

12) India celebrates June 19 as the National Reading Day in honour of P N Panicker, the father of the Library and Literacy Movement in Kerala. This year marks the silver jubilee year or the 25th edition of the celebrations.

➨The P N Panicker Foundation and P N Panicker Vigyan Vikas Kendra have been observing the national reading day, reading week and reading month since June 19, 1996.

13) The European Space Agency (ESA) has planned to put the world’s first wooden satellite, WISA Woodsat, on Earth’s orbit by the end of this year. 

➨The mission of the satellite is to test the applicability of wooden materials like plywood in spacecraft structures and expose it to extreme space conditions, such as heat, cold, vacuum and radiation, for an extended period of time.

14) The Union Social Justice and Empowerment (SJE) Ministry launched 14 cross disability early intervention centres across the country to provide support to infants and young children at risk of or with disabilities.

➨SJE Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot virtually inaugurated the centres that are located at seven national institutes and seven composite regional centres of the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities.

15) A community radio is all set to operate in the Union Territory of Ladakh from early 2022.

➭The community radio network will transmit to the whole of Ladakh and will be utilized largely in the field of education and disaster management.

➭There will be one central studio and 48 transmission locations with priority to transmit signal to the unconnected areas of Ladakh.

16) Minister of Tribal Affairs, Sh. Arjun Munda launched ADI PRASHIKSHAN portal and inaugurated a three-day training programme on “Capacity Building Training of Master Trainers for ST PRI Members” as part of Azadi ka AmritMahotsav in New Delhi.

17) A three-day virtual conference of BRICS Network Universities on the theme of electric mobility was inaugurated at IIT Bombay.

➨The conference is part of the engagements that India is hosting under the education stream as chair of the 13th BRICS Summit this year.

👉 BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

18) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh participated in the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus) via video conferencing.

➨The ADMM-Plus is a platform comprising 10-nation ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and its eight dialogue partners -India, China, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Russia and the United States - to strengthen security and defence cooperation for peace, stability and development in the region. 

➨The inaugural ADMM-Plus was convened in Hanoi in 2010.

19) The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) launched a TV Channel Selector web portal on Wednesday for consumers who could not access its mobile phone app of the same name due to lack of a smartphone.

▪️Telecom Regulatory Authority of India:-

Founded - 20 February 1997

Headquarters - New Delhi

20) The Rajasthan government will soon set up a Vedic Education and Sanskar Board to revive the knowledge of Sanskrit scriptures and vedas. 

➨The board is likely to be formed in the next four to five months.

▪️ Rajasthan:-

CM - Ashok Gehlot

Governor - Kalraj Mishra

➭Amber Palace

➭Hawa Mahal

➭Ranthambore National Park

➭City Palace

➭Keoladeo Ghana National Park

➭Sariska National Park.

➭ Kumbhalgarh Fort

21) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was second only to Turkey in terms of reserves transferred to the government as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) for the fiscal year 2020-21. In FY20, the RBI stood fourth when ranked by the ratio of surplus as a percentage of GDP.

◾️Reserve Bank of India:- 

➨Headquarters:- Mumbai, Maharashtra, 

➨Established:- 1 April 1935, 1934 Act. 

➨ First Governor - Sir Osborne Smith

➨ First Indian Governor - Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh

➨Governor:- Shaktikanta Das

22) India and Bhutan inked an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for developing cooperation between two countries in the area of environment.

➨the MoU will open new vistas of bilateral co-operation in the area of climate change, waste management etc.

23) World Refugee Day is observed on June 20 to respect and honour the courage and resilience of refugees across the globe. 

➨The United Nations designated the day to celebrate the strength and courage of people forced to flee their homes and countries to escape conflict or persecution.

24) Global sports brand PUMA has extended partnership with former Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh. 

➨Singh has been associated with the brand for over a decade. He will now be seen in a new avatar as the face of PUMA Motorsport in India, showcasing his passion for fast cars and sports-inspired fashion.

25) Jnanpith awardee and bestselling author Amitav Ghosh's new book ' The Nutmeg's Curse : Parables for a Planet in Crisis' is all set to release in October this year.

26) The Odisha government has allowed the transgender community to apply for the posts of constables and sub-inspectors in the state police department. 

▪️Odisha CM - Naveen Patnaik

➨ Governor - Ganeshi Lal

➨ Similipal Tiger Reserve

➨ Satkosia Tiger Reserve

➨ Bhitarkanika Mangroves 

➨ Nalabana Bird Sanctuary

27) India maintained 43rd rank on an annual World Competitiveness Index compiled by the Institute for Management Development (IMD) that examined the impact of COVID-19 on economies around the world this year.

➨The 64-nation list was led by Switzerland, while Sweden has moved up to the second position (from sixth last year).

28) Four months after India and Pakistan decided to adhere to the ceasefire pact along the Line of Control (LoC), National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is likely to be in the same room as his Pakistan counterpart Moeed Yusuf in Dushanbe next week.

➨They will be participating in a meeting of NSAs of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in the Tajikistan capital.

✸Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) :-

Official language: Chinese and Russian

Founded: 15 June 2001

Founders: China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan

Secretary General: Vladimir Norov

Headquarters: Beijing, China

29) India's Mirabai Chanu, the 2017 world champion in weightlifting, has qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games in women's 49 kg category. The 26-year-old from Manipur has qualified on the basis of her world ranking points.

▪️International Weightlifting Federation :- 

➨ It is headquartered in Budapest , Hungary.  

➨ It is the international governing body for the sport of Olympic weightlifting.

30) Exceeding all expectations, D. Gukesh sensationally won the $15,000 Gelfand Challenge chess title and with it, a ‘wild card’ for the elite Meltwaters Champions Chess Tour.

➨Gukesh, 15, won all four rounds, including the key battle against Praggnanandhaa, and emerged on top after a series of favourable results from the games involving other title-contenders.

31) Department of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) secretary Dr Guruprasad Mohapatra died of Covid-19 related complications. He was 59.

➨A Gujarat cadre 1986-batch IAS officer, he was appointed to the DPIIT in August 2019.

32) International Yoga Day is observed every year on June 21, as mandated by the United Nations, to highlight the importance of the practice -- defined as "physical, mental, and spiritual" at the same time -- in helping people lead a healthier lifestyle.

➨2021 International Day of Yoga, is observed on Monday, June 21, carries the theme "Yoga for well-being", much relevant for our times in a society still recovering from the impact of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic.

33) Amazon India announced the launch of an integrated learning programme for students to learn applied Machine Learning (ML) skills, making them industry ready for careers in the new technology.

▪️Amazon :-

CEO -  Jeff Bezos

CEO-elect - Andy Jassy 

Founder - Jeff Bezos

Founded - 5 July 1994

Headquarters - Seattle, Washington, United States

34) India Business Process Outsourcing Promotion Scheme (IBPS) launched by the Centre has facilitated expansion of several IT and BPO companies in tier-II and III cities across the country.

➨Under the IBPS Scheme, Andhra Pradesh is the highest in employment generation by creating 12,234 new jobs followed by Tamil Nadu at 9,401 while remaining was spread across Punjab, Odisha, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Bihar.

▪️Tamil Nadu :- 

➨ CM - M K Stalin

➨Governor - Banwarilal Purohit

➨Sathyamangalam tiger reserve  (STR)

➨Kalakkad Mundanthurai tiger reserve (KMTR)

▪️Andhra Pradesh :- 

➨CM -  Jaganmohan Reddy

➨Governor - Biswabhusan Harichandan

➨ Venkateswara Temple 

➨Sri Bhramramma Mallikarjuna Temple

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