Current Affairs, June 2020
30th June, Current Affairs:
• The Central Drug Standard Control
Organisation, the National regulatory body for Indian Pharmaceuticals and
medical devices, has granted approval to Bharat Biotech India to conduct
human clinical trials for Corona Vaccine called ‘Covaxin’.
• Indian
Government has banned 59 mobile apps which are prejudicial to sovereignty
and integrity of India. The banned apps include popular apps like TikTok,
Helo and WeChat.
• In Assam, nearly 15 lakh people are affected in the
current wave of floods in 23 districts. The death toll due to floods has
gone up to 27.
• The European Union Air Safety Agency (EASA) has
suspended the authorisation for Pakistan's national airline to operate in
Europe for six months.
• China's National People’s Congress Standing
Committee (NPCSC) has unanimously passed the National Security Law for Hong
Kong.
29th June, Current Affairs:
• The World’s largest Convalescent Plasma
Therapy Trial project launch today by the Maharashtra State Government. The
name of the project is Platina.
• The Delhi government will setup a
plasma bank to fight coronavirus. The Plasma Bank will be set up at the
Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS). It will be first Plasma Bank
in India.
27th June, Current Affairs:
• The Union Government allowed the use of
the low-cost steroid drug dexamethasone as an alternative to
methylprednisolone to treat coronavirus patients with moderate and severe
symptoms.
• President Ram Nath Kovind has promulgated the Banking
Regulation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 in pursuance of the commitment to
ensure safety of depositors across banks.
26th June, Current Affairs:
• Today is International Day against Drug
Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
• The Director-General of Civil Aviation
(DGCA) extended the ban on international commercial flights till July 15 due
to raise in coronavirus cases.
• Liverpool crowned Premier League
champions after Manchester City lost their match against Chelsea by 1-2.
24th June, Current Affairs:
• The Union Cabinet decided to bring all
cooperative banks under the Reserve Bank of India through an ordinance. This
was announced by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash
Javadekar. Also Union Cabinet Approves Private Sector Participation in Space
Activities.
• A 75-member Tri-service contingent of the Indian Armed
Forces participating in the Victory Day Parade in Russia.
23rd June, Current Affairs:
• India and China have reached a consensus
to disengage in the Eastern Ladakh sector. Both sides agreed to disengage
from all friction areas.
• World famous Rath Yatra being carried out amid
restrictions in Puri, Odisha. The District Administration has imposed a
curfew in Puri for the Yatra.
• International Olympic Day is observed
today to commemorate the foundation day of the International Olympic
Committee.
22nd June, Current Affairs:
• According to the Bloomberg Billionaires
Index, the net worth of Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd.,
has jumped to $64.5 billion, making him the only Asian tycoon in the
exclusive club of the world's top 10 richest people.
• Defence Minister
Rajnath Singh has left for Moscow, Russia on a three-day visit.
• India
has become the 12th largest holder of US government securities at the end of
April, with holding worth 157.4 billion dollars.
21st June, Current Affairs:
• The 6th International Day of Yoga is
being celebrated today.
• Glenmark's FabiFlu tablets are approved for
coronavirus treatment in India. It will costs Rs 103 per tablet. Glenmark
pharmaceuticals was the first company in India to initiate phase three
clinical trials on Favipiravir for COVID-19 patients in India.
• Nagaland
State Sports Academy at Indira Gandhi Stadium, Kohima has been selected to
be established as Khelo India State Centre of Excellence, KISCE.
20th June, Current Affairs:
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi today
launched Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan in six states. Over 42 crore poor
people received financial assistance of Rs 65,454 cr under Garib Kalyan
Package.
• 61 candidates have been elected to the Rajya Sabha from 20
States in the biennial elections.
18th June, Current Affairs:
• India was elected as a non-permanent
member of the UN Security Council for a two-year term after winning 184
votes in the 193-member General Assembly. Along with India, Ireland, Mexico
and Norway also won the Security Council elections.
• The upper House of
Nepal Parliament passed a Constitution Amendment Bill in favour of the new
map that claims the disputed territory of Limpiyadhura-Kalapani-Lipulekh.
17th June, Current Affairs:
• 20 Indian soldiers martyred in violent
clashes with Chinese troops in Galwan area of Ladakh region on last Monday
night.
• Bayern Munich has been crowned Bundesliga champions for an
eighth successive season after a 1-0 win at Werder Bremen.
14th June, Current Affairs:
• Today is World Blood Donor Day. This
year the theme is - Safe blood saves lives.
• Bollywood actor Sushant
Singh Rajput dies by suicide at the age of 34 in his Mumbai residence.
12th June, Current Affairs:
• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has
said that no late fees will be levied on registered entities with Nil GST
return filing between July 2017 and January 2020.
• Eminent
Indian-American soil scientist Rattan Lal has been named this year's
recipient of the World Food Prize for developing and mainstreaming a
soil-centric approach to increasing food production.
11th June, Current Affairs:
• The Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT)-Madras is the country’s best in the field of higher education,
according to the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) released
today. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, stands at the
second place, followed by IIT-Delhi.
• The population of Asiatic lions in
Gujarat increase by 28.87 percent. The recent exercise called Poonam
Avalokan, shows that the population of lions has gone up to 674 against the
523 which was reported in 2015.
10th June, Current Affairs:
• The Government of India has extended
Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (Ayushman Bharat) to the migrant workers.
Govt of India had announced that the Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries will
receive free COVID-19 testing.
• International Cricket Council, ICC has
approved substitution in case a player shows symptoms of COVID-19 during a
Test match besides ratifying the interim ban on using saliva to shine the
ball.
8th June, Current Affairs:
• World Oceans Day is celebrated today. In
2008, the United Nations General Assembly decided to designate 8 June as
World Oceans Day.
• Religious places, shopping malls, restaurants, hotels
and offices which were closed due to the lockdown, have reopened in many
states today with certain conditions.
• Uttarakhand Governor Baby Rani
Maurya declared Gairsain as new summer capital. The Gairsain is also called
Bhararisen.
• New Zealand lifts all social and economic restrictions
except border controls after declaring it is free of the coronavirus, one of
the first countries in the world to return to pre-pandemic normality.
5th June, Current Affairs:
• Prakash Javadekar launched the Urban
Forest program on the occasion of World Environment Day, today.
• Kiran
Mazumdar Shaw, founder and current Chairperson and Managing Director of
Biocon Limited, has been named EY World Entrepreneur of the Year for 2020.
4th June, Current Affairs:
• First ever India-Australia Virtual Summit
held between PM Modi and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison. Indian
and Australia signed seven agreements including a landmark deal for
reciprocal access to military bases for logistics support during the online
summit.
• The Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) approved the
development of a twin-engine made-in-India fighter jet, following the
successful trial landing of the Tejas-N fighter onboard INS Vikramaditya.
• Veteran filmmaker Basu Chatterjee passed away following age related health
issues. He was 93.
3rd June, Current Affairs:
• Union Government today said that the
recovery rate reached to 48.31 per cent in the country and the number of
recovered people from Corona virus crossed the one lakh mark. Also the
number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in India crossed the
2 lakh-mark today.
• The Union Cabinet today approved a historic
amendment to Essential Commodities Act. With the amendment to Essential
Commodities Act, commodities like cereals, pulses, oilseeds, edible oils,
onion and potatoes have been removed from list of essential commodities.
• Senior diplomat Raveesh Kumar has been appointed as the next Ambassador to
Finland. Mr. Kumar, a 1995 batch IFS officer was earlier the spokesperson of
Ministry of External Affairs.
• Severe cyclonic storm Nisarga hits north
Maharashtra coast. It landfall at Diveaagar in Alibagh around 1.15 pm today.
2nd June, Current Affairs:
• The Union government has approved Gilead
Sciences Inc's antiviral drug remdesivir for emergency use in treating
COVID-19 patients.
• Minister for Road Transport & Highways and MSMEs
Nitin Gadkari announces development of new Greenfield expressway to
Amritsar.
1st June, Current Affairs:
• Elections for 18 Rajya Sabha seats will
be held on June 19, the Election Commission has said. The list includes 4
seats each from Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, three each from Madhya Pradesh
and Rajasthan, two from Jharkhand and one each from Meghalaya and Manipur.
• The first phase of nationwide unlock starts today. Unlock 1 will allow
a phased reopening of most activities across India. India is now the seventh
most-affected nation in the global COVID-19 tally, with over 1.9 lakh cases
and 5,400 deaths.
• SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft with two NASA astronauts
successfully docked with the International Space Station last night after a
historic launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
• World Milk
Day is celebrated today.
• Wajid Khan, of composer duo Sajid-Wajid has
died at the age of 42.
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