Today Current Affairs for Competitive Exams - Current Affairs 2021 Online - Testbook.com
←
→
Page content transcription
If your browser does not render page correctly, please read the page content below
Today Current Affairs for Competitive
Exams - Current Affairs 2021 Online
Sumant Sinha recognised by UN by signing him as the face of PUMA
Motorsport in India.
• The United Nations Global Compact • With this, he also joins the brand’s global
has recognized Sumant Sinha as one of ten league of legends like Thierry Henry, Boris
2021 SDG Pioneers. Becker, and Usain Bolt.
• He is the Chairman and MD of ReNew Power. • Globally, PUMA is associated with Scuderia
• SDG Pioneers are business leaders selected Ferrari, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula
by the UN Global Compact for doing an One Team, Aston Martin Red Bull Racing,
exceptional job to advance the Sustainable BMW M Motorsport, etc.
Development Goals (SDGs) through the
implementation of the UN Global Compact 'Zenda Satyagraha' programme organised
Ten Principles.
• In Maharashtra, a programme called 'Zenda
Karim Khan: New ICC Chief Prosecutor Satyagraha' was organized at the South
Central Zonal Cultural Center-SCZCC in
• British lawyer Karim Khan has been sworn in Nagpur.
as the new Chief Prosecutor at the • The programme was organised under 'Azadi
International Criminal Court in The Hague on Ka Amrit Mahotsav' being celebrated all over
• He replaces outgoing prosecutor Fatou the country.
Bensouda of Gambia. • An insightful lecture was also delivered by
• Khan is a specialist in international criminal Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi
law and human rights law. Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya,
• During a career spanning decades, he has Wardha, Dr Chandrakant Ragit.
argued in all the major international courts
and conducted high-profile probes. Youth Clubs for every Panchayat across J&K
Japan to issue vaccine passports • In Jammu and Kashmir, Lt Governor Manoj
Sinha has directed for the establishment of
• Japan will make a vaccine passport available Youth Clubs in every Panchayat across the
from July 2021 for Japanese travellers. UT for constructive activities and addressing
• The certificate will be paper-based rather than all the concerns of the young generation.
digital and will be issued by local • In the first phase, 22,500 Youth from 4290
governments. Panchayats will be engaged in the Youth
• The passports will include information such as clubs.
the holder’s date of inoculation and the • The government will incur expenditure to the
manufacturer of the shot they received. tune of Rs.12 crore for this initiative.
• They will be available both in English and
Japanese. First ever 10 meter shooting range in J&K
PUMA signs Yuvraj Singh as brand ambassador • In Jammu and Kashmir, the first-ever 10-
meter shooting range was inaugurated at
• PUMA has extended its decade-long Youth Hostel in Srinagar on 17 June 2021.
partnership with former cricketer Yuvraj Singh
1|Page• The shooting range has all the modern youngest woman and the fourth overall, to
equipment for 10-meter air rifle and 10-meter score twin half-centuries in her debut Test.
air pistol events. • The record was previously held by Australia’s
• A first of its kind basic training camp will be Jessica Louise Jonassen, who was 22, when
started within a few days for students and the she scored the fifties in both innings of her
shooting range shall be utilized for the debut Test against England.
upliftment of this sport.
Goa Revolution Day: 18 June
Autism Pride Day: 18 June
• Goa Revolution Day falls on June 18.
• Autism Pride Day is observed on 18 June • It was on this day in the year 1946, that the
every year. suppressed patriotic feelings of Goans had
• The day was first celebrated by Aspies for manifested into a mass revolution.
Freedom in 2005. • It is observed to recall the sacrifices of
• According to the WHO, one in 160 children freedom fighters and martyrs of Goa's
have Autism Spectrum Disorder. liberation struggle.
• Autism, or autism spectrum disorder (ASD), • Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia and Dr. Julião
refers to a broad range of conditions Menezes had started the civil disobedience
characterized by challenges with social skills, movement against Salazar's dictatorial
repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal regime.
communication.
ADB approves a loan to Bangladesh
Montek Ahluwalia: Member of WB-IMF Group
• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has
• Montek Singh Ahluwalia has named as a approved a USD 250 million loan to
member of a High-Level Advisory Group Bangladesh to help finance reforms.
(HLAG) formed by the World Bank and the • It is aimed at improving the inclusiveness and
International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the face responsiveness of the country’s social
of the dual crisis posed by the Covid-19 development and resilience program.
pandemic and climate change. • The Strengthening Social Resilience Program
• He is the former Deputy Chairman of the will include institutional and policy reforms to
Planning Commission and distinguished address cross-sector issues of social
fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic development in Bangladesh.
Progress (CSEP).
INS Trikand participating in IN - EUNAVFOR
'Khedo Punjab' mobile app launched
• Indian Naval Ship Trikand, a mission
• Punjab Sports and Youth Services Minister deployed for Anti-Piracy Operations, is
Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi launched a special participating in the maiden IN - EUNAVFOR
mobile app Khedo Punjab on 18 June'21. Joint Naval Exercise in the Gulf of Aden.
• This is the first time in the history of the • A total of five warships from four navies are
Sports Department that the department has participating in the two-day exercise which
launched a mobile app. commenced on 18 June'21.
• With the launch of it, the current • Other countries that are participating are Italy,
sportspersons and the budding players will be France, and Spain.
in a position to register online and can choose
7 Navy pilots awarded prestigious "Wings"
any game of their interest.
Shefali: Youngest to score twin half-centuries • In Tamil Nadu, 7 Indian Navy pilots were
awarded the prestigious "Wings" by Vice
• In the Women’s Cricket Test at Bristol, India’s Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh, Flag officer,
17-year-old Shafali Verma became the Commanding in Chief Eastern Naval
2|PageCommand at the passing out parade on 18 fixing scandal in 2013 along with S Sreesanth,
June 2021. has been formally cleared by the Board of
• The graduation of the 96th Helicopter Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to resume
Conversion Course was held at the INS Rajali competitive cricket.
Air Base Arakkonam. • In 2020, the BCCI's Ombudsman Justice DK
• The pilots were given rigorous training for 22 Jain had reduced the quantum of sentence for
weeks. both Sreesanth and Chavan to seven years
from the life ban.
CBSE developing an IT system
NGT forms committee for rejuvenation of Varuna
• The Central Board of Secondary Education,
CBSE is developing an IT system. • The National Green Tribunal has formed a
• It will be made available to all the concerned committee for the rejuvenation of the Varuna
schools sponsoring students for Class 12th and Assi rivers in Varanasi.
for calculation of results. • The rivers are tributaries of the river Ganga.
• The system will ease down the calculation • A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice
work, reduce the time taken and so many Adarsh Kumar Goel constituted an
other hassles. independent Monitoring Committee for the
• It will also pre-populate marks of Class 10th of purpose.
the students passed from CBSE. • Fecal coliform bacteria count at Varun-Ganga
confluence is 71 million per 100ML of water
India and Bhutan ink MoU (Ganga Jal).
• India and Bhutan have inked an MoU for CSIR partners with Tata MD
developing cooperation between two
countries in the area of environment. • The Centre for Scientific and Industrial
• The MoU is a platform to further enhance Research (CSIR) and Tata Medical and
Indian and Bhutanese partnership and Diagnostics (Tata MD) have announced a tie-
support, exchange best practices in areas like up aimed at ramping covid-19 testing across
prevention of air pollution, climate change, tier 2 and 3 towns as well as rural areas in the
etc. country.
• It also provides the possibility to have joint • The initiative will utilise CSIR’s network of
projects in areas of mutual interest. labs across India.
• To be jointly developed, the RT-PCR CRISPR
Milkha Singh passes away test will use the Tata MD CHECK SARS-CoV-
• Indian sprint legend Milkha Singh passed 2 test kits.
away in June 2021. Polycab India acquires Silvan Innovation Labs
• The legendary athlete was a four-time Asian
Games gold medallist and 1958 • Polycab India Ltd (PIL) has signed an
Commonwealth Games champion. agreement to acquire a 100% stake in
• His timing at the Italian capital was a national Bengaluru-based automation company, Silvan
record for 38 years till Paramjeet Singh broke Innovation Labs for ₹182 million.
it in 1998. • Founded in 2008, Silvan claims to be one of
• He was honored with the Padma Shri in 1959. the pioneers in the concept of home
• He also represented India in the 1956 and automation in the Indian residential building
1964 Olympics. market.
• Silvan has installed over 100,000 devices in
BCCI lifts ban on Ankeet Chavan more than 8,000 homes and offices and has
• Former Mumbai left-arm spinner Ankeet 17 patents.
Chavan, who was involved in the IPL spot- LTI recognised at Snowflake Summit
3|Page• Larsen & Toubro Infotech has been • US President Joe Biden has signed legislation
recognized as the Global Innovation Partner establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National
of the Year by Snowflake, the data cloud Independence Day.
company. • It is a US federal holiday commemorating the
• LTI received this prestigious recognition end of slavery in the US.
during Snowflake Virtual Partner Summit held • Juneteenth commemorates 19 June 1865,
on June 16, 2021. when Union Major General Gordon Granger
• With its automation-first approach, LTI's announced the end of slavery in Galveston,
unique Canvas PolarSled platform provides Texas, in accordance with President Abraham
speed, performance, and risk reduction to Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.
Snowflake customers.
Odisha CM announces Covid assistance package
V Vaidyanathan: MD of IDFC First Bank Ltd
• Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik has announced a
• The Board of Directors of IDFC First Bank Ltd COVID package of Rs 1690.46 crore for the
have approved the proposal for the re- assistance of landless farmers, construction
appointment of Mr. V. Vaidyanathan as the workers, etc. who have been affected by
MD and CEO of the Bank, for a further period the pandemic.
of 3 years. • Under this package, Rs 178.911 crore will be
• It is in effect from December 19, 2021 up to provided to around 17.84 lakh landless farmer
December 18, 2024 (both days inclusive). families in the state.
• He took over as the MD and CEO of IDFC • Rs 260 crore will be provided to the urban
FIRST Bank in December 2018 after the poor living in 114 municipal areas.
merger of Capital First and IDFC Bank.
Telangana to replicate Andhra’s Nadu-Nedu
CFS to set up a small finance bank
• The Telangana government has embarked on
• The RBI has given an in-principle nod to a school infrastructure development
Centrum Financial Services to set up a small programme similar to that of the Andhra
finance bank (SFB). Pradesh government’s flagship programme
• This approval has been accorded in specific Nadu-Nedu.
pursuance to Centrum Financial Services • To execute the project, the Telangana
Limited’s offer dated 1 Feb 2021, in response government would be utilizing the
to the Expression of Interest notification dated Andhra government’s “Nadu-Nedu” software
November 3, 2020, published by the Punjab for developing the infrastructure.
and Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank. • Telangana government has proposed to
spend Rs 2,000 crore in 2021 for it.
Centre sets target to reduce accident deaths
Labour Ministry, UNICEF and YuWaah join hands
• The Centre has set a target is to reduce road
accident deaths by 50 per cent by the year • The Ministry of Labour and Employment, and
2024. the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
• This was announced by Minister for Road have signed a Statement of Intent (SoI).
Transport and Highways and MSMEs, Nitin • They will co-create and implement solutions
Gadkari while addressing a virtual session on at scale to tackle the employment and skilling
'Role of Corporates in Arresting Road challenges for adolescents and youth in India.
Fatalities'. • This effort will be spearheaded by YuWaah,
• It was organised by the Federation of Indian UNICEF’s multi-stakeholder alliance in India,
Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) globally known as Generation Unlimited.
in June 2021.
Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence
Biden signs Juneteenth bill into law
4|Page• International Day for the Elimination of Sexual • The resolution was adopted by the UN
Violence in Conflict is observed on June 19 General Assembly on June 19, 2015.
every year. • The date marks the Security Council
• Its aim is to raise awareness of the need to resolution 1820 (2008), where sexual violence
put an end to conflict-related sexual violence. as a tactic of war was condemned.
Attempt Daily Current Affairs Quiz
5|PageYou can also read
