1. Indian teacher Ranjitsinh Disale appointed as advisor to World Bank
Indian teacher Ranjitsinh Desale, who has been awarded the Global Teacher Award-2020 , has been appointed as an advisor to the World Bank . His term will be till 2024 . He gave several speeches on topics such as “the future of government” and “supporting teachers in the era of pandemic”. The World Bank has appointed 12 consultants from around the world.
2. Justice (Retd) Vikramjit Sen appointed as Chairman of IBF
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) announced the appointment of former Supreme Court judge Justice Vikramjit Sen as the chairman of its newly formed self-regulatory body Digital Media Content Regulatory Council (DMCRC) . The DMCRC has been constituted as per the mandate of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Code of Conduct) Rules, 2021. The move was done to bring together broadcasters and OTT (over-the-top) platforms.
3. Adar Poonawalla appointed chairman of Magma Fincorp
Magma Fincorp (Magma Fincorp) has Poonawalla controlled by Rising Sun Holdings (Rising Sun Holdings) in a controlling stake as part of changes in management to achieve Adar Poonawalla has appointed its president (Adar Poonawalla). Rising Sun had invested Rs 3,456 crore in the non-bank lender earlier this month. Magma will soon be rebranded as Poonawalla Group Company. The lender has appointed Abhay Bhutada as MD and Vijay Deshwal as CEO.
4. Kenya’s Dr Patrick Amoth appointed chairman of WHO Executive Board
Dr Patrick Amoth , Acting Director General of Kenya ‘s Ministry of Health, has been appointed as the Chairman of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) for a period of one year . The announcement was made by the outgoing Chairman Dr Harsh Vardhan during the 149th session of the WHO Executive Board on June 02, 2021 . Mr Amoth replaces the Union Minister of Health, Government of India, Dr Harsh Vardhan, who completed his term as the Chairman of the WHO Executive Board on June 02, 2021. Dr Vardhan will continue to be a member of the Executive Board of WHO till 2023. The post of the chairman is on a one-year rotation basis among the regional groups.
5. NASA will send its two spacecraft to Venus after 30 years
The US space agency NASA has announced that it will send two missions to the planet Venus between 2028 and 2030 . In the first decade, efforts will be made to better understand Venus, which is called Earth’s pair planet, and find out how two planets of the same nature became so different. The names of both these missions are DAVINCI+ and VERITAS.The name has been given. NASA announced its new plans for Venus, saying that these two missions – ‘DAVINCI+((Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging))’ and ‘VERITAS(Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy) will be given separately for $ 500 million (Rs 36.46 billion). Through the DaVinci Plus mission, the planet’s atmosphere will be measured to find out how the planet Venus formed and evolved. It will also aim to determine whether Venus ever had an ocean. The DaVency Plus mission is expected to yield the first high resolution images containing the geological features of Venus. The second mission, Veritas to understand Venus’ geological history Will map the planet’s surface and investigate how it evolved so differently than Earth.
6. Center has decided to extend the validity period of Teacher Eligibility Test – TET qualifying certificate from seven years to life
The validity of the certificate of Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) will now be lifelong . That is, once this eligibility is achieved, the student will be eligible for the teacher’s job for life. Till now the validity of the eligibility certificate of TET was only for seven years. After that the student had to re-appear for eligibility. Also , instructions have been given to implement it from the year 2011 .
7. brain-like network
The brain is the most important part of our body, which keeps our body under control. Recently Indian scientists havedeveloped a device with the help of artificial intelligence , which is capable of mimicking the actions of the human brain.is. It is a neuromorphic device based on artificial intelligence, which can mimic the structure of the human brain by obtaining efficient computing capabilities from the brain. Scientists have long been trying to develop a device that uses the External Supporting (CMOS) circuit. Be able to imitate complex psychological behaviors without assistance. Scientists from the Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, have discovered a way to create an artificial synaptic network (ASN) similar to a biological neural network through a simple self-construction method.
8. NITI Aayog releases Sustainable Development Goals-SDG India Index and Dashboard 2020-21, 6 points improvement in SDG score in this period
NITI Aayog released the third edition of the country’s Sustainable Development Goals Index – SDG India Index . Dr. Rajiv Kumar , Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog released the report titled India Sustainable Development Goals Index and Dashboard – 2020-21: Partnerships in the Decade of Action. On this occasion, Dr Vinod Paul, Member (Health), NITI Aayog, Chief Executive Officer Amitabh Kant and Advisor (SDG) Sanyukta Samaddar were also present.
9. Account Book unveiled to create awareness among investors
To create awareness among investors , six modules of the Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority’s short film titled Raab Ki Kitab were unveiled. The accounting book was unveiled by Anurag Thakur, Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs said that ‘Account Kitab’ consists of six short films of five minutes each. It highlights the budget, savings, insurance schemes and various social security schemes of the government.
10. National Council of Science Museums to organize Hunt for the Vaccine International Mobile Exhibition
The National Council of Science Museums is going to organize an international mobile exhibition named Hunt for the Vaccine in collaboration with the Science Museums Group of London . The Ministry of Culture has said that this exhibition will give a glimpse of the global efforts to develop an effective vaccine for the COVID pandemic. The exhibition will provide information about the scientific method of developing vaccines, the entire process of manufacturing, supplying and transporting vaccines. The exhibition will be inaugurated in Delhi next year. After which it will also go to metros like Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata.
11. XraySetu launched to detect COVID in rural population through WhatsApp
A new AI-powered platform called ‘ XraySetu ‘ to help in early detection of COVID 19 with the help of chest X-rayhas been developed. This solution will be beneficial for early detection, especially in rural areas, where RT-PCR tests and CT-scans are not readily available. XraySetu will work through WhatsApp. It will also identify COVID positive patients from low-resolution chest X-ray images sent to the WhatsApp-based chatbot. The solution has been developed by ARTPARK (AI and Robotics Technology Park), a Bangalore-based healthtech startup Niramai and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) with support from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). ), is a non-profit foundation set up by Bengaluru.
12. United Nations Sustainable Transport Conference to be held in China
The second United Nations Global Sustainable Transport Conference will be held in Beijing, China from 14-16 October 2021 . It will provide an opportunity to focus on the opportunities, challenges and solutions towards achieving sustainable transport around the world. The conference will follow the first Global Sustainable Transport Conference held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in 2016, and for sustainable transport to help achieve the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Hoping to point a way.
13. Dr Vinay K Nandikuri appointed as Director of CCMB
Former IITian, Dr Vinay K Nandicoori has been appointed as Director at CSIR-Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, Telangana . He is a renowned Molecular Biologist and Scientist of DBT-National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi. Dr Nandikuri’s research interest extends to the molecular signaling network in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the microbe that causes TB. His research has got national and international relevance and recognition.
14. SCO Agreement on Mass Media Cooperation gets India’s retrospective approval
The Cabinet gave ex- post facto approval for the signing and ratification of an Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Mass Media among all the member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) . The objective of the agreement is to promote equitable and mutually beneficial cooperation between federations in the field of mass media. The agreement, signed in June 2019, will provide member states with an opportunity to share best practices and new innovations in the field of mass media.
15. Agreement signed with vaccine manufacturer Moderna for supply of corona vaccine: UNICEF
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund – UNICEF has said that an agreement has been reached with the vaccine manufacturer Moderna for the supply of corona vaccine. The vaccine will be supplied for UNICEF’s COVID Vaccine Global Access Program – COVAX . UNICEF said that the vaccine is likely to be supplied in the last quarter of this year and will be distributed equally to different countries in line with the goal of the programme. UNICEF also informed that four other agreements have also been signed for the corona vaccine. These agreements have been signed with Serum Institute of India, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Human Vaccine.
16. The African Union, acting after last week’s military coup in Mali, suspended its membership from the union
The African Union has suspended membership from the union and threatened sanctions if a democratic government is not restored, acting after last week’s military coup in Mali . The African Union’s Peace and Security Council has said that the organization has called for a free, transparent and speedy restoration of democratic government in Mali, failing which the council could impose sanctions. Mali’s neighbors and other countries fear the uprising could hamper Mali’s presidential election in February. The military arrested Interim President Bah Ndao and Prime Minister Moctor Aouane last week and pressured them to resign.
17. The number of startups recognized by DPIIT increased to 50 thousand
The government said that the number of startups recognized by the Department of Internal Trade and Industry Promotion – DPIIT has increased to 50 thousand . Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in January 2016 a major initiative of the central government, start-up in India was launched. The commerce and industry ministry said the recognized startups are spread across 623 districts. Every state and union territory has at least one startup. The ministry said that thirty states and union territories have announced special startup policies to support startups. In the last financial year, the recognized startups created around one lakh 70 thousand jobs.
18. Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurates Best Mega Food Park through online medium
Food Processing Industries Minister Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated Best Mega Food Park in Tilda Block of Raipur, Chhattisgarh.inaugurated through virtual medium. Speaking on the occasion, Shri Tomar said that the Mega Food Park would provide better price to the farmers for their produce, increase storage facilities and provide alternative market to the farmers in the area. He said that this would create direct and indirect employment opportunities for five thousand people and benefit about 25 thousand farmers. The Mega Food Park has been built on over 63 acres of land at a cost of over Rs 145 crore. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Union Minister of State for Food Processing Rameshwar Teli were also present on the occasion. The government has implemented the Mega Food Park scheme to promote the food processing sector in the country and prevent wastage of food items.
19. ICICI Lombard partners with Microsoft to automate audit of service calls
Country’s largest private sector general insurer, ICICI Lombard has tied up with Microsoft to strengthen and automate quality control processes . The insurer will use Microsoft’s Azure Speech Services and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to investigate its daily service calls made by the Customer Service Representative . Among various issues, the deployment of Azure’s synthetic tools has allowed ICICI Lombard to increase the accuracy of its high-quality audits. In response to Girish Nayak, Chief Specialization Officer, ICICI Lombard, the use of cognitive intelligence expertise will automate high-quality investigations, which in turn can make their service more eco-friendly.
20. Punjab’s Transport Minister announces – You can give test using three wheeler auto rickshaw to get driving license
Punjab Transport Minister Razia Sultan has announced that now three wheeler auto drivers can test using three wheeler auto rickshaw to get driving license . He directed the enforcement agencies that three wheeler drivers who have light motor vehicle license should not be harassed as three wheeler auto rickshaw has been kept in the category of light motor vehicle under the Motor Vehicles Act 1988 .
21. Moody’s forecast: Indian economy to grow by 9.3% in FY22
According to Moody’s Investors Service , India’s economy will mark a growth of 9.3 per cent in the current fiscal , but the second wave of Covid-19 has raised risks to the country’s outlook with potential long-term debt implications. Moody’s Investors Service has estimated the GDP growth rate of the Indian economy as follows:
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2021-22 (FY22): 9.3%
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2022-23 (FY23): 7.9%
In terms of sovereign rating, Moody’s has projected a ‘ Baa3 ‘ rating with a negative outlook on India . It said the economy bounced back sharply from a sharp contraction in 2020. But risks to India’s credit profile, including a persistent slowdown in growth, weak government finances and rising financial sector risks, have been exacerbated by the shock of the second wave of the coronavirus.
22. SBI Economists revises GDP growth forecast for FY22 to 7.9%
SBI economists, in their research report ” Ecowrap “, have slashed the GDP growth projections for the Indian economy to 7.9 per cent in FY22 as against the earlier estimate of 10.4 per cent . This is the lowest growth forecast for India among all analysts. The major factor driving the revision in the growth forecast is the impact of the second wave of COVID-19 infections. SBI economists forecast a “W-shaped” recovery with two troughs instead of the “V-shaped” recovery previously anticipated in FY22.
23. OECD estimates: India’s growth rate at 9.9% in FY22
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has lowered India’s growth forecast for the fiscal year 2022 to 9.9% . In March, it had forecast a growth of 12.6%. The rate cut was made in view of the lockdown of Covid cases, which has threatened to stall India’s nascent economic recovery. According to the OECD, “The pandemic can be contained quickly but GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth will still remain around 10% in 2021-22 and 8% in 2022-23.
24. Amul’s RS Sodhi elected to the board of International Dairy Federation
The International Dairy Federation (IDF) has unanimously elected RS Sodhi , Managing Director, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Limited or GCMMF , which sells Amul branded products in India, to its board during the general body meeting held on June 1 . He is an alumnus of Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA). He joined GCMMF (Amul) in the year 1982 after completing his post graduation from IRMA. The IDF is an international non-governmental, non-profit association and represents the global dairy sector. This federation ensures that the right policies, standards, practices and regulations monitor the production of dairy products globally.
25. Center for World University Rankings 2021-22 announced
The Center for World University Rankings 2021-22 has announced, 19,788 institutions were ranked, and those that topped the global 2000 list. Harvard University has topped the rankings globally, followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Cambridge and Oxford University, respectively. According to the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) 2021-22, 68 Indian institutions have made it to the list of top 2000 higher education institutions across the world. The Indian pack is led by IIM-Ahmedabad , which has secured 415th rank , followed by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) with 459th rank.
26. WhatsApp appoints Paresh B Lal as Grievance Officer for India
Facebook -owned messaging app WhatsApp has appointed Paresh B Lal as India’s Grievance Officer . WhatsApp has updated the details on its website on how to contact Mr Lal, as under the IT law, social media companies are required to display the names and other details of their grievance officers on their website. The appointment is in line with the government’s new IT order that requires all tech companies like Google, Facebook, WhatsApp to appoint a grievance officer, nodal officer and a chief compliance officer from India. The Grievance Officer will resolve the complaint within 24 hours and the complaint will be disposed of within 15 days.
27. Paytm is bringing the biggest IPO
Paytm is the largest digital transaction platform in the country. The company will go public by the end of 2021. The company is preparing to launch an IPO of about 22 thousand crores in the October-December quarter . This will be India’s biggest IPO till date. Earlier, Coal India had launched IPOs worth Rs 15,475 crore in 2010 and Reliance Power in 2008 for Rs 11,700 crore. When a company issues its stock or shares to the public for the first time, it is called Initial Public Offering (IPO).
28. world bicycle day
World Bicycle Day is celebrated every year on 3 June . Recognizing the uniqueness, durability and benefits of bicycles, the United Nations declared 3 June as World Bicycle Day. It is an economical, reliable, clean and eco-friendly sustainable mode of transport. In April 2018, the United Nations General Assembly decided to observe ‘World Bicycle Day’ on 3 June every year. This time the theme of ‘World Bicycle Day 2021’ has been kept as ‘ Uniqueness, versatility, longevity of the bicycle and simple, sustainable, affordable means of transportation ‘ which is completely inspiring people to cycle.
29. World Health Assembly decided to recognize 30 January as World NTD Day
74th World Health Assembly (World Health Assembly) by January 30 , the World Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases Day, namely ” World Anteedi Day (World NTD Day) supported the decision to recognize as’. World NTD Day commemorates the simultaneous launch of the first NTD Road Map and London Declaration on NTD on 30 January 2012. For countries where neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are prevalent and for the global community of partners, this is a new dawn.
30. tm Kaliyan, the last surviving member of the Constituent Assembly, passed away
The last surviving former member of the Constituent Assembly of India , T.M. Kalliannan Gounder passed away at the age of 101. He also served as a member of the Legislative Council in Tamil Nadu between 1952 and 1967 and as an MLA thrice . He was also reportedly the youngest member of the Constituent Assembly and a member of the first Provisional Parliament of India.
