Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2020

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China recently announced that it will impose a ban on imports of pigs, wild boar and pork related products from India.
After India reported African swine fever (ASF) in Assam last month and nearly 14,000 deaths among pigs and wild boars in Assam, China is set to ban those products. This was released by Chinese state media Global Times amidst the border tensions between the countries.

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World No Tobacco Day 2020 is celebrated on May 31 every year, across the world. The main objective of celebrating the day is to protect youth from industry manipulation and to prevent them from tobacco and nicotine use.
This year, the World No Tobacco Day 2020 global campaign will expose the manipulation tactics of tobacco and related industries, educate young people about the intentions of the industries and empower the general public in social platforms to protect youth.

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The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Mann Ki Baat address announced the Video Blogging Contest named “My Life – My Yoga” (also called “Jeevan Yoga”).
It is a collaboration of Ministry of AYUSH and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). The contest is a part of activities related to the 6th International Day of Yoga (IDY) on 21st June 2020. The contest is open to participants from all countries. The first phase will select winners within the country and the second phase will select global winners.

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G7 is an association of seven of the world’s largest economies namely the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan. Previously it included Russia and was called the G-8.
The 47th G7 summit was originally scheduled to be held in the month of June 2020, at Camp David, United States. The US President Donald Trump recently announced that he is postponing the 47th summit to September or November. He also suggested to expand the G7 bloc to include India, Australia, South Korea and Russia.

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The state of Telangana recently celebrated its statehood day on June 2. All national leaders including the Prime Minister wished the state and its people.
In the year 2014, Telangana was carved out of the state of Andhra Pradesh as the 29th state of India under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act. The capital of the state is Hyderabad and its population is about 3.5 crore.

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Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh recently had a discussion with the French Minister of Armed Forces Florence Parly.
The Minister later announced that France has assured timely delivery of the Rafale fighter aircraft, made by Dassault Aviation company, despite challenges arising out of COVID-19 pandemic. The leaders agreed to strengthen bilateral defence cooperation between India and France and discussed matters of mutual concern regarding COVID-19 and regional security.

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The Central Government has initiated a consultation process for formulation of a new national Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP 2020).
To formulate this policy, the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) have jointly initiated a decentralised process. This is the 5th Science and Technology policy of the country.

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Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank launched the information booklet titled ‘Safe online learning in the times of COVID-19’.
The booklet, which has been jointly developed by NCERT and UNESCO, aims to raise awareness in students and teachers about safe online environment. This has been launched at the backdrop of several children and teachers being actively engaged in digital learning platforms amid the lockdown due to Covid-19.

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As per the latest notification from the Union Women and Child Development Ministry, a ten-member task force has been set up to examine matters regarding health and nutrition of women and children.
Ms Jaya Jaitly has been named the Chairperson of the task force, which includes the Secretaries of various related Departments as ex-officio members. It will examine matters regarding age of motherhood, imperatives of lowering MMR and IMR, improvement of nutritional levels and other health and nutritional issues.

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The Chief Minister of Jharkhand Hemant Soren has approved the Border Roads Organization (BRO) to recruit over 11,800 workers from the state for critical projects.
The projects include the critical areas including those near the China border in Ladakh for Operation Vijayak and in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir. The state is also set to sign a first-of-its-kind memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the BRO to ensure welfare of all workers to be recruited in the future.