Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2020

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As per the recent announcement of the Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the state is to develop 800 km roads as Herbal roads in the state.
The Herbal roads will have medicinal trees on both sides, including Peepal, Neem, Sehjan and other important herbal trees. The state’s Public Works Department will implement the project and rain water recharging system on the roads.

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Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences (INMAS), the Delhi based laboratory of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a disinfection unit named Ultra Swachh.
It is a multi-purpose unit, which can be used to disinfect a wide range of objects and materials including Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs), fabrics among others. The system is compliant with international standards of personal and environmental safety. The system will be available in two variants namely Ozonated Space and Trinetra Technology

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The Union government has notified the income-tax return (ITR) forms for the assessment year (AY) 2020-21 for individual, professional and corporate tax payers.
For the first time, the form separately captures information on cash deposits exceeding ₹1 crore, expenditure on foreign travel exceeding ₹2 lakh and electricity expenses exceeding ₹1 lakh. It was earlier announced that the taxpayers may avail the benefits of investments in tax-saving instruments for an extended period up to June 30. Deadline for filing returns was also extended from July 31 to November 30.

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India is the sole contender for the Asia Pacific seat in non-permanent category of the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member.
The General Assembly of UNSC is to hold elections for the five non-permanent members of the Security Council on June 17. It has also proposed new secret ballot voting arrangements due to the Covid-19 restrictions. India has been elected as a non-permanent member of UNSC for seven terms starting from 1950-51 till 2011-12.

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Union Minister for Human Resources and MoS Housing & Urban Affairs jointly launched TULIP, an Internship Program with Urban Local Bodies across the country.
The initiative TULIP, which stands for `The Urban Learning Internship Program (TULIP)’, provides internship opportunities to fresh graduates in all Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) and Smart Cities across the country. It was initially announced in the Union Budget 2020-21 under the theme ‘Aspirational India’.

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The Executive Chairperson of Biocon, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has been named EY World Entrepreneur of The Year 2020.
The Bio-tech leader has been selected for her contribution in improving universal access to affordable life-saving medicines. She also became the third Indian to win the prestigious award after Narayana Murthy of Infosys and Uday Kotak of Kotak Mahindra Bank. She is also the second woman to hold the global title in the world.

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World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5 every year by the United Nations, to encourage awareness and environmental protection.
The theme of World Environment 2020 is ‘Celebrating biodiversity’. The day will be hosted in Colombia in partnership with Germany. It is reported that about one million species facing extinction, as of now. In India, Housing & Urban Affairs Ministry releases series of advisories during a programme ‘Saving Biodiversity through Effective Waste Management’.

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The International Day for the fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing is observed every year on June 5. The purpose of this day is to sensitise about the threats posed by unregulated fishing activities to the fisheries resources.
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared June 5 as the International Day for the fight against IUU fishing in November 2017. The first such day was celebrated in the year 2018. The Agreement on Port State Measures was brought into force on the same day.

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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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The Reserve Bank of India has recently released the latest round of the Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF).
As per the survey, the negative growth in real Gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020-21 would be 1.5% or the real GDP is to contract by 1.5%. The survey also highlighted that India’s growth would bounce back in the next financial year 2021-22 and estimated to grow at 7.2%. Another measure called Real private final consumption expenditure (PFCE) is expected to decline by 0.5%.