Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2020

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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 Commission for Agricultural Costs & Prices (CACP) is an attached office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. Based on the recommendation of CACP, the Union Cabinet fixes the minimum support price (MSP).
Recently, the government raised the minimum support price (MSP) of paddy marginally by Rs 53 per quintal to Rs 1,868 per quintal for the 2020-21 crop year. It also hiked the rates for oilseeds, pulses cereals and commercial crops. This is expected to give 50-83 per cent higher return over the cost of production to farmers.

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During April, the state of Punjab launched an operation to contain the outbreak of Coronavirus (Covid-19) named ‘Mission Fateh’.
Recently, the Chief Minister of Punjab Amarinder Singh has launched a month-long drive to spread awareness about COVID-19 pandemic under Mission Fateh. This campaign will expand the coverage of the original mission beyond the frontline workers to include all general public of the state in fighting the crisis. Various awareness programmes are to be held across the state.

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Central American countries El Salvador and Guatemala have recently witnessed a tropical storm Amanda.
The heavy rains from Tropical Storm Amanda caused many people dead and missing. It has caused extreme damages across the two countries. The countries have set up temporary shelters to accommodate thousands of people after their homes were damaged.

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The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has recently released its annual Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS).
As per the PLFS report, the unemployment rate of India during July 2018- June 2019 fell to 5.8%, as compared to 6.1% rate recorded during the same period of 2017-18. The report also said that the labour force participation rate rose to 37.5% from 36.9%; the worker population ratio increased to 35.3% as against 34.7%; female participation rate improved to 18.6% in 2018-19 from 17.5%.

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The United General Assembly decided to commemorate 4 June of each year as the ‘International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression’.
The objective of the day is to acknowledge the pain of the children across the world who are the victims of physical, mental and emotional abuse. UN had also ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Moreover, the target 16.2 of the UN’s 2030 SDG agenda seeks to end all forms of violence against children.

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Skeletal remains of an animal have been recently unearthed at Manalur near Madurai, under the sixth phase of excavation work at Keeladi site, undertaken by the Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology (TNSDA).
The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Edappadi K Palaniswami had started the 6th phase of excavation work in February at Keeladi, Kondagai, Agaram and Manalur near Madurai. During the excavation, a variety of materials including weaving, animal husbandry and water management were recovered. The materials were found to be belonging to the 5th century of the Tamil culture.

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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%.

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The government has recently modified public procurement norms to give maximum preference to companies whose goods and services have 50 per cent or more local content.
The revised Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order 2017, has introduced a concept of Class-I, II and non-local suppliers. Class I supplier has local content equal to or more than 50 % local content. Only Class-I local supplier, shall be eligible to bid irrespective of purchase value and hence be given maximum preference in all government purchases.

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The flagship programme of the Sports Ministry has partnered with the Department of School Education and Literacy of the HRD Ministry to launch a series of special film to promote 10 indigenous sports of India.
The programme is to be implemented under the Ek Bharat, Shrestha Bharat initiative, which aims to sensitise the youngsters about the cultural heritage of the state. The series of film will also create awareness among children about the heritage of the states to which the sports belong.