Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2020

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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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The World Food Safety Day (WFSD) is celebrated on June 7, 2020. This year is the second edition of the Food Safety Day. The day is celebrated to promote global food safety awareness and to bring together countries, civil society and private firms to take required action.
World Health Organisation (WHO) is collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization leads the member states to celebrate Food Safety Day. This year, the theme of WFSD campaign is “Food safety, everyone’s business”.

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Hyderabad International Airport received the highest Platinum Recognition in the Airports Council International (ACI) Asia-Pacific Green Airports Recognition 2020.
The airport owned and operated by the GMR group, has won the recognition in the 15-35 million passengers per annum (MPPA) category. ACI Asia Pacific announced the result to promote best environmental practices, efficient water management practices and to minimise the aviation sector’s impact on the environment.

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Former World rapid champion from Russia, Daniil Dubov has clinched the USD 150,000 Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge chess title.
The 24-year-old player won his compatriot Sergey Karjakin and Chinese No. 1 Ding Liren in last two matches. He gained victory over the American Grand Master Hikaru Nakamura in the final match 3-2. Dubov became the grandmaster at his 14th year and became a World rapid champion in the year 2018.

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As per the recent notification of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, a one cm green sticker, providing registration details will be affixed in all BS 6 compliant motor vehicles.
The order is expected to come force from October 1, 2020. Last year, it was announced that all motor vehicles will be fitted with tamper-proof, high security registration plates (HSRP). This green strip will be fixed at the top in the HSRP on the inside of the windshield. This is in addition to the light blue sticker for petrol or CNG and orange sticker for diesel vehicle.

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The unmanned submersible of China “Haidou-1” has dived to a depth of 10,907 metres at the world’s deepest ocean point.
Haidou-1 has set the record by submerging under the Pacific Ocean surface of the Mariana Trench, the deepest area in the world. During the deep-sea diving operation, it has also collected samples from the deep sea and high-definition images of the geological environment.

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The 18th Bench of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has been recently inaugurated for the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh inaugurated the bench through video conference. The CAT Bench would deal exclusively with service matters of government employees. With this all the departments of the Department of Personnel Training (DoPT) namely Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Central Information Commission (CIC) and Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) are now operational in the UTs.

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Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL) is a central public sector enterprise (CPSE) under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
The CPSE was seen in news as it has recently released a tender that invited agencies to provide solutions and services related to fact verification and detection of misinformation on social media platforms. BECIL seeks to empanel the agencies and it has also announced that the bidding firms should be able to identify the geo-location of the source of the news.

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The Finance Ministry announced that the public sector banks have disbursed Rs 12,200.65 crore till June 9, under the Rs 3-lakh crore Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) for the MSME sector.
It also announced that Tamil Nadu has topped in the in the disbursements to MSMEs under ECLGS, with the total disbursement of Rs 1,727 crore, out of the cumulative sanction of Rs 2,637 crore from banks. It was followed by Uttar Pradesh, with disbursement of Rs 1,225 crore.

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The Coral Triangle Day is held every June 9 across the world. Coral Triangle is the ocean spread across 6 countries in the Asia-Pacific region: Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor Leste, also called the “CT6” countries.
The day is celebrated by all countries which are benefitted by the rich marine resources of the Coral Triangle. It is also one of the 3 great ecological complexes in our planet, along with the Congo Basin and the Amazon Rainforest.