Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2020

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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 chief of the United Nations Antonio Guterres has recently announced that nearly 49 million more people are likely to fall into extreme poverty this year due to the COVID-19 crisis.
He has also announced that every percentage point drop in the global GDP would result in stunted growth in hundreds of thousands of additional children. The UN has also urged the countries to act immediately to ensure global food security. More than 820 million people are hungry and 144 million children under the age of 5 are stunted.

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The World Bank has provided Rs. 1,950 crore loans to the state of West Bengal for tackling COVID crisis and developmental work in the state.
Announcing the news about the loan, the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that out of the total loan, Rs. 1,100 crore will be spent for creating Industrial infrastructures and remaining Rs. 850 crore has been allocated for social-Welfare schemes.

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The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a sanitising chamber named ‘GermiKlean’ to disinfect uniforms of security forces.
GermiKlean is a dry heat treatment chamber which can sanitise 25 pairs of uniforms within 15 minutes. DRDO has also designed a sanitisation tunnel and a sanitisation mat for foot sanitisation of security forces. Delhi Police had earlier submitted their requirement for sanitising their uniforms, canes and helmets.

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A team of researchers at IIT- Kharagpur has developed a system based on artificial intelligence to track social distancing.
The cyber-physical system monitors social distancing in public places, by detecting the gap between individuals. It plays an alert sound, whenever social distancing norms mandated by the Health Ministry is violated. This is also a low-cost device, which can even be used in remote places.

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The Andhra Pradesh government has recently signed a concession agreement with GMR Airports for construction of a greenfield international airport at Bhogapuram.
The proposed place is located in Vizianagaram district, which about 40 km from Visakhapatnam. The concession agreement was signed in the presence of Chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. The state cabinet had earlier approved the selection of the GMR Group as the developer for Bhogapuram international airport.

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Chinese internet company ByteDance has recently announced that it is set to discontinue two of its applications Vigo Video and Vigo Lite.
The applications that allow users to create and share short videos, will be discontinued in India at the end of October 2020. ByteDance also said the users can opt to transfer their videos to TikTok, download or delete all their Vigo data from the app.

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‘International Day of Family Remittances (IDFR)’ is celebrated on June 16, every year across the world.
The United Nations General Assembly declared IDFR to be celebrated on June 16. The day also recognizes the contribution of over 200 million migrants to improve the lives of their 800 million family members. The impact of the remittances on households, communities and countries is also focussed.

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The team of Department of Zoology, Jawaharlal Nehru College, Pasighat discovered a new fish species in the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Named as ‘Schizothorax sikusirumensis’, the fish belongs to the genus Schizothorax. The name of the fish species represents the name of the rivers where it was found, the junction of River Siku and Sirum of East Siang District.

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Russia is to conduct a military parade in Moscow on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of their victory in the Second World War.
The Defence Minister of Russia has invited an Indian contingent to take part in the Victory Day Parade scheduled to be held on June 24, 2020 in Moscow. It was originally scheduled on the occasion of the Victory Day – May 9, but later postponed due to Covid-19. India is sending a 75-member Tri-Service contingent to participate in the parade.