Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2020

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As per the recent announcement from the Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand, the city of Gairsain in Chamoli district has been declared as the summer capital of Uttarakhand.
The Governor of Uttarakhand Baby Rani Maurya also gave her assent to the decision. Gairsain is located about 270-km from the existing capital of Dehradun. It is expected that the declaration of summer capital in the region will accelerate development of the hilly areas.

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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 12th edition of the biennial Environment Performance Index (EPI Index 2020) has been released by the Yale University.
In the index that measured the environmental performance of 180 countries, India secured 168th rank with a score of 27.6 out of 100. Last year, the country scored 30.57 and was placed at 177th rank. Denmark was placed at the first place, followed by Luxembourg and Switzerland. The United States was placed at 24th rank.

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The Ramon Magsaysay awards, regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize, have been cancelled this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
This is only the third time the annual awards were cancelled in the past six decades. Earlier, the awards were cancelled due to a financial crisis in 1970 and a terrible earthquake that hit the Philippines in 1990. The awards are provided by a Manila-based foundation and named after the third president of the Republic of the Philippines after World War II.

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Social media giant Twitter has recently launched a new test feature named ‘Fleets’ in India, which allows users post messages that would disappear after 24 hours.
This feature is similar to the ‘stories’ feature introduced on Instagram or Facebook. However, Fleets do not have features such as likes, retweets, or public replies. Twitter has introduced the fleets in India after Brazil and Italy. This will be available on the latest version of the Twitter application.

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The Madhya Pradesh government has recently launched the Rozgar Setu portal that will provide employment to migrant labourers.
It was announced that all migrant workers who have returned to their home state have been registered on the portal. The portal also has the details of the employers who are looking for workers as they re-start economic activities. The state will also hold Rozgar melas in the next two months to employ these workers.

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Spain has recently granted professional status to women’s football. As per the Spanish federation, the top two women’s football divisions in Spain have gained professional status.
This decision is expected to promote the development of these competitions which were considered amateur football, until now. The sports council of the country also accepted the change in status for the competitions and it will also be valid for men’s and women’s futsal competitions of the country.

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The President of Asian Development Bank (ADB) Masatsugu Asakawa has launched a high-level panel of leading experts to help Southeast Asian economies tackle COVID-19 pandemic.
The panel is moderated by the ADB Vice-President Ahmed M. Saeed. Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India Raghuram Rajan features in the list among the experts of finance, health and economy. The panel will focus on structural reforms, innovation in domestic resource mobilization among others.

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Veteran economist and former member of the Planning Commission, A.Vaidyanathan recently passed away.
He served as a Chairperson of the Government of India Task Force on Revival of Cooperative Credit Institutions in 2004. He joined the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) in 1956. He also served in the Food and Agricultural Organisation, Rome. He played a crucial role in developing India’s statistical system and the National Sample Survey.

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The Chief Minister of Maharashtra Uddhav Thackeray and Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan launched an Integrated Flood Warning System called ‘IFLOWS-Mumbai’.
The warning system has been jointly developed by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). It would relay alerts of possible flood-prone areas at 6 to 72 hours in advance. After Chennai, Mumbai is only the second city to get such system.