Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2020

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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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National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has digitally signed a MoU with Rotary India to telecast e-learning content for school children.
The Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank was present during the event. The learning content is to be telecasted in all NCERT TV channels for class 1-12. Under the ‘Vidya Daan 2.0’ programme, Rotary International will provide the e – content in Hindi language to NCERT. Material for special children and Adult Literacy Mission will also be provided.

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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 Accreditation Day (WAD) is celebrated on 9th June every year to highlight and promote the role of accreditation in trade & economy.
The theme for World Accreditation Day 2020 is “Accreditation: Improving Food Safety”. It is decided by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC). Quality Council of India (QCI) organised a Webinar to commemorate the event.

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The popular mobile game PUBG Mobile has emerged as the highest grossing game across the world in May 2020.
The multiplayer battle game has earned over $226 million in May, which is an increase of 41 percent compared to the same month last year. The game released from Tencent which was launched in 2018, earned its major revenue from China. Honor of Kings from Tencent followed PUBG Mobile in the second rank.

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The state government of Haryana has announced that it would construct 1,000 water recharge bores in underground water deficient areas of the state.
The programme seeks to recharge underground water with rainfall. Announcing this programme, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that 90 percent of the cost of the bore project will be borne by the government and the remaining 10 percent by the farmers.

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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has submitted a mid-term report to the United Nations on the human rights situation in the country.
This is the first time NHRC is submitting the report mid time, in which is highlighted the policies of the government on climate change, rights of women, children, disabled and the elderly. NHRC also informed that the Government of India is actively considering the proposal of a Universal Basic income (UBI).

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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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“Raja Parba” is a three-day-long festival celebrated in the state of Odisha. Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted the people of Odisha on the festival.
As per the Odisha tourism website, the second day signifies beginning of the solar month of “Mithuna”, that represents the beginning of rains. It is also considered as an agricultural festival and a festival that marks the menstruation cycle of women.

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As per the recent report of the Sweden-based think tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), China is developing a nuclear triad for the first time, made up of new land and sea-based missiles and nuclear-capable aircraft.
The report also highlighted that Indi and China have increased their nuclear capacities over the last year. It said that China and Pakistan have more nuclear warheads as compared to India as China has 320 nuclear warheads and India and Pakistan has 150 and 160 respectively.