Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2021

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The United Nations Security Council has recommended the reappointment of the present Secretary-General António Guterres for a second term, which commences from January 1, 2022. This recommendation would now go for approval to the 193-member UN General Assembly.
António Guterres is presently the 9th UN chief and commenced his tenure from 2017.

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CHATT stands for Confederation of Hospitality, Technology and Tourism Industry. Major players in the Hospitality field namely Airbnb, EaseMyTrip, OYO and Yatra have formed this new industry association.
This aims to help small companies and travel and hospitality technology players. The association will also promote domestic tourism, help it in digital transformation, act as a thought leader and run training programmes.

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The Ministry of Education has recently released the All-Indian Survey of Higher Education (AISHE) report 2019-20.
The Gross enrolment ratio (GER) during 2019-20 is 27.1 per cent, which is an increase of 0.8 per cent from the previous year. Total enrolment in higher education stands at 3.85 crore in 2019-20. The rise in female enrolment in higher education during the period is 18.2 per cent.

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The European Space Agency has recently announced a probe called Envision, as a part of its Venus Mission.
ESA announced this one week after its American counterpart, NASA, chose two Venus projects of its own, known as Veritas and Davinci+. As per the team of EAS, all three of the missions are highly complementary and the probe will be ready by 2034-35.

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DBS has been named by Forbes in their list of World’s Best Banks 2021, based on global customer survey. DBS was ranked in the first position out of 30 domestic and international banks in India.
This is the third edition of the ‘World’s Best Banks’ list by Forbes, conducted in partnership with market research firm Statista. The second bank in the list is Kerala-based CSB Bank, followed by ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank.

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) extended risk-based internal audit (RBIA) system for housing finance companies to improve quality of their internal audit system.
The system will apply to all deposit-taking housing finance companies irrespective of their size, and those non-deposit-taking housing finance companies with asset size of 5,000 crore and above.

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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released an independent appraisal report on India’s Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP).
As per the report, the programme has resulted in sectoral growth and improvements in governance and administration. It analyses the progress of ADP and made recommendations for improvement. UNDP India representative handed over the report to NITI Aayog.

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During the 44th GST Council meeting, the tax rate on the supplies was cut and medicines for treating the black fungus infection were exempted off GST.
This was decided based on the recommendations of the group of ministers (GoM) constituted to advise on the tax rates of COVID-related essential items. COVID vaccines will continue to be taxed at five per cent GST.

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Government approved Phase-II of FAME Scheme with an outlay of Rs. 10,000 Crore for a period of 3 years from 1st April 2019. FAME stands for ‘Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles’.
The Ministry of Heavy Industry has announced incentives for India-made electric two-wheelers, as an amendment to the ongoing FAME-II scheme. The subsidy rate for electric two-wheelers is increased to Rs 15,000/kWh, from the previous rate of Rs 10,000/kWh.

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Mukesh Sharma, who is a professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has been appointed as honorary member of WHO’s Global Air Pollution and Health-Technical Advisory Group (GAPH-TAG).
His appointment is made by Director General of WHO. The professor is an air quality expert with the civil engineering department at IIT-Kanpur.