Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2021

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The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the UNICEF have released a report titled ‘Child Labour: Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward’. This has been released ahead of the World Day Against Child Labour in June 12th.
As per the report, the number of child labour has risen to an alarming number of 16 crore across the world.

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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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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced a one-time financial assistance of Rs 2.5 lakh for the women in the state who lost her husband to Covid-19.
This financial assistance will be provided from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund. Those women will also be entitled to the benefits of the Orunodoi scheme and the ongoing Indira Miri Universal Widow Pension Scheme.

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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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The UK holds the presidency of G7 and has invited India, Australia, South Africa and South Korea to the outreach summit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to virtually participate in the outreach sessions of the G7 summit, hosted by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. This is the second time the Prime Minister is participating in the G7 meeting after France invited India in 2019 as a ‘Goodwill Partner’.

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The United Nations Security Council is a 15 member body. Five veto-wielding permanent members of the council are the United States, Russia, China, United Kingdom and France.
Recently, five countries namely Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Albania, Ghana and Gabon have been selected for to join the U.N. Security Council. They replace another 5 members whose terms end and will start their terms on January 1.

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Barbora Krejcikova won her maiden Grand Slam singles title at the French Open Tournament 2021. She became the first Czech woman in 40 years to win the tournament.
She won the women’s doubles titles at the 2018 French Open, 2018 Wimbledon and 2021 French Open and the mixed doubles titles at the Australian Open in 2019, 2020, and 2021.

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Madhya Pradesh is set to launch the ‘Yuva Shakti Corona Mukti Abhiyan’ (Free from Corona), to make people aware about the
This campaign will be run by the Higher Education and Technical Education Department in collaboration with the Public Health and Family Welfare Department. College teachers and over 16 lakh students will be made aware of corona infection.

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As per the recent data released by the Union Commerce Ministry, Wholesale (WPI) inflation stood at 12.94 percent in the month of May 2021.
This is the fifth straight month of surge seen in the wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation. In April, 2021, WPI inflation hit double-digit at 10.49 percent. The wholesale price-based inflation rose due to rising prices of crude oil and manufactured goods.

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World Blood Donor Day is observed on June 14 every year, to create awareness across the world about the need for safe blood and life-saving components of blood required for transfusion.
For 2021, the World Blood Donor Day slogan will be “Give blood and keep the world beating”. Italy hosts the World Blood Donor Day 2021 through its National Blood Centre.