Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2021

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The World Health Organization (WHO) released a handbook to help assess the burden of foodborne diseases. It also aims to locate data gaps to help strengthen health infrastructure.
As per the report, more than 600 million people are affected by foodborne diseases every year. It also highlighted that over 0.12 million children under five years die from consuming unsafe food.

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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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Former Mongolian Prime Minister Ukhnaa Khurelsukh was recently elected as the country’s sixth President.
Khurelsukh was forced to resign as the Prime Minister after several protests earlier this year. Among the 99.7% of votes counted, 68% of the total votes were received by Khurelsukh. This is expected to consolidate the power of the ruling Mongolian People’s Party (MPP).

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The Maharashtra Cabinet has recently approved an amendment to the Maharashtra (Urban Areas) Protection and Preservation of Trees Act, 1975.
This introduced the concept of “Heritage tree”, a tree with an estimated age of 50 years or more. It is expected to come into force through an ordinance. The Cabinet also approved the formation of the Maharashtra Tree Authority, to take all decisions regarding protection of trees.

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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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World Day against Child Labour is observed on June 12. The 2021 World Day Against Child Labour marks a “Week of Action” that began on June 10.
The theme of this year’s World Day Against Child Labour is ‘Act now: end child labour’. The world has seen an increase in child labour and millions more of children are vulnerable due to pandemic situation.

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The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar has developed a device that can be used as a substitute for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine.
Called as “Jivan Vayu”, the machine can deliver high flow oxygen up to 60 Litres Per Minute. The CPAP therapy helps to ensure that the airways do not collapse while the patients breathe during sleep. The new device, which functions without electricity, is the first to be designed in India.

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The government is set to implement mandatory hallmarking of gold jewellery and artefacts from 15 June 2021.
Gold hallmarking is a purity certification of gold and at present hallmarking is voluntary. This will protect the public against lower caratage. From the cut-off date all jewellers will be allowed to sell only 14, 18 and 22 carats of gold jewellery.

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Shenzhou-12, meaning “Divine Vessel”, will be the third of 11 missions to complete China’s space station by 2022.
A Chinese spacecraft on a Long March rocket, ferrying three men to an orbiting space module is to be launched for a three-month stay. This is the first time China is to humans into space after 2016. China also aims to send a robotic cargo resupply spacecraft and three more astronauts this year.