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Current Affairs June 2021

APPOINTMENTS

• UN General Assembly appointed Antonio Guterres as the UN Secretary-General for a second term beginning from 1st January 2022.
• Microsoft Corporation named Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella as its new chairman.
• Foreign minister of Maldives Abdulla Shahid has won an election as the next President of the United Nation General Assembly.
• Justice Arun Kumar Mishra became the new chairman of National Human Rights Commission.
• Rajnit Singh Disale has been appointed as the World bank Education Advisor for the period June June 2024.
• Anup Chandra Pandey has appointed as Election Commissioner.

PRESIDENT / PRIME MINISTER

• Sweden Prime Minister Stephen Lofven resign after losing no confidence.
• Ebrahim Raisi won the presidential election of Iran. He will replace Hasan Rohani in August.
• Naftali Bennett elected as the new Prime Minister of Israel.
• Issac Herzog become the 11th president of Israel.
• Ukhnaa Khurelsukh became the 6th President of Mongolia.

FIRST TIME IN INDIA / WORLD

• China operationalised its first fully electrified bullet train in the remote Himalayan region of Tibet connecting Lhasa and Nyingchi.
• Odisha became the first state to have all three species of Crocodile that is freshwater gharials, muggers and saltwater crocodile.
• Bikaner in Rajasthan is set to become the first city in the country to launch the door-to-door covid vaccination drive.
• El Salvador became the world's first Nation to adopt a cryptocurrency named Bitcoin as legal tender.
• China plans first manned Mars mission in 2033.
• World's first Genetically Modified rubber developed in the state of Assam.
• Germany has developed first ever yellow watermelon variety called yellow gold.
• Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand will be the first transgender athlete to compete in Olympic at 87 kg weightlifting category.
• European Space Agency has planned to launch world's first wooden Satellite from New Zealand.
• India exported the first commercial consignment of G I Certified Jardalu mangoes from Bhagalpur to the UK.
• Shenzhou 12, China's first human space flight since 2016.
• First human case of H10N3 Bird flu was reported in Eastern province of Jiangsu in China.
• Weyan, a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir became India's first village to vaccinate all its adult population against Covid-19.
• Rebecca Grynspan became the first woman to head UNCTAD.
• INS Vikrant, India's first aircraft carrier to be commissioned in 2022.
• Goa becomes first rabbies free state in the country.
• Sajan Prakash from Kerala has become the first Indian Swimmer to qualify for the Olympic in 200m butterfly Event.
• Mawya Sudan has become the first female fighter pilot from Jammu and Kashmir.
• Israel become the world's first mask free country.

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RANKING / LIST

• The Financial Action Task Force announced that Pakistan will remain on increased monitoring list also known as "Grey list". Pakistan was put on the list in June 2018.
• Microsoft became the second US Public Company after Amazon to reach a two trillion dollar market value.
• As per World Giving Index 2021 report India is 14th most charitable country of the world.
• India ranks 10th in Cyber Security Index. USA has topped the list.
• Taj has been rated as the strongest Hotel brand across the world by brand Finance.
• Jamshed Ji Tata was world's top philanthropist of last century as per Hurun list.
• India is the fifth largest FDI recipient in the world in 2020. India received USD 64 billion in 2020.
• India rank 43rd at World Competitiveness Index. Switzerland has topped the list.
• India rank 163rd at Global Peace Index. Iceland is most peaceful country worldwide since 2008. Afghanistan is the least peaceful country.
• India ranks 120th in Sustainable Development Report 2021. Finland has topped the list.
• India ranks 117th at Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2021.
• Kerala has topped the Sustainable Development Index for 2020-21.
• India became the fourth largest Forex reserve holder in the world with Russia.
• Madhya Pradesh ranks first in Anaemia Mukt Bharat Index 2020-21.
• Harvard University has topped the ranking in Centre for World University Ranking 2021-22. IIM Ahmedabad is the top Indian University which bagged 415th Rank.
• Bengaluru has been named as the most liveable city of India in the Ease of living Index 2020.
• India ranks 51st in the list of foreign clients money in Swiss Bank during 2020.
• Rhea Chakraborty has bagged the number one spot on Times most desirable women 2020 list.
• DBS Bank has been named by Forbes in their list of World, s Best Bank 2021. SBI ranked 7th.
• Auckland is the most liveable city in 2021. Damascus in Syria is the least Liveable city.

AWARDS

• Indore in Madhya Pradesh and Surat in Gujarat were adjudged joint winners of the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, s Smart Cities Award 2020. UP secure the first position in the state awards category.
• Indian origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan along with two contributors has won the Pulitzer Prize for Innovation Investigative Report on Prisons and mass camps secretly built by China for detaining thousands of Muslims in its Restive Xinjiang region.
• P. Sainath has awarded 2021 Fukuoka Prize.
• Cochin International Airport wins honour in Airport service quality.
• Assam government has decided to provide Bharat Ratna and Padma like awards.
• Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga won PEN Pinter Prize.
• David Diop becomes the first French winner of International Booker Prize for translated fiction "At night all blood is black".
• Movie "Water Burial" has bagged the best film at 67th National Film Awards 2021.
• Thomas Vijayan won Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2021.
• R K Sabharwal gets"The order of Polar star" the highest civilian award of Mongolia.

Daily Current Affairs 2021

SCHEMES / YOJANA

• West Bengal approves student credit card scheme under which students can get a soft loan upto Rs 10 lakh.
• Delhi has launched Mukhyamantri Covid-19 Parivar Arthik Sahayata Yojana to provide financial assistance to the families who lost a member due to covid-19 pandemic.
• Mizoram announces cash incentive of Rs 1 lakh for having more children to encourage population growth.
• Madhya Pradesh Government launches Yuva Shakti Corona Mukti Abhiyan.
• Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana extended till November 2021.
• Madhya Pradesh government has launched a scheme named Ankur under which citizen will be awarded for planting trees.
• Odisha announced a new scheme Aashirwad for the education, health and maintenance of Covid Orphans.
• Bihar government to provide 33% reservation for girls in Engineering and Medical Colleges.
• Punjab launches Udaan scheme to distribute sanitary pads to women every month.

OBITUARY

• Legendary sprinter Milkha Singh also known as Flying Sikh died due to post Covid complications. In track and field, he won four gold medals at the Asian games also won a gold at the 1958 Commonwealth Games in Cardiff. He came 4th at the 400m final in 1960 Rome Olympics. His autobiography is titled "The Race of My Life”.
• John McAfee the British American programmer and the writer of the first antivirus program passed away.
• Benigno Aquino II, former President of Philippines passed away.
• Renowned Bengali film maker and poet Buddhadeb Dasgupta passed away.
• Anerood Jugnauth, former president and Prime Minister of Mauritius passed away.
• Former PM of Denmark Poul Schlueter passed away.
• T. M Kalliannan Gounder, the last surviving former member of the Indian constituent assembly died at the age of 101 years.
• Former Indian women's volleyball team captain Nirmal Milkha Kaur, wife of Milkha Singh has passed away.
• Gottfried Bohm, the first German architect to be awarded the Pritzker Prize has passed away.
• Asian Games gold medalist Dingko Singh passed away.
• Zambia,s first President Kenneth Kaunda Passed away.

SPORTS

• T20 World Cup will be held from October 17 to November 14 in UAE and Oman.
• Archer Deepika Kumari regained the No.1 position in global ranking for recurve women followling hattrick of gold medals at the world cup stage 3 in Paris.
• Shafali Verma became the youngest Indian cricketer to make her debut across all three formats.
• India's Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das won gold medal at Archery World Cup.
• Cristiano Ronaldo became the first European in world cup and Euro history to score a combined 20 goals across the two competition.
• New Zealand wins the ICC World Test Championship after defeating India in the final at Southampton in England.
• Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal moves past Michael Platini to become all-time leading scorer at Euro.
• India's Vinoo Mankad, Sri Lanka,s Kumar Sangakkara and Zimbabwe,s andy Flower were inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame.
• Novak Djokovic wins the French Open Men's Single Title 2021.
• Czech Barbara Krejcikova win the French Open Women, s single 2021.
• Naomi Osaka withdraws from French Open. she was fined 15000 US dollar and warned that she could face expulsion from the Tournament because she decided not to speak with press during the tournament.
• Sunil Chhetri passes Lionel Messi in International goals with 74 goals.
• Rahi sarnobat won India's first gold medal in the 25m pistol event at the International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup.
• Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju launches India's Olympic theme song titled "Tu Thaan Le" composed and sung by Mohit Chauhan.
• Jamaican sprinter Shelley Ann Fraser Pryce became the second fastest women in history after she ran the 100m in 10.63 seconds. Griffith Joyner holds the fastest women records in 10.49 seconds.
• Chelsea defeated Manchester City 1-0 in the final to lift the 2020-21 UEFA Champions League title.
• Manpreet Singh was named as captain of Olympic bound Indian men's hockey team.
• Rani Rampal was named as captain of Olympic bound Indian women's hockey team.
• Madhya Pradesh all-rounder Anshula Rao became the first woman cricketer to be handed over four years ban after failing the dope test.
• Indian American Abhimanyu Mishra became the youngest ever chess champion.
• Oman will host the hockey World Cup in 2024.
• Kylie Jamieson was adjudged Man of the Match at the inaugural ICC World Test Championship final.
• Bharat Pe become the official Sponsor of ICC till 2023.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• India successfully test-fired the nuclear capable Agni Prime ballistic missile from Odisha coast.
• DRDO has successfully test fired extended range version of indigenously developed Pinaka Rocket from Chandipur Coast of Odisha.
• Minister of IT Ravi Shankar Prasad launched a E-filing Portal of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) Called itat-e-dwar.
• IIT Kharagpur have developed an early cyclone detective technique.
• NASA announces to launch 2 new mission DAVINCI & VERITAS to Venus.

EVENTS / EXERCISES

• 31st meeting of heads of government of NATO was held in Brussels, Belgium.
• India and Thailand started their Navy exercise called CORPAT.
• Brisbane to be named as host of 2032 Olympic game.
• S. Shankar has chaired the meeting of BRICS foreign minister through video conferencing.

LARGEST / BIGGEST

• UK bans world's largest Crypto exchange Binance.
• Debswana Diamond Company have unearth world's third largest diamond in Jwaneng mine of Botswana in South Africa.
• Largest warship of Iranian Navy Kharg caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Oman.
• Google is all set to build world's longest undersea cable.
• Malaysia surpasses Indonesia to be India's biggest crude palm oil exporter.

BUSINESS / ECONOMICS

• Enforcement Directorate has transferred Assets Worth Rs 8441 Crore to banks which suffered losses due to frauds by Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi.
• Indian Economy is expected to grow at 8.3% for Fiscal Year 2021-22 as per World Bank,s latest Projection.
• Indian invested 40 billion dollar in cryptocurrency 2020.
• SBI revises Financial Year 2022 GDP Projection for India to 7.9%.
• CRISIL cuts India's GDP forecast to 9.5% from 11%.
• RBI has forecasted the GDP growth of Financial Year 2022 to 9.5 %.

MISCELLANEOUS

• Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd.
• National Geographic announced that it is officially recognising the Southern Ocean as the Earth,s fifth Ocean.
• Raimona in Kokrajhar district has become 6th National Park of Assam.
• Dihing Patkai became the 7th national park of Assam.
• China is certified as Malaria free by WHO.
• Moderna vaccine is going to be the 4th Covid-19 vaccine available in India after Covaxin Covishield and Sputnik V.
• A new human species discovered by archaeologist at Israeli site of Neshar Ramla named as Neshar Ramla homo.
• President of Chile Sebastian Pinera announced that chilean assembly is set to draft a new constitution for the country.
• People are fighting against the proposal to clear over 6,000 trees in Singanayakanahalli to construct a lake under Hebbal Nagawara valley project in Karnataka.
• Raja Parba, the festival of womenhood being celebrated in Odisha.
• Maharashtra has launched Corona free village competition.
• HDFC bank has planned to become carbon neutral by 2031-32.
• Parliament of Denmark has approved to build an artificial Island named Lynette Holm Island.
• Merapi volcano in Indonesia erupts 4 times in this month.
• UN Security Council elected Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and UAE as non-permanent members for 2022-23 term.
• Philippines, Haiti, Malta and South Sudan has been included in the Grey list of the Financial Action Task Force.
• UP Government to provide smartphone to 4 lakh Anganwadi workers to promote their welfare in the state.
• Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan has been named as the world's most expensive cityfor foreign workers. Mumbai remains India's most expensive city at 78th rank.
• India's oldest running newspaper, Mumbai Samachar founded by Farsi scholar Fardoonji Murazban turns 200.
• PM Narendra Modi unveiled mYoga App on the occasion of 7th International Yoga Day.
• According to UN forecast India's population will be 1.5 billion by 2030.
• UT Ladakh has reserved all jobs for the residents of the region.

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

• Home in the World: Amartya Sen
• The Nutmeg,s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis:Amitav Ghosh
• Will (Autobiography): Will Smith with Mark Manson
• It,s a Wonderful Life: Ruskin Bond

RBI MONETARY POLICY

• Rate/Ratio Percentage: 4.25%
• Bank Rate: 4%
• Repo Rate: 3.35%
• Reverse Repo Rate: 4%
• Cash Reserve Ratio: 18%
• Statutory Liquidity Ratio: 18%
• Marginal Standing Facility: 4.25%

2021 LAUREUS SPORTS AWARDS

Awards & Winners

• Sportsman of the Year Award: Rafael Nadal
• Sportswoman of the Year Award: Naomi Osaka
• Team of the Year Award: Bayern Munich
• Comeback of the Year Award: Max Parrot
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Billie Jean King
• Athlete Advocate of the Year Award: Lewis Hamilton
• Sporting Inspiration Award: Mohamed Salah

IMPORTANT DAYS

Events & Dates

• World Milk Day: 1st June
• World Environment Day (Theme: Reimagine, Recreate, Restore): 5th June
• World Ocean Day: 8th June
• World Day Against Child Labour: 12th June
• World Blood Donor Day: 14th June
• World Refugee Day: 20th June
• World Yoga Day (Theme: Yoga for well Being): 21st June
• World Music Day: 21st June
• Olympic Day: 23rd June
• International Day Against Drug abuse and Illicit Trafficking: 26th June
• National Statistics Day:29th June