06th June, 2022

1. Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has launched the Scheme For Residential Education For Students In High Schools In Targeted Areas (SHRESHTA), which was announced in December 2021.
2. Ministry of Tourism, in partnership with the United Environment Program (UNEP) and Responsible Tourism Society of India (RTSOI), has organized a National Summit on Developing Sustainable and Responsible Tourist Destinations in New Delhi.
3. India has recently supplied 3.3 tons of essential medicines to Sri Lanka.
4. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a global initiative ‘Lifestyle for the Environment – LiFE Movement’ on the occasion of World Environment Day (June 5 / Theme – Only One Earth).
5. Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare and Chemicals and Fertilizers Mansukh Mandaviya has inaugurated the National Food Laboratory of FSSAI at Raxaul in Bihar.
6. India has imported an additional 144 MW of electricity generated by its Kaligandaki hydropower plant in Nepal through its power exchange market.
7. 90th Interpol General Assembly will be held in the New Delhi later this year.
8. World’s largest publisher of Hindu religious texts, Gita Press in Gorakhpur, is celebrating its 100th anniversary.
9. Rajasthan government has signed an MOU with Sadhguru’s Isha Foundation to save soil “by halting and reversing desertification of fertile lands in the state”.
10. President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the Sant Kabir Academy and Research Institute, Interpretation Centre and renovation work of Kabir Nirvana Sthali at Sant Kabir Sthal (tomb of Sant Kabir) in Maghar in Sant Kabir Nagar district.
11. Chilika Lake, Asia’s largest brackish water lagoon, has 176 fishing cats, according to a census done by the Chilika Development Authority (CDA) in collaboration with the Fishing Cat Project (TFCP).
12. Himachal Pradesh is running the ‘Mukhyamantri Swavalamban Yojana’ to provide self-employment opportunities to the youth.
13. Indian Air Force has signed an MOU with Chandigarh govt for establishing a first-of-its-kind Indian Airforce Heritage Centre in the UT.
14. Datair Technology Pvt Ltd (Ambee), a global platform for hyperlocal and geospatial datasets on air quality, weather, pollen, soil, water vapour and fire, has joined Nasa’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Mission as an early adopter.
15. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released the “Global Plastics Outlook: Policy Scenarios to 2060”
16. New York state legislature has passed the world’s first “right to repair” bill that will require digital electronics manufacturers to make parts, tools, information, and software available to consumers and independent repair shops.
17. Kotak Investment Advisors has launched a one-stop investment solution ‘Kotak Cherry’ to help investors in choosing best investment options.
18. Kiya.ai, a Mumbai-based fintech company, has launched India’s first banking Metaverse, named as Kiyaverse, which will be used by banks and non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) to enable virtual interactions.
19. Tata Projects has won the contract to build new airport at Jewar at over Rs 6,000 crores.
20. June 4 – International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
21. June 5 – International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
22. Swapnil Kusale and Ashi Chouksey have won the gold medal in the 50m rifle 3 positions (3P) mixed team competition at the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun in Baku, Azerbaijan.
23. Sakshi Malik has won her first international gold medal in almost 5 years at the Bolat Turlykhanov Cup 2022 wrestling tournament in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
24. French Open 2022 (aka Roland Garros Grand Slam Tennis Tournament) concluded at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. Only grand slam tournament to take place on clay court.
25. Tamil Nadu’s S. Dhanalakshmi has won 100m race at the 7th International Sprint and Relay Cup in Erzurum, Turkey.
26. India’s hockey team (captain – Rupinder Pal Singh) has won the inaugural FIH Hockey 5s championship in Lausanne, Switzerland, by defeating Poland.
27. France’s World champion Fabio Quartararo has won Catalonia MotoGP in Spain.

National News

1. Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has launched the Scheme For Residential Education For Students In High Schools In Targeted Areas (SHRESHTA), which was announced in December 2021.
   • This scheme was earlier known as ‘Grant-in-Aid To Voluntary And Other Organisations Working For Scheduled Castes’.
   • Objective – to provide qualitative higher education to the SC students in classes 9 to 12; reduce dropout rates; establishing new higher education schools in SC-populated areas
   • Modes of Operation –

2. Ministry of Tourism, in partnership with the United Environment Program (UNEP) and Responsible Tourism Society of India (RTSOI), has organized a National Summit on Developing Sustainable and Responsible Tourist Destinations in New Delhi.
   • The Ministry has already launched the National Strategy for Sustainable Tourism and the Responsible Traveller Campaign.
   • Ministry of Tourism has till now sanctioned 76 Projects under the ‘Swadesh Darshan Scheme’. In addition to this, the Swadesh Darshan Scheme has been revamped as Swadesh Darshan 2.0.
3. India has recently supplied 3.3 tons of essential medicines to Sri Lanka.
4. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a global initiative ‘Lifestyle for the Environment – LiFE Movement’ on the occasion of World Environment Day (June 5 / Theme – Only One Earth).
   • The launch will initiate ‘LiFE Global Call for Papers’ inviting ideas and suggestions from academics, universities & research institutions etc. to influence and persuade individuals, communities and organisations across the world to adopt an environment-conscious lifestyle.
   • India has achieved the target of 10% ethanol blending in petrol has been achieved 5 months ahead of the November 2022 target. This is a major accomplishment given that blending was hardly 1.5% in 2013-14 and 5% in 2019-20.
   • The LiFE Movement was introduced by the Prime Minister during the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow in 2021.
   • Separately, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh governments have announced to impose a ban on single-use plastic from July 2022.
     • Punjab govt has also announced to establish 55 Sewage Treatment Plants across the state.
5. Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare and Chemicals and Fertilizers Mansukh Mandaviya has inaugurated the National Food Laboratory of FSSAI at Raxaul in Bihar.
   • This laboratory has been established under the Indo-Nepal bilateral agreement to reduce the time in the testing of imported food samples brought into Raxaul from Nepal.
6. India has imported an additional 144 MW of electricity generated by its Kaligandaki hydropower plant in Nepal through its power exchange market.
   • The electricity is being exported to India under the Nepal-India power exchange agreement.
   • The NEA earlier started selling 37.7 MW electricity generated by its 24 MW Trishuli and 15 MW Devighat power plants.
   • Now, Nepal will be selling a total of 178 MW electricity to India through India Energy Exchange Limited (IEX).
7. 90th Interpol General Assembly will be held in the New Delhi later this year.

State News

1. World’s largest publisher of Hindu religious texts, Gita Press in Gorakhpur, is celebrating its 100th anniversary.
   • Gita Press was founded on April 29, 1923, by Jaydayal Goyandka to spread the knowledge emanating from the Bhagavad Gita.
2. Rajasthan government has signed an MOU with Sadhguru’s Isha Foundation to save soil “by halting and reversing desertification of fertile lands in the state”.
   • Gujarat has also signed an MOU with the foundation.
   • Save Soil initiative of Isha Foundation –
     • Sadhguru’s ‘Save Soil’ initiative is a global movement aimed at soil conservation as 90% of the earth’s agricultural soil is under threat of desertification by 2050.
     • The primary objective of the movement is to urge all nations to mandate a minimum of 3-6% organic content in agricultural soils.
3. President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the Sant Kabir Academy and Research Institute, Interpretation Centre and renovation work of Kabir Nirvana Sthali at Sant Kabir Sthal (tomb of Sant Kabir) in Maghar in Sant Kabir Nagar district.
   • River Aami flows near Maghar and merges with river Rapti in Gorakhpur district.
4. Chilika Lake, Asia’s largest brackish water lagoon, has 176 fishing cats, according to a census done by the Chilika Development Authority (CDA) in collaboration with the Fishing Cat Project (TFCP).
5. Himachal Pradesh is running the ‘Mukhyamantri Swavalamban Yojana’ to provide self-employment opportunities to the youth.

Defence News

1. Indian Air Force has signed an MOU with Chandigarh govt for establishing a first-of-its-kind Indian Airforce Heritage Centre in the UT.

International News

1. Datair Technology Pvt Ltd (Ambee), a global platform for hyperlocal and geospatial datasets on air quality, weather, pollen, soil, water vapour and fire, has joined Nasa’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Mission as an early adopter.
   • PACE will be launched in 2024 to improve the satellite observations of global ocean biology, aerosols and clouds.
2. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released the “Global Plastics Outlook: Policy Scenarios to 2060”
   • Global Plastic Waste is set to almost triple by 2060. Half of it would go to the landfills and less than 1/5th of the total waste will be recycled.
   • Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are going to witness the largest increase in plastic waste.
   • Global collaboration can increase the recycling of plastic waste from 12% to 40%.
3. New York state legislature has passed the world’s first “right to repair” bill that will require digital electronics manufacturers to make parts, tools, information, and software available to consumers and independent repair shops.
   • The “Fair Repair Act” aims to enforce consumers’ rights to repair and refurbish their purchased goods.

Banking and Economy

1. Kotak Investment Advisors has launched a one-stop investment solution ‘Kotak Cherry’ to help investors in choosing best investment options.
2. Kiya.ai, a Mumbai-based fintech company, has launched India’s first banking Metaverse, named as Kiyaverse, which will be used by banks and non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) to enable virtual interactions.
3. Tata Projects has won the contract to build new airport at Jewar at over Rs 6,000 crores.

Important Days

1. June 4 – International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
2. June 5 – International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing

Sports

1. Swapnil Kusale and Ashi Chouksey have won the gold medal in the 50m rifle 3 positions (3P) mixed team competition at the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun in Baku, Azerbaijan.
   • This is India’s second gold in the tournament after the trio of Elavenil Valarivan, Shreya Agarwal and Ramita won the gold in the 10m air rifle women’s team event.
   • It was Swapnil’s first gold and third medal overall at the Baku World Cup. He had earlier won silvers in both the men’s 3P individual and team competitions.
2. Sakshi Malik has won her first international gold medal in almost 5 years at the Bolat Turlykhanov Cup 2022 wrestling tournament in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
   • Malik is also famous for her Rio 2016 bronze medal.
   • Bronze medallists in the championship – Divya Kakran, Mansi Ahlawat, Pooja Sihag, Neeraj
   • Gold medalist – Amanpreet Singh Randhawa
3. French Open 2022 (aka Roland Garros Grand Slam Tennis Tournament) concluded at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. Only grand slam tournament to take place on clay court.
   • Men’s singles – Rafael Nadal (Spain)
   • Women’s singles – Iga Świątek (Poland)
4. Tamil Nadu’s S. Dhanalakshmi has won 100m race at the 7th International Sprint and Relay Cup in Erzurum, Turkey.
5. India’s hockey team (captain – Rupinder Pal Singh) has won the inaugural FIH Hockey 5s championship in Lausanne, Switzerland, by defeating Poland.
6. France’s World champion Fabio Quartararo has won Catalonia MotoGP in Spain.

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