30th June, 2022

1. India and UK have announced to establish a joint India-UK Commonwealth Diplomatic Academy to equip young diplomats with expertise and training they will need to tackle the dynamic global challenges.
2. Ahmedabad-based Indian Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) has authorised Dhruva Space Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad and Digantara Research & Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru to launch their payloads in space.
3. Minister of Communications, Ashwini Vaishnaw, has launched the ‘Dak Karmayogi’ – an e-learning portal for the officials of Department of Posts.
4. ISRO Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) has received the crew module fairing (CMF) for Gaganyaan mission.
5. Assam Cabinet has formed a joint venture company – Assam Rail Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (ARIDCL) – with the Ministry of Railway to increase the railway network in the state.
6. Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture has partnered with Bombay Stock Exchange to promote and create awareness in the state on the benefits of listing on its SME platform.
7. Karnataka has launched the ‘Kashi Yatra’ project to offer cash assistance of ₹5,000 each to around 30,000 pilgrims to take up a pilgrimage to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
8. New building of the Telangana’s T-Hub (business incubator) has been established at Hyderabad.
9. Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD) has launched the “One Health” pilot project in Bengaluru.
10. Commonwealth countries have adopted a ‘Living Lands Charter’ in line with the strategy set for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
11. G7 countries have established a Climate Club at the G7 Summit 2022 in Bavaria, Germany.
12. Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran has said that India would become a $5 trillion economy by 2026-27 and $10 trillion by 2033-34.
13. Protean eGov Technologies Ltd has announced a strategic partnership with PayNearby to offer PAN-related services for PayNearby’s retail partners through Aadhaar and biometric or SMS-based OTP authentication for their customers.
14. RBI has given approval to Mufin Finance Ltd., a subsidiary of Hindon Mercantile Ltd., to offer semi-closed prepaid payment instruments (PPI) to customers in India.
15. SBI’s latest Ecowrap report has stated that income inequality in India is declining since FY17.
16. L&T Technology Services Ltd (LTTS), the listed subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Ltd focused on engineering and R&D services, has launched an engineering design centre in Toulouse, France.
17. Razorpay has appointed Murali Brahmadesam from Amazon as chief technology officer (CTO).
18. June 5 to 11 – World Allergy Week; Theme – Breathe Better: The Asthma and Allergy Connection
19. June 28 – National Insurance Awareness Day
20. National Highways Excellence Awards (NHEA) 2021 have been announced by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways.
21. Eminent Hindi poet and litterateur Prof Ramdarash Mishra has won the Saraswati Samman for 2021 for his collection of poems “Mein to Yahan Hun”.
22. Indian men’s hockey team (captain – Manpreet Singh) has won the inaugural edition of FIH Hockey 5s Lausanne tournament in Switzerland.
23. Former Chairman of Shapoorji Pallonji Group, Pallonji Mistry (also known as ‘Phantom of Bombay House’) has passed away.
24. Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru has developed a new Graphic Processing Unit (GPU)-based machine learning algorithm to help scientists better understand and predict connectivity between different regions of the brain.
25. Olympic and World Cup medallist Varinder Singh has passed away.

National News

1. India and UK have announced to establish a joint India-UK Commonwealth Diplomatic Academy to equip young diplomats with expertise and training they will need to tackle the dynamic global challenges.
   

   • The India-U.K. Commonwealth Diplomatic Academy programme will be hosted in New Delhi.
2. Ahmedabad-based Indian Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) has authorised Dhruva Space Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad and Digantara Research & Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru to launch their payloads in space.
   • The payloads would fly onboard PSLV Orbital Experimental Module (POEM) of PSLV-C53 on June 30.
   • Name of the payloads (satellites) – Dhruva Space’s Dhruva Space Satellite Orbital Deployer (DSOD 1U) and ROBust Integrating Proton Fluence Meter (ROBI) of Digantara’s.
   • Separately, National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of ISRO has organised a three-day training course for better utilisation of ‘Bhuvan’ portal (ISRO’s Geoportal platform).
3. Minister of Communications, Ashwini Vaishnaw, has launched the ‘Dak Karmayogi’ – an e-learning portal for the officials of Department of Posts.
   • Dak Karmayogi portal has been developed under the vision of ‘Mission Karmayogi’ to increase the effectiveness of the post office personnel.
4. ISRO Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) has received the crew module fairing (CMF) for Gaganyaan mission.
   • CMF is a critical structure that will protect the Gaganyaan module carrying the astronauts during launch.
   • The CMF was manufactured by Alpha Design Technology Limited’s (ADTL) fully owned subsidiary Alpha Tocol Engineering Services in Bengaluru.

State News

1. Assam Cabinet has formed a joint venture company – Assam Rail Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (ARIDCL) – with the Ministry of Railway to increase the railway network in the state.
   • In JV, state government will hold a share of 51% and the ministry the remaining 49%.
   • The Cabinet decided to launch a programme ‘Arohan’ for classes 9 to 12 from 2022-23 with an allocated budget of Rs 5.96 crore to guide talented students in the 13-18 age group.
2. Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture has partnered with Bombay Stock Exchange to promote and create awareness in the state on the benefits of listing on its SME platform.
   • As part of this collaboration, BSE will provide training and capacity-building programmes to MACCIA officials.
3. Karnataka has launched the ‘Kashi Yatra’ project to offer cash assistance of ₹5,000 each to around 30,000 pilgrims to take up a pilgrimage to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
   • Rs 7 crores have been allocated for the scheme.
4. New building of the Telangana’s T-Hub (business incubator) has been established at Hyderabad.
   • It is claimed to be the world’s largest innovation campus.
   • T-Hub was established in 2015 at IIT-Hyderabad.
5. Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD) has launched the “One Health” pilot project in Bengaluru.
   • Purpose – for improving national and State-level resource allocation and policy ecosystem on early prediction, detection, and diagnosis of zoonotic diseases through increased quality, availability, and utility of data evidence
   • One Health is a multi-sectoral approach that takes into consideration human, animal and environmental health and the interconnectivity and interdependence of these three elements.

International News

1. Commonwealth countries have adopted a ‘Living Lands Charter’ in line with the strategy set for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
   • The ‘Living land’ charter was adopted during the 2022 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kigali (Rwanda).
   • Objective –
     • To safeguard global land resources and arrest land degradation while acting against climate change, biodiversity loss and towards sustainable management.
     • To hold the global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
     • To realise the objectives of the three Rio conventions — UN Convention on Biological Diversity, UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
2. G7 countries have established a Climate Club at the G7 Summit 2022 in Bavaria, Germany.
   • Purpose – accelerating climate action and increasing ambition, with a particular focus on the industry sector.

Banking and Economy

1. Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran has said that India would become a $5 trillion economy by 2026-27 and $10 trillion by 2033-34.
2. Protean eGov Technologies Ltd has announced a strategic partnership with PayNearby to offer PAN-related services for PayNearby’s retail partners through Aadhaar and biometric or SMS-based OTP authentication for their customers.
   • Protean accepts and processes PAN applications on behalf of the Income Tax Department, Government of India.
   • Under the collaboration, PayNearby will work as the PAN Service Agency (PSA) of Protean.
3. RBI has given approval to Mufin Finance Ltd., a subsidiary of Hindon Mercantile Ltd., to offer semi-closed prepaid payment instruments (PPI) to customers in India.

Note: Do cover the latest Master Direction of RBI on PPIs – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x5Qo868cpY&t=764s

4. SBI’s latest Ecowrap report has stated that income inequality in India is declining since FY17.
   • Average income of states reached from Rs 18,118 in 2001-02 to Rs 68,845 in 2011-12 and Rs 1,74,024 in 2021-22.

5. L&T Technology Services Ltd (LTTS), the listed subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Ltd focused on engineering and R&D services, has launched an engineering design centre in Toulouse, France.

Appointments

1. Razorpay has appointed Murali Brahmadesam from Amazon as chief technology officer (CTO).
   • The co-founder of the company, Shashank Kumar was appointed as the managing director.

Important Days

1. June 5 to 11 – World Allergy Week; Theme – Breathe Better: The Asthma and Allergy Connection
2. June 28 – National Insurance Awareness Day

Awards

1. National Highways Excellence Awards (NHEA) 2021 have been announced by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways.
   • Theme of the awards – “Innovation and Excellence in Road Construction”
   • Total categories of awards – 9

2. Eminent Hindi poet and litterateur Prof Ramdarash Mishra has won the Saraswati Samman for 2021 for his collection of poems “Mein to Yahan Hun”.
   • Instituted in 1991 by KK Birla Foundation, the Saraswati Samman is one of the most prestigious literary awards in the country.

Sports

1. Indian men’s hockey team (captain – Manpreet Singh) has won the inaugural edition of FIH Hockey 5s Lausanne tournament in Switzerland.
   • India’s Raheel Mohammed was the tournament’s top goal scorer and was awarded the best player award at the Hockey5s Lausanne 2022.
   • India has beaten Switzerland in the final.
   • Uruguay’s women hockey team has won the tournament.

Miscellaneous

1. Former Chairman of Shapoorji Pallonji Group, Pallonji Mistry (also known as ‘Phantom of Bombay House’) has passed away.
2. Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru has developed a new Graphic Processing Unit (GPU)-based machine learning algorithm to help scientists better understand and predict connectivity between different regions of the brain.
   • The algorithm, called Regularized, Accelerated, Linear Fascicle Evaluation (ReAl-LiFE), can rapidly analyse the enormous amounts of data generated from diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) scans of the human brain.
3. Olympic and World Cup medallist Varinder Singh has passed away.
   • He was part of the gold-winning Indian team at the 1975 men’s Hockey World Cup in Kuala Lumpur.

Start Quiz of 30th June 2022 on Mobile

Start Quiz of 30th June 2022 on Desktop