☹ JUNE 2021 😊

Page | 1 Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) approved for the construction of 6 conventional
submarines under Project – 751

SII gets DCGI node to produce Sputnik V also

INS Sandhayak decommissioned

Joe Biden prohibits 59 Chines firms in America

Former Mauritius PM Anerood Jugnauth passed away (Padma Vibhushan awardee of

2020)

MV X Press Pearl (Container ship registered in Singapore) blasted in Sri Lanka

Israel President – Isaac Herzog, Israel PM – Naftali Bennett

Iran’s largest warship KHARG caught fire

5th session of Codex Committee on Spices and Culinary Herbs (CCSCH) inaugurated by
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)

Project DANTAK completes 60 years in Bhutan. It was est. in 1961 to construct

pioneering motorable roads in Bhutan

Interpol has launched ‘I-Familia’ to identify missing persons through family DNA

FB suspended Trump’s account for 2 yrs

The Making of a Protest: A diplomat looks back book by Vijay Gokhale. It talks about
China’s internal situation remains its biggest concern 32 yrs after Tiananmen square
protests

UN : Pandemic has pushed 100M people into poverty

SC has widened scope of Section 304-B (Dowry deaths)

Previous – Woman shud have died of burns or other bodily injuries within 7 yrs of
marriage. She shud have suffered cruelty “soon before her death”

Now – Jus NV Ramana said “soon before” can’t mean Immediately before. Only a link
between the cruelty and death is sufficient.

Air India ka data leak ho gya

Ladakh (LG RK Mathur) reserved all jobs for local residents under Clause 11 of UT of
Ladakh Employment (Subordinate) Service Recruitments Rules,2021
 Diksha (Education platform) to be make accessible for visually impaired students

UNSC SG for 2nd time – Antonio Guterres (Former PM of Portugal) since 2017

India – Sweden tied in defence production

Page | 2 QS World University Rankings 2021

Top – IIT Bombay for 4th time (177th) , Total – 22 from India, JNU as new entry

Overall top – Massachusetts Institute of Tech (MIT), US

Maldives foreign minister Abdulla Shahid as President of 76th session of UNGA

1st time this post held by a Maldivian. It is also a win for 52 member Small Island
developing states (SIDS) . Shahid won from his Afghani opponent Zalmai Rassoul

Raimona reserve forest & Dihing Patkai as 6th, 7th national park of Assam

SC : Adoption of children orphaned by Pandemic shall be in accordance with Juvenile

Justice act,2015 and with the permission of Central Adoption Resource Authority
(CARA)

World economy hit by estimated 3.5% in 2020

El Salvador approved Bitcoin as legal tender (1st nation to adopt a cryptocurrency for
everyday use). It fully dollarized its economy in 2001

3rd edition of Education Index ranking 2019-20 released by Education Ministry (based
on 70 indicators) Top – Punjab, TN, Kerala
UT – Chandigarh Last – Bihar

Section 301 of the U.S. Trade Act of 1974 authorizes President to take action on any
act that violates an Int. trade agreement

Brisbane to host 2032 Olympics

US and UK to sign new Atlantic Charter (To defend the principles, values and
democracy)

HB – Atlantic charter was signed by then UK PM Winston Churchill and US Prez.

Franklin D Roosevelt in 1941 (Set out common goals after WW2 for free trade,
disarmament etc

Sunita Narain appointed to Climate action group

Navi Mumbai Int. Airport to renamed after Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackrey

Lake Victoria is the Africa’s largest lake and World’s largest tropical lake

World air quality report 2020 released globally by IQAir ( Swiss Organization)

India is the 3rd most polluted country

 Delhi (Capital) , Xingiang (City) , Nation – BN, Pak and then India , South Asia most
polluted in the World

22 of top 30 polluted cities are in India

US retained India in its currency manipulation watchlist.

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India added to list for 2nd time in December 2020 (1st in 2018)

“11 economies warrant placement on "Monitoring List"

England and France are connected through Channel tunnel

World’s longest tunnel – Goatherd Base tunnel (GBT)

Boao forum for Asia (BFA) annual conference 2021 held in Boao, China.

BFA is celebrating 20th anniversary this year

7 ships participated in Operation Samudra Setu 2 for shipment of Liquid Medical

Oxygen

China – Sri Lanka opened Friendship hospital

ICJ aka World Court – 15 judges having tenure of 9 years while 5 judges are
nominated after every 3 years which resembles the Rajya Sabha elections of India. No
two judges belong to the same country/ state

In-camera proceeding is used in sensitive cases essentially to protect the privacy of

the parties. They carried out in private, in the absence of the public and the press.
They’re done rarely, in exceptional cases when the court deems fit

They are an exception to the rule of an open court (Heard in the presence of the
people and the press, who would report the cases to the public)

Patriarch of World’s largest family Zion-a Chana (From Mizoram) passed away

Vinoo Mankad among 10 cricketers to be inducted into the ICC hall of fame

Operation Olivia to the rescue of Olive Ridleys started in Odisha

Coast guard inducted 3 ALH Mk-3 helicopters made by HAL

Operation Teman: India Navy to help Indonesian Navy in search efforts for KRI
Nanggala

Swamitva Yojana launched on Panchayati Raj Diwas (April 24th, 2020). In news bcz it is
extended to all the states. Previous only 9
 To map residential land ownership in the rural sector using modern technology like the
use of drones and revolutionise property record maintenance in India. The scheme is
piloted by the Panchayati Raj ministry – NS Tomar

2 one-horned rhinos translocated from Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary to Manas National

Page | 4 Park under the aegis of the Indian Rhino Vision 2020 (IRV 2020 – To protect and
increase the population of one-horned rhinoceros and to attain a wild population of at
least 3,000)

SC – CBSE can’t deny students name change on certificates bcz right to change names
is part of freedom of speech

UK to have digital border by 2025

Gov. reports lapses in Nagaland bat study (Conducted by National Centre for Biological
Sciences and Tata Institute). 2 scientists from Wuhan were listed as co-authors of the
study. Gov. said that it didn’t have approval of ICMR and It’s not equipped in terms of
biosafety

Acc. To SIPRI – China, India (156) & Pak are expanding their nuclear arsenals

Total nuclear weapons – 13080. There r 9 nuclear weapon states in the World. Russia
and USA account for 90% of nuclear weapons

Article 164 (3): It provides for every Minister before entering office being
administered oaths of office

In newz, bcz of Kerala governor let the ministers took the oath virtually.

Chandni chowk from Red Fort to Fatehpuri Mosque to be non-motorised zone

Cicadas are the world’s longest living insects

SC - Only President can notify the Socially and Economically Backward Community

OZ Researchers mapped the Osteocytes for the 1st time

Stop Tokyo Olympics is online campaign to stop Tokyo Olympics Games

Modi attended European Council Meet which is hosted by Portugal

Chief Secretary (Highest IAS officer in state) of WB – Bandhopadhyay got 3 months

extension under Rule 16(1) of DCRB (Death Cum Retirement Benefit)

GDP updates - Total GDP contract by 7.5% in FY 2021

 Q1 – 23.9%, Q2 – 7.3%, Q3 – 0.4%, Q4 – 1.6%. GVA – Gross value added

Pak gov banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party (Launched by Hussain Rizvi)

Kyrgyzstan – Bishkek – Sadyr Japarov, Tajikistan – Dushanbe – Emomalii Rahmon

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In newz bcz of their issue on water dispute on Ferghana Valley (Isfara River)

Tajikistan deployed survelliance cameras on the border to monitor water supply facility.
This led to the crisis between them
Joe Biden 1st American head of state to officialy recognize one of worst incidents of
violations racial hate in the country’s modern history – Tulsa massacre of 1921

Tulsa massacre – White People from the city of Tulsa attacked Black people of
Greenwood. In newz bcz this year 100th anniversary of Tulsa

Geneva summit held between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. To return their
Ambassadors to the Embassies and “a strategic stability dialogue” to discuss terms of
arms control measures

Iran President – Ebrahim Raisi by replacing Hasan Rouhani

Saudi Arabia ordered to mosques to limit the loud speakers to 1/3rd of their max
capacity

USA declared Juneteenth a national holiday to celebrate end of slavery (George Floyd
murder convicted)

Laurel Hubbard (NZ) is 1st trans athlete at Olympics and also the oldest weightlifter

Army to get indigenous Light Utility Helicopters (LUHs) developed by HAL

Army aviation chief – AK Suri

Armenia PM – Nikol Pashniyan

Lok Janshakti Party (LJP, “People’s Manpower Party”) is a state political party mainly
based in the state of Bihar, India. Formed in 2000 when Ram Vilas Paswan split from
Janata Dal. Present chief of LJP – Pashupati Kumar Paras

Master plan for Delhi – 2041 to develop Delhi

Transgender portal is now available in 10 languages

SCO meeting held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan

John McAfee (Software pioneer) suicide in Spain bcz he was fugitive offender of US
 NZ won the inaugural World Test Championship held in Southampton, England

Man of the Final – Kylie Jameson

Paul Givan as 1st Minister of Northern Ireland

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Chandni Chowk of Delhi will be a non-motorised zone

Karim Khan as new chief prosecutor of ICC

Aisha Sultana of Lakshadweep is charges with Sedition bcz she use the word Bioweapon
about recent dev. In Lakshadweep.

Kedar Nath Case (1962) – Incitement to violence is the main thing for offence of
sedition

Vinod Dua (2021) – Journalist can’t be booked for sedition for expressing dissent

TN gov. decided to shun the usage of term Central gov and replace it by Union gov. Also
Constituent Assembly didn’t use the term Centre in the Constitution

Acc. To Global System for Mobile Communications

Over 390 M women in low and middle income countries don’t have internet access. Only
65% women have mobile phones in South Asia. Only 15% women use internet in India

China to celebrate 100th anniversary of ruling CPC (Communist Party of China)

UP ranked best state under Smart Cities Mission. Best Cities – Surat and Indore

1st IAC (Indigenous Aircraft Carrier) built at Cochin Shipyard will be inducted in Navy
by 2022

Tibet got its 1st bullet train to run from Lhasa to Nyingchi. Also the line is the 1st
electrified High Speed Rail (HSR) line

SC strike down WB law on regulating Real Estate on basis of federal structure

Bcz Central RE act was in conflict with WB RE (Housing and Industry Regulation) act,
2017

Article 142 – SC has original jurisdiction

Article 254 (1) – State law which is in conflict with constitutional law will be struck
down

Telangana, TN, MH and Haryana are the states where reservations is more than 50%
 Most vaccine wastage state – Jharkhand. Covishield is a live vaccine. SII will make
Covavax also

Cipla got nod to import Moderna Vaccine in India

Page | 7 Atul Keshap is interim US Charge D’affaires (CDA)

Jus N. Srivastava appointed as chairman of Indian Federation of UNs Associations

(IFUNA)

Twitter – Jeremy Kessel, FB – Spoorthi Priya as India Grievance Officer

Suresh N. Patel as the Central Vigilance Commissioner

OnePlus BA – Jasprit Bumrah

Tata Steel CEO T.V. Narendran as Prez of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)

IBF (Indian Broadcasting Federation) appointed Jus Vikramjit Sen as the chairman

Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane, Vice chief – CP Mohanty

Naval chief Admiral Karambir Singh , Vice chief – Ravneet Singh

Air chief Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhaduria , Vice chief – Ram Chaudhri

Amul’s RS Sodhi elected to board of International Dairy Federation

Vishwavir Ahuja as CEO of RBL Bank

R Disale Appointed World Bank Education Advisor

Rajesh Pendharkar assumes Charge as Director General Naval Operations

CEC – Sushil Chandra , EC – Rajiv Kumar & Anup Chandra Pandey

LIC Chairman M R Kumar

K. N. Naidu to lead UN bureaucracy for a year

Rebecca Grynspan, as SG of UNs Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Nagraj Adiga elected in Int Association of Ultrarunners Council

Mukesh Sharma appointed honorary member of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group

Montek Ahluwalia named member of World Bank-IMF High Advisory Group

Aashish Chandorkar as director at India’s WTO mission

 Upasana Kamineni named ‘Ambassador of Forest Frontline Heroes’

Ravi Shahtri’s Debut Book ‘Stargazing: The Players in My Life’

‘Home in the World’ Book: by Amartya Sen’s memoir

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Ruskin Bond’s New book ‘It’s a wonderful Life’

National Statistics day on 29th June on the birth anniversary of Prof. P C Mahalanobis

International Olympic Day 2021 & United Nations Public Service Day 2021: 23th June

International Day of Yoga 2021: 21st June Yoga for well being. PM launched mYoga app

World Refugee Day 2021: 20th June

World Food Safety Day: 7th June

World Day Against Child Labour2021: 12th June

World Environment Day 2021: 5th June, Theme – ‘Reimagine. Recreate. Restore.’

India & WB signed loan agreement for Health Systems Strengthening Project of
Mizoram

Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson agreed on the broad outlines of an Australia-UK FTA

Journalist P. Sainath wins Japan’s Fukuoka Grand Prize 2021

Emmanuel Carrere wins top Spanish award

Cochin International Airport won honour in airport service quality award

2021 cost-of-living survey by Mercer on most expensive city for foreign workers in the
world

Top – Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) , New Delhi – 117th

India and Bhutan launched the “Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB)”. To
strengthening the tax administration of Bhutan

WHO named B.1.617.1 variant as ‘Kappa’ while the B1.617.2 variant as ‘Delta.’

Dr Patrick Amoth Appointed as the Chairman of WHO Executive Board

1st ever Asia-Pacific cybersecurity council launched by Microsoft

World’s 1st CO2 neutral cement plant in Sweden

Pakistan To Produce C-19 Vaccine As 'PakVac’

UNs Decade on Ecosystem Restoration launched, which will run from 2021 to 2030
 Indo-Thai CORPAT Begins in Andaman Sea

US traders have benefited the most in Bitcoin Investment Gain in 2020 , India – 18th

UK Asian Film Festival 2021: India’s Tillotama Shome wins Best Actor award

Page | 9 Mongolia President - Ukhnaa Khurelsukh

Israel will become the World’s 1st Mask-Free Country

India ties with Russia as 4th largest forex reserves holder

2021 NATO Summit Held in Brussels, Belgium

Satya Nadella as new chairman of Microsoft

European Space Agency (ESA) to launch the world’s 1st wooden satellite from New
Zealand. Satellite is the brainchild of Jari Makinen

World Investment Report 2021 by the UN Conference on Trade and Development

(UNCTAD), India 5th largest recipient of FDI, Top – US , 2nd – China

1st French novelist David Diop wins International Booker 2021

Nitin Rakesh and Jerry Wind win International Business Book of the Year Award 2021

Thomas Vijayan Wins Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2021

Tsitsi Dangarembga wins PEN Pinter prize 202

RS Sodhi conferred with Asia Pacific Productivity Champion award

Sumita Mitra honoured with prestigious European Inventor Award 2021

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 now shifted to UAE & Oman

Environmental Organisation ‘Familial Forestry’ wins prestigious UN Land for Life Award

Madhya Pradesh’s all-rounder cricketer Anshula Rao 1st woman to get dope ban

India’s official Olympic theme song ‘Lakshya Tera Samne Hai’ released

Sunil Chhetri surpasses Lionel Messi and become the second-highest active
international goal-scorer with 74 strikes

Oman will host Hockey World Cup in 2024

Shailesh Ganpule conferred the ‘NSG Counter-IED and Counter-Terrorism Innovator

Award 2021′ for developing a “blast-resistant” helmet.

FM NS unveiled 6.28 lakh crore stimulus post 2nd covid wave

Mode of entry no bar to promotion of disabled : SC

 Nuclear ballistic missile Agni-P (Prime) successfully test fired by DRDO from APJ
Abdul Kalam island, Balasore, Odisha.

2nd biggest dam Baihetan dam on Jinsha river, tributary of the Yangtze starts making
power
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Biggest dam - Three Gorges Dam, China

1st Int. agreement on Climate Change – UNFCC in 1994

Indian Climate Change knowledge portal to let the citizens know abt efforts taken by
Gov at national and int. level on climate change

National Plan on Climate Change in India signed in 2008

India to reduce 33% CO2 emissions by 2030 from 2005 levels

Indian navy will participate in European Union Naval Force (EUNAVFOR) exercise in
Gulf of Aden. Other nations are FIS (France, Italy and Spain). Indian navy ship Trikand
to participate in it to counter anti piracy. SHADE (Share Awareness and De-
Confliction) to counter piracy

Largest exporter of Crude oil in the world – USA

Amartya Sen conferred ‘2021 Princess of Asturias Award’ by Spain in social science
category

China successfully achieved the feat of landing its 1st Mars Rover ‘Zhu Rong’ on the red
planet, becoming the only second nation to do so after USA
Anti-COVID-19 therapeutic drug developed by DRDO called drug2- deoxy-D-glucose

UNGA proclaimed 10th May as International Day of Argania.The argan tree (Argania
Spinosa) is a native species of Morocco

1st ever India-France-Australia Trilateral Foreign Ministerial Dialogue held in London,

UK

RBI announced Covid healthcare package of Rs 50K crore, for lending to vaccine makers
etc

Ethiopia has added two armed groups to its “terror list”, including the Tigray People’s
Liberation Front (TPLF) and OLF-Shene

Albania PM – Edi Rama

Union Minister for Law & Justice, Communications and Electronics & IT, Ravi Shankar
Prasad has launched the e-filing portal of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) – Itat
e-dwar

CM Pramod Sawant announced Goa becomes first state to go rabies free

 RK Sabharwal honoured with highest civilian award of Mongolia ‘The Order of Polar
Star by his excellency

9thAsian Ministerial Energy Roundtable to be hosted by India in 2022

National Skill Development Corporation and WhatsApp to launch the Digital Skill
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Champions Program that aims to train India’s youth on digital skills, to make them
employment ready

Jamsetji Tata tops inaugural Philanthropists of the Centuryn report by EdelGive Hurun
Philanthropists

NTPC won recognition as India’s Best Employers among Nation-Builders 2021

Minority Affairs Minister, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi launched a nationwide “Jaan Hai To
Jahaan Hai” awareness campaign on C-19 vaccination for rural and remote areas

Housing finance companies (HFCs) with asset size of over Rs. 100 crore to recover the
dues using SARFAESI law

Rajasthan to set up a Vedic Education and Sanskar Board to revive the knowledge of
Sanskrit scriptures and Vedas

‘Project O2 for India’ to step up production of medical oxygen

YUVA PM Scheme For Mentoring Young Authors

Wipro touched Rs.3 trillion in market capitalisation for 1st time, becoming the third
Indian IT firm after Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys

Asia’s 1st International Memory Studies Workshop hosted by IIT Madras

Rhea Chakraborty bagged 1 spot in ‘Times 50 Most Desirable Women 2020’

1st International Maritime Cluster of India to come up at GIFT City, Gujarat

DBS Bank has named by Forbes in their list of World’s Best Banks 2021.

European Space Agency to Launch ‘EnVision’ Mission to Venus in 2030

Weyan village in JK, India’s 1st to inoculate all adults

JK to set up mythological theme park. To showcase Indian mythology, particularly the

Ramayana and Mahabharata

Bengaluru as the most liveable city of India, in the Ease of Living Index 2020, released
by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

World Competitiveness Index 2021: India maintains 43rd rank, Top – Switzerland

Bengaluru ranked as one of the Top 5technology centers in Asia Pacific

 15th edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI) announced by Institute for Economics and
Peace (IEP) Sydney

Most peaceful – Iceland , Least – Afghanistan, India – 135th

Turkey first & India ranked Second in share of central bank surplus transfers
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India ranked at 14th spot among 114 countries in World Giving Index 2021. Top –
Indonesia

India ranks 67th in Coursera’s Global Skills Report 2021

World University Rankings 2021-22, Top – Harvard, IIM Ahmedabad – 415th

Asia University Rankings 2021

Top – Tsinghua University of China, IISc Bengaluru at 37th