Current Affairs Today 11 June 2020
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Top 10 Current Affairs of 11 June 2020
National News
Fit India and MHRD Launch Special Films to Promote Indigenous Sports of India
- The Human Resource Development (MHRD) and Sports Ministry have collaborated to produce a series of special films promoting 10 indigenous sports of India.
- The ‘Department of School Education and Literacy’ under MHRD has joined hands with sports ministry’s flagship programme ‘Fit India’ under the ‘Ek Bharat, Shrestha Bharat’ initiative.
- The series is aimed at creating awareness about not just the indigenous games but also the culture and heritage of the states to which…..Click Here to Read More
Centre allots Rs 4,000 Cr to states under ‘Per Drop More Crop’ component of PMKS scheme
- The Central government has allocated Rs 4,000 crore as annual allotment to states for the current financial year under ”Per Drop More Crop” component of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY-PDMC).
- The state governments have identified the beneficiaries to be covered under the programme, said an Agriculture Ministry statement, adding that the process to release funds to some of the states is already under way for the year 2020-21.
- The Department of Agriculture Cooperation and Farmers” Welfare…..Click Here to Read More
National Fertilizers Ltd to Partner with ITIs to Train Youth
- State-owned NFL is partnering with ITIs to train youth and make them employable for various industries.
- To give a thrust to the government”s ”Skill India” initiative, National Fertilizers Ltd (NFL) has “started tying up with Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) located near to its plants to train youth in various trades”, an official statement said.
- The training will enhance the chances of their employability in heavy…..Click Here to Read More
International News
ADB Convenes High-Level Advisory Panel To Support COVID-19 Recovery In Southeast Asia
- Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masatsugu Asakawa has launched a high-level panel of leading experts in economics, finance and health to help ministers, central bank governors and other senior officials identify options for Southeast Asian economies to tap into to quickly bounce back after the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
- “We are providing a platform for ministers and well-known experts to discuss the immediate challenges posed by COVID-19 and identify areas worthy of additional analysis for the future,” said Asakawa at the first event which was held virtually on Tuesday. “The second and third waves of the disease are possible — indeed likely — and further economic decline will be costly. Countries face a whole host of cross-cutting issues that affect people and businesses. They have already learned useful lessons and can benefit from sharing these with each other.”
- The event drew senior officials from three of Southeast Asia’s largest economies including Indonesian Finance Minister…..Click Here to Read More
Business News
TCS iON Partners with NSDC to Accelerate Skill Development
- A strategic unit of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has partnered with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to provide its training partners access to the TCS iON Digital Glass Room, enabling them to move classroom vocational skills training to online mode for millions of students across the country.
- The new partnership strengthens NSDC’s online content aggregation platform eSkill lndia through which it enables e-learning among skill seekers and will contribute towards strengthening the Skill India Mission.
- NSDC’s network of over 500 training partners across the country will now be able to access the TCS iON Digital Glass Room to seamlessly…..Click Here to Read More
Empays Payment Systems partners with Mastercard to enable contact-free ATM cash withdrawals in India
- Empays Payment Systems India Pvt Ltd, which built and runs the IMT Payment System, on Tuesday announced a partnership with Mastercard to enable contact-free ATM cash withdrawals in India. With this partnership, Empays will upgrade the basic technology behind the IMT Payment System to incorporate the requirements of Mastercard Cardless ATM enabling a true EMV-capable cash withdrawal transaction.
- As per a release by Mastercard, the IMT Payment System powers the largest ATM network for cardless cash withdrawals in the world and is available…..Click Here to Read More
EPaisa Joins Hand With First Alliance Bank Zambia Ltd To Promote MPOS Solution In Africa
- ePaisa, a point of sale (POS) solution provider in India, has entered into a partnership with First Alliance Bank (Z) Ltd in Zambia, Africa, to provide mobile point of sale (mPOS) solution to small and medium enterprises and other businesses in the country.
- ePaisa will be the solution provider for First Alliance Bank, which will further provide it to businesses across Zambia, the company said in a statement.
- This partnership comes as the first global expansion for ePaisa where the company will help First Alliance Bank to digitalise POS and payment services…..Click Here to Read More
Bharti Airtel arm buys additional 6.3% stake in Robi Axiata from NTT Docomo
- Bharti Airtel on Tuesday said its subsidiary has acquired an additional 6.3 per cent stake in Bangladesh’s telecom operator Robi Axiata from NTT Docomo for an undisclosed sum.
- This will raise the stake of Bharti International (Singapore) — wholly-owned subsidiary of Bharti Airtel — in Robi Axiata Limited to 31.3 per cent from 25 per cent at present, the company said in a BSE filing.
- Bharti International (Singapore) Pte Ltd (directly and through its affiliate entities)… has acquired additional 6.3 per cent stake in Robi Axiata Limited…..Click Here to Read More
Appointments
Gargo International Proudly Presents Sonu Sood as its Brand Ambassador
- Gargo International, a Delhi-based Lubricant Company under the flagship of R.G. Group with the defining objective, quality & commitment has appointed Actor Sonu Sood as its brand Ambassador in the month of January, this year and since then they can’t stop praising him for his tremendous work and his kindness towards the migrants. The company has gone live with its TVC now, starring Sonu Sood.
- R.G. Group of Companies was incorporated in the year 1968 by Late Shri Roshan Lal Goel. In the last five decades, R.G. Group has emerged as an entity…..Click Here to Read More
MoS Home G Kishan Reddy, as a Chairman For the New Panel for Freedom Fighters
- The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has reconstituted a committee to look into the welfare of freedom fighters, with the minister of state for home affairs G Kishan Reddy as the chairman and nine “eminent freedom fighters” from across the country as its members, said officials.
- The ministry has a separate division to serve freedom fighters who are alive and their families. It disburses pension to about 30,000 freedom fighters and their families. Besides Reddy, former Congress MLA from Gujarat Dinakar Bhai Desai, who took part in the 1942 Quit India movement, is among those part of the panel.…..Click Here to Read More
Sports News
Former European High Jump Champ Shustov Banned For Doping
- Former European high jump champion Alexander Shustov has been banned for four years for doping in the latest case from previous years to hit the Russian team, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Tuesday.
- CAS said in an emailed statement he was banned for the use or attempted use of a banned substance or method, without giving any further details.
- Shustov won the gold medal at the European championships in 2010. The Russian Athletics Federation said on Monday that Shustov’s ban was dated…..Click Here to Read More
Obituary
Padma Shri Pritam Singh Dies at 78 Due to Cardiac Arrest
- Acclaimed management guru and Padma Shri awardee, Pritam Singh, on Wednesday died following a cardiac arrest. He was 78.
- Served as independent director in several private companies, Singh was a former director of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Lucknow and Management Development Institute (MDI) in Gurgaon and director general at RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group-promoted International Management Institute (IMI) in New Delhi…..Click Here to Read More
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza dies of ‘Cardiac Arrest’ at 55
- Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza, aged 55, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest, the government says.He was admitted to hospital on Saturday after feeling unwell, his condition improved but on Monday he had a cardiac arrest and efforts to revive him were unsuccessful, officials say.
- In 2015, the announcement that he would run for a third term plunged the country into chaos.
- It sparked anger as some questioned the legality of a third-term bid.
- There was a failed coup attempt, hundreds of people died in clashes and tens…..Click Here to Read More
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