Current Affairs Today 6 June 2020
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Top 10 Current Affairs of 6 June 2020
National News
PM Modi holds India-Australia virtual summit with PM Scott Morrison
- India and Australia on Thursday inked a landmark agreement for reciprocal access to military bases for logistics support besides firming up six more pacts to further broad base ties after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison held an online summit.
- The Mutual Logistics Support Agreement (MLSA) will allow militaries of the two countries to use each other’s bases for repair and replenishment of supplies besides facilitating scaling up of overall defense cooperation.
- India has already signed similar agreements with the US…..Click Here to Read More
200 urban forests to revive age old tradition of village forest in cities
- On the occasion of the World Environment Day on Friday, the Central government announced the implementation of ”Nagar Van” scheme to develop 200 Urban Forests across the country in the next five years.
- World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5 every year. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change celebrates the day by focusing on the theme declared by the United Nation”s Environment Programme and organises several events.
- Stressing on this year”s focus on Biodiversity, Environment Minister…..Click Here to Read More
International News
8 Indian Institutes in Top 100 – Asia University Ranking
- Eight institutes in the top 100, India is the third most represented country in the Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Ranking.
- The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore retains its top position in the country by attaining the 36th spot globally, eight Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have also been featured in the top 100. This is India’s best performance since 2016, in terms of the number of institutes. Last time, India had eight institutes in the top 100 in 2016. However, the picture is different in terms of ‘quality’.
- Even as more IITs have been featured in the ranking; THE claims that “overall picture for India’s IITs (is) one of general decline amid increased regional competition…..Click Here to Read More
Prime Minister Addresses the Virtual Global Vaccine Summit 2020
- Prime Minister Narrndra Modi said the COVID-19 pandemic, in some ways, has exposed the limitations of global cooperation and that for the first time in recent history, the human kind faces a clear common enemy.
- PM Modi said this while addressing the virtual Global Vaccine Summit hosted by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in which over 50 countries – business leaders, UN agencies, civil society, government ministers, Heads of State and country leaders participated.
- India’s civilization teaches to see the world as one family and that during this pandemic it had tried to live upto this…..Click Here to Read More
The Great Reset – A Unique Twin Summit to Begin 2021
- The World Economic Forum (WEF) will adopt a new twin-summit format for its next annual Davos meeting in January 2021, by bringing together leaders from across the globe for in-person as well as virtual dialogues with a theme of ‘The Great Reset’.
- The gathering of the world’s rich and powerful, held every year in the Swiss ski resort town, will also open its doors virtually for everyone across the world online and through a network of more than 400 hubs globally.
- The 50th WEF Annual Meeting, which was held from January 21-24, 2020, was one of the last high-profile gatherings this year before the…..Click Here to Read More
Business News
Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala to buy 1.85% stake in Reliance Jio platforms for Rs 9093.6 Cr
- Abu Dhabi-based sovereign investor Mubadala Investment Company will buy 1.85 per cent stake in Jio Platforms for Rs 9,093.6 crore, RIL said.
- With this investment, Jio Platforms has raised Rs 87,655.35 crore from leading global technology and growth investors, including Facebook, Silver Lake, Vista Equity Partners, General Atlantic, KKR and Mubadala, in less than six weeks.
- The investment from Mubadala comes in Jio Platforms at an equity value of Rs 4.91 lakh crore and an enterprise value of Rs 5.16 lakh crore.
- “Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala) will invest…..Click Here to Read More
CCI gives nod to Peugeot and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles merger
- The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved the proposed merger between Peugeot S.A. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V.
- The proposed combination pertains to merger between Peugeot S.A. (PSA) and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (FCA).
- PSA is a publicly listed limited liability company incorporated in France. It is the holding company of a French-based group, which is mainly an original equipment manufacturer and dealer of motor vehicles, passenger cars as well as light commercial vehicles under the brands Peugeot, Citroën, Opel, Vauxhall and DS, an official release said.
- It also provides ancillary services such as financing solutions…..Click Here to Read More
RBI creates Payments Infrastructure Development Fund to Boost Digitisation
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Friday it is creating a Payments Infrastructure Development Fund to push digital payments across the country.
- The central bank will make an initial contribution of Rs 250 crore covering half the fund. The remaining will come from the card-issuing banks and card networks operating in the country. This fund has been created to encourage acquirers to deploy point of sale (PoS) infrastructure, both physical and digital, in tier three to six centres and northeastern states.
- Over the years, payments ecosystem in the country has evolved with…..Click Here to Read More
Awards & Recognition
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw named EY World Entrepreneur 2020
- Biocon Executive Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has been named EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 at a virtual award ceremony, the company said in a statement.
- She was selected from among 46 Entrepreneur of the Year country award winners from 41 countries and territories.
- “I am truly honoured to receive the prestigious EY World Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2020. At its core, entrepreneurship is about solving problems. The greatest opportunities often arise at the toughest times, and that”s been my…..Click Here to Read More
Akshay Kumar only Indian on the list, Kylie Jenner Tops – Forbes highest-paid celebrities
- Kylie Jenner and Kanye West on Thursday topped the annual Forbes list of the highest paid celebrities, but sports stars, including Roger Federer and Lionel Messi, dominated the top 10.
- Forbes estimated that Jenner earned $590 million in the last 12 months, mostly from the sale of a 51% stake in her Kylie Cosmetics line to Coty in 2019.
- Jenner, 22, the half-sister of Kim Kardashian, made headlines a week ago when Forbes said that after reviewing data from the Coty sale, it no longer…..Click Here to Read More
Appointments
Rajiv Topno to be senior advisor at World Bank, Navnit India’s ambassador to WTO
- Navnit, a 1999-batch officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre, will replace JS Deepak as the ambassador to the Permanent Mission for India (PMI) at the WTO in Geneva.
- The government has cleared appointments of senior IAS officers Rajiv Topno and Brajendra Navnit, both of whom have served at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), to the World Bank and the World Trade Organization (WTO), respectively.
- Navnit, a 1999-batch officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre, will replace JS Deepak as the ambassador to the Permanent Mission for India (PMI) at the WTO in Geneva.
- The appointments come at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic has plunged the global economy into its worst recession since the Great Depression in 1930s…..Click Here to Read More
Sports News
India to host Asian Football Confederation Women’s Asian Cup 2022 Finals
- The Asian Football Confederation has awarded the hosting rights of the 2022 Women’s Asian Cup to India for the first time since 1979.
- The decision was taken at the AFC Women’s Football Committee meeting. In February, the AFC Women’s Football Committee had recommended India to be hosts.
- In a letter to the All India Football Federation, Dato Windsor John, General Secretary, AFC wrote: “The Committee awarded the hosting rights of the…..Click Here to Read More
Important Days
World Environment Day 2020 – June 5
- World Environment Day urges all of us to protect our natural surroundings. The stunning facts? An estimated 7 million people die each year from causes related to air pollution, with a majority occurring in the Asia-Pacific region. This day, which falls on June 5, encourages worldwide activism. That means everything from littering to climate change. World Environment Day is both a global celebration and a platform for public outreach.
- China, which now owns half the world’s electric vehicle…..Click Here to Read More
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