Daily Day Wise Current Affairs 10 June 2020

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Today important current affairs for UPSC Exam June 10, 2020

1) Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a conversion with Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Prime Minister, discussed the cooperation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

• Narendra Modi congratulated Netanyahu for the assumption of office (Prime Minister of Israel) and expressed confidence that the India-Israel partnership

2) Fact about Israel

• Israel is officially known as the State of Israel located on the Mediterranean Sea of southeastern shore and the northern shore of the Red Sea.
• Israel as borders with Lebanon (north), Syria (northeast), Jordan (east), Gaza Strip (west) and Egypt (southwest)
• Capital: Jerusalem
• Currency: New shekel
• Government: Unitary parliamentary republic
• President: Reuven Rivlin
• Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Legislature: Knesset

3) Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a conversion with Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Cambodia Prime Minister, discussed the cooperation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

• Both leaders agreed to continue the ongoing cooperation for helping each other’s expatriates and facilitating their evacuation
• Cambodia is one the important member of ASEAN with shared civilizational and cultural ties with India

4) Fact about Israel Cambodia

• Cambodia is officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia located in Southeast Asia
• Cambodia as borders of Thailand (northwest), Laos (northeast), Vietnam (east) and the Gulf of Thailand (southwest)
• Capital: Phnom Penh
• Currency: Riel
• Government: Unitary dominant-part Parliamentary elective constitutional monarchy
• King: Norodom Sihamoni
• Prime Minister: Hun Sen
• National Assembly President: Heng Samrin
• Legislature: Parliament

5) Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand to promote economic co-operation in South-East Asia and for economic stability in this region

• ASEAN has 10 permanent members of this association, headquarters is in Jakarta (Indonesia)
• List of members -Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam
• ASEAN GDP (PPP) 2020 estimated as $9.727 trillion and Per capita as $14,025

6) Madhya Pradesh State Annual Action Plan for 2020-21 for implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission approved by the government of India

• Rs. 1,280 Crore Sanctioned for implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission in Madhya Pradesh for 2020-21

7) Ministry of Tourism organised 30th webinar under Dekho Apna Desh series title “Hidden Treasures of Chhattisgarh

• Webinar Series is to showcase India’s rich diversity under Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat programme
• The webinar showed cased; Karkabhat, Dipadih Temple complex, Ghotul, Sonabai and Tribal games
• Karkabhat – Megalithic burial site, found 3 types of menhirs- Conical, pointed obliquely and bifurcated like a fishtail
• Dipadih – temple complex dating back to the 7th Century
• Ghotul – an ancient tribal system of education
• Sonabai- Famous bas relief ornamentation works of Chhattisgarh got its roots when Sonabai made little toys for her son Daroga Ram to lull him to sleep
• Tribal games – Cockfighting

8) U.S. State Department released its annual International Religious Freedom (IRF) Report, submitted to the U.S. Congress

• IRF Report for India mentioned the change in the status of Jammu Kashmir, Citizenship Amendment Act, NRC, mob lynchings and anticonversion laws

9) France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Angela Merkel urged the European Union to take a greater role in preparing for any future pandemic, conceding recent coronavirus responses which fallen short

• List of EU countries Members: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden

10) Sri Lanka’s parliamentary elections going to held on August 5, confirmed by Election Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya

• Sri Lanka’s parliamentary elections postponed twice in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic

11) Sweden dropped its investigation into the unsolved murder of former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, who has shot dead 34 years ago in Stockholm on February 28, 1986

• Sweden dropped the investigation because the main suspect died in 2000

12) International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) decided to withdraw the charges of doping on Sanjita Chanu, 2 times Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning weightlifter after more than two and a half years

13) India becomes 2nd nation in the world to have contact-free ATM cash withdrawals, Empays Payment Systems partners with Mastercard

14) G Kishan Reddy MoS Home Affairs made as a Chairman for the New Panel for Welfare of Freedom fighters

15) Gargo International made Sonu Sood its new brand ambassador for TVC

16) Former European high jump champion Alexander Shustov of Russia banned for 4 years for doping by Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)

17) Uttar Pradesh government cleared “Cow Slaughter Prevention (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020” to prevent cow slaughter in the state

18) A team of Scientists from the Observatoire de Paris, Paris Sciences et Lettres University, France witnessed a birth of a new planet for the first time by using photographs of the SPHERE instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile

• SPHERE: Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research

Obituary:

♦ Padma Shri Pritam Singh, a pioneer in education passed away at 78 years

• He chaired the subcommittee in 12th Planning Commission, 2012-17 for Institutional Management and Leadership Development in Higher Education
• Pritam Singh received the Padma Shri in 2003 in the field of Management Education
• Pritam Singh is the first Asian to receive the “Global Thought Leader 2006-2007” from the Moscow International Business School MIRBIS

♦ Pierre Nkurunziza, The President of Burundi passed away at 55 year

• He was the 9th president of Burundi served almost 15 years from Aug 2005 to his death in June 2020

♦ Olympic gymnast Kurt Bilteaux Thomas passed away at 64 years

• He was the first American to won gold in the Gymnastic World Championship

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