TOP DAILY ONE LINERS CURRENT AFFAIR (12 JUNE 2020)

🔷 12 June : World Day Against Child Labour

🔷 Theme 2020 : “COVID-19 – Protect children from child labour now, more than ever”

🔷 India becomes 2nd nation to have contact-free ATM cash withdrawals

🔷 Empays partners Mastercard to enable contactless ATM withdrawals in India

🔷 Fitch Ratings Projects Indian economy to grow at 9.5% in FY22

🔷 OECD Projects India’s GDP at -7.3% for FY21 if coronavirus strikes again

🔷 Bangladesh launches online plasma exchange network ‘Shohojodha’ for COVID-19 treatment

🔷 Apple becomes first US company to hit $1.5 trillion market cap

🔷 GRSE delivers ‘ICGS Kanaklata Barua’, fifth and final ship in Fast Patrol Vessels’ series to Indian Coast Guard

🔷 Uttarakhand opens its biggest biodiversity park in Haldwani

🔷 India ranks 56th among 200 countries on Covid-19 safety assessment

🔷 Switzerland is the safest country in the world for Covid-19

🔷 NASA astronaut SahKathy Sullivan becomes first person to walk in space and reach ocean’s deepest point

🔷 1st high rise Over Head Equipment commissioned by Indian Railways

🔷 Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle (DSRV) complex inaugurated in Vizag

🔷 Used mask disposal device “BIN-19” & “UV SPOT” launched in Kerala

🔷 Former member of Planning Commission, A. Vaidyanathan passes away

🔷 Indian-American Soil Scientist Dr. Rattan Lal has won the 2020 World Food Prize

🔷 Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched Shahakar Mitra scheme

🔷 Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman chaired the 40th GST Council Meet

🔷 2020, the FIFA ranking was released. Indian team retained its 108th position

🔷 Belgium remained at the top spot , FIFA ranking 2020

🔷 Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy recently launched “Jagananna Chedodu” scheme

🔷 E-Commerce giant Amazon banned the use of its software “Rekognition” by the police

🔷 Three institutes among top 30 Indian Institutions in 2020 Nature Index

🔷 IACS (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science), Kolkata – 7th position

🔷 JNCASR (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research), Bangalore – 14th position

🔷 Kolkata’s S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences – 30th position

🔷 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) at 160th position but stood first among Indian institutions

🔷 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China tops Nature Index 2020 ratings

🔷 Centre approved Rs.1,829 Cr for the implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission in Maharashtra in 2020-21

🔷 NHAI Becomes First Fully Digitalised Organisation in Construction Sector

🔷 UP CM Yogi Adityanath launches ‘Bal Shramik Vidya Yojana’ for child labourers

🔷 Hyderabad City Security Council along with Hyderabad City Police launches a programme ‘STREE’ for women

🔷 India and ASEAN boost cooperation in education, skill development during Youth Dialogue 2020

🔷 Madhya Pradesh becomes the top wheat procurer; pumps Rs 25,000 Cr to boost farmers

🔷 Committee set up by the Petroleum Ministry to inquire the Assam oil well disaster , Headed By T K Sengupta

🔷 Shipping Ministry approved Rs.123.95 cr for Ship Repair facilities in Andaman & Nicobar Islands

🔷 Odisha become the 1st state in India to receive ISO certification for tribal hostels