TOP DAILY ONE LINERS CURRENT AFFAIRS (29 JUNE 2020)

🔷 29 June : International Day of The Tropics

🔷 29 June : National Statistics Day

🔷 Theme 2020 : “SDG- 3 (Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages) & SDG- 5 (Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls)”

🔷 Culture Ministry to celebrate ‘Sankalp Parva’ to plant trees from 28th June to 12 July 2020

🔷 PhonePe tie-up with ICICI Bank on UPI multi-bank model

🔷 Malawi Opposition Leader Lazarus Chakwera Wins Presidential Election Re-run

🔷 1st Agreement for the 600 MW Kholongchhu Indo-Bhutan joint venture hydroelectric project Signed

🔷 Gujarat Govt launched the Online Aid Initiative, ”At One Click”

🔷 World Bank Enhances the financial Support for Ganga rejuvenation with $400 million

🔷 Uttarakhand Develops India’s First Lichen Park to Conserve Jurassic Era Plant in Munsiyar

🔷 36th ASEAN Summit chaired by Vietnam held via video conference

🔷 Theme : Cohesive and Responsive ASEAN

🔷 Micheál Martin Elected as the New Prime Minister of Ireland

🔷 World Bank Approves $500 mn Under ‘STARS’ Project to Improve Education Quality in 6 Indian States

🔷 6 states are Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, and Rajasthan.

🔷 Centre Sanctions Additional Rs 1,691 Cr For Road Construction in J&K, Uttarakhand

🔷 24-time Grammy winner Popstar Beyonce to receive Humanitarian Award at the virtual 20th edition of BET Awards 2020

🔷 Veteran Kannada Novelist Geetha Nagabhushan passes away

🔷 IIT-Ropar Emerges as best Indian University in ‘THE Young University Ranking 2020

🔷 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology tops

🔷 Indian economy expected to contract 5% in FY21: S&P Ratings

🔷 United Nations honours Kerala’s Health Minister KK Shailaja for efforts to fight pandemic

🔷 Indian umpire Nitin Menon inducted in ICC Elite Panel

🔷 UP Governor Anandiben Patel gets additional charge as Governor of Madhya Pradesh

🔷 Maharashtra launches world’s largest plasma therapy trial ‘Project Platina’ for COVID-19 patients

🔷 India’s first Plasma Bank to be set up in Delhi to treat COVID-19 patients

🔷 Minister of Food Processing Industries, Harsimrat Kaur Badal launches Pradhan Mantri Scheme

🔷 RBI extends enhanced borrowing limit under MSF till 30 September 2020

🔷 India among Switzerland’s top-3 partners for getting info on bank accounts

🔷 Sidbi sets up Swavalamban Crisis Responsive Fund

🔷 Indian Navy inducts indigenously developed Advanced Torpedo Decoy System Maareech

🔷 Indian Railways signs MoU with RailTel for VSS work at 6049 stations

🔷 NCAER forecasts India’s GDP growth at 1.3% in FY21

🔷 Piyush Goyal chairs 49th Governing Council Meeting of NPC

🔷 India becomes 1st country to control locusts through drones

🔷 Madhya Pradesh to launch ‘Kill Corona’ campaign from 1 July

🔷 Government to start 4th Phase of ‘Vande Bharat Mission’ from July 3

🔷 Arjun Munda launched Tribes India products on GEM and new website of TRIFED

🔷 NASA Renames its HQ building in Washington D.C. After Mary Jackson