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June Monthly Current Affairs Business InternationalNational AffairsAffairs Awards Important Days Banking Sports Ranking Obituary -CASports Funsta LIWIN’S CA FUNSTA Content Title Page Number Important Days 3 Sports 5 Obituaries 7 Ranking 10 Awards 15 Banking And Finance 17 Business And Economy 21 Acquisition And Mergers 22 Books and Authors 23 Appointments 23 Science and Technology 29 International Affairs 33 National Affairs 35 2 LIWIN’S CA FUNSTA IMPORTANT DAYS NATIONAL IMPORTANT DAYS Days Importance Theme June 1 World Milk day 20th Anniversary of World Milk Day June 1 Global Day of Parents Appreciate all parents throughout the world June 2 Telengana Formation Day INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANT DAYS Days Importance Theme June 1-7 World Heart Rhythm week Don’t miss a beat June 3 World Bicycle Day June 4 International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression June 5 World Environment Day ‘Celebrate Biodiversity’ June 7 World Food Safety Day “Food Safety, everyone’s business” June 8 World Ocean Day “Innovation for a Sustainable ocean” June 8 World Brain Tumor Day June 9 World Accreditation Day Accreditation: Improving Food Safety”- ILAC +IAF = WAD June 12 The World Day against Child Covid-19: Protect Children Labour from Child Labour, now more than ever! June 13 International Albinism Made To Shine Awareness day 3 LIWIN’S CA FUNSTA June 14 World Blood Donor Day “Safe blood saves lives” June 15 World Elder Abuse “lifting up voices” Awareness Day June 17 World Day to Combat Food. Feed. Fibre. the links Desertification and Drought between consumption and land. June 17 World Crocodile Day June 18 Sustainable Gastronomy Day June 18 World Autistic Pride Day The Transition to Adulthood June 20 World Refugee Day "Every Action Counts", All Lives Matter June 21 International day of yoga “Yoga at Home, Yoga with Family” Music at the intersections June 21 World Music Day Father’s Day June 21(3rd Sunday of June) June 23 International Olympic Day June 23 United Nations Public Service Day International day of the Seafarers Are Key Workers June 25 Seafarers International Day against Drug June 26 "Better Knowledge for Better Abuse and Illicit Trafficking Care” World Allergy Week June 28-July4 “Allergy care does not stop with COVID-19” National Statistics Day June 29 “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)”. rd June 30 3 International Day of Parliamentarism. 4 LIWIN’S CA FUNSTA June 30 International Asteriod Day SPORTS RETIREMENT 1. Cricket ❖ Rachel Priest-New Zealand. 2. WWE ❖ (Undertaker) Mark William Calaway - WWE. BANNED OR SUSPENDED Athlete ❖ Salwa Eid Naser- 400m athlete – (Bahrain) – 2 years. ❖ Gomathi Marimuthu-800m athlete- (India - TN) for 4 years. ❖ Alexander Shustov – European - High Jumper – Ban – 4 Years. OTHERS 1. Cricket ❖ Youngest umpire-Nitin Menon-in International Cricket Council’s Elite Panel of Umpire for 2020-21- replaces England’s Nigel Llong. 2. Football ❖ For the first time India to host 2022 Women's Asian Cup (20th edition). 5 LIWIN’S CA FUNSTA FIFA Ranking – India – 108 Rank Country st 1 Belgium nd 2 France rd 3 Brazil th 108 India ❖ Bayern Munich (Germany) wins - 8th successive Bundesliga title - beating Werder Bremen. ❖ New Zealand +Australia -co-host Women’s World Cup 2023. ❖ Liverpool - English Premier League 2019-20 title- defeated Chelsea. 3. Archery ❖ 2020 World Archery Field Championships - postponed until 2022- will be held in Yankton, USA. 4. Tennis ❖ The International Tennis Federation (ITF) - Niki Kalyanda Poonacha - member - ITF World Tennis Tour Men’s Panel - representing - Asia- Oceania zone with Ti Chen of Chinese Taipei. ❖ Davis Cup- finals-on November 2021 –at Madrid ❖ Fed Cup Finals-postponed to 2021. ❖ US Open Wheelchair Tennis Competition –September 10-13. 5. Others ❖ Asian Youth Para Games Bahrain (1st time) - December 2021 ❖ Napoli – wins – 6th Italian Cup title - beats Juventus. ❖ The world karate federation- de-recognized-the Karate Association of India. ❖ “Road to Tokyo”-by World Athletics-an online tool –to track the qualification for next year’s Olympics Games. 6 LIWIN’S CA FUNSTA OBITUARIES Cine Field ❖ Bruce Jay Friedman - screen play writer, novelist, actor. ❖ KrishKapur - Casting director. ❖ Pappukutty Bhagavathar - Singer, Actor, Theatre artist. ❖ Carl Reiner-Writer, Actor, Director. Music: ❖ Wajid Khan - music composer. ❖ Anwar Sagar –Lyricist, Screen writer. Actor ❖ Chirranjeevi Sarja - kannada actor. ❖ Jagesh Mukati – TV actor ❖ Sushant Singh Rajput Film Maker/ Producer ❖ Basu Chatterjee- Film maker. ❖ Anil Suri- Producer. ❖ KR Sachidanandan (Sachy) - Malayalam ❖ Joel Schumacher-Director. ❖ Kelly Asbury -Director-Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron, Shrek 2. Politician ❖ P Namgyal - Congress - MP – Ladakh. ❖ KN Lakshmanan - BJP- Mylapore – Chennai. ❖ Chandrakanta Goyal – BJP. ❖ J Anbazhagan - DMK MLA - Chepauk, Chennai. ❖ Abani Mohan Joardar – minister – West Bengal - AITC. 7 LIWIN’S CA FUNSTA ❖ Haribhau Jawale – MP – Maharastra - BJP ❖ Madhav Patankar ❖ Madan Mohan Dutta – BJP – Odisha. ❖ K.Surendran-Congress leader-Kerala. ❖ Tamonash Ghosh- MLA-Trinamool Congress. Writer ❖ Charles Webb-“The Graduate”. ❖ Jas Waters – Writer ❖ Gulzar Dehlvi – poet – Urdu. Sports ❖ Jayantilal Nanoma- Archery. ❖ Riaz Sheikh- Pakistan Cricketer. ❖ E Hamsakoya-Footballer-Santosh Trophy winner. ❖ Kurt Thomas - Gymnast-world championship gold medallist. ❖ A.Balasamy - VP of Chennai Football Association. ❖ Willie Thorne - Snooker ❖ Tony Dunne – Football - Ireland ❖ Vasant Raiji – Cricket ❖ Matt poore – Cricket - Newzealand ❖ Ahmed Radhi- Iraq-Footballer-due to COVID-19. ❖ Ilaiah-Kabaddi. ❖ Rajinder Goel- Cricketer (Spinner). ❖ Pournima Zanane-Shooting. ❖ Jhandewalan-Swimming (Coach). ❖ Pierino Prati-Football (Former AC Milan and Italy forward). ❖ Sanjay Dobal-Delhi cricketer-due to COVID. Others ❖ Ved Marwah - Ex- Commissioner of Delhi police, Ex -Governor of Manipur, Mizoram, Jharkhand and Padma shri Awardee. ❖ Alberto Alesina –Economist-Italy. ❖ Pierre Nkurunziza – President – Burundi ❖ Mohammad Nasim – Minister – Bangladesh. 8 LIWIN’S CA FUNSTA ❖ Vera Lynn (Forces’ Sweetheart) - Singer – Britain, ❖ B J Damodharan - CM’s private secretary - TamilNadu ❖ Arunkumar R. Mehta - Diamantaire ❖ Dinu Randive - senior journalist and freedom fighter - Maharastra ❖ R M Vohra – Lieutenant General - Indian Army ❖ Atul Srivastava – Director - Steel Authority of India ❖ Heera Singh Rana – Singer. ❖ Madhavrao B Patil – Founder - Janalaxmi Cooperative Bank. ❖ B P R Vithal - Economist ❖ Sqn Ldr Parvez Jamasji- Army-Vir Chakra awardee. ❖ Bhupinder Singh Slathia-Advocate. ❖ Kirk Smith – Professor. ❖ D.Hegde- President Upasi. ❖ Milton Glaser-Designer. ❖ Abdullah Al Mohsin Chowdhury-Defence secretary-Bangladesh. 9 LIWIN’S CA FUNSTA RANKING NATIONAL RANKING FSSAI food safety index 2019-20 Largest state Small state Union territories Gujarat Goa Chandigarh Tamil Nadu Manipur Delhi Maharashtra Meghalaya Andaman & Nicobar The Ministry of Human Resource Development - fifth edition - India Rankings - 2019 - National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). Rank Institute City State 1 Indian Institute of Technology Chennai Tamil Nadu Madras 2 Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru Karnataka 3 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi New Delhi Delhi 4 Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai Maharashtra Bombay 5 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur West Bengal Kharagpur 10 LIWIN’S CA FUNSTA INTERNATIONAL RANKING Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University rankings Rank IIT 1st Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2nd Stanford University 3rd Harvard University. 172nd IIT-Bombay 185th IISc Bangalore 193rd IIT Delhi 12th Edition Of The Biennial Environment Performance Index 2020 Released By The Yale University + Columbia University Rank Country 1st Denmark 2nd Luxembourg 3rd Switzerland 168th India Annual Forbes List of Highest Paid Celebrities: Rank Person Amount 1st Kylie Jenner $590M 2nd Kanye West $170M 3rd Roger Federer $106.3M 52nd Akshay Kumar $48.5 million 11 LIWIN’S CA FUNSTA Startupblink Ecosystems Ranking 2020 1 US 2 UK 3 Israel 23 India Mercer’s Cost of Living Index Rank Cities 1st Hong Kong 2nd Ashgabat 3rd Tokyo 60th Mumbai st New Delhi 101 143rd Chennai ❖ Ruchi Soya – top 100 most-valued companies list (market capitalization) – 94th place Nature Index 2020 S.no Nature index 2020 1 Chinese Academy of sciences – China 2. Harvard University – USA 3. Max Planck Society – Germany 7. Indian Association for the cultivation of Science (IACS) - Kolkata 12 LIWIN’S CA FUNSTA IMD's World Competitiveness Index Rank Country 1st Singapore 2nd Denmark 3rd Switzerland 43rd India US Treasury Department- Largest holder of US government securities at the end of April Rank Country Amount 1st Japan USD 1.266 trillion 2nd China $1.073 trillion 3rd UK $368.5 billion 12th India $157.4 billion Most valuable firm Rank Company Country Industry Market-cap ($ bn) 1 SAUDI ARAMCO SAUDI ARABIA Oil&Gas 1764.5 2 APPLE INC UNITED STATES Computers 1515.8 3 MICROSOFT UNITED STATES Software 1479.9 CORP 57 RELIANCE INDIA Oil&Gas 150.8 INDUSTRIES ❖ Town & Country magazine - Only Indian in top Philanthropists global list- Nita Ambani. 13 LIWIN’S CA FUNSTA THE’s World young university ranking Rank University 1st The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 2nd Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 3rd Paris Sciences et Lettres –PSL Research University, Paris 62nd IIT-Ropar 64th IIT-Indore QS Rankings 2021 for young educational institutions Rank University 1st Nanyang