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Current Affairs - June 07

Daily Current Affairs – June 07, 2019

Important Days

June 7 - World Food Safety Day  The first-ever World Food Safety Day, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2018, will be celebrated on 7 June 2019 under the theme "Food Safety, everyone's business". WHO, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is pleased to facilitate Member States effort to celebrate the World Food Safety Day this year and in coming years.

National Affairs

New

Exhibition-‘Unknown masterpieces of Himachal Folk Art’

 Culture Minister Prahalad Singh Patel was inaugurated the exhibition titled Unknown Masterpieces of Himachal Folk Art at National Museum in . The Exhibition is being jointly organised by the National Museum and Home of Folk Art, Gurugram in which more than 240 artefacts will be on display. The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the Folk art tradition of Himachal Pradesh.

Karnataka

Yakshagana episodes to debut in Marathi soon

 A team of Yakshagana enthusiasts from Pune have been attempting to write and perform Yakshagana episodes in Marathi. “Yakshagana is an energetic and attractive art form.  Yakshagana is a traditional theatre form, developed in Udupi, in the state of Karnataka (), that combines dance, music, dialogue, costume, make-up, and stage techniques with a unique style and form. It is believed to have evolved from pre-classical music and theater during the period of the Bhakti movement

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Odisha

Studying Olive Ridleys in Odisha

 A proposal has been made to establish a permanent research centre near the Rushikulya rookery on the Odisha coast to study the mass nesting of Olive Ridleys and the environmental factors related to it. The research centre is expected to be established at a cost of more than 9 crore. The Forest Department is planning to have it in the Khallikote forest range, which is near the Rushikulya rookery.  The centre would be involved in a detailed study of the habits and the habitat of the turtles and the coastal flora and fauna.

International Affairs

UK Foreign Office Board gets first Indian-origin member

 Kumar Iyer has been appointed by the UK government as the Chief Economist of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), making him the first Indian-origin member of the department’s management board.

Russia prepared to drop nuclear weapons agreement treaty with US: Putin

 Russian President has said Russia was prepared to drop a nuclear weapons agreement treaty with the US. He said Washington showed no genuine interest in conducting talks on extending the New START treaty which caps the number of nuclear warheads well below Cold War limits.  The treaty was signed by US President and Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev in Prague in 2010. It expires in 2021.

Science & Technology

Ai-Da, the robot

 Ai-Da is the brainchild of Aidan Meller, who claims she is the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid artist, able to draw creatively thanks to in-built artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The humanoid uses artificial intelligence to make images that have been sold for over £1 million

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Business & Economic Affairs

China gives green light for local 5G rollout amid tensions with US

 China on Thursday gave its major state-owned companies the green light to start rolling out 5G services in its efforts to move ahead in the global race for setting up the super-fast telecommunications system, amid simmering tensions with the U.S. over technology and trade.  5G is the next generation cellular technology with download speeds stated to be 10 to 100 times faster than the current 4G LTE networks.

Summit

G20 Ministerial meeting on Trade and Digital Economy

 The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry & Railways, Piyush Goyal, is leading the Indian delegation for the G20 Ministerial meeting on Trade and Digital Economy being held on 8th – 9th June, 2019 in Tsukuba city, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.  The Indian Commerce Minister will discuss developments in the global trade situation, WTO matters and digital trade. He will also hold dialogue with other participating Trade Ministers on current international trade and investments. For the first time Ministers of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Commerce will participate in a joint session on Digital Economy at the G20Ministerial Meeting.

Appointments

Azim to retire as Executive Chairman of in July

 IT Industry icon will retire as Executive Chairman of Wipro with effect from 30th July this year. He led the company for 53 years. His son Rishad Premji, Chief Strategy Officer and a board member, will take over as the Executive Chairman of the company.  The board announced that Chief Executive and Executive Director Abidali Z Neemuchwala will be re-designated as CEO and Managing Director of Wipro.

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Sports

Viswanathan Anand loses to in Armageddon

suffered defeat against world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the Armageddon game at the Altibox Norway Tournament.

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