Current Affairs (CONSOLIDATION) JUNE 2021 (PART – I) Drishti, 641, First Floor, Dr. Mukherjee Nagar, Delhi-110009 Phone: 87501 87501, WhatsApp: 92058 85200, IVR: 8010-440-440 Email: [email protected] Contents Polity and Governance ........................................................................................................1 zz Revised Subsidy for Electric Vehicles ...................................................................................................................... 1 zz National AI Portal ................................................................................................................................................... 2 zz Beed Model of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana ................................................................................................ 3 zz QS WorldUniversity Rankings 2022 ........................................................................................................................ 5 zz Swachh BharatMission Grameen Phase-II .............................................................................................................. 6 zz I-Familia: Global Databaseto Identify Missing Persons .......................................................................................... 7 zz New PensionRules for Civil Servants ...................................................................................................................... 8 zz Section 51 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005 ................................................................................................ 9 zz Horticulture Cluster Development Programme ................................................................................................... 10 zz Section 304Bof IPC: Dowry Deaths ....................................................................................................................... 11 zz BIS SDO Recognition Scheme ............................................................................................................................... 12 zz Time to DefineLimits of Sedition:SC ..................................................................................................................... 13 zz Model Tenancy Act ............................................................................................................................................... 14 zz Mega Food Park Scheme ...................................................................................................................................... 15 zz Bamboo MarketWindow on GeM Portal .............................................................................................................. 16 zz Council of Scientificand Industrial Research ......................................................................................................... 17 zz Incredible IndiaTourist Facilitator Certification Programme ................................................................................ 18 zz Chemical Weapons Convention ........................................................................................................................... 19 zz PerformanceGrading Index (PGI) .......................................................................................................................... 20 zz Model Panchayat Citizens Charter ....................................................................................................................... 21 zz World Food Safety Day ......................................................................................................................................... 22 zz Draft Rules for Live- Streaming Court Proceedings .............................................................................................. 24 zz YUVA Scheme for Young Writers .......................................................................................................................... 25 zz Surakshit Hum Surakshit Tum Abhiyan: Aspirational Districts ............................................................................. 25 zz Railways Gets 5 MHz Spectrum ............................................................................................................................ 26 zz Fast Tracking Freight in India: NITI Aayog ............................................................................................................ 27 zz Rengma Nagas Demand Autonomous District Council......................................................................................... 28 zz AISHE-2020 ........................................................................................................................................................... 30 zz Online Module for Compiling Out-of-School Children’s Data .............................................................................. 31 zz Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanization Scheme ........................................................................................... 32 Economic Scenario ............................................................................................................34 zz Minimum Support Price ....................................................................................................................................... 34 zz El Salvador Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender .......................................................................................................... 35 zz Global Economic Prospects: World Bank.............................................................................................................. 36 zz World Milk Day ..................................................................................................................................................... 38 zz World Energy Investment Report, 2021: IEA ........................................................................................................ 39 zz US Suspends Retaliatory Tariffs on India .............................................................................................................. 41 zz EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences ............................................................................................................ 42 International Relations ......................................................................................................44 zz Joint Statement on Multilateralism: BRICS .......................................................................................................... 44 zz SCO Agreement on Mass Media Cooperation ...................................................................................................... 45 zz India-Australia Meeting ........................................................................................................................................ 46 zz India Abstains from Latest Resolution Against Israel ........................................................................................... 47 zz Maldives’ UNGA Presidency ................................................................................................................................. 48 zz Atlantic Charter .................................................................................................................................................... 49 zz 47th G7 Summit .................................................................................................................................................... 50 Science and Technology .....................................................................................................53 zz PASIPHAE: A Sky Surveying Project ..................................................................................................................... 53 zz EnVision Mission to Venus: European Space Agency ........................................................................................... 54 zz CIBER-2: Counting of Stars .................................................................................................................................... 56 zz Corbevax Covid-19 Vaccine .................................................................................................................................. 56 zz Crops Lost to Pests ............................................................................................................................................... 57 zz China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ EAST .................................................................................................................................. 58 zz Disinfection System Vajra Kavach ......................................................................................................................... 59 zz AmbiTAG ............................................................................................................................................................... 60 zz First Human Case of H10N3 Bird Flu .................................................................................................................... 61 zz Supersonic Commercial Plane .............................................................................................................................. 62 zz Fast Radio Bursts .................................................................................................................................................. 63 zz New Shephard: Taking Tourists to Space ............................................................................................................