• The second World Food Safety Day (WFSD) is being celebrated on 7 June 2020 under the theme “Food safety, everyone’s business”. WFSD was first celebrated in 2019, to strengthen commitment to scale up food safety made by the Addis…
• Recently the Chief Minister of West Bengal has mentioned, about 28% of the Sunderbans has been damaged by Cyclone Amphan. • The Government of West Bengal has launched, a drive for planting mangroves and trees to mark World Environment…
• Researchers at the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital have found that aerosol radiative forcing larger than the global averages, implying some amount of radiative effects, in spite of the clean atmosphere over the trans-Himalayas. About: •…
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has created a Rs 500-crore Payments Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF) to encourage acquirers to deploy Points of Sale (PoS) infrastructure — both physical and digital modes — in tier-3 to tier-6 centres and…
• The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has issued an advisory to streamline and formalise the process of importing live exotic animals. • Many exotic species of birds, reptiles and amphibians are imported into India for commercial purposes.…
• Recently the Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University has launched ranking for 2020. About: • Times Higher Education (THE) is a weekly magazine based in London, reporting specifically on news and issues related to higher education. • The Times…
• The Ministry of Civil Aviation notified the draft rules, known as Unmanned Aircraft System Rules, 2020, on June 2 for importing, manufacturing, and owning drones as well as for drone ports, or airports for drones. • It has invited…
• NASA announced that a giant asteroid is expected to pass Earth (at a safe distance) on June 6. • The asteroid is estimated to be between 250-570 meters in diameter, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). A Near-Earth…
