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June current affairs 2020

July 20, 2020 by Bhushan Leave a Comment Last Updated July 20, 2020

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1 money laundering and illegal wildlife trade report
2 monkey Park
3 state of environment report
4 environment performance index 2020
5 i commit initiative
6 Maitree program
7 oil spill in Arctic circle
8 mass extinction
9 serotonin
10 rechargeable batteries
11 Global partnership on artificial intelligence
12 Quantum satellite Micius
13 nature index 2020
14 Global Trends report
15 Global education monitoring report
16 Queer inclusion policy
17 Yukti 2.0

money laundering and illegal wildlife trade report

  • Financial action task force - first report on illegal wildlife trade

monkey Park

  • Karnataka
  • Sharavathi backwaters region
  • Opposition due to fear of kyasanur forest disease

state of environment report

  • Centre for science and environment
  • India as one in five people of all internal displacement caused by disasters
  • Cyclone fani, southwest monsoons, cyclone Vayu, cyclone Bulbul.

environment performance index 2020

  • Yale University
  • India is 168 out of 180
  • 2020 new metrics - waste management, carbon dioxide emission from land cover change, emissions from florinated gases.

i commit initiative

  • Union power ministry
  • Energy resilient future
  • EESL
  • Well remote National electricity mobility mission 2020, Fame 1 and 2, Dindayal Upadhyay gram Jyoti Yojana.

Maitree program

  • market integration and transformation program for energy efficiency
  • India US partnership
  • us aid

oil spill in Arctic circle

  • Ambarnaya river
  • Karnoyarsk region of Russia
  • Power plant fuel leak

mass extinction

  1. currently sixth mass extinction has been going on
  2. It is due to anthropogenic causes
  3. Previous five mass extinction periods
    1. Ordovician - 450 million years ago
    2. Devonian 350 - million years ago
    3. Permian Triassic - 250 million sgo
    4. Triassic Jurassic - 200 million years ago
    5. Cretaceous tertiary - 60 million years ago

serotonin

  • happy neurotransmitter
  • Secreted in our brain
  • Feeling of happiness satisfaction and optimism
  • happy foods - yoghurt, almond, banana, eggs.
  • Although locusts are singletons serotonin might be responsible for or the Swarm formation.

rechargeable batteries

  • critical raw materials required for rechargeable batteries
    • Cobalt
    • lithium
    • Manganese
  • UNCTAD report

Global partnership on artificial intelligence

  • India is a founder member
  • India launched National AI strategy and national AI portal

Quantum satellite Micius

  • By China in 2016
  • World's first totally secure long-range communication
  • If one Photon is manipulated other will be simultaneously affected

nature index 2020

  • Database of author affiliation information collated from research articles published in an independently selected group of 82 high quality science journals
  • Published by nature research which is a part of Springer nature a German publishing house

Global Trends report

  • UN high Commissioner for refugees
  • Tracks the number of
    • refugees
    • internal displaced people
    • people who have returned to the country of origin
    • Asylum seekers
    • stateless people
    • Other the population of concern to UN hcr

Global education monitoring report

  • UNESCO
  • Impact of covid on education sector

Queer inclusion policy

  • Mahindra logistics Limited
  • five year plan
  • hiring queers

Yukti 2.0

  • Ministry of Human Resource Development
  • To assimilate technology which has commercial potential and information related to incubated startups in higher education institutions
  • Young India combating covid with knowledge technology and innovation

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