Important Day
Economy
- Saregama announced a global deal with this social platform, to license its music for video - Facebook.
National
- The Ministry of Steel and Petroleum and Natural Gas is planning for the development of a steel fabrication cluster near - Bhilai Steel Plant.
- This CPSU under the Ministry of Power has partnered with the World Bank to provide rigorous online technical courses, give assessments and obtain certificates to its employees - NTPC.
- The Food Safety & Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is launching its cloud based, upgraded new food safety compliance online platform called - Food Safety Compliance System (FoSCoS).
- A joint initiative of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Civil Aviation Ministry and External Affairs Ministry to conduct a skill mapping exercise of the returning citizens under the Vande Bharat Mission - SWADES- Skilled Workers Arrival Database for Employment Support.
- New name of Kolkata Port - Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port.
- The Union Cabinet has given its approval to re-establish ________ as Subordinate Office under Ministry of AYUSH by merging into it Pharmacopoeia Laboratory for Indian Medicine (PLIM) and Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Laboratory (HPL) at Ghaziabad - Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine & Homoeopathy (PCIM&H).
- The Union Cabinet has given its approval for setting up of an “Empowered Group of Secretaries (EGoS) and Project Development Cells (PDCs) in Ministries/Departments of Government of India for attracting investments in India”, which will reinforce India’s vision of becoming a US$ 5 trillion economy by - 2024-25.
- New programme by Microsoft to help agritech startups in India to build industry-specific solutions - Microsoft for Agritech Startups programme.
Persons in News
- Person who has taken over the additional charge of Chairman & Managing Director (MD) of the National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) on 3 June - Virendra Nath Datt.
- Next CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), will succeed Naoko Ishii - Carlos Manuel Rodriguez (Costa Rican Environment and Energy Minister).
State Current Affairs
- This state government has started implementing a Rs. 300-crore Rural Rejuvenation Scheme to ensure sustained economic growth in rural areas of Cauvery Delta region districts - Tamil Nadu.
General Knowledge
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP) – Founded: 28 March 1947; Headquarters: Bangkok, Thailand.
- National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) - Founded: 23 August 1974; Headquarters: Noida.
- Global Environment Facility (GEF) - Founded: 01 October 1991; Location: Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- The Kolkata Port is the first Major Port as well as the only riverine port of India which came to be governed by a Trust on - 17th October, 1870.
- Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine & Homoeopathy (PCIM&H) is an autonomous body under the aegis of Ministry of AYUSH established in the year - 2010.
- India’s oldest music label – Saregama.
