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Rajeev Topno, private secretary to PM Modi, receives World Bank assignment

June 5, 2020
Rajeev Topno
  • Rajeev Topno, the 1996 batch IAS officer who has worked as a key aide to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been selected as senior advisor to the World Bank Executive Director.

IndusInd Bank starts ‘India’s first’ mobile app ‘Indus Corporate’ based convenience for opening current accounts

June 5, 2020
IndusInd Bank
  • IndusInd Bank has declared the release of a first-of-its-kind assisted mobile application based convenience, that allows the bank to open current accounts for self-employed individuals and businesses digitally, in just a few hours.

Govt starts “TULIP” portal to provide internships to graduates, engineers

June 5, 2020
Govt starts “TULIP” portal to provide internships to graduates, engineers
  • Union human resource development (HRD) minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and minister of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) Hardeep Singh Puri on 4th June together initiated The Urban Learning Internship Programme (TULIP) to give internship opportunities to thousands of fresh graduates and engineers of the county under the ‘Smart City’ projects.

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar started the “Nagar Van” scheme

June 5, 2020
Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar started the “Nagar Van” scheme
  • Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar started the “Nagar Van” scheme. The scheme was released to mark Environment Day.
  • Aim: The scheme stresses on urban forestry. Under the scheme, around 200 urban forests are to be promoted all over the country in the next five years.

J&K LG begins salary tracker mobile app “MeraVetan (Version-1)” for Govt.employees

June 5, 2020
  • The Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir, Girish Chandra Murmu started the first version of the Salary Tracker Mobile app “MeraVetan” produced by the National Informatics Centre(NIC).

Karnataka’s Hubballi to be the world’s longest railway platform

June 5, 2020
Karnataka’s Hubballi to be the world’s longest railway platform
  • Karnataka’s Hubballi railway station is ready to get the world’s longest railway platform with measurement of 1,400 meters length and 10 meters width. Confirming the same, South Western Railway (SWR) officials stated that the extension work in Platform number 1 of the Hubballi Junction is underway.

Famous filmmaker Basu Chatterjee passes away at 90

June 4, 2020
Basu Chatterjee
  • Famous film director and screenwriter Basu Chatterjee, popular for his pragmatic and groundbreaking movies such as Rajnigandha, Chitchor, Baton Baton Mein, and Ek Ruka Hua Faisla, passed away on 4th June in Mumbai, because of age-related ailments. He was 90 years old.

4th June is observed as International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression

June 4, 2020
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
  • United Nations observes June 4 of annually as the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression. These vulnerable members of the society are supplied in wars, their schools are attacked, and are often sexually abused, abducted and killed.

DRDO prepares ‘Ultra Swachh’ for PPE disinfection

June 4, 2020
DRDO prepares ‘Ultra Swachh’ for PPE disinfection
  • The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on 2nd June said that it has prepared a disinfection unit called ”Ultra Swachh” to disinfect a broad range of materials, including Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs), electronics items and fabrics.

NGO ‘SEEDS’ gets the World No Tobacco Day Award 2020

June 4, 2020
Socio-Economic and Educational Development Society
  • World Health Organization(WHO) has hosted the World No Tobacco Day Award 2020 to Socio-Economic and Educational Development Society(SEEDS), an Indian non-governmental organization(NGO), one among the 3 SouthEast Asian Region awardees, for its struggles to ban pan masala, gutkha, e-cigarettes and hookah in Bihar and Jharkhand.

RK Chaturvedi takes over Charge as Secretary, Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals

June 4, 2020
RK Chaturvedi
  • Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi (IAS) has taken over charge as Secretary in the Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers on 1st June. With this, Chaturvedi has substituted P Raghavendra Rao who superannuated on May 31.

National Fertilizers Limited selects V N Datt as Chairman & Managing Director

June 4, 2020
National Fertilizers Limited selects V N Datt as Chairman & Managing Director
  • Virendra Nath Datt, Director (Marketing), National Fertilizers Limited -NFL has appointed as Chairman & Managing Director of the Company on 4th June. Datt is linked with Company as Director (Marketing) since October 2018.

Twitter selects ex-Google CFO as new board chairman

June 4, 2020
Patrick Pichette
  • Twitter on 3rd June designated ex-Google chief financial officer Patrick Pichette as the company’s new chairman of the board. Pichette takes over the role after joining Twitter’s board of directors in 2017.

Uday Kotak selected as CII President

June 4, 2020
Uday Kotak
  • Expert banker Uday Kotak has been selected as the new President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2020-21. Uday, who was also the President-Designate of CII for the last two years, will substitute Vikram Kirloskar.

Govt starts SWADES scheme for jobs opportunities to returning Indians from abroad

June 4, 2020
SWADES
  • The government has started a new scheme SWADES (Skilled Workers Arrival Database for Employment Support) to carry out a skill mapping exercise and present employment opportunities to the returning citizens under the Vande Bharat Mission.

Govt. Kisan Credit Cards (KCC) campaign started for 1.5 crore dairy farmers

June 4, 2020
Kisan Credit Cards
  • The Government will give Kisan Credit Card (KCC) to 1.5 crore dairy farmers relating to Milk Unions and Milk producing Companies within the succeeding two months (1st June-31st July 2020) under a exceptional drive.

Modi-Morrison online summit: India, Australia sign landmark defense pact

June 4, 2020
Modi-Morrison online summit
  • India and Australia on 4th June upgraded their bonds to a comprehensive strategic partnership and inked seven agreements including a landmark deal for reciprocal access to military bases for logistics support through an online summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison.

Indian writer Kritika Pandey gets the regional award for Asia in 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

June 3, 2020
Kritika Pandey
  • Kritika Pandey, a writer from Ranchi, was on 2nd June declared as the regional winner for Asia in the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
  • The 29-year-old writer got for her story The Great Indian Tee and Snakes, which is about two young people trying to tell the idea of love in an era of hatred and prejudice.

Expert Lyricist Anwar Sagar passes away

June 3, 2020
Anwar Sagar
  • Ace lyricist Anwar Sagar passed away on 3rd June. Anwar wrote many famous songs in the 80s and 90s. He wrote the lyrics of the song “Waada Raha Sanam” for the 1992 film Khiladi, starring Akshay Kumar and Ayesha Jhulka.

3rd June is observed as World Bicycle Day 2020

June 3, 2020
World Bicycle Day
  • World Bicycle Day is celebrated on 3 June 2020 globally. The Third World Bicycle Day is being honored and glorified on this date. The United Nations commemorated the first World Bicycle Day on Sunday, June 3, 2018, at the UN General Assembly in New York.

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