Vision Ias Monthly Current Affair June 2020 English Medium

Vision Ias Monthly Current Affair June 2020

Table of Contents

1. POLITY AND GOVERNANCE _____________4
   1. Custodial Violence ____________________4
   1.2. Online Dispute Resolution ______________5
   1.3. 5th Anniversary of Urban Missions _______7
   2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ____________9
   2.1. India-Australia Relations _______________9
   2.2. E-Diplomacy ________________________10
   2.3. India’s Energy Cooperation with
   Neighbouring Countries __________________11
   2.4. India Elected Non-permanent Member of UN
   Security Council (UNSC) __________________13
   2.5. European Union Vietnam Free Trade
   Agreement (EVFTA)______________________14
   3. ECONOMY _________________________ 16
   3.1. Monetization of Deficit _______________16
   3.2. Suspension of Insolvency and Bankruptcy
   Code (IBC) _____________________________17
   3.3. Banking Regulation (Amendment) Ordinance
   2020 __________________________________19
   3.4. Payments Infrastructure Development Fund
   ______________________________________21
   3.5. Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) _______21
   3.6. International Comparison Program of World
   Bank__________________________________23
   3.7. World Investment Report 2020 _________24
   3.8. Empowered Group of Secretaries and Project
   Development Cells ______________________24
   3.9. Commercial Coal Mining ______________25
   3.10. Social Stock Exchange _______________26
   3.11. Indian Gas Exchange (IGX) ____________27
   3.12. Real Time Market in Electricity ________28
   3.13. AGRIDEX __________________________29
   3.14. Animal Husbandry Infrastructure
   Development Fund ______________________29
   4. SECURITY__________________________ 31
   4.1. Police Preparedness During COVID-19
   Pandemic ______________________________31
   4.2. “Lone Wolf” Attacks__________________32
   4.3. Financial Action Task Force ____________34
   5. ENVIRONMENT _____________________ 36
   5.1. Climate Change and Its Impact on Indian
   Region ________________________________36
   5.2. Gender, Climate & Security ____________38
   5.3. Loss of Ice Cover in The Arctic Sea_______39
   5.4. Natural Barriers to Natural Disasters ____40
   5.5. Urban Flooding______________________42
   5.6. One Sun One World One Grid __________43
   5.7. Extended Producers Responsibility ______45
   5.8. COVID-19 Biomedical Waste Management46
   5.9. Seabed 2030 project _________________48
   5.10. India’s First Lichen Park ______________48
   6. SOCIAL ISSUES______________________ 50
2. 1. Urban Poor _________________________50
   6.2. Drug Abuse in India __________________52
   6.3. Gender Dimensions of the COVID-19
   Pandemic ______________________________55
   6.4. COVID-19 and India’s Healthcare Sector__56
   6.5. Global Education Monitoring Report 2020 58
   6.6. National Institutional Ranking Framework
   (NIRF) _________________________________60
   6.7. State Food Safety Index for 2019-20 _____61
   6.8. Swachh Bharat Mission Phase II ________62
   7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY____________64
   7.1. COVID-19 Therapies and Antimicrobial
   Resistance (AMR) _______________________64
   7.2. Patent Pools ________________________65
   7.3. Plasma Bank ________________________66
   7.4. India Tuberculosis Report 2020 _________67
   7.5. Indian National Space Promotion and
   Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) ___________68
   7.6. Joint Lunar Polar Exploration mission ____69
   7.7. Quantum Key Distribution_____________69
   7.8. Fifth State of Matter _________________70
   7.9. Annular Solar Eclipse _________________71
   8. CULTURE ___________________________73
   8.1. Heritage Management________________73
   8.2. Malabar Rebellion ___________________75
   8.3. Ahom Kingdom______________________76
   8.4. Kushinagar _________________________77
   9. ETHICS _____________________________79
   9.1. Ethics of Clinical Trials ________________79
   10. NEWS IN SHORT ____________________81
   10.1. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
   (UNHCR) Global Trends Report_______________ 81
   10.2. Strategic Sector ______________________ 81
   10.3. Kisan Credit Cards (KCC) Campaign Launched for
   1.5 crore Dairy Farmers ____________________ 81
   10.4. The Urban Learning Internship Program (TULIP)
   Launched _______________________________ 82
   10.5. Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results
   for States Program (STARS) _________________ 82
   10.6. CHAMPIONS Technology Platform _______ 82
   10.7. SWADES (Skilled Workers Arrival Database for
   Employment Support) _____________________ 82
   10.8. Skills Build Reignite (SBR) and Skills Build
   Innovation Camp (SBIC) ____________________ 82
   10.9. Sahakar Mitra _______________________ 83
   10.10. World Competitiveness Index __________ 83
   10.11. State of World Population Report 2020 __ 83
   10.12. NITI Aayog Launches Behaviour Change
   Campaign ‘Navigating the New Normal’________ 83
   10.13. Food Safety Compliance System (FoSCoS)
   launched by FSSAI_________________________ 84
   10.14. World Food Prize 2020 _______________ 84
   10.15. Oil Spill in Russia’s Arctic Region ________ 84
   10.16. Environmental Performance Index (EPI) __ 84
3. 17. Nagar Van Scheme ___________________85
   10.18. 2020 Desertification and Drought Day (June
   17) _____________________________________85
   10.19. Sukhna Lake Declared as Wetland _______85
   10.20. SATYABHAMA (Science and Technology Yojana
   for Aatmanirbhar Bharat in Mining Advancement)
   Portal ___________________________________86
   10.21. YUKTI (Young India combating COVID with
   Knowledge, Technology and Innovation) 2.0 Web
   Portal ___________________________________86
   10.22. Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian
   Medicine & Homoeopathy (PCIM&H) __________86
   10.23. AarogyaPath ________________________86
   10.24. Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD)
   Deficiency________________________________86
   10.25. Assistance to Disabled persons for
   Purchasing/Fitting of Aids/Appliances (ADIP) Scheme
   ________________________________________87
4. 26. Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence
   (GPAI) __________________________________ 87
   10.27. Data Lake and Project Management Software
   _______________________________________ 87
   10.28. Gold Nanoparticles (GNPs) ____________ 87
   10.29. Portable UV Light Device to Kill Corona Virus
   _______________________________________ 87
   10.30. Extreme Helium Star (EHe) ____________ 88
   10.31. Khelo India State Centres of Excellence __ 88
   10.32. Ramon Magsaysay Awards ____________ 88
   10.33. Gairsain ___________________________ 88
   10.34. Bimal Julka Committee _______________ 88
   11. SCHEMES IN NEWS __________________89
   11.1. PM Street Vendor’s Atmanirbhar Nidhi (PM
   SVANidhi) _______________________________ 89
   11.2. PM Formalization of Micro Food Processing
   Enterprises Scheme _______________________ 89
   11.3. Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan (GKRA) ______ 90