- Important Days & Events:
- June 18 is observed as International Day for Countering Hate Speech.
- Resolution: “promoting inter-religious and intercultural dialogue and tolerance in countering hate speech”.
- June 18 is also observed as International Picnic Day. The Word “picnic” gets its origins from the French language, specifically from the word “pique-nique”
- The world observes Sustainable Gastronomy Day on 18 June.
- Theme: No theme.
- Objective: To recognize the practices associated with sustainable food consumption, especially with the art of collecting and preparing the food we eat.
- Obituaries: Renowned Urdu scholar, linguist, theorist, literary critic, and former Chairperson of Sahitya Akademi Professor, Gopi Chand Narang has passed away at 91.
- Appointments: President Joe Biden has nominated Radha Iyengar Plumb to a top Pentagon position she is currently the Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Defense.
- Sowmyanarayan Sampath has been appointed as CEO of Verizon Business.
- Recently Sanganagouda Patil was sworn in as the Lokayukta of Karnataka.
- Awards: The Skytrax World Airport Awards named Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport the finest in India and South Asia for the fourth time.
- Centre announced a 10% reservation for Agniveers in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and Assam Rifles recruitment.
- Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida will attend this month’s NATO summit in Madrid, becoming the country’s first leader to join a top meeting of the transatlantic alliance.
- India has test-launched Short-Range Ballistic Missile, Prithvi-II from an integrated test range in Chandipur, Odisha.
- The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has developed a robot under the name HomoSEP that can clean septic tanks without the need for humans.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the first-ever Chess Olympiad Torch Relay for the 44th edition of the event on 19 June at the Indira Gandhi International Stadium in New Delhi.
- South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor Company’s India unit regain its number-two position in the Indian passenger vehicle (PV) market.
- The Centre has expanded the ambit of the universal services obligation (USO) to include all retail fuel outlets across the country along with those in remote areas.
- Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, inaugurated a “Mango Festival” in Brussels to raise awareness among Europeans and establish a market for Indian mangoes in Europe.
- Nearly 5 mn in India displaced due to Climate Change, Disasters in 2021
- FPIs outflow nears Rs 2 lakh cr from Equities in less than 6 months of 2022
- Direct tax collection sees a 45% Surge
- Gadkari proposes creation of Innovation Bank to focus on quality in infra
- Credit growth hits Three-Year high of 13.1%: RBI Data
Questions:
Q.1 Which of the following countries' Prime ministers will go to attend the NATO summit for the first time?a. Australia
b. India
c. Japan
d. United Kingdom
Q.2 HomoSEP, a robot that cleans a septic tank has been developed by which of the following IITs?
a. IIT Madras
b. IIT Kanpur
c. IIT Bombay
d. IIT Kharagpur
