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Current Affairs 16 June 2020
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National News
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Launches India’s first online delivery-based gas trading platform Indian Gas Exchange
- The Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel Shri Dharmendra Pradhan virtually launched India’s first nationwide online delivery-based gas trading platform, Indian Gas Exchange (IGX) on 15 June 2020.
- IGX has been incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary of the IEX (India Energy Exchange) India’s energy market platform.
- The exchange will provide six market products — day-ahead, daily, weekly, weekdays, fortnightly and monthly.
- Initially, trading is proposed at the physical hubs at Hazira and Dahej in Gujarat and Oduru/Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh while new hubs would be introduced ahead
- The exchange is expected to facilitate transparent price discovery in natural gas, and facilitate the growth of the share of natural gas in India’s energy sector.
India along with 12 other Countries leads ‘#VERIFIED’ initiative at UN to counter misinformation on COVID-19
- India and 12 other countries have come together to lead United Nations initiative ‘#VERIFIED’, which aims to counter misinformation on the coronavirus by spreading fact-based content.
- The other countries are Australia, Chile, France, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Lebanon, Mauritius, Mexico, Norway, Senegal and South Africa.
- Apart from these 13 nations, 132 other nations are endorsing the global call to fight the “infodemic” or manipulated information relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Led by the UN Department for Global Communications (DGC),’Verified’ will provide information around three themes:
- science — to save lives
- solidarity — to promote local and global cooperation
- solutions — to advocate for support to impacted populations
- UN has launched this initiative in collaboration with Purpose, one of the world’s leading social mobilisation organisations.
India joins Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) as a founding member
- On 15 June 2020, India joined the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI or Gee-Pay) as a founding member to support responsible and human-centric development and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
- With this, India has joined the group of leading nations and economies like USA, the UK, EU, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, and Singapore for launch of GPAI.
- GPAI will be supported by a Secretariat, to be hosted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, as well as by two Centers of Expertise — one each in Montreal and Paris.
- GPAI is an international and multi-stakeholder initiative to guide the responsible development and use of AI, with focus on human rights, inclusion, diversity, innovation, and economic growth.
- It is a first of its type initiative for better understanding of the challenges and opportunities around AI using the experience and diversity of participating countries.
Maharashtra CM Launches Mumbai’s New Flood Warning System IFLOWS-Mumbai
- In Mumbai, a new integrated flood warning system (IFLOWS) has been inaugurated, which can predict flood alerts for the city, and therefore enable the authority to take due precautions in advance.
- The state-of-the-art IFLOW-Mumbai flood warning system was jointly inaugurated by Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Science and Technology, and Earth sciences.
- The system will provide early warning for flooding specially during high rainfall events and cyclones.
- With this hi-tech system it will be possible to have an estimate of the flood inundation three days in advance, along with immediate weather updates.
- The system has been developed by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) with in-house expertise and coordination with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
International News
First US Women to Walk in Space, Kathy Sullivan, Creates History to become first woman to reach deepest point in ocean
- Former NASA astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan, who became the first American woman to walk in space, has now created another record to become the first woman to reach the deepest point in the ocean.
- On 8 June 2020, the 68-year-old became the first woman to reach the deepest point on Earth’s surface, after she reached 10.984 meters deep Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean.
- Marina Trench is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth and its floor is known as the Challenger Deep
- Only eight people till date have ever reached Challenger Deep.
- On October 11, 1984, geologist Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first U.S. woman to take a walk in space, spending more than three hours outside the Challenger shuttle in Earth’s orbit.
Appointment
Bihar Government Ropes in Actor Pankaj Tripathi as Brand Ambassador of Bihar Khadi
- Well known Bollywood actor Pankaj Tripathi has been chosen by the Bihar government to promote the Khadi of Bihar.
- He has been appointed as the brand ambassador of India’s first and largest Khadi Mall, set up in Patna, Bihar.
Attorney General of India K.K. Venugopal gets an year extension
- The current Attorney General of India, K. K. Venugopal, is all set to get one-year extension, after he accepted the government’s request to serve as the top law officer of the country for one more year.
- His three-year tenure comes to an end on June 30, 2020.
- The 89-year-old K. K. Venugopal was appointed as the 15th Attorney General of India on 30 June 2017 following AG Mukul Rohatgi.
Sports
Asian Champion Runner Gomathi Marimuthu Banned For Four Years For Doping, Stripped of Asian Championships Gold
- Middle distance runner Gomathi Marimuthu, has been banned for four years and stripped off her 2019 Asian Championships gold medal by the Athletics Integrity Unity (AIU), until May 2023 for doping charges.
- The 31-year-old Marimuthu tested positive for anabolic steroid nandrolone at the 2019 Asian championships in April.
- The Tamil Nadu athlete has also been disqualified from all races between March 18 and May 17, 2019.
- Gomathi had clocked a personal best time of 2 minutes 02.70 seconds in the women’s 800m race in Asian Athletics Championships 2019. It was the first time an Indian won gold in the women’s 800m event in the competition.
Important Days
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day: 15 June
- World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is marked every year on 15 June to promote a better understanding of abuse and neglect of older persons by raising awareness of the cultural, social, economic, and demographic processes affecting elder abuse and neglect.
- The theme in 2020 for WEAAD is “Lifting Up Voices”.
- The day was launched on June 15, 2006 by the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse and the World Health Organization at the United Nations (UN).
- WEAAD was officially recognised by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2011.
Global Wind Day: 15 June
- Every year the Global Wind Day is celebrated worldwide on 15 June to spread awareness about wind energy, the various uses of wind energy, and the ways and possibilities as to how wind energy can help change the world.
- The day is organised jointly by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), WindEurope and the national associations.
- 2020 marks the 13th year of Global Wind Day.