Latest Current Affairs June 2022
World News
Nitin Gadkari Approves GSR Notification Framework for Introducing Bharat NCAP
• The Minister of Road and Highway Transport, Nitin Gadkari, approved the GSR Notice to amend the Bharat NCAP (New Vehicle Testing System), in which vehicles in India will be awarded Star Ratings based on their performance in Crash Tests.
• Bharat-NCAP will serve as a consumer-focused platform that allows customers to choose safer cars based on their star ratings, while promoting healthy competition between OEMs in India to make safer cars.
International News
South Korea sent its first satellite into orbit using the domestic rocket Nuri
• South Korea successfully launched its first satellite using a domestic rocket, developed the country's growing aerospace ambitions and proved to have the necessary technology to build larger missiles and launch spy satellites in the midst of conflicts with rival North Korea.
• The Department of Science reports that the Nuri three-phase rocket successfully launched an operational "verification satellite" at the target of 435 miles from South Korea's space launch site on the southern island.
• A 154-meter rocket was seen rising on a live TV amidst glowing flames and a plume of white smoke.
Important Tips for All Competitive Tests
• President of South Korea: Yoon Suk Yeol
• National History of South Korea: The Rose of Sharon
China Introduces Three New Satellite Yangon-35 Satellites
• Three new satellite satellites have been successfully launched by China from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province in southwestern China.
• Satellites launched by the Long March-2D carrier rocket at 10:22 a.m. (local time) as part of the Yaogan-35 family and successfully entered the target orbit.
• China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation’s Long March carrier carrier family, comprising approximately 96.4%.
State News
Goa celebrates 'Sao Joao'
• Goa people celebrate the festival of Sao Joao, a feast of St John the Baptist with traditional excitement after a two-year gap created by coronavirus.
• The feast is dedicated to John the Baptist, who baptized the Lord Jesus in the Jordan River and was celebrated at the beginning of the great rain. Siolim, a town in North Goa, hosts a typical boat show at the Sao Joao event.
Important Tips for All Competitive Tests
• Governor of Goa: P.S. Sreedharan Pillai;
• Goa Prime Minister: Pramod Sawant.
Nomination News
S.S. Mundra has been elected chairman of the BSE
• S.S. Mundra, the director of public interest who will lead the world's largest stock exchange, according to BSE. Justice Vikramajit Sen will be replaced by Mr. Mundra.
• After working for three years, Mr. Mundra resigned as Deputy Governor of the State Bank of India in July 2017. Prior to that, he held the position of Chairman and CEO of Baroda Bank, until his retirement in July 2014.
Shyam Saran, Former Secretary of State elected to lead India International Center
• The president of India International Center is now the former foreign secretary and Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change Shyam Saran.
• After leaving office in 2010, he served as chair of the National Security Advisory Board under the National Security Council and served as director of the Research and Information System for Developing Countries, a prominent think tank focusing on economic issues, from 2011 2017. (2013-15).
Parameswaran Iyer has been appointed CEO of NITI Aayog
• Former Secretary of Drinking and Sanitation, Parameswaran Iyer has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of NITI Aayog for 2 years. He will replace Amitabh Kant.
• Kant was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the National Transformation Center of India (Niti Aayog) on February 17, 2016, for a fixed two-year term.
Important take on all competing tests
• NITI Aayog Established: 1 January 2015;
• NITI Aayog Previous: Planning Commission (15 March 1950)
• NITI Aayog Headquarters: New Delhi;
• NITI Aayog Chairperson: Narendra Modi;
• NITI Aayog Deputy Chairperson: Suman K Bery;
• NITI Aayog falls under the Department of Trade and Industry.
Tapan Kumar Deka has been appointed as the new Director of Intelligence Office
• Central Government has appointed IPS chief executive Tapan Kumar Deka as Director of Intelligence Office.
• Tapan Kumar Deka, the IPS official for the 1988 Himachal Pradesh faction, was appointed for a term of two years from the date of the trial or until further notice, whichever is earlier.
• Deka will replace the Director of Intelligence Office Arvind Kumar, who took office on June 30.
Important take on all competing tests:
• Intelligence Bureau Headquarters: New Delhi;
• Intelligence Office Established: 1887.
Samant Kumar Goel has been re-elected as Head of R&AW
• Samant Kumar Goel contract as secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was extended by the Institute on June 24 another year.
• Goel is an IPS officer from the Punjab cad class of 1984 and will hold the position of agency secretary until June 30, 2023.
• In June 2019, Samant Kumar Goel replaced Anil Dhasmana as the Head of RAW.
Important take on all competing tests
• RAW Built: 21 September 1968;
• RAW Headquarters: New Delhi;
• Founders of RAW: R. N. Kao & Indira Gandhi.
Anil Khanna appointed as Acting President of the IOA