Current Affairs 20 June 2020

🔶Dr Harsh Vardhan Launched India’s 1st I-Lab, a DBT – AMTZ Mobile Diagnostic Unit for Covid Testing

🔶Coal Ministry & FICCI Initiated e-Auction Process of 41 Coal blocks for Commercial mining; Launched by PM Modi

🔶MNRE Sets Up Project Development Cell Under Amitesh Kumar Sinha For Investment in Green Energy Sector

🔶UP provided employment to 57 lakh 12975 migrant workers; highest under MGNREGA

🔶India’s 1st ever Climate Change Assessment – Climate Change Tracker

🔶Centre Approved Funds for Implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission in Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Tripura

🔶India 2nd Major Driver of Global Energy Consumption in 2019 After China: 69th Edition of BP Statistical Review 2020

🔶Indian Economy to contract by 4% in 2020-21: ADB Forecast

🔶JSW Cement signs Sourav Ganguly & Sunil Chhetri as Brand Ambassadors

🔶Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund Buys 2.32% Stake in Jio Platforms for Rs 11,367 Crores

🔶CCI approves acquisition of Metso Oyj’s minerals business by Outotec Oyj

🔶NASA Astronomers Discover 240-year-old Neutron Star ‘Swift J1818.0−1607’ After Recent X-ray Burst

🔶IIT Mandi Develops Herbal Infusion Technology to Help Farmers in the Mid-Himalayan Region

🔶Veteran economist & Member of the 10th Finance Commission B.P.R. Vithal Baru passed away at 93

🔶Scriptwriter & Filmmaker KR Schidanandan passed away

🔶Veteran Journalist & Freedom Fighter Dinu Ranadive passed away at 95

🔶International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict 2020 – June 19

🔶World Sickle Cell Day 2020: June 19

🔶Manipur Observes the 19th Great June Uprising Day – June 18

🔶India to become President of United Nation Security Council for August 2021