Daily Current Affairs Quiz 12th June 2024

A rare four-horned antelope also known as chousingha was spotted in the veerangana durgavati tiger reserve previously nauradehi sanctuary the smallest asian antelope tetracerus quadricornis is endemic to india and

An air-launched variant of the lora ballistic missile is being presented by israel aerospace industries israel aerospace inc its supersonic speed and 90 attack angle enhance its effectiveness against well-protected targets

” Notes:sub lieutenant anamika b. rajeev made history at ins rajali, arakkonam, by becoming the first woman in the indian navy to fly a helicopter. this milestone was achieved during the 102nd helicopter conversion course’s passing out parade. vice admiral rajesh pendharkar awarded “golden wings” to 21 officers at the event, which marked the end of stage i training for the 4th basic helicopter conversion course on june 7.”

” Notes:prem singh tamang of sikkim krantikari morcha (skm) was sworn in as chief minister of sikkim for a second term on june 10. the 56-year-old took the oath in nepali, administered by governor lakshman prasad acharya at paljor stadium, gangtok, attended by thousands of supporters. despite a firecracker ban, celebrations erupted. eleven other ministers, including sonam lama and arun kumar upreti, were also sworn in.”

” Notes:the atal innovation mission (aim) under niti aayog launched two initiatives: the ‘aim – icdk water challenge 4.0’ and the fifth edition of the ‘innovations for you’ handbook. the water challenge, in collaboration with innovation centre denmark, aims to address water issues through innovative solutions. participants will join the global next generation digital action program and showcase their work at the digital tech summit in copenhagen, focusing on sustainability and digital solutions.”

” Foreign Brokerage Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., has raised India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth forecast for the Calendar Year (CY) 2024, by 20 basis points (bps) to 6.9% from the earlier projection of 6.7%.• Goldman Sachs has projected India’s GDP growth at 6.8% for the current fiscal (FY2024-25).• Goldman Sachs expects the Central government to meet the 2024-25 fiscal deficit target of 5.1% of GDP from a higher-than-budgeted dividend from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).”

” Universal sompo general insurance company limited has launched a new theme, ‘insure today for a safe tomorrow,’ to raise awareness about the importance of insurance in safeguarding against unforeseen risks.i.it offers a wide range of insurance products, including motor, health, personal accident, fire, and burglary insurance. it is dedicated to ensure comprehensive protection for individuals, assets, and businesses.ii.as part of an initiative called ‘insurance for all by 2047,’ universal sompo collaborated with maruti suzuki insurance broking private limited to spread insurance awareness in andhra pradesh (ap).”

” On the occasion of world environment day 2024 (5th june 2024), s krishnan, secretary of the ministry of electronics and information technology (meity), inaugurated the indigenous air quality monitoring system (aq-aims) during the event held in new delhi, delhi.• he also launched the mobile application “air-pravah” for real-time air quality index (aqi) monitoring.• the aq-aims and air-pravah were developed under meity-supported technologies.the government of india (goi) has designated bihar’s nagi bird sanctuary and nakti bird sanctuary as wetlands of international importance under the ramsar convention, taking the total number of ramsar sites in india to 82.click here to read more”

” Software technology parks of india (stpi), an autonomous society under the ministry of electronics and information technology (meity), celebrated its 33rd foundation day on 5th june 2024 at a special event held in new delhi, delhi).• the foundation day event was held under the theme “positioning bharat as a tech product nation”.• stpi launched two new web portals, sayujnet, a networking and resource discovery platform, and stpi-workspace, an stpi workspace portal.• stpi also announced its new initiative under the brand name “anantakrishnan, secretary (meity) released the deeptech knowledge report on “cutting-edge tech forging india a software product nation”.”

On june 6th the united nations international federation’s russian language day is held across the globe to highlight the significance of the russian language as a symbol of national identity and cultural heritage and to honour the richness and beauty of the russian language the day marks the birth anniversary of the great russian poet novelist

Npci international payments limited nipl the international arm of the national payments corporation of india npci signed an agreement with the central reserve bank of peru bcrp banco central de reserva del per to introduce a upi-like real-time payments system in peru the

” On 5th june 2024, the securities exchange board of india (sebi) issued a master circular for foreign portfolio investors(fpis), designated depository participants and eligible foreign investors specifying the timelines for disclosure of material changes/events.• to relax the timeline of material changes by fpi, sebi (fpis) (amendment) regulations 2024, was notified on 3rd june 2024, amending the sebi (fpis) regulations 2019.• sebi categorised material changes notified by fpis into 2 groups: type i & type ii.• type i includes changes that require fpis to seek fresh registration, or which affect any privileges or exemptions available to such foreign investors. type 1 material changes needs to be now informed within seven days and supported documents to be provided within 30 days.• type ii includes all other material changes and needs to be informed within 30 days with supporting documents if any.”

” The centre for development of telematics (c-dot) has won the united nations world summit on the information society (un’s wsis) 2024 ‘champion’ award at the wsis+20 forum in geneva, switzerland.• the award was given for the project ‘mobile-enabled disaster resilience through cell broadcast emergency alerting’ which was recognised under artificial intelligence (ai), category – 7 (c-7), e-environment, in the category of ‘benefits in all aspects of life – e-environment’.• he wsis+20 forum 2024 is a high-level event which was conducted from 27th to 31st may 2024 by the international telecom union (itu) in geneva, switzerland.the ai for good global summit was also organised along with wsis, from 29th may to 31st may, 2024 at geneva.• c-dot demonstrated cutting-edge telecom solutions such as an itu-common alerting protocol (cap)- based early warning alert system and cell broadcast technology for disaster management, as well as astr (ai and facial recognition-powered solution for telecom sim subscriber verification) for detecting subscriber identity module (sim) used in cyber fraud.”

Singapore-based dbs bank ltd (formerly known as development bank of singapore limited) retained its projection for india’s gross domestic product (gdp) at 7% for fy25 (2024-25).• it also projected india’s gdp growth to remain at 7% for q1 (april to june 2024) of fy25.• gdp growth for q4(january-march 2024) of fy24 increased to 7.8% year on year(yoy). this figure is revised from 8.6% yoy.

” The defence accounts department (dad) of the ministry of defence (mod) has signed a memorandum of understanding (mou) with four banks to onboard them as system for pension administration – raksha (sparsh) service centres across 1,128 branches of these banks in india.• the four banks were the bank of india (boi), canara bank, central bank of india (cbi) and utkarsh small finance bank limited (usfbl).• the sparsh is a web-based system for processing pension claims and crediting the pension directly into the bank accounts of defence pensioners without any external intermediary.”