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Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine others died in a plane crash. The military aircraft left Lilongwe but couldn’t land at Mzuzu due to poor visibility and lost contact after being ordered back. President Lazarus Chakwera confirmed the wreckage was found in Chikangawa Forest with no survivors. Chilima, once a potential presidential candidate, was cleared of graft charges last month.

The united nations general assembly has declared 2025 the international year of quantum science and technology this decision made on 7 june 2024 aims to raise public awareness encourage youth participation and support quantum science applications the year marks the centenary of werner heisenbergs foundational quantum mechanics paper

” Notes:the madhya pradesh government has prepared the gandhi sagar wildlife sanctuary to become a new cheetah habitat. teams from kenya and south africa assessed the site, and prey animals were relocated from other tiger reserves. eight namibian cheetahs were released at kuno national park in 2022, followed by 12 more from south africa in 2023. the chief minister directed a study on introducing rhinos and other rare animals to the state.”

” Notes:n. chandrababu naidu, tdp national president, was sworn in as chief minister of residual andhra pradesh for the second time on june 12 by governor s. abdul nazeer. the ceremony took place at kesarapalle near vijayawada. this marks naidu’s fourth term as chief minister in his over four-decade political career, having served twice in combined andhra pradesh and now twice in residual andhra pradesh.”

” Notes:the 8th japan-india maritime exercise (jimex-24) has commenced in yokosuka, japan. hosted by the japan maritime self-defence force (jmsdf), it features the indian navy’s ins shivalik and jmsdf’s js yugiri. the exercise includes harbour and sea phases, focusing on naval interaction and warfighting skills, aiming to enhance interoperability and strengthen defense ties between japan and india.”

” Phonepe, a leading fintech firm has partnered with pickme, sri lankan ride-hailing platform to enable unified payments interface (upi)-based payments for indian travellers in sri lanka.• pickme aims to reduce stress for indian visitors to sri lanka by incorporating phonepe’s upi-based quick response (qr) payment method into their platform.• in may 2024, phonepe also partnered with lankapay to enable upi payments in sri lanka and in april 2024, phonepe inked a pact with the singapore tourism board (stb) to enable upi payments for indian visitors in singapore.”

” On the occasion of world environment day 2024 (5th june), indian space research organisation (isro) announced the details of mission trishna (thermal infra-red imaging satellite for high-resolution natural resource assessment), a collaborative endeavour with cnes (centre national d’études spatiales), french space agency.• trishna is a dedicated satellite to monitor earth’s surface temperatures and mitigate climate change.• the mission, set to be launched in 2025, is designed for a 5-year operational life.• trishna satellite will be equipped with the two primary payloads: thermal infra-red (tir) and visible-near infra-red-short wave infra-red (vnir-swir).”

” According to the united nations (un) assessment report, “ a world of debt 2024: a growing burden to global prosperity,” the global public debt (both domestic and external borrowing by governments) has reached usd 97 trillion in 2023, an increase of usd 5.6 trillion compared to 2022.• developing countries account for 30% of the total global debt, with their debt growth rate doubling that of developed nations.• the report was prepared by the global crisis response group technical team at the un trade and development (unctad), under the leadership of secretary-general rebeca grynspan.• developing nations paid usd 847 billion in net interest in 2023, a 26% increase from 2021.• 3.3 billion people live in countries where interest payments exceed education or health spending.click here to read more”

” The ministry of mines (mom) has signed a memorandum of understanding (mou) with the central tuberculosis (tb) division of the ministry of health & family welfare (mohfw) for collaborative and convergent action towards elimination of tb in india by 2025.• this partnership aims for collaborative field actions like webinars and other awareness-building initiatives under the national tb elimination programme (ntep) by engaging the central public sector enterprises (cpses), attached offices, subordinate offices and autonomous bodies of the mom.”

” Oleg dmitriyevich kononenko, a russian cosmonaut has become the first person to spend 1,000 cumulative days in space. he currently works at the international space station (iss).• his current trip to the iss began on september 15 2023, when he launched alongside national aeronautics and space administration (nasa) astronaut loral o’hara and compatriot nikolai chub.• he first took the cumulative space time record in february 2024, when he surpassed the total of 878 days, 11 hours, 29 minutes, and 48 seconds set by fellow russian gennady padalka in 2015.• if kononenko’s mission ends as scheduled september 23 2024, he will have spent a total of 1,110 days in orbit.”

” On 6th june 2024, the securities and exchange board of india (sebi) introduced a framework for financial disincentives for surveillance related lapses (fdsrl) for market infrastructure institutions (miis) including stock exchanges, clearing corporations and depositories in case of surveillance-related lapses in stock markets.• the framework has a provision to impose penalty on miis from 1 lakh to rs 1 crore for each instance of surveillance related lapse during the financial year.• the framework will come into effect from 1st july 2024.• the financial disincentives for surveillance –related lapses are decided based on total annual revenue of miis and the number of lapses in a financial year.• in case of imposition of penalty, the concerned mii is required to deposit the penalty within the 15 days to the investor protection and education fund (ipef) of sebi.”

Sameer bansal has taken the post of chief executive officer and managing director for pnb metlife india insurance company limited with effect from 1 july 2024 he succeeds ashish srivastava who was appointed ceo for new york based metlife

” On 6th june 2024, sunil chhetri(39 years old), legendary indian footballer and the captain of the indian national football team(nicknamed “the blue tigers”) since 2012, retired from international football, after india’s fifa world cup 2026 qualifier against kuwait.• he ended his 19 year long career representing india with 151 appearances and 94 goals.• with 94 international goals, sunil chhetri is the 4-highest goal-scorer behind cristiano ronaldo(128), iran’s etired ali daei(108) and lionel messi(106).• he holds the record as the first indian player to play in three continents(asia; america and europe.”

On 30 may 2024 peru and slovakia officially became 41st and 42nd nations to sign the national aeronautics and space administration – artemis accords the artemis accords were launched jointly by nasa and the us department of state in 2020 with an aim of advancing bilateral and

” India, south korea, japan, the united states of america (usa), and the european union (eu) launched an alliance to put joint efforts to build a resilient supply chain in the biopharmaceutical sector.• the inaugural meeting of the biopharmaceutical alliance, took place in san diego, california, the usa during the bio international convention 2024, the world’s largest biopharmaceutical exhibition held from 3rd to 6th june 2024.• the representatives and government officials from india, south korea, the usa, japan and the eu attended the inaugural meeting.”