todays current affairs in English 24 june 2021

 todays current affairs in English (  24 june 2021)  update for bank, ssc, railway, upsc and state govt ...

Ashok Kumar Appointed High Commissioner to  Zambia

Ashok Kumar also served as Joint Secretary in the Ministry and was appointed Ambassador of India to the Republic of Djibouti on December 19, 2018.

Ashok Kumar, presently Ambassador of India to the Republic of Djibouti, has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Zambia, informed the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).

He is expected to take up the assignment of the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Zambia shortly.

Yogi Govt To Name Noida Shooting Range After ‘Shooter Dadi’ Chandro Tomar

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has decided to name the shooting range in Noida after the international shooter Chandro Tomar, popularly known as 'Shooter Dadi'.

Chandro Tomar died at the age of 89 in April due to Covid.

In 2019, a film based on her life, 'Saand Ki Aankh' was released.

Shooter Dadi had started professional shooting at the age of 60 and went on to win many national competitions. She is considered the oldest shooter in the world. 

 Reuters Institute Digital News Report, 2021, to be released virtually on June 23,

India ranked 31 out of 46 countries on levels of overall trust in news. Only 38% of the respondents from India said they trust news overall.

Finland had the highest levels of overall trust in news (65%) while the U.S. had the lowest levels of trust (29%).

This year’s report focuses on “trust in news, the pandemic induced economic pressure on news publishers, misinformation and COVID-19 and other aspects of digital news consumption among the public,” the release said.

IFFCO to set up nano urea plant in Argentina

Leading fertiliser cooperative IFFCO on Wednesday said it will set up a nano urea liquid manufacturing plant in Argentina in partnership with two agencies -- Instituto Nacional de Asociativismoy Economía Social (INAES) and Cooperative Confederation of Argentina "Cooperar".

IFFCO, INAES and Cooperar -- entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the same, it said in a statement.

International Olympics Day is observed on June 23 every year

International Olympics Day is observed on June 23 every year to celebrate sports and health. The occasion marks the day when International Olympic Committee was founded in 1894.

 The day aims at promoting sports and spreads the message of making sports an integral part of life.

History 

The creation of the modern-day Olympic Games is inspired by the ancient Olympic Games held in Olympia, Greece, from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD. Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894 and laid foundation of the Olympic Games.

The Olympic Day 2021 theme is “Stay healthy, stay strong, stay active with the #OlympicDay workout on 23 June.”

Jamsetji N Tata becomes world’s top philanthropist

 With donations worth $102.4 billion India’s pioneer industrialist and Tata Group founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata is the world’s biggest philanthropist of the last century

Bill and Melinda Gates, who came in second.

Azim Premji was the first Indian to sign the Giving Pledge in 2010 and since then transferred 67 per cent of Wipro to the Azim Premji

IBM and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) on Wednesday launched

Wednesday launched the IBM-IISc Hybrid Cloud Lab to advance research in hybrid cloud technologies and drive breakthrough innovations.

Located at the IISc. campus in Bengaluru, students and faculty across departments of the institute would work alongside IBM Research scientists on cutting-edge technologies that can help organisations leverage the power of hybrid cloud by enabling faster, seamless, and more secure adoption of hybrid cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI), said IBM.

IndoSpace launches two industrial parks in Tamil Nadu

IndoSpace, Everstone Group’s industrial and logistics real estate development platform, on Tuesday said it has launched two parks, Vallam II and Oragadam III in Tamil Nadu, adding 118 acres to its portfolio

Both the industrial parks will cater to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) such as Yamaha, Hyundai, Royal Enfield, Nissan, Daimler and Foxconn, which operate in the region.

Cabinet approves merger of Central Railside Warehouse Company Limited (CRWC) with Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC)

The merger will unify the similar functions of both the companies such as warehousing, handling, and transportation

It will result in efficiency, optimum capacity utilization, transparency, inflow of capital into railside warehousing and employment generation

Microsoft reaches a $2 trillion market value

Saudi Aramco eclipsed that threshold briefly in December 2019, but currently has a market value of about $1.9 trillion

Co-founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen,

Agreement between  India and Saint Vincent

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved an Agreement between the Republic of India and Saint Vincent and The Grenadines for the Exchange of Information and Assistance in Collection with respect to Taxes.

Agreement mainly proposes to facilitate exchange of information between the two countries and to provide assistance to each other in collection of tax claims.

Chandrayaan-2 instrument gives outstanding science results on solar corona

An instrument on board India's Chandrayaan-2 mission has provided outstanding science results on the solar corona and heliophysics

corona consists of ionised gas at temperatures exceeding one million Kelvin, which is much higher than photospheric temperature of 6000 K, the visible surface temperature of the Sun.

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