Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2021

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The Raimona reserve forest in Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) of Assam, has been upgraded as the sixth national park of the state.
The other five national parks in Assam are Kaziranga, Manas, Nameri, Orang and Dibru-Saikhowa. This Park is famous for its rich flora and fauna especially the Golden langur, clouded leopards, Indian gaur and Hornbill.

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The State Government of Goa has released a short film on Chhatrapati Shivaji, titled “Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Shivrajyabhishek Divas”, on the occasion of the king’s coronation day.
This film has been released in Konkani and Hindi versions. It covers the history of Goa and the role of Shivaji in Goa’s fight against the Portuguese. It is set to restore the forts, temples built by the king.

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The International Labour Organisation (ILO) released the assessment titled ‘World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2021’.
As per the report, global crisis-induced ‘jobs gap’ will reach 75 million in 2021 before falling to 23 million in 2022. It also predicts that employment growth will be insufficient to make up for the losses suffered until at least 2023.

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The Supreme Court of India has directed the State Government of Haryana and the Faridabad Municipal Corporation to remove all encroachments in Aravali forest near a village in Faridabad.
These encroachments also consist of around 10,000 residential constructions. The apex court has also directed compliance reports from the state authorities in this regard.

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The Ministry of Education is set to release -Content for Specially-abled Children. It includes digitally inclusive curriculum including Accessible Digital Textbooks (ADTs) for all children, supplementary learning material, and sign language videos.
These are part of the guidelines approved by the Ministry for online education for differently-abled children. Assistive technology, simplified lessons, multimodal evaluation will be included in the e-content for different-abled students.

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Several consumers of butter in Canada have been reporting that their butter was hard at room temperature.
This firm-butter phenomenon was ultimately dubbed as “buttergate” by the media. These changes were said to have happened due to the change in the diet of dairy cows. Canadians fear that dairy farmers use palm oil fat supplements in the diet of the cows.

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The United Nations Security Council has recommended the reappointment of the present Secretary-General António Guterres for a second term, which commences from January 1, 2022. This recommendation would now go for approval to the 193-member UN General Assembly.
António Guterres is presently the 9th UN chief and commenced his tenure from 2017.

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The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the UNICEF have released a report titled ‘Child Labour: Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward’. This has been released ahead of the World Day Against Child Labour in June 12th.
As per the report, the number of child labour has risen to an alarming number of 16 crore across the world.

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As per a recent study conducted in Indonesia, mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria, reduce the insect’s ability to spread dengue.
As per the World Mosquito Programme team, the bacteria remain in those parts of its body that the dengue virus needs to get into. After the study, the Dengue fever cases have been cut by 77%.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) released a handbook to help assess the burden of foodborne diseases. It also aims to locate data gaps to help strengthen health infrastructure.
As per the report, more than 600 million people are affected by foodborne diseases every year. It also highlighted that over 0.12 million children under five years die from consuming unsafe food.