Top GKToday’s News Headlines-13 June 2020

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Here are the Top GKToday’s News Headlines-13 June 2020

People’s movement from 9 pm-5 am prohibited; buses, trucks can ply on highways: Home Ministry
iFLOWS-Mumbai, an Integrated Flood Warning System for Mumbai, launched; developed by Ministry of Earth Sciences

Defence Ministry extends by four months (till July 24, 2020) capital acquisition deliveries of domestic vendors
NHAI becomes first construction sector organisation to go ‘fully digital’ with the launch of the ‘Data Lake’ software
Foreign exchange reserves surged by $8.22 billion to $501.70 billion in the week ended June 5, first time above $500 billion
RBI constitutes working group headed by RBI executive director PK Mohanty to review private bank shareholding norms
Industrial output, measured in terms of IIP (Index of Industrial Production), shrinks by a record 55.5% in April
Mahindra & Mahindra to give up control of its South Korean unit SsangYong Motor: MD Pawan Goenka

Sahakar Mitra: Scheme on Internship Programme (SIP) was launched by Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare Ministry
An initiative by National Cooperative Development Corporation, SIP will help cooperative institutions access innovative ideas of young professionals (interns)

ILO, UNICEF release report ‘COVID-19 and Child labour: A Time of Crisis, A Time to Act’
World Day against Child Labour celebrated on June 12; theme: ‘Covid-19: Protect Children from Child Labour, now more than ever!’
Indian-American soil scientist Dr Rattan Lal awarded 2020 World Food Prize
Twitter shuts down 1.7 lakh accounts for “spreading geopolitical narratives favourable” to the Chinese government
Donald Trump targets ICC (International Criminal Court) with sanctions for probing whether U.S. forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan