Top GKToday’s News Headlines-19 June 2020

INDIA

• Govt. to launch ‘Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan’ to provide employment to over six million migrant workers in six states — MP, UP, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand and Rajasthan — through government schemes in the next four months

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

• Indian economy to contract by 4% in 2020-21, grow by 5% in 2021-22: ADB in its Asian Development Outlook (ADO)
• Fitch Ratings retains India’s sovereign rating at ‘BBB-’, changes outlook to ‘Negative’ from ‘Stable’
• PM launches auction of 41 coal blocks for commercial mining, a move that opens India’s coal sector for private players
• France to provide loan of 200 million euros to India to support Delhi’s Covid response
• Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund to invest ₹11,367 crore in Jio Platforms for 2.32% stake

WORLD

• India, Ireland, Mexico and Norway elected non-permanent members of UN Security Council for 2-year term
• Nepal’s parliament approves new map that lays claim to Indian territory in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district
• Turkey’s Volkan Bozkir elected president of 75th UN General Assembly
• 2020 Sony World Photography Awards: Uruguay’s Pablo Albarenga named Photographer of the Year in professional category
• ‘The Room Where It Happened’, a book by US President Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser John Bolton, to release on June 23
• US President confirms plans to withdraw 9,500 American soldiers from bases in Germany
• Amazon indigenous chief Paulinho Paiakan dies of coronavirus in Brazil aged 65
• Sustainable Gastronomy Day celebrated by UN on June 18