1. Captain Arjun: Railway Protection Force, Pune, under the Central Railways, has launched a Robotic ‘CAPTAIN ARJUN’

to intensify the screening and surveillance. The robot will screen passengers while they board trains and keep a watch on anti-social elements. It is equipped with a motion sensor, one PTZ camera and one Dome Camera. The Cameras use Artificial Intelligence algorithms to track suspicious and antisocial activity.

2. PK Mohanty panel:

Constituted by RBI. To review guidelines of ownership of private sector banks.

Terms of reference:

1. examine the existing regulation and guidelines on ownership of private sector banks.

2. suggest appropriate norms to address the issue of concentration of control and ownership of banks.

3. review the eligibility criteria of the individuals to apply for banking license.

3. Turant Customs:

Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, CBIC has launched its flagship programme TurantCustoms, at Bengaluru and Chennai.

Under this, Importers will now get their goods cleared from Customs after a faceless assessment is done remotely by the Customs officers located outside the port of import.

Now, the goods imported at Chennai may be assessed by the Customs officers located at Bengaluru and vice versa, as assigned by the Customs’ automated system.

4. SATYABHAMA portal:

Launched by Ministry of Mines. SATYABHAMA stands for Science and Technology Yojana for Aatmanirbhar

Bharat in Mining Advancement. It allows online submission of project proposals along with monitoring of the

projects and utilization of funds grants. The researchers can also submit progress reports and Final Technical Reports of

the projects in the electronic format in the portal.

5. International Yoga Day: Observed on June 21st every year. Theme for 2020: “Yoga for Health – Yoga at Home”. The UN proclaimed June 21 as International Day of Yoga by passing a

resolution on December 11, 2014, during the 69th session of the General Assembly.

6. Census of Asiatic Lion Census of Asiatic lion was recently conducted by the Gujarat Government. The census is conducted once every five years

The first Lion Census was conducted by the Nawab of Junagadh in 1936; since 1965, the Forest Department has been regularly conducting the Lion Census every five years.

28% rise in population of Lions: Total estimated Lions in Gir region is 674. It was 523 in 2015. 36% Expanse in distribution: Today, Asiatic lions are present in Protected Areas and agro-

pastoral landscapes of Saurashtra covering nine districts, over an expanse of about 30,000 sq. km. It was 22,000 sq. km in 2015

7. Kumbhar Sashaktikaran Program:

It is an initiative of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) for empowerment of potters’ community in the remotest of locations in the country.

The program reaches out to the potters in many states including U.P., M.P., Maharashtra, J&K, Haryana, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Assam, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Telangana and Bihar.

This program provides the following support to potters.

1. Training for advanced pottery products

2. Latest, new technology pottery equipments like the electric Chaak

3. Market linkages and visibility through KVIC exhibitions

8. YUKTI 2.0:

It is an initiative to help systematically assimilate technologies having commercial potential and information related to incubated startups in our higher education institutions.

YUKTI stands for Young India combating COVID with Knowledge, Technology and Innovation.

Ministry of HRD prepared the portal in view of Coronavirus. Through this portal, the Ministry of Human Resource Development will endeavor to ensure that

students, teachers and researchers in higher educational institutions are getting appropriate support to meet the requirements needed to advance their technologies and innovations.

9. Kushinagar airport declared as international airport: It is in Uttar Pradesh. Kushinagar is an important Buddhist pilgrimage site, where Gautam Buddha

attained Mahaparinirvana. Kushinagar is dotted with several other Buddhist sites in the nearby surroundings like

Sravasti (238 km), Kapilvastu (190 km) and Lumbini (195 km).

10.Nation’s top wheat contributor:

Madhya Pradesh (MP) this year surpassed Punjab to become the number one contributor of wheat.

Punjab, however, is still a way ahead from MP as far as per hectare productivity of wheat is concerned, which is around 52 per cent more (per hectare) than MP.

Of the total wheat area in the country, MP’s share was 31 per cent, while Punjab cultivated wheat on 10.6 per cent of the total national area.

11 World's first yoga university outside India has been launched in Los Angeles: It is named Vivekananda Yoga University (VaYU). VaYU will offer online graduate programmes based on scientific principles and modern

research approaches to yoga. Eminent Indian yoga guru Dr. H R Nagendra, Chancellor of Swami Vivekananda Yoga

Anusandhana Samsthana (SVYASA) is the first Chairman of VaYU.

12. Cyclonic Storm ‘NISARGA’ :

Cyclonic Storm formed over East central Arabian Sea has been named Nisarga. The name in the new list was suggested by Bangladesh.

Tropical Cyclone is any large system of winds that circulates about a center of low atmospheric pressure in a counter-clockwise direction north of the Equator and in a clockwise direction to the south.

13. One Nation-One Ration Card scheme Three more States included in One Nation One Card scheme- Odisha, Sikkim and

Mizoram. The facility so far is enabled in 17 States/UTs. One Nation One Ration Card (RC) will ensure all beneficiaries especially migrants

can access PDS across the nation from any PDS(Public distribution system) shop of their own choice.

Benefits: no poor person is deprived of getting subsidised foodgrains under the food security scheme when they shift from one place to another. It also aims to remove the chance of anyone holding more than one ration card to avail benefits from different states.

14. PM Svanidhi

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has launched PM Svanidhi, or Pradhan Mantri Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi scheme.

The scheme was announced by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 14 May to enable street vendors to resume their livelihoods, which have been hit hard due to the national lockdown.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has signed MoU with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in order to engage SIDBI as the Implementation Agency for PM Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) -a Special Micro-Credit Facility for Street Vendors .

Under the scheme, vendors can avail working capital loan of up to ₹10,000, which is repayable in monthly instalments within one year.

• On timely/early repayment of the loan, an interest subsidy of 7% per annum will be credited to the bank accounts of beneficiaries through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) on six-months basis. • There will be no penalty on early repayment of loan.

Eligibility: The scheme is applicable to vendors, hawkers, thelewalas, rehriwalas, theliphadwalas in different areas/contexts who supply goods and services. Street vendors belonging to the surrounding peri-urban/rural areas are also included.

15. Credit Guarantee Scheme for Sub-ordinate Debt (CGSSD) launched

The scheme was announced by the Finance Minister as part of the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.

It is also called as “Distressed Assets Fund–Sub-ordinate Debt for MSMEs”.

Overview:

• It is a scheme for the distressed MSME sector. • The scheme seeks to extend support to the promoter(s) of the operational MSMEs which are stressed and have become NPAs as on 30th April, 2020. • As per the Scheme, guarantee cover worth Rs. 20,000 crores will be provided to the promoters who can take debt from the banks to further invest in their stressed MSMEs as equity. • The scheme will be operationalised through Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for MSEs (CGTMSE).