CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 29th JUNE, 2023

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 29^th JUNE, 2023

1. National Statistics Day is commemorated annually across India on 29 June to honor the significant contributions made by Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in the fields of statistics and economic planning and to raise public awareness about the role and importance of statistics in Socio-economic planning, policy formulation and development processes in everyday life. The theme of National Statistics Day 2023 is “Alignment of State Indicator Framework with National Indicator Framework for Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals”.
2. United Nations’ International Day of the Tropics is observed annually across the world on 29 June to raise awareness about various challenges that tropical nations face and to celebrate the extraordinary variety of the tropics.
3. Priya A S, a talented writer, has been honored with the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2023 in the Malayalam language for her novel ‘Perumazhayathe Kunjithalukal’ (The Children Who Never Withered).
4. The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Ayush, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal, unveiled the new guidelines for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) called ‘Sagar Samajik Sahayog’ by the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.
5. The city of Ahmedabad is all set to host the Urban20 (U20) Mayoral Summit on 7-8 July, 2023.
6. Rohit Jawa on 27 June, 2023 took charge as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of FMCG major Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL).
7. INS Sunayna visited Mombasa, Kenya from 20-23 June, 2023 for strengthening bilateral ties with maritime neighbours on the theme of Ocean Ring of Yoga.
8. In the QS World University Rankings 2024, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) retains its position at the pinnacle of the rankings for the 12^th consecutive year. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay secures the 149^th rank globally, breaking into the top 150 universities worldwide and comes first among Indian universities.
9. Indian golfer Diksha Dagar won the Czech Ladies Open 2023 championship on the Ladies European Tour (LET) at the Royal Beroun Golf Club on 25 June, 2023.
10. The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) is set to host an extraordinary exhibition titled ‘Banking on World Heritage’.
11. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated Ramnath Goenka Marg during his visit to Noida on 25 June, 2023.
12. After her award-winning bestselling book ‘The Gita for Children’, author Roopa Pai’s children’s book ‘The Yoga Sutras for Children’ has unravelled the secrets of Patanjali’s 2,000-year-old text on Yoga.
13. The Indian Air Force carried out Exercise Ranvijay, a series of integrated wargames from 16 to 23 June, 2023 in the UB Hills and Central Air Command Area of Responsibility aimed at enhancing the skills of fighter pilots.
14. Maharashtra Ironmen were crowned the champions of the first-ever season of the Premier Handball League (PHL) after they defeated the Golden Eagles Uttar Pradesh in the final.
15. The Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) recently unveiled a comprehensive list of 75 technology priority areas aimed at bolstering the indigenous defence manufacturing sector in India.
16. Renowned American scientist John Bannister Goodenough, the co-inventor of Lithium-ion batteries and a co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, passed away at the age of 100.