CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 3rd June 2022

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 3^rd June 2022

1. World Bicycle Day is marked on 3 June every year to recognise bicycling as a way to get a sustainable form of travelling that also ensures one’s physical well being.
2. Punjab & Sind Bank Limited, an Indian nationalised bank, announced that its MD and CEO, S Krishnan retired from the role, with effect from 31May, 2022.
3. Former SBI Managing Director Ashwani Bhatia has taken charge as a whole-time member (WTM) at the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
4. Santoor maestro and Padma Shri awardee, Bhajan Sopori has passed away at the age of 73.
5. Instagram has launched an ‘alert’ feature to help find missing children. The photo-sharing app has partnered with various organisations globally to set up the feature.
6. Indian American Harini Logan Wins 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
7. Javier Olivan, the current Chief Growth Officer at Meta Platforms, will take over as the company's new Chief Operating Officer after Sheryl Sandberg stepped down from the post.
8. Dr S Somanath, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), inaugurated ANANTH Technologies’ spacecraft manufacturing unit at Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) Aerospace Park.
9. ‘Yoga for Humanity’ has been chosen as the theme of the eighth International Day of Yoga to be organised in India and across the globe on 21 June.
10.  The first liquid mirror telescope in the country and the largest in Asia was commissioned atop Devasthal, a hill in Uttarakhand.