CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 24th JUNE 2022

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF  24^th  JUNE 2022

1. China on 23 June, 2022 successfully launched three new remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
2. With 3417 confirmed Monkeypox cases reported across 58 countries, World Health Network (WHN) has declared monkeypox outbreak a pandemic.
3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 23 June launched a new portal NIRYAT (National Import-Export Record for Yearly Analysis of Trade).
4. ISRO successfully launched communication satellite GSAT-24 from Kourou in French Guiana on 23 June, 2022.
5. Austrian capital Vienna has been ranked as the world’s most liveable city in the report ‘Global Liveability Index 2022’.
6. Dinkar Gupta, a 1987-batch IPS officer and former chief of Punjab Police, has been appointed Director-General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
7. Justice Amjad Ahtesham Sayed was sworn in as the 27^th Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court on 23 June, 2022.
8. The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Department of Odisha has been awarded first prize in the National MSME Award 2022.
9. The Government of India hosted its first-ever National Logistics Excellence Awards in New Delhi on 23 June, 2022.
10.  Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on 23 June, 2022 launched the 17^th ‘Shala Praveshotsav’, the drive to enrol students in primary schools in the state.
11. The Indian Air Force will conduct the first Warfare and Aerospace Strategy Program (WASP) culminating with a Capstone Seminar at Air Force Auditorium, New Delhi on 24 Jun, 2022.
12.   Europe’s biggest startup conference, ‘Vivatech 2020’ has recognized India as the “country of the year”.
13. The Indian football team reaped a good harvest of its impressive Asian Cup qualification campaign as it gained two places to jump to 104^th in the latest FIFA world rankings released.
14.  Jammu and Kashmir will host the 2023 meetings of the G20, an influential group of the world’s major economies.