Important Current Affairs For Competitive Exams | Current Affairs of 29 June 2020
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Vini Mahajan became the first woman Chief Secretary of the state of Punjab.
Sanjay Kumar becomes new Chief Secretary of Maharashtra State.
NASA's Washington DC-based headquarters have been named after 'Mary W. Jackson'.
Nimai Bhattacharya Bengali writer and journalist, dies at the age of 89.
State of Chhattisgarh started Adarsh Police Station Scheme.
Madagascar celebrated its 60th Independence Day on 26 June.
Noida renamed Sector-50 Metro Station as Rainbow Metro Station.
Karnataka Rajya installed 108-feet tall statue of Kempegowda, founder of Bengaluru.
"Surakshit Dada-Dadi & Nana-Nani Abhiyan" launched by NITI Aayog for senior citizens.
Japan topped the list of top-500 supercomputers.
Vini Mahajan became the first woman Chief Secretary of the state of Punjab
Vini Mahajan, a 1987 batch IAS officer, took over as the first woman Chief Secretary of Punjab. Vini Mahajan has been appointed in place of "Karan Avatar Singh". With this, Vini Mahajan has secured first place in the administrative history of Punjab as her husband Dinkar Gupta is the director of police of the state.Punjab has become the only state in India where both civil and police administration is a couple. Currently Vini Mahajan was serving in the Department for Investment Promotion Industry and Commerce and Public Grievances.
Sanjay Kumar becomes new Chief Secretary of Maharashtra State
The Government of Maharashtra appointed Sanjay Kumar as the new Chief Secretary of the state of Maharashtra. Sanjay Kumar, replacing "Kumar Mehta", became the new Chief Secretary of the state of Maharashtra.Sanjeev Kumar is currently serving as Additional Chief Secretary of Housing Department of Maharashtra State and Additional In-charge of Home Department. Sanjay Kumar, a 1984 batch IAS officer, has been given a new charge as Chief Advisor to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray from July 1.
NASA's Washington DC-based headquarters have been named after 'Mary W. Jackson'
NASA's Washington DC-based headquarters have been named after 'Mary W. Jackson'. Jackson was a mathematician and aerospace engineer who started her career at a computing unit in Virginia. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in the year 2019. She was the first woman to join NASA as an engineer.
Nimai Bhattacharya Bengali writer and journalist, dies at the age of 89
Bengali writer and journalist Nimai Bhattacharya died at the age of 89. Bhattacharya was born in Maguru district (present-day Bangladesh). He wrote more than 150 books like 'Memsaheb', 'Diplomate', 'Minibus', 'Inquilab', 'Eamon Kalyan'. Memsaheb's story was also used in the film starring Uttam Kumar and the film was a huge success. Bhattacharya also did journalism before handing over his life entirely to writing.
State of Chhattisgarh started Adarsh Police Station Scheme
From July 1, the Chhattisgarh state government formally announced the launch of the Adarsh Police Station scheme. The main objective of setting up the Adarsh police station has been started with the goal of enabling the aggrieved women and children to express their problems in the police stations without any fear and to solve their problems as soon as possible by the police personnel.
Madagascar celebrated its 60th Independence Day on 26 June
President Ramnath Kovind congratulated Madagascar on his 60th Independence Day to Rajoelina. Madagascar, the world's second largest island, celebrated its Independence Day by placing a military parade at the City Hall in the center of the city of Antananarivo, amid the restrictions imposed by Covid-19, with the theme "Madagascar My Homeland My Life My Heritage".Madagascar, formerly known as the Republic of Malagasy, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about 400 kilometers off the coast of East Africa.The total length of which is 592800 square kilometers.
Noida renamed Sector-50 Metro Station as Rainbow Metro Station
Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) has renamed Noida Sector 50 Metro Station as "Rainbow Metro Station". Ritu Maheshwari, managing director of NMRC, has renamed the Noida Sector-50 to Rainbow Metro Station with the objective of providing employment opportunities as well as special facilities to the people of the transgender community.
At this station, people of the transgender community will now be appointed as security personnel and employees, which will provide them employment opportunities.
Karnataka Rajya installed 108-feet tall statue of Kempegowda, founder of Bengaluru
Karnataka State Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa laid the foundation stone of 108 feet tall bronze statue of Bengaluru founder Kempegowda near the Capital's International airport.
It took a year and a half to build this statue and it cost an amount of 78 crores. BS Yediyurappa also laid the foundation stone of a 23-acre theme park on the occasion of the 511th birth anniversary of Kempegowda. Kempegowda established the city on a scientific line, creating civic amenities in accordance with the demands of the people of his state.
"Surakshit Dada-Dadi & Nana-Nani Abhiyan"launched by NITI Aayog for senior citizens
NITI Aayog launched "Surakshit Dada-Dadi & Nana-Nani Abhiyan" in collaboration with Piramal Foundation for the betterment of senior citizens amidst the Covid-19 epidemic.
Under this campaign, it has been started with the aim of providing essential items like medicines, ration to 2.9 million senior citizens. Surendranagar district by NITI Aayog is one of the 25 aspirational districts in the country where the scheme was successfully implemented.
Japan topped the list of top-500 supercomputers
Japan topped the country's "Fugaku" supercomputer in the list of the world's top-500 supercomputers. Fugaku is powered by Fujitsu's 48-core A64FX SoC. Fugaku's peak performance exceeds 1,000 petaflops (1 exaflops). The new system is installed at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Kobe, Japan. While in second place was the "Summit" supercomputer of IBM company.IBM-built supercomputer that distributes 148.8 petaflops over HPL. The system has 4,356 nodes, each equipped with two 22-core Power 9 CPUs and six NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs.
Current Affairs Quiz
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Q1. "Surakshit Dada-Dadi & Nana-Nani Abhiyan" launched by NITI Aayog in collaboration with?
Q2. Who laid the foundation stone of 108 feet tall bronze statue of Bengaluru founder Kempegowda?
Q3. On which day Madagascar celebrated its 60th Independence Day?
Q4. "Adarsh police station" has been started by?
Q5. 'Memsaheb', 'Diplomate', 'Minibus', 'Inquilab' are the famous books written by?
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