• National

Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated Central Command Centre for Air Traffic Flow Management

• On June 22, 2019, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated the Central Command Centre for Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) at Vasant Kunj, New Delhi to ensure higher standards of safety.
• It was inaugurated in the presence of the Chairman of Airports Authority of India (AAI) Guruprasad Mohapatra, Board Members and senior AAI officials.
• India became the seventh nation to implement ATFM after the US, Europe, Australia, South Africa, Japan, Brazil.

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About Ministry of Civil Aviation

Officeholder: Suresh Prabhu (Union Minister)

Jurisdiction: India

Headquarters: Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan, New Delhi

• International

Five countries from Asia and Central America had no cases of Malaria in 2018: WHO

• According to the report by World Health Organization (WHO), Four countries from Asia includes China, Iran, Malaysia and Timor-Leste and one country from Central America, El Salvador had malaria-free cases in 2018 and the report confirms that world is on a track to reach malaria elimination by 2020.
• The E-2020 progress report, which is launched in 2016 by the WHO covering 21 countries & spanning five regions.
• The countries were part of the global health body’s E-2020 initiative, launched in 2016, working in 21 countries, spanning five regions, to scale up efforts to achieve malaria elimination by 2020.

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About WHO

Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland

Head: Tedros Adhanom

Founded: 7 April 1948

Founders: India, United States, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, More

• International

Mexico became the first country to ratify the trade deal to replace NAFTA

• On June 19, 2019, Mexico became the first country to ratify the trade deal to replace 25 year old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
• The new trade deal is known as known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
• Mexico sends around 80 per cent of its exports to the United States, and Trump has vowed to impose tariffs on all Mexican goods if López Obrador does not reduce the flow of U.S.-bound illegal immigration from Central America.

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About NAFTA

NAFTA: North American Free Trade Agreement

Establishment: January 1, 1994

• International

Mauritania's Ghazouani declared presidential vote winner

• Mauritania’s ruling party candidate Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has won the presidential election with 52 percent of the vote.
• The election was the first in the nation’s history, since independence from France in 1960.
• The election was the first in the sparsely populated Saharan nation’s history, since independence from France in 1960, to choose a successor to a democratically elected president.

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About Mauritania

President: Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz

Capital: Nouakchott

Currency: Mauritanian ouguiya

• Economy and Business

National Freight Index (NFI) launched by Rivigo Logistics

• On June 20, 2019, In order to bring transparency in the road-freight marketplace, an Indian technology company based in Gurgaon, Rivigo which owns 3,000 trucks 5,000 drivers launched the National Freight Index (NFI) which will provide unrestricted access of live freight rates for different lanes and vehicles across the country.
• The NFI is the barometer of the road freight market in India and is based on Rivigo rate exchange, which gives a live spot rate on over 7 million lane and vehicle type combinations in the country.
• The move is aimed at bringing transparency to the road freight market place and transforming the logistics sector.

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About Rivigo Logistics

Founders: Deepak Garg, Gazal Kalra

Founded: 2014

• Sports

Fernando Torres, former Liverpool, Chelsea & Spain striker retired

• Fernando Torres, former Liverpool, Chelsea & Spain striker aged 35 retired from football.
• He hails from Fuenlabrada, Spain .
• His career started with Atletico, before a £20m move to Liverpool in 2007, where he scored 81 goals in 142 games.
• In 2011, he was signed by Chelsea for a then British record transfer fee of £50m.

• Sports

India’s ace cueist Pankaj Advani clinched the 35th men’s Asian Snooker Championship in Doha

• India’s ace cueist Pankaj Advani, clinched the 35th men’s Asian snooker championship in Doha, Qatar.
• He defeated Thai’s Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon.
• He became the only one to win the Asian and World championships in all formats.
• He will take part in IBSF World Cup in Doha.

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About Qatar

Continent: Asia

Capital: Doha

Currency: Qatari riyal

• Awards

Research Excellence Award 2019’ Dr Gaurav Nigam, an educationist, pediatrician and author, honoured with ‘Innovative

• A well-known educationist, pediatrician and author, Dr Gaurav Nigam was conferred with the ‘Innovative Research Excellence Award 2019’ by Lyonpo Ugyen Dorji, Minister for Labour and Human Resources of Bhutan at the Asian Leadership Summit held at Thimphu, Bhutan.
• The event was organized by Global Leaders Foundation.
• The award was handed over to Dr Gaurav Nigam by Lyonpo Ugyen Dorji, Minister for Labour and Human Resources, Bhutan.

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About Bhutan

Capital: Thimphu

Prime Minister: Lotay Tshering

• Appointments

Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan sworn-in as the second Chief Justice of Telangana High Court

• Acting Chief Justice of Telangana High Court, Raghvendra Singh Chauhan sworn-in as the second Chief Justice of Telangana High Court in Hyderabad.
• He succeeded Chief Justice T.B. Radhakrishnan in April, 2019 and sworn in as acting Chief Justice.
• He hails from Rajasthan.

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About Telangana

Founded: 2 June 2014

Capital: Hyderabad

Official song: Jaya Jaya He Telangana

Chief minister: K. Chandrashekar Rao

• Resignation

Viral Acharya resigns as RBI Deputy Governor

• Viral Acharya has resigned as a Deputy Governor of the RBI.
• He served as a member of the advisory council of the RBI Academy & a member of the Academic Council of the National Institute of Securities Markets, SEBI since 2014.
• Viral Acharya is returning to the New York University Stern School of Business in August

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About RBI

Governor: Shaktikanta Das

Headquarters: Mumbai

Founder: British Raj

Founded: 1 April 1935, Kolkata

• Resignation

Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance CEO Pankaj Razdan resigns

• Pankaj Razdan has resigned as the Deputy chief executive officer of Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance.
• He will be replaced by Kamlesh Rao who is the present managing director of the retail arm of Kotak Securities.
• Razdan has produced a Marathi film recently during his stint with Aditya Birla Group and, according to news reports, is a co-producer in an upcoming Hindi film.

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About Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance.

Founded: 2000

Parent organization: Aditya Birla Financial Services Group

• Important Days

International Widows Day 2019 observed on June 23

• International Widows Day was observed on June 23, 2019.
• It is observed to address the issues that widows and their children face in some countries.
• International Widows’ Day was initiated by the Loomba Foundation in 2005.
• The plight of widows world-wide has been the foundation’s focus since it was established in 1997.
• According to its founder, Raj Loomba, women in many countries experience great hardship after their husbands die.

• Important Days

International Olympic Day is celebrated on 23rd June 2019

• Annually on June 23, International Olympic Day is celebrated all around the world.
• This day marks the birth of modern Olympic games on June 23, 1894, at Sorbonne in Paris.
• The day is celebrated to promote participation in different sports throughout the world without any discrimination of the gender, age and athletic ability.

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About Sorbonne

Founded: 1253

Architects: Jacques Lemercier, Henri Paul Nénot

• States

Justice V Ramasubramanian sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court

• Justice V Ramasubramanian was sworn in as the Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court in Shimla on Saturday.
• He was administered the oath of office by Governor Acharya Devvrat in a ceremony held at Raj Bhawan.
• The ceremony took place at the Darbar Hall of Raj Bhawan, where Chief Secretary B K Agarwal conducted the proceedings of oath ceremony and read out the Warrant of Appointment issued by the President of India.

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About Himachal Pradesh

Capital: Shimla

Chief Minister: Jai Ram Thakur

• Miscellaneous

DD India channel will be broadcasted in Bangladesh & South Korea

• On June 19, 2019, The Information & Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry, Government of India signed the agreement with Bangladesh and South Korea for DD (Doordarshan) India, an Indian English News and Current Affairs Channel which is to be telecasted in those countries.
• As per the agreements signed between India and Bangladesh BTV World, a channel of Bangladesh TV will be made available on DD Freedish, which is owned by the national public service broadcaster Prasar Bharati.

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About Bangladesh

Capital: Dhaka

Currency: Bangladeshi taka

Prime minister: Sheikh Hasina

• Miscellaneous

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev to release an Autobiography titled ‘My Life, My Mission’.

• Yoga guru Baba Ramdev will pen an Autobiography titled ‘My Life, My Mission’.
• He will unveil the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of his life and provide insights into his childhood in his autobiography.
• It is being published by Penguin Random House and expected to release in August 2019.

• Agreements

IRSDC signed 2 MoAs to renovate 22 railway stations

• Two Memorandum of Agreements (MoAs) on ‘Railway Station Redevelopment’ for the renovation of a total of 22 railway stations was signed by Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation (IRSDC).
• In an MoA signed between IRSDC and MECON Limited on Friday, eight railway stations including Andheri, Bandra Terminus, Ranchi, Chennai Egmore will be redeveloped.

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About IRSDC

IRSDC: Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation

Founded: 2012