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June 4 , 2021 1164 days 941 0
  • Tata Steel Ltd chief executive officer and managing director, T.V. Narendran has taken over as president of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2021-22.
    • Confederation of Indian Industry was founded in1895.
  • The Odisha government decided to include disaster and pandemic management in high school and college curriculums.
  • The Indian Broadcasting Foundation announced the appointment of Justice Vikramjit Sen as the Chairman of its newly formed self-regulatory body Digital Media Content Regulatory Council (DMCRC).
    • He is a former Supreme Court judge.
  • SBI has come out with its Ecowrap report in which it has slashed its 2021-22 GDP growth forecast to 7.9 per cent from 10.4 per cent earlier.
    • The study has also examined a district-wise comparison of the Covid deaths for each state between the first and second wave.
  • Microsoft has launched first ever “Asia Pacific Public Sector Cyber Security Executive Council”.
    • Council was set up with the aim of accelerating public-private partnerships in cybersecurity, and share threat intelligence.
  • West Bengal chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay was immediately appointed as the Chief Advisor of chief minister Mamata Banerjee after his retirement.
    • He will take on the new role from June 1 for a period of three years.
  • China has decided to allow each couple to have up to three children, ending its strict two-child policy.
    • This comes after China's population data over the past decade showed the slowest population growth in decades.
  • China’s Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft docked with the Tianhe space station module in low Earth orbit.
    • It was launched from Wenchang spaceport.
  • The European Commission approved the use of Pfizer and BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine to vaccinate children of age 12 - 15.
    • The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is already being used in the European Union to vaccinate those aged 16 years and above.

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