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June 17 , 2020 1565 days 850 0
  • International Albinism Awareness Day is observed on 13th June every year.
    • The theme of this year is ‘Made To Shine’.
  • The International Labour Organization and the UNICEF have released a report on Child Labour.
    • The report has been released under the title of "COVID-19 and Child Labour: A Time of Crisis, A Time to Act".
  • The Defence Research and Development Organization has developed ‘GermiKlean’.
    • It is a sanitising chamber that can be used to sanitise uniforms of security and police personnel.
  • The National Institute of Space Research (INPE) announced that the increase in deforestation of Amazon forests has been the highest in 2019 as compared to last 5 years.
    • Deforestation in the region has increased after President Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019.
  • A list of countries such as New Zealand, Fiji, Montenegro, Tanzania, Vatican, Seychelles, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, St Kitts and Nevis have declared themselves as covid free.
  • The Punjab Government has launched “Ghar Ghar Nigrani” mobile application to undertake house to house surveillance to eliminate COVID-19 pandemic.
  • The Researchers of IIT Kharagpur have developed an Artificial Intelligence based cyber-physical system to monitor social distancing in public places.
  • The Veteran Urdu poet Anand Mohan Zutshi ‘Gulzar’ Dehlvi recently passed away. 
    • Gulzar was the editor of “Science ki Duniya”, the only science magazine published in Urdu by the Government of India.
  • The Government of Jammu and Kashmir recently launched the Poultry policy, 2020.
  • The Chilean and Argentine researchers have unearthed teeth of a species called Magallanodon baikashkenk in the Patagonia region.
    • It is belonging to a mammal that lived 74 million years ago.
       

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