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- 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.
- It is belonging to a mammal that lived 74 million years ago.
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