ANSWER: C

• Gujarat will host the two-day National Education Ministers’ Conference.
• It will concentrate on the implementation of the National Education Policy 2020, school skilling, and digital projects such as the National Digital Education Architecture and the National Educational Technology Forum, among others.
• The state education ministers will also pay visits to Vidya Samiksha Kendra, BISAG (Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geoinformatics), NFSU (National Forensic Science University), and the International Automobile Centre of Excellence.

ANSWER: C

• ‘Yoga for Humanity’ has been chosen as the theme of the eighth International Day of Yoga to be organised in India and across the globe on June 21.
• The main event of International Day of Yoga this year will be held in Mysuru, Focusing on the theme of ‘yoga for humanity’, special programmes have been designed this year for specially-abled people, the transgender population, women and children. Human values that are an integral part of yoga education in schools are also in focus.
• The 8th edition of International Day of Yoga (IDY) will see many firsts, one of them is an innovative programme, named “Guardian Ring”, under which participation of people performing yoga will take place along with the movement of the sun from different countries, beginning from the east and marching towards west.

ANSWER: C

• The agreement was signed in Dubai by Orna Barbivay and Abdalla Bin Touq Al Marri.

KEY POINTS:

• Regulatory and standardisation concerns, customs, collaboration, government procurement, e-commerce, and intellectual property rights are all covered under the agreement.
• This is a crucial visit for the State of Israel’s commercial relations with the United Arab Emirates, the first free trade zone deal with an Arab country.
• The free trade zone agreement they signed this morning is expected to improve bilateral commerce, remove barriers, and create new economic possibilities and collaborations, all of which will serve as a foundation for our common road forward.
• The commercial pact with Israel will usher in a new era in the Middle East. This agreement will boost economic growth and reinforce the notion that working together is the only way to build long-term, sustainable economies in a complicated environment.

ANSWER: C

• Param Ananta, is a state of the art supercomputer at IIT Gandhinagar dedicated to the nation under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
• It is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), which was commissioned. This indigenous software stack is developed by C-DAC and is a Make in India initiative.

About the Param Ananta:

• The Param Ananta is based on direct contact liquid cooling technology to obtain a high power usage effectiveness and thereby reduce the operational cost.
• The Param Ananta Supercomputing Facility will greatly benefit IIT Gandhinagar’s R&D activities in multidisciplinary domains of science and technology, including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), data science; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); bio-engineering for genome sequencing and DNA studies.
• Computational biology and bioinformatics are used in the prediction and detection of gene networks; atomic and molecular sciences that help in understanding how a drug binds to a particular protein; climate change and environment studies for extreme weather predictions and simulation of models which can predict the onset of a cyclone;
• Energy studies which will help in carrying out design simulation and optimization of energy conversion devices at various scales; fire dynamics simulation; nanotechnology; robotics; applied mathematics; astronomy and astrophysics; material sciences; quantum mechanics; and studies on civil engineering and structural mechanics to understand the dynamic behaviour of buildings, bridges, and complex structure.

ANSWER: D

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has released the benefits of the PM CARES for Children scheme for children who lost their parents due to the Covid-19 pandemic. PM Modi has promised Rs 4,000 a month for basic needs, financial support for schooling, scholarship for higher education, and free treatment up to Rs 5 lakh.
• Prime Minister transferred scholarships to school-going children.
• A passbook of PM CARES for Children, and a health card under Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana were handed over to the children during the programme.

About the PM CARES scheme:

• PM CARES for Children Scheme was launched by the Prime Minister on 29 May 2021.
• The aim was to support children who have lost both their parents or legal guardian or adoptive parents or surviving parents to the Covid-19 pandemic, during the period from 11 March 2020 to 28 February 2022.

ANSWER: A

• In Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan, India earned its first ever medal at the IBSA Judo Grand Prix.
• It’s worth noting that 18 of 21 countries that competed won medals.
• The Indian Blind and Para Judo Association’s Judoka Kapil Parmar deserves heartfelt praising for bringing medals to the country.
• It’s worth noting that 18 of the 21 countries that competed won medals. Several countries, including Iraq, Switzerland, and India, earned their first medals in the IBSA Grand Prix as a result of these.

ANSWER: C

• The campaign started last year and is aimed to conduct door-to-door vaccination programmes in order to reach all of the eligible demographic groups for the first, second and precautionary doses. The States have been advised to ensure that there is no wastage of Covid vaccines at any cost.
• The objective of the “Har Ghar Dastak 2.0” campaign is to vaccinate and saturate the eligible population groups for first, second and precaution doses through door-to-door campaigns, with focussed campaigns for old age homes, schools and colleges, including the out-of-school children (for focussed coverage of children aged 12-18 years population), prisons, brick kilns, etc.
• 57 crore doses have been given around the country thus far. All adults over the age of 15 have gotten at least one dose of the vaccination.

ANSWER: B

• GST was launched in India on 1 July 2017 as a comprehensive indirect tax for the entire country.
• It is a destination-based taxation system.
• It has been established by the101st Constitutional Amendment Act.
• GST revenues bucked the two-month rising trend in May and stood at nearly 1.41 lakh crore, registering a year on-year increase of 44 per cent.
• Although the May Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenues came in lower than the record high collection in April at 1.68 lakh crore and 1.42 lakh crore in March, it is still the fourth highest collection since the rollout of the new tax regime on July 1, 2017.
• The revenues for the month of May 2022 are 44 per cent higher than the GST revenues in the same month last year at 97,821 crore.
• This is the fourth time that the monthly GST collection has crossed the 1.40 lakh crore mark since the inception of GST and the third straight month since March 2022.

ANSWER: A

• The IIT-Mandi has declared Bhattakuffer Fruit Mandi on the outskirts of Shimla unsafe for trading and gathering of people until remedial measures are taken to restore the site that was damaged in a landslide two years back.
• The report has also suggested that no activity be carried out even on that portion of the yard that was not affected in the landslide. The arhtiyas had used the unaffected portion for trading activity last year.
• According to report “Though the remaining portion of the platform is structurally stable, it is still in a potential threat zone in case of a landslide.”

ANSWER: D

• The Governor addressed the inaugural session of a five-day training program for Capacity Enhancement of Investigation and Supervisory Officers of Drug Law Enforcement Agencies of Himachal Pradesh organized by Himachal Pradesh Nasha Nivaran Board in collaboration with United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) at HP Institute of Public Administration (HIPA), Fairlawn.
• The should be discussion on the ill effects of drugs, so that effective steps can be taken in future and this topic must be discussed with children to make them aware for the future”,
• Shri Arlekar said that drug addiction is a very sensitive issue and it should also be resolved emotionally besides implementing law and policies made by the Government in this direction.