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Union min. Harsh Vardhan launched a mobile lab for coronavirus testing which can be deployed in rural areas and help in promoting last-mile testing. The mobile lab, also called I-Lab or Infectious Diseases Diagnostic Lab can run 50 RT-PCR tests in a day.
It can also conduct up to 200 ELISA tests in a day.
UNGA elected Turkish diplomat Volkan Bozkir to be its president ahead of the 75th General Debate in September. He is currently serving as a Justice and Development Party lawmaker from Istanbul and head of the Turkish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee.
Bozkir is the first Turkish national to head General Assembly.
Hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian economy is expected to contract by 4% during the current financial year, according to the ADB in a supplement to its Asian Development Outlook (ADO). Countries in ‘Developing Asia’ to ‘barely grow’ in 2020.
China is expected to grow of 1.8% in 2020 down from 6.1%.
Karnataka Bank launched a health insurance policy to cover the uncertainties posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. The bank launched in association with Universal Sompo General Insurance Company Limited with an objective of providing insurance against COVID-19.
MD & CEO of Karnataka Bank – Mahabaleshwara M S
BoB is set to completely digitise its lending operations including home, agriculture, MSME, personal & auto loans. It has reached out to the big four & other consultants like McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group to help set up a digital lending department.
MD and CEO of BoB: Sanjiv Chadha.
In Maharashtra, the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) has launched a mobile app "Air-Venti" to help residents in the city to know about the availability of the ICU beds and Ventilators in both government and private hospitals around them.
The app can help contact hospitals through call and e-mail.
The CCI approves the acquisition of Metso Oyj’s ("Metso") minerals business by Outotec Oyj ("Outotec") under Section 31(1) of the Competition Act, 2002. It is to be achieved by a partial demerger of Metso Minerals pursuant to the Finnish Companies Act.
Competition Commission of India Chairman: A K Gupta.
Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju announced that Aizawl’s Rajiv Gandhi Stadium to be upgraded as Khelo India State Centre of Excellence under Khelo India Scheme. Ministry plans to establish one KISCE in each state and UT to create a robust sporting ecosystem.
It is a platform for multiplying existing talents in the region.
In 2015, the United Nations (UN) adopted June 19 every year as the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. The main aim of this day is to raise awareness of the need to put an end to conflict-related sexual violence.
It is the sixth edition of the event.
Former Lok Sabha MP and founder of Janalaxmi Cooperative Bank Madhavrao Patil died in Maharashtra. He was a staunch supporter of Sharad Pawar and was among the first to join when the latter formed the Nationalist Congress Party in 1999.
He won from Nashik Lok Sabha Constituency ticket in 1998.
Film director, script writer & producer K R Sachidanandan,popularly known as Sachy, died. He passed away after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was on ventilator sport. He gave a recent hit movie named Ayyappanum Koshiyum which starred Prithviraj-Biju Menon.
His directorial debut was Anarkali in 2015.
Harvard professor & Nobel prize winner Sen was granted the 2020 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for his "decades-long work on the question "as a question of global justice."The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade has been awarded annually since 1950.
It comes with a cash prize of 25,000 euros ($28,000).
RBI proposed to double the minimum net owned fund (NOF) requirement for housing finance companies to Rs 20 crore and classification of such firms under its draft framework for these companies. It is aimed at strengthening the capital base of small HFCs.
Home Financiers to now be regulated as a category of NBFCs.
Private Sector Lender RBL said that the RBI has approved the re-appointment of Prakash Chandra, Independent Director, as Non-Executive (Part-Time) Chairman of the bank till July 23, 2021, in terms of Section 35B of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.
RBL Bank Headquarters: Mumbai.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has approved the re-appointment of Kaizad Bharucha as Executive Director of HDFC Bank for a period of three years with effect from June 13, 2020, the private sector lender said in a regulatory filing.
HDFC Bank CEO: Aditya Puri. HQ: Mumbai.
June 19th was officially designated as World Sickle Cell Awareness Day. Day is observed annually with the goal to increase public knowledge & an understanding of sickle cell disease, & the challenges experienced by patients & their families and caregivers.
2020 is the 10th anniversary of World Sickle Cell Day.
World Sauntering Day 2020 is marked yearly on June 19 to remind us to stop and smell the roses. It is a holiday that began in 1979 to remind people to slow down & enjoy life & not rush through it. Sauntering here means to walk in a slow & relaxed manner.
This holiday was formed by W.T. Rabe.