Current Affairs 2020

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This post contains important current affairs of 26 June 2020. It includes all Major National, International, Business and Sports related current affairs of 26 June 2020. We have collected the latest current affairs and compiled them date wise. These current affairs are important for all competitive exams like bank, ssc, ibps, sbi exams. The GK current affairs will help you score more in these competitive exams. A brief explanation of every current affair is provided to further enhance your general knowledge. Once you have gone through these current affairs we would recommend to you to try 26 June 2020 Current affairs test.

World Drug Day celebrated annually on 26th June
World Drug Day’, it is celebrated annually on 26th June since 1987.
The day is also meant to commemorate Lin Zexu’s efforts towards the strategic dismantling of the opium trade in Humen, Guangdong in China right before the First Opium War on the Chinese Mainland. Theme 2020: Better Knowledge for Better Care.

Pollinator Week is celebrated from 22nd June to 28th June every year.
It was initiated by the non-profit Pollinator Partnership and the USA’ Senate in 2007. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), bees being the dominant pollinators, have around 25,000-30,000 species. More than 180,000 plant species, including 1,200 crop varieties, across the world, depend on pollinators to reproduce.

Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated Battery Swapping Facility Quick Interchange Service in Chandigarh
Battery Swapping Facility Quick Interchange Service (QIS) was inaugurated at Chandigarh jointly by V P Singh Badnore, Governor of Punjab-cum-Administrator, UT, Chandigarh, alongwith the Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel Shri Dharmendra Pradhan. Battery swapping technology will offer the best alternative to slow charging. The facility will help the drivers to make optimum use of the operational hours.

KVIC launched Sandalwood and Bamboo plantation to stir up monetization of its assets
Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) launched Sandalwood and Bamboo plantation to spur monetization of its assets. The first of its kind initiative began with a drive with plantation of 500 saplings each of sandalwood and bamboo at its Nashik training center spread over 262 acres of land. The plantation ceremony was launched through video-conference by KVIC Chairman Vinai Kumar Saxena.

Defence Minister inaugurated two-day Defence Conclave 2020 Gujarat through video conferencing
Union Minister of State for Defence Shri Shripad Naik inaugurated a two-day digital conference on the defence & aerospace manufacturing sector Defence Conclave 2020, Gujarat via video conference on 26 June. The conclave is being jointly organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Gujarat and Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM)

North and South Korea separately marked the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War.
Recently North and South Korea separately marked the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. On 25th June 1950, North Korea, backed by the USSR, launched an attack on South Korea and occupied most of the country. The root of the conflict lies in the Japanese occupation of Korea between 1910- 1945. When Japan was defeated in the Second World War, the Allied forces agreed to establish a “four-power trusteeship over Korea” at the Yalta Conference (1945).

NITI Aayog launched Behaviour Change Campaign Navigating the New Normal and Website
NITI Aayog, in partnership with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Centre for Social and Behavioural Change (CSBC), Ashoka University, and the Ministries of Health and Ministry of Women and Child Development launched a behaviour change campaign called ‘Navigating the New Normal’, and its website on 25 June. Around 92,000 Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) working with NITI Aayog participated in the virtual launch via a webcast.

Gravel geometry of the Indus river unravel its paleoclimatic history
Researchers from the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehradun, have traced the paleoclimatic history of the Indus River in Ladakh Himalaya. It was traced with the help of geometric data from overlapping gravels of channel fills.

National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) has carried out the study of Coccolithophores
National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) has carried out the study of Coccolithophores (microscopic ancient marine algae) and found that there is a decrease in the concentration of oceanic calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the southern Indian ocean.