Weekly Current Affairs (Beepedia) 1st-8th June 2023

RBI, Banking and Economy

• RBI Governor launches financial inclusion dashboard 'Antardrishti'

• RBI announces draft cyber security norms for payment system operators

• RBI permits banking units at IFSC to settle NDDCs in rupee

SEBI and FINANCIAL AWARENESS

• SEBI releases bond trading guidelines on RFQ platform to increase liquidity

NABARD & AGRICULTURE

• Union cabinet approves world's largest grain storage plan with an investment of Rs 1 lakh crore

• Government imposes stock limits on tur, urad dal till October to check hoarding

• Centre removes 40% procurement celling to boost production of pulses

NATIONAL

• India-EU Connectivity Conference to be organized in Meghalaya from June 1

• India, Nepal signed pacts on energy, transport

• Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri launched PM SVANidhi mobile app to ease loan process and provide information for street vendors

INTERNATIONAL

• India, US to form monitoring group to review tech trade cooperation

• Latvia’s parliament elected popular foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics as the new president

• UAE withdrew from U.S.-led maritime coalition in the Gulf

STATES

• Maharashtra govt signed MoU with Bajaj Finserv to invest Rs 5,000 crore in Pune

• India's first carbon neutral village being developed in Bhiwandi Taluka of Thane district

• Ahmednagar will now be renamed ‘Ahilya Nagar’

REPORTS AND INDEXES

• Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya unveiled 5th State Food Safety Index on World Food Safety Day

• New York tops the world's 20 most expensive cities for expats in 2023

• Health ministry unveils food safety index, Kerala secures top ranking

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• CSIR-CCMB joined global research group involved in development of algorithm along lines of ChatGPT for genetics

• AIIMS Nagpur Became First To Receive NABH Accreditation

DEFENCE

• AIIA and Vijnana Bharati Organized Global Indian Scientists and Technocrats Forum Meet at New Delhi

• India conducted successful training launch of Agni-1 ballistic missile

• Indian Navy’s Green Initiatives imbibing Green Technologies

EVENTS

• Rediffusion and University of Lucknow to launch 'The Bharat Lab'

• India, Vietnam hold 3rd Maritime Security Dialogue in New Delhi

• NeVA to make the functioning of the State legislatures paperless and integrate all 37 Legislative Houses on to ‘One Nation One Application’

AWARDS AND REWARDS

• Kolkata teen won ‘Best Diplomat’ award in Dubai

• Shalini Singh became first female NCC cadet to complete mountaineering course in Himalayan region

SPORTS

• Hockey: India lift Men’s Junior Asia Cup for fourth time, defeating Pakistan in Oman

• Attacking icon Zlatan Ibrahimovic retired from football

• India won two gold and one bronze in Asian U-20 Athletics Championship