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DAILY DOSE 6th JUNE -2024 CURRENT AFFAIRS
1) World Environment Day 2024:
- World Environment Day is celebrated on 5th June every year to encourage awareness and environmental protection.
- In a remarkable initiative to combat deforestation and restore biodiversity, two environmentalists have spearheaded the creation of India’s first biospheres within tiger reserves.
- The United Nations Assembly established World Environment Day in 1972, which was the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the human environment.
- World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year with a specific theme and slogan that focuses on the major environmental issues of that time.
- WED 2024 is hosted by Saudi Arabia.
2) None Of The Above(NOTA) Option:
- The “None of the Above” (NOTA) option has emerged as the runner-up in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore constituency, securing a record-breaking 2,18,674 votes, the highest-ever tally.
- NOTA (None of the Above) is a voting option on the ballot that allows voters to indicate disapproval of all contesting candidates without choosing any of them.
- NOTA empowers the electors to express their negative opinions and a lack of support for the contenders.
- It gives them the right to reject while maintaining the secrecy of their decision.
- NOTA was used for the first time in the 2013 Assembly elections in five states-Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh-and later in the 2014 General Elections.
3) Neo : Novel Protein:
- Recent research has discovered a novel protein, referred to as “Neo,” which plays a critical role in bacterial defence mechanisms against viral infections, particularly bacteriophages.
- It was reported by researchers led by Stephen Tang and Samuel Sternberg in a 2023 preprint paper on bioRxiv while working on Klebsiella pneumoniae.
- Bacteria defend themselves from viral infection (against bacteriophages) using diverse immune systems, many of which sense and target foreign nucleic acids. Defense-associated reverse transcriptase (DRT) systems are one of them.
- In the DRT-2 system, the bacteria undergo de novo gene synthesis via rolling-circle reverse transcription (RT) of a non-coding RNA (ncRNA).
4) World’s Largest Grain Storage Plan:
- The National Level Coordination Committee (NLCC) for the world’s largest grain storage plan held its first meeting in Delhi.
- The plan aims to transform Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) into Multi-Service Societies.
- The pilot project, implemented in 11 states, focuses on creating agricultural infrastructure at the PACS level, including warehouses and processing units, through various government schemes.
- The Ministry of Cooperation will implement a pilot project in at least 10 districts to gather regional insights for nationwide implementation.
- An IMC will modify guidelines and implementation methodologies for creating infrastructure at Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) using available schemes.
- The ministry will implement it through the National Cooperative Development Corporation with support from NABARD, FCI, and others
5) KASA : South Korea’s Space Agency
- South Korea has officially launched its space agency, the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA), to lead policy and industrial development in its aerospace sector.
- South Korea has officially launched its space agency, the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA), to lead policy and industrial development in its aerospace sector.
- The establishment was made possible after the Country’s national assembly passed a special law in January to unify government organizations in charge of space policy and projects.
- The new agency is based in Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province, with an annual budget of 758.9 billion won ($556 million).
6) Om Birla Becomes First Lok Sabha Speaker In 20 Years To Be Re-elected As MP:
- Om Birla, the incumbent Lok Sabha Speaker, has achieved a remarkable feat by winning the Kota parliamentary seat on June 4, 2024. With a resounding margin of 41,139 votes, Birla has become the first presiding officer in 20 years to be re-elected to the Lower House of Parliament.
- The last Lok Sabha Speaker to secure re-election to the Lower House was P.A. Sangma, who served as the presiding officer during the 11th Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998.
- Sangma, then a member of the Congress party, was re-elected from Tura in Meghalaya in the 1998 Lok Sabha election.
7) India’s Third-Largest Export Market In The Fiscal Year 2023–24 : Netherland
- The Netherlands became India’s third-largest export market in the fiscal year 2023–24, after the US and the UAE.
- This was the case even though India’s total exports of goods fell by 3%, according to reports from the Commerce Ministry.
- This rise has been emphasized even though trade between the two countries is going down. In 2022–23, it went from $27.58 billion to $27.34 billion, a small drop.
- There has been a lot of growth in India’s exports to the Netherlands.
8) Mission Karmayogi:
- Indian Institute of Public Administration assessed the impact of mission karmayogi by seeking inputs on recently trained staff from their supervisors and reported increased proficiency in data analytics and e-governance tools
- Improved governance and efficient and competent civil services are required for achieving India’s ambitions.
- Mission Karmayogi, also known as the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB), is an ambitious program launched by the Government of India.
- The mission was launched by the Union Cabinet on 2nd September 2020.
- It aims to transform the government’s human resource management, making the bureaucracy more efficient, effective, and accountable.
9) PraVaHa Software:
- SRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) develops PraVaHa (Parallel RANS Solver for Aerospace Vehicle Aero-thermo-dynamic Analysis), a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software for aerodynamic design and analysis of aerospace vehicles.
- PraVaHa simulates external and internal flows on launch vehicles, winged, and non-winged re-entry vehicles, aiding in the evaluation of aerodynamic and aerothermal loads during launch and re-entry.
- It is extensively used in the Gaganyaan program for analyzing human-rated launch vehicles and is designed to utilize CPU and GPU architectures for efficient simulation.
10) PM launches ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ Campaign:
- On June 5, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ campaign to commemorate the World Environment Day.
- He planted a Peepal tree sapling at Buddha Jayanti Park in Delhi.
11) QS World University Rankings 2025:
- According to the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2025, the Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Bombay, Mumbai (Maharashtra) and IIT Delhi, New Delhi (Delhi) are the only two Indian Institutes featured among the top 150 Universities on the ranking.
- IIT-B has retained its position as the best higher education Institute in India, with global ranking of 118th in the list. IIT Delhi has improved its rank from 197th (in 2024) to 150th position (in 2025).
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, the United States of America (USA) has topped the list globally for the 13th time (2012 and from 2014 to 2025).
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