16/06/2021
Current Affairs:
📖 Exam Related Current Affairs with Static Gk : 15 June 2021
1) The United Nations elected five countries to join the powerful U.N. Security Council with no suspense because all were unopposed -- Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Albania, Ghana and Gabon.
➨The five new council members will start their terms on January 1, replacing five countries whose two-year terms end on December 31 -- Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam.
▪️United Nations Security Council :-
Headquarters - New York, United States
Founded - 24 October 1945
2) Karnataka's noted Kannada Dalit poet and activist Siddalingaiah died due to Covid-related complications. He was 67.
➨Siddalingaiah, who tested positive on May 2, was admitted to Manipal Hospital on May 4 for severe Covid pneumonia with multi-organ failure.
▪️Karnataka:-
CM :- Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa
Governor :- Vajubhai Vala
Formation :- 1 November 1956
Language :- Kannada
Port :- New Mangalore Port
3) The Performance Grading Index (PGI) of the States/ UTs in the field of school education comes with good news as well as major concerns.
➨Punjab, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Kerala occupy the highest grade A++ in 2019-20 in the field of school education as per PGI released by the Ministry of Education (MoE).
4) Barbora Krejcikova claimed her maiden Grand Slam title when she beat Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 in the French Open final.
➨The 25-year-old is the first Czech to lift the Suzanne Lenglen Cup since Hana Mandlikova, who represented Czechoslovakia, triumphed in 1981.
5) The Russia is building its first stealth naval warship that will be fully equipped with stealth technology making it hard to detect it by enemy vessels.
➨The hull of the Mercury naval corvette dubbed project 20386 has already been built and the vessel is expected to be delivered to the navy next year.
▪️Russia :-
➨President - Vladimir Putin
