Current Affairs 25 June 2020

🔶MSMEs Launches Funding Scheme “Distressed Assets Fund–Sub-ordinate Debt for MSMEs” to Help the Distressed MSME Sector

🔶India Retains its Position as 3rd-largest Economy on PPP basis for 2017; China Tops: World Bank Data

🔶India Committed USD 10 mn to UNRWA Over Next 2 Years During Extraordinary Virtual Ministerial Pledging Conference

🔶Covid-19 to Push 120 Million Children into Poverty in South Asian Region : UNICEF Report

🔶India Became 12th Largest Holder of US govt Securities with Holdings of $157.4 bn in April end 2020; Japan tops

🔶World’s First Gold-backed US Digital Gold Currency Launched in India, GCC, Middle East and Africa by IBMC

🔶India’s GDP to contract by 5.3% in FY21, bounce back in FY22: Ind-Ra

🔶Gulabbai Sangamnerkar & Madhuvanti Dandekar to get Lifetime Achievement Award: Maharashtra

🔶Adani Power to Acquire US-based AES Corporation’s 49% Equity Stake in Odisha Power Generation Corporation for Rs 1,019 crore

🔶HRD Ministry Launches YUKTI 2.0 for Higher Education Institutes

🔶World Karate Federation provisionally de-recognised the Karate Association of India

🔶Costume designer & Hollywood Director Joel Schumacher passed away

🔶Former Karnataka Basketball Player K Raghunath Passed Away at 74

🔶Government of Haryana and Reliance Jio TV partners to educate 52 Lakh students

🔶Rajasthan Government to Launch ‘Indira Rasoi Yojna’

🔶Tripura Government to launch ‘Ektu Khelo, Ektu Padho’ for school students

🔶Jharkhand to Launch Employment Guarantee Scheme for Urban Poor

🔶Madhya Pradesh Madhya Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Company Introduces Nishtha Vidyut Mitra Scheme for Women Empowerment

🔶world’s largest chariot festival Rath Yatra in Puri: Odisha