World Environment Day: 05 June
World Environment Day is celebrated every year on 5 June to make people aware of the environment.
Theme of World Environment Day 2021: ‘Ecosystem Restoration’
It started in 1972 with the World Environment Conference organized by the United Nations General Assembly from 5 June to 16 June.
World Environment Day was celebrated for the first time on 5 June 1974 with the theme “Only one Earth”.
Wipro Limited becomes the third largest Indian IT firm
Indian IT company Wipro Limited touched ₹3 trillion mark in market capitalization for the first time.
With this Wipro became the third Indian IT firm to achieve this feat.
Reliance Industries is the most valuable company in India.
Its m-cap is Rs 14.05 trillion.
The second-ranked Tata Consultancy has an m-cap of Rs 11.58 trillion.
The m-cap of HDFC Bank is Rs 8.33 trillion.
Wipro Limited Established: 29 December 1945
Founder: M.H. Hasham Premji
Headquarters: Bangalore
CEO: Thierry Delaporte.
International Hockey Federation (FIH) World Rankings: Indian men’s team at number four and women’s team at number nine
The latest hockey rankings have been released by the International Hockey Federation (FIH).
In the rankings, the Indian men’s team remains at number four and the women’s team at number nine.
Men’s Team Rankings:
Belgium – 1
Australia – 2
Netherlands – 3
India – 4
Germany – 5
Women’s team ranking:
Netherlands – 1
Argentina – 2
Australia – 3
Germany – 4
Great Britain – 5
India – 9
International Hockey Federation (FIH) established: 1924
Headquarters: Lausanne, Switzerland
President: Narendra Batra
Dr Vinay K Nandikuri appointed as Director of Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)
Dr Vinay K Nandikuri has been appointed as the new Director of CSIR-Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad.
Establishment of Cellular and Molecular Biology: 1977
International Booker Prize 2021
French novelist David Diop has been awarded the prestigious International Booker Prize 2021.
He has been given this award for his book ‘At Night All Blood is Black’.
He is the first writer from France to win this award.
He will share the £50,000 in prize money with Anna Moskovakis, the book’s English translator.
The award for the year 2020 was presented to the Netherlands-based author Marike Lukas Rijnveld for her book ‘The Discomfort of Evening’.
She became the youngest author to win this award.
International Booker Prize Established: 2005
The award is given annually to a fiction novel in any language, translated into English and published in Britain or Ireland.
Man Booker Prize: Considered the biggest prize in the field of literature after the Nobel Prizes.
It is given only for English novels.
Prize money: 60 thousand pounds
Established: 1969
Scottish author Douglas Stuart was awarded the Booker Prize for the year 2020 for his debut novel ‘Shaggy Ben’.
ICC expands men’s ODI World Cup to 14 teams
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced that the Men’s Cricket World Cup will once again become a 14-team tournament in 2027 and 2031.
Earlier in the 2019 World Cup, only 10 teams participated as compared to the 14 teams in the 2015 World Cup.
Establishment of ICC:1909
Headquarters: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
President: Greg Barks
CEO: Manu Sawhney
NITI Aayog released Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Index 2020-21
NITI Aayog released the third edition of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Index for 2020-21 on June 3, 2021.
Kerala has performed the best in the index.
Bihar, on the other hand, has performed the worst.
Report Title: “SDG India Index and Dashboard 2020-21: Participation in the Decade of Activism”
Indicators:
0 – 49: Aspirant
50 – 64: Demonstrator
65–99 Front Runner
100: Achiever
Top 5 Performing States:
| State | Score |
| Karela | 75 |
| Himachal Pradesh, TamilNadu | 74 |
| Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Uttarakhand | 72 |
| Sikkim | 71 |
| Maharashtra | 70 |
Bottom-5 Performing States:
| State | score |
| Chhattisgarh, Nagaland, Odisha | 61 |
| Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh | 60 |
| Assam | 57 |
| Jharkhand | 56 |
| Bihar | 52 |
Among the Union Territories, Chandigarh topped the list with 79 points, followed by Delhi with 68 points.
Goa Government set up “Goa Institution for Future Transformation (GIFT)” on the lines of NITI Aayog
The Goa government has recently formed the ‘Goa Institution for Future Transformation’ (GIFT) on the lines of ‘NITI Aayog’.
Like NITI Aayog, GIFT will assist, advise and guide the government in policy making and formulation.
To provide autonomy, GIFT will be supported by Article 309 of the Indian Constitution.
Maharashtra government announces ‘Corona Mukt Gaon’ competition with a prize of Rs 50 lakh
‘Corona Mukt Gramin’ competition is being organized to make villages aware in Maharashtra.
The villages participating in the ‘Corona Free Village’ competition will be evaluated on the basis of 22 criteria by a committee constituted for the purpose.
50 lakh for the first prize while Rs 25 lakh and 15 lakh for the second and third prize respectively.
Villages will compete for 50 marks on the basis of assessment of works done between 1 June 2021 to 31 March 2022.
