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• The Lt Governor of Ladakh, RK Mathur launched a scheme called ‘YounTab’, under which 12,300 tablets would be distributed among the students in the Union Territory.
• As part of the first phase of the YounTab Scheme, Mr Mathur distributed the tablets to the students of Classes 9 to 12 standards.
• A total of 12,300 students from Class 6th to 12th of government schools will benefit.
• The tablets will be pre-loaded with online and offline content, including textbooks, video lectures and online class applications.
• The main goal of the YounTab scheme is to encourage digital learning, bridge the digital divide between connected and unconnected regions and mitigate the disruption caused by the Covid pandemic.

Economy News

8. GST collections at Rs 1.03 lakh crore for May

• The goods and service tax collections for May clocked Rs 1,02,709 crore, making it the eighth straight month of collections crossing the Rs 1 lakh crore mark.
• The collections have been 65% higher than the GST revenues in the same month, despite many states being under lockdown due to the Covid pandemic.
• The May GST collections were also a 27.6 per cent drop from a record sum of Rs 1.41 lakh crore in April, which was the highest monthly collection since the introduction of the nationwide tax.

List of GST Collection previous months:

• April 2021: ₹1.41 lakh crore(All-time Highest)
• March 2021: Rs. 1.24lacs cr.
• Feb 2021: Rs 1,13,143 crore
• January 2021: ₹ 1,19,847 crore

Ranks and Reports News

9. India slips two spots on 17th Sustainable Development Goals report

• India’s rank has slipped by two places from last year to 117 on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted as a part of the 2030 agenda by 193 United Nations member states in 2015.
• India ranks below four South Asian countries: Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
• The State of India’s Environment Report 2021 revealed that India’s rank was 115 last year and dropped by two places primarily because of major challenges like ending hunger and achieving food security (SDG 2), achieving gender equality (SDG 5) and building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and fostering innovation (SDG 9) remain in the country.

Awards News

10. Thomas Vijayan Wins Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2021

• Kerala-based Thomas Vijayan, who is now settled in Canada, has won the 2021 Nature TTL Photography Awards for his photo of an Orangutan clinging to a tree. The photograph is titled ‘The World is Going Upside Down’.
• Vijayan was adjudged as the overall winner of the competition from over 8,000 entries for Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2021, which carries a grand prize of 1,500 pounds (Rs.1.5 lakh). Nature TTL is the world’s leading online nature photography resource.

Important Days

11. World Food Safety Day: 7th June

• World Food Safety Day is observed on 7th June globally. The aim of the day is to raise awareness about different foodborne risks and the measures of how to prevent it.
• This year’s theme is “Safe food today for a healthy tomorrow”.
• The first-ever World Food Safety Day, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2018.
• The theme of the first-ever Food Safety Day 2019 is “Food Safety, everyone’s business”.
• In this direction, the World Health Organisation (WHO) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations decided to celebrate 7th June as the First food safety day since 7th June 2019.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:

• Director-General of WHO: Tedros Adhanom; Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland;
• Food and Agriculture Organization headquarters: Rome, Italy;
• Food and Agriculture Organization Established: 16 October 1945;
• Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization: Dr QU Dongyu.

12. UN Russian Language Day: 06 June

• The UN Russian Language Day is observed annually on 06 June. It is one of the six official languages used by the United Nations throughout the Organization.
• The day was established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2010.
• 6 June is chosen as UN Russian Language Day as it coincides with the birthday of Aleksandr Pushkin, a Russian poet who is considered the father of the modern Russian language.
• Each of the six official languages has been assigned a day of celebration by the UN’s Department of Public Information in 2010 to celebrate multilingualism and cultural diversity as well as to promote equal use of all six official languages throughout the Organization.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:

• Russia President: Vladimir Putin.
• Russia Capital: Moscow.
• Russia Currency: Russian Ruble.

13. World Pest Day: 06 June

• Every year, World Pest Day (also sometimes called World Pest Awareness Day) is observed on 06 June.
• The main purpose of the day is to increase public, government, and media awareness of the important role pest management organization plays in protecting public health, project the professional image of the pest management industry, promote the use of professional pest management in a scientific and socially responsible way and call attention to the big threats caused by small pests.
• The first World Pest Day was marked in 2017. World Pest Day was initiated by the Chinese Pest Control Association, and co-sponsored by the Federation of Asian and Oceania Pest Managers’ Association (FAOPMA), the National Pest Management Association (NPMA), and the Confederation of European Pest Management Associations (CEPA).

Sports News

14. Sergio Perez wins Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix

• Red Bull’s Sergio Perez won a chaotic Azerbaijan Grand Prix with both Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton failing to finish.
• This was the first win for Perez since joining Red Bull. Sebastian Vettel for Aston Martin and Pierre Gasly for Alpha Tauri completed the unexpected podium.
• Verstappen crashed with five laps to go and the race at his mercy. Hamilton then locked up at the restart when on target for the second.

15. Germany’s FIFA World Cup-winner Sami Khedira announces retirement

• Germany’s FIFA World Cup-winner, Sami Khedira has announced retirement. He began his career at VfB Stuttgart and helped them win the league title in the 2006-07 season before moving to Real Madrid, where he won the league and Champions League in a trophy-laden spell.
• He played 77 games for Germany scoring seven goals and helped them win the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Books and Authors News

16. A book title ‘1232 km: The Long Journey Home’ by Vinod Kapri

• A new book titled ‘1232 km: The Long Journey Home’ by filmmaker Vinod Kapri chronicles the journey of seven migrant workers from Bihar, who journeyed back home on their bicycles and reached their destination after seven days.
• The book is published by Harper Collins. The nationwide lockdown in March 2020 forced thousands of migrant workers to return to their native villages by covering thousands of kilometres on foot.
• Kapri accompanied these seven migrant workers — Ritesh, Ashish, Ram Babu, Sonu, Krishna, Sandeep and Mukesh — on their 1,232-km journey from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh to Saharsa in Bihar.