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June 20th Current Affairs

1)Implementing the Indian National Strategy for Standardization was announced by the Minister of Commerce and Industry Suresh Prabhu,in the 5th National Standards Conclave in New Delhi.This was announced to boost the standardization of Products.
2)To receive funding under Centres Smart Cities Mission ,Shillong the Capital City of Meghalaya has been selected as the 100th Smart City.
3)According to the 11th report of the Common Review Mission of the National Health Mission women bear uneven burden in the family planning accounting for more than 93% of sterilizations in India.
4)The state government of Tripura has taken Rs 500 crore as loan from the  Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Hudco (Housing and Urban Development Corporation) to carry out the Rs 1,000 crore smart City project in Agartala by 2021.
5)An amount of Rs.5 Crores was granted by Central government for setting up a YOGA GRAM in the Viswa Bharati University Campus ,Kolkata.
6)The United Kingdom government has excluded Indian students from a new list of low risk countries eligible for easier visa application to the UK.
7)Under 7 star Gram Panchayat Rainbow Scheme Haryana Government decided to provide star rankings to its Panchayats.
8)The Bank of Baroda has announced its partnership with technology giants IBM and  Accenture to increase digitisation.
9)AR Rahman has been named as the brand Ambassador of the Sikkim Government.
10)Central Water Commission has entered into collaboration agreement with Google for flood forecasting.
11)The Finance Ministry has launched the second tranche of Bharat-22 exchange traded fund (ETF) which raise up to Rs 8,400 crore from the markets.
12)Rama Subramaniam Gandhi former RBI Deputy Governor has appointed as an advisor of Paytm.
13)Miss Anukreethy Vas from Tamil Nadu was declared the winner of the 55th edition of Femina Miss India 2018 .

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