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Exam Related Current Affairs with Static Gk : 10 June 2021

1) Retired IAS officer Anup Chandra Pandey took charge as Election Commissioner.
➨Mr. Pandey, a 1984 batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, joins Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sushil Chandra and Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar to complete the three-member commission. He retired as Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh in 2019.
➨First Chief Election Commissioner of India - Sukumar Sen
➨ Present Chief Election Commissioner of India - Sushil Chandra (24th)
➨ Recently Former Chief Election Commissioner of India Sunil Arora (23rd) released a book titled 'Electoral Reforms in India' authored by Dr. Komal Jain.

2) The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved a $500 million program to support India's nationwide initiative to revitalise the MSME sector, which has been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.
World Bank :-
➨Founded - 1944
➨President - David Malpass
➨Headquarters - Washington, D.C.,

3) The US approved the first new drug for Alzheimer's disease in nearly 20 years, ignoring warnings by several independent advisers about the much-debated inefficacy of the new treatment.
➨Biogen has priced the drug, to be sold as Aduhelm, at $56,000 or about ₹40 lakh per year.

4) Justice Bala Krishna Narayana, former Judge of the Allahabad High Court has been appointed as the new Chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh Human Rights Commission.
Uttar Pradesh :-
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister - Yogi Adityanath
➨Chandraprabha Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Dudhwa National Park
➨National Chambal Sanctuary

5) Veteran TV actor Tarla Joshi, known for featuring on shows like 'Ek Hazaron Mein Meri Behna Hai', 'Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai' and 'Bandini', has passed away due to heart attack. She was in her early 90s.

6) The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has developed three types of ventilators and has come forward to transfer the technology to industry for clinical usage as the country battles the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
➨A low-cost and portable critical care ventilator, 'Prana' ("Programmable Respiratory Assistance for the Needy Aid') is based on the automated compression of an Ambu (Artificial Manual Breathing Unit) bag.
ISRO :-
➨Formed :- 15 August 1969
➨Headquarter :- Bangalore, Karnataka, India
➨Chairman :- Kailasavadivoo Sivan

7) The Kerala government has launched the Knowledge Economy Mission to bring the ongoing efforts to provide employment to the educated and support ‘knowledge workers’ under a single programme.
➨the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University had set up the Kerala Digital Work Force Management System that registered over 27,000 job aspirants thus far.
Kerala :-
➨Cherai Beach
➨Kerala: Idukki Dam on Periyar River
➨Kerala :- Pamba River
➨GOVERNOR :- Arif Mohammad Khan

8) Gujarat Maritime Board(GMB) will be setting up India’s first international maritime services cluster at GIFT City in Ahmedabad.
➨ The maritime cluster will be developed as a dedicated ecosystem comprising of ports, shipping, logistics services providers and pertinent government regulators, all present in the same geographic vicinity of GIFT City.
Gujarat:-
➨ CM :- Vijay Ramniklal Rupani
➨Governor :- Acharya Devvrat
➨Nageshwar Temple
➨Somnath Temple

9) India's Virendra Nanavati was elected as a member of International Swimming Federation (FINA) Bureau at the world body's General Congress held in Doha in Qatar.
➨Nanavati, who is currently a vice-president of Indian Olympic Association and executive director of Swimming Federation of India (SFI), is the first Indian to be elected as a Bureau member of the FINA. He was elected for the term of 2021-2025.
FINA (Fédération internationale de natation, International Swimming Federation)
➨FINA currently oversees competition in six aquatics sports: swimming, diving, high diving, artistic
swimming, water polo, and open water swimming
➨Headquarters: Lausanne , Switzerland