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➨Article 5 of NATO’s founding treaty states that an attack on any one of the 30 allies will be considered an attack on them all. Until now, it has only applied to more traditional military attacks on land, sea, or in the air, and more recently in cyberspace.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) :-
Formation - 4 April 1949
Headquarters - Brussels, Belgium
12) India celebrates June 19 as the National Reading Day in honour of P N Panicker, the father of the Library and Literacy Movement in Kerala. This year marks the silver jubilee year or the 25th edition of the celebrations.
➨The P N Panicker Foundation and P N Panicker Vigyan Vikas Kendra have been observing the national reading day, reading week and reading month since June 19, 1996.
13) The European Space Agency (ESA) has planned to put the world’s first wooden satellite, WISA Woodsat, on Earth’s orbit by the end of this year.
➨The mission of the satellite is to test the applicability of wooden materials like plywood in spacecraft structures and expose it to extreme space conditions, such as heat, cold, vacuum and radiation, for an extended period of time.
14) The Union Social Justice and Empowerment (SJE) Ministry launched 14 cross disability early intervention centres across the country to provide support to infants and young children at risk of or with disabilities.
➨SJE Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot virtually inaugurated the centres that are located at seven national institutes and seven composite regional centres of the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities.
15) A community radio is all set to operate in the Union Territory of Ladakh from early 2022.
➭The community radio network will transmit to the whole of Ladakh and will be utilized largely in the field of education and disaster management.
➭There will be one central studio and 48 transmission locations with priority to transmit signal to the unconnected areas of Ladakh.
16) Minister of Tribal Affairs, Sh. Arjun Munda launched ADI PRASHIKSHAN portal and inaugurated a three-day training programme on “Capacity Building Training of Master Trainers for ST PRI Members” as part of Azadi ka AmritMahotsav in New Delhi.
17) A three-day virtual conference of BRICS Network Universities on the theme of electric mobility was inaugurated at IIT Bombay.
➨The conference is part of the engagements that India is hosting under the education stream as chair of the 13th BRICS Summit this year.
BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
18) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh participated in the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus) via video conferencing.
➨The ADMM-Plus is a platform comprising 10-nation ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and its eight dialogue partners -India, China, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Russia and the United States - to strengthen security and defence cooperation for peace, stability and development in the region.
➨The inaugural ADMM-Plus was convened in Hanoi in 2010.
19) The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) launched a TV Channel Selector web portal on Wednesday for consumers who could not access its mobile phone app of the same name due to lack of a smartphone.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India:-
Founded - 20 February 1997
Headquarters - New Delhi
20) The Rajasthan government will soon set up a Vedic Education and Sanskar Board to revive the knowledge of Sanskrit scriptures and vedas.
➨The board is likely to be formed in the next four to five months.
Rajasthan:-
CM - Ashok Gehlot
Governor - Kalraj Mishra
➭Amber Palace
➭Hawa Mahal
➭Ranthambore National Park
➭City Palace
➭Keoladeo Ghana National Park
➭Sariska National Park.
➭ Kumbhalgarh Fort
21) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was second only to Turkey in terms of reserves transferred to the government as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) for the fiscal year 2020-21. In FY20, the RBI stood fourth when ranked by the ratio of surplus as a percentage of GDP.
