Top Best Current Affairs 16 June 2020 (2)

Export-Import Bank of India , a specialized financial institution wholly owned by Government of India ,has provided a line of credit of $215.68 million to the Malawi government.

Kathy Lueders has been appointed as the new Associate Administrator of Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. With this, she becomes the first female to head the human space flight program of NASA. Lueders has been assisting NASA in sending astronauts to space since 2014 on private spacecraft.

India has got its first infectious disease diagnostics lab as a part of PM Narendra Modi's 'Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan'. This mobile laboratory has been built in a record time of only 8 days after the receipt of Automotive Chassis from Bharat Benz. The Department of Bio-Technology has supported the development of this lab.

NCLT allows Jet Airways to sell its premises in Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai to settle debts.

Actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead at his residence in Mumbai's Bandra. The actor was found dead at his sixth floor apartment in Bandra. While the police have confirmed that he has died by suicide, no 'note' was found from his residence.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a virtual meeting with the Chief Ministers of all States/UTs on June 16-17, 2020 through video conferencing. This will be PM Modi's 6th virtual meet with the Chief Ministers since the outbreak of novel Coronavirus outbreak and lockdown in March 2020. The Prime Minister's last meeting with the CMs was held on May 12, 2020.

Board of Unit Trust of India Mutual Fund had appointed Imtaiyazur Rahman as Chief Executive Officer of the UTI Asset Management Company. He had been already serving as the interim CEO for the past two years.He will succeed Leo Puri whose 5-year tenure was over in August 2018.

Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, and Cel-Liberation Day, is an American holiday celebrated annually on June 19. It commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union general Gordon Granger read federal orders in Galveston, Texas, that all previously enslaved people in Texas were free.