Top Best Current Affairs 23 June 2020

India has become the 12th largest holder of US government securities at the end of April 2020 with a holding worth USD 157.4 billion. The US Treasury Department data showed that after significantly reducing the exposure in March to USD 156.5 billion, India marginally hiked the holding by USD 0.9 billion to USD 157.4 billion the next month.

China to set up a "national security agency" in Hong Kong to administer a new law aimed at cracking down on dissent. The details of the new national security legislation were unveiled, paving the way for the most profound change to the city's way of life since it returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

Indian officials, including representatives from enforcement agencies, have participated in the 32nd special Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG) plenary meeting 2020, under the aegis of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The EAG is a regional body comprising nine countries: India, Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Belarus.

Indonesia's most volatile volcano Mount Merapi's spewed ash and hot gas in a massive column as high as 6km into the sky. Mount Merapi's clouds of ash, accompanied by a rumbling sound heard kilometres (miles) away, blanketed several villages on the main island of Java.

Padma Shri awardee & National Awardee, Freedom fighter & Social worker, Vidyaben Shah passed away around the age of 97 in her residence in New Delhi. She established India's 1st Bal Bhavan in Rajkot in the 1940s. She was born on November 7, 1922 in Gujarat.

Shri Pralhad Joshi, Union Minister for Coal &Mines has launched SATYABHAMA (Science and Technology Yojana for Aatmanirbhar Bharat in Mining Advancement) Portal, developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC), Mines Informatics Division.

Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has inked Memorandum of Understanding with Small Industries Development Bank of India to make latter as the implementation Agency for Prime Minister Street Vendor's AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) - a Special Micro-Credit Facility for Street Vendors.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised the withdrawal limit from Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank to Rs 1 lakh from Rs 50,000 but extended the moratorium on the bank for another six months.