Top Best Current Affairs 28 June 2020 (2)

Battery Swapping Facility Quick Interchange Service was inaugurated at Chandigarh jointly by V P Singh Badnore, Governor of Punjab-cum-Administrator, UT, Chandigarh, alongwith the Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel Shri Dharmendra Pradhan. Battery swapping technology will offer the best alternative to slow charging.

Grandmaster P. Harikrishna debuted the Magnus Carlsen Chess(MCC) Tour 2020 by joining the players in the USD 150,000 Chessable Masters. He is the 1st Indian in the tour.

The US Space Agency, NASA has announced that its headquarters in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, one of its history-making engineers. The information was passed by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.

United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is observed annually on June 26 to raise awareness about the crime of torture. The day aims to honour, support the victims and survivors worldwide. The day intends to totally eradicate the torture.

As a part of International Yoga day, on 23rd June 2020, V Muraleedharan, the Minister of State of External Affairs and P P Chaudhary, Chairperson of the Standing Committee on External Affairs, jointly launched World's First Yoga University "Vivekananda Yoga University"(VaYU) in Los Angeles, United States of America, over the virtual event at the Consulate General of India in New York. The event was jointly hosted by Sandeep Chakravorty, Consulate General and the founding director of VaYU, Prem Bhandari, the chairperson of Jaipur Foot USA.

The Karnataka Government amended the " The Karnataka Industries(Facilitation) act, 2002", in the state cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister of Karnataka BS Yediyurappa, to facilitate and attract investment in the state. Karnataka Becomes the First State to Amend Industries (Facilitation) Act for Small, Medium and Large-scale Industries.

Maharashtra forest department declared the 29.53 square kilometre Tillari forest area in Dodamarg and Sawantwadi range in coastal Sindhudurg district as a conservation reserve area. The Tilari ecosystem breeds tiger population and serves as the source population for the Sahyadri tiger reserve. This is the 1st conservation reserve in Sindhudurg district, 62nd for the state. It is the 13th such reserve in the western ghats.

Indian Weightlifting Federation Secretary Sahdev Yadav informed that 2 time Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist, Weightlifter K. Sanjita Chanu will get the Arjuna award for 2018. This comes after the International Weightlifting Federation cleared her doping charges.