Top Best Current Affairs 8 June 2020

Govt. sets up taskforce headed by Jaya Jaitly to examine matters pertaining to the age of motherhood, imperatives of lowering maternal mortality rate.

United Nation annually observes June 5 as the International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing to ensure the sustainability of the fisheries to stop the illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities. The first International Day for the fight against IUU fishing was observed in 2018.

The Army Commanders' Conference, an apex level biannual event's First phase of the Conference was conducted at South Block, New Delhi from 27 to 29 May 2020, which facilitates conceptual level deliberations culminating in important policy decisions. The second phase of the conference scheduled from 24 to 27 June 2020.

June 6th is annually celebrated as the Russian Language Day by the United Nation to promote and support Multilingualism and cultural diversity and to celebrate the birthday of the famous Russian poet Alexander Puskin who was born on 6th June 1799. The First UN Russian Language Day was celebrated in 2010.

In Asia-Pacific Annual Green Airport Recognition 2020 Airports Council International(ACI) awarded the highest Platinum Recognition to GMR led Rajiv Gandhi Hyderabad International Airport for their effective water management under the 15-35 Million Passengers per annum(MPPA) category.

Vice-Captain of Indian Cricket Team in limited-overs, Rohit Sharma became the first brand ambassador of the IIFL Finance. IIFL finance is one of the leading Non-Banking Finance Companies of India which manages over Rs. 36,000 crore assets.

Engineering and construction giant Larsen & Toubro said its board has given nod for reappointment of A M Naik as non-executive chairman of the company for a period of three years from October 1, 2020.

To encourage the Make In India initiative and to increase the income and employment generation the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade(DPIIT) revised the public procurement order,2017 on 29th May 2019. The Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals identified around 55 types of chemicals, petrochemicals, pesticides and Dyestuff and assessed the domestic manufacturing capacity and local competition. For the 27 out of the 55 identified products, The local suppliers are eligible to bid for the estimated procurement value between Rs.5 lakh to Rs. 50 Lakh. For the remaining 28 products irrespective of the bid amount the procuring entities shall make procurement only from the local suppliers.