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• NIXI turns 20 in its continuous journey towards digital transformation of India
• Set up on June 19, 2003, NIXI is a not-for-profit (Section 8) company 

• Indian army contingent participates in multinational joint exercise “ex khaan quest 2023” in mongolia
• The exercise is co-sponsored by Mongolian Armed Forces (MAF) and United States Army Pacific Command (USARPAC)

• Quality Control Orders (QCOs) for the 24 footwear products covered under the Footwear made from leather, polymeric and rubber materials shall be implemented from 1st July 2023

• DAKSHTA (Development of Attitude, Knowledge, Skill for Holistic Transformation in Administration) now Live on the iGOT Karmayogi Platform

• The United Arab Emirates and Qatar have reopened their respective embassies in Abu Dhabi and Doha
• What is Al-Ula agreement?

Bhavani Devi becomes first Indian to win bronze medal at Asian Fencing Championships

• Olympian Bhavani Devi has created history by becoming first Indian to win bronze medal at Asian Fencing Championships in China
• She became the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics after qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

• She is the youngest and India’s first President to be born after Independence.
• She is the first person belonging to the tribal community and also the second woman after Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil to hold the office

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake state visit to the US and Egypt
• What will be the key outcomes?

• A Mesolithic period rock painting depicting a person tilling a piece of land has been found in Orvakallu village in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh

Refugees as assets to their new countries

• World Refugee Day (June 20)
• India ‘not signatory’ to 1951 UN Convention

Are phonons, particles of sound, quantum too?

• What are phonons? Its uses

India gifts missile corvette INS Kirpan to Vietnam

• India gifted the indigenously-built in-service missile corvette INS Kirpan to Vietnam.

Europe is fastest-warming continent

• Europe is world’s fastest-warming continent.
• What are its reasons?

• What is Betelgeuse? Its Significance