DAILY GK 1-2 JUNE 2025
1.
PRIME MINISTER OF PORTUGAL
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Luis Filipe Montenegro
Cardoso de Morais Esteves, leader of the Democratic
Alliance (AD) Party has been appointed as the Prime Minister
(PM) of Portugal
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The AD
party secured 91 seats in the 230-member legislature in the election.
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Portugal Capital – Lisbon
2.
WADA FOUNDATION PRESIDENT
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World
Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)’s Foundation Board,
re-elected Witold Banka as independent President,
and Yang Yang as Vice President (VP), for a
third and final three-year term.
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World
Anti-Doping Agency, an international independent agency composed and funded
equally by the sport movement and governments of the world.
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WADA Headquarters – Montreal, Canada
3.
PRESIDENT OF THE UNGA
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Former
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was
elected President of the 80th session of the
New York, United States of America (USA) based United Nations General
Assembly (UNGA), following her win of 167
votes in favour out of 188 seats in a secret ballot.
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AnnalenBaerbock
becomes the first woman from the Western
European Group to hold the post and the fifth woman overall
to lead the UNGA.
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The one year presidency rotates among the world
body’s five regional groups : African Group; Asia-Pacific Group; Eastern
European Group; Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) and Western
European and Other States Group (WEOG)
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The UNGA, established in 1945, is the main
representative body of the UN, comprising all
193 Member States.
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Its
headquarters is located in New York, USA
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It is the
main policy-making organ of the
organization and provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the
full spectrum of international issues by the Charter.
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The Assembly meets from September to December
each year (main part) and thereafter, January to September (resumed part)
as required.
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Each of Member States has one vote, which is taken on designated important
issues such as recommendations on peace and security, election of Security
Council.
4.
PRESIDENT OF POLAND
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Poland’s
National Electoral Commission (NEC) announced that Karol Nawrocki,
a nationalist conservative won the second round of Poland’s presidential
election with 50.89% of the votes, defeating Rafał Trzaskowski,
the liberal Mayor of Warsaw (Poland)
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Poland Capital – Warsaw
5.
CII PRESIDENT
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Rajiv Memani, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
New Delhi based Ernst & Young (EY) India, took over as the President
of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the Financial Year 2025-26 (FY26).
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He
succeeded Sanjiv Puri, Chairman and Managing Director (MD) of Kolkata (West
Bengal, WB)-based ITC Limited.
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R.Mukundan, MD and CEO of Tata Chemicals Limited, has
assumed office as CII
President-Designate for FY26.
6.
PRESIDENT OF SOUTH
KOREA
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Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK),
was elected as the 14th President of the Republic of
Korea (South Korea)
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Lee Jae-Myung
secured 49.42% of the votes
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The
election was necessitated after the impeachment of former President Yoon
Suk Yeol due to his brief imposition of Martial law.
7.
ADC TO PRESIDENT OF INDIA
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Lieutenant
Commander(LtCdr) Yashasvi Solanki, has been appointed as
an Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to the President of India
(POI)
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She is
the first woman officer from the Indian
Navy has been posted as ADC to the Supreme Commander of the Armed
Forces.
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An ADC
serves as a personal assistant and facilitates
coordination and communication between the President and various arms of the establishment,
ensuring seamless staff work and official protocol.
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The
President typically has five ADCs, three from the Army,
one each from the Navy and Air force.
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In addition, the President may choose
officers from any of the
armed forces at their discretion to serve in the role of ADC.
8.
‘BHARAT GEN’ SUMMIT
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It is India’s first indigenously developed,
government-funded, Artificial Intelligence (AI) -based Multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) designed to support 22 Indian languages.
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The
Bharat Gen Summit 2025 held at is India’s biggest event for Generative AI and
LLM.
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The
summit also featured the Generative AI Hackathon 2025, inviting
students to develop AI solutions for real-world problems.
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Bharat
Gen is developed under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical
Systems (NM-ICPS) and implemented through Technology
Innovation Hub (TIH) Foundation for Internet of
Things (IoT) and Internet of Everything (IoE) at Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT) Bombay.
9.
ADB’S PRESIDENT VISIT TO INDIA
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Masato Kanda, President of Manila (the Philippines) based
Asian Development Bank (ADB) was on his 1st official visit to India in May
2025.
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ADB
President Masato Kanda announced USD 10 billion, aimed
at transforming urban infrastructure
including metro extension, new regional rapid transit system (RRTS) across
India in the next 5 years.
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The state
government of Tripura will get USD 85.4
million loan from ADB to support a major green upgrade in the
state.
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The ADB
withdrew USD 434.25 million loan to a proposed 1000
MegaWatt (MW) Solar Park in Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council in Assam,
following a request from the Ministry of Finance (MoF) of Government of India
(GoI).
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The main
reason for the withdrawal of the project was the opposition of local Karbi, Naga, Kachari and Adivasi communities against
the land diversion to the project, citing displacement of 24 villages in
the project area.
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ADB
Members Nations- 69
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Established– 1966
10.
NEW RAMSAR SITES
IN INDIA
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Union
Minister Bhupender Yadav, Ministry of Environment
announced the designation of Khichan (Phalodi) and Menar (Udaipur) wetlands
in Rajasthan as Ramsar Sites.
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Rajasthan now has 4 Ramsar Sites,
including Sambhar Salt Lake and Keoladeo Ghana National Park (Bharatpur).
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With
this, India’s total Ramsar Sites rise to 91,
the highest in Asia and third globally after the United Kingdom
(UK) (175) and Mexico (142).
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The Menar
Wetland Complex, popularly known as the “Bird Village“, is
located across Menar and Kheroda villages in Vallabhnagar Taluka, Udaipur
District, Rajasthan.
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The Khichan
Wetland, located in the northern Thar Desert, spans across Phalodi and Jodhpur
Districts, Rajasthan
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The first Ramsar Sites in India were Keoladeo National
Park (Rajasthan) and Chilika Lake (Odisha),
designated in 1981.
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Tamil
Nadu (TN) holds the highest number
of Ramsar Sites in India with a total of 20 sites,
followed by Uttar Pradesh (UP) with 10 sites, and Rajasthan with 4 sites.
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The largest Ramsar Site in India is
Sundarbans Wetland (West Bengal,
WB) covering 423,000 hectares (designated in 2019).
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The smallest Ramsar Site is Renuka
Wetland (Himachal Pradesh, HP)
covering 20 hectares (designated in 2005).
