CURRENT AFFAIRS: DAYS
World Accreditation Day
- World Accreditation Day (WAD) celebrated every year on June 9th to highlight the role of accreditation in trade and economy.
- The theme for WAD this year, decided by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) was, Accreditation: Improving Food Safety.
CURRENT AFFAIRS: NATIONAL
MoS Home G Kishan Reddy, 9 others named on new panel for freedom fighters
- The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has reconstituted a committee to look into the welfare of freedom fighters, with the minister of state for home affairs G Kishan Reddy as the chairman and nine “eminent freedom fighters” from across the country as its members.
- The ministry has a separate division to serve freedom fighters who are alive and their families. It disburses pension to about 30,000 freedom fighters and their families.
- The new panel may verify if one person has given affidavits to two or more applicants and will examine the demands to build memorials and museums for freedom fighters.
About Ministry of Home affairs
- Minister of Home Affairs: Amit Shah
- Constituency: Gandhinagar, Gujarat
- Minister of State: G. Kishan Reddy
- Constituency:Telangana.
BS-VI compliant vehicles to display green sticker
- The Government has mandated a one cm green sticker, providing registration details, in all BS-VI compliant motor vehicles. The order will come into force from October 1, 2020.
- Vehicles complying with BS-VI emission norms shall have 1 cm green strip at the top in the third registration plate, as per a notification issued by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
