Current affairs notes on June 11-June 15

1.Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani inaugurated India's first Dinosaur-Museum-cum-Park in the Mahisagar district.Dinosaur Museum cum Park is the first park in the country and the world's third park.

2.The Indian Embassy in Saudi Arabia organised a "Gandhi cycle rally for peace" in Riyadh on Friday to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. 
3.Mercedes Driver Lewis Hamilton secures a record-breaking seventh win at the 2019 Canadian Grand Prix.

4.Rafael Nadal was the defending champion in the Men's Singles and won his 12th French Open title. Ashleigh Barty of Australia won the Women's Singles Category after defeating Marketa Vondrousova.
It took place at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. 

5.Chaukhandi Stupa, an ancient Buddhist site located in Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, has been declared as a Monument and protected area of national importance by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). 

6.India has received an invitation from France to attend the outreach Session at the G-7 Summit to be held in France in August 2019.

7.India has partnered with Portugal to set up a national maritime heritage museum at the ancient Indian site of Lothal in Gujarat. It is likely to come up on the lines of a similar museum at Lisbon, which is administered by the Portuguese Navy.

8.Sharad Kumar has been named as acting Central Vigilance Commissioner as current (CVC) K V Chowdary completed his tenure at the anti-graft body.

9.Virat Kohli is again the only Indian in the Forbes 2019 list of world's highest-paid athletes.It is topped by Argentinean football star Lionel Messi.

10.Bancha in Betul district of Madhya Pradesh became the first village in India to have zero wooden stoves. It is  India's first all-solar kitchen village.

11.ISRO chief K Sivan announced that India is planning to have its own space station by 2030. ISRO's second spacecraft to the moon, Chandrayaan-2, will be launched on July 15 this year.

12.Renowned author Amitav Ghosh was awarded the 54th Jnanpith Award for his contribution to the enrichment of Indian Literature in English.is the first Indian author in English language to be honoured with the Jnanpith award.His famous books include The Circle of Reason (1986), The Shadow Lines (1988), The Calcutta Chromosome (1996), The Hungry Tide (2004), Sea of Poppies.

13.Priyanka Chopra, a global UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Child Rights is going to be honoured with Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award by UNICEF.

14.2019 World Blood Donor Day is observed on June 14 with the theme of 'Blood Donation and Universal Access to Safe Blood Transfusion'.

15.Girish Karnad well-known writer, playwright, actor and public intellectual, had passed away. He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award,

16.Canada will be the North American country that has decided to ban single use plastics from 2021.

17.Amasebailu village, which has become Karnataka’s first solar-powered Gram Panchayat, is located in Uduppi district.

18.Thawar Chand Gehlot has been appointed the Leader of the House for the Rajya Sabha.

19.The World Day against Child Labour is observed across the world on June 12, 2019.
Theme: ‘Children should not work in fields but on dreams’.
20.SCO(Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) Summit 2019 is being held in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan. 
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