Current Affairs - June 3, 2022 Current Affairs

Recognising its efforts in controlling tobacco consumption, the World Health Organization (WHO) has selected Jharkhand for the World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) Award-2022.

The last European playoff decider will now be played between Ukraine and Wales on June 5, 2022.

Sheryl Sandberg announced on June 1, 2022, that she is stepping down as the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook parent company 'Meta'.

Leading UK-based academic, Dr. Swati Dhingra has been named as the first Indian-origin woman to be appointed as an external member of the Bank of England's interest rate-setting committee.

The Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar announced that a caste-based count rather than a census will be held in Bihar to avoid any conflict.

Senior scientist Rajesh Gera has been appointed as the Director-General, National Informatics Centre (NIC), a Personnel Ministry order issued.

The theme of World Milk Day 2022 is "Dairy Net Zero" bringing attention to the climate change crisis and how the dairy sector can reduce its impact on the planet.

State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has ranked first in the list of the top performer public sector lenders in terms of loan and deposit growth in percentage terms during 2021-22.

The two-day National Education Ministers' Conference begins in Gandhinagar Gujarat.

The theme of the International Global Day of Parents 2022 is 'Appreciate all parents throughout the world' for Global Day of Parents, 2022.

'Yoga for Humanity' has been chosen as the theme of the eighth International Day of Yoga.

Fiscal deficit for 2021-22 worked out to be 6.71 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP).

Telangana Day commonly known as Telangana Formation Day is being celebrated on 2nd June, since 2014.

National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has launched an online portal to simplify the process of recognition of teacher education programs in higher education institutions.

World No Tobacco Day is observed on May 31 every year to create awareness of the dangers of smoking, tobacco companies and their business practices. The theme for 2022 is "Tobacco: Threat to our environment". In 1987, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution calling for the celebration of World No Tobacco Day every year on 31 May.

Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air to air missiles and associated equipment for the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Navy at a cost of Rs 2,971 Crore.

Former State Bank of India executive Natarajan Sundar joined National Assets Reconstruction Company Ltd (NARCL) as Managing Director and CEO.

PM CARES for Children Scheme was launched by the Prime Minister in 2021.

The Controller General of Accounts (CGA) released the fiscal deficit for 2021-22, which improved to 6.71 per cent of the GDP over the revised budget estimate of 6.9 per cent.

Param Ananta, is a state of the art supercomputer at IIT Gandhinagar dedicated to the nation under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).