DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 5 JUNE 2020
1. STUDENT
INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME, “TULIP”
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Ramesh
Pokhriyal `Nishank’,
Minister, Human Resource Development, Shri Hardeep S. Puri, MoS
(I/C), Housing & Urban Affairs, and All India Council for Technical
Education (AICTE) have jointly launched a 1st of its kind online
portal for `The Urban Learning Internship Program (TULIP)’ – A
program for providing internship opportunities to fresh graduates in all Urban
Local Bodies (ULBs) and Smart Cities across the country.
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This
launch is also an important stepping stone for fulfillment of MHRD and
AICTE’s goal of 1 crore successful internships by the
year 2025.
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College
students having a level of B. Tech, B planning, B. Arch, BA, BSc, BCom, LLB can
register for internships as per their interest.
2. CABINET APPROVES RENAMING OF KOLKATA PORT
TRUST
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The
Union Cabinet has given its nod to rename Kolkata Port Trust as Syama Prasad
Mookerjee Port Trust on the lines of the announcement made by PM Narendra Modi
on January 12, 2020 while marking the 150th-anniversary celebrations of the
port trust.
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Syama
Prasad Mukherjee was a Minister for Industry and Supply in the 1947 interim
Central Government and a Founder-President of Bharatiya Jan Sangh,
the predecessor to the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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In
2017, Kandla Port of Gujarat was re-named as Deendayal Port.
3. AXIS BANK
MASTERCARD AND WORLDLINE LAUNCHES ‘SOFT POS’
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Axis
Bank Ltd, Mastercard India & Worldline India partnered to launch a
digital point-of-sale(POS) solution ‘Soft POS’, the 1st financial
payments service in India to transform everyday smartphones into merchant
POS terminals.
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It
helps offline merchants and Kirana stores accept payments using their
smartphones.
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Through
this app merchants who traditionally accept cash payments will now have a
simpler and more secure way to manage transactions.
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The
solution enables merchants to accept payments through various digital form
factors which include Bharat QR, sending payment links to customers and
accepting Near Field Communication(NFC) based technology payments
to boost contactless payments in the country.
4. CHHATTISGARH
GOVT LAUNCHES “SPANDAN”
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Chhattisgarh
Police have launched a special campaign titled “spandan” to check mental stress
and depression among their personnel by conducting interactive programmes and
arranging counselling sessions, music and yoga therapies.
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The
motive of the campaign is prevent the force from depression and stress pushing
them to take extreme steps.
