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CURRENT AFFAIRS CAPSULE – 18 JUNE 2019

June 18, 2019
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Namaste Thailand Film Festival, an annual festival held with an aim of celebrating uniqueness and diversity of Thai culture, was held in Delhi from 15 June to 16 June 2019. This 3rd edition of Thai film extravaganza event was organised by Royal Thai Embassy and was inaugurated by Mr. Chutintorn Gongsakdi, Ambassador of Thailand to India. The festival also seeks to continue the endeavour of bridging the gap between cultures of India and Thailand.
For the first time India will be hosting the 14th session of Conference of Parties (COP-14) of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in September 2019, to address the issue of land degradation and desertification. India will be taking over the COP presidency from China for the next two years until the next COP is hosted in 2021. UNCCD was established in 1994.
Denmark’s Inger Andersen has been appointed as the new Executive Director (ED) of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for a term of four years. Inger is a Danish economist and environmentalist with over 30 years of experience in international development economics, environmental sustainability. She will succeed Joyce Msuya of Tanzania, who served as acting head of UNEP since late 2018. UNEP was established on 5 June 1972 with headquarters at Nairobi, Kenya.
J P Nadda has been appointed as BJP’s working president during the party’s parliamentary board meeting on June 17, 2019. Parliamentary board is highest decision-making body of the BJP. This is for the first time that the BJP has appointed a working president however Amit Shah will remain BJP chief. J P Nadda was in-charge of UP for 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In 2014 PM Modi appointed him as Health Minister.
Starting from 16 May 2019, the armies of India and Myanmar carried out a 3-week-long coordinated operation in their respective border areas called ‘Operation Sunrise 2’ to bust terror camps. The operation was targeted at militant groups operating in Manipur, Nagaland and Assam. The ‘Operation Sunrise 1’ was conducted 3 months ago (February 2019) along the Indo-Myanmar border. Four Northeast states of India share a 1,640-km long border with Myanmar namely, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland and Manipur.
Food Processing Industries Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal announced that World Food India will be held in New Delhi from 1st to 4th of November 2019 to position India as Food Processing Destination of the World. Indian Food Processing Industry has grown tremendously recording 11 per cent growth rate, which is twice the pace of Global Industry.
The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (WDCDD) is being observed globally on 17 June 2019 to promote public awareness about presence of desertification and drought, highlighting methods of preventing desertification and also about international efforts to combat desertification. This year theme was Let’s Grow the Future Together. WDCDD was proclaimed on 30 January 1995 by United Nations General Assembly’s (UNGA) resolution A/RES/49/115.