CURRENT AFFIARS 14th JUNE 2021 Admin CURRENT AFFIARS JUNE 2021 Thu, Jun 17, 2021, at ,12:38 PM => A year after Galwan clash, China beefing up positions along LAC A year in Galway violent clash between the Armies of India and China in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has built additional accommodation in the depth areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on its side and is preparing for the long haul, official sources said PLA has built additional accommodate, actions, both permanent and temporary, in Rudok, Kangxiwar, Gyantse, and Golmud areas. Construction of field hospitals and procurement of additional snow mobility vehicles by the PLA also indicate that they are preparing for the long haul and permanent winter occupation of these posts. => Fight against authoritarianism, extremism, says PM Modi at G7 meet India is a “natural ally” to work with the world’s richest G7 countries to fight against threats of authoritarianism, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking at a special outreach session for guest countries on “Open Societies and Open Economies” at the G7 a summit that ended in Corbis Bay. Marking out the need for a “free, open and inclusive” Indo-Pacific, officials also said the government will study U.S. President Joseph Biden’s proposal for a “Build Back Better World” (B3W) initiative, seen as a counter to China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative, that was endorsed by the G7, keeping in mind the principles of “transparency and inclusion”. Modi also called on “tech companies and social media platforms” to ensure a “safe cyber environment” for all, a statement significant given the government’s recent regulatory issues with Facebook, Twitter, and other tech companies. => G7 Agrees to boost climate Finance, Calls on others to Join: G7 leaders agreed on Sunday to raise their contributions to meet an overdue spending pledge of $100 billion a year to help poorer countries cut carbon emissions and cope with global warming, but campaigners said firm cash promises were missing. Alongside plans billed as helping speed infrastructure funding in developing countries and a shift to renewable and sustainable technology, the world's seven largest advanced economies again pledged to meet the climate finance target. In the communiqué, the seven nations - the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan - reaffirmed their mobilize to "jointly mobilize $100 billion per year from public and private sources, through to 2025". => Farmers oppose proposed move for hydrocarbon extraction A cross-section of farmers and the general public of Karukakurichi Vadatheru in Karambakudi block in the district have expressed stiff opposition to the proposed move by the ONGC to explore hydrocarbons in their village. Their opposition comes in the wake of the Ministry of Petroleum and NaturGas’sas’ announcement, inviting companies through international competitive bidding for exploration of hydrocarbons in various locations in the country, including in Karukakurichi Vadatheru. =>Tigray crisis: A new ‘famine’ in Ethiopia The conflict that began between Ethiopia’s federal government and the ruling party in the Tigray region in the country’s north last September has since blown up into a full-scale crisis in The Horn of Africa. Now, hundreds of thousands in Tigray are facing famine, and millions more are at risk, UN agencies have said. Crisis in Tigray In November, local government officials in Tigray had told Reuters that some 2.2 million people had been displaced by the fighting and many forced to flee to neighboring countries. Although Ethiopia’s federal National Disaster Risk Management Commission disputed the number of displaced people, independent observers had agreed that it was exceptionally high. => THE WORLD IS HARDLY WIRED FOR CYBER RESILIENCE A string of high-profile cyberattacks in recent months has exposed vulnerabilities in the critical infrastructure of even advanced nations. This has reinforced the need for improved defenses against actual, and potential, cyber-attacks by all countries across continents. => Milkha Singh's wife Nirmal Kaur passes away due to COVID-19 Track legend Milkha Singh's wife, Nirmal Kaur passed away on June 13, 2021, at the age of 85 years. She had tested positive for COVID-19 earlier in May 2021. The family informed in a statement on June 13, "We are deeply saddened to inform you that Nirmal Milkha Singh passed away after a valiant battle against Covid-19 at 4 PM today." Nirmal Kaur was the former captain of the Indian women's national volleyball team and also former Director of Sports for Women in the Punjab Government => Tree of the coffee family discovered in Andaman and Nicobar A 15-meter tall tree that belongs to a genus of the coffee family has recently been discovered in the Andaman Islands. The new species Pyrostria Baljit is also the first record of the genus Pyrostria in India. Trees belonging to these species are usually found in Madagascar. The tree is distinguished by a long stem with a whitish coating on the trunk and oblong-obovate leaves with a cuneate base and was first reported from Wandoor forest in South Andaman. Other places where a tree could be located are Jarawa reserve forest, chidia tapu forest. Pyrostria laljii: Critically endangered as per IUCN status