Daily Current Affairs – 11 June, 2021

Facts in News Content Distribution Network (CDN) Recently, several popular websites were reported to be facing an outage due to a possible glitch with CDN services . A Content Distribution Network (CDN) is a network of servers/data centres distributed across the globe that helps highly-trafficked websites keep up with the constant demand for data.  A […]

In News NITI Aayog and  Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) released a  new report titled Fast Tracking Freight in India. It presents key opportunities for India to reduce its logistics costs. Major Highlights  Freight transport: Freight transport demand is expected to grow rapidly in the future due to the rising demand for goods and services. Freight […]

In News Recently, the World Bank has released its June 2021 Global Economic Prospects Report. Major Findings  Indian scenario  India’s economy is expected to grow at 8.3% for Fiscal Year 2021-22. This rate, however, masked the damage caused by the “enormous” second wave of COVID-19. For FY 2022-23 growth is expected to slow to 7.5% […]

In News Recently, Scientists have assembled the largest collection of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in the telescope’s first FRB catalogue. About Researchers at the Pune-based Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR) and the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) with collaboration of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Collaboration have achieved this milestone. A […]

In News Recently, the Union Education Minister has released the report of All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2019-20. About AISHE The report provides key performance indicators on the current status of higher education in the country. The report is the 10th in the series of All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) annually […]

In News Recently, legal and political experts have held that the Election Commision (EC) can act against criminalisation of politics. About the Issue There has been a rise in the trend of people with not so clean backgrounds contesting for elections.  The judgment Rambabu Singh Thakur versus Sunil Arora and Ors held that if a […]