1.Kerala tops health rankings: NITI Aayog report

• Kerala has topped in NITI Aayog's Health Index followed by Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.Also, Haryana, Rajasthan and Jharkhand showed the maximum improvement of health outcomes from base to reference year.
• The health index has been developed by NITI Aayog, with technical assistance from the World Bank, in consultation with the ministry of health and family welfare.
• The report ranks the states and Union territories innovatively on their year-on-year incremental change in health outcomes, as well as, their overall performance with respect to each other.

Foot Notes:
About NITI Aayog

1. NITI Aayog CEO: Amitabh Kant
2. Vice Chairman: Rajiv Kumar.

2.Qu Dongyu the first Chinese to head the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization.

• China's agricultural deputy minister, Qu Dongyu (55) elected as the new director general of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) at Rome, Italy for a period of 4 years w.e.f. August 2019. He will succeed Brazil's Jose Graziano da Silva.
• He won 108 votes, followed by Catherine Geslain-Laneelle of France (the first woman to run for the post, a former head of the European Food Safety Authority) with 71 votes and Georgia's Davit Kirvalidze(a former agriculture minister) with 12 votes in the first round of voting.
• The election held as the fight to eradicate world hunger is threatened by global warming and wars, as FAO has sounded the alarm over rising food insecurity and high levels of malnutrition.

Foot Notes:
About United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization

1. Headquarters: Rome, Italy
2. Head:Qu Dongyu
3. Founded: 16 October 1945, Quebec City, Canada
4. Formation: 16 October 1945; 73 years ago

3.Korean Ambassador to India Bong-kil Shin signed agreement with BMVSS and launched ‘Jaipur Foot Korea’

• South Korean Ambassador to India Bong-kil Shin launched a  collaborative initiative between South Korea and Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) named ‘Jaipur Foot Korea’. An agreement was also signed by the Korean Ambassador with BMVSS to provide assistance in prosthetic limbs sector.
• Korea will grant financial and technical assistance for research and development collaboration in the med-tech sector in the area of prosthetic limbs, bionic arms, 3-D printing-based Flat foot solution and mobility solutions.It will provide opportunities to the Korean med-tech students to join the various prosthetic fitment camps in various countries and participate in certificate programmes offered by Jaipur Foot.
• It will provide overseas development assistance and grants from the Government of Korea and donations from private institutions and corporations from Korea to India.

Foot Notes:
About BMVSS

1. Headquarters: Jaipur, Rajasthan
2. Founded: 1975
3. Founder: D.R. Mehta

About South Korea

1. Currency: South Korean won
2. Capital: Seoul

4.International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, 26 June.

• By resolution 42/112 of 7 December 1987, the General Assembly decided to observe 26 June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking as an expression of its determination to strengthen action and cooperation to achieve the goal of an international society free of drug abuse.
• Supported each year by individuals, communities and various organizations all over the world, this global observance aims to raise awareness of the major problem that illicit drugs represent to society.
• This year's theme highlights that justice and health are two sides of the same coin when it comes to addressing drug problems.

Foot Notes:
About General Assembly

1. President: María Fernanda Espinosa
2. Headquarters: New York, United States
3. Founder: United Nations

5.The Tribune's reporter wins the 'Journalist of the Year' RedInk Award

• The RedInk Awards for Excellence in Journalism are conferred to encourage good quality reporting and analysis, fair play and high ethical standards in Indian journalism.
• The following are the winners of awards in different categories :Rachna Khaira of The Tribune has bagged the prestigious RedInk Award for 'Journalist of the Year'. She won it for exposing the functioning of the UIDAI and its Aadhaar data cache.
• Two retired senior journalists Dinu Ranadive from the Maharashtra Times, and Sebastian D'Souza, from the Mumbai Mirror, have jointly received the Lifetime Achievement Award for this year.

6.Communication gadgets to fishing vessels

• The Indian Space Research Organisation has distributed 250 NavIC Messaging Receivers to fishermen of Kerala on a trial basis.
• The device will provide Emergency Warning Alerts like cyclone, high waves and Tsunami and also provides information on Potential Fishing Zone and International boundary crossing based on the position information from NavIC.

Foot Notes:
About ISRO

1. ISRO Director: K Sivan
2. Headquarters: Bengaluru
3. Established in: 1969.

7.Goa freedom fighter Mohan Ranade passes away

• Veteran freedom fighter from Goa and Padma Shri winner Mohan Ranade passes away after a prolonged illness.
• Mohan Ranade was a member of the Azad Gomantak Dal, a group of revolutionaries who believed in the doctrine of armed attacks against the Portuguese colonial rule and participated in ambushes on several Portuguese installations in Goa.

Foot Notes:
About GOA

1. Chief minister: Pramod Sawant
2. Capital: Panaji

8. RBI's Complaint Management System To Improve Customer Experience In Grievance Redressal Process

• The newly launched Complaint Management System (CMS), symbolizes Reserve Bank of India or RBI's commitment to improve customer experience in grievance redressal process by ensuring timely resolution of complaints received at the Reserve Bank, noted the RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das.
• Sustaining the confidence of consumers in banks and other Financial Service Providers (FSPs) through prompt and effective grievance redressal, together with empowering customers through education is pivotal for maintaining trust in the banking system.
• CMS envisages improved customer convenience by providing a single window on Reserve Bank's website for lodging complaints against any regulated entit

Foot Notes:
About RBI

1. Governor: Shaktikanta Das
2. Established: April 1,1935
3. Bank rate: 6.00%
4. Interest on reserves: 4.00%
5. Headquarters: Mumbai

9.'Binny Bansal sells Flipkart shares worth Rs 530 crore to Walmart'

• Binny Bansal, the co-founder of India's leading e-tailer Flipkart, sold around 54 lakh of his equity shares valued at $76 million ( ₹531 crore) to world's retail giant Walmart's Luxembourg entity FIT Holdings SARL, business intelligence platform Paper.
• The current sale is estimated to have reduced Bansal's holdings.

Foot Notes:
About Walmart

1. CEO: Doug McMillon
2. Founder: Sam Walton

About Flipkart

1. CEO: Kalyan Krishnamurthy
2. Founded: October 2007
3. Founders: Binny Bansal, Sachin Bansal

10.Telangana hosts International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) congress

• Telangana hosts 32nd edition of the International Seed Testing Association congress. This is the first edition of ISTA congress to be held in Asia.
• Scientists, policy makers, researchers and members of public and private seed industry from over 80 countries are participating in the congress.
• The eight-day congress would have the main event for three days and technical committee meetings/sessions would be held over the next five days.

Foot Notes:
About International Seed Testing Association

1. President of ISTA: Craig McGill
2. Headquarters: Switzerland.