Current Affairs 19 June: Neeraj Chopra wins gold in Paavo Nurmi Games, America announces protection plan to give citizenship to 5 lakh immigrants

Jun 19, 2024 Divya Bharat

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Neeraj Chopra won gold in the men’s javelin throw event of the World Athletics Continental Gold Tour 2024 in Turku, Finland. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the new campus of Nalanda University in Rajgir. US President Joe Biden announced the launch of the Parole in Place Protection Program to grant citizenship to 5 lakh immigrants.

Let us take a look at such important current affairs of today, which are important for students preparing for government jobs…

National

1. Prime Minister Modi inaugurated the new campus of Nalanda University: On June 19, Prime Minister Modi inaugurated the new campus of Nalanda University in Rajgir, Bihar. During this, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Bihar Governor Vishwanath Arlekar and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar were present.

Prime Minister Modi was accompanied by Bihar Governor Vishwanath Arlekar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Sinha along with ambassadors of 17 countries.

The new university has been launched as a collaboration between India and the East Asia Summit (EAS) countries.
EAS countries include a total of 18 countries including 10 ASEAN countries. India is also included in these. Ambassadors of 17 of these countries were present in the program.
Built on 450 acres, this campus is the world’s largest net zero green university campus.
The first batch of admissions to the university took place in 2014 and the campus started with 6 departments.
Nalanda University was founded by Emperor Kumaragupta in 427 AD. It used to be the world’s first residential university.
In ancient times, this university had 2000 teachers and about 10,000 students from China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, Mongolia, Sri Lanka and South-East Asia.
This university is located just 20 kilometers away from Nalanda Mahavira. Nalanda Mahavira was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016.
Nalanda University was established in 2010. In 2006, the then President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam had suggested re-establishing the university in the Bihar Legislative Assembly.

International

2. Thailand passed bill related to same sex marriage: On June 18, the Parliament of Thailand passed the bill related to gay marriage. Now Thailand has become the first country in South East Asia to recognize same-sex marriage. However, the bill will get legal recognition only after the approval of Thailand’s King Vajiralankaran.

The bill will amend the law to replace the words ‘man and woman’ and ‘husband and wife’ with ‘person’ and ‘marriage partner’.

152 members were present in the Parliament during the voting on this bill. Out of these, 130 members voted in favour of the bill.
4 members of Parliament voted against the bill and 18 members abstained from voting.
Same sex marriage has also been legalized in Taiwan and Nepal.
Homosexual relations are considered illegal in Indonesia and Brunei.

3. Announcement of a new plan to grant citizenship to immigrants in America: On June 18, US President Joe Biden announced the launch of a protection program for immigrants living in the country without the necessary documents. This program is for people who are married to American citizens, but are living in America without the necessary documents.

According to the White House, this program will benefit about 5 lakh couples living in America and 50 thousand children below the age of 21 years.

The name of this protection program is Parole in Place.
Under this program, citizenship will be given to those people who have been living in the country for at least 10 years after marrying an American citizen. Children of such couples will also be able to get citizenship through this program.
Through this protection program, it will become easier for people to obtain work permit and citizenship.
The program also aims to simplify the process of obtaining a green card for undocumented immigrants.

Sports

4. Neeraj Chopra won gold in Paavo Nurmi Games: On June 18, world champion Neeraj Chopra won the gold medal in the men’s javelin throw event of the World Athletics Continental Gold Tour 2024 in Turku, Finland. The championship was held at the Paavo Nurmi Stadium. He threw the javelin up to 85.97 meters. In this competition, Neeraj lagged behind in the second throw, but after that he made a good comeback.

Neeraj Chopra will also participate in the Paris Olympic Games to be held from 26 July to 11 August.

Toni Keranen finished second with a throw of 84.19m to win the silver medal.
Olivier Helander won the bronze medal with his best throw of 83.96 metres.

5. West Indies scored the most runs in the powerplay in T20 World Cup history: On June 17, in the last match of the group stage of the ICC T20 World Cup, West Indies defeated Afghanistan by 104 runs. West Indies scored 218 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. This was the highest score of this World Cup. Afghanistan was all out after scoring 114 runs in 16.2 overs.

Puran hit a total of 8 sixes in the match and became the player who hit the most sixes for West Indies.

Nicholas Pooran’s innings of 98 runs resulted in the highest score of the current tournament. This is the best power play score ever in the history of T20 World Cup.
The team scored 92 runs in the powerplay after losing 1 wicket. Earlier in 2014, Netherlands had scored 91 runs in the powerplay against Ireland.
T-20 World Cup 2012 champion West Indies gave its best performance in this match. The team scored 218 runs after losing 5 wickets.
This is the highest score of West Indies in the World Cup. At the same time, it has also become the fourth highest score in the history of T20 World Cup.
Earlier, the team had scored 205 runs for the loss of 6 wickets against South Africa in the 2007 World Cup.

TODAY’S HISTORY

History of June 19:

Aung San Suu Kyi, who raised the voice for democracy in Myanmar, was born in 1945.
In 1947, famous British-Indian writer and novelist Salman Rushdie was born.
In 1948 the Soviet Union closed the roads leading to West Berlin.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi was born in 1970.
In 1991, the Soviet Union liberated Hungary from its occupation.
In 1968, 50,000 people demonstrated for economic justice under the leadership of Martin Luther King.
In 2005, Forbes magazine ranked Oprah Winfrey first in its list of the 100 most powerful people in the world.

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