1) National Doctors’ Day: 1 July
•National Doctor’s Day is also celebrated to honour the legendary physician Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy. Dr Roy was honoured with the country’s highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna on February 4, 1961.
2) 2nd anniversary of GST to be celebrated today as “GST Day”
•The introduction of GST in the Indian economy has replaced a multi-layered, complex indirect tax structure with a simple, transparent and technology-driven tax regime.
3) ‘One nation one ration card’ scheme from July 1, 2020
•‘One Nation One Ration Card’ scheme will be available across the country from July 1, 2020. The scheme will allow portability of food security benefits according to which the poor migrant workers will be able to buy subsidised rice and wheat from any ration shop in the country as long as their ration cards are linked to Aadhaar.
4) ‘Tribes India’ & ‘Go Tribal Campaign’ of Tribes India launched
•‘Go Tribal Campaign’ of Tribes India launched to promote the use of tribal handicrafts, handicrafts and natural products.
•‘Tribes India’ launched globally through Amazon Global Selling to step up Exports of Tribal Products.
5) K. Natarajan has sworn in as the 23rd chief of ICG
•K. Natarajan took over as the Director-General of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG). He has become the 23rd chief of India’s coastal security force. He took over from Rajendra Singh.
6) Money in Swiss banks: India ranked 74
•India was ranked 73rd last year, after jumping from its 88th rank a year ago.
7) Tamil yeoman declared Tamil Nadu’s state butterfly
•Tamil Nadu is only the fifth state in the country to declare its state butterfly.
8) UGC approves a scheme “STRIDE” to boost research culture in India
•An Advisory Committee has been set up by the UGC under the chairmanship of Prof Bhushan Patwardhan to oversee the entire scheme.
9) No charges on NEFT, RTGS money transfers from 1 July
•As per Second Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement for 2019-20, the Reserve Bank of India will stop imposing additional charges on Fund transfer through RTGSand NEFT systems from 1st July, 2019. This has been done to provide an impetus to digital funds movement.