Indian cricketer and the Test and ODI captain of the country’s women's national cricket team Mithali Raj announced her retirement from all forms of international cricket.
Under Mithali, Indian women's cricket made some giant strides on the global cricketing map, the biggest one being making the final of the 2017 Women's World Cup final against England at Lord's.
Ramkrishna Mukkavilli, the Founder and Managing Director of Maithri Aquatech, was previously selected as India's SDG Pioneer by the UN Global Compact Network India (GCNI) earlier this year, for his work in building water security with nature-based water solutions across India and 27 countries spanning South East Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Following this, he was recognized as one of the 10 new SDG Pioneers for 2022.
RITES Ltd., the leading Transport Infrastructure Consultancy and Engineering company, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Grands Trains DU Senegal (GTS-S.A), a railroad company of Senegal, on technical cooperation in the railway sector.
The MoU facilitates RITES to offer its services for the operation and maintenance of the railway network and sidings.
RITES Headquarters: Gurugram,
Rahul Mithal Chairman and Managing Director of RITES.
Aiming to build capacity among 5,000 urban leaders in climate change adaptation in conjunction with the World Environment Day that was observed on 5 June, the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) and World Resources Institute (WRI) India, jointly announced ‘Leaders in Climate Change Management' (LCCM), a practice-based learning programme.
The Union Cabinet has approved the transfer of 10 in-orbit communication satellites from Government of India (Gol) to M/s.NewSpace India Ltd. (NSIL), a wholly-owned Public Sector Enterprise of GOI under the administrative control of the Department of Space.
The Union Cabinet has also approved increasing the authorized share capital of NSIL from Rs.1000 crore to Rs.7500 cr.
India-UAE bilateral trade, valued at US$ 180 million (Rs.1373 crore) per annum in the 1970s has increased to US$ 60 billion (Rs.4.57 lakh crore) making the UAE, India’s third-largest trading partner for the year 2019-20 after China and the US.
India and the UAE signed a bilateral “Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement” (CEPA) on 18/02/2022.
A two-day Conference of Vice-Chancellors of Central Universities and Directors of Institutions of National Importance concluded.
On the second day of the conference, Mr. Nunzio Quacquarelli, Founder and CEO, QS ranking gave a presentation on International rankings of Higher Education Institutions: Indian Universities in QS World University Rankings.
The President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the conference.
The MoU has been signed by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of the Republic of India (DBT) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), USA to contribute towards the development of new, improved and innovative biomedical tools and technologies to prevent and treat HIV, TB, Covid-19.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved the enhancement of funding under the Technology Development Fund (TDF) scheme of the Ministry of Defence to Rs 50 crore per project from Rs 10 crore.
The TDF scheme, executed by DRDO supports the indigenous development of components, products, systems and technologies by MSMEs and start-ups.
Former team India cricket captain Virat Kohli became the first Indian to reach 200 million followers on Instagram.
The 33-year-old is also the most followed cricketer in the world and the third most followed sportsperson in the world after Cristiano Ronaldo (450M) and Lionel Messi (333M).
Tokyo Paralympics champion Avani Lekhara won gold at the Para Shooting World Cup with a world record score of 250.6 in women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 in Chateauroux, France.
The 20-year-old shooter broke her own world record of 249.6 to secure her a spot at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. Poland’s Emilia Babska bagged the silver medal with a total of 247.6.
According to New York Times, in the small clinical trial conducted by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 18 patients took a drug called Dostarlimab for around six months, and in the end, every one of them saw their tumours disappear.
According to experts, Dostarlimab is a drug with laboratory-produced molecules and it acts as substitute antibodies in the human body.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh handed over to Vietnam 12 high-speed guard boats built under a USD 100 million Line of Credit granted to the Southeast Asian country by India.
The boats were given at a ceremony in Hong Ha shipyard.
The initial five boats were manufactured at the L&T Shipyard in India and remaining seven were built in Hong Ha shipyard.
Researchers at IISc Bangalore have designed a new class of artificial peptides or miniproteins that they say can render viruses like SARS-CoV-2 inactive. According to the study, published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, the miniproteins can not only block virus entry into our cells but also clump virus particles together, their ability to infect.
Indian Institute of Science (IISc),Bengaluru has emerged as the topmost Indian institute, ranking at the 155th spot, in the QS World University Rankings 2023 released.
Globally, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) remained at no. 1 spot for a record eleventh consecutive year, while University of Cambridge rose to 2nd place, and Stanford University remained in 3rd.
IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi, ranked 172 and 174 in the current rankings respectively.
According to the Ministry of Railways, since the elimination of Unmanned Level Crossings, the number of rail accidents has reduced to zero, attaining a major milestone towards the safety of the public.
From 2014 to 2022, an amount of Rs 32,661 crore has been allocated by the government for the elimination of Unmanned Level Crossings.