In the overall rankings, Brazil remained on top, three months after taking the top spot from Belgium 2nd.Argentina jumped one place to third at the expense of France 4th who paid the price for four winless games in the UEFA Nations League.England, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Denmark complete the top-10.The next FIFA world ranking will be out on August 25.
The Blue Tigers are placed just below New Zealand (103rd).
The General Assembly in 2022 proclaimed 24 June of each year the International Day of Women in Diplomacy, adopting by consensus a resolution today reaffirming that the participation of women, on equal terms with men, at all levels of decision-making is essential to the achievement of sustainable development, peace and democracy.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated "Vanijya Bhawan", a new premises of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in Delhi and also launched a new portal -- NIRYAT (National Import-Export Record for Yearly Analysis of Trade) which will provide a one-stop platform for stakeholders to get all necessary information related to India’s foreign trade.
The World Health Network (WHN) - an independent coalition of scientists formed in response to the Covid-19 threat - said it considered the monkeypox outbreak a 'pandemic' and urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to make such a formal declaration.
The WHN pointed to over 3,500 confirmed monkeypox cases in 58 countries and said the outbreak is expanding rapidly.
Jammu and Kashmir will host the 2023 meetings of the G20, an influential group of the world's major economies.
The government of the union territory set up a five-member high-level committee for overall coordination.
India will hold the G-20 presidency from December 1, 2022, and convene the first G20 leaders' summit in 2023.
India would be a member of the G20 Troika from December 1, 2021, to November 30, 2024.
According to the new surrogacy rules,the intending couples will need to purchase a general health insurance cover in favour of a surrogate mother for a period of 36 months from an insurance company or an agent recognized by IRDAI for an amount which is sufficient to cover all expenses for all complications arising out of pregnancy and postpartum delivery complications.
The World Bank has approved a USD 245 million loan to support India's efforts to modernize rail freight and logistics infrastructure.
The Rail Logistics project will help India shift more traffic from road to rail, making transport -- both freight and passenger -- more efficient and reducing millions of tonnes of GHG emissions.
Indian Railways is the fourth-largest rail network in the world.
GMR Group-run Delhi Airport has become first airport in India to run entirely on hydro and solar power from June 1st in a major step toward achieving the goal of becoming a Net Zero Carbon Emission Airport by 2030.
Delhi International Airport Limited has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with a Himachal Pradesh-based hydropower producing company for supply.
India witnessed a current account deficit of 1.2 per cent of GDP in 2021-22 against a surplus of 0.9 per cent in FY2020-21 due to a wider trade deficit, the Reserve Bank said.
The Balance of Payments data suggested that goods imports stood at USD 618.6 billion in FY22 as against USD 398.5 billion in the year-ago period, leading to the widening of the trade deficit.
RBI appointed former SBI official Venkat Nageswar Chalasani as a member in the advisory committee of Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited (SIFL) and Srei Equipment Finance Limited (SEFL).
He replaces R Subramaniakumar who resigned from the Advisory Committee with effect from June 22, 2022.
Former Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta was appointed as the new Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), an anti-terror probe agency formed after the 26/11 attack in Mumbai.Gupta will hold the post of NIA chief till March 31, 2024.
Director General of CRPF Kuldiep Singh was given additional charge of the NIA in May last year after the retirement of Y C Modi.
Shyam Saran, a former Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change has taken over as the President of India International Centre.
He succeeds N N Vohra and will take charge on June 23.
His first book “How India Sees the World” was published in 2017. He has recently published his second book “How China Sees India and the World”.
India International Centre is located in Delhi.
Dr. Randeep Guleria has got a three months extension for the second time as director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi. Guleria’s term was set to end on March 24 this year.
Dr. Guleria, a noted pulmonologist, has played a key role in India’s covid-19 management and was appointed as AIIMS director in 2017 for a period of five years.
Karnataka Bank has launched online savings bank (SB) account opening facility through ‘Video-based Customer Identification Process (V-CIP)’.
The facility enabled in the corporate website of the bank, empowers prospective customers to open an SB account through online process and complete KYC verification through a video call at their place of convenience.
Karnataka Bank:
MD and CEO:Mahabaleshwara MS;
HQ: Mangalore
ICICI Bank launched a digital platform called ‘Campus Power’ to help students aspiring to pursue higher education in India and abroad. The platform caters to the varied needs of the entire student ecosystem comprising students, parents, and institutes.
The new Campus Power platform assists users to explore financial products matching their needs.
The Union Home Ministry extended till September 30 the validity of all FCRA registered NGOs.
The validity of the registration certificates of such entities whose validity was extended till June 30 and whose renewal application is pending will stand extended till September 30, 2022 or till the date of disposal of renewal application, whichever is earlier.
AU Small Finance Bank announced the launch of AU Bank LIT (Live-It-Today) credit card which allows customers to choose the features they want in their card and also decide the time period they want those features for.
Instead of buying multiple cards for different categories, such as travel, shopping etc, the customer can opt for the categories of their preference under.
AU Small Finance Bank:
MD & CEO:Sanjay Agarwal;
HQ:Jaipur.
ONGC Videsh (OVL), a subsidiary and overseas arm of State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)has made an oil discovery in the recently drilled well, Urraca-IX, in CPO-5 block, Llanos Basin, Colombia.
OVL had earlier discovered commercial oil in the lower sand play in Mariposa & Indico fields in the block in 2017 and 2018 which are producing 20000 barrels of oil /day
Indian Oil Corporation has unveiled Surya Nutan, a solar cooking system developed indigenously. The three models, priced in the range of Rs 12,000 and Rs 23,000, are kitchen connected and rechargeable.
Surya Nutan will “minimize radiative and conductive heat losses".
It was unveiled in the presence of Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri.
IOC Chairperson: Shrikant Madhav Vaidya
Ronaldo Singh scripted history as he became the first Indian cyclist to win a silver in a continental tournament in the senior category by finishing second in the sprint event on the concluding day of the Asian Track Championship in New Delhi.
The Indian cycling team finished fifth with 23 medals (2 Gold, 6 Silver, 15 Bronze).
The Odisha government has taken ownership of a team in the soon-to-be-launched Ultimate Kho Kho (UKK) league.
This will be the second direct sports venture for the Odisha government. The government also has ownership of the hockey team Kalinga Lancers, in the Hockey India League in 2013.
Gurunaidu Sanapathi has become India's first weightlifter to win a gold at the IWF Youth World Championships in Leon, Mexico. The 16-year-old claimed the yellow metal with a total effort of 230kg (104kg+126kg) in the boy's 55kg event.
Besides Sanapathi, compatriot Soumya S. Dalvi bagged the bronze.
Shreya Lenka, an 18-year-old girl from Odisha's Rourkela, has been selected as the fifth member of popular South Korean pop band Blackswan formed by DR Music.
Lenka, who goes by stage name Sriya, will be joining the original members of the girl group -- Youngheun, Fatou, Judy and Leia -- along with Gabriela Dalcin (Gabi) from Brazil as the sixth member.
She was selected after participating in the six-month-long global auditions.
