India's stand-in captain Jasprit Bumrah smoked English pacer Stuart Broad for ---4,5w,7nb,4,4,4,6,1 -- a total of whooping 35 runs of which 29 runs went to Bumrah's account.
The world record stayed with Brian Lara for 18 years -- he had hit South African left-arm spinner Robin Peterson for 28 runs in a Test match in 2003-04.
‘Mitigation and Management of COVID-19: Compendium of Ayush-Based Practices from Indian States and Union Territories’ is about Ayush-based practices from States and Union territories detailing information about various Ayush-based initiatives and practices adopted by the States and Union territories in India for containing and managing the COVID-19 outbreak.
Grand Hackathon organized by the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) in collaboration with NABARD was a hybrid event with the physical event held at the Bombay Stock Exchange in Fort, Mumbai.
It was subdivided into 2 categories; Agri Grant Challenge & Agri Innovation Hackathon that showcased the innovations to aid the adoption of eCommerce in the agricultural sector.
Namami Gange Amrit Vatika was created at Kalindi Kunj ghat on River Yamuna in Delhi under the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav during which 75 saplings were planted by National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) in association with Delhi Jal Board (DJB), NGOs and other associated organisations.
Plantation activities were carried out under the initiative ‘Yamuna Ghat par Vriksharopan'.
Asok Kumar is Director General, NMCG
India and Saudi Arabia held wide-ranging talks to further bolster bilateral defence cooperation.
It was held in Delhi and were co-chaired by Joint Secretary in the defence ministry Dinesh Kumar and Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Minister of Defence and Strategic Affairs Ahmed A Aseeri.
It was the fifth meeting of the India-Saudi Arabia Joint Committee on Defence Cooperation.
During the ceremony, 13 awards were presented to the concessionaire/contractors working exceptionally well in the construction, operations & maintenance, innovation, greenery, tolling stages of highway development as well as in the arena of road safety for the 2021 award cycle.
This year, the theme of the awards was “Innovation and Excellence in Road Construction”.
MoRTH instituted NHEA in 2018
RBI revised the existing guidelines for authentication and sorting following introduction of the new series banknotes.
Banks should put together a check deck of minimal 2,000 items of dirty notes, together with mutilated one and faux Indian forex notes, as per the revised pointers.
India has made significant progress & moved to a leadership position in large-value digital payment systems, though it is still weak in certain parameters relating to ATMs & card payments, the RBI report said.
India was categorised as a 'leader' or 'strong' in respect of 25 out of 40 indicators & categorised as 'weak' in respect of 8 indicators, said the report.
Benchmarking exercise was first carried out in 2019 with respect to the position in 2017.
Star Health and Allied Insurance Company has signed a corporate agency agreement with IDFC FIRST Bank for distribution of its health insurance products.
Under the agreement, Star Health will offer its health insurance products to the bank’s customers using the latter's digital platform and its distribution network.
In a crackdown on narcotic substances, RPF recovered various narcotic products, including designer drugs, valued at over Rs 7.40 crore last month and arrested 165 people with Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances(NDPS).
RPF started a month-long pan-India drive against smuggling of narcotics through rail, named Operation ‘NARCOS’ in the month of June.
RPF is empowered under NDPS Act since 2019.
World Bank has approved loans totalling $1.75 billion to fund India's PM Ayushman Bharat scheme and private investment to boost economic growth.
Of the total loan, $1 billion will go towards the health sector, while the rest $750 million will be in the form of development policy loan (DPL) to fill the financing gaps through private sector investment in the economy.
Ministry of Heavy Industries & Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship signed an MoU to create a collaborative ecosystem for imparting skill development training in the capital goods sector.
Under this, MHI shall provide 100% funding support to MHI Sector Skill Councils for development of new Industry Led National Skills Qualification Framework Level 6 & above.
The National Institute of Urban Affairs’ (NIUA) Climate Centre for Cities (NIUA C-Cube), World Resources Institute India (WRI India) and their partners launched India’s first national coalition platform for urban nature-based solutions (NbS) at the 11th World Urban Forum in Poland.
It has been launched under Cities4Forest initiative.
CSIR-CSIO engaged Engineers India Limited,New Delhi as the technology commercialization partner for next five years on 30.06.2022.
Under this agreement, CSIR-CSIO and EIL will jointly commercialize the technology of “Earthquake Warning System".
CSIR-CSIO developed EqWS is in operation for Delhi Metro Rail Corporation since August 2015.
Engineers India Limited is a Navratna PSE under Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
With an aim to achieve the target of 60 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2032, NTPC signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Government of Rajasthan for the development of 10 GW Ultra Mega Renewable Energy Power Park in Rajasthan.
Airports Authority of India (AAI) has signed an Operation & Management agreement for operationalisation of five airports owned by the Uttar Pradesh Government for a period of 30 years.
These five airports are Aligarh, Azamgarh, Chitrakoot, Muirpur and Shravasti.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approved enhanced monetary limits for procurement of drugs and consumables for Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS).
He approved the enhancement of the monetary ceiling for purchase of Not Available, emergent, lifesaving and essential drugs by 100 per cent in all categories of polyclinics from Authorised Local Chemists.
Desert Corps of the Indian Army organised the Suraksha Manthan 2022, on aspects of Border & Coastal Security at Jodhpur,Rajasthan.
It was jointly presided over by Pankaj Kumar Singh, Director General of the Border Security Force,Director General VS Pathania,DG of the Indian Coast Guard, and Lieutenant General Rakesh Kapoor, General Officer Commanding of Desert Corps.
Former team India coach and cricketer Ravi Shastri has been appointed the new brand ambassador for FanCode, a live content, sports statistics and e-commerce marketplace.
FanCode has exclusive rights to India’s tour of the West Indies and England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) The Hundred.
Adani Sportsline, the sports arm of the Adani Group, has become an official partner with the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) for the upcoming Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022, Hangzhou Asian Games 2022, and Paris Olympic Games 2024.
This is the second time that the Adani Group has come on board with IOA, the earlier one being Tokyo Olympics.
India added 540 species to its faunal database in 2021 taking the total number of animal species to 1,03,258.
India added 315 taxa to the Indian flora during 2021, taking the number of floral taxa in the country to 55,048.
Among the new species discovered was new mammal species discovered,Crocidura narcondamica, a white-toothed shrew, from Narcondam Island in Andaman.
Among reptiles discovered notable is Boiga whitakeri/Whitaker’s cat snake in Tamil Nadu.
In a first-of-its-kind move, National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) signed an agreement with DB India for the comprehensive operation and maintenance of the 82 km long Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) corridor for a period of 12 years.
DB India is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG, National Railway Company of Germany.
A Virtual Workshop on “Effective Plastic Waste Management to Tackle Plastic Pollution” was organized under the aegis of the “India-Norway Marine Pollution Initiative” by the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India, Royal Norwegian Embassy, New Delhi and UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
India’s manufacturing sector activity eased to a nine-month low in June as growth of total sales and production moderated amid intense price pressures, a monthly survey said.
The seasonally adjusted S&P Global India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell to 53.9 in June from 54.6 in May, the weakest pace of growth since last September.
UPI-enabled digital transaction remained above Rs 10 lakh crore in June for the second month in a row, data from NPCI showed.
However, it was down by nearly 3 per cent from the previous month.
The transaction value under Unified Payments Interface (or BHIM UPI) digital payments in June 2022 stood at Rs 10,14,384 crore, down by 2.6 per cent from the previous month.
The International Plastic Bag Free Day is celebrated every year on 3 July, with an aim to raise awareness about the issues of plastic pollution and its harmful impact on the natural environment.
International Plastic Bag Free Day goes back to July 3, 2008, when it was started by a member of Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) Rezero.
In its very first year of establishment, the day was only marked in Catalonia.
