Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 23 to 30 June 2022

June Weekly One Liner Current Affairs Part 4

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Our weekly one-liner current affairs is basically a summary of the week’s most important news in one line.

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National News

• First India-Nepal Bharat Gaurav tourist train flagged off from New Delhi
• Indian Oil Corporation launched an indoor solar cooking stove, name Surya Nutan
• PM Modi inaugurated ‘Vanijya Bhawan’, new premises of Commerce Ministry
• Andhra Pradesh signed an MoU with BYJU’s for government school kids
• Delhi airport becomes India’s first to run entirely on renewable power
• Union Minister G Kishan Reddy inaugurated ‘Jyotiramaya’ Festival
• Jammu & Kashmir to host G-20 meetings in 2023
• Gujarat CM launched 17th ‘Shala Praveshotsav’
• Supreme Court-appointed CoA formed Advisory Panel; chaired by Ranjit Bajaj
• Union Minister Nitin Gadkari approved Draft GSR notification to introduce Bharat NCAP
• Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan completed two years
• Goa celebrated Sao Joao festival
• Ambubachi Mela ended at Assam’s Kamakhya temple
• India’s largest floating solar power project commissioned by Tata power solar in Kerala
• ‘One health pilot’ initiative launched in Bengaluru
• 7th Anniversary of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban celebrated by MoHUA
• Artificial Intelligence will add USD 500 billion to India’s GDP by 2025: National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) Report
• Maharashtra government signed an MoU with Adani Energy for 11000 MW power generation
• Government launched e-learning portal ‘Dak karamyogi’ for Dak Sevaks employees
• Karnataka government launched ‘Krishi Yatra’ scheme
• Kerala government launched MEDISEP scheme for state government employee

International News

• Union Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurated Mango Festival in Belgium
• World Gold Council (WCG) Report: India ranked 4th in global gold recycling; recycled 75 tonnes in 2021
• World’s largest freshwater fish found in Cambodia
• Oracle introduced OCI dedicated region for India market
• Ookla Speedtest Global Index: India ranked 115^th; Norway and Singapore topped
• India recognized as ‘country of the year’ by Europe’s biggest startup conference ‘Vivatech 2020’
• Sri Lanka revised minimum age for migrant domestic workers on 21years for women
• World Bank approved additional USD 250 million for Gujarat
• Global Liveability Index 2022: New Delhi Ranks 112 & Mumbai Ranks 117; Vienna topped
• G7 leaders launched USD 600 billion infrastructure plan for developing countries
• Iran applied to join BRICS group of emerging countries

Banking and Financial

• Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) set up a committee to study issues faced by Venture Capital (VC) firms in India; chaired by Vikas Agnihotri
• DBS Bank acquired 9.9% stake in Savkarma Finance
• TCS bagged deal from Aadhar Housing Finance to improve business operation
• South Indian Bank launched ‘SIB TF Online’
• CARD91 announced strategic partnership with RuPay & Yes Bank to create a card management system
• Max Life launched life insurance savings plan with Policybazar
• Freo offered saving account ‘Freo Save’ in partnership with Equitas Small Finance Bank
• AU Small Finance Bank launched innovative credit card “LIT (Live-It-Today)”
• Merger of PVR-INOX gets clearance from NSE and BSE
• Liberty General Insurance partnered with Peerless Financial Product to enable the distribution of Liberty’s retail and Commercial line of products
• ICICI Bank launched a digital platform ’Campus Power’ for the student ecosystem
• World Bank approved Uttrakhand’s Rs 1000 crore project to boost rain-fed agriculture
• Nainital Bank and BOB Financial launched co-branded contactless RuPay credit card
• Zomato acquired Blinkit for Rs 4,447 crore in all-stock deal
• RBI extends Card Tokenisation Deadline by 3 months till September 30, 2022
• World Bank approved USD 245 million loan to modernize India’s railway logistics infra
• World Bank approved USD 250 million loan for India’s road safety programme
• Acemoney launched wearable ATM cards and Offline UPI
• Mufin Finance received Prepaid Payment instrument license from RBI
• Bajaj Allianz launched Global Health Care plan
• Airtel Payments Bank partnered with Axis Bank to digitize cash collection
• SEBI imposed 7 crore penalty on National Stock Exchange (NSE)

Appointment and Resignation

• R Kavita Rao appointed as director of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP)
• Parameswaran Iyer appointed as CEO of NITI Aayog
• P Udayakumar appointed as CMD of National Small Industries Corporation Limited (NSIC)
• Tapan Kumar Deka appointed as new Director of Intelligence Bureau
• Dinkar Gupta appointed as new Director General of National Investigation Agency (NIA)
• RBI appointed VN Chalasani on advisory panel of Seri group
• Samant Kumar Goel re-appointed as Chief of Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW)
• Anil Khanna appointed as the acting President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA)
• Shyam Saran appointed as President of India International Centre
• IRS Officer Nitin Gupta appointed as the new chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)
• S. Mundra appointed as chairman of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)
• Avinash Kulkarni appointed as CEO of India Resurgence Asset Reconstruction Company (IRARC)
• Akash Ambani appointed as Chairman of Reliance Jio
• Justice Satish Chandra Sharma takes Oath as Delhi High Court Chief Justice
• International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) appointed Mohammed Jalood as president 2022

Awards

• Odisha, ‘Mo Bus’ Service received the prestigious UN Public Service Award
• Vijay Amitraj honoured with Golden Achievement Award
• Government of India hosted its first ever National Logistics Excellence Awards in New Delhi
• Utama won the Transylvania Trophy at the 21st TIFF Edition
• Indian Start-up IG Drones won prestigious Airwards Best Drone Organization Awards by Airwards
• SM Krishna, Narayana Murthy, Prakash Padukone selected for Kempegowda Award
• Nitin Gadkari presented National Highway excellent Award 2021

Defence

• IAF conducted its first Capstone Seminar in Air Force Auditorium, New Delhi
• Bharat Electronics signed an MoU with Belarusian Company for supply of Airborne Defence Suite (ADS)
• Defence Ministry approved setting up of ‘BRO Cafes’ on 75 border roads
• India successfully test-fired indigenously developed Anti-Tank Guided Missile
• Indian Coast Guard launched centralised pay system called PADMA (Pay Roll Automation for Disbursement of Monthly Allowances)

Science

• ISRO launched India’s Communication satellite ‘GSAT-24’ from French Guiana
• South Korea launched its first satellite with a homegrown Nuri rocket into orbit
• China launched new batch of 3 Yagon-35 remote sensing satellites
• Indian drone start-up Garuda Aerospace to set up plant in Malaysia
• Scientists discovered the world’s largest bacterium “Thiomargarita Magnifica”
• C-DOT signed an agreement with Galore Network for 5G Radio Access network Products & Solutions
• Iran launched a solid-fueled rocket, Ziuljanah into space

Sports

• Sunil Chhetri became joint 5th highest goal scorer in international football history
• India player Rumeli Dhar announced retirement from all forms of cricket
• Madhya Pradesh clinched the first-ever Ranji Trophy title against Mumbai
• Cyclist Ronaldo scripts history and becomes the first Indian to win silver in the Asian championship
• Indian women’s recurve team bagged a silver medal in Archery WC Stage 3 in Paris
• Deepak Punia won bronze in U23 Asian Wrestling Championships 2022 in Bishkek
• Navjeet Dhillon won the gold medal in discus throw at Qosanov Memorial 2022
• Eoin Morgan announced his retirement from the International Cricket
• Novak Djokovic becomes 1st player to win 80 matches in all four Grand Slams

Book and Author

• A book name ‘Ashtang Yoga’ by Sonu Phogat, released by Haryana CM
• A book titled ‘The Life and Times of George Fernandes’ authored by Rahul Ramgundan

Important day

• 23 June – International Widows’ Day (Theme 2022 – Invisible Women, Invisible Problem)
• 23 June – International Olympic Day (Theme 2022 – Together, For a Peaceful World)
• 23 June –United Nations Public Service Day (Theme 2022 – Building back better from COVID-19: Enhancing innovative partnerships to meet the Sustainable Development Goals)
• 22 June- World Rainforest Day (Theme 2022 – The Time is Now)
• 24 June – International Day of Women in Diplomacy
• 25 June – International Day of Seafarer (Theme 2022- Your voyage – then and now, share your journey)
• 26 June – International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (Theme 2022 –Addressing drug challenges in health and humanitarian crises)
• 26 June – International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
• 27 June – MSME Day
• 28 June – National Insurance Awareness Day
• 29 June – International Day of the Tropics
• 29 June – National Statistics Day
• 30 June – International Asteroid Day (Theme 2022 – Small is beautiful)

Obituary

• Photojournalist R Raveendran passed away
• Former Chairman of BHEL V Krishnamurthy passed away
• A noted lyricist, Chowallor Krishnakutty passed away
• Shapoorji Pallonji group chairman Pallonji Mistry passed away
• Olympic Medallist and Hockey World Cup winner Varinder Singh passed away
• Malayalam actor Ambika Rao passed away

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