Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF Download (May 22nd to 31st May 2022)

Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs of May 22nd to 31st May 2022. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming SBI Clerk 2022 and other competitive exams can make use of it.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS

• Every year on May 21, the day after the death anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Anti-Terrorism Day is marked.
• World Metrology Day (WMD) is celebrated yearly on May 20th around the world to raise awareness of metrology, the science of measuring, and its applications & the theme for World Metrology Day 2022 is “Metrology in the Digital Era”.
• The United Nations General Assembly established May 21 to be the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development in a resolution.
• Every year on May 21, the world celebrates International Tea Day.
• Since 2013, the United Nations (UN) has observed the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula on May 23rd
• Every year on May 22nd, the International Day for Biological Diversity, also known as World Biodiversity Day, is held to raise awareness and understanding of biodiversity issues & the theme in 2022 is “Building a shared future for all life”.
• Commonwealth Day is typically observed on the second Monday of March in the majority of the Commonwealth’s 54 member countries, with the British monarch delivering a radio address.
• Every year on May 23, American Tortoise Rescue, a non-profit organisation, observes World Turtle Day & the theme is Shellebrate
• From May 25 to 31, the United Nations will observe “International Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories”.
• World Thyroid Day is marked on May 25 to raise awareness and understanding of thyroid illnesses, their symptoms, prevention, and treatments.
• International Missing Children’s Day is an annual awareness event held on May 25th.
• On the 29th of May, the UN Peacekeepers International Day is commemorated around the world & the theme for 2022 is “People. Peace. Progress. The Power of Partnerships”
• Vesak Day, also known as Buddha Purnima, was observed on May 16, 2022.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : NATIONAL NEWS

• Union Education Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan has begun the ‘Padhe Bharat’ 100-day reading campaign.
• Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs and India’s Governor for the New Development Bank (NDB), presided over the 7th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of NDB via video conference in New Delhi.
• The North East Research Conclave (NERC) 2022 was launched at IIT Guwahati by Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister for Education and Skill Development.
• The Ministry of Culture honoured Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s 250th birth anniversary with the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.
• The Ministry of Railways has announced a collaboration with IIT Madras to create a made-in-India Hyperloop system.
• Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh introduced the Single National Portal for Biotech Researchers and Start-ups, in keeping with the One Nation, One Portal ethos.
• The state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is the first gas producer to sell domestic gas on the Indian Gas Exchange, exchanging unspecified amounts from the KG-DWN-98/2 block off India’s coast.
• The Inter-State Council, which works to promote and support cooperative federalism in the country, has been reconstituted with Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi as chairman and chief ministers of all states and six Union ministers as members. 
• The National Health Authority’s Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission has introduced a revamped Ayushman Bharat Health Account, ABHA smartphone application to handle health records.
• Under Swachh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0, the Union Government of India has launched the Eighth Edition of Swachh Survekshan – SS-2023.
• A supercomputer named Param Porul was inaugurated at NIT Tiruchirappalli under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
• Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, attended a brainstorming session on Mission Digital India BHASHINI – the National Language Translation Mission, organized by MeiTY (NLTM).
• The Central Advisory Board on Archaeology (CABA), which was constituted seven years ago to strengthen relations between the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and those involved in archaeological research, has been re-established.
• Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched India’s largest drone festival here, while he visited with Kisan drone pilots and saw open-air drone demos.
• According to Health Minister Shri Mansukh Mandaviya, India will introduce a newly approved “made in India” TB infection skin test dubbed “c-TB”.
• Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, has asked infrastructure agencies to coordinate their initiatives with the water bodies being built as part of the Amrit Sarovar project.
• The 3rd Global Organic Expo 2022,3 days from may 26-28 2022 is poised to become a major platform for producers, aggregators, processors, value chain integrators, and organic partners by organizing a world-class conference, with the relevant theme “Profitability for Humanity” in New Delhi.
• The import policy for key paper products has been changed from free to free with mandatory registration under the Paper Import Monitoring System.
• Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurated the country’s first “Lavender Festival” in Jammu’s Bhaderwah, where the cultivation of lavender transformed the economy of the mountainous region.
• Union Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh has endorsed the proposal to establish a new defense ring dedicated to Uttarakhand.
• Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi announced that India has become one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
• To make life easier for the average man, the government plans to develop Jan Samarth, a unified platform for the implementation of several initiatives run by several ministries and departments.
• Jet Airways has been given an air operator’s authorization by the DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation).

CURRENT AFFAIRS : INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• A team of experts from the National Geographic Society has installed the “world’s highest weather station” on Mt. Everest at an altitude of 8,830 meters to automatically measure various meteorological phenomena.
• Belgium has become the first country to make a 21-day quarantine compulsory for monkeypox patients after 4 cases of the disease were reported.
• The World Economic Forum (WEF) has launched the India chapter of the Alliance of CEO Climate Action Leaders to supercharge India’s climate action and decarbonization efforts.
• Kuwait’s Ministry of Oil announced that it plans to start building the world’s largest petroleum research center by the end of 2022 in al-Ahmadi, south of Kuwait city

CURRENT AFFAIRS : STATE NEWS

• The Delhi government has inducted a unique initiative of using robots for extinguishing fires in Delhi.
• Chief Minister M.K. Stalin remotely launched the Kalaignar’s All Village Integrated Agriculture Development Project in the districts of Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri and Erode.
• The new Tripura Cabinet headed by CM Manik Saha has decided to adopt the Tripura Electric Vehicle Policy 2022, to promote electric vehicles, in an effort to cut down on environmental pollution and uphold Tripura as an eco-friendly tourist destination.
• Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched India’s first ‘Olympic Values Education Programme’ (OVEP) by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Odisha.
• Uttar Pradesh minister for urban development and energy, Shri A K Sharma launched SAMBHAV or Systemic Administration Mechanism for Bringing Happiness and Value portal – www.sambhav.up.gov.in platform/portal that will monitor public grievances, programs, schemes, projects and policies of Urban Development and Energy Departments of Uttar Pradesh government effectively and transparently.
• Redcliffe Labs, a unit of Redcliffe Lifetech in the U.S., has come up with its first commercial drone flight in Uttarakhand in the India healthcare sector.
• Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah has inaugurated & laid foundation stones of various infrastructure projects worth Rs.1180 crore in Arunachal Pradesh during a public meeting at Namsai, Arunachal Pradesh.
• Kolkata mayor, Firhad Hakim announced Kolkata has become the first major metropolitan city in India to make a detailed biodiversity register.
• The 4th Edition of State-Level Shirui Lily Festival 2022 began at Shirui Village Ground in Ukhrul district, Manipur from May 25 to May 28, 2022.
• Rajasthan is the first state in the country to institutionalize health accounts which will help in estimating the amount spent on the health sector and its impact with the help of the World Health Organization(WHO).
• Chief Commissioner, Delhi Customs Zone, Shri Surjit Bhujabal inaugurated project ‘NIGAH’ at ICD Garhi Harsaru, Gurugram.
• Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has approved new guidelines for the implementation of ‘Indira Gandhi Shahari Rozgar Yojana’.
• The government of Telangana has launched a single-pick cotton pilot project on 50,000 acres.
• Tamil Nadu Minister for Forests K. Ramachandran announced in the Assembly, that Nanjarayan Tank in Tiruppur district is the 17th bird sanctuary of Tamil Nadu.
• Minister Ayush Sarbanand Sonowal announced that the main event of the 8th International Day of Yoga (IDY) 2022 will be held at Mysore in Karnataka on June 21, 2022.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : BANKING & FINANCE

• IDBI Bank has signed a share purchase agreement with Ageas Insurance International to sell its 25 percent stake in Ageas Federal Life Insurance(AFLI) for ₹580.2 crore.
• BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) has issued an RMB-denominated bond of 7 billion yuan (about USD 1.04 billion) in China’s interbank bond market with a maturity of three years.
• According to the World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) Mid-year Update 2022 report released by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, India’s Gross Domestic Product(GDP) growth projections have declined from 6.7% to 6.4% for 2022-23 due to war between Russia and Ukraine & higher commodity prices and potential negative spillover effects from monetary tightening in the United States.
• According to a Department of Post circular, the NEFT  facility has been made available for Post Office Savings Bank Account (POSB) customers from May 18, 2022 and RTGS facility is currently under testing and is expected to be rolled out by May 31, 2022
• RBL Bank, Amazon Pay and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have collaborated to offer Universal Payments Interface (UPI) payments.
• The Supreme Court has directed the constitution of 25 special courts with a retired judge in 5 states for expeditious disposal of cheque bounce cases.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of Rs 5 lakh each on KKR India Financial Services Limited, Mumbai & Daimler Financial Services India Private Limited, Pune for failing to comply with the ‘Monitoring of Frauds in NBFCs (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2016’ issued by RBI.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 29.79 lakh on Unimoni Financial Services Limited (the entity) for non-compliance with norms on small-Prepaid Payment instruments (PPI) requirements.
• A Y Combinator-backed corporate cards and payable management company, Volopay has partnered with Visa’s Fintech Fast Track Program to offer financial management solutions.
• India’s largest private sector lender HDFC Bank has carved out rural banking function as a separate vertical.
• The Reserve Bank of India has directed all banks and ATM networks to provide the option of Interoperable Cardless Cash Withdrawal (ICCW), and that the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) support UPI integration with all banks and ATM networks.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed trade transactions with the island country to be settled in Indian Rupees (INR), outside the Asian Clearing Union (ACU) mechanism in view of the difficulties being experienced by exporters in receiving proceeds from Sri Lanka.
• The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Central Board of Directors have approved the transfer of Rs 30,307 crore as surplus to the Central Government for the accounting year 2021-22
• Mortgage lender HDFC Ltd. in association with Cogno AI has launched a first-of-its-kind ‘Spot Offer’ on WhatsApp, to provide an in-principle home loan approval to home buyers within two minutes.
• The country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has introduced Real Time Xpress Credit on its Yono platform, allowing eligible customers to get personal loans of up to ₹35 lakh.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) constituted a committee to examine & review the efficacy, adequacy and quality of customer service in banks, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and payment operators. 
• India’s largest private sector bank, HDFC Bank Partners with India’s largest B2B pharma marketplace , Retailio launched a new range of co-branded credit cards primarily targeted at chemists and pharmacies in the merchant segment.
• According to the data released by the commerce and industry ministry, India has recorded the highest ever annual FDI inflow of USD 83.57 billion in the Financial Year 2021-22 overtaking FY21’s FDI by USD 1.60 billion despite military operation in Ukraine and COVID-19 pandemic.
• IDBI Bank has divested its entire holding of 6,23,23,800 fully paid-up equity shares constituting 19.18 percent of the total equity share capital of Asset Reconstruction Company (India) Ltd. (ARCIL) to Avenue India Resurgence Pte. Ltd.
• The financial services company of the Tata Group, Tata Capital Ltd has launched ‘Loan Against Shares’(Tata Capital is amongst the first financial institutions to offer), an end-to-end integrated digital financial offering.
• According to the data from the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) equity inflows into India contracted marginally by 1 percent to USD 58.77 billion during 2021-22.
• The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has announced a new framework for managing Passive Funds, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), and Index Funds amid the growing popularity of such funds as investment products for retail investors.
• UCO Bank signed a co-lending agreement with NBFC Paisalo Digital Limited for agriculture business to capitalize on the huge Rs 8 lakh crore market of small-ticket loans for the 365 million underbanked and under-serviced population.
• A rural fintech company, Mahagram partners with a new-generation Indian bank IndusInd Bank, to enhance the digital payments ecosystem & provide a wider horizon to transact especially for its customers in rural India.
• India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) has introduced issuer charges for the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System service (AePS).
• MUFG Bank will be the first Japanese bank to open a branch at Gujarat International Financial Tech City (GIFT City) in Ahmedabad for foreign currency-denominated lending business.
• The New Development Bank (NDB), the Shanghai-based multilateral bank of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa),  Development Bank would set up a regional office in India at the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), Gujarat, India to cater to infrastructure and sustainable development needs.
• HDFC Securities has launched HDFC Money, a robo-advisory investment platform for all mutual fund investments.
• BOB Financial Solutions Limited (BFSL) & Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL) in partnership with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has launched the HPCL BoB co-branded contactless RuPay Credit Card.
• Moody’s Investors Service, often referred to as Moody’s, lowered India’s economic growth projection to 8.8 percent for 2022 from 9.1 percent earlier.
• A non-banking finance company (NBFC), Northern Arc Capital has entered a strategic partnership with Indian Bank.
• Digital financial services firm One97 Communications, which operates under the Paytm brand, has formed a joint venture firm Paytm General Insurance Limited (PGIL) approved  by May 20
• AU Small Finance Bank has launched two new products of AU Royale –‘AU Royale Salary’ and ‘AU Royale Business’ current account under its affluent banking program.
• According to the State Bank of India’s research report Ecowrap, India’s GDP growth rate has been projected at 8.2-8.5 percent for FY 2022.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BUSINESS NEWS

• The central government declared that India received the largest annual FDI inflow of $83.57 billion during FY22.
• The RBI eased norms for non-bank entities to set up Bharat Bill Payment operating units by reducing the net-worth requirement to Rs 25 crore from Rs 100 crore to encourage more players in the segment.
• The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has formed various committees through the General Insurance Council (GIC) to suggest reforms in several areas of general, reinsurance, and life insurance such as regulation, product, distribution, among others.
• The Central Board of Direct Taxes has made new rules, called the Income-tax (Fifteenth Amendment) Rules, 2022, as per this, the government has made quoting of PAN or Aadhar mandatory for cash withdrawals/deposits amounting to Rs. 20 lakh or more in a single financial year.
• The Reserve Bank of India’s Banknote Survey of Consumers findings revealed that, among banknotes, ₹100 was the most preferred while ₹2,000 was the least preferred denomination.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNATIONS

• The parent company of low-cost carrier IndiGo, InterGlobe Aviation Limited’s Board of Directors appointed Mr Pieter Elbers as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & as a Whole Time Director which is effective from 1 October, 2022.
• Mr PN Vasudevan, Managing Director and CEO, Equitas Small Finance Bank, has decided to step down from his role in order to focus on the public charitable trust.
• The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved  the appointment of Indian Forest Service (IFS) Officer, Mr Vivek Kumar as new Private Secretary (PS) to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at the joint secretary level.
• The board of directors of information technology giant Infosys has re-appointed Mr Salil Parekh as chief executive officer(CEO) & managing director(MD) of the company for a period of 5 years which is effective from July 1, 2022, till March 31, 2027.

• One 97 Communications, which operates under Paytm brand, has reappointed its founder Mr Vijay Shekhar Sharma as managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) for another 5 years effective from December 19, 2022, to December 18, 2027.
• On May 23, 2022, Mr Anthony Albanese was sworn in as Australia’s 31st Prime Minister at Government House, Canberra.
• Former independence fighter and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta was sworn in as president of East Timor for the period of 5 years i.e. 2022 to 2027, making it the second time for him to lead Southeast Asia’s youngest nation.
• Chairman of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), Vinai Kumar Saxena has been appointed as the new Lieutenant Governor (L-G) of Delhi.
• As approved by the Reserve Bank of India, The Board of IDBI Bank, approved the appointment of Mr T N Manoharan as the part-time chairman for a period of 3 years.
• During the 75th World Health Assembly, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was re-elected as WHO Director-General for a second five-year term by WHO Member states.
• Captain Abhilasha Barak (26 years old) has become the first woman officer to join the Army Aviation Corps as a helicopter pilot after completing a year-long course at the Combat Army Aviation Training School at Nashik in Maharashtra.
• India’s Union Health Secretary Shri Rajesh Bhushan has been appointed as the Chairperson of Committee B at the 75th World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, Switzerland.
• Mr Narinder Dhruv Batra resigned as the president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA).
• An Indian government officer Mr Anwar Hussain Shaik has been made the chair of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Committee on Technical Barriers on Trade.
• JSW Group, has appointed Mr Gaurav Sachdeva as the CEO of JSW One Platforms, an e-commerce venture of the group.
• Justice Pradip Kumar Mohanty has been appointed as Acting Chairperson of Lokpal by President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : AWARDS & HONORS

• An innovator from Rajasthan , Mr Shri Subhash Ola has won the 1st prize for the Amazon Smbhav Entrepreneurship Challenge 2022 and his enterprise “Geniusenergy Critical Innovation Private Limited” has won the Start-up of the Year award.
• Cummins India’s Ms Anjali Pandey has been awarded the prestigious Committed Leader Award at CII EXCON 2022 in Bengaluru,Karnataka.
• The WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has announced six awards to recognize outstanding contributions to advancing global health, demonstrated leadership and commitment to regional health issues.
• Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Chairman of Dubai Airports and Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates Airline and Group honored the winner of the Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award at an award ceremony held at Atlantis The Palm, Dubai.
• The Music Academy announced the Sangita Kalanidhi and other awards for various artists from the years 2020, 2021 and 2022.
• Director of the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), Dr A Gopalakrishnan, has won the prestigious VASVIK (Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra) Industrial Research Award for the year 2020 in the category of Agricultural Sciences and Technology.
• Business tycoon Gautam Adani, Supreme Court lawyer Karuna Nundy, and prominent Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez have been named among the world’s 100 most influential people of 2022 by TIME magazine.
• Union Power Minister RK Singh has conferred National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Limited (NHPC Limited) with the first prize for the year 2020-21 and the second prize for the year 2018-19 for excellent implementation of Rajbhasha.
• On the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore’s birth anniversary, the chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, has received the first Bangla Academy award for her “relentless literary pursuit at the “Ravi Pranam” function organized by the government’s information and culture department.
• President of India and South Asia for Rolls-Royce, Kishore Jayaraman, has received an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty The Queen.
• Delhi-based author Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell, won the International Booker Prize for their novel ‘Tomb of Sand’.
• Two-time Emmy award-winning American actor and producer Vincent De Paul presented an award for Excellence in Cinema to the Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui at the French Riviera Film Festival in Cannes.
• The World Health Organization (WHO) has selected Jharkhand for the World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) Award-2022 in recognition of its efforts to reduce tobacco consumption.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : ACQUISITIONS & MERGERS

• Walmart-backed PhonePe will acquire 2 wealth tech platforms WealthDesk  (‘Wealth Technologies & Services Private Limited’) and OpenQ (Quantech Capital Investment Advisors Private Limited) total deal is in the range of USD 75 million.
• Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, GIC, is acquiring a 7.5% equity stake in Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail (ABFRL) for Rs 2,195 crore by way of preferential issue of equity and warrants.
• India’s largest coal producer, Coal India Limited (CIL), is planning to divest a 25 percent stake in its unlisted arm Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL), and will go for the subsequent listing of the subsidiary on stock exchanges after obtaining further clearances.
• Emirates Telecommunications Group Company PJSC “e&” (Etisalat Group) has acquired approximately 2,766 million shares in Vodafone Group Plc aggregating to $4.4 billion, these shares represent 9.8% of Vodafone’s issued share capital.

• A wholly-owned subsidiary of Adani Enterprises, Adani Defence Systems and Technologies Ltd., signed an agreement to acquire a 50% stake in Bengaluru-based General Aeronautics Pvt. Ltd.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: SUMMITS AND CONFERENCES

• Smt. Meenakshi Lekhi, Minister of State for Culture and External Affairs participated in the 7th BRICS Culture Ministers’ Meeting via video conference, which was hosted by the People’s Republic of China and attended by all BRICS Member Nations.
• President Ram Nath Kovind will kick off the two-day National Women Legislators’ Conference-2022 at the Legislative Assembly complex, which is expected to bring a significant number of female parliamentarians and legislators from throughout the country.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: MOUS AND AGREEMENT

• The National Film Festival of Jammu and Kashmir is quickly approaching, and the J&K Department of Information and Public Relations has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Film Development Corporation Limited.
• In the presence of Uttarakhand Chief Minister Mr Pushkar Singh Dhami, an MoU was signed between the Uttarakhand government and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) to promote the renewable energy industry and other initiatives in the state.
• During the current World Economic Forum (WEF) annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, the Maharashtra government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) worth over 30,000 crores.
• Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya led a high-level delegation to Jordan in a first-of-its-kind mission to secure fertilizers and raw materials for the short and long term.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : DEFENCE NEWS

• On May 22, 2022, The fourth edition of the Indian Navy-Bangladesh Navy Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) commenced in the Northern Bay of Bengal .
• The Indian Navy successfully tested its ship-based surface-to-air missile (SAM) system by taking down a low flying target.
• The Indian Navy has launched the second of four Survey Vessels (Large) (SVL) Nirdeshak (Yard 3026) at Kattupalli, Chennai, Tamil Nadu to replace the existing Sandhayak Class survey ship.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• Chinese scientists have proposed a space project named Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES) to survey the sky with the help of a space-borne telescope, in the quest for habitable terrestrial planets outside the solar system.
• Private sector rocket maker Skyroot Aerospace Private Ltd successfully tested the Kalam-100 rocket that will power the Vikram-1 rocket’s third stage/engine.
• The  National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) & Boeing successfully launched Starliner spacecraft – uncrewed mission called Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2) from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA.
• The 3rd edition of Indian Navy and Bangladesh Navy Bilateral exercise Bongosagar 2022 commenced at Port Mongla, Bangladesh.
• The Army Training Command signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Gandhinagar-based Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) to develop a ‘Wargame Research and Development Centre’(prototype name ‘WARDEC’) in New Delhi.
• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to build an identical pair of satellites named DISHA (Disturbed and quiet time Ionosphere-thermosphere System at High Altitudes) L&H to study the physics and chemistry of the upper atmosphere including the distribution of temperature, density, and chemical constituents, and the chemical reactions that occur there.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : RANKING & INDEX

• The World Directory of Modern Military Aircraft (WDMMA) published the Global Air Powers Ranking of 2022, in that the Indian Air Force (IAF) has been placed above the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, also known as the Chinese Air Force,Japan Air Self-Preservation Power (JASDF), Israeli Aviation based armed forces, and French Air and Space Power.
• Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), Dr Bibek Debroy has released the State of Inequality in India Report.
• According to the report titled Travel & Tourism Development Index  (TTDI) 2021: Rebuilding for a Sustainable and Resilient Future’, released by the World Economic Forum (WEF), India has been ranked the 54th place in the overall rankings with a score of 4.2, down from 46th in 2019, but has remained on top within South Asia.
• The Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education released the National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 report.
• According to the Global Food Policy Report, 2022 released by the International Food Policy Research Institute(IFPRI), the number of Indians at risk from hunger is expected to be 73.9 million by 2030 and, if the effects of climate change were to be factored in, it would increase to 90.6 million.
• According to a report by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) on the ‘Burden of cancers in India’, The number of Indians suffering from cancer is projected to increase to 29.8 million in 2025 from 26.7 million in 2021.
• According to the Fortune 500, the world’s richest man & the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk was the highest-paid CEO in 2021.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: ENVIRONMENT

• A new species of old-world monkey recorded from Arunachal Pradesh has been named after a strategic mountain pass at 13,700 ft above sea level.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: SPORTS NEWS

• Nikhat Zareen stunned Thai Olympian Jutamas Jitpong 5-0 to become the fifth Indian woman to win a World title at the Women’s World Championships in Istanbul.
• Max Verstappen won the Spanish Grand Prix in a Red Bull, taking up the lead from Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, who retired with an engine failure while leading at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
• Rameshbabu Praggnanandha wins Reykjavik Open 2022 held in Iceland at the age of 16.
• Odisha’s women’s team earned their first Senior Nationals gold medal, defeating Karnataka 2-0 in the final of the 12th Hockey India Senior Women’s National Championship.
• Rhythm Mamania, a 10-year-old champion skater from Worli, has become one of the youngest Indian mountaineers to reach the Everest Base Camp (EBC) in Nepal’s Himalayan ranges.
• German club Eintracht Frankfurt won their first European championship in 42 years after defeating Rangers on penalties 5-4 in Seville, Spain.
• India’s men’s badminton team wins the Thomas Cup for the first time, defeating superpower Indonesia 3-0 in the final.
• Manchester City has won their fourth Premier League title in 2021-2022.
• Haryana’s hockey team won the Hockey India sub-junior women’s national championship 2022 in Imphal, defeating Jharkhand’s hockey team 2-0 in the final.
• The Indian cricket board, which is known for being slow to adopt new protocols, has now chosen to investigate the use of non-fungible tokens (NFT).
• Shikhar Dhawan of the Punjab Kings has become the first player in Indian Premier League history to score 700 fours (IPL).
• The Supreme Court has established a three-member Committee of Administrators (CoA) chaired by former Supreme Court judge AR Dave to oversee the business of the All-India Football Federation (AIFF) and the approval of its constitution in accordance with the National Sports Code and model guidelines.
• In an exciting Pool B match, the Indian men’s team scored six goals in the last quarter to defeat Indonesia 16-0.
• The 12th edition of the 2022 International Boxing Association (IBA) Women’s World Boxing Championship (WWBC) was place at Istanbul’s Başakşehir Youth and Sports Facility.
• Indian shooters concluded their campaign on top with a total of 33 medals at the ISSF Junior World Cup 2022 in Suhl, Germany.
• International Boxing Association (IBA) has announced that Indian boxer and Tokyo Olympics Bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain has received the highest number of votes during the election held at the 2022 Women’s World Championships and thus has been elected as the chair and a voting member on the Board of Directors for the IBA’s Athletes’ Committee.
• Adani Sports line, a part of the Adani Group, made a foray into franchise cricket by acquiring the rights to own and operate a franchise in UAE T20 League.
• Gujarat Titans (GT) won the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, defeating the inaugural winners Rajasthan Royals (RR).
• Supernovas defeated Velocity by four runs in the final of the Women’s T20 Challenge 2022.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BOOKS AND AUTHOR

• On Ruskin Bond’s 88th birthday, Penguin Random House India (PRHI) released a new book titled “Listen to Your Heart: The London Adventure”.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: OBITUARIES

• Shivaji Patnaik, a veteran Communist politician and three-time Member of Parliament, died at the age of 93.
• Sidhu Moose Wala, a 29-year-old Punjabi singer, was killed in Jawaharke village, Mansa district, Punjab, by unidentified assailants.
• Sanskrit scholar and Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi ‘Vagish Shastri’ has died here after a prolonged illness.

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