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Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 1 to 8 June 2022

National News
• Gujarat to host National Education Ministers’ Conference
• Tata Motors signs pact for Potential Acquisition in Gujarat
• Integral Coach Factory (ICF) Chennai manufactures ‘Gati
Sakthi’ trains– India’s first semi-high speed freight
train likely to run by December
• Common platform called Jan Samarth to be launched soon
• Shri Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of an Olympic-level
sports complex in Ahmedabad, Gujarat
• President of India Inaugurates the 59th Mahaadhiveshan of
Akhil Bhartiya Ayurved Mahasammelan at Ujjain
• Competition Commission of India (CCI) approves acquisition
of Shareholding in Hitachi construction Machinery Co. Ltd.
• PM Modi inaugurated Worlds 1st Nano Urea
plant by IFFCO at Gujarat
• Government of India hikes premium rates for Flagship
Insurance schemes PMJJBY & PMSBY for the first time in 7
years
• Jan Aushadhi stores surpassed the Rs 100 crore
revenue threshold
• PM announces the theme of 8th International Yoga Day ‘Yoga
for Humanity’
• Gujarat government inked an agreement with Isha
Outreach to conserve soil
• Tamil Nadu Govt signed MoU with India Post Payments Bank
(IPPB) for pensioner’s digital life certificate
• Tata Projects won bid to build Jewar Airport in UP
• Union Minister Anurag Thakur launched Nationwide Fit India
Freedom Rider Cycle Rally
• Bluedart signed UNFCCC climate Neutral Now Pledge
• E-stamping facility to be started by Punjab Government instead
of Paper Stamp
• Uttarakhand commissioned country’s 1st Liquid Mirror
Telescope

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• Delhi govt to name colonies & streets after Babasaheb


Ambedkar
• Union Minister of social Justice and empowerment Dr.
Virendra Kumar launched the Scheme “SHRESHTA”
• Andhra Pradesh launched ‘14400 app’ to report corrupt
officials with proof
• Tamil Nadu launched Nalaya Thiran skilling
programme for college students under Naan Mudhalvan
• ACME Cleantech Solutions Private
Limited Signed MoU with Karnataka Government to set
up green hydrogen project
• Sant Kabir Academy to be inaugurated by President Ram Nath
Kovind in Uttar Pradesh
• Sikkim state declared ‘Blue Duke’ as the state Butterfly
• Biotech Startup Expo-2022 to be inaugurated by PM
Modi in New Delhi
• WhatsApp launched SMBSaathi Utsav to support small
businesses through digital mediums
• National Tribal Research Institute inaugurated by Amit
Shah in New Delhi
• Nirmala Sitharaman to launch a single Nodal Agency
Dashboard

International News

• Israel and UAE signed MoU as their first free trade agreement
• 118th India-Pakistan Bilateral Meeting on the Indus Water
Treaty to be held
• Forbes Magazine, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list 2022 released
• Border Coordination Conference between the BSF and
the BGB gets underway in Bangladesh
• Fortune 500 list: Elon Musk, world’s richest man, was 2021’s
highest paid CEO
• Central African Republic becomes 2nd country to adopt
Bitcoin as legal tender
• Bangladesh now on the top recipient of Covid vaccines
• Canada introduced new law to freeze handgun ownership
• US Frontier Overtakes Japan’s Fugaku as the World’s Most
Powerful Supercomputer

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• Turkey to change the official name to ‘Türkiye’, UN agrees


• India and Sweden hosted Industry Transition
Dialogue in Sweden
• THE Asia University Rankings 2022: 4 Indian
institutions in top 100, IISC Bengaluru ranked highest at 42nd
• Instagram launched its new feature ‘AMBER alert’ to help find
missing children
• Forbes Real Time Billionaires List: Mukesh Ambani, Gautam
Adani topped as the India’s richest men
• Global Environmental Performance Index
2022: India ranked 180th; Denmark topped
• UN to grant humanitarian assistance of $48 million to Sri
Lanka amid crisis

Banking and Financial

• Tata AIA Life announces Industry first smart value income


plan
• Public Sector Banks doubled their Net Profit to almost Rs
66,500 crore in FY22
• LIC Launches Savings Life Insurance Plan Bima Ratna
• Centre distributes Rs 86,912 crore to states and settles
GST compensation debts
• India’s economic growth expected to be 8.7% in FY22, Q4
GDP to be 4.1 %
• Govt collected Rs 1.41 lakh crore GST in May 2022
• SBI General Insurance launched New Health Insurance
Vertical
• Airtel Payments Bank partnered with Muthoot Finance to offer
gold loans on Airtel Thanks app
• Stashfin introduced #LiveBoundless, a credit line
card for women
• RBI announced results of its First Global
Hackathon – HARBINGER 2021
• Government approved 8.1% EPF interest rate for 2021-22
• HDFC collaborated with Accenture for digital transformation
• RBI imposed monetary penalty of 49 lakh on Bassein Catholic
Co-operative Bank and Rs. 50,000 on Jila Sahakari Kendriya
Bank Maryadit

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• World Bank forecasted India’s economic


growth to 7.5% for FY23
• RBI Monetary Policy: Repo Rate increased to 4.90%, raised
to 6.7% inflation forecast

Appointment and Resignation

• Sachin Tendulkar to continue as UNICEF’s Goodwill


Ambassador for a record 20th year
• Rajesh Gera appointed DG National Informatics Centre
• Dr Swati Dhingra appointed as the external member of Bank of
England’s monetary panel
• Former SBI officer Natarajan Sundar joins National Assets
Reconstruction Company Ltd (NARCL) as MD & CEO
• Senior IPS Zulfiquar Hasan Becomes the New DG of Bureau of
Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)
• S L Thaosen as Director General of Sashastra Seema Bal
• Govt approved the appointment of A Manimekhalai, Ajay
Kumar Srivastava & Swarup Kumar
Saha as MDs of UBI, IOB and Punjab & Sind Bank
• Javier Olivan appointed as the new Chief Operating
Officer of Meta
• Satish Pai appointed as the new chairman of International
Aluminium Institute (IAI)
• Bajram Begaj has been declared as the new
President of Albania
• Alok Choudhary appointed as the new MD of SBI

Awards

• RJ Umar receives the Immunisation Champion


award by UNICEF
• Sanjit Narwekar was awarded with V Shantaram Lifetime
achievement award at MIFF 2022
• Former West Indies skipper Darren Sammy conferred with
the Sitara-e-Pakistan award
• Young women entrepreneur Rashmi Sahoo won Times
Business Award 2022
• Indian American Harini Logan won 2022 Scripps National
Spelling Bee

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• Meghalaya won Best Project Award at UN World Summit


• IIFA awards 2022: Vicky Kaushal and Kriti Sanon won Best
Male & Female Actor award respectively
• 4th Food Safety Index awards released: Tamil Nadu topped

Defence

• Defence Ministry signs with Bharat Dynamics Limited


(BDL) for indigenous Astra Beyond Visual Range missiles
• Indian Navy commissioned ALH MKIII Squadron INAS 325
• IAF signed MoU with the UT of Chandigarh to set up IAF
Heritage Centre
• Indian Navy decommissioned two ships INS Nishank, INS
Akshay after 32 years of service
• India-Bangladesh joint military exercise ‘Sampriti-X’ began
in Bangladesh
• India successfully tested nuclear- capable Agni-4 ballistic
missile in Odisha
• Indian Army Contingent participates in the “Khaan Quest
2022” exercise at Mongolia
• Defence Minister agreed to purchase Indian-made
equipment’s worth 76,000 crores

Science

• S Somanath inaugurated ANANTH Technologies’


spacecraft manufacturing facility in Karnataka

Sports
• Red Bull’s Sergio Perez won Monaco F1 Grand Prix 2022
• India wins first ever medal at the IBSA Judo Grand Prix
• India’s chess prodigy R
Praggnanandhaa finishes second in Chessable Masters
tournament
• Men’s Hockey Asia Cup: India won bronze with 1-0
win over Japan
• Para Canpeist Prachi Yadav won Bronze at 2022 ICF
Paracanoe World Cup

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• FIH World Ranking 2022: Indian men’s & Women’s Hockey


Team ranked 4th and 6th respectively
• Iga Swiatek won women’s singles title at French Open 2022
• Spain’s Rafael Nadal defeated Norway’s Casper
Ruud in final to win men’s singles title of French Open
• Swapnil Kusale and Ashi Chouksey won gold in 50m rifle
3P mixed team event at ISSF World Cup
Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun in Baku, Azerbaijan
• Khelo India Youth Games 2021 inaugurated
in Panchkula, Haryana by Amit Shah
• Shreyas G Hosur became 1st Indian Railways
officer to complete gruelling ‘Ironman’ Triathlon

Important day

• 1 June: Global Parents Day (Theme 2022: Appreciate All Parents


Throughout the World.)
• 1 June: World Milk Day 2022 (Theme 2022: ‘Dairy Net Zero’)
• 2 June: Telangana Formation Day
• 3 June: World Bicycle Day
• 5 June: World Environment Day (Theme 2022: ‘Only One Earth’)
• 4 June: International Day of Innocent Children Victims of
Aggression
• 5 June: International Day for the Fight against Illegal,
Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing
• 6 June: Russian Language Day
• 7 June: World food safety day (Theme 2022: “Safer food, better
health”)
• 8 June: World Ocean Day (Theme 2022: ‘Revitalisation: Collective
Action for the Ocean’)
• 8 June: World Brain tumour Day (Theme 2022: ‘Together We
Are Stronger’.)

Obituary

• Bollywood singer KK passed away


• Former Albania President Bujar Nishani Passes Away
• Bhim Singh, founder of J&K Panthers Party passed away

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• Freedom fighter Anjalai Ponnusamy passed away


• Santoor maestro Bhajan Sopori passed away

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 9 to 15 June 2022

National News

• Baikho festival celebrated in Assam


• ‘Sital Sasthi’ festival celebrated in Odisha
• FSSAI’s 4th State Food Safety Index released; Tamil Nadu
topped among large states
• Goa launched ‘Beach Vigil App’ for holistic management of
beaches
• Andhra Pradesh govt launched YSR Yantra Seva scheme
• Dharmendra Pradhan launched India’s largest educational
metaverse ‘Polyversity’ & Bharat Blockchain Network
• PM Modi inaugurated headquarters of IN-SPACe in Ahmedabad,
Gujarat
• Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated National Museum of
Customs and GST in Goa
• Cabinet hiked MSP for Kharif crops for marketing season 2022-
23
• Karnataka launched ‘FRUITS’ software for farmer schemes
• India’s 1st display plant will be set up by Rajesh
Exports with $3 billion investment in Telangana
• Center launched Agnipath military recruitment scheme
• National e-governance service delivery assessment
(NeSDA) Report 2021; Kerala
topped among states, J&K topped among UTs
• PM Modi to chair first chief secretaries’ meet in Himachal
Pradesh
• India’s 1st private
train service between Coimbatore and Shirdi flagged off under
‘Bharat Gaurav Scheme’
• Cabinet approved development of new Greenfield
airport in Dholera, Gujarat

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International News

• QS World University Rankings 2023: IISc,


Bengaluru topped among research varsity globally and among
Indian institutes, MIT got 1st rank overall
• India signed Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty
(MLAT) on criminal matters with Poland to
support investigation & prosecution of crimes
• India will host Special ‘ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers’ meeting
• UNCTAD’s World Investment Report: India ranked 7th among
recipients of foreign direct investment (FDI) in CY 2021; US
topped
• Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland elected
as non-permanent members of UN Security Council
• European Parliament votes to ban sale of new
petrol and diesel cars by 2035 to fight climate change
• Ninth Summit of the Americas held in Los Angeles, US
• India extended $55 million credit line to Sri Lanka for fertiliser
imports
• India finalised deals for cheetahs from South Africa & Namibia
• 12th WTO Ministerial conference 2022 held at Geneva
• 1st-ever India-EU Security and Defence Consultations held
in Brussels
• Russia became India’s 2nd biggest oil supplier
• Global Startup Ecosystem ranking: Bengaluru ranked 22nd
• Google announced a startup accelerator program for women
founders

Banking and Financial

• SEBI restructured its Mutual Funds Advisory Committee;


chaired by Usha Thorat
• Tech Mahindra acquired 26% stake in Huoban Energy for Rs
1.60 crore
• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) projected India’s GDP growth forecast to 6.9% for FY23
• RBI imposed monetary penalty of Rs 27.50 lakh on Punjab &
Sind Bank

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• RBI cancelled licence of Mudhol Co-op Bank, Bagalkot,


Karnataka
• ai launched India’s 1st banking metaverse ‘Kiyaverse’
• SBI Foundation launched a Digital Learning Platform
‘UpSchool’ with Khan Academy
• Nirmala Sitharaman launched EASE 5.0 ‘Common reforms
agenda’ for Public Sector Banks
• Tencent bought stake in Flipkart worth ₹2,060 crore
• Fitch projected India’s GDP growth rate at 7.8% for 2022-23
• RBI increased individual housing loan limit for co-operative
banks
• ICICI Bank partnered with ZestMoney to expand its ‘Cardless
EMI’ facility
• Fino Payments Bank collaborated with Go Digit for shop
insurance policy
• Ather Energy partnered with SBI for vehicle financing
• Rabab Fatima appointed as Under Secretary-General of UN
• TotalEnergies acquired 25% interest in Adani New Industries
• CPI-based Retail inflation in India eases to 7.04% in May
• Indian Bank launched digital renewal scheme for Kisan Credit
Card (KCC) holders
• Bharat FIH got approval by SEBI for ₹5,000 crore Initial Public
Offering
• Life launched UPI services targeted at rural India
• OmniCard became first RBI-licensed PPI to launch cash
withdrawal in all ATM across India
• WPI inflation spiked to 15.88% in May 2022, highest in 30-
years
• Trade deficit of India broadens to $24.29 billion in May 2022
• CASHe has launched an industry-first credit line
service on WhatsApp
• CCI approved acquisition of 24.98% in IIFL by BC Asia
investments
• Adani Transmission’s $700 million loan gets ‘green loan’ tag

Appointment and Resignation

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• Krishna Srinivasan appointed as Director of IMF’s Asia and


Pacific Department
• MS Dhoni appointed as brand ambassador of Garuda
Aerospace
• N J Ojha appointed as MGNREGA ombudsman
• Mayank Kumar Agrawal given additional
charge as CEO of Prasar Bharati
• Ramkrishna Mukkavilli became 1st Indian to be recognized
as Global SDG Pioneer for Water Stewardship by United
Nations Global Compact (UNGC)
• AR Rahman appointed ambassador of Indo-UK culture
platform ‘The Season of Culture’
• Amandeep Singh Gill appointed as UN Chief’s envoy on
technology
• R Subramaniakumar appointed as MD & CEO of RBL Bank
• Indian born American Arati Prabhakar to be appointed as science
adviser to the President of US
• Anand Mahindra, Venu Srinivasan, Pankaj Patel, and Ravindra
Dholakia appointed as part-time non-official Directors on
the central board of RBI

Awards

• 2nd Awards for Excellence in District Skill Development


Planning (DSDP): Rajkot in Gujarat topped
• PGI’s Resource Centre for Tobacco
Control, Chandigarh won WHO’s Regional Director Special
Recognition Award
• Ratan Tata awarded honorary Doctorate by Maharashtra’s
HSNC University

Defence

• Defence Ministry increased the funding limit of TDF


Scheme of DRDO to Rs 50 crore per project
• 38th India-Indonesia coordinated patrol exercise held
in Andaman Sea and Malacca Strait

Science

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• National Highways Infrastructure Development Corporation


Limited (NHIDCL) signed MoU with IIT Roorkee for sharing
knowledge in field of highway engineering
• NASA’s DAVINCI Mission to Venus will launch in 2029
• India launched its 1st COVID-19 vaccine
‘Anocovax’ for animals
• India will launch first human space mission & first human
ocean mission in 2023

Sports

• India won inaugural FIH Hockey 5s


championship at Lausanne, Switzerland
• Mithali Raj announced retirement from all forms of
international cricket
• Avani Lekhara won gold medal at 2022 Para Shooting World
Cup in France
• Tamil Nadu CM launched logo & msacot of 44th FIDE Chess
Olympiad
• R Praggnanandhaa won Norway Chess Group A open
chess tournament
• Avani Lekhara won Gold at Chateauroux 2022 World Cup
• Max Verstappen won Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2022
• Shot put athlete Manpreet Kaur broke National
record in Inter-State Athletics Meet, Chennai
• Saanapathi Gurunaidu won gold medal in men’s 55kg event
at IWF Youth World Championship
• Rahul Srivatshav became India’s 74th Grandmaster
• BWF Indonesia Masters 2022: Viktor Axelsen and Chen
Yufei won men’s and women’s singles titles
• Haryana topped medal tally in Khelo India Youth Games
2021
• Angelo Mathews, Tuba Hassan declared ICC Players of the
Month for May 2022
• Neeraj Chopra won silver at Paavo Nurmi Games;
created new national record of 30 m throw
• The Sports Authority of India sanctioned 6.52 crore
pocket allowances for Khelo India athletes

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Book and Author

• India’s 1st sports marketing book “The Winning Formula for


Success” launched by IISM; authored by Vinit Karnik

Important day

• 6 June: World Pest Day (Theme 2022: ‘One World – Protecting


Global Public Health through Professional Pest Management.’)
• 9 June: World Accreditation Day (Theme 2022: “Accreditation:
Sustainability in Economic Growth and the Environment.”)
• 25th Founding Day of BIMSTEC celebrated in Dhaka on June 6
• 9 June: International Level Crossing Awareness Day 2022
• 12 June: World Day Against Child Labour (Theme 2022:
“Universal Social Protection to End Child Labour.”)
• 12-20 June 2022: NCPCR’s Elimination of Child Labour Week
• 13 June: International Albinism Awareness Day (Theme 2022:
“United in making our voice heard.”)
• 14 June: World Blood Donor Day (Theme 2022: “Donating blood
is an act of solidarity. Join the effort and save lives”.)
• 15 June: World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (Theme 2022:
“Digital Equity for All Ages”)
• 15 June: Global Wind Day (Theme 2022: ‘We are #InWithWind,
are you?’)

Obituary

• Long-distance running great Hari Chand passed away

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 16 to 22 June


2022

National News

• Tamil Nadu launched Ennum Ezhuthum scheme to bridge


learning gap
• Mumbai Airport launched a 1st-of-its-kind Vertical Axis Wind
Turbine & Solar PV hybrid System

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• India’s biggest private hospital 2,400-bed Amrita Hospital is


all set to open in Faridabad
• 3-day International literary festival ‘Unmesh’ held
in Himachal Pradesh
• Nitin Gadkari inaugurated Industrial Decarbonization Summit
2022 in New Delhi
• Tamil Nadu became the largest state in outstanding
microfinance loan
• Pune will host Maharashtra’s first theatre festival dedicated to
mental health
• Ladakh signed tripartite MoU to set up India’s first dark sky
reserve at Hanle in Ladakh
• Education Minister inaugurated National Yoga Olympiad 2022
• PM Modi inaugurated Rs 920-crore Pragati Maidan Integrated
Transit Corridor
• PM Modi inaugurated the Centre for Brain Research at IISc
Bengaluru, Karnataka
• PM Modi inaugurated redeveloped Shree Kalika Mata
temple at Panchmahal, Gujarat
• Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
(MoHUA) launched NIPUN Program to train over 1 lakh Nirman
Workers
• Tribal Minister Bishweswar Tudu inaugurated 13th Krishi
Fair and 20th Folk Fair in Odisha
• Assam became the 36th State to implement ‘One Nation One
Ration Card’

International News

• Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export


Development Authority (APEDA) organized mango
festival in Bahrain to boost export of mangoes
• IMD’s World Competitiveness Index
2022: India ranked 37th; Denmark topped
• BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution (PartNIR)
Innovation Center signed MoU with New Development Bank
• 8th Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians hosted
in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
• LinkedIn partnered with UN Women to create employment
opportunities for women

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• US announced $122 million fund for India to prevent avoidable


epidemics
• Japan to participate in NATO summit for the first time
• Israel and Haryana government signed joint
declaration on water cooperation
• Indian’s funds in Swiss banks jump 50% to over Rs 30 lakh
crore in 2021
• India and European Union resume negotiations for India-EU free
trade agreement after 9 years
• China launched third aircraft carrier named Fujian
• India and Bangladesh to hold first Physical Joint Consultative
Commission Meet in New Delhi
• Pakistan will continue to stay in Financial Action Task Force’s
(FATF) Grey List
• Over 36 million children displaced worldwide due
to conflicts in 2021: UNICEF
• China became the Largest Importer of Indian Broken Rice
• China’s President will host the 14th BRICS Summit in Beijing
• 12th Ministerial Conference of WTO held in Geneva
• Mongolia’s Khuvsgul lake added to UNESCO World
Network of Biosphere Reserves
• Kantar Brandz 2022 Most Valuable Global Report: Four Indian
Company Tata Consultancy Service (TCS), Infosys, Life
Insurance Company (LIC), and HDFC Bank joined Google,
Apple, and Amazon as world’s top 100 brands
• Coursera Global Skill Report
2022 released: India ranked 68th; Switzerland topped
• Apollo Hospital signed an agreement with Imperial
Hospital of Bangladesh
• Australia provided financial support to Sri Lanka for USD 50
million
• Health Minister addressed inaugural session at the G20 Health
Ministers in Indonesia

Banking and Financial

• HSBC India announced $250 Million lending support for Indian


start-ups

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• Periodic Labour Force Survey 2020-21: India’s


unemployment rate fell to 4.2% in 2020-21
• HDFC Bank signed MoU with VC to collaborate on start-up
support
• 47th meeting of GST Council to be held on June 28-
29 in Srinagar
• RBI lifted restrictions on MasterCard over onboarding of new
domestic customers
• RBI raised limit of e-mandates for transactions up to Rs 15,000
• NPCI International signed an MoU with France’s Lyra
Network for ‘Acceptance of UPI & Rupay Card in France
• Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance rebranded as Canara HSBC
Life Insurance
• Government declared ICICI, HDFC, NPCI’s
computer resources to be ‘protected systems’
• Net direct tax collections for FY23 jumped 45% to Rs 3,39,225
crore
• RBI suspended license of Karnataka based Millath Co-operative
Bank
• Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) joined hands
with NABARD to activate e-commerce in agri tech

Appointment and Resignation

• B S Patil sworn in as Lokayukta of Karnataka


• Pramod K Mittal named as chairperson of Cellular Operators’
Association of India (COAI) for 2022-23
• Ranjana Prakash Desai appointed as new chief of Press Council
of India
• RBI re-appointed PN Vasudevan as MD & CEO of Equitas Small
Finance Bank
• Indian-American Radha Iyengar appointed as Deputy Under
Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment of US
• Hamza Abdi Barre appointed as PM of Somalia
• Indian-origin architect Nairita
Chakraborty named Commissioner of Historic England
• Gustavo Petro elected as the first-leftist President of Colombia

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• Appointment of new chief justices to six high


courts approved: Satish Chandra Sharma appointed as Chief
justice of Delhi High Court
• Ruchira Kamboj appointed as India’s Permanent
Representative to United Nations
• NDB appointed DJ Pandian to head its India Regional
Office in GIFT City
• Lisa Sthalekar becomes the first woman president of
the Federation of International Cricketers’ Association (FICA)

Awards

• Bengaluru Airport named best regional


airport in India and South Asia at 2022 Skytrax World Airport
Awards
• US – Canadian author Ruth Ozeki won Women’s
Prize for fiction

Defence

• India successfully test-fired Short-Range Ballistic Missile


Prithvi-II at Chandipur, Odisha
• Government announced 10% reservation for
Agniveers in CAPFs, Assam Rifiles
• Indian Coast Guard inducts new Advanced Light
Helicopter Squadron 840 CG

Science
• Zomato partnered with Jio-bp to accelerate EV adoption
• Union Minister Jitendra Singh inaugurated the Seismology
Observatory in Udhampur

Sports

• Stuttgart Tennis Open 2022: Matteo Berrettini, Iga


Swiatek won men’s & women’s single title
• ICC retained Nitin Menon in their 11-member Elite Panel
• Los Angles, Toronto, Mexico City named among host
cities for FIFA World Cup 2026

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• Neeraj Chopra won his first gold medal of 2022 at Kuortane


Games in Finland
• India won FIH Women’s Hockey Pro-League
Tournament after defeating Argentina
• India Divyang Cricket Team won Lifebuoy Cup 2022 T20
series against Nepal
• England pacer Katherine Brunt announced her retirement from
the Test cricket
• Indonesia Open 2022: Viktor Axelsen & Tai Tzu
Ying won men’s and women’s singles title
• PM Modi launched 1st-ever torch relay for Chess
Olympiad at Delhi stadium
• Red Bull driver Max Verstappen won Canadian Grand Prix
2022
• Cyclist Ronaldo Singh won bronze in elite time trial event
Asian Cycling Championship in Delhi

Book and Author

• PM Modi released Ram Bahadur Rai’s book ‘Bhartiya


Samvidhan: Ankahi Kahani’
• Biography of Gautam Adani “Gautam Adani- The Man Who
Changed India” written by R N Bhaskar

Important day

• 16 June: International Day of Family Remittances (Theme


2022: Remittances: recovery and resilience through digital and
financial inclusion)
• 17 June: World Day to Combat Desertification and
Drought (Theme 2022: Rising up from drought together)
• 18 June – Autistic Pride Day (Theme 2022 – Inclusion in the
Workplace: Challenges and Opportunities in a Post-Pandemic
World.)
• 18 June – Sustainable Gastronomy Day
• 18 June – International Picnic Day
• 18 June – International Day for Countering hate Speech
• 19 June 2022 (third Sunday of June) – Father’s Day
• 19 June – International Day for the Elimination of Sexual
Violence in Conflict (Theme 2022 – Prevention as Protection:

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Enhancing structural and operational prevention of conflict-related


sexual violence)
• 19 June – World Sickle Cell Day (Theme 2022 – Screen and Care
for Sickle Cell Disease)
• 20 June – World Refugee Day (Theme 2022- Whoever,
Whatever, Whenever. Everyone has a right to seek safety)
• 21 June – International Yoga Day (Theme 2022 – Yoga for
Humanity)
• 21 June – World Music Day (Theme 2022 – Music on the
intersections)
• 21 June – World Hydrography Day (Theme 2022 – Hydrography
–Contributing to the United Nations Ocean Decade)
• 21 June – International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice

Obituary

• Eminent Urdu critic & linguist Professor Gopi Chand


Narang passed away

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 23 to 30 June


2022

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’

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• 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 115th; 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

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• 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

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• 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

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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

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• 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)

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• 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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