16th-18th July, 2022

1. India’s First E-Waste Eco Park has been established at Holambi Kalan in Delhi.
2. IIT-Delhi has inaugurated a new Census Data Workstation at the Economics Lab in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Delhi.
3. Union Cabinet has given its approval to introduce the Central Universities (Amendment) 2022, bill in Parliament to amend the Central Universities Act, 2009 for transforming the National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI), Vadodara into the Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV).
4. According to a survey of National Statistics Office, the percentage of unmarried Indians (in the age group of 15-29) has increased from 17.2% to 23% during 2011-19.
5. Ministry of Women and Child Development has issued detailed guidelines for ‘Mission Shakti’ – an integrated women empowerment programme as umbrella scheme for the safety, security and empowerment of women – for implementation during the 15th Finance Commission period 202l-22 to 2025-26.
6. National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India has organized a two day Meeting of the BIMSTEC Expert Group on Cyber Security Cooperation in New Delhi.
7. The population of the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard (GIB) is reduced to less than 100 now due to electrocution.
8. I2U2 (India, Israel, US, and UAE) organized their 1st virtual summit, which was attended by PM Narendra Modi, PM Yair Lapid, President Joe Biden, and President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
9. Delhi’s L-G Vinai Kumar Saxena has launched the SAH-BHAGITA scheme to increase the involvement of the Residential Welfare Association (RWAs) in optimal tax collection and waste management systems.
10. The pension scheme meant for those political activists who were imprisoned during the Emergency imposed in 1975 was restored by Eknath Shinde led Maharashtra government.
11. Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, has organized a two days’ National Conference of State Agriculture & Horticulture Ministers in Bangaluru
12. 2nd advanced estimates of area and production of various horticultural crops in 2021-22 has been released by the Union Agriculture Ministry.
13. Samsung (based in Seoul) has developed a new graphics dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chip with a faster speed and improved power efficiency.
14. Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved Serum Institute of India (SII) to manufacture indigenously-developed India’s first Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus vaccine (qHPV) against cervical cancer.
15. The Technology Business Incubator of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (Hyderabad) has announced to provide a lending support to ‘Abyom’, a start-up, for developing ‘Reignition Liquid Engine’ for building India’s first reusable sounding rocket.
16. Indian cricketer, Shikhar Dhawan announced a collaboration with Web3 fintech startup, Club, and Web3 metaverse startup, WIOM to launch the first sports city in the metaverse.
17. Jubilant Pharma Holdings has signed an agreement with Standard Chartered Bank for a five-year loan of USD 400 million (Rs 3,186 crore approx.)
18. NIIT Institute of Finance, Banking and Insurance (NIIT IFBI) – a subsidiary of NIIT Limited, has announced a strategic partnership with HDFC Bank to build new-age Digital Talent.
19. Agri-tech startup farm has partnered with SBI General Insurance and Future Generali India Insurance Company to provide insurance solutions for its 1.9 million farmers.
20. Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has introduced Paper Import Monitoring System (PIMS) by amending the import policy of major paper products from ‘Free’ to ‘Free subject to compulsory registration under PIMS’.
21. Ministry of Commerce and Industry has announced the continuation of the Scheme for Rebate of State and Central Taxes and Levies (RoSCTL) with the same rates as announced by the Ministry of Textiles for exports of apparel/garments and made-ups until March 31, 2024.
22. India’s wholesale inflation rate has declined marginally to 15.18% in June from the three-decade high of 15.88% in May.
23. IRDAI has allowed general insurers to launch products for the agriculture and allied activities without its prior approval.
24. Bangladesh Government has appointed Mustafizur Rahman as the next High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India.
25. Time Magazine has released the “World’s 50 Greatest Places of 2022”
26. London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) was held across four cities of London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.

National News

1. India’s First E-Waste Eco Park has been established at Holambi Kalan in Delhi.
   • Delhi is the 5th largest producer of e-waste in India, after Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
2. IIT-Delhi has inaugurated a new Census Data Workstation at the Economics Lab in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Delhi.
   • The Registrar General and Census Commission of India, Dr Vivek Joshi inaugurated the Census Date Workstation.
3. Union Cabinet has given its approval to introduce the Central Universities (Amendment) 2022, bill in Parliament to amend the Central Universities Act, 2009 for transforming the National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI), Vadodara into the Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV).
   • NRTI is a deemed-to-be university.
4. According to a survey of National Statistics Office, the percentage of unmarried Indians (in the age group of 15-29) has increased from 17.2% to 23% during 2011-19.
   • In the National Youth Policy 2014, those aged 15 to 29 years are classified as youth.
   • The most number of unmarried youth was observed in 2019 in the states/UTs of Jammu & Kashmir.
5. Ministry of Women and Child Development has issued detailed guidelines for ‘Mission Shakti’ – an integrated women empowerment programme as umbrella scheme for the safety, security and empowerment of women – for implementation during the 15th Finance Commission period 202l-22 to 2025-26.

Sub-schemes under Mission Shakti –

6. National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India has organized a two day Meeting of the BIMSTEC Expert Group on Cyber Security Cooperation in New Delhi.
   • The in-person meeting is being chaired by the National Cyber Security Coordinator Lt General Rajesh Pant.
   • Participants – Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand
   • This Expert Group meeting is to formulate the Action Plan for strengthening Cyber Security in the use of ICTs. India is taking a lead in the policy formulation.
7. The population of the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard (GIB) is reduced to less than 100 now due to electrocution.
   • The bird is found in Gujarat and Rajasthan.
   • The current sex ratio for the bird stands at 1 male for 3-5 females.
   • As per the 2018 GIB count, 150 GIBs existed; out of this, 122 were in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan.
   • The rest were scattered in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
8. I2U2 (India, Israel, US, and UAE) organized their 1st virtual summit, which was attended by PM Narendra Modi, PM Yair Lapid, President Joe Biden, and President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
   • India will provide “appropriate land” for “food parks” across the country that will be built in collaboration with Israel, the US and the UAE.
   • India will “facilitate farmers’ integration into the food parks.
   • The UAE will invest $2 billion in India to create the food parks.

State News

1. Delhi’s L-G Vinai Kumar Saxena has launched the SAH-BHAGITA scheme to increase the involvement of the Residential Welfare Association (RWAs) in optimal tax collection and waste management systems.
   • Under this scheme, the RWAs will be incentivised for their efforts to improve efficiency and compliance in tax collection and waste management.
2. The pension scheme meant for those political activists who were imprisoned during the Emergency imposed in 1975 was restored by Eknath Shinde led Maharashtra government.
   • The scheme was scrapped in 2020 by Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) govt.

Agriculture and Rural Development

1. Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, has organized a two days’ National Conference of State Agriculture & Horticulture Ministers in
   • 9 thematic areas of discussion, which are Digital Agriculture, Pradhanmantri Fasal Bima Yojana, Natural Farming, FPO, e-NAM, Pradhanmantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, National Food Security Mission, Agriculture Infrastructure Fund, New Technology by ICAR.
2. 2nd advanced estimates of area and production of various horticultural crops in 2021-22 has been released by the Union Agriculture Ministry.

Banking and Economy

1. Samsung (based in Seoul) has developed a new graphics dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chip with a faster speed and improved power efficiency.
   • This is the world’s fastest graphics DRAM chip.
2. Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved Serum Institute of India (SII) to manufacture indigenously-developed India’s first Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus vaccine (qHPV) against cervical cancer.
   • Cervical cancer is the second most frequent cancer among women between 15 and 44 years of age with a high death ratio in India.
3. The Technology Business Incubator of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (Hyderabad) has announced to provide a lending support to ‘Abyom’, a start-up, for developing ‘Reignition Liquid Engine’ for building India’s first reusable sounding rocket.
4. Indian cricketer, Shikhar Dhawan announced a collaboration with Web3 fintech startup, Club, and Web3 metaverse startup, WIOM to launch the first sports city in the metaverse.
   • The global metaverse market is anticipated to reach a market value of around $1,803 billion by 2030, growing at an annual rate above 45.8% from 2022 to 2030.
5. Jubilant Pharma Holdings has signed an agreement with Standard Chartered Bank for a five-year loan of USD 400 million (Rs 3,186 crore approx.)
   • The majority of the amount will be used for repayment of existing term loan and debt bonds.
6. NIIT Institute of Finance, Banking and Insurance (NIIT IFBI) – a subsidiary of NIIT Limited, has announced a strategic partnership with HDFC Bank to build new-age Digital Talent.
   • Both entities will train and recruit the data engineers.
   • The first learning program to be launched is the HDFC Bank Data Digits-Post Graduate Program in Data Engineering.
   • Through this partnership, a new programme customised for HDFC Bank called ‘Data Digits’, a certification program in Data Engineering, was launched.
7. Agri-tech startup farm has partnered with SBI General Insurance and Future Generali India Insurance Company to provide insurance solutions for its 1.9 million farmers.
   • farm is an open digital platform for growers, farming communities and food systems.
   • With these partnerships, the company aims to offer its insurance solutions to nearly 2 million farmers in 2022-23.
8. Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has introduced Paper Import Monitoring System (PIMS) by amending the import policy of major paper products from ‘Free’ to ‘Free subject to compulsory registration under PIMS’.
   • PIMS shall come into effect from 1st October, 2022.
9. Ministry of Commerce and Industry has announced the continuation of the Scheme for Rebate of State and Central Taxes and Levies (RoSCTL) with the same rates as announced by the Ministry of Textiles for exports of apparel/garments and made-ups until March 31, 2024.
   • Chairman of Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) – Naren Goenka
10. India’s wholesale inflation rate has declined marginally to 15.18% in June from the three-decade high of 15.88% in May.
11. IRDAI has allowed general insurers to launch products for the agriculture and allied activities without its prior approval.
    • Last month, IRDAI had permitted insurers to launch health and most of the general insurance products without prior approval from IRDAI.
    • The ‘use and file’ procedure was also extended to most of the life insurance products.

Appointments

1. Bangladesh Government has appointed Mustafizur Rahman as the next High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India.

Awards

1. Time Magazine has released the “World’s 50 Greatest Places of 2022”
   • Out of the 50 places, Ahmedabad (India’s first UNESCO World Heritage City) has also found a place.
   • India has four cities in the list of UNESCO World Heritage City, which are Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Gwalior and Orchha.
2. London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) was held across four cities of London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.
   • Icon Award – Filmmakers Aparna Sen and Nandita Das
   • Best Film Award – Chhello Show (Last Film Show) directed by Pan Nalin

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