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🎯 India has been ranked at 18th spot with a profit of $241 million, among the top 25 countries, in Bitcoin investment gains 2020.

🎯Indian actress Tillotama Shome has made the country proud by winning the Best Actor award at the 2021 UK Asian Film Festival (UKAFF). Tillotama won the award for her role in the film Raahgir: The Wayfarers.

🎯Auckland has been ranked the best on liveability rankings due to the ability of New Zealand city to contain Covid-19 faster.

🎯DBS has been named by Forbes in their list of World’s Best Banks 2021. DBS was ranked #1 out of 30 domestic and international banks in India for the second consecutive year.

🎯Bank customer will have to pay Rs 21 (currently it is Rs 20) for each ATM cash withdrawal beyond free transaction limit in effect from January 1, 2022.

🎯The U.N. General Assembly has approved the appointment of Costa Rican economist Rebecca Grynspan, as the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). She will serve a four-year term of office. Grynspan is the first woman and Central American to head UNCTAD.

🎯INDIA and Pakistan, the two basmati rice-producing nations in the world, are expected to share ownership of the coveted branding rights for basmati rice in markets of the European Union (EU). 

🎯Gottfried Bohm, the first German architect to be awarded the Pritzker Prize, has passed away at 101.

Most of his most notable projects were built in Germany-such as Neviges Pilgrimage Church (1968), Bensberger City Hall (1969), and the Museum of the Diocese (1975).

Bohm, who was the eighth winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, was widely known for his concrete churches that were largely built in Germany.

🎯World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is observed globally on 15th June every year. This day is celebrated to raise a voice for the elderly who are abused and victimized.

🎯Former Indian batsman, Suresh Raina has released his autobiography ‘Believe – What Life and Cricket Taught Me’.

The book is co-authored by Bharat Sundaresan, Suresh Raina narrated the journey he has had for India and the golden word (Believe) from Sachin Tendulkar that he etched on his arm as a tattoo

🎯.The ICC has inducted 10 icons of the game, including India’s Vinoo Mankad, into its illustrious Hall of Fame with two players each from five eras, dating back to cricket’s early days, making it to the list.

🎯.India has  12 spots in the global home price index to 55th rank in Q1 2021 against 43rd rank in Q1 2020, with a decline of 1.6 per cent year-on-year (YoY) in home prices, Knight Frank, in its latest research report “Global House Price Index” – Q1 2021.

Global Home Price Index is prepared by the London-based Knight Frank, which monitors housing prices in 56 countries. Turkey continues to lead the annual rankings with prices up by 32 per cent YoY, followed by New Zealand

🎯.The 47th G7 Leaders’ Summit has been called the 1st ever net-zero G7 as all have committed to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 (or at the latest with ambitious reductions targets in the 2020 decade).

PM Narendra Modi participated in the 1st Outreach Session of the G7 Summit, he was the lead speaker for the session titled ‘Building Back Stronger – Health’, which focused on global recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and on strengthening resilience against future pandemics

🎯Researchers of the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) have paved the way for better water management policies in India through virtual water analysis.

Dr. Anamika Barua, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Science, IIT

Guwahati, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Zaragoza, Spain,

used ecological economics to study the socio-political factors governing ‘Virtual

Water Flow’, an emerging concept at the science-policy interface, with particular

reference to India.

🎯.Virtual Water (VW) is the water involved in the production and trade of food and

non-food commodities and services. It is that ‘invisible’ water that has been

consumed throughout the lifecycle of the product or service.

🎯Ministry of Ayush Launches ‘Namaste Yoga’ App

The Ministry of Ayush organised a curtain raiser event for the 7th International Day of Yoga. The event was organised by the Ministry of Ayush in association with Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga (MDNIY).

The event brought together several Yoga Gurus and experienced Yoga exponents on the virtual platform, to appeal to the world community to adopt Yoga in their daily life for the betterment of both the individual self and mankind.

The event underlined the importance of the central theme of IDY 2021 “Be With Yoga, Be At Home”. As a part of the event, a mobile application devoted to Yoga named “Namaste Yoga”, was also launched.

The Namaste Yoga” app has been designed as an information platform for the public, with the aim to raise awareness about yoga and make it accessible for the larger community.

🎯IDFC FIRST Bank has announced the launch of ‘Ghar Ghar Ration’ Program, an employee-funded program for its low-income customers whose livelihoods are affected by COVID-19.

🎯IIT Roorkee prof bags NSG award for ‘blast-resistant’ helmet

Shailesh Govind Ganpule, an assistant professor at the mechanical and industrial engineering department (MIED), was conferred the award with the ‘NSG Counter-IED and Counter-Terrorism Innovator Award 2021' for developing a “blast-resistant” helmet.

This was the second edition of the annual award by NSG. Ceremony held at the National Security Guard (NSG) campus in Maneswar, near Gurgaon.

🎯European Space Agency to Launch ‘EnVision’ Mission to Venus in 2030

European Space Agency (ESA), is now developing its own probe to study Venus, for holistic view of planet from its inner core to upper atmosphere.

The mission dubbed as "EnVision" will probably be launched to the planet in early 2030.

EnVision probe of ESA will determine how and why Venus and Earth evolved so differently, even while being in the habitable zone to the Sun.

ESA will undertake this mission with contributions from NASA.

🎯Israel will become the World’s First Mask-Free Country from June 15

Israel will become the world’s first mask-free country in the Corona period. Here the rule of applying masks in closed places will end from June 15. This was announced by Israel’s Health Minister Yuli Edelstein. The rule of applying masks outside has already been abolished in the country.

🎯State Bank of India (SBI) has launched a collateral-free “Kavach Personal Loan” to enable its customers to meet medical expenses of self and family members for Covid treatment. Under this scheme, customers can avail of loans up to ₹5 lakhs at an effective interest rate of 8.5 per cent per annum for 60 months, which is inclusive of three months moratorium.

🎯As per the ‘Global Skills Report 2021’ released by Coursera, India has been ranked 67th overall globally.

   The report reveals that, overall, India ranks 67th globally, with 38 per cent proficiency, with mid-rankings in each domain, 55th in business and 66th in both technology and data science. Indian learners have high proficiency in digital skills like Cloud Computing (83%) and Machine Learning (52%) & 54% in Mathematical skills. Improvement is needed in digital skills because in Data Analysis and Statistical programming, ranked only at 25% and 15% skills proficiency. But, Indians trail behind in data skills and need to focus on that.

🎯One of the world’s leading public intellectuals of our time, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has penned his memoir ‘Home in the World’. The book will be published in July by Penguin Random House. In this book, Sen shares how it was Rabindranath Tagore who gave him his name Amartya. He also reminisces the conversations at Calcutta’s famous Coffee House and at Cambridge, and Marx’s, Keynes’ and Arrow’s ideas all of which shaped his views.

🎯The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, is offering a free course on Internet of Things (IoT) that will explore designing of smart objects that provide collaboration and ubiquitous services. Candidates willing to apply for the course can do so up till August 2 on the official website of NPTEL. The course will begin from July 26.

🎯The draft of the Chief Minister Kisan Mitra Energy Scheme has been approved by the Rajasthan State Government.

Under this scheme, farmers will get benefit in electricity bill and they will be given a grant of one thousand rupees every month in electricity bill.

🎯Wayan village in Jammu and Kashmir has become the first village in India to vaccinate 100 percent of the adult population

🎯This year the WHO has released the slogan “Give blood and keep the world beating" for the occasion to highlight the extraordinary service rendered by the blood donors world over.

🎯The 'Anandaram Dhekial Phukan Award-2020' was given to eminent actor Bishnu Khargoria