- 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 the Indian 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 the minimum age for migrant domestic workers to 21years for women
- World Bank approved an 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 the BRICS group of emerging countries
- South Korea launched its first satellite with a homegrown Nuri rocket into orbit
- China launched a new batch of 3 Yagon-35 remote sensing satellites
- Indian drone start-up Garuda Aerospace to set up a plant in Malaysia
- Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) organized a mango festival in Bahrain to boost the 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
- The US announced a $122 million fund for India to prevent avoidable epidemics
- Japan to participate in NATO summit for the first time
- Israel and Haryana governments signed a 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 the third aircraft carrier named Fujian
- India and Bangladesh to hold first Physical Joint Consultative Commission Meet in New Delhi
- Pakistan will continue to stay on 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 the 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 the 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 the inaugural session at the G20 Health Ministers in Indonesia
- Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, and Switzerland were elected as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council
- European Parliament votes to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035 to fight climate change
- The ninth Summit of the Americas was held in Los Angeles, US
- India extended a $55 million credit line to Sri Lanka for fertilizer imports
- India finalised deals for cheetahs from South Africa & Namibia
- 12th WTO Ministerial Conference 2022 held in 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
- 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 the investigation & prosecution of crimes
- India will host a Special ‘ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers’ meeting
- UNCTAD’s World Investment Report: India ranked 7th among recipients of foreign direct investment (FDI) in CY 2021; the US topped
- 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 the 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 and Gautam Adani topped as 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
- 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, the world’s richest man, was 2021’s highest-paid CEO
- The central African Republic becomes 2nd country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender
- Bangladesh is now the top recipient of Covid vaccines
- Canada introduced a new law to freeze handgun ownership
- US Frontier Overtakes Japan’s Fugaku as the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer
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