National Current Affairs – June 2022

• The Repo rate increased by 4.4%
• The lowest unemployment state is Chhattisgarh
• Vegetable manufacturing is highest in Uttar Pradesh
• Tripura is the state of African flu
• UNESCO recognise Meghalaya living root bridge
• UNESCO recognises Sikkim kangangang
• UNESCO recognise Konark temple in Odisha
• The most valuable celebrity in India is Virat Kohli
• Manoj Padhra is the chief army staff
• David Atanbora got a lifetime achievement award for the champion of earth

• Rajesh Talwar wrote a book by Ambedkar
• The national mission for clean Ganga chairman is Ashok Kumar
• 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 the ‘Beach Vigil App’ for holistic management of beaches
• Andhra Pradesh govt launched the YSR (Yantra Seva scheme)
• Dharmendra Pradhan launched India’s largest educational metaverse ‘Polyversity’ & Bharat Blockchain Network
• PM Modi inaugurated the headquarters of IN-SPACe in Ahmedabad, Gujarat
• Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated the 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 a $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 the ‘Bharat Gaurav Scheme’
• Cabinet approved the development of the new Greenfield airport in Dholera, Gujarat
• SEBI restructured its Mutual Funds Advisory Committee; chaired by Usha Thorat
• Tech Mahindra acquired a 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 a monetary penalty of Rs 27.50 lakh on Punjab & Sind Bank
• Life launched UPI services targeted at rural India
• OmniCard became the first RBI-licensed PPI to launch cash withdrawal in all ATMs across India
• WPI inflation spiked to 15.88% in May 2022, the highest in 30- years
• The 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 the acquisition of 24.98% in IIFL by BC Asia investments
• Adani Transmission’s $700 million loan gets ‘green loan’ tag
• RBI canceled the license 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 a 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 cooperative banks

• ICICI Bank partnered with ZestMoney to expand its ‘Cardless EMI’ facility
• Fino Payments Bank collaborated with Go Digit for a shop insurance policy
• Ather Energy partnered with SBI for vehicle financing
• Rabab Fatima appointed as Under-Secretary-General of the UN
• TotalEnergies acquired a 25% interest in Adani New Industries
• CPI-based Retail inflation in India eases to 7.04% in May
• Indian Bank launched a digital renewal scheme for Kisan Credit Card (KCC) holders
• Bharat FIH got approval from SEBI for ₹5,000 crore Initial Public Offering
• Krishna Srinivasan appointed as Director of IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department
• MS Dhoni appointed as the brand ambassador of Garuda Aerospace
• N J Ojha appointed as MGNREGA ombudsman
• Mayank Kumar Agrawal has been given additional charge as CEO of Prasar Bharati
• Ramkrishna Mukkavilli became 1st Indian to be recognized as a 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 the US
• Anand Mahindra, Venu Srinivasan, Pankaj Patel, and Ravindra Dholakia were appointed as part-time non-official Directors on the central board of RBI
• 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 an honorary Doctorate by Maharashtra’s HSNC University
• Defence Ministry increased the funding limit of the TDF Scheme of DRDO to Rs 50 crore per project
• 38th India-Indonesia coordinated patrol exercise held in the Andaman Sea and Malacca Strait
• India launched its 1st COVID-19 vaccine ‘Anocovax’ for animals
• India will launch the first human space mission & first human ocean mission in 2023
• India’s 1st sports marketing book “The Winning Formula for Success” launched by IISM; authored by Vinit Karnik
• 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 an outstanding microfinance loan
• Pune will host Maharashtra’s first theatre festival dedicated to mental health
• Ladakh signed a 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 the 13th Krishi Fair and 20th Folk Fair in Odisha
• Assam became the 36th State to implement the ‘One Nation One Ration Card’
• 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 the onboarding of new domestic customers
• RBI raised the 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
• The government declared ICICI, HDFC, and NPCI’s computer resources to be ‘protected systems’
• Net direct tax collections for FY23 jumped 45% to Rs 3,39,225 crore
• RBI suspended the 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
• B S Patil sworn in as Lokayukta of Karnataka
• Pramod K Mittal named as chairperson of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) for 2022-23
• Ranjana Prakash Desai was appointed as the new chief of the 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
• 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)
• Bengaluru Airport named the best regional airport in India and South Asia at the 2022 Skytrax World Airport Awards
• US – Canadian author Ruth Ozeki won the Women’s Prize for fiction
• India successfully test-fired Short-Range Ballistic Missile Prithvi-II at Chandipur, Odisha
• The government announced 10% reservation for Agniveers in CAPFs, Assam Rifles
• Indian Coast Guard inducts new Advanced Light Helicopter Squadron 840 CG
• Zomato partnered with Jio-bp to accelerate EV adoption
• Union Minister Jitendra Singh inaugurated the Seismology Observatory in Udhampur
• 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
• The 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’, the new premises of the 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 the ‘Jyotiramaya’ Festival
• Jammu & Kashmir to host G-20 meetings in 2023
• Gujarat CM launched the 17th ‘Shala Praveshotsav’
• Supreme Court-appointed CoA formed Advisory Panel; chaired by Ranjit Bajaj
• Union Minister Nitin Gadkari approved the Draft GSR notification to introduce Bharat NCAP
• Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan completed two years
• Goa celebrated the Sao Joao festival
• Ambubachi Mela ended at Assam’s Kamakhya temple
• India’s largest floating solar power project was commissioned by Tata power solar in Kerala
• ‘One health pilot’ initiative launched in Bengaluru
• 7th Anniversary of Pradhan Mantri Awas YojanaUrban 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
• The government launched the e-learning portal ‘Dak Karamyogi’ for Dak Sevaks employees
• Karnataka government launched the ‘Krishi Yatra’ scheme
• Kerala government launched the MEDISEP scheme for state government employee
• 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 a 9.9% stake in Savkarma Finance
• TCS bagged a deal from Aadhar Housing Finance to improve business operation
• South Indian Bank launched ‘SIB TF Online’
• CARD91 announced a strategic partnership with RuPay & Yes Bank to create a card management system
• Max Life launched a life insurance savings plan with Policybazar
• Freo offered a saving account ‘Freo Save’ in partnership with Equitas Small Finance Bank
• AU Small Finance Bank launched the innovative credit card “LIT (Live-It-Today)”
• The 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 a co-branded contactless RuPay credit card
• Zomato acquired Blinkit for Rs 4,447 crore in an all-stock deal
• RBI extends Card Tokenisation Deadline by 3 months till September 30, 2022
• World Bank approved a USD 245 million loan to modernize India’s railway logistics infra
• World Bank approved USD 250 million in loans for India’s road safety program
• Acemoney launched wearable ATM cards and Offline UPI
• Mufin Finance received a Prepaid Payment instrument license from RBI
• Bajaj Allianz launched the Global Health Care Plan
• Airtel Payments Bank partnered with Axis Bank to digitize cash collection
• SEBI imposed a 7 crore penalty on National Stock Exchange (NSE)
• R Kavita Rao was appointed as director of the 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 was re-appointed as Chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW)
• Anil Khanna was appointed as the acting President of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA)
• Shyam Saran appointed as President of India International Centre
• IRS Officer Nitin Gupta was appointed as the new chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)
• S. Mundra was appointed as chairman of the 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 in 2022
• Odisha, ‘Mo Bus’ Service received the prestigious UN Public Service Award
• Vijay Amitraj honoured with Golden Achievement Award
• The 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 the prestigious Airwards Best Drone Organization Awards by Airwards
• SM Krishna, Narayana Murthy, and Prakash Padukone were selected for Kempegowda Award
• Nitin Gadkari presented the National Highway excellent Award 2021
• IAF conducted its first Capstone Seminar in Air Force Auditorium, New Delhi
• Bharat Electronics signed an MoU with a Belarusian Company for the supply of Airborne Defence Suite (ADS)
• Defense 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)
• 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
• The common platform called Jan Samarth is 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 the acquisition of Shareholding in Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd.
• PM Modi inaugurated Worlds 1st Nano Urea plant by IFFCO at Gujarat
• The 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 the 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 the bid to build Jewar Airport in UP
• Union Minister Anurag Thakur launched Nationwide Fit India Freedom Rider Cycle Rally
• Bluedart signed the UNFCCC climate Neutral Now Pledge
• E-stamping facility to be started by Punjab Government instead of Paper Stamp
• Uttarakhand commissioned the country’s 1st Liquid Mirror Telescope
• 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 the ‘14400 app’ to report corrupt officials with proof
• Tamil Nadu launched the Nalaya Thiran skilling programme for college students under Naan Mudhalvan
• ACME Cleantech Solutions Private Limited Signed MoU with Karnataka Government to set up a 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
• Tata AIA Life announces Industry’s 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 is expected to be 8.7% in FY22, and 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 the Airtel Thanks app
• Stashfin introduced #LiveBoundless, a credit line card for women
• RBI announced the results of its First Global Hackathon – HARBINGER 2021
• The government approved an 8.1% EPF interest rate for 2021-22
• HDFC collaborated with Accenture for digital transformation
• RBI imposed a monetary penalty of 49 lakh on Bassein Catholic Co-operative Bank and Rs. 50,000 on Jila Sahakari Kendriya Bank Maryadit
• 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
• Sachin Tendulkar to continue as UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador for a record 20th year
• Rajesh Gera appointed DG of National Informatics Centre
• Dr. Swati Dhingra appointed as the external member of the 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 was appointed as the new Chief Operating Officer of Meta
• Satish Pai was appointed as the new chairman of the International Aluminium Institute (IAI)
• Bajram Begaj has been declared as the new President of Albania
• Alok Choudhary appointed as the new MD of SBI
• RJ Umar receives the Immunisation Champion award by UNICEF
• Sanjit Narwekar was awarded 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 in 2022
• Indian American Harini Logan won the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee
• Meghalaya won the Best Project Award at UN World Summit
• IIFA awards 2022: Vicky Kaushal and Kriti Sanon won Best Male & Female Actor awards respectively
• 4th Food Safety Index awards released: Tamil Nadu topped
• 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, and INS Akshay after 32 years of service
• India-Bangladesh joint military exercise ‘Sampriti-X’ began in Bangladesh n India successfully tested a nuclear-capable Agni-4 ballistic missile in Odisha
• Indian Army Contingent participates in the “Khaan Quest 2022” exercise in Mongolia
• Defence Minister agreed to purchase Indian-made equipment worth 76,000 crores
• S Somanath inaugurated ANANTH Technologies’ spacecraft manufacturing facility in Karnataka

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