- India ranks 3rd at International Astronomy Olympiad
- South Korea breaks its own record for the world’s lowest fertility rate
- External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar attended the 8th India-Brazil Joint Commission Meeting
- South Korea signed USD 2.25 billion deal with a Russian nuclear company
- Mac Rutherford becomes the youngest person to fly solo around the world
- Gautam Adani becomes 3rd Richest Person in World
- The UK becomes the first country to approve the Omicron vaccine
- 65th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference to be held in Canada
- Greece exits EU’s ‘enhanced surveillance’ framework
- Uttar Pradesh government to build India’s first education township
- Zimbabwe launched gold coins as legal tender to tackle inflation
- US Senate approved Sweden and Finland joining NATO’s membership
- South Korea launched the first Moon mission, Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, also known as Danuri.
- William Ruto elected as the new president of Kenya
- Simon Stiell was appointed as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- Alkesh Kumar Sharma appointed to high-level UN internet panel
- Pranay Verma appointed as India’s next High Commissioner to Bangladesh
- Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand was appointed as Deputy President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE)
- Gustavo Petro was sworn in as Colombia’s first leftist President
- Sanjay Agarwal appointed as Assistant Director General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
- Pramod Kumar appointed as CFO of Power Grid Corporation
- James Marape was sworn in as prime minister of Papua New Guinea
- Dixit Joshi appointed as new CFO of Credit Suisse
- Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga elected as interim PM of Mali
- Vikram Doraiswami appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the UK
- PNB Housing Finance interim CFO Kaushal Mithani resigned
- Gopal Jain and Sivakumar Gopalan were appointed as non-executive directors of RBL Bank
- The government extended the tenure of Meenesh Shah as National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) Chairman for 6 months
- Sourav Ganguly was appointed as its first brand ambassador DreamSetGo
- K Subramanian was appointed as Executive Director for India at International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Mahendra Shah appointed as new MD of IDFC
- Ananth Narayan Gopalakrishnan appointed as a whole-time member of SEBI
- Ana Brnabic re-elected as Prime Minister of Serbia
- Adele Sumariwalla appointed as interim President of the Indian Olympic Association
- Fahmida Azim won the Pulitzer Prize 2022 in Illustrated Reporting
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to be conferred with Liberty Medal
- Angela Merkel was awarded the UNESCO Peace Prize in 2022
- Karnataka’s Divita Rai becomes Miss Diva Universe 2022
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