Weekly Short One Liners

94-year-old Bhagwani Devi from India wins the gold medal in 100 m sprint in Finland.

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 report was issued by U.N. agencies: FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been appointed acting president after incumbent President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched the first-ever ‘Artificial Intelligence in Defence’ (AIDef) symposium and exhibition organised.

The government of Japan has conferred the ‘Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star’ award on Sanmar Group Vice Chairman Narayanan Kumar.

Two locations from India, namely the Indian city of Ahmedabad and the Southern state of Kerala, have been featured in TIME magazine’s list of the world’s greatest places of 2022.

AAI’s Leh airport is being built as a carbon-neutral airport, a first in India.

India has been ranked at 135th place in terms of gender parity, as per the annual Gender Gap Report 2022 of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

The I2U2 (India-Israel-UAE-USA) Grouping was conceptualized during the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the four countries in October 2021.

Karnataka has become the first state in the country to officially implement the National Education Policy (NEP)-2020.

Space tech startup Agnikul Cosmos has inaugurated India’s first-ever factory to manufacture 3D-printed rocket engines in Chennai.

The World Youth Skills Day Theme 2022 is “Transforming youth skills for the future”.

Union Cabinet has approved the up-gradation of the National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI) to Gati Shakti University in Gujarat.

The leaders of the United States and Israel, President Biden and Prime Minister Lapid met in Jerusalem and adopted the Jaresalem Joint Declaration on the US-Israel Strategic Partnership.

NIRF Ranking 2022 of top performing colleges in India has been released by the Hon’ble Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, ranked top among educational institutes for the fourth consecutive year and in engineering category for the seventh consecutive year. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, has been adjudged the best university in the country for the seventh consecutive year.

Every year, World Day for International Justice is celebrated on July 17 across the world to commemorate the organisations that work for bringing justice to the victims of international criminal acts.

The submarine named ‘INS Sindhudhvaj’ has decommissioned from the Indian Navy after serving for 35 years.

3rd G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting 2022 held in Bali, Indonesia.

The new GST rate for pre-packed, labelled food items including rice, wheat, atta, paneer, curd, jaggery, lassi, buttermilk, labelled meat (except frozen) and fish has now been fixed at 5 percent.

The Department of Consumer Affairs has set up a committee chaired by Nidhi Khare, Additional Secretary to develop a comprehensive framework on ‘Right to Repair’.

Manoj Kumar has assumed the charge as Chairman of Khadi and Village Industries Commission.