The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has forecast India’s GDP growth at 6.9 per cent for FY23 from 8.1 per cent estimated earlier. OECD has also projected the growth for India is 6.2% in 2023. The Reserve Bank of India has also estimated the nations growth to 7.2%. The RBI has also raised the […]
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In an effort to galvanize States/UTs to work towards ensuring safe food for citizens, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Mansukh Mandaviya released Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)’s 4th State Food Safety Index (SFSI) to measure the performance of States across five parameters of food safety. SFSI was started from 2018-19 with
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Indian Women’s cricket legend, Mithali Raj has announced her retirement from all forms of international cricket at the age of 39 years. She has represented India in matches (232) and scored 7,805 runs at an average of 50.68. She made her international debut in an ODI against Ireland, in June 1999. She became the first and is the only woman cricketer
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Manish Narwal and Rubina Francis won the 10m P6 air pistol mixed team event to clinch India’s third gold medal at the ongoing World Shooting Para Sport World Cup in Chateauroux, France on Wednesday. Narwal and Francis, who aggregated a world record qualifying score of 565 to enter the final at the top position, defeated
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European Parliament Members have voted to prohibit the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035. The EU assembly voted in Strasbourg, France to require automakers to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 100 percent by the middle of the next decade. The mandate would amount to a prohibition on the sale in the 27-nation bloc of new cars powered
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised the limits for individual housing loans being extended by Urban Cooperative Banks (UCBs) and Rural Cooperative Banks by over 100%. The limits for Tier I /Tier II UCBs have been revised from ₹30 lakh/ ₹70 lakh to ₹60 lakh/ ₹140 lakh, respectively. RCBs the limits have been
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Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a London based global higher education analyst, has released the 19th edition of its prestigious World University Rankings 2022 list, the largest ever, with 1418 institutions across one hundred locations against the featured 1300 universities in the 18th edition of QS World University Rankings 2022. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the
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Music great A R Rahman has been named the ambassador of the British Council’s ‘India-UK Together Season of Culture’, which aims to boost collaboration among emerging artists. It was officially launched, by Britain’s Deputy High Commissioner to India Jan Thomson and Director (India) of the British Council Barbara Wickham. The Season of Culture aims to
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Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, said on Wednesday that Krishna Srinivasan, an Indian, will take over as Director of the Asia and Pacific Department (APD) on June 22. According to the IMF, Srinivasan will succeed Changyong Rhee, who announced his resignation from the Fund on March 23. Why Srinivasan has
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UPSC Daily Current Affairs Quiz 9 June 2022 composed by the Gkseries team is very helpful to UPSC aspirants.
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