International Current Affairs

Para-athlete Vinod Kumar banned for intentional misrepresentation at Tokyo

Board of Appeal of Classification (BAC) has banned Para-athlete, Discus throw player, Vinod Kumar for two years (Until 2023) for ‘intentional misrepresentation’. He won the bronze medal in the discus throw event (F52 category) at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. At the Tokyo games, he gave a best throw of 19.91m to finish third behind Piotr Kosewicz (20.02m) of Poland […]

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India & Israel adopt ‘vision statement’ to boost defence cooperation

To mark the diplomatic ties of 30 years, India and Israel has adopted a “vision statement” which will strengthen the defence cooperation in future. During the bilateral meeting between the Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Israeli counterpart Benny Gantz, leaders discussed defence cooperation and the prevailing global and regional scenario. Benny Gantz has been honoured with a Tri-Service Guard

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Frontier becomes the world’s fastest supercomputer

US built supercomputer, Frontier dethrones the Japan’s Fugaku to become the world’s fastest supercomputer. Fugaku, was jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu Ltd. in 2020, which topped the supercomputer benchmarking index. Frontier was built by using Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) architecture and equipped with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors. Fugaku was built for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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COVAX: Bangladesh now the top recipient of Covid vaccines

Bangladesh remains the top recipient of Covid-19 vaccine doses under COVAX in one year as UNICEF delivered over 190 million doses of vaccines to Bangladesh. COVAX is responsible for more than 62 percent of the doses delivered to Bangladesh.The vaccines came through COVAX, the global initiative co-led by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation, Gavi, the Vaccine

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Free trade deal signed between Israel and UAE

Israel has signed a free trade deal with the United Arab Emirates on May 31, its first with an Arab country.The agreement helps to increase bilateral trade in goods and services, increase Israeli exports to UAE. It also provides customs exemption immediately or gradually on 96% of trade between the countries. The UAE was the first Gulf country to

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Forbes Magazine: 7th Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list 2022 Released

Forbes magazine has released the 7th edition of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia List 2022, featuring 10 categories each honouring 30 individuals under the age of 30. The list was edited by Rana Wehbe Watson. The honourees on the list represent 22 countries and territories across the Asia-Pacific region. India tops the list in terms of the number of

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Kuwait to build world’s largest petroleum research centre

Kuwait plans to start building the world’s largest petroleum research centre by the end of the year, the oil ministry said on Twitter on Wednesday. The Middle East Economic Digest said the project had stalled because of budget pressure, estimating its cost at $120 million. The research centre will have 28 laboratories and built in al-Ahmadi, south of Kuwait City. The project will

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Fortune 500 list: Elon Musk, world’s richest man, was 2021’s highest paid CEO

The world’s richest person also received the highest CEO compensation in 2021. Elon Musk, the chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla, topped Fortune‘s new list of the most highly compensated CEOs on the Fortune 500. In 2021, Musk “realized” compensation worth almost $23.5 billion, from exercising some Tesla stock options awarded in a 2018 multiyear “moonshot” grant. That was—by far—the biggest CEO

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US becomes India’s biggest trading partner in FY22

The US has replaced China to become the India’s top trading partner in 2021-22, this is reflecting strong economic ties between the two countries. The bilateral trade between two countries stood at $119.42 billion (2021-22) as against $80.51 billion in 2020-21, according to the data of the commerce ministry. Other top trading partner: China ($115.42 billion), The UAE ($72.9 billion), Saudi Arabia ($42,85

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Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus re-elected as WHO Director-General for second term

World Health Organization has re-appointed Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as Director-General of WHO for the second term with effect from 16th August 2022. His re-election was confirmed during the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva. He was the sole candidate. Dr Tedros was first elected in 2017. Before joining the WHO, Dr Tedros was served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and

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