NMA To Organise Astrophysical Study Of Movement Of Sun Around Qutub Minar Today. On the International Day of Yoga, National Monuments Authority is organizing an Astro physical analysis of the movement of the Sun around the Qutub Minar with the help of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Jodhpur, June 21 (KNN) The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Jodhpur has developed a metal 3D printer for aerospace, defense, and general engineering applications. All the components of the 3D printer are designed and manufactured in India, except the laser and the robot systems.

Protean eGov Tech, which was earlier known as NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure, said it has partnered with PayNearby, a digital payments, and banking network, to offer PAN-related services via Aadhar and biometric, or SMS-based OTP authentication

Hamad International Airport has been named the World’s Best Airport for the second year running, announced at the 2022 World Airport Awards that were held at Passenger Terminal EXPO in Paris, France on 16 June 2022.

AIIMS-Delhi experts have developed the world’s first anti-gravity body suit that will allow astronauts to perform yoga in space. This is India’s first body suit for astronauts and will help astronauts strengthen muscles and prevent loss of bone density minerals. It will also increase the weight of the astronauts by more than 70 percent in space to prevent them from floating.

A 300kg stingray caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia is the biggest freshwater fish ever documented in the world.
Though there is no official database of the world’s biggest freshwater fish, the previous largest recorded fish was a 293kg Mekong giant catfish caught in Thailand in 2005. The Mekong River flows from the Tibetan Plateau through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

Union Minister for Housing & Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri recently launched a project for skill training of construction workers called ‘NIPUN’ i.e. National Initiative for Promoting Upskilling of Nirman workers.
It is an initiative of the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM). It aims to train over 1 lakh construction workers, through skilling and upskilling programs and provides them with work opportunities also in foreign countries.

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today inaugurated National Yoga Olympiad – 2022 and quiz competition in New Delhi. The National Yoga Olympiad is being organized jointly by the Ministry of Education and the National Council of Educational Research and Training from today till the 20th of this month.

Pakistan will continue to be on the “Grey List” of countries under increased monitoring of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a statement from the Paris-based global money-laundering and terror-financing watchdog said on Friday.

The Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET), a unit of the NCERT has been awarded the UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the use of ICT (Information And Communication Technology) in Education for the year 2021.
The institution has used ICT under the ‘PM eVidya’ scheme during the Covid pandemic. The PM eVIDYA program was launched as part of the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan’ in May 2020 to unify all efforts related to digital, online, on-air education Each prize-winner receives USD 25,000, a medal, and a diploma.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Centre for Brain Research and laid the Foundation Stone for Bagchi Parthasarathy Multispeciality Hospital at IISc Bengaluru on June 20, 2022.

Mawsynram, Meghalaya in India, is the world’s wettest inhabited region. On June 17th the area achieved a new 24-hour rainfall record of 1003.6mm (39.51 inches), its heaviest single-day rainfall since 1966.

The National Payments Corporation of India’s international arm has signed an MoU with Lyra Network of France for acceptance of UPI and Rupay in the country. With the MoU between NPCI International and Lyra Network, Indian tourists will be able to make seamless payments during their travel to France.

CASHe has launched an industry-first credit line service on WhatsApp. Financial wellness platform, CASHe has launched an industry-first credit line service using its AI-powered chat capability on WhatsApp.

Europe: Denmark has moved to the top of the 63-nation list from the third position last year, while Switzerland slipped from the top ranking to the second position and Singapore regained the third spot from the fifth.

Jio-bp, a fuels and mobility joint venture between Reliance Industries and bp, and Zomato on Wednesday announced that they have entered an agreement to support the food delivery giant in its ‘The Climate Group’s EV100’ initiative of 100% EV fleet by 2030.

On Thursday, the Twitter handle of the Office of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the dates for the GST Council meeting in Srinagar. “The 47th meeting of the GST Council will be held on June 28-29, 2022 (Tuesday & Wednesday) in Srinagar.

China recently launched its third aircraft carrier named ‘Fujian’. It is also the country’s most advanced and the first fully domestically-built naval vessel.
Fujian is the name of China’s eastern coastal province of Fujian. Liaoning and Shandong are the names of the two previous aircraft carriers of China. China plans to have around five aircraft carriers while the next carrier is expected to be nuclear-powered.

India and other member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) supported an initiative of China to organize a joint border operation ‘Solidarity-2023’ for the border agencies of the member countries next year.
India’s Border Security Force (BSF) Director announced this at the conclusion of the eighth meeting of the heads of border authorities of the competent bodies of SCO member states, which was held in Delhi, under the chairmanship of India.