- Important Days & Events:
- July 2nd is also celebrated as World UFO Day (WUD) globally.
- Objective: It is a day dedicated to the undoubted existence of Unidentified Flying Objects.
- International Day of Cooperatives is marked annually on the first Saturday of July. This time it came on 2nd July.
- Theme: Cooperatives Build a Better World
- World Sports Journalists Day is observed on July 2nd.
- Obituaries: Malayalam actor and assistant director Ambika Rao passed away at the age of 58.
- Awards & Honours: Ashok Soota, founder and Executive Chairman of Happiest Minds Technologies, has been conferred with CII Quality Ratna Award 2021.
- Michelle Poonawalla, a well-known artist, and businesswoman received the coveted Shiromani Award at NRI World Summit 2022.
- Appointments: Sandeep Kumar has been appointed as head of India’s largest gas utility GAIL (India) Ltd.
- Report: Hurun India Future Unicorn Index 2022.
- Released by: Hurun Research Institute.
- Ranking: Bengaluru, which currently has 33 unicorns, will receive 46 new additions, followed by Delhi NCR with 25, and Mumbai with 16.
- As per the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre, an Earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck southern Iran.
- Central Government raised the duty on gold to restrict imports and imposed a windfall tax on crude oil producers and refiners to curb shortages.
- IFFCO Ltd has received the patent on its revolutionary Nanotechnology-based fertilizers nano urea, and nano DAP for 20 years.
- The new smart campus of Bosch India in Bengaluru was essentially inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
- The Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has successfully tested Abhyas's high-speed expendable aerial target (HEAT), from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), off the coast of Odisha.
- CRISIL Cuts FY23 GDP growth estimate to 7.3% from 7.8% on high Inflation
- Big Tech firms offering Financial Services pose risk to Stability
- Govt revamps Banks Board into Financial Services Institutions Bureau
- RBI Pegs state govt market borrowing for July-Sept at Rs 2.1 trillion
- Govt amends foreign donation Act
Questions:
Q.1 As per Hurun India Future Unicorn Index 2022, India is predicted to have_____ new unicorns in the next 2-4 years?a. 132
b. 122
c. 141
d. 156
Q.2 Who has been conferred with CII Quality Ratna Award 2021?
a. Sandeep Kumar
b. Michelle Poonawalla
c. Ashok Soota
d. Vivek Kumar
