Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: June 17, 2022

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for June 17, 2022

– NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling) to provide an opportunity for further education to those Agniveers who are just 10th class pass out

– India hosting meeting of SCO’s Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) on June 15-17

– India hosts SAIFMM (Special ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers’ Meeting) in New Delhi to commemorate 30 years of ASEAN-India Dialogue Relations

– US announces $122mn fund for India to prevent avoidable epidemics

– Night launch of Prithvi-II short range ballistic missile carried out; has a strike range of 350 kms

– Railways flags off first train under Bharat Gaurav scheme; from Coimbatore North in Tamil Nadu to Sainagar Shirdi in Maharashtra

– Rajya Sabha: P. Chidambaram resigns from his seat in Maharashtra following his election from Tamil Nadu

– India Energy Transition Summit held in New Delhi

– Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat says DRIP (Dam Rehabilitation Improvement Project) of Govt has improved safety, operational performance of large dams

– Union Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurates Industrial Decarbonization Summit 2022 in New Delhi

– Government issues draft guidelines for operationalization of Ro-Ro, Ro-Pax ferry services along Indian coast

– RBI lifts restrictions on Mastercard over onboarding new customers after compliance with Storage of Payment System Data norms

– Unemployment rate declined to 4.2% in 2020-21 from 4.8% in 2019-20: Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS)

– UAE suspends re-export of wheat and flour from grain originating in India

– Trade deficit in May at $15.44 billion; Exports: $62.21 billion, Imports: $77.65 billion

– India adds 15.4 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power capacity in 2021; 3rd highest behind China, USA

– BCCI to get Rs 44,075 crore from selling IPL TV and digital media rights for 2023-27

– Four European Union leaders — French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian PM Mario Draghi, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis — visit Ukraine

– Microsoft shuts down Internet Explorer browser after 27 years

– 94% of domestic workers worldwide lack comprehensive social security: ILO

– International Day of Family Remittances observed on June 16

– European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) halts UK’s first flight deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda

– US Federal Reserve raises main interest rate by 0.75%