Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: June 29, 2023

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for June 29, 2023

INDIA

• Union Fisheries Minister Parshottam Rupala Launches “Report Fish Disease” App.
• Union Minister Pralhad Joshi unveils List of “Critical Minerals for India”.
• Statistics Day is celebrated on 29th June with the theme of ‘Alignment of State Indicator Framework with National Indicator Framework for Monitoring SDGs’.
• Coal Secretary Amrit Lal Meena inaugurates India Pavilion at the World Mining Congress 2023, Australia.
• Cabinet approves Ratification of the Headquarters Agreement (HQA) between India and Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI).
• The festival of sacrifice, Eid-ul-Azha or Baqraeed is being celebrated in various parts of the country.
• Tamil Nadu launches scheme to provide cardiac drugs through over 10,000 primary-level health facilities.

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

• Government approves Fair and Remunerative Price of sugarcane payable by Sugar Mills to sugarcane farmers for sugar season 2023-24.
• India has delayed plans to collect a 20% tax on annual overseas spending of more than ₹7,00,000 ($8,500) by three months.
• RBI: GNPA ratio of Scheduled Commercial Banks fallen to 10 year low of 3.9% in March 2023.
• Gujarat government signs MoU with Micron Technology for semiconductor assembly and test facility in Ahmedabad.

WORLD

• Nobel-winning lithium battery inventor John Goodenough passed away.
• India removed from UNSG report on impact of armed conflict on children.
• WEF Report highlights potential of AI in healthcare and importance of public-private collaboration in driving its global adoption.

SPORTS

• Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek were seeded No. 1 for Wimbledon.
• India beat Japan 62-18 to register third win in Asian Kabbadi Championship 2023 in South Korea.

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