Category: International Current Affairs

NASA’s headquarter building identified after ‘Mary W.Jackson’

June 28, 2020

• NASA declared that its headquarters will be entitled after one of its history-making engineers. In a news release, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told that the agency’s Washington, D.C., headquarters building will be named after Mary W. Jackson, its first African American female engineer.

India slides down at 77th place in estimating money in Swiss banks

June 28, 2020

• India has rolled down three spots to 77th rank in terms of money deposited by its citizens and enterprises with Swiss banks at the end of 2019, while the UK has maintained its top position, as per the recent data from Switzerland’s central bank. India was placed 74th in the previous year.

Indians’ money in Swiss Banks down 6% at Rs 6,625 Crore in 2019

June 28, 2020

• Funds deposited by Indian individuals and enterprises in Swiss banks, including through India-based branches, sank nearly 6 percent in 2019 to 899 million Swiss francs (Rs 6,625 crore), annual data from Swiss National Bank revealed on 25th June.

Pakistan to stay on FATF’s ‘grey list’; fails to check terror funding

June 28, 2020

• Pakistan got another extension on the “grey list”, as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary session on 24th June finalized to maintain all countries under scrutiny for Terror Financing and Money Laundering until October 2020.

Russia’s Energia Space Corporation plans to take the first tourist on a spacewalk in 2023

June 27, 2020

• Energia Space Corporation in Russia declared on June 25 that it is preparing on taking the first tourist on a spacewalk in 2023, under the terms of a new agreement with a United States partner.

Bill to rename ‘Tonoshiro’ to ‘Tonoshiro Senkaku’ triggered stresses between Japan and China

June 24, 2020

• A group of Islands without inhabitants placed at the South China Sea has been a point of disagreement between Japan and China since 1972. The island is identified by the name Senkakus in Japan, while in the People’s Republic of China the Islands are recognized by the name Diaoyu.

China to accompany UN arms trade treaty to improve ‘Peace and Stability’

June 24, 2020

• China has decided to accompany a global pact on regulations of arms sales displaying its eagerness to approach the poorly regulated international arms trade after the United States pulled out last year.

WWE legend The Undertaker takes retirement after three decades

June 23, 2020

• Famous wrestler Mark William Calaway, usually known as by his ring name The Undertaker, on 22nd June declared that he is bidding adieu to WWE.

Nita Ambani only Indian amongst top global philanthropists of 2020

June 23, 2020

• Reliance Foundation chairperson Nita Ambani to be the only Indian to highlight in Town & Country magazine’s top global philanthropists of 2020 list including Tim Cook, Oprah Winfrey, Laurene Powell Jobs, the Lauder Family, Donatella Versace, Michael Bloomberg and Leonardo Di Caprio among others.

RIL 57th most worthy firm globally by market-cap; Saudi Aramco tops the chart

June 22, 2020

• Reliance Industries (RIL) came up as the first Indian company to be valued at $150 billion. Saudi Aramco – heads the biggest companies globally with a market cap of $ 1,764.50 billion as on June 16, 2020.