Daily Current Affairs 27th July 2022

RBI, Banking and Economy

• IMF cuts India's FY23 GDP growth forecast by 80 bps to 7.4%

• Eutelsat & OneWeb inked a pact for merger

• Flipkart partners with Pocket FM to enter the audiobooks segment

• Adani Group to invest $70 billion in green energy transition and infrastructure projects

• CCI approves Greenforest New Energies’ stake buy in Tata Power Renewable

• Three Bulk Drug Parks to be set up in the country

• Ministry of Heavy Industries installed 532 charging stations/Infrastructure under Phase-I & II of FAME India Scheme

• Ministry of New and Renewable Energy implements Suryamitra Skill Development Programme

• ONGC signed an MoU with Greenko ZeroC Private Limited (Greenko) to produce Green Hydrogen

• India overtakes China as the biggest importer of seaborne Russian crude

• Mastercard enables 200,000 merchants for card-on-file tokenisation

NABARD & AGRICULTURE

• IARI introduces three new basmati rice varieties

NATIONAL

• New Ramsar Sites in India 2022

• ONGC inks MoU with Greenko Zero C

• Department of Posts launched a philately scholarship scheme

STATES

• First all women-run cooperative bank coming up in Rajasthan

REPORTS AND INDEXES

• Asia-Pacific Prime Office Rental Index Q2 2022

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Russia to leave ISS, build own space station

• Bharat Biotech, ExcellGene consortium to develop variant-proof Covid vax

DEFENCE

• Centre to buy arms worth ₹28,732 crore

AWARDS AND REWARDS

• Mrs Universe Divine Crown In South Korea

SPORTS

• India to host 2025 women’s ODI World Cup

• Neeraj Chopra pulls out of Birmingham CWG 2022

• 44th Chess Olympiad kicks off in Chennai