✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. India received USD 64 billion in Foreign Direct Investment in 2020, the 5th largest recipient of inflows in the world, according to a UN report.
2. PM Modi announced that our country, along with UN and WHO, is launching an app called M-Yoga aiming to provide easy access to Yogic practice all over the world.
3. Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has alleged that India is using Afghanistan for “carrying out terrorist activities” in Pakistan.
4. The Canadian govt has extended the suspension of direct flights from India to Canada till next month (21 July). The announcement in this regard was made on (21 June) Monday by the Public Health Agency of Canada.
5. Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre, Embassy of India, Seoul South Korea, celebrated the 7th International Day of Yoga (IDY) celebrations in Seoul by organising yoga events at Busan University of Foreign Studies and Gandong-gu office in collaboration with Korea Yoga Association Yesterday (21 June).
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. International Yoga Day: The UN has marked the day to raise awareness about the many benefits of practising Yoga for people all over the world. The date 21 June was chosen because it is the longest day in Northern Hemisphere. The word Yoga has originated from the Sanskrit word Yuja which means ‘to join or to unite.
2. US Navy tests new aircraft carriers’s metal with powerful explosions . The massive explosive was set off underwater near USS Gerald R. Ford, the first of a new class of advanced aircraft carriers, in the Atlantic Ocean.
3. The 7th International Day of Yoga was observed in Bangladesh with great enthusiasm across the country. Several events were organised in Dhaka & other parts of Bangladesh to mark the occasion.
4. Sweden’s parliament ousted PM Stefan Lofven in a no-confidence vote on 21 June, giving the Social Democrat leader a week to resign & hand the speaker the job of finding a new govt, or call a snap election.
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Ch. Naveen Kumar |
