Vienna Retains Title as Most Livable City: Global Liveability Index 2023 Report

·     Global Liveablity Index 2023- (Released by Economist Intelligence Unit)
→ World's most liveable city - Vienna (Austria)
→ Second place - Copenhagen (Denmark)
→ Five cities of India, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Ahmedabad are included in this list.
 →  Rank of New Delhi-141 and Mumbai - 144th

·      Recently, Japanese lawmakers have passed a law to increase the age of consent from 13 years to 16 years.

·      193 member states of the United Nations on June 20 approved the first treaty to protect marine life in the high seas.

·      China and Pakistan have signed an agreement for the construction of 1200 MW Chashma-V nuclear power plant at Chashma in Punjab province.

·      V. Vidyavati, Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, India signed an MoU with the United Nations World Tourism Organization. Under this agreement, Goa Roadmap favoured to promote tourism.

·      Recently the Parliament of Estonia has approved the law of Gay Marriage. Estonia is the first Central European country to do so.

·      The Titan Submarine, which went to see the wreck of the British passenger ship Titanic, (Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912)crashed 13,000 feet below sea level, on board all five people died.

·      Recently, the US decided to return to India more than 100 antiquities stolen by smugglers from India which reached the US markets.

·      Asia University Ranking 2023-
→ Report released by Times Higher Education
→ First place- Tsinghua University (China)
→ IISc Bangalore ranked 48th among Indian institutes→18 Indian universities included in top 200

·      Recently, the 64th meeting of the Global Environment Facility Council was organized in Brazil, in which a strategy was made to deal with climate change, biodiversity and pollution. In this, a package of $ 1.4 billion has been approved with the cooperation of 136 countries.

·     OS World University Rankings-
→ First place - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
→ IIT Bombay was ranked 149th in the world and first in India.

·      Recently the United Nations has removed India from the annual report on children in armed conflict. The reason for this is that India has made better progress in the direction of child protection.

·      Recently Canada launched the Digital Nomad Strategy for foreign workers to attract skilled workers in the industry.

·      The name of Indian-origin World Bank President Ajay Banga has been included in the list of Great Immigrants of the year 2023.

·     Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2023-
→ Released by Startup Genome
→ First place - Silicon Valley (United States)
→ Indian city Bangalore ranked 20th