Current Affairs 22 -23 June

Current Affairs 22 -23 June

> HDFC to buy 51.2% in Apollo Munich Health for Rs. 1,347 crore

Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) announced that it would be acquiring a 51.2% stake in Apollo Munich Health Insurance and would be later merging it with its general insurance arm HDFC Ergo.

HDFC Bank CEO - Aditya Puri

Tagline - We understand your world

Headquarters - Mumbai

> IDBI and Tata in bancassurance pact

IDBI bank has entered a bancassurance pact with Tata AIG. This is to provide the general insurer's products to the bank's two crore customers through its 1800+ branches.

IDBI Bank CEO - Rakesh Sharma

Headquarters - Mumbai

Tagline - Banking For All, “Aao Sochein Bada”

> Amish Tripathi is the new director of London's Nehru Centre

Author Amish Tripathi has been named the director of Nehru Centre in London, which is under the Indian Council of Cultural Relations. Nehru Centre was founded in 1992 to promote cultural exchange between India and the United Kingdom.

> Operation Sankalp in Gulf region

Indian Navy launched operation Sankalp in the Gulf of Oman to re-assure Indian Flagged Vessels operating/ transiting through the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman following the maritime security incidents in the region. INS Chennai and INS Sunaynahave deployed in the Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf to undertake Maritime Security operations.

> Asian Silver Medalist in Javelin Annu Rani clinches Bronze at 58th Ostrava Golden Spike Athletics meet

> Indian gymnast Pranati Nayak clinched a bronze medal in the vault event at the Senior Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

> Pankaj Advani won Asian Snooker Championship

> NITI Aayog to convert two-wheelers to electric by 2025

NITI Aayog has proposed that two-wheelers with an engine capacity of less than 150cc to be converted to electric by 2025. It also aims to covert three-wheelers to electric by 2023.

> PM Modi voted 'World's most powerful leader 2019' in the reader's poll conducted by UK-based British Herald Magazine

> World's largest engineering marvel inaugurated in Telangana

Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao inaugurated Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project at Medigadda bridge in Kaleshwaram. The project will give assurance for employment, crop production, food security, poverty eradication and improvement of health.

> Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to get full FATF membership

> Indian Women's Hockey Team won FIH Series Finals