• Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has launched Saa ₹thi mobile app on investor education.

• It will create awareness among the investors about the basic concepts of securities market, KYC process, trading and settlement, mutual funds, etc.

• The app is available in Hindi and English.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Mauritius counterpart Pravind Kumar Jugnauth has jointly inaugurated India-assisted Social Housing Units project in Mauritius.

• Civil Service College and 8MW Solar PV Farm projects are being undertaken under India’s development support in Mauritius.

• Microsoft is buying video game publisher Activision Blizzard for $69 billion, which is the biggest deal ever in the tech industry.

• This acquisition will accelerate the growth in Microsoft’s gaming business across mobile, PC, console and cloud and will provide building blocks for the metaverse.

• Activision Blizzard is famous of Candy Crush and Call of Duty, Xbox, among other leading video games.

• As per ILO World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2022 (WESO Trends) report, Global unemployment level in 2022 projected at 207 million.

• The global unemployment level was 186 million in 2019.

• Total working hours globally in 2022 is projected to be 2% below the pre-pandemic level, and that is equivalent to the loss of 52 million full-time jobs.

• Indonesian Parliament has passed a law to relocate capital from Jakarta to Nusantara (East Kalimantan), situated to the east of Borneo Island.

• The new law has been formulated as Jakarta is prone to flooding amid climate change and also suffers from chronic congestion and air pollution.

• Initial relocation will start from between 2022 and 2024.

• Union Cabinet has approved capital infusion of Rs 1,500 crore in Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited, (IREDA)

• It will raise the lending capacity of IREDA to Rs 12,000 crore to the renewable energy sector.

• Indian tennis player, Sania Mirza (35 years) has announced her retirement in 2022.

• She is a six-time Grand Slam champion, 42-time tour winner, and first Indian woman and third from the country to be the World No. 1 doubles player

• She is the only Indian woman to break into the top 30 in singles, and a two-time Asian Games gold medallist.

• Young Indian origin golfer Akshay won The Bahamas Great Exuma Classic on the Korn Ferry Tour at Sandals Emerald Bay

• After this victory, he becomes the third-youngest player to win a Korn Ferry Tour event since the Tour’s establishment in 1990.

• National Innovation Foundation’s Incubation and Entrepreneurship Council and Amazon India have signed an MoU for online distribution of product of grassroots innovations, student innovations, and outstanding traditional knowledge-based products.

• It will make innovations from rural parts of India available universally and will ensure capacity building of grassroots innovators by engaging industry and subject matter experts.

• International Financial Services Centers Authority (IFSCA) has signed MoU with Insurance Institute of India (III) for capacity building of professionals in the insurance sector.

• II would design and conduct such examinations and training for professional in IFSC which would aid in having skilled talent in IFSC eco-system.