Contents
- 1 Rahul Dravid becomes fifth Indian to be inducted into ICC’s Hall of Fame
- 2 Nigeria overtakes India as home to world’s largest number of poor
- 3 July 1st announced as GST Day, to be celebrated for centralised tax
- 4 Abu Dhabi is ‘smartest city’ in Middle East: Study
- 5 July 1st announced as GST Day, to be celebrated for centralised tax
- 6 Latest Current Affairs
Rahul Dravid becomes fifth Indian to be inducted into ICC’s Hall of Fame
- Rahul Dravid has been inducted into ICC Hall of Fame.
- Dravid received this honour along with Australia’s Ricky Ponting and England’s Claire Taylor.
- Dravid becomes only the 5th Indian to make his way into the ICC Hall of Fame, after Anil Kumble, Sunil Gavaskar, Bishan Singh Bedi and Kapil Dev.
- 45-year-old Dravid has scored 24,208 runs in 509 international matches in his playing career spanning over 15 years.
Nigeria overtakes India as home to world’s largest number of poor
- India is no longer home to the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, according to a Brookings report.
- Nigeria has overtaken India in this regard, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo could soon overtake India too, to claim second spot.
- At the end of May 2018, Nigeria had 87 million people living in extreme poverty, while India had 73 million.
- Extreme poverty in Nigeria is estimated to be growing at the rat of six people per minute.
- According to the World Bank, a person who lives on less than $1.90 a day falls in the extreme poverty category.
July 1st announced as GST Day, to be celebrated for centralised tax
- The government has announced that July 1st be celebrated as GST Day.
- This is to commemorate the first year of the unprecedented reform of Indian taxation.
- GST was launched on the 1st July, 2017 and replaced a multi-layered, complex indirect tax structure with a simple, transparent and technology-driven tax regime.
Abu Dhabi is ‘smartest city’ in Middle East: Study
- Abu Dhabi has topped the list of smart cities in the Middle East and Africa, according to a report by McKinsey Global Institute.
- Abu Dhabi secured a rating of 18.4, coming in ahead of Dubai, with a rating of 17.3.
- Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
- Three factors contribute to making a city smart – technology base (how many smartphones are in use); specific apps (such as translating raw data into alerts); and the use of the apps (by the city, companies and the public).
July 1st announced as GST Day, to be celebrated for centralised tax
- The government has announced that July 1st be celebrated as GST Day.
- This is to commemorate the first year of the unprecedented reform of Indian taxation.
- GST was launched on the 1st July, 2017 and replaced a multi-layered, complex indirect tax structure with a simple, transparent and technology-driven tax regime.