current affairs 28 May 2022

India ranked 54th in the WEF Travel and Tourism Development Index 2021.

In the WEF Travel and Tourism Development Index 2021, India has been ranked at 54th place. In 2019, India had ranked at 46th position.
However, the country still topped within the South Asia region.
This index is the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index’s direct evolution, having been published biennially for the last 15 years.
In the 2021 index, the top place has been grabbed by Japan. The country is followed by the United States, Spain, France, and Germany respectively. The score of India in this list is 4.2

Captain Abhilasha Barak became the first woman to join the Army Aviation Corps as a helicopter pilot.
Barak hails from Haryana and is the daughter of a retired colonel.
She was commissioned in the Army Air Defence Corps in September 2018.
She was awarded ‘wings’ along with 36 army pilots by Army Aviation director general Lieutenant General Ajay Kumar Suri during a valedictory ceremony at the Nashik-based training school.
Barak became the army’s first woman combat aviator at a time when the National Defence Academy is set to induct its first batch of women cadets in June 2022.

Union Government has launched the Eighth Edition of Swachh Survekshan -2023 under Swachh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0.
The theme of Swachh Survekshan -2023 is Waste to Wealth for garbage-free cities.
The SS 2022 has been completed and the results are under preparation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the Swachh Bharat Mission Urban (SBMU) 2.0 on October 1 last year, with a vision of Garbage Free Cities.

Kishore Jayaraman, President, India and South Asia for Rolls-Royce, has received an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty The Queen.
Mr. Jayaraman is a board member of the UK-India Business Council, which supports UK businesses set-up in India.
Kishore Jayaraman is President – India and South Asia for Rolls-Royce, and has been instrumental in driving the strategic focus and significant expansion across the company’s Civil Aerospace, Defence and Power Systems businesses.
Under his leadership, the company set up the Engineering Centre in Bangalore in 2015, Digital Centre of Excellence with over 60 digital technologists in 2017, and its first Start-up Accelerator Programme in India in 2019.

The Indian Para-Badminton Team won a total of 23 medals, including 7 gold medals, 3 silver, and a whopping 13 bronze medals at the recently-concluded Bahrain Para-Badminton International in Manama.
Pramod Bhagat, who won the top prize at Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, secured two gold medals in Bahrain.
Tarun Dhillon, Nithya Sre, and Manisha Ramdass are among those who won gold medals at the tournament.