June 2021 Current Affairs

QS World University Rankings 2022

Top Indian University

• IIT-Bombay is ranked as the best University in India with a rank of 177. It is followed by IIT-Delhi (185) and IISc (I86).
• The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, has also been adjudged as “world’s top research university, achieving a perfect score of 100/100 for Citations Per Faculty (CPF) indicator, which measures research impact.
• This is the first time that any Indian institute has scored a perfect 100 in research or any other parameter.

Top University

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has topped the ranking for the 10th years in a row.
• MIT is followed by the University of Oxford in the second position. Stanford University and the University of Cambridge shared the third spot.

COVID-19 Variants by WHO

Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2019-20

• In the latest set of scores and grades for the pre-COVID-19 year, 2019-20, the Andaman and Nicobar islands, Chandigarh, Kerala, Punjab and Tamil Nadu have performed the best, although they still fall short of the 951-1,000 points slab, the highest possible.
• 33 States and Union Territories that their PGI scores have improved over the previous year.
• Andaman and Nicobar, Punjab and Arunachal Pradesh, by a noteworthy 20%. (Highest improvement)
• Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh actually regressed, although the PGI scheme is now three years old.
• The PGI scores show that the southern and western States are on firm ground to achieve this, while those in central India and parts of the east and Northeast are less resourced.

Milkha Singh

Nickname: The Flying Sikh

Date of Birth: 20 November 1929 (According to records in Pakistan), 17 October, 1935 (Other official records)

Place of Birth:  Gobindpura in Muzaffargarh district now in Pakistan

Profession: Athlete

Date of Death: 18 June, 2021

Place of Death: PGIMER, Chandigarh

Cause of Death: COVID-19

Sport: Track and Field

Event(s): Sprinting

Spouse/Ex-: Nirmal Kaur

Children: Jeev Milkha Singh

Honours and Medals

• 1st Gold medal 1958 Asian Games – 200 m
• 1st Gold medal 1958 Asian Games – 400 m
• 1st Gold medal 1958 Commonwealth Games – 440 yards
• Padma Shri – 1959
• 1st Gold medal 1962 Asian Games – 400 m
• 1st Gold medal 1962 Asian Games – 4 x 400 m relay
• 2nd Silver medal 1964 Calcutta National Games – 400 m

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