1. Cristiano Ronaldo became the highest-scoring man in the international football history with his 110th goal for Portugal.

2. The New Development Bank (NDB) set up by the BRICS group of nations said on Thursday it had admitted the United Arab Emirates, Uruguay and Bangladesh.


3. Sky striker - 

  • They are a type of drones and are formally known as loitering munitions, which means that they can loiter in air and then drop down on their target when ordered to.
  • ‘SkyStriker’ will be manufactured in Bengaluru by a joint venture between Israel’s Elbit System and India’s Alpha Design. 
  • The SkyStriker was extensively used by Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenia to strike moving targets including armoured personnel carriers. 
  • As the name suggest, kamikaze drones are those which fall on to a target and explode. 

4. The times higher education world university ranking. Oxford is at first position. followed by the USA's California Institute of Technology and Harvard University in the second and third positions, respectively.

5. Central banks in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa will conduct a cross border payments trial using different central bank digital currencies (CBDC) to assess if this allows transactions to be settled more cheaply and easily. These platforms would enable financial institutions to transact directly with each other in CBDCs, which could eliminate the need for intermediaries and reduce the time and cost of transactions.

6. Corbevax - Corbevax is a “recombinant protein sub-unit” vaccine, which means it is made up of a specific part of SARS-CoV-2 — the spike protein on the virus’s surface. It is being developed by Hyderabad-based company 'Biological E'.

7. Defence Expo 2022 will be hosted by Gujrat.