United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment of Simon Stiell of Grenada as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Earth broke its shortest day record on July 29, 2022 by completing its full rotation in a time that was 1.59 milliseconds shorter than the regular 24 hours time on July 29th.
The centre has set up a task force led by NITI Aayog member (health) Dr V K Paul to monitor monkeypox. "Based on the observations of the task force, we will assess and study the further action to be taken.