Organized by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the 19th Shangri-La Dialogue, which began in Singapore two years after the COVID-19 pandemic, is one of the important defence summits in Asia.
The Controller General of Accounts (CGA) released the fiscal deficit for 2021-22, which improved to 6.71 per cent of the GDP over the revised budget estimate of 6.9 per cent.
Leading UK-based academic, Dr. Swati Dhingra has been named as the first Indian-origin woman to be appointed as an external member of the Bank of England's interest rate-setting committee.