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1. ISIS Jihadist declared the captured territories a caliphate (Islamic state) with its leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi as Caliph (head of state). The group, revealing its global ambition, also dropped the term ‘Iraq and Levant’ from its name. Now It will be just called ‘Islamic state’ and work for ‘restoration of caliphate’ in the Middle East region.
2. Google pulls plug on 10-year-old social networking site ‘Orkut’. Orkut, Google’s first foray into a social networking and one of the forerunners in that space, was gradually eclipsed by the more popular Facebook. The internet-giant will terminate its services by the end of September to focus on YouTube, Blogger, and Google+ services that have proven more popular.
3. Pakistani child activist Malala Yousafzai has been conferred on the 2014 Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Centre in Philadelphia. She is the youngest recipient in the medal’s 25-year history. Since then, recipients of this award included Muhammad Ali, former President Jimmy Carter, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
4. National Doctors’ Day is observed across the nation on July 1. Its celebrated to honour the legendary physician, a Bharat Ratna laureate, and the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy.
5. French bank BNP Paribas has been penalized with a fine of $8.83 billion for violating US sanctions imposed on Sudan, Iran and Cuba. BNP had taken steps to evade sanctions between 2004 and 2012 and was found guilty on two counts of ‘falsifying business records’ and ‘conspiracy’.
6. 58 million children still out of school: UNESCO
The latest UNESCO report put the global number of unschooled children aged 6 to 11 at as high as 58 million.
The lack of global progress is largely due to high population growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is now home to more than 30 million out-of-school children.
The report says that close to 43% of those out of school children – 15 million girls and 10 million boys – will probably never see the classroom if the situation does not improve.
1. ISIS Jihadist declared the captured territories a caliphate (Islamic state) with its leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi as Caliph (head of state). The group, revealing its global ambition, also dropped the term ‘Iraq and Levant’ from its name. Now It will be just called ‘Islamic state’ and work for ‘restoration of caliphate’ in the Middle East region.
2. Google pulls plug on 10-year-old social networking site ‘Orkut’. Orkut, Google’s first foray into a social networking and one of the forerunners in that space, was gradually eclipsed by the more popular Facebook. The internet-giant will terminate its services by the end of September to focus on YouTube, Blogger, and Google+ services that have proven more popular.
3. Pakistani child activist Malala Yousafzai has been conferred on the 2014 Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Centre in Philadelphia. She is the youngest recipient in the medal’s 25-year history. Since then, recipients of this award included Muhammad Ali, former President Jimmy Carter, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
4. National Doctors’ Day is observed across the nation on July 1. Its celebrated to honour the legendary physician, a Bharat Ratna laureate, and the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy.
5. French bank BNP Paribas has been penalized with a fine of $8.83 billion for violating US sanctions imposed on Sudan, Iran and Cuba. BNP had taken steps to evade sanctions between 2004 and 2012 and was found guilty on two counts of ‘falsifying business records’ and ‘conspiracy’.
6. 58 million children still out of school: UNESCO
The latest UNESCO report put the global number of unschooled children aged 6 to 11 at as high as 58 million.
The lack of global progress is largely due to high population growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is now home to more than 30 million out-of-school children.
The report says that close to 43% of those out of school children – 15 million girls and 10 million boys – will probably never see the classroom if the situation does not improve.
