# Srilanka

• Gotabaya Rajapaksha has officially resigned as Srilanka’s president, the parliamentary speaker announced on Friday.
• Prime minister Ranil Wickramasinghe was sworn in as acting president according to the Constitution.
• Members of parliament are preparing to elect a new president from among themselves through a secret ballot.
• Meanwhile, Srilanka’s Supreme Court on Friday barred former prime minister Mahindra Rajapaksha and finance minister Basil Rajapaksha from leaving the country till July 28.

# NIRF

• The Indian Institute of Technology Madras is yet again the top higher education Institute in the country followed by the Indian Institute of science Bengaluru and IIT Bombay, according to the ministry of education’s National Institutional Ranking Framework 2022.
• Among the universities, IISC, Jawaharlal Nehru university, Jamia milia Islamia, Jadhavpur university and Amrita vishwa vidyapeetham were among the top five.
• The top five colleges in the country are Miranda house, Hindu college, Presidency college, Loyola college and lady Sriram college for Women.

# Unvaccinated children

• The number of children in India who were unvaccinated or missed their first dose of Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis combined vaccine doubled due to the pandemic, rising from 1.4 million in 2019 to 2.7 million in 2021.
• Nearly 25 million children born every year in India.
• Until the pandemic, India steadily improved immunisation coverage from 43% in National family health survey – 3 to 62% in NFHS-4 in 2015-16.

# SCO

• Iran and Belarus are likely to be the twp newest addition to the China and Russia backed Shanghai Cooperation Organization grouping.
• China,Russia and four central Asian countries are the founding members of the SCO.
• India and Pakistan joined the grouping in recent years.