Current Affairs Today June 23, 2023 Video: First Baltic nation to legalise same-sex marriage to TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies 2023

 

The only two Indian companies to appear in TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential Companies 2023 are National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and Meesho.Other firms that made the list included Polygon Labs, which was first known as Matic Network by four Indians, chipmaker Nvidia, Elon Musk's SpaceX, Apple, Sam Altman's OpenAI, Crocs, Samsung, Microsoft, and upscale clothing retailer LVMH. The Reserve Bank of India and the Indian Bank's Association (IBA) founded NPCI in 2008 with the goal of establishing more reliable payment systems in the countries. 

 

As the first Baltic country to do so, the Riigikogu, or Estonian parliament, on Tuesday (June 20) adopted a new bill to legalise same-sex marriage. This occurs nine years after the nation recognised same-sex civil unions and months after the liberal coalition government led by present Prime Minister Kaja Kallas took office.The result also makes Slovenia, which passed a change allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt last year, the second country in central Europe to pass regulations legalising same-sex marriage.