DAILY GK 24-25 APRIL
1.
25TH LAUREUS WORLD
SPORTS AWARDS 2024
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Novak
Djokovic, the World
No.1 tennis player from Serbia, was honoured with the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year
2024 award at the Laureus World Sports Awards 2024.
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Aitana BonmatÃ,
a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Barcelona Football club (FC)
and Spain women’s national team won the Laureus Sportswoman of the Year 2024 award.
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The 2024 Laureus World Sports Awards
winners were honoured in a ceremony held
at the Palacio de Cibeles, in the centre of Madrid, Sapin
2.
WORLD
ENERGY LEADERSHIP AWARDS 2024
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Dr
Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber, President of 28th
Conference of the Parties (COP28) to
the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) won the Global
Energy Transition Impact Award for his leadership in advancing energy
transition.
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The awards was presented as a part of the inaugural World Energy
Leadership Awards (2024) presented by the World Energy Council (WEC).
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26th
World Energy Congress (WEC
2024) is scheduled to be held in Rotterdam,
The Netherlands under the theme
‘Redesigning energy for people and planet’.
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Energy Systems
Luminary Award Winner– Vaclav Smil University of Manitoba, Canada
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Humanising Energy
Award Winner– Barefoot College International (BCI) headquartered in Miami,
Florida
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World Energy
Visionary Leadership Award Winner– Bestowed posthumously
on Daniel Nicol Dunlop,
pioneer of the first World Power Conference in 1924 and the de-facto founder of
the WEC
3.
UN
ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAY 2024 – APRIL 23
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The United Nations (UN) English Language
Day is annually observed across the globe on 23 April to promote the global significance of the English
language, one of the 6 official languages of the UN
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The day 23 April also commemorates the birth and death anniversary of the English Playwright and Poet William Shakespeare.
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The 6
official languages are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and
Spanish.
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UN Secretary-General– António Guterres
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Headquarters–
New York
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Established in–
1945
4.
WORLD
BOOK AND COPYRIGHT DAY 2024 – APRIL 23
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World
Book And Copyright Day is annually
observed across the globe on 23
April to promote the love of reading and the significance of books.
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The
theme of World Book and Copyright Day 2024 is “Read Your Way”.
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Strasbourg
(France) as the World
Book Capital for 2024.
5.
STATE
OF THE CLIMATE REPORT 2023 IN ASIA BY WMO
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The World
Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) unveiled its 4th edition of the ‘State
of the Climate in Asia 2023‘, highlighting Asia’s vulnerability to weather and climate-related
hazards.
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Year 2023 was
recorded as the warmest year across six
globally averaged datasets, with the years from 2015 to 2023 ranking as the nine warmest years in all datasets.
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This
made it the disaster capital in 2023.
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In 2023, Asia experienced 79 water hazard-related disasters,
predominantly floods and storms, resulting in over 2,000 fatalities and
directly affecting nine million people.
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Japan
and Kazakhstan registered record-high temperatures.
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WMO
Secretary-General– Celeste Saulo
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Headquarters–
Geneva, Switzerland
6.
KISS
HUMANITARIAN AWARD 2021
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Ratan Tata,
Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Group, received the esteemed Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) Humanitarian Award
for 2021
·
KISS
Humanitarian Award, initiated in 2008 by Dr. Achyuta Samanta, is the highest honour of KIIT and KISS.
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The award acknowledges individuals and
organizations worldwide for their humanitarian contributions, with past
recipients including global leaders and Nobel laureates.
7.
DRDO
DEVELOPS LIGHTEST BULLETPROOF JACKET IN INDIA
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The Defence Research and Development
Organisation(DRDO) has
developed India’s lightest
Bulletproof Jacket for protection against 7.62 x 54 R API(Armour Piercing Incendiary) ammunition, highest
threat Level 6 of Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS) 17051.
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The bulletproof jacket was developed by
Defence Materials and Stores Research and Development Establishment(DMSRDE), DRDO lab based in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh(UP).
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BIS
17051:2018 prescribes the minimum performance
requirements of bullet resistant jackets for protection against small arms and
ammunition.
8.
IAF
SUCCESSFULLY TESTS CRYSTAL MAZE-2 MISSILE
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Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully test
fired the new version of an air-launched medium-range
ballistic missile known as ROCKS or
Crystal Maze-2 from a Su-30 MKI fighter jet in the Andaman and Nicobar
Islands.
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Crystal
Maze-2 is capable of hitting targets at a distance of around 250 km.
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It is an extended stand-off range air-to-surface missile of Israel’s
origin.
9.
15TH NATIONAL PANCHAYATI RAJ
DAY – APRIL 24, 2024
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National Panchayati Raj
Day (NPRD), (also known as National Local Self-Government
Day) is annually observed across India on 24
April to recognise and honour the establishment of the Panchayati Raj
System and its pivotal role in decentralised governance at the grassroots.
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In
2010, then Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh declared the 24th April of every year as National Panchayati Raj Day.
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The day commemorates the
institutionalisation of the Panchayati Raj in India through the Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992, which came into force on 24 April 1993.
