DAILY GK 5-6 JULY 2024
1.
GOLDEN PEACOCK
AWARD FOR SAFETY EXCELLENCE
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L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Ltd. (L&TMRHL) has received the Golden Peacock Award (GPA) in
the Transportation (Railways) category for Excellence in
Occupational Health & Safety (GPOHSA)
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The award was given at the “Institute of Directors’ (IOD) 25th International Conference on
Environment Management and Climate Change-2024” in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
2.
INDIA CHOOSEN
AS PARTNER NATION FOR HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT PROGRAMME
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United States of America (USA)-based Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA) in partnership with Blue Origin, the company
owned by Jeff Bezos (Founder of Amazon) announced India as a “Partner Nation” in their human
spaceflight programme for citizens from
countries who have sent a few or no astronauts to space.
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Under this strategic partnership, SERA will offer citizens from across the world 6
seats on a future mission of New Shepard, Blue Origin’s reusable
suborbital rocket.
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Besides India, Nigeria, and
the Maldives will each be
allotted a seat on the mission of Blue Origin.
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The mission will celebrate the historic achievement of
the first Nigerian citizen
to embark on a space voyage.
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New Shephard rocket will fly the selected astronauts on
an 11-minute journey past
the Karman line, the internationally recognised boundary line of
space i.e. 62 miles or 100
Kilometers (km) above the Earth.
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In May 2024, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket system under the mission named New Shepard-25 (NS-25) lifted off
with 6 crew members including one Indian from launch site one in West Texas,
the United States of America (USA).
3.
ICC MEN’S T20
WORLD CUP 2024
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India men’s national
cricket team, captained by Rohit Sharma, won the International Cricket
Council (ICC) Men’s Twenty20 (T20)
World Cup 2024 by defeating South
Africa (The Proteas), captained
by Aiden Markram, by 7 runs in the finals held in the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados.
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This marks India’s
2nd T20 World Cup title.
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India
previously won the inaugural edition of
the T20 World Cup held in 2007 under
the captaincy of Mahendra Singh (MS) Dhoni.
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India's
ICC trophy cabinet now contains six titles. It has won the ODI World Cup twice
(1983, 2011), the T20 World Cup in 2007 and 2024, and the ICC Champions Trophy
in 2002 and 2013.
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Virat
Kohli was declared the Player
of the Match award for his fabulous innings.
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Pacer
Jaspreet Bumrah was
awarded the Player of the Tournament.
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India became the 3rd Country to win the title twice after
England(2010 & 022) and West Indies (2012 & 2016).
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Virat Kohli became the
first-ever cricketer to score 3,000 runs
across both 20-over and 50-over Cricket World Cups.
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After winning the ICC T20 World Cup, Indian Cricketers, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma &
RavindraJadeja have announced their retirement from T20
International(T20I) cricket.
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The 10th edition of ICC T20 World Cup will be
hosted by India and Sri Lanka in 2026.
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Headquarters– Dubai
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Established– 1909
4.
VISWANATHAN ANAND WINS
10TH LEON MASTERS TITLE
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Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand, the 15th World Chess Champion, has won the 37th edition of the Magistral Tournament
“Ciudad de Leon” (Leon Masters) by defeating the Grand Master (GM) Jaime Santos Latasa of Spain (3-1) in the Finals.
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The tournament was held in Leon, Spain.
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This win marks Anand’s 10th Leon Masters title
and his previous triumphs were in 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007,
2011, and 2016.
5.
CHIEF JUSTICE
OF JHARKHAND HC
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Justice Dr
Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi the senior most judge of the Orissa High Court (HC), was appointed as the Chief Justice (CJ) of the Jharkhand
HC.
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He is set to take over from the Justice Shree Chandrashekhar, who has been serving as the Acting CJ (ACJ) of Jharkhand HC since 29th December
2023.
6.
CENTRE
RECONSTITUTES 8 CABINET COMMITTEES
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The Narendra
Modi-led National Democratic
Alliance (NDA) Government reconstituted 8 Cabinet Committees of the Union
Cabinet after being sworn in for the record third consecutive time.
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There are a total 72
members of the Union Council Minister, including the Prime Minister (PM)
Narendra Modi.
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The eight
Cabinet Committees are: The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), Cabinet Committee on Accommodation (CCA), Cabinet Committee
on Economic Affairs (CCEA), Cabinet
Committee on Parliamentary Affairs,
Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs
(CCPA), Cabinet Committee on Investment
and Growth (CCIG), and Cabinet Committee on Skill, Employment and
Livelihood.
7. “GLOBAL INDIA AI SUMMIT” -NEW DELHI
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The Government of India (GoI) hosted the “Global IndiaAI Summit”
at Bharat Mandampam, New Delhi
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The summit was organised
by the Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology (MeitY), GoI.
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The summit was mainly focused on advancing AI development
in key areas which include: Compute Capacity,
Foundational Models, Datasets, Application Development, Future
Skills, Startup Financing, and Safe AI.
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These all are 7 key pillars of India Ai Mission.
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Ministry of
Electronic and IT (MeitY) Union Minister- Ashwini Vaishnaw
(Rajya Sabha member- Odisha)
8.
SAMPOORNATA
ABHIYAN CAMPAIGN
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NITI Aayog (National
Institution for Transforming India) launched the ‘Sampoornata Abhiyan’, a 3-month campaign, with an aim to
achieve 100% saturation of 12 key
social sector indicators across all Aspirational Districts and
Aspirational Blocks (6 each).
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The SampoornataAbhiyan’s launch events were organised
across all the 112 Aspirational
Districts and 500 Aspirational
Blocks across India.
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NITI Aayog was
formed via a resolution of the Union
Cabinet on 1 January 2015.
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Chairman– Narendra Modi
(Prime Minister of India)
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Chief Executive Office
(CEO)– B.V.R. Subrahmanyam
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Headquarters– New Delhi
9.
GLOBAL
COSTLIEST CITIES- MERCER REPORT
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According to the Mercer’s
latest ”Cost of Living City Ranking 2024” report, Mumbai (Maharashtra) emerged as
the costliest city in India
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Overall, Mumbai has secured 136th spot in the report, up by 11spots compared to 2023.
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Hong Kong, Special
Administrative Region (SAR) (China), Singapore (Singapore)
and Zurich (Switzerland)
ranked at 1st, 2nd and 3rd spot respectively,
emerged as the world’s top3 Costliest Cities in 2024 for 2nd consecutive year.
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As per the report, Abuja, Nigeria (226th), Lagos, Nigeria
(225th ) and Islamabad, Pakistan
(224th ) are the top 3 least expensive cities in the world.
10.
10TH MEMBER
OF SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANISATION
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The G. Kishan Reddy:
China, Russia, India, Iran, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and
Uzbekistan.
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Kazakhstan took over the
chairmanship of SCO from India in July 2023.
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The Republic of Kazakhstan,
the 2024 Chair of the SCO, hosted
the 24th SCO-CHS Summit in Astana, capital
city of Kazakhstan
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Theme: “Strengthening
Multilateral Dialogue- Striving for Sustainable Peace and Development”.
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SCO was established on 15th June, 2001 by 6 founding
member: Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Russia.
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Secretary-General- Zhang
Ming
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Headquarters- Beijing,
China
11.
13TH CM OF
JHARKHAND
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Hemant Soren, the Executive
President of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) party was sworn in as
the 13th Chief Minister (CM) of Jharkhand for the 3rd
term.
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The Governor, CP Radhakrishnan, administered the oath of office and secrecy
to Soren at a ceremony organised at Raj Bhavan in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
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Champai Soren resigned as CM of Jharkhand on 3
July 2024, and he was served as Jharkhand’s 12th CM for 5 months since February 2024.
12.
ASIAN WRESTLING
CHAMPIONSHIP 2024
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The Under-17 (U-17)/
Under -23 (U-23) Asian Wrestling
Championships 2024 was held in Amman, Jordan.
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The Indian Wrestlers secured 22 medals (8 gold, 5 silver, and 9 bronze) in the
Under-17 (U-17) Asian Wrestling
Championships 2024 and 23
medals (9 Gold, 10 Silver and 4 Bronze) in the Under -23 (U-23) Asian Wrestling Championships
2024 in Amman, Jordan.
13.
RBI
INTRODUCES SAARC CURRENCY SWAP FRAMEWORK
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), with the
Government of India’s concurrence, has decided to put in place a revised framework
on currency swap arrangement for SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation) countries for the period 2024 to 2027.
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SAARC has 8 member countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri-Lanka).
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Bilateral Swap
Agreements : Under this Framework, the RBI would enter into bilateral swap
agreements with SAARC central banks, who want to avail of the swap facility.
14.
RELIANCE
CROSS RS 8 LAKH CRORE MARKET CAP
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Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance
Industries (RIL) became the first Indian company to
cross Rs 8 lakh crore market capitalisation, racing
ahead of Tata Sons' crown jewel TCS by more than Rs 20,000 crore in
valuation.
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RIL stock has gained 85 per cent since the
beginning of this year.
15.
VISHWA
HINDI SAMMAN
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Dr Usha Thakur was awarded the 12th Vishwa
Hindi Samman in a Hindi Samvad event organised by the Embassy
of India in Nepal recognising her contribution
in development of Hindi literature.
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She has translated more than 40 literature in Hindi
and Nepali and strengthened Hindi language.
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This award is given by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government
of India.
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12th World Hindi
Conference was
held in Fiji in 2023.
16.
WORLD UFO
DAY 2024: JULY 2
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Every year on July 2nd, World UFO Day is
commemorated to raise awareness about Unidentified Flying Objects
(UFO) spotted in several parts of the world and alien life forms.
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In 1561, A broadsheet reported widespread sightings of a celestial
phenomenon over Nuremberg.
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In 1561, the term ‘UFO’ for Unidentified Flying Object was coined by US
Air Force officer Edward Ruppelt.
17.
GST
COLLECTION AT RS 1.74 TRILLION IN JUNE 2024
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In June 2024, India's GST collection reached Rs 1.74
trillion, marking a 7.7% year-on-year growth, which is lower
than previous months' increases (12.4% in April and 10% in May
2024).
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Cumulative collections for the fiscal year totalled Rs 5.57
trillion.
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This is the slowest rate of growth in GST collections in three years,
with the previous slower pace of growth recorded in June 2021.
18.
RBI
APPOINTS NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the
appointment of Arnab Kumar Chowdhury and Charulatha S. Kar as executive
directors (EDs).
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Chowdhury will oversee the Deposit Insurance and Credit
Guarantee Corporation (DICGC), foreign exchange department, and international
department.
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Kar will manage the Department of Communication, Human
Resource Management Department, and Right to Information (First Appellate
Authority).
19.
INDIA
CHAIRS 'COLOMBO PROCESS' MEETING
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India presided over its
first meeting as Chair of the ‘Colombo Process’ at the Permanent Representative Level
Meeting in Geneva at the International Organisation for Migration
(IOM) Headquarters.
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The Colombo Process is a Regional Consultative Process comprising 12
Member States from Asia, which primarily serve as countries of
origin for migrant workers.
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In May 2024, India assumed the chair of the Colombo Process for the
first time since its inception.
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IOM :Established :
6 December 1951
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Headquarters :
Geneva, Switzerland
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Director General
: Amy Pope
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Membership (2023)
: 175 member states and 8 observer states
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The IOM is a United Nations
related organisation working in the field of migration.
20.
WEAPON
SYSTEMS SCHOOL IN HYDERABAD
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Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief
Air Chief Marshal V.R. Chaudhari inaugurated the newly
established Weapon Systems School (WSS) at Air Force Station Begumpet,
Hyderabad.
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This follows the approval for the creation of a new Weapon System (WS)
branch in 2022.
