DAILY GK 18-19 JULY 2024
1.
UEFA EURO 2024
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Spain won the 17th edition of the Union of European Football
Associations (UEFA) European
Football Championship, commonly referred to as ‘UEFA Euro 2024 or Euro Cup’ by defeating England (2-1) in the finals held
at the Olympiastadion in Berlin,
Germany.
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UEFA
Euro 2024 hosted by Germany
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Spain won the Euro Cup for the
record 4th time.
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Spain
previously won the title in 1964, 2008 and 2012.
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Six players shared the
Golden Boot award, each scoring three goals:
2.
COPA AMERICA FOOTBALL 2024
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Argentina won the title of the 48th edition of the Copa America (Copa
America 2024) by
defeating Colombia in the
finals held at the Hard Rock Stadium in Florida, USA.
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Copa
America 2024 hosted by the USA
·
This
marks Argentina’s 16th title of Copa
America. with this, Argentina became the tournament’s most successful team,
followed by Uruguay (15) and Brazil (9).
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Copa America 2024 is the quadrennial international
men’s soccer championship organised by the South American Football
Confederation
3.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OF LEGENDS 2024
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Indian Champions team led by Yuvraj Singh won the inaugural edition of the World Championship Of Legends (2024) by defeating the Younis Khan-led Pakistan Champions team by five wickets during the finals held
in Birmingham, England.
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The
World Championship of Legends (also known as Ease My Trip World Championship of
Legends) is a T20 tournament played by
retired international cricketers.
·
The
tournament witnessed the participation of Six
teams: England, Australia, India, Pakistan, South Africa and West Indies.
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Player of the Match(Finals)– Ambati Rayudu (India)
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Player of the Tournament– Yusuf Pathan (India)
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Most runs– Shoaib Malik(Pakistan) – 245
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Most wickets– Nathan Coulter-Nile (Australia) –
9
4.
SAUDI ARABIA TO HOST FIRST
OLYMPIC ESPORTS GAMES IN 2025
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The
National Olympic Committee (NOC) of
Saudi Arabia and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) signed a 12-year deal to
host the First Olympic Esports Games
2025 in the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia (KSA).
·
This
partnership is in line with Saudi
Arabia’s Vision 2030, which aims to transform the nation’s social and
economic landscape.
·
Saudi
Arabia will also host the 2027 Asian Cup in Men’s football, the 2029 Asian
Winter Games and the multi-sport 2034 Asian Games in Riyadh.
5.
BTS JIN TO CARRY 2024 PARIS OLYMPIC
GAMES TORCH
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BTS
member Kim Seokjin also
known as Jin became the 1st ever Korean singer or K-Pop idol who carried 2024 Paris Olympic Games torch to
the Louvre Pyramid Museum in Paris, France.
·
The
Olympic torch was 1st lit in Olympia,
Greece on 16th April, 2024 and is expected to reach Paris on 26th July,
2024 for the opening ceremony of 2024 Olympics.
·
2024
Paris Summer Olympics will commence on
27th July, 2024 and will continue till 11th August, 2024.
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This
year Paris Olympics will host over
15,00 athletes from 206
different countries competing in 329 events across 32 sports.
6. ISSF
JUNIOR WORLD CUP IN ITALY
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India’s Sabeera Haris clinched the bronze medal in the
women’s trap event at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF)
Junior World Cup held in Porpetto, Italy.
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Carey Garrison of USA won Gold
7.
IMO AWARD FOR EXCEPTIONAL BRAVERY AT
SEA 2024
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International Maritime Organisation (IMO) announced the winners of the 2024 IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea.
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The
two Recipients of the 2024 Award are,Captain Avhilash Rawat and the crew of the oil tanker Marlin Luanda, nominated by
the Marshall Islands, Captain Jorge Fernando Galaviz Fuentes and
the crew of the tugboat Pemex Maya,
nominated by Mexico.
·
IMO
honoured Indian Navy’s Captain Brijesh Nambiar and the
crew of the Indian Navy Ship (INS)
Visakhapatnam with a Letters
of Commendation.
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IMO
is one of the specialized agencies of
United Nations (UN) and is responsible for regulating and formulating policies for international maritime.
·
The
IMO Convention entered into force in 1958.
·
India
joined the IMO as its member state in the year 1959.
·
Secretary-General- Kitack Lim (South Korea)
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Member States- 175 member states and 3
associate members
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Headquarters- London, the United Kingdom(UK)
8.
PAT TILLMAN AWARD 2024
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Prince Harry has received the Pat Tillman Award 2024 for Service at the Excellence in Sports Performance
Yearly (ESPY) Awards in Los Angeles, the United States of
America (USA).
·
He
was honoured in recognition of his The Invictus Games Foundation,
a platform for sports competition for
wounded, injured, and sick service men and women.
9.
GOLDEN SAND MASTER AWARD
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Sudarsan Pattnaik (Odisha), Indian Sand Artist
has won the Golden Sand Master
Award with a gold medal at
the International Sand Sculpture Championship/Festival 2024 held in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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The
International Sand Sculpture Championship, had a theme of ‘History,
Mythology, and Fairy Tales’.
10. COSPAR 2024 AWARDS
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Committee
on Space Research (COSPAR) announced
the winners of 2024 COSPAR Awards during
the 45th COSPAR Scientific
Assembly which is being held in
Busan, South Korea
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Two
Indian Scientists Prahlad Chandra
Agrawal and Anil Bhardwaj were
among the winners of the 2024 COSPAR Awards.
·
Prahlad Chandra Agrawal was honoured with the COSPAR Harrie Massey Award and Anil Bhardwaj was honoured with
the Vikram Sarabhai Medal, a
joint award of COSPAR and the Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO).
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The
award recognise outstanding contribution
to space research and scientists working in any of the fields covered by
COSPAR.
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Harrie Massey Award honours the memory of Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey, FRS,
an Australian mathematical physicist,the
award recognise the outstanding
contributions to the development of space research in which a leadership
role is of particular importance.
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Vikram Sarabhai Medal recognise the outstanding space science research in developing
countries.
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COSPAR
is the world’s first scientific
body dedicated to promoting global cooperation in space research.
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Headquarters – Paris, France
11. NEW PRIME MINISTER OF NEPAL
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Khadga Prasad (KP) Sharma Oli Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist
Leninist) (CPN-UML), took oath as the Prime
Minister(PM) of Nepal
·
This
marks his 4th term as PM of Nepal.
·
He
was appointed to the post by Ram Chandra Paudel, President of Nepal.
·
He
also becomes the first PM of Nepal to be
appointed following the 1st general election under the new constitution of
Nepal.
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He Succeeds Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda
12. PRESIDENT OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
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Roberta Metsola of European People’s Party (EPP),
was re-elected as President of
the European Parliament for
another two and a half years, until 2027.
·
She
became the first woman to
win a second term as the President of the European Parliament, the directly
elected legislative body of the European Union(EU).
·
She
was the third woman to
take charge as the President of
the European Parliament, after Simone
Veil (1979-1982) and Nicole
Fontaine (1999-2002).
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EU
legislation doesn’t have a permanent, single-person president.
·
Its
work is led by the country holding the Council presidency, which rotates every
6 months.
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Presidency (July to December 2024)– Hungary
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European Council President – Charles Michel (till
December 2024)
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European Commission President – Ursula von der Leyen
·
Headquarters– Brussels, Belgium
13. PRESIDENT OF RWANDA
·
Paul Kagame has been re-elected as
the President of the Republic of Rwanda for the fourth five-year term from 2024 to 2029.
·
He
has been serving as the President of Rwanda since
April 2000.
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Kagame
led the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF),
political party and won the 2024 presidential election by securing 7,099,810
votes (99.15%) of the
total 9,071,157 votes.
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The
Republic of Rwanda is a landlocked country in East Central Africa and it is
known as the land of a thousand hills.
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Capital – Kigali
14. LITHUANIAN
PRESIDENT
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Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda was
sworn in for his second five-year term at a ceremonial event
held at the Lithuanian Parliament, the Seimas.
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Nausėda, a 60-year-old economist, was
re-elected in May, 2024.
·
He won against Simonytė in the second round
of presidential elections.
15. CO-CHAIR
OF GLOBAL CEO CLIMATE LEADERS ALLIANCE
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Sumant Sinha, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
Renewable energy solutions provider ReNew Energy
Global PLC (ReNew) has been appointed as co-chair of Alliance of
CEO Climate Leaders in the world.
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Sinha is a
founding member of the Forum’s First Movers Coalition and currently serves as
Board Chair of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), Colorado, the United States
of America(USA).
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It is a flagship initiative of World Economic Forum (WEF) which was launched in 2014.
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It is the largest CEO-led climate alliance in the
world.
·
It aim to form an influential network of
business leaders from various industry sectors and regions to support and
implement climate action by setting ambitious targets and taking collective
efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
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The Alliance
of CEO Climate Leaders represents USD
4 trillion in revenues and 5.2 Gigatonne (GT) of
carbon emissions, equivalent to 10% of global emissions.
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ReNew which
has been a member of the Alliance since 2019, is recognized for its commitment
to net-zero targets and innovative decarbonization solutions.
·
It is
specially recognized for achieving a 1.5
degree Celsius aligned science-based target validated by the Science
Based Targets initiative (SBTi), with
a target of net zero by 2040.
16. SAMVIDHAANHATYA DIWAS-JUNE 25
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The
Ministry of Home Affairs(MoHA),
Government of India (GoI)
declared June 25 as ‘Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas(Constitution Murder Day)’ to honour the
struggles and sacrifices of individuals who opposed the abuse of power during
the Emergency imposed by
the then Prime Minister (PM) Indira Gandhi in 1975.
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Starting
from 2025, the Day will be
annually observed on 25 June to commemorate the Emergency that suspended the
Constitution of India in 1975.
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1975 Emergency in India: President of India Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed declared a state of
emergency on the advice of PM Indira
Gandhi,It was the darkest hour for democracy in post-independent India.
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Officially, the 21-month-long
Emergency was issued under Article 352 of the Indian Constitution, to control “internal disturbance.”
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It
involved the suspension of
constitutional rights and the freedom
of speech and the press withdrawn.
17.
WORLD YOUTH
SKILLS DAY 2024 – JULY 15
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The United Nations (UN) World Youth Skills Day (WYSD) is
annually observed across the globe on 15
July to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people
with skills for employment, decent work, and entrepreneurship.
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The theme for WYSD 2024 is, “Youth Skills for Peace and Development.”
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The
UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and
Training is one of 8 UNESCO institutes/centers working in the field of
education, and the only organisation working to promote the UN mandate through
TVET.
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The acronym
UNEVOC is a combination of ‘UNESCO’ and
‘vocational education’.
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Headquarters– Bonn, Germany
18. DAY OF
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE 2024 – JULY 17
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Day of International Criminal Justice is annually observed across the globe
on 17 July by the International Criminal Court (ICC), to
mark the anniversary of
the adoption of the Rome Statute in 1998, the founding treaty of the ICC.
·
The treaty
of the Rome Statute of the ICC (Rome
Statute) was adopted on 17 July
1998 by the UN Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries (UNDCP) held
in Rome, Italy.
·
This treaty,
the legal basis for establishing the ICC was adopted by 120 States.
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At the first Review Conference of the Rome Statute held
in Kampala, Uganda in 2010, the
States Parties of the ICC decided to commemorate 17 July as the Day
of International Criminal Justice.
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ICC Headquarters– The Hague, The Netherlands
19. NELSON
MANDELA INTERNATIONAL DAY 2024 – JULY 18
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The
day commemorates the birth anniversary of Nobel peace
prize winner (1993) Nelson
Rolihlahla Mandela, the former President of South Africa.
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18th July 2024 marks the 106th birth
anniversary of Nelson Mandela. He was born on 1th8 July 1918.
· The 2024 theme of Nelson Mandela International Day is “It’s still in our hands to combat poverty and inequity”.
