DAILY GK 1-2 OCTOBER 2024
1. SASTRA RAMANUJAN PRIZE
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Alexander Dunn, a prominent mathematician from Georgia Institute of
Technology, the United States of America (USA), has been
awarded the 2024 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize instituted
by the Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA),
a private deemed university in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu (TN).
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He is recognized for his significant work
in analytic number theory, especially his collaboration with
Maksym Radziwill in solving the Kummer-Patterson
Conjecture, which pertains to bias in cubic Gauss sums.
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SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was
established in 2005 by SASTRA University to honour young mathematicians who have made
significant contributions to areas influenced by the works of legendary Indian
mathematician SrinivasaRamanujan.
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The
prize is awarded annually to mathematicians
under 32 years of age.
2. 15TH IRANI CUP TITLE
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Mumbai win Irani cup cricket after gap of
27 years.
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AjinkyaRahane led reigning Ranji champion
team has drawn the match after taking the first innings lead against the Rest of India in a 5 day
match.
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Player of match Sarfaraz Khan
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The Irani Cup is an annual one-off
First-Class cricket match organized by the BCCI and contested each season by the reigning Ranji Trophy champions and a multi-state RoI team composed of
players from the other state teams.
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BCCI named the Irani Trophy after Zal R.
Irani, their long-serving president and treasurer, who was a significant figure
in the organization from its inception in 1928, till his death in 1970.
3. IIFA AWARDS 2024- ABU DHABI
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Best
Film: “Animal” (Directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga)
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Best
Actor: Shah Rukh Khan for “Jawan”
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Best
Actress: Rani Mukerji for “Mrs Chatterjeevs Norway”
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Best
Director:VidhuVinod Chopra for “12th Fail”
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Best
Supporting Actor: Anil Kapoor for “Animal”
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Best
Supporting Actress:ShabanaAzmi for “Rocky Aur Rani
KiiPremKahaani”
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Best
Actor in Negative Role: Bobby Deol for “Animal”
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Outstanding
Contribution to Indian Cinema:JayantilalGada and
HemaMalini
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Achievement
on completing 25 years in cinema: Karan Johar
4. HANGZHOU OPEN TENNIS 2024
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Marin Cilic of Croatia won the Men’s singles title by
defeating China’s Zhang Zhizhen.
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With
this win, Marin Cilic became the lowest-ranked
tournament winner in ATP Tour history at No. 77.
5. 1ST ASIA PACIFIC PADEL CUP
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The Indian
team bagged the bronze medal by
defeating Malaysia in the first edition
of the Asia Pacific Padel Cup
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(APPC) 2024 which was held
in Bali, Indonesia,
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Indonesia won the gold medal
followed by the Philippines winning the silver medal
in the tournament.
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Padel is a racquet sport with Mexican origin
that is played in an enclosed court, like squash, that is slightly smaller than
a doubles tennis court in size.
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Nations participated in the event – Hong Kong
(China), India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore.
6. 2026 COMMONWEALTH GAMES
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Glasgow, the capital of Scotland, has been announced as the host city of the 2026 Commonwealth Games (23rd
edition), after Australian state of
Victoria decided to withdraw from hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games due
to projected exceeding expenditures.
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The
city previously hosted the event in 2014.
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It
is a quadrennial international multisport event
among athletes from the Commonwealth nations.
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The
1st CWG was held in 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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So
far, India hosted the CWG only once in
2010 in New Delhi
7. DWAYNE BRAVO RETIRES FROM CRICKET
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West Indies cricketer Dwayne
Bravo two-time Men’s Twenty20 (T20) World Cup winner, has
announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.
He retired from international cricket in 2021.
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Kolkata
Knight Riders (KKR), a professional franchise cricket team of
the Indian Premier League (IPL), has announced Dwayne Bravo
as KKR’s new mentor succeeding GautamGambhir.
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He
was a key member of the West Indies team that won the International Cricket
Council (ICC) Champions Trophy 2004 and the ICC
World T20 World Cup in 2012 and 2016.
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He
has played 582 T20 matches, taken 631 wickets,
and scored nearly 7,000 runs.
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As
a part of the IPL team CSK, he has also won four IPL
titles in different roles – 2011, 2018, 2021 as a
player and 2023 as a coach.
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He
is the third-highest wicket-taker in IPL history with 183 wickets
and also the first player to win two purple caps in
the tournament, in 2013 and 2015.
8. ISSF JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2024
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Indian trio wins team Gold medal at ISSF
Junior World Championship 2024 in 25 Men’s Rapid Fire Pistol event.
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The competition was held in Lima, Peru.
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The trio was RaajwardanPatil,
MukeshNelavalli and Harsimar Singh Rattha.
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The ISSF Junior World Championship was
introduced by the International Shooting Sport Federation in 2017.
9. SAFF MEN’S U-17 CHAMPIONSHIP 2024
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The Indian Men’s Football U-17 (Under 17)
lifted the SAFF (South Asian Football Federation) Men’s U-17 Championship after
defeating Bangladesh in the final game of the tournament.
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The final was played at the Changlimithang Stadium inThimphu, Bhutan.
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Player of the Tournament : Mohammed Arbash
(INDIA)
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Goal
Keeper of the Tournament : AheibamSuraj Singh (INDIA)
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The South Asian Football Federation is a
regional football association of South Asian countries.
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It was founded in 1997 by Bangladesh,
India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan later joined the
Federation.
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SAFF organizes both seniors and juniors
tournaments for men and women.
10. 1ST WOMAN FIGHTER PILOT IN
LCA TEJAS FIGHTER FLEET
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Squadron
Leader Mohana Singh has become the 1st woman
fighter pilot to join the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) 18
Flying Bullets squadron, which operates India’s indigenously developed
Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas fighter
jets.
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The
Flying Bullets squadron is stationed at
Naliya Air Base in the Gujarat sector, along the border with Pakistan.
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Mohana Singh was among the first
3 female fighter pilots commissioned into the IAF in 2016,
alongside Squadron Leaders Bhawana Kanth and Avani Chaturvedi.
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She made history as the first woman in the IAF to fly a “Hawk”
aircraft during daylight hours in 2019.
11. KAZIND 2024 EXERCISE
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8th
India-Kazakhstan joint military exercise KAZIND-2024 started at Surya
Foreign Training Node, Auli, Uttarakhand
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It was instituted in 2016 as Exercise PrabalDostyk, which was later
upgraded to a company level exercise and renamed as Ex Kazind in 2018.
12. EARTH GETS A TEMPORARY ‘MINI-MOON’:
ASTEROID 2024 PT5
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Earth
has gained a temporary “mini-moon”, an asteroid
named ‘2024 PT5’, which will revolve around Earth
from 29th September 2024 until 25th November 2024.
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This
will revolve in a horseshoe shape for around 55
days and then escape Earth’s gravitational pull without
completing the full revolution.
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2024 PT5, captured by Earth’s
gravitational pull, is around 10 meters in diameter.
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This won’t be visible to the naked eye.
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The 1st
mini-moon, 1991 VG, was spotted in 1991.
