DAILY GK 6-7 OCT 2024
1.
JAMAICAN
PM ANDREW HOLNESS’S VISIT TO INDIA
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Andrew Holness, Prime
Minister(PM) of Jamaica, paid a 4-day visit to India to
strengthen bilateral ties in key areas including trade and investment.
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This
marks the first-ever bilateral visit by a Jamaican PM to India as well as the first visit of Andrew Holness
to India.
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Narendra
Modi, PM of India, highlighted that the India-Jamaica relationship is defined
by 4Cs- culture, cricket,
Commonwealth and Caribbean.
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India and
Jamaica exchanged 4 Memorandum of
Understanding (MoUs) in the fields of Digital
Public Infrastructure, Cultural Exchange and Sports.
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Jamaica
Capital – Kingston
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Continent – North America
2. TUNISIA’S PRESIDENT
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President
Kais Saied has secured a second five-year term as Tunisia’s
leader in an election marked by both overwhelming numbers and significant
concerns.
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The Independent High Authority for
Elections of Tunisia (ISIE) announced on October 7, 2024, that Saied had won a staggering 90.7 percent of the votes cast
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The Jasmine
Revolution of 2011 marked a pivotal moment in Tunisia’s history as it
Overthrew dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali
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Capital:
Tunis
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Currency:
Dinar
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Independence
in 1956 from France
3. BCCI ANTI-CORRUPTION UNIT CHIEF
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BCCI has appointing retired IPS officer
Sharad Kumar as the new chief of its Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU).
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He is
1979 IPS officer (Haryana cadre)
AWARDS/PRIZES
4.
NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE 2024
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Victor Ambros, an American
developmental biologist, and Gary Bruce Ruvkun, an
American molecular biologist, were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine 2024 by the Nobel Assembly at
KarolinskaInstitutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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They were honoured “for the
discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene
regulation”.
5.
NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 2024
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American
physicist John J. Hopfield and British-Canadian Computer scientist Geoffrey
E. Hinton were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 by
the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden
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They were
awarded “for foundational discoveries
and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.
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Prize amount: 11 million Swedish kronor will be shared equally between the laureates.
6.
NOBEL PRIZE
IN CHEMISTRY 2024
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American
biochemist David Baker, Demis Hassabis, the Chief Executive
Office (CEO ) of Deep Mind Technologies Limited, a subsidiary of Google, and American chemist John Jumper were
jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024
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The Nobel
Prize is awarded to David Baker “for computational protein design” and
to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction”.
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Prize
amount- 11 million Swedish kronor
7. NOBEL PRIZE 2024 IN LITERATURE
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 has
been awarded to Han Kang, a prominent
South Korean author, in recognition of her intense poetic prose that addresses historical traumas and unveils
the fragility of human life.
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Before receiving the Nobel Prize, Han Kang
gained international acclaim with her
2016novel ‘The Vegetarian’, which won the Man Booker International Prize.
8. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has
decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo.
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This grassroots movement of atomic bomb
survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also
known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and
for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never
be used again.
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The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee elected by the Norwegian
Parliament (Stortinget).
9. NOBEL IN ECONOMICS 2024
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
awarded the SverigesRiksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred
Nobel for 2024 to three US-based
economists - Daron Acemoglu, James A
Robinson and Simon Johnson.
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Their research sheds light on a
fundamental question that has intrigued economists for decades: Why are some nations rich while others
remain poor?
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Their research focuses on the impact of societal institutions on economic
prosperity, exploring how the frameworks governing behaviour can lead to
significant disparities in wealth among countries.
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The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was
established in 1968 by the
SverigesRiksbank (the central bank of Sweden) in memory of Alfred Nobel, the inventor
of dynamite and the founder of the Nobel Prizes.
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It is officially called the SverigesRiksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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ABOUT
NOBEL PRIZE-Unlike the original Nobel Prizes in
fields like physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace, which were
established by Nobel's will, the Nobel
Prize in Economic Sciences is not one of the original Nobel Prizes.
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The
Nobel Day – which takes place on 10 December every year,
marks the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death and is the day that the Nobel
Prizes are presented to Nobel laureates.
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Who selects
the Nobel Prize laureates - Alfred Nobel specifically designated the institutions responsible for the prizes he
wished to be established:
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The Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences for the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry
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KarolinskaInstitutet
for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine
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The
Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize in Literature
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A Committee
of five persons to be elected by the Norwegian
Parliament (Storting) for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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The
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was given the task to
select Laureates in Economic Sciences
starting in 1969.
10. MIDORI PRIZE 2024
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The MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2024
has been awarded to VeraVoronova from
Kazakhstan and Ysabel Agustina Calderón Carlos from Peru for their
exemplary contributions to biodiversity conservation and sustainability.
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The prize, awarded every two years by
the AEON Environmental Foundation
and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological
Diversity, includes a $100,000 cash prize and a commemorative plaque.
