Saturday, 10 July 2021
GK Update of 03rd July 2021 overlaying the next information headlines: Tukaram Omble, Ambedkar Memorial and Cultural Centre, Uttarakhand CM, Indian Ocean Naval Symposium.
National News
1. President Kovind laid basis stone for Ambedkar Memorial and Cultural Centre
- President Ram Nath Kovind laid the inspiration stone for Ambedkar Memorial and Cultural Centre in Lucknow.
- The cultural centre will come up at 5493.52 sq meter nazool land in entrance of Aishbagh Eidgah in Lucknow and have a 25-ft excessive statue of Dr Ambedkar.
- The centre, to come back up at a value of ₹45.04 crores, will even have an auditorium having a capability of 750 folks, library, analysis centre, image gallery, museum and a multi-purpose conference centre.
International News
2. China is licensed malaria-free by WHO
- Following a 70-year effort, China has been awarded a malaria-free certification from WHO – a notable feat for a rustic that reported 30 million circumstances of the illness yearly within the Nineteen Forties.
- China is the primary nation within the WHO Western Pacific Region to be awarded a malaria-free certification in additional than 3 a long time. Other international locations within the area which have achieved this standing embody Australia (1981), Singapore (1982) and Brunei Darussalam (1987).
- Globally, 40 international locations and territories have been granted a malaria-free certification from WHO – together with, most not too long ago, El Salvador (2021), Algeria (2019), Argentina (2019), Paraguay (2018) and Uzbekistan (2018).
Important takeaways for all aggressive exams:
- China Capital: Beijing;
- China Currency: Renminbi;
- China President: Xi Jinping.
State News
3. Pushkar Singh Dhami to be subsequent chief minister of Uttarakhand
- Pushkar Singh Dhami would be the subsequent chief minister of Uttarakhand. He would be the youngest CM of Uttarakhand. 45-year-old Pushkar Singh Dhami, an MLA from the Khatima constituency in Udham Singh Nagar district.
- He will change Tirath Singh Rawat, who resigned from the publish. Dhami was elected by the state leaders through the legislature get together assembly in Dehradun.
Important takeaways for all aggressive exams:
- Governor of Uttarakhand: Baby Rani Maurya.
Agreements News
4. AJNIFM, Microsoft associate to construct AI, rising applied sciences
- The Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management (AJNIFM) and Microsoft introduced a strategic partnership to construct an AI and rising applied sciences centre of excellence at AJNIFM.
- The collaboration seeks to discover the position of cloud, AI and rising applied sciences in remodeling and shaping the way forward for public finance administration in India. The centre of excellence will function a central physique for analysis, AI state of affairs envisioning and tech-led innovation.
- AJNIFM and Microsoft will collectively discover use circumstances of rising applied sciences in finance and associated areas, throughout central and state ministries and public sector enterprises.
- Microsoft will associate carefully with AJNIFM to outline the way forward for public finance administration in India, offering the know-how, instruments and assets to construct a robust ecosystem of companions, upskill authorities officers and construct thought management.
Summits and Conferences News
5. seventh Indian Ocean Naval Symposium Concludes in France
- The seventh version of the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS), concluded in France on July 01, 2021. The biennial occasion was hosted by the French Navy at La Réunion from 28 June to 01 July 2021.
- From India, Admiral Karambir Singh, Chief of the Naval Staff, Indian Navy, participated within the inaugural session of the occasion nearly. France is the present chair of the Symposium, which assumed the Chairmanship on 29 June 2021 for a two-year tenure.
- The Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) is a collection of biennial conferences, held between the littoral states of the Indian Ocean area, to boost maritime cooperation amongst Navies of the member states, by offering an open and inclusive discussion board for dialogue of regionally related maritime points resembling maritime safety cooperation, talk about regional maritime points, and promote pleasant relationships.
- The first such symposium was held in 2008 with India as host.
- The chairmanship and site of the Symposium rotates between the assorted member states.
Sports News
6. Indian Wrestler Sumit Malik will get two-year ban for doping
- Indian wrestler Sumit Malik was banned for 2 years by the game’s world governing physique UWW after his B pattern additionally returned constructive for a prohibited stimulant. The 28-year-old has one week to resolve if he would settle for the sanction or problem it.
- He was handed a provisional suspension final month for failing a dope check through the World Olympic Qualifier occasion in Sofia, the place he had certified for the Tokyo Games within the 125 kg class.
7. Mariyappan Thangavelu named flag-bearer for Tokyo Paralympics
- Top para high-jumper Mariyappan Thangavelu was named the flag-bearer of the Indian contingent within the Tokyo Paralympics, which begins on August 24.
- Thangavelu, who’s defending the T-42 gold he had received within the 2016 Rio Paralympics through the August 24 to September 5 showpiece in Tokyo, was picked for the honour by the manager committee of the nationwide physique.
- The 25-year-old Thangavelu, who was conferred with the Khel Ratna, the nation’s highest sporting award, final 12 months is without doubt one of the 24 para-athletes picked by the choice committee for the Tokyo Paralympics.
- Thangavelu, who hails from Salem district in Tamil Nadu, suffered a everlasting incapacity on the age of 5 when a bus crushed his proper leg beneath the knee.
Books and Authors
8. Pan Macmillan to publish Nathuram Godse’s biography
- The e-book titled “Nathuram Godse: The True Story of Gandhi’s Assassin” by Mumbai-based journalist Dhaval Kulkarni shall be revealed by Pan Macmillan India in 2022.
- A biography of Nathuram Godse, Mahatma Gandhi’s notorious murderer, situates the person and his most defining act within the bigger context of recent Indian historical past and modern society and politics.
- The e-book was acquired at public sale by Teesta Guha Sarkar, editorial head at Pan Macmillan India, from Anish Chandy, founding father of Labyrinth literary company. “The e-book shall be a deep-dive account and delve into the cataclysmic chain of occasions each earlier than and after Gandhi’s homicide.
Important Days
9. International Day of Cooperatives: 3 July
- The United Nations celebrates the International Day of Cooperatives yearly on the first Saturday of July to extend consciousness of cooperatives.
- In the 12 months 2021, the International Day of Cooperatives shall be celebrated on third July with a deal with the contribution of cooperatives to combating local weather change.
- This July third, the International Day of Cooperatives (#CoopsDay) shall be celebrated as “Rebuild better together”.
- Cooperatives all over the world will showcase how they’re assembly the COVID-19 pandemic disaster with solidarity and resilience and providing communities a people-centred and environmentally simply restoration.
Obituaries News
10. Former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld passes away
- Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time defence secretary and the one-time presidential candidate whose status as a talented bureaucrat and visionary of a contemporary US navy was unravelled by the lengthy and dear Iraq warfare, died not too long ago.
- Rumsfeld is the one individual to serve twice as Pentagon chief. The first time, in 1975-77, he was the youngest ever.
Miscellaneous News
11. New leaping spider species named after 26/11 martyr Tukaram Omble
- A bunch of scientists who found two new species of leaping spiders from the Thane-Kalyan area named considered one of them after the courageous police constable Tukaram Omble who misplaced his life within the 26/11 terror assaults.
- The species is named ‘Icius Tukarami.’
- The paper citing the invention of the brand new species was revealed within the Russian science journal Anthropoda Selecta by scientists Dhruv A. Prajapati, John Caleb, Somnath B. Kumbhar and Rajesh Sanap.
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