Current Affairs Quiz 11th October 2022 : Daily GK Update

Exp. PM Modi lays foundation stone of projects in Bharuch, Gujarat

PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of several developmental projects worth over Rs 8000 crore in the Bharuch district of Gujarat.

The projects included Gujarat’s first Bulk Drug Park at Jambusar which will be built at the cost of 2500 crore rupees.

The other one is a Deep Sea Pipeline Project at Dahej.

He also laid foundation of4 Tribal Industrial Parks

About Gujarat

Capital- Gandhinagar

Chief Minister- Bhupendra Rajnikant Patel

Governor- Acharya Devvrat

Exp. Anurag Thakur inaugurated Water Sports Center in Himachal Pradesh

Union Minister Anurag Thakur has inaugurated a Water Sports Center in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh.

The center will be dedicated to training athletes in water sports like Rowing, Canoeing, and Kayaking.

The Water Sports Centre, the very first of its kind in Himachal Pradesh, has been jointly initiated by the Sports Authority of India (SAI) and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC).

About Himachal Pradesh

• Capital –Shimla (Summer), Dharamshala (Winter)

Chief Minister – Jai Ram Thakur

Governor – Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar

Recent Inauguration by Ministers

• PM Modi inaugurated AIIMS in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh
• India’s second Srijagannath Rashtriya Adarsh Veda Vidyalaya inaugurated by Dharmendra Pradhan
• Amit Shah inaugurated Dairy Cooperative Conclavein Gangtok, Sikkim
• Nirmala Sitharaman launched e-learning platform Bharat Vidya

Exp. 5th Assembly of International Solar Alliance’s to be held in New Delhi

Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy RK Singh has unveiled the curtain raiser to the 5th Assembly of the International Solar Alliance to be held in New Delhi from 77-20 October 2022.

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ident of the ISA Assembly.

The fifth assembly of the solar alliance will deliberate on the key initiatives of ISA on three critical issues of energy access, energy security, and energy transition.

The organisation aims to unlock $1 trillion of investments in the solar energy sector by 2030 while reducing the cost of the technology and its financing.

The International Solar Alliance is an international organisation with 109 member and signatory countries.

It works with governments to improve energy access and security worldwide and promote solar power as a sustainable way to transition to a carbon-neutral future.

Exp. EU approved adoption of world’s first single charger rule

According to a new law passed by the EU parliament, all new smartphones, tablets and cameras will have a single standard charger from late 2024.

As per the new rules, consumers do not need to buy a different charger every time, when they purchase a new device.

It mandates smartphone, laptop and camera manufacturing companies to adopt a standard charger, atleast in Europe.

It is expected to save at least 200 million euros ($195 million) per year and cut more than a thousand tonnes of EU electronic waste every year.

The European Parliament has passed the new rule to introduce single charging port for electronic gadgets by 2024 in the EU.

The European Union’s 27 countries are home to 450 million people who count among the world’s wealthiest consumers.

Exp. United Nations group committed 2050 goal of net-zero emissions from air travel

A United Nations organization has committed to sharply cut carbon emissions from air travel by 2050 in response to growing pressure for airlines to reduce their pollution.

This move could encourage the production of more sustainable aviation fuel.

Aviation is a relatively small contributor to overall climate-changing emissions, but its share is expected to grow.

More people are expected to travel on planes in the coming years, and aviation lacks cleaner alternatives such as electric power that are rapidly becoming widely available for cars and trucks.

List of Important India’s Target Year

2022 – Trans Fat Free status.

2021-22 – Indian Railways planned 1000-Megawatt Solar Power.

2022 – Indian renewable energy 175 GW installation.

2030 – India plans 500 GW renewable energy

2022 – Doubling Farmers income.

2022 – Doubling tiger population.

2023 – Indian Railways electrify Broad Gauge routes.

2023-24 – India produce one billion tonnes of coal.

2024 – Renewable energy to replace diesel in agriculture

2024 – India aims to reduce road accidents by 50%.

2024 – Indian railways 100% electrification.

2024 – Provide Clean Drinking Water to All Citizens.

2024 – Har ghar jal for rural households.

2025 – Achieve 20 percent ethanol blending in petrol.

2025 – Defence target of Rs 35,000 crores.

2025 – To Eliminate TB.

2025 – India’s vision of 5 trillion economy.

2025 – India set the target to create 220 new airports.

2026 – India unveils 5-year roadmap to becoming $300 bn Sustainable Electronics Manufacturing & Exports.

2030 – Indian railways Net Zero’ Carbon Emission.

2030 – India reduce the energy intensity by 33-35%.

Exp. Smriti Mandhana appointed as India ambassador for Gulf Oil

Smriti Mandhana has been appointed as the new brand ambassador of Gulf Oil Lubricants.

With this association, Gulf Oil became the first company in the lubricant space to appoint a woman cricketer as ambassador.

She will join the ranks of current brand ambassadors Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Hardik Pandya.

Through this association, Gulf Oil aims to celebrate women power and inspire female audience in the country while also honoring the achievements of Indian women cricketers.

MD and CEO of Gulf Oil Lubricants – Ravi Chawla

Recent Brand Ambassador

• Rohit Sharma & his wife Ritika Sajdeh – Max Life Insurance
• Punyakoti Dattu Yojana (Karnataka)- Kiccha Sudeep
• Vaani Kapoor – Noise X-Fit 2 smartwatch
• Ravi Shastri – FanCode
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni – Garuda Aerospace
• Robin Uthappa – Karnataka Brain Health Initiative (Ka-BHI)
• Shubman Gill & Ruturaj Gaikwad – My11Circle
• Rishabh Pant – Dish TV India
• Jhulan Goswami -All Women Match Official Team
• Rishabh Pant – Uttarakhand’s brand ambassador
• Jasprit Bumrah- Unix
• Ravindra Jadeja – Kinara Capital
• Smriti Mandhana – IIT Madras incubated startup, GUVI
• Saurav Ganguly – Century LED
• Rahul Dravid – PLAETO

Exp. Kishore Poludasu appointed as the MD & CEO of SBI General Insurance

Kishore Kumar Poludasu has been appointed as Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of SBI General Insurance Company.

Prior to this, he was the Deputy Managing Director as the Country Head of State Bank of India Singapore Operations.

He is a seasoned BFSI professional with over 3 decades of experience in commercial banking including large Corporate/Infrastructure Credit, International Banking operations, Enterprise Management, Mergers & Consolidation, etc.

About SBI General Insurance

Founded – 2009

Headquarters – Mumbai C

MD & CEO – Kishore Kumar Poludasu

SBI owns 70% of the total capital

Recent Appointment in Banking Sector

• MD & CEO of SBI General Insurance – Kishore Poludasu
• MD & CEO of Yes Bank – Prashant Kumar
• MD & CEO of Aviva Life Insurance – Asit Rath
• MD & CEO of Tamilnad Mercantile Bank – Krishnan Sankarasubramaniam
• Whole-time member of SEBI – Ananth Narayan Gopalakrishnan
• MD of IDFC Limited  – Mahendra Shah

Exp. Alexander Van der Bellen re-elected as President of Austria

Alexander Van der Bellen has been re-elected as the President of Austria for a second term.

Van der Bellen had secured 56.3 percent of the nationwide vote.

Van der Bellen, 78, stood as an independent candidate, but he was previously a prominent politician in Austria’s Green Party, on the ticket of which he was first elected in 2016.

About Austria

Capital- Vienna

Currency- Euro

President – Alexander Van der Bellen

Newly Appointed Prime Minister & President

• Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia – Mohammed bin Salman
• First woman Prime Minister of Italy- Giorgia Meloni
• President of Angola – Joao Lourenco (2nd term)
• PM of United Kingdom – Liz Truss
• Prime Minister of Serbia – Ana Brnabic
• New president of Kenya – William Ruto

Colombia’s first leftist President – Gustavo Petro

New PM of Kuwait – Sheikh Mohammad Sabah Al Salem

New PM of Sri Lanka – Dinesh Gunawardena

New President of Sri Lanka – Ranil Wickremesinghe

New President of Colombia – Gustavo Petro

New President of South Korea – Yoon Suk Yeol

New Prime Minister of Pakistan – Shehbaz Sharif

New Prime Minister of France – Elisabeth Borne

1st Woman President of Hungary – Katalin Novak

1st Woman President of Tanzania – Samia Suluhu Hassan

1st Woman President of Honduras Xiomara Castro

Hong Kong’s Next Leader -John Lee

Re-Elected as President of Serbia – Aleksandar Vučić

Hungary’s New Prime Minister - Viktor Orban

New Prime Minister of Kazakhstan - Alikhan Smailov

New President of Albania – Bajram Begaj

New Prime Minister of Israel – Yair Lapid

Exp. Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig won Nobel Prize 2022 in Economics

Ben S. Bernanke (USA), Douglas W. Diamond (USA), and Philip H. Dybvig (USA) have won the Nobel Prize 2022 in Economics for research on banks and financial crises.

The three laureates have significantly improved our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises, and an important finding in their research is why avoiding bank collapses is vital.

Modern banking research clarifies why we have banks, how to make them less vulnerable in crises and how bank collapses exacerbate financial crises. The foundations of this research were laid by Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig in the early 1980s.

The 2021 Economic Nobel was given to David Card, Joshua D Angrist, Guido W Imbens. While one-half of the prize was given to David Card for his empirical contributions to labour economics, the other half was given jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.

Nobel Prize 2022

• Medicine Nobel Prize 2022

Winner – Svante Pääbo (Sweden)

Experiment – for discovery around genomes of extinct hominins

• Physics Nobel Prize 2022

Winner – Alain Aspect (France), John F. Clauser (USA), and Anton Zeilinger (Austria)

Experiment – for experiments with entangled photons establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science

• Chemistry Nobel Prize 2022

Winner – Carolyn Bertozzi (USA), Morten Meldal (Denmark), K Barry Sharpless (USA)

Experiment – for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry

• Literature Nobel Prize 2022

Winner – Annie Ernaux (France)

Purpose – For the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.

• Peace Nobel Prize 2022

Winner – Ales Bialiatski (Belarus), Russian Human Rights Organization Memorial, Ukrainian Human Rights Organization Center for Civil Liberties

Purpose –

Ales Bialiatski – To promoting democracy and peaceful development.

Russian Human Rights Organization Memorial – It has compiled and systematized information on political oppression and human rights violations in Russia.

Ukrainian Human Rights Organization Center for Civil Liberties – To strengthen Ukrainian civil society and pressure the authorities to make Ukraine a full-fledged democracy.

• Economics Nobel Prize 2022

Winner – Ben S. Bernanke (USA), Douglas W. Diamond (USA), Philip H. Dybvig (USA)

Purpose – For research on banks and financial crises.

Exp. Harmanpreet Singh & Felice Albers named FIH Player of the Year for 2021-22

India men’s hockey team defender and vice-captain Harmanpreet Singh was named the FIH Player of the Year for 2121-22 in the men’s category for the second successive time.

Netherlands’s Felice Albers was named the FIH Player of the Year for 2021-22 in the women’s category.

He becomes the fourth player to win the Player of the Year award in the men’s category in consecutive years.

He joined an elite list that includes Teun De Nooijer (Netherlands), Jamie Dwyer (Australia) and Arthur van Doren (Belgium).

Exp. 36th National Games: Srihari Nataraj won gold medal in 100m freestyle swimming

At the 36th National Games in Gujarat, Tokyo Olympian Srihari Nataraj won the men’s 100m freestyle swimming event to claim his sixth gold medal.

Srihari Nataraj of Karnataka competed at the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex in Rajkot and set a new National Games record with a time of 50.41 seconds to add to his collection of gold.

This was Srihari Nataraj’s second gold in freestyle swimming events at the National Games 2022.

Sajan Prakash, a fellow Olympian from Kerala who has five gold, two silver, and a bronze medal from this competition, came in seventh in the 100m freestyle event.

Exp. 36th National Games: Sikha Chauhan won gold medal in women’s kayak event

At the 36th National Games, Madhya Pradesh’s Sikha Chauhan has won the gold medal in the women’s kayak event.

J&K’s Vilayat Hussain won a silver medal in Canoe Slalom Men’s Kayak event.

Services continue to dominate the medals tally by grabbing 113 medals, including 51 gold.

The services won gold in Wushu, Triathlon and Canoeing and Kayaking.

Exp. Pankaj Advani won gold at IBSF World Billiards Championship in Kuala Lumpur

Pankaj Advani has won his 25th gold medal after winning the 2022 IBSF World Billiards Championship in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

He has defeated Sourav Kothari by 4-0 to defend the title for the fifth time in a row.

He had won his last world title in Qatar 6Reds World Cup 2021, where he won the IBSF 6-Red Snooker World Cup.

Pankaj Advani has been awarded Arjuna Award (2004), Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna (2006), Padma Shri (2009) and Padma Bhushan (2018).

Exp. Novak Djokovic clinched 90th ATP title in Astana Open, Kazakhstan

21-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic from Serbia has clinched his 90th ATP title after defeating Greek’s Stefanos Tsitsipas by 6-3, 6-4 in the final of Astana Open in Kazakhstan.

It was his fourth title of the year.

He joined Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer in the list of players in Open Era with 90 or more ATP titles.

In men’s doubles, Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic have captured their fifth tour-level title of the season and beat Adrian Mannarino and Fabrice Martin.

Exp. Harmanpreet Kaur & Mohammed Rizwan won ICC Player of the Month for September 2022

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced the winners of the ICC Player of the Month awards for September 2022.

Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan has won the ICC Men’s Player of the Month award for September 2022.

While India’s inspirational captain Harmanpreet Kaur won the ICC Women’s Player of the Month award for September 2022.

The Pakistan star amassed a mammoth 553 runs from ten T20Is, covering performances in the Men’s Asia Cup and the subsequent home T20I series against a touring England side.

Harmanpreet Kaur becomes India’s first winner of the ICC Women’s Player of the Month thanks to her leading role in her team’s first ODI series victory in England since 1999.

Exp. 10 October – World Mental Health Day

World Mental Health Day is observed every year on 10 October.

Objective – To create awareness about mental health issues across the globe and to inspire the global citizenry to support the cause of mental health.

Theme 2022- Make mental health & well-being for all a global priority

World Health Organization (WHO) mentions that before the COVID-19 pandemic, about one in eight people worldwide suffered from mental issues. Proper infrastructural and economic support for mental health, however, was lacking.

As per WHO, more than 700 000 people commit suicides each year due to stress or depression.

The then World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) Deputy Secretary General, Richard Hunter had initiated the first celebration of World Mental Health Day on October 10, 1992.

WFMH is a non-governmental organization founded in 1948.