CURRENT AFFAIRS
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1. Lakshya Sen, doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty and Kidambi Srikanth scripted history as the Indian men's badminton team beat Indonesia 3-0 to win their first-ever Thomas Cup trophy.
➨ Kidambi Srikanth beat 21-15, 23-21 Jonatan Christie in the second singles to seal India's maiden gold in the history of the competition.
▪️Badminton Association of India (BAI) :-
President - Himanta Biswa Sarma
Founded - 1934
Headquarters - New Delhi
2. Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has bagged a significant order from the Rajasthan government for executing a parallel carrier system to the Rajiv Gandhi Lined Canal.
▪️ Rajasthan:-
Governor - Kalraj Mishra
➭Amber Palace
➭Hawa Mahal
➭Ranthambore National Park
➭Sariska National Park.
➭ Kumbhalgarh Fort
3. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the appointment of two new Executive Directors. These are Dr. Rajiv Ranjan and Dr. Sitikantha Pattanaik.
◾️Reserve Bank of India:-
➨Headquarters:- Mumbai, Maharashtra,
➨Established:- 1 April 1935, 1934 Act.
➨Hilton Young Commission
➨ First Governor - Sir Osborne Smith
➨ First Indian Governor - Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh
➨Present Governor:- Shaktikanta Das
➨ Longest time Governor :- Benegal Ram Rao
➨ Shortest time Governor :- Amitav Ghosh
➨Governor of RBI who became PM of India :- Dr Manmohan Singh Ji
4. Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) superstar Lionel Messi bagged $130 million to be the world's highest-paid athlete in 2022 so far in a newly posted Forbes magazine list.
➨ Manchester United’s Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo came third with $115 million, ahead of Messi’s Brazilian PSG teammate Neymar with $95 million.
5. NITI Aayog has launched the National Data & Analytics Platform (NDAP) for open public use.
➨ The platform aims to democratise access to public government data by making data accessible, interoperable, interactive and available on a user-friendly platform.
▪️NITI Aayog :- National Institution for Transforming India
➨Formed - 1 January 2015
➨Preceding - Planning Commission
➨Headquarters -New Delhi
➨Chairperson:- Narendra Modi,
➨Vice Chairperson - Suman Bery
➨CEO - Amitabh Kant
6. A team from the University of Florida showed that plants can successfully sprout and grow in lunar soil, a first step toward one day growing plants for food and oxygen on the Moon or during space missions.
7. The President of India has appointed nine Advocates as Judges of the Delhi High Court.
➨The Supreme Court Collegium led by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana had recommended their names for appointment.
8. The Indian Army has started providing residential tutoring to children from economically disadvantaged and deprived areas of the northeast to prepare them for all-India competitive tests such as engineering and medical admission.
9. Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd climbed two spots to No. 53 on Forbes' latest Global 2000 list of public companies worldwide.
10. National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has initiated the Girl Empowerment Mission for uplifting the lives of underprivileged girls living in different regions of the country.
11. Former Australian test cricketer and two-time World Cup winner Andrew Symonds has died following a car accident.
12. A 48-year-old Nepali woman scaled Mount Everest for the 10th time, breaking her own record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain by a female climber.
➨Lhakpa Sherpa last climbed the 8,848.86-metre (29,031.69-foot) mountain in 2018. A fellow Nepali, Kami Rita Sherpa, holds the men’s record of 26 climbs.
13. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully completed the static test of the human-rated solid rocket booster (HS200) at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota.
▪️Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) :-
➨Formed :- 15 August 1969
➨Headquarter :- Bangalore, Karnataka, India
➨Chairman :- S Somnath