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Daily G.K. - Top Stories

12 Jul 2021

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Hong Kong 'unnerved' by Chinese Security Law

  • As many as 60% of the citizens in Hong Kong have reportedly expressed doubts about their futures under the draconian national security law that was imposed by China on the city back in June last year. The impact of the legislation imposed by the Xi Jinping-led communist government in China has left a "chilling effect" on the people of Hong Kong.
  • The council had, in its report marking the 24th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China, said that the US-based Freedom House gave the territory the worst rating in the history of its Freedom in the World report at 52 points, back in March. Hong Kong was ranked "partly free," due mainly to the security legislation.
  • Germany's Global Public Policy Institute and Reporters Without Borders similarly downgraded the territory in their respective reports on academic and press freedom, it added.

Abiy Ahmed wins landslide victory in Ethiopian election

  • Ethiopia's ruling Prosperity party has been declared the winner of 2021's national election in a landslide, assuring a second term for the prime minister, Abiy Ahmed.
  • The National Election Board of Ethiopia that the ruling party won 410 seats out of 436 in the federal parliament, which will see some seats remain vacant because no vote was held as a result of unrest or logistical reasons.
  • The vote was a test for Abiy, who came to power in April 2018 after the former prime minister resigned amid widespread protests. Abiy oversaw dramatic political reforms, but critics say he is backtracking from some promises on political and media freedoms. He also has drawn intense international criticism for his handling of the conflict in the Tigray region has that left thousands of people dead.

India Evacuates Diplomats, Security Personnel from Kandahar as Taliban Captures New Areas

  • India has pulled out around 50 diplomats and security personnel from its consulate in Kandahar in Afghanistan in view of the deteriorating security situation and the Taliban gaining control of new areas around the southern Afghan city.
  • A special aircraft of the Indian Air Force was sent to bring back the Indian diplomats, officials and other staff members, including a group of Indo-Tibetan Border Police personnel.
  • India's move to temporarily shut the consulate in Kandahar came in view of Taliban fighters rapidly seizing control of a number of key areas in the region as well as in western Afghanistan triggering huge security concerns.
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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

G20 backs global tax rate of 15% to end tax havens

  • G20 Finance Ministers on Saturday approved a tax reform for multinationals that aims to put an end to tax havens by introducing a global corporate tax rate of at 15 per cent.
  • The G20 finance chiefs wrapped up two days of talks in the Italian city of Venice with the adoption of a joint communique.
  • The G20 Finance Ministers also endorse the group's broad agreement on a plan to introduce new rules for taxing cross-border businesses.
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

New Era of Space Tourism Begins

  • A billionaire, philanthropist, business tycoon, who is friends with former US President Barack Obama, has close ties to the British royal family, Sir Richard Branson has everything that one could imagine and 17 years ago he dreamed of becoming a space traveller. On July 11, 2021, Branson became an astronaut, ushering in a new era of private space tourism.
  • Branson boarded his company Virgin Galactic's Unity 22 flight from the Mojave Desert in New Mexico and propelled into suborbital space, where he enjoyed over three minutes of weightlessness in microgravity. He was accompanied by India-born Sirisha Bandla and four other passengers.
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SPORTS

Wimbledon 2021

  • Novak Djokovic beat Matteo Berrettini in four sets to win the Wimbledon men's singles title for the sixth time in his career. This is the Serbian's 20th career grand slam title, which puts him level with his long time rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in the list of all time highest slam winners in men's tennis.
  • Djokovic has now won 20 grand slams titles and has finished runner-up in 10. His first grand slam title came in 2008, when he beat France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to win the Australian Open title.
  • He has won 9 Australian Open titles, 2 French Open titles, 6 Wimbledon titles and 3 US Open titles. He has won the season ending ATP Tour Finals five times.

Euro 2020 final

  • Italy lifted their second European Championship trophy after they defeated England 3-2 in penalty shoot-out in the Euro 2020 final at Wembley Stadium in London. The match had ended 1-1 after extra time. Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, and Bukayo Saka missed for the Three Lions as Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma saved two penalties in a row to take his team to the title.
  • This is the first major international trophy that Italy have won since their 2006 FIFA World Cup win. The Azzurri had last won the continental title back in 1968. Italy had reached the final in Euro 2000 and Euro 2012, as well, but had lost to France, and Spain, respectively.
  • England were eyeing their first European Championship trophy and their first major international football title since winning the FIFA World Cup at home in 1966.

Copa America 2021

  • Argentina won its first major title in 28 years when an Angel Di Maria goal gave the side a 1-0 win over Brazil and a record-equalling 15th Copa America trophy.
  • Di Maria started for just the second time in the Copa, and he justified his selection by scoring the opener midway through the first half. Renan Lodi failed to cut out a long ball forward from Rodrigo De Paul and Di Maria lobbed the stranded Ederson with aplomb.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS

Nitin Gadkari inaugurates country's First Private LNG plant in Nagpur

  • Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the country's First Private LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) plant in Nagpur. He said, LNG is a clean and cost effective fuel which is capable of decreasing the logistics cost. It has also potential of creating ample job opportunities. LNG is the fuel of the future and will revolutionize the transport sector.
  • The Country's first LNG facility plant has been set up by Baidyanath Ayurvedic Group on Kamptee Road near Nagpur Jabalpur Highway. Mr.Gadkari also informed that the Central Government is promoting Ethanol, Electric, CNG, LNG gas as an alternative to conventional fuels. He pointed out that the country produces surplus sugar and rice. He suggested that surplus of such products can be used to make biofuels. Experiments were carried out to produce bioethanol from these agricultural products, which have succeeded. Large scale production of bioethanol from Paddy Straw is underway in East Vidarbha which is known for Paddy cultivation.
  • The Minister also underlined the importance of 'Flex engines' which are capable of using both Petrol and Ethanol for transportation. He said a policy is under consideration by Central Government for mandatory installation of flex engine by automobile manufacturers in India.

Assam to Create New Department for Indigenous Faith and Culture

  • The Assam Cabinet announced the creation of an independent department to protect and preserve the "faith, culture and traditions of tribes and indigenous communities" of the state.
  • "Our tribes and communities have their own set of beliefs, customs and practices…the Department of Indigenous Faith and Culture is aimed to preserve such practices," said Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma at a press conference here. He added that the finance ministry will allocate a separate budget for it.
  • Sarma also announced a number of financial reforms. He said that while department heads can green signal projects and schemes worth Rs 2 crore and below, a standing finance committee headed by chief secretary, will take the call on projects worth Rs 2 crore to Rs 5 crore.

India's first Cryptogamic Garden opens in Dehradun

  • India's first cryptogamic garden housing nearly 50 species of lichens, ferns and fungi was inaugurated in Uttarakhand's Dehradun district.
  • Located in the district's Chakrata town, the garden was inaugurated by social activist Anoop Nautiyal.
  • Around 50 species have been grown in the garden at Deoban in Chakrata at a commanding height of 9,000 ft, Chief Conservator of Forest (research) Sanjiv Chaturvedi said.
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DAYS AND EVENTS

World Population Day

  • World Population Day is observed every year on July 11. The main purpose of this day is to draw attention towards the issues arising out of rising population across the globe. India has the world's second-largest populace after China.
  • This year, the theme of World Population Day 2021 is 'the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on fertility'. It will be observed to shed more light on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on sexual and reproductive health and reproductive behaviour globally. It is organised by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).
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AWARDS AND HONOURS

British Indian Chemist in Millennium Tech Prize Winning team for Revolutionary DNA tech

  • Cambridge University chemists Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman were declared the winners of the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize, a prestigious global science and technology prize awarded for their development of revolutionary sequencing techniques which means DNA can now be read in super-fast times.
  • The prize, awarded by Technology Academy Finland (TAF) at two-year intervals since 2004, when Sir Tim Berners-Lee was honoured for his discovery of the World Wide Web, to highlight the extensive impact of science and innovation on the wellbeing of society, is worth Euro 1 million.
  • Sir Balasubramanian, an India-born British professor of medicinal chemistry, and Sir Klenerman, a British biophysical chemist, co-invented the Solexa-Illumina Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS), technology enabling fast, accurate, low-cost and large-scale genome sequencing, the process of determining the complete DNA sequence of an organism's make-up, which is proving crucial in humanity's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION

Cuba develops the World's first Conjugate Vaccine for COVID-19

  • Cuba's State-run corporation, BioFarma, said that its indigenously produced Soberana 2 vaccine was 91.2% efficacious in phase-3 trials. This follows closely on an announcement that another of its vaccines, Abdala, had reported an efficacy of 92.8% in late stage trials.
  • The greater-than-90% efficacy puts them in a select league; however, unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines that had reported an efficacy of over 90%, both the Soberana and Abdala are three-shot vaccines.
  • Both are subunit vaccines, meaning that a part of the virus forms the antigen and is hitched on to another construct. In Abdala the spike protein of the coronavirus is combined with a chemically manufactured adjuvant, whereas in Soberana 2, the spike protein is chemically linked to the tetanus toxoid, making it a conjugate vaccine. The design and manufacturing allows the vaccine to be stored in regular refrigeration settings of 2–8 degree Celsius.

UP CM Yogi Adityanath Unveils new Population Policy

  • The Uttar Pradesh government released the new population policy for 2021-2030 on the occasion of World Population Day. In the new population policy, a target has been set to bring the birth rate to 2.1 per thousand population by 2026 and to 1.9 by 2030.
  • The state's total fertility rate is 2.7 percent currently.
  • While unveiling the policy at the inauguration event, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that there should be a gap between two children in order to control the population in the state.
  • The unveiling of the policy comes days after a draft of the population control bill was put up on the state law commission website.
  • He further said that an increasing population was a 'hurdle in development' and that more efforts are needed to control it.
  • "Across the world, from time to time, concerns have been expressed that increasing population can be a hurdle in development, and for the past four decades discussions on it are going on. Population growth is also related to poverty. Every community has been taken care of in Population Policy 2021-2030," Adityanath said.
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ART AND CULTURE

Two Mega Diamonds Unearthed in Botswana

  • It is the third diamond of over 1,000 carats unearthed from the same mining location, a world record for Karowe. Apart from the recovery of the rare rock, the mining company also unearthed several other diamonds — weighing 471, 218 and 159 carats — of similar appearance, suggesting the 1,174-carat diamond was part of a larger diamond with an estimated weight of more than 2000 carats.
  • An enormous 1,174-carat diamond was unearthed in Botswana, days after another huge precious stone was discovered in the African country. The mining company, Lucara Diamond Corp., said in a statement that the diamond, which measures 77 mm long, 55 mm wide and 33 mm thick, was found at the Karowe diamond mine last month. The company presented the diamond to the government at a ceremony.
  • Before the discovery of the mega diamond, another huge 1,098-carat precious stone was discovered in Botswana by diamond firm Debswana, which was then believed to be the world's third-largest gem-quality stone ever to be mined. The world's second-largest diamond 'Lesedi La Rona' was also found in Botswana in 2015.
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