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Daily G.K. - Top Stories

13 Jun 2023

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

To Counter Chinese Presence, US May Soon Rejoin UNESCO

  • UN cultural and scientific agency UNESCO announced that the United States plans to rejoin and pay more than USD 600 million in back dues after a decade-long dispute sparked by the organisation's move to include Palestine as a member.
  • As per reports, the decision to return was motivated by concern that China is filling the gap left by the US in UNESCO policymaking, notably in setting standards for artificial intelligence and technology education around the world.
  • The US and Israel stopped funding UNESCO after it voted to include Palestine as a member state in 2011, and the Trump administration decided in 2017 to withdraw from the agency altogether the following year, citing long-running anti-Israel bias and management problems.
  • The return of the US, once the agency's biggest funder, is expected to face a vote by its 193 member states next month.
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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

UAE Emerges as Fourth Largest Investor in India in FY23

  • The United Arab Emirates (UAE), with which India implemented a comprehensive free trade agreement in May 2022, emerged as the fourth largest investor in India during 2022-23, according to government data.
  • In the last fiscal, foreign direct investment (FDI) from the UAE to India jumped over three-fold to USD 3.35 billion from USD 1.03 billion in 2021-22, the data of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) showed.
  • Singapore was the largest investor in India with USD 17.2 billion investment in FY23, followed by Mauritius (USD 6.1 billion) and the US (USD 6 billion).

Deepika Warrier Steps Down as Diageo CMO

  • Deepika Warrier, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Diageo India, is moving on from her current role.
  • Ruchira Jaitly is expected to succeed Warrier. Jaitly is currently the executive vice-president of marketing at Diageo.
  • Warrier joined Diageo as its CMO in July 2020. She managed a portfolio of 22 brands for PepsiCo for nearly two decades, including eight brands with annual sales exceeding Rs. 2,000 crore.
  • She also served as MD and CEO of NourishCo, a joint venture between PepsiCo and Tata Global Beverages, in her last position with the beverage giant.

Indian Overseas Bank Launches 'My Account My Name' Feature

  • Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) introduced a scheme that lets customers choose any name as their savings account number with the Chennai-based lender.
  • As per IOB, the scheme is the first in the banking industry to let a customer choose his or her name or any name as an account number that can be used for all transaction purposes. The bank's managing director and chief executive officer launched the scheme called 'My Account My Name' virtually from its Central Office in Chennai. The scheme will be available at all 49 regional offices of the IOB in India.
  • As per the scheme, the account name can be a combination of seven letters, or seven numbers, or seven alphanumeric only like AJIT007, PRADHAN, or 2424707 etc. Customers will not be required to remember their 15 digits account numbers.
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Govt. Inks Pact with 3 Nations to Share Digital Payment Tech

  • India signed agreements with Armenia, Sierra Leone and Suriname on sharing successful digital solutions to be implemented in these countries.
  • The MoUs were signed at the Global Digital Public Infrastructure summit and exhibition, which was inaugurated at Pune by Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MoS (Electronics and Information Technology).
  • Around 50 countries and 150 foreign delegates participated. Nine countries — Suriname, Armenia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Antigua and Barbuda, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Malawi and Trinidad and Tobago — took part at the ministerial level. The summit was part of the third meeting of Digital Economy Working Group of G20.
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SPORTS

Ashmita, Ravi Win Maldives International Challenge

  • Indian shuttlers Ashmita Chaliha and Ravi clinched the women's and men's singles titles, respectively, with contrasting victories at the Maldives International Challenge in Male. Third seed Ashmita eked out a 19-21 21-17 21-11 win over compatriot Tasnim Mir. Unseeded Ravi beat Malaysia's seventh seed Soong Joo Ven 21-19 21-18.
  • This was Ashmita Chaliha the Assam shuttler's, Ashmita Chaliha, third BWF International Challenge victory having previously won the Tata Open India International and Dubai International.

FIH Pro League 2023: India Beat Argentina in Final

  • India beat Argentina 2-1 in its final FIH Pro League 2022-23 match in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Akashdeep Singh and Sukhjeet Singh scored goals for India, while Lucas Toscani netted the only goal for Argentina.
  • With this victory, India consolidated their position atop the FIH Pro League standings with 30 points from 16 matches. Argentina is fifth with 13 points from 14 matches. India now holds a four-point advantage over second-placed Great Britain in the FIH Pro League 2022-23 standings but the European team has four games to go. The Indian men's hockey team finished in fourth place in their debut FIH Pro League campaign back in 2020-21. Their best finish in the competition, third, came in the 2021-22 season.

Rodri is UEFA Champions League Player of the Season 2022-23

  • Manchester City midfielder Rodri was named the Champions League's Player of the Season by UEFA after a stellar 2022-23 campaign.
  • Rodri scored the winning goal as City lifted the trophy for the first time when it beat Inter Milan 1-0 in the final.
  • Napoli's Khvicha Kvaratskhelia was named the Champions League's Young Player of the Season, capping a remarkable campaign for the 22-year-old Georgian.
  • Kvaratskhelia won the league title with Napoli and also claimed Serie A's Player of the Season award earlier.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS

Uttarakhand Public Service Commission Chairman Rakesh Kumar Resigns

  • Uttarakhand Public Service Commission Chairman Rakesh Kumar resigned within 18 months of appointment citing personal reasons.
  • Kumar, a retired IAS officer, was appointed in December 2021 for a six-year term. His short tenure was full of challenges with three examinations conducted by the Commission being cancelled over paper leak allegations.
  • Kumar tendered his resignation and it was accepted by Governor Lt Gen (retd) Gurmit Singh.
  • It was during his tenure that the Commission was assigned the additional responsibility of conducting Group C recruitment examinations which were earlier under the ambit of the Uttarakhand Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UKSSSC) after the latter got embroiled in the paper leak cases.

Amit Agrawal is UIDAI CEO, Subodh Kumar Singh Named DG NTA

  • Senior IAS officers Amit Agrawal and Subodh Kumar Singh were appointed as CEO Unique Identification Authority of India and Director General of the National Testing Agency, respectively, as part of a bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre. Both Agrawal (1993 batch) and Singh (1997 batch) are Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers of the Chhattisgarh cadre.
  • Agrawal, additional secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has been appointed as the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Unique Identification Authority in the rank and pay of additional secretary to the Government of India.

India, ADB Sign $130 Million Loan Agreement to Boost Horticulture in HP

  • The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a loan agreement worth $130 million in order to increase agricultural productivity, improve access to irrigation and promote horticulture agribusinesses to raise farmers' income in Himachal Pradesh. The project builds upon a pilot financed by ADB's project readiness facility which demonstrated the subtropical horticulture production over 200 hectares and prepared the draft water user association (WUA) act and the draft state horticulture development strategy.
  • The project interventions will help increase the income and resilience to the effects of climate change of at least 15,000 farm households across seven districts of the state namely Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Kangra, Mandi, Sirmour, Solan, and Una.
  • These households have stopped farming or have reduced their farming areas because of a lack of irrigation facilities and crop damage by wild and stray animals.
  • The project will improve on-farm irrigation and water management in about 6,000 hectares of farmland by rehabilitating or building new irrigation schemes and strengthening the capacity of WUAs for micro-irrigation management through joint efforts from the state's Jal Shakti Vibhag (Water Resources Department) and Department of Horticulture (DOH).
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DEFENCE

IPS Officer Nitin Agarwal New BSF Chief

  • Nitin Agarwal, a 1989-batch IPS officer of Kerala cadre, was appointed as the new Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF).
  • The post of BSF chief has been vacant for more than five months after Pankaj Kumar Singh retired on December 31, 2022.
  • CRPF DG Sujoy Lal Thaosen was handling the charge of BSF in an additional capacity since then.
  • Agarwal has served in the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), another border guarding force under the command of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), apart from working in various capacities in his cadre state of Kerala.

Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare Signs an MoU with Private Sector

  • A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Directorate General Resettlement DGR under the Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and M/s Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance Company Limited in New Delhi. The MoU endeavours to bring the corporate companies and Ex-Servicemen on a common platform to generate employment opportunities for the esteemed ex-servicemen of the Defence Services.
  • Director General (Resettlement) Major General Sharad Kapur said that this partnership will bring in more visibility of the ex-servicemen to the industry and corporates and help in achieving the objectives of providing skilled manpower and giving a dignified second career to the ex-servicemen.
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PERSONS IN NEWS

Silvio Berlusconi, Former Italian Prime Minister Passes Away

  • Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian former PM who overcame various scandals to hold office four times, passed away at the age of 86.
  • The longest-serving Prime Minister in post-war Italy, he had bounced back from sex scandals and corruption cases.
  • After taking political office in 1994, the billionaire media tycoon led four governments until 2011 - though not consecutively.
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DAYS AND EVENTS

International Albinism Awareness Day

  • International Albinism Awareness Day (IAAD) is celebrated annually on June 13. The holiday is organized by the United Nations to battle discrimination against those diagnosed with albinism and to create a society that is aware. This event is also an opportunity to celebrate the human rights of persons with albinism worldwide.
  • Albinism was a serious problem in Tanzania during the mid-2000s. The country is believed to be having the highest percentage of albinos living. Hundreds of them have been brutally murdered and mutilated in the African country in the past decades. Local superstitions claim their body parts can bring luck and prosperity. Another widespread rumor is that albinos are evil spirits. The Tanzania Albinism Society (TAS) and other NGOs campaigned for the human rights of albinos. On May 4, 2006 they celebrated the first Albino Day. 2009 onwards, it came to be known as National Albino Day.
  • In 2013, the UNHRC adopted a resolution called "Attacks and discrimination against persons with albinism." This UN resolution appealed for the prevention of attacks and discrimination against persons with albinism since it is still profoundly misunderstood, socially and medically. The physical appearance of persons with albinism is often the object of erroneous beliefs and myths influenced by superstition, which foster their marginalization and social exclusion and leads to various forms of stigma and discrimination.
  • Eventually, On December 18, 2014, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution proclaiming 13 June as International Albinism Awareness Day, with effect from 2015. In response to the call from civil society organizations, the UNGA also created the mandate of Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism on March 26, 2015.
  • The theme for International Albinism Awareness Day 2023 is 'Inclusion is strength'.
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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION

AP Govt. Schools to Incorporate AI and ChatGPT in Syllabus

  • Setting an aim to deliver the best education to children of Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy sanctioned the distribution of the Jagananna Vidya Kanuka school kits for the upcoming academic year 2023-2024 at Krosuru of Pedakurapadu constituency in Palnadu district.
  • Addressing the public meeting, Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy shared his vision to provide the best education to AP children under his chairmanship.
  • He envisioned matching up to international standards of education in government schools. CM Reddy shared that he wanted the poor children of Andhra Pradesh to be adept with futuristic technologies and modern concepts.
  • He further said that in the coming days, his government would be adding modern concepts like Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, language modules, and ChatGPT to the syllabus.
  • CM Reddy also formed a committee to explore how these concepts can be inculcated in day-to-day learning, to make students privy to new technologies.

IIT Kanpur First among Best College for Innovation

  • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur topped the list of best colleges in the field of Innovation under the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2023. The NIRF 2023 rankings were released by the Ministry of Education. This was the debut year for the innovation category.
  • IIT Kanpur was followed by the IIT-Madras and the IIT-Hyderabad at the second and third positions, respectively.
  • The fourth spot was secured by IIT-Delhi. The IIT-Roorkee was in fifth place while the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore at the sixth spot. The seventh position was secured by IIT-Bombay.

Karnataka Public Varsity, Bangalore University Gets NAAC's A++ Grade

  • Bangalore University was accredited with a CGPA (cumulative grade point average) of 3.75 on a four-point scale at the A++ grade in cycle IV of the University Grants Commission's National Assessment and Accreditation Council.
  • The university is the first in the public sector in Karnataka to achieve this outstanding grade, something that would help to attain absolute autonomy and national recognition. It has excelled in NAAC-specified criteria such as curricular aspects, teaching, learning and evaluation; research, innovations and extension; infrastructure and learning resources; student support and progression; governance leadership and management; institutional values and best practices.
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ART AND CULTURE

Germany Has the Most Private Contemporary Art Museums in the World

  • Germany took the top slot for the number of private museums of contemporary art, according to a new report that has just gone live—just piping the US by a single figure.
  • The report is the brainchild of Christoph Noe, the founder of the art collector data company Larry's List, working with a team of researchers including the Hong-Kong based Jamie Bennett and the University of Amsterdam academic Olav Velthuis.
  • The number of museums they record has grown, up from 317 in their previous 2016 report to a stunning 446 this year. And the line-up has also changed: in 2016 South Korea was number one, while Germany was third. This time (2023) five countries dominate the list: Germany (60), the US (59), South Korea (50), Greater China (30) and Italy (30). Interestingly, these countries are home to half of all private museums in the world, not necessarily the biggest, though, but the sheer number of them beats out the 54 other countries listed.
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TOURISM AND HOTEL INDUSTRY AWARENESS

IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers Appointed as Chair-elect of IATA's Board of Governors

  • IndiGo announced that its CEO, Pieter Elbers, was elected as the chair-elect of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Board of Governors. He will succeed present Chair, Yvonne Manzi Makolo, CEO of Rwandair with effect from June 2024. Pieter Elbers' appointment came at a significant time for the Indian aviation industry, which is experiencing unprecedented growth and development.
  • The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is a trade association of the world's airlines founded in 1945. It has 300 member airlines that account for 83% of total air traffic. IATA's headquarters are in Montreal, Canada.
  • IATA also works to promote the safe and sustainable growth of the air transport industry. In 2020, IATA launched its "Fly Net Zero" initiative, which aims to achieve net zero carbon emissions from aviation by 2050.
  • IATA is a non-profit organization and its activities are funded by its members. It is governed by a board of directors and a general assembly.
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