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DAILY DOSE 4TH OCT CURRENT AFFAIRS

DAILY DOSE 4TH OCT CURRENT AFFAIRS

Top Headlines 4 October 2023

  • ICC names Sachin Tendulkar as ‘Global Ambassador’ for ODI World Cup
  • Irani Cup 2023-24: Rest of India hammers Saurashtra for title
  • Asian Games: Annu Rani wins gold in women’s javelin throw
  • Asian Games 2022: Jyothi-Ojas pair wins compound mixed team gold
  • Centre extends Amit Agrawal’s tenure as CEO of UIDAI for one year

 

Today’s History: 4 October 2023

  • The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Istanbul.
  • Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the 1st artificial Earth satellite, into elliptical low Earth orbit.
  • 1st US Open Men’s Golf, Newport GC: Englishman Horace Rawlins wins inaugural event.
  • WikiLeaks is launched, created by internet activist Julian Assange.
  • China tested a hydrogen bomb in the western region.

 

1) World Space Week 2023

  • World Space Week is annually held from October 4-10 by numerous organizations to commemorate the advancements in space science and technology.
  • The theme for WSW 2023 is ‘Space and Entrepreneurship’.
  • The World Space Week Association (WSWA) organizes and promotes these global events, supported by sponsors including Sierra Nevada Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Airbus

 

2) World Record: Athlete walks 100m on slackline in less than two minutes

  • An athlete from China broke the world record for the ‘fastest 100 metres slackline walk’.
  • Shi Hailin accomplished this feat by walking on a slackline suspended 100 metres above the ground between two hills in only 1 minute 14.198 seconds.
  • With this, he surpassed the previous record of 1 minute 59.73 seconds held by Lucas Milliard of France in 2016.

 

3) Govt to select 10 schools to demonstrate NEP implementation in U.P.

  • The state government has decided to launch a project to develop 10 schools as ‘Demo Schools’, which will be used to ‘demonstrate’ the implementation of the new education policy (NEP-2020) in the state to delegates and visitors from other states of the country and abroad.
  • These schools, most of which will be in the key areas of the state capital and some in the neighbouring Barabanki.

 

4) Irani Cup 2023-24: Rest of India hammers Saurashtra for title

  • Rest of India beat Saurashtra by 175 runs to win the Irani Cup as 21 wickets fell on the third day at the Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) stadium in Rajkot.
  • Parth Bhut’s seven-wicket spell in the second session hit the Rest of India (RoI) like a zooming bus as he ended up with figures of seven for 53.

 

5) Centre extends Amit Agrawal’s tenure as CEO of UIDAI for one year

  • The central government has extended the tenure of senior IAS officer Amit Agrawal as CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) for one year.
  • Agrawal, a 1993-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Chhattisgarh cadre, has been given in extension of his service as the CEO of UIDIA for a period of one year beyond November 2, 2023, to November 2, 2024.

 

6) IREDA gets upgraded from ‘Schedule B’ to ‘Schedule A’

  • The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA), a prominent green financing Non-Banking Finance Company focused on renewable energy, has achieved an upgrade from ‘Schedule B’ to ‘Schedule A’ status as a Central Public Sector Enterprise.
  • This elevation to ‘Schedule A’ status sets the stage for IREDA to potentially attain “Navratna” status, granting it greater financial autonomy.

 

7) Asian Games: Annu Rani wins gold in women’s javelin throw

  • India’s Annu Rani won the gold medal in the women’s javelin throw with a 69.92m throw at the Asian Games 2023.
  • She became the first Indian woman to win a javelin gold in Asian Games history.
  • Rani’s first-place finish secured India its 15th gold.

 

8) NASA’S CALIPSO mission ended

  • NASA has announced the conclusion of its CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation) mission, which analysed climate, weather, and air quality for 17 years.
  • CALIPSO, launched jointly by NASA and France’s CNES, used LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology to record over 10 billion measurements and generate thousands of scientific reports.

 

9) 4 October: World Animal Day 2023 (Great or Small, Love Them All)

  • Every year World Animal Day is observed globally on October 4 with an aim to celebrate animal rights and welfare around the world.
  • This year’s theme is “Great or Small, Love Them All”.
  • World Animal Day has been marked since 1925.
  • In 1931, Heinrich Zimmermann, a cynologist propsed to officially celebrate October 4 as World Animal Day, was approved and enacted as a resolution.

 

10) World Bank research paper on Karnataka Gram Panchayat Fund

  • World Bank research paper ( titled “The added value of local democracy evidence from a natural experiment in India” (2023) ) focusing on fund allocation in Karnataka’s gram panchayats (local self-government bodies).
  • The elite refers to a small, privileged group of individuals or organizations who hold significant influence, power, and often wealth in society.

 

11) ICC names Sachin Tendulkar as ‘Global Ambassador’ for ODI World Cup

  • The ICC named legendary Sachin Tendulkar as the ‘Global Ambassador’ for the men’s Cricket World Cup 2023.
  • Tendulkar, who has an enviable record of featuring in six 50 over World Cups in his decorated career, will walk out with the World Cup trophy before the opening match between England and New Zealand.
  • From being a ball boy in 1987 to winning the World Cup in 2011.

 

12) Asian Games 2022: Jyothi-Ojas pair wins compound mixed team gold

  • The duo of Ojas Pravin Deotale and Jyothi Surekha Vennam beat South Korea in the archery mixed team compound to secure a first-place finish and give India its 16th gold medal at the Asian Games 2022 in Hangzhou.
  • Ojas-Jyothi’s gold was India’s 71st medal at the 2023 Hangzhou Games, which helped India surpass its 2018 Asian Games medal haul.

 

13) Asian Games 2022, Canoe: Arjun Singh and Sunil Singh Salam win bronze

  • India won the bronze medal in the men’s canoe double 1000m event at the Asian Games.
  • The India duo of Arjun Singh and Sunil Singh finished third with a timing of 3:53.329.
  • This was India’s second Asian Games medal in canoeing, following a bronze medal by Johnny Rommel and Siji Kumar Sadanandan in the same event in Hiroshima in 1994.
  • Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan won gold and silver.

 

14) 22nd Law Commission submits report

  • The 22nd Law Commission of India submitted a report which suggest amending Section 154 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) to allow for online registration of FIRs (First Information Reports).
  • The Law Commission recommends enabling the registration of e-FIRs in a phased manner, starting with offenses carrying a maximum punishment of up to three years of imprisonment.

 

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