Here is the Daily GK Update of the
01st October 2022 covering the following news headlines: Vladimir Putin, Ram
Charan, Srishti Bakshi, UNESCO-MONDIACULT 2022, Shashi Tharoor, International
Coffee Day, World Vegetarian Day.
5G Launch: The nation’s 5G services
were officially inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 1st,
2022, ushering in a period of ultra-high-speed mobile internet, according to a
statement from the Prime Minister’s Office. The sixth iteration of the India
Mobile Congress was also launched by PM Modi.
A new era in the nation is ringing in
with the arrival of 5G. A limitless sky of options will open up with 5G.
The PM continued by saying that the
New India will actively participate in the creation and use of technology
rather than simply becoming a consumer of it.
Future wireless technology design and
related production will be heavily influenced by India.
Inflation in the 19-member eurozone
reached 10% in September, the highest it has ever been in the history of the
common European currency, according to the latest flash estimate from Eurostat,
the EU statistics agency.
This is up from the 9.1% seen in
August. Just one year ago, inflation was 3.2%. The high inflation figure comes
as the region experiences soaring electricity and natural gas prices, and also
comes amid forecasts of a looming recession.
The price of energy has risen 40.8%
when compared to last year’s prices, while the cost of food, alcohol and
tobacco rose 11.8% in September, up from the 10.6% recorded in August. The
inflation figure in Estonia for September was pegged at a whopping 24.2%, a
little lower than the 25.2% seen in August, but also the highest in the
eurozone.
Kazakhstan’s president, Kassym-Jomart
Tokayev is to restore the former name of the country’s capital, Astana, just
three years after he renamed it in honour of his predecessor.
Kazakhstan’s president has signed a
law limiting presidential terms and reverting to the old name of the Central
Asian country’s capital, in the latest step of breaking with the legacy of his
predecessor. The bill also reinstated the capital’s name to Astana.
The name was changed to Nur-Sultan in
March 2019, in honour of outgoing president Nursultan Nazarbayev. President
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a bill on 24 Sept limiting presidential mandates
to a single seven-year term, a day after parliament approved the measure.
Important takeaways for all
competitive exams:
Kazakhstan President: Kassym-Jomart
Tokayev;
Kazakhstan Currency: Kazakhstani
tenge.
Vladimir Putin has declared the
Annexation of 4 Ukrainian regions by Russia namely Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson
and Zaporizhia.
The West has denounced the annexation
of occupied Ukrainian territory by Russia as an illegitimate land grab after
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed treaties.
The president of Ukraine, Zelenskyy
responded by unexpectedly submitting an application to join the NATO armed
alliance.
World’s largest jungle safari park to
be developed in Haryana. The World’s largest jungle safari park is spread
across an area of 10000 acres in the Aravalli Mountain Range of Gurugram and
Nuh District. This project will be the largest such project in the world.
The park will also include a large
herbarium, an aviary, four zones for big cars, a large area for herbivores, an
area for exotic animal/birds, an underwater world, natural trails, visitors,
tourism zones, botanical garden, biomes, equatorial, tropical, coastal, desert,
etc.
For the making of the World’s largest
jungle safari park an Aravalli Foundation will be set up which will manage the
project.
The Hero MotoCrop has appointed actor
Ram Charan as the new brand ambassador. Hero MotoCrop, the country’s largest
two-wheeler maker has launched the Hero GIFT Programme.
The Hero GIFT stands for the Grand Indian
Festival of Trust. This initiative includes exciting model refreshers, retail
benefits, several financing schemes, pre-booking offers, and many more.
The new campaign or initiative
emphasizes the new age youth culture of swiping.
N S Rajan, new chairman of ASCI: The
election of N S Rajan, Director of August One Partners LLP, as Chairman of the
Board of Governors of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) was
done.
Of the board meeting that followed the
36th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of ASCI, Saugata Gupta, Managing Director
& CEO, Marico Limited, was elected Vice-Chairman, and Shashidhar Sinha,
Chief Executive Officer at IPG Mediabrands India, was named Honorary Treasurer.
Important Takeaways For All
Competitive Exams:
Director of GMS India (Meta): Arun
Srinivas
Group CEO of Lintas India: Virat
Tandon
The outstanding credit card base
dropped to 77.99 million in August from over 80 million in July, mainly on
account of the new norms of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) that warrant the
deactivation of cards that are inactive for a year.
While there was a 2.8 per cent decline
in net card additions on a month-on-month (MoM) basis in August, a first in
many months, credit card spends slipped 3 per cent on a high base. Still,
spends topped the Rs 1-trillion mark for the sixth consecutive month.
A women’s rights activist from India,
Srishti Bakshi has won the ‘Changemaker‘ award at the UN SDG (United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals) Action Awards held at a ceremony in Bonn,
Germany.
The award is given to recognise the
efforts of Srishti Bakshi to raise awareness of gender-based violence and
inequality.
The UN SDG Action Awards Ceremony
celebrates people and initiatives that mobilize, inspire, and connect people
every day, proving that each one of us has the power to drive transformative
action.
The finalists for the UN SDG Action
Awards were selected from over 3,000 applications from 150 countries and the
winners were announced during a live event on 27 September 2022.
The Indian delegation headed by the
Minister of State for Culture Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal represented at
UNESCO-MONDIACULT 2022 World Conference held at Mexico City from 28th-30th
September 2022.
The Minister addressed the conference
on burning issues and concerns of the Cultural sector policies. In the
conference, Culture Ministers of more than 100 countries participated on this
multilateral forum to decide on the global cultural discourse.Books and Authors
News
Tharoor, a congress leader announced
to write a biography of BR Ambedkar next month. The book will be published by
Aleph and it will provide insights into the legendary leader’s life and times.
The book will be known as “Ambedkar: A Life”.
Shashi Tharoor claims to answer the
question of whether Ambedkar was the greatest Indian of modern times or not
through the book.
The book will emphasize the
“Humiliation and hurdles” faced by Ambedkar to overcome in society.
Every year, International Coffee Day
is observed on October 1, to celebrate and promote the use of coffee. The day
is marked to celebrate “the coffee sector’s diversity, quality and passion.” It
is an opportunity for coffee lovers to share their love of the beverage and
support farmers whose livelihood depends on the aromatic crop.
Every year 77 Member States of the
International Coffee Organization (ICO), dozens of coffee associates, and
millions of coffee lovers come together to celebrate their favourite beverage.
World Vegetarian Day is celebrated on
the first day of October. It also kickstarts Vegetarian Awareness Month. This
global day of advocacy and awareness celebrates the benefits of vegetarianism
and encourages people to reduce their consumption of animal products.
The day is commemorated to create
awareness about the benefits of vegetarianism like reducing the risks of heart
diseases and other health complications.
Important takeaways for all
competitive exams:
International Vegetarian Union
Founded: 1908, Dresden, Germany;
Chair of International Vegetarian
Union: Marly Winckler.
October 1 is observed as the
International Day of Older Persons across the globe. The day was introduced by
the United Nations General Assembly with an aim of honouring the contribution
of older persons and looking into the problems that they face.
Older people make significant
contributions to society via volunteer work, passing on experience and
knowledge, and assisting their families with different responsibilities. As
today we celebrate this occasion, let’s glance at its history and significance.
The overall umbrella theme for the United Nations International Day of Older Persons in 2022 is “Resilience of Older Persons in a Changing World.”
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