Daily Current Affair
10 September 2022
National & International Appointments
1. Volker Turk appointed as next UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Volker Turk of Austria as the next UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- The new High Commissioner is currently coordinating global policy work as an Under-Secretary-General in the UN’s Executive Office.
- From 2019 to 2021, Turk served as Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination in the UN chief’s Executive Office.
- Turk has devoted his long and distinguished career to advancing universal human rights
Science & Technology
2. NASA picks Axiom Space to make Artemis III spacesuits
- NASA has selected Axiom Space to develop a moonwalking system for the Artemis III
- Artemis will put humans back on the surface of the Moon for the first time in 50 years.
- The contract, with a base value of $228.5 million is a task order to develop the next-generation Artemis spacesuit.
- The space agency used its 50 years of spacesuit experience to define the technical and safety requirements for the next generation of spacesuits.
Banking & Finance
3. Fortune India Rich List 2022: 142 billionaires worth $832 billion
- Fortune has released India’s list of ‘India’s Richest’ for 2022.
- According to the report, the wealth of 142 billionaires based in India is collectively worth $832 billion (Rs 66.36 trillion).
- The maiden list was made in collaboration with wealth management firm, Waterfield Advisors.
- Fortune and Waterfield collected details of listed and unlisted wealth, additional information regarding investments outside of the listed business: such as stakes in other public companies.
Defense
4. Army, Air Force conduct joint exercise ‘Gagan strike’ in Punjab
- Army’s Kharga Corps and the Indian Air Force conducted a joint exercise to showcase the might and prowess of the armed forces.
- Termed “Gagan Strike”, the exercise was conducted over a period of four days in several areas of Punjab, bordering Ambala in Haryana.
- The force multiplier effect of combining these machines with ground operations has enhanced the combat superiority of our forces.
National & International Appointments
5. King Charles to be proclaimed Britain’s new monarch
- King Charles will officially be proclaimed as Britain's new monarch in a ceremony followed by gun salutes and the reading of proclamations.
- Charles, 73, succeeded his mother immediately, but an Accession Council made up of hundreds of politicians, bishops and senior civil servants will proclaim his succession at a ceremony.
- Charles is king and head of state of the United Kingdom and 14 other realms including Australia, Canada, Jamaica, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea
Science & Technology
6. IIT-Madras, University of Sydney partnered for energy challenges
- IIT-Madras and the University of Sydney have entered into a research partnership to help address the energy challenges facing nations across the world.
- The partnership will see each of the institutions investing AU$50,000 a year in joint funding for up to four research projects.
- The partnership will see experts from the two institutions working together to develop research and advanced technology in fields related to energy.
State Affairs
7. Meghalaya CM launches ‘Residents Safety & Security’ portal
- Meghalaya chief minister Conrad K Sangma launched the online portal of the Meghalaya Residents Safety and Security Act (MRSSA).
- It will be beneficial for monitoring and better implementation of other services and programmes of the government, especially in critical areas such as health care
- The digitisation process will connect more than 6,000 villages in the state to the online system.
Honours & Awards
8. India’s eastern-most military garrison of Kibithu named after Bipin Rawat
- The strategically important Kibithu Military Garrison on the banks of Lohit Valley along the Line of Actual Control and a key road in this mountain hamlet were named after India’s first Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat.
- The military garrison looks after the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the sensitive sector.
- Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s Rima post is just opposite the Indian garrison.
- The small hamlet is inhabited by Meyor and Jarkin tribes.
Obituaries
9. Archaeologist B B Lal passes away
- Noted archeologist Braj Basi Lal, who led an excavation at the Ramjanmabhoomi site in the mid-1970s, passed away.
- He was honoured with Padma Vibhushan in 2021.
- Considered India’s senior-most archaeologist, Lal was actively involved in archaeological research and writing till the age of 100.
- He was trained by Sir Mortimer Wheeler at Taxila in 1944, after which he joined the Archaeological Survey of India and served as its Director-General from 1968 to 1972.
State Affairs
10. WB govt, UNICEF rope in SHGs to stop child marriage, teenage pregnancy
- The West Bengal govt in collaboration with UNICEF will form child-friendly sanghas', comprising members of SHGs, to curb child marriage and teenage pregnancy in the state.
- To stop these twin menaces, the state govt and UNICEF have planned, as a pilot project, to form 110 child-friendly sanghas' in the next six months in 87 blocks in all 23 districts of the state.
- WB is at the top in cases of child marriage and teenage pregnancy, according to a NFHS report.