DAILY GK: 5,6 JULY 2022
1.
FEMINA MISS INDIA 2022
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Sini Shetty from Karnataka was crowned as Femina Miss India World 2022
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The event
was hosted at the Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra
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The 1st runner-up of Femina Miss India 2022 was Rajasthan’s Rubal Shekhawat and the 2nd runner-up was Shinata Chauhan from Uttar Pradesh.
2.
KEMPEGOWDA INTERNATIONAL AWARD 2022
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Former
Karnataka chief minister (CM) S M Krishna, Infosys founder and IT industry
veteran N R Narayana Murthy, and former badminton player Prakash Padukone,
have been selected for the ‘Kempegowda International Award’, 2022.
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Kempegowda
International Award, a civilian award is also known
as Nadaprabhu KempegowdaAward, presented annually on 27th June every
year, as it marks Kempegowda day or Kempegowda Jayanthi.
3.
NEW PM OF ISRAEL
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Yesh Atid
Party leader, Yair Lapid officially
became the 14th Prime Minister (PM) of
Israel. He succeeded the previous PM, Naftali Benett.
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He took
charge of the caretaker government (Interim Govt) following the
dissolution of the Knesset (Israel’s Parliament) until the elections, in
September 2022
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Yair’s Book- “Memories After My Death”.
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Israel Currency- New Shekel,President- Isaac
Herzog.
4.
FORMULA 1 BRITISH GRAND PRIX 2022
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Spain’s
Carlos Sainz Jr. of team Scuderia Ferrari , won the Formula 1
Lenovo British Grand Prix 2022 trophy at the Silverstone circuit, in
Silverstone, England. It was his his first career Formula One (F1) race victory.
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About Federation Internationale de l’Automobile
( FIA ) Headquarter – Paris , France
5.
3RD STATES’ STARTUP RANKING 2021
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3rd edition
of the States’ Startup Ranking 2021 was announced in New Delhi (Delhi).
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Event was organized by the Department for
Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), MoCI.
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The Best
Performer States are Gujarat and Karnataka in Category A, and Meghalaya in
Category B.
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The
ranking is based upon States’ Startup Ranking Framework (SRF) 2020 which
involves five grading groups viz. Best performers (Percentile: 100), Top
Performers (Percentile: 60-99), Leaders (Percentile: 30-59), Aspiring Leaders
(Percentile: 11-29), and Emerging Startups Ecosystems (Percentile: Up To 10).
6.
UN OCEAN CONFERENCE 2022 HELD IN LISBON,
PORTUGAL
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The
United Nations (UN) Ocean Conference 2022 was co-hosted by the governments of
Kenya and Portugal at the Lisbon Altice Arena Convention Center in Lisbon,
Portugal.
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The UN
Ocean Conference 2022’s overall theme is
“Scaling up ocean action based on science and innovation for the implementation
of Goal 14: stocktaking, partnerships and solutions.”
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Secretary-General of the Conference – Liu Zhenmin, UN Under-Secretary-General for
Economic and Social Affairs.
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Ambassador
Peter Thomson of Fiji was appointed
as UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy
for the Ocean in 2017 by the UN Secretary-General Guterres.
7.
AMERICA’S TOP SELF-MADE WOMAN BILLIONAIRES
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According
to Forbes’s eighth annual list 2022, Jayshree V Ullal, the President and Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of Arista Networks, a computer networking firm, are
among the Five women of Indian origin in America’s richest self-made women.
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Forbes
had named her one of America’s richest self-made women for her net worth
reaching USD 2.1 billion in 2022 and secured 15th Rank in the list.
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Other
Indian American women who made it to the Forbes list are Neerja Sethi, co-founder of Syntel; Neha Narkhede, co-founder and former chief technology officer (CTO)
of Confluent; former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi,
and Reshma Shetty, co-founder of
Ginkgo Bioworks.
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Diane
Hendricks, co-founder and chairman of ABC Supply, topped the list for the fifth
year with USD 12.2 billion net worth.
8.
INDIA’S FIRST AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION FACILITY –
TIHAN
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Union
Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology Jitendra Singh
launched India’s first Autonomous Navigation facility, TiHAN (Technology
Innovation Hub on Autonomous Navigation) for Aerial and Terrestrial with a
budget layout of Rs. 130 crores at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Hyderabad campus.
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TiHAN is
recognized as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (SIRO) by the
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
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IIT
Hyderabad has established a first-of-its-kind, new Post-Graduation course of
M.Tech in ‘Smart Mobility’.
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TiHAN is
developing and deploying a real-time CPS system by utilising autonomous UAVs
and ground or surface vehicles for many application sectors of national
importance.
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Under
this national mission, IIT Hyderabad has been awarded the Technology Innovation
Hub for Autonomous Navigation and Data Acquisition Systems (UAVs, ROVs. etc.).
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In the
field of technology, around 25 technology innovation hubs have already been set
up by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) under NM-ICPS.
