DAILY GK 25,26 DEC
1. FORBES HIGHEST PAID FEMALE ATHLETE IN 2022
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According to the
Forbes’s World’s
Highest-Paid Female Athletes 2022,
Indian Badminton player PV Sindhu is ranked 12th with a total earning of USD
7.1 million.
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She is the only Indian and
the only badminton player among the top 25 of the list.
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Naomi Osaka of Japan(Tennis) tops the list with USD 51.1 million(USD 1.1
million on-field and USD 50 million off-field.
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Serena Williams of United States of America(USA) (Tennis) is ranked 2nd
2. IMF PROJECTS 6.8 PERCENT GROWTH IN CURRENT FISCAL FOR INDIA
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The International Monetary
Fund (IMF) in its Article IV consultation report projected a growth rate
of 6.8 percent for India in the current fiscal year
(FY23)
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IMP has projected 6.1
percent Growth rate in the next fiscal year (FY24).
3. VINFUTURE SPECIAL PRIZE 2022
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Professor Thalappil Pradeep, an Indian scientist from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) in Chennai,
Tamil Nadu, was awarded the “VinFuture Special Prize 2022” in
Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.
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He received the “Special Prize for Innovators from
Developing Countries” for developing a low-cost filtration system to remove arsenic and other heavy
metals from groundwater.
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He was previously awarded the ‘Padma Shri Award in Science
and Engineering in 2020’
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TheVinFuture Prize serves as the central core of the ‘VinFuture
Foundation’, an independent, non-profit organisation.
4. UIDAI GETS DSCI EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR ‘BEST SECURITY PRACTICES IN
GOVERNMENT SECTOR’
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Unique Identification
Authority of India (UIDAI)
has been honoured with the Data Security Council of India (DSCI) Excellence Award 2022 under ‘Best
Security Practices in Government Sector’ category.
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The award recognises UDAO’s contribution in securing national critical
‘Aadhaar’ infrastructure which provides digital identity based welfare services
to residents.
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DSCI is a not-for-profit industry body on data protection in India
established by the National Association of Software and Service
Companies(NASSCOM).
5. RABINDRANATH TAGORE LITERARY PRIZE 2021-2022
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The Rabindranath Tagore
Literary Prize 2021-22 has been jointly won by Sudeep Sen for
his genre and form bender “Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion,
Consolation” and Shobhana Kumar for her haibun
collection “A Sky Full of Bucket Lists” .
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This award was initiated by
Peter Bundalo of the United States (US)- based independent and non-profit
publishing house Maitreya Publishing Foundation (MPF) to honour the legacy of
Rabindranath Tagore.
6. EKALABYA PURASKAR
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International cyclist Swasti
Singh hailing from Odisha has been honoured with the 30th
EkalabyaPuraskar for the year 2022
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Swasti Singh has won 2 gold and several silver medals at the national
level representing Odisha
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EkalabyaPuraskar was instituted by IMPaCT(Indian Metals Public
Charitable Trust) of IMFA, a leading Ferro Alloys producer, in the country, in
1993.
7. PRIME MINISTER OF FIJI
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SitiveniRabuka, a former military commander, has been chosen as Fiji’s
12th Prime Minister (PM), replacing
Frank Bainimarama, who has been in office for 16 years.
· Mr. Rabuka, who served as PM of Fiji from
1992 to 1999, is being elected to the post for the second term.
· He is head of the People’s Alliance Party (PAP)
· Fiji, a small Pacific island, has
experienced four coups in the last 35
years.
· FijiCapital – Suva
8. NATIONAL CONSUMER DAY 2022 – DECEMBER 24
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National Consumer Day or
BhartiyaGrahakDiwas is annually observed across India on December 24 to create
awareness about consumer rights and responsibilities.
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National Consumer Day is
also known as National Consumer Rights
Day.
