Current Affairs for Competitive Exam by Gkseries –27 July 2022

Current Affairs is the most important area in all competitive exams. But the difficulty level is very high. That’s why; many aspirants get confused, how to select Current Affairs for Preparation of Competitive Examination? In this Post, Daily Current Affairs 27 July 2022, we have tried to cover each and every point and also included all important facts from National/ International news that are useful for upcoming competitive examinations such as UPSC, SSC, Railway, State Govt. etc.

Current Affairs for Competitive Exam – 27 July 2022

India will host ICC Women’s ODI World Cup 2025

India will host the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup in 2025, as confirmed by the apex cricketing body on Tuesday. The announcement was made by the ICC Board on Tuesday in Birmingham, on the final day of the global cricket body’s annual conference. BCCI will leave no stone unturned to make it a memorable event for everyone concerned. The infrastructure is in place and will have a very successful edition of the World Cup. The hosts were selected via a competitive bidding process overseen by a Board sub-committee chaired by Martin Snedden along with Clare Connor, Sourav Ganguly and Ricky Skerritt.

The ICC Board accepted the recommendations of the committee who conducted a thorough review of each bid along with ICC management. India, Bangladesh, England and Sri Lanka were named as the four hosts for ICC women’s white-ball events from 2024-27.

Other ICC Women’s tournaments hosts:

• Bangladesh will host the 2024 Women’s T20 World Cup, while the 2026 edition will be held in England.
• Sri Lanka has secured hosting rights for the Women’s T20 Champions Trophy, slated for 2027, provided it qualifies for the event.

Cricketer Karuna Jain announces retirement from all forms of cricket

The cricketer Karuna has announced her retirement from all forms of Cricket. She has played five Test matches out of which she made 195 runs with 40 as her highest score since making her debut against England at Delhi in November 2005.

In August 2014. she has played her last Test for India against England at Wormsley. She has also played 44 ODIs and scored 987 runs with a solitary hundred and nine fifties and 103 as her highest score.

Nakul Jain appointed as CEO of Paytm Payment Service

Parent company of Paytm, One97 Communications has appointed Nakul Jain as the CEO of Paytm Payments Services Ltd (PPSL). He replaced Praveen Sharma, who is now serving as the acting CEO of PPSL.

Praveen Sharma has been promoted to oversee the organisation’s commerce vertical in addition to his other duties. Nakul Jain has served as managing director of private banking, priority banking, deposits and branch banking at Standard Chartered Bank. 

Wasfia becomes first Bangladeshi to scale K2

Mountaineer Wasifa Nazreen (39) has become the first Bangladeshi to scale the second highest mountain peak K2 in Pakistan. She has climbed the 8611 metres high K2 mountain peak.

Wasifa Nazreen has also climbed Mount Everest in 2012 and became the second woman from Bangladesh to do so. The team consisted of 21 mountaineers, including some of the most renowned climbers in the world like Mingma Tenzi Sherpa, Mingma David Sherpa, and Nirmal Purja.

City Union Bank, Aditya Birla Health signs bancassurance pact

City Union Bank and Aditya Birla Health Insurance Co Ltd (ABHICL), have signed a bancassurance partnership for the distribution of health insurance products through the former’s network of branches across the country.

CUB has already signed bancassurance pacts with Star Health and Alliance Insurance, and Care Health (formerly known as Religare Health Insurance Co). The CUB has also signed bancassurance pact with Royal Sundaram General Insurance.

Renowned Marathi writer Anant Yashwant Khare passes away

Renowned Marathi writer Anant Yashwant Khare has passed away in Pune at 76.

Noted work:  ‘Antajichi Bakhar’,  ‘Bakhar Antakalachi’ and ‘Udya’

He received the Bhai Madhavrao Bagal Award for his book ‘Kahani Manav Pranyachi’ in 2010. He was awarded with Granthali, Vidarbha Sahitya Sangh, and Lokmangal. He was offered the Sahitya Akademi award for his novel ‘Udya’ in 2020  but he politely refused as by then he had decided not to accept any awards.

India grants USD 2.5 million to UNRWA for Palestine refugees

India has contributed USD 2.5 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). India is a dedicated donor to UNRWA and donated USD 20 million in support of core UNRWA services to Palestine refugees across the Middle East since 2018.

The UNRWA was established as a humanitarian agency in 1949. This agency is fully funded through voluntary contributions and grants from donor countries.

Union Minister Anurag Thakur releases three books by DPD

books published by Directorate of Publications Division. Upon release the Minister presented the first copy of the books to President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind in presence of Vice President Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, President-elect Smt. Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. The three books are:

The three books are:

Moods, Moments and Memories – Former Presidents of India (1950-2017) A Visual History

First Citizen – Pictorial Record of President Ram Nath Kovind’s Term

Interpreting Geometries – Flooring of Rashtrapati Bhavan

Kovind was sworn in as the 14th President of India on July 25, 2017, for a five-year term.

Parshottam Rupala launches subsidiary of NDDB for manure management

Parshottam Rupala (Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying) has launched NDDB MRIDA Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary company of National Dairy Development Boar (NDDB).

Aim: To provide structured impetus to manure management efforts.

NDDB has established NDDB MRIDA Limited (Unlisted Public Limited Company) under the Companies Act, 2013 on July 1, 2022. This will help in savings to the farmers by virtue of the replacement of cooking fuel with biogas. 

Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al Ahmed Al-Sabah named as Prime Minister of Kuwait

World Bank appoints Indian national Indermit Gill as chief economist

Indian national, Indermit Gill has been appointed as a new Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics of World Bank, will be effective September 1, 2022.

He will succeed American economist, Carmen Reinhart. He is currently serving as the Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions. He will be the second Indian to serve as chief economist after Kaushik Basu who was Chief Economist of the World Bank from 2012 to 2016.

ADB approves $96 mn loan to HP for safe drinking water project

The Asian Development Bank has approved $96.3 million loan for safe drinking water and sanitation project in Himachal Pradesh. The loan has been provided under the Himachal Pradesh Rural Drinking Water Improvement and Livelihood Project.

Aim: To provide piped water to all rural households by 2024.

This also upgrade water supply infrastructure and strengthen institutional capacity to ensure safe, sustainable, and inclusive rural water supply and sanitation services.