Daily Current Affairs 4 July 2021 – Gkseries
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Daily Current Affairs 4 July 2021
Pushkar Singh Dhami has been declared as the Chief Minister of Uttrakhand
After the resignation of Tirath Singh Rawat, two-time Khatima MLA Pushkar Singh Dhami has been declared as the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.
Dhami represents the Khatima constituency in Udham Singh Nagar district, the region known as ‘terai’ and dominated by farmers, largely belonging to the Sikh community, and the center-stage of protests against the three Central farm laws.
A ‘Thakur’ by caste, Dhami is believed to be close to former CM and Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.
HDFC Bank launched SalaamDilSey initiative
ICICI Bank launched the SalaamDilSey initiative, a comprehensive banking solutions for medical doctors.
It includes a number of services such as a range of premium savings and current accounts for personal and business banking.
It also offers a specially curated suite of loans for home, auto, personal, education, medical equipment, setting up a clinic, hospital or business.
It also offers value-added services offered in association with partners, to help doctors fulfil their lifestyle needs, manage clinics or hospitals better and digitally, get updates on the latest medical developments, take care of accounting needs, expand and procure medical supplies.
Zydus Cadila to launch the world’s first Plasmid DNA vaccine for COVID-19
Zydus Cadila has applied for emergency use authorisation (EUA) to the office of the Drug Controller General of India for ZyCoV-D, its plasmid DNA vaccine against Covid-19.
ZyCoV-D is a plasmid DNA vaccine which, when injected, produces the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and elicits an immune response mediated by the cellular and humoral arms of the human immune system, which play a vital role in protection from the disease as well as viral clearance.
ZyCoV-D has also been tested on adolescents between 12 and 18 years in India. Around 1,000 subjects in this age group were enrolled and the vaccine was found to be safe and very well tolerated. The tolerability profile was similar to that seen in the adult population.
Prakash Javadekar started Van Mahotsav 2021 by planting Parijat plant
Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar kick started the week of Van Mahotsav 2021 with the plantation of Parijat sapling in New Delhi.
It is a festival that encourages the citizens of India to plant more trees.
Forests and trees help in lowering the carbon footprint and maintain ecological balance. Van Mahotsav’s celebration in the first week of July also coincides with the onset of the monsoon.
A botanist called MS Randhawa had organized the first Indian national tree plantation week In 1947. In the same year, Khurshid Ahmad Khan, the then Commissioner of Delhi inaugurated the first event by planting Bauhinia saplings.
In 1950, the plantation drives were declared as a national activity by the then Minister of Food and Agriculture Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi. Later in the same year, Munshi moved the event to the first week of July and renamed it Van Mahotsav.
Mana Patel became the first women swimmers to qualify for the Olympics
Maana Patel became the first Indian female swimmer to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics through the ‘Universality quota’.
The Universality quota allows one male and one female competitor from a country to participate in the Olympics, provided no other swimmer from the same gender qualifies for the Games or receives a FINA invite based on his or her Olympic Selection time (B time).
Maana Patel, 21, will join Sajan Prakash and Srihari Natarajan in India’s swimming squad for this month’s Summer Olympics which will take place in Japan’s capital city from July 23 to August 8.
Sir Richard Branson decided to fly to the edge of space
Sir Richard Branson has named the date he’ll fly to the edge of space. It will be 11 July, or very soon after.
The vehicle can climb to an altitude of 90km (295,000ft), giving those on board a few minutes of weightlessness and a view of the curvature of the Earth.
Sir Richard’s intention is to introduce a commercial spaceflight service. Some 600 individuals have already lodged deposits to take the ride.
The original schedule for the next Unity flight called for four Virgin Galactic employees to ride as passengers to test the cabin experience for future tourists.
Flipkart launched the Shopsy app
Flipkart has launched Shopsy app to enable Indians to start their online businesses without any investment.
With the ability to influence their local network and fulfil their aspirations, users of Shopsy will be able to share catalogues of a wide selection of 15 crore products offered by Flipkart sellers.
These range across fashion, beauty, mobiles, electronics and home, with potential customers via popular social media and messaging apps.
With Shopsy, Flipkart aims to enable over 25 million online entrepreneurs by 2023 as they reap the benefits of digital commerce.
It is opening up its years of e-commerce expertise for Indian entrepreneurs. Users can simply register on the Shopsy app using their phone numbers and begin their online entrepreneurial journey.
Budding entrepreneurs can now set up their business as long as they have access to a network of people that trust them, without the hassle of investment, inventory or logistics management.
World Bank pledged $20 billion for Covid-19 vaccines for period ending 2022
The World Bank has pledged to boost available funding for COVID-19 vaccine purchases and deployment to $20 billion from a previous target of $12 billion, citing a sharp increase in overall financing demand from developing countries.
The global development bank had already provided more than $4 billion to 51 developing countries for the purchase and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines, and would add billions for 25 more countries soon.
In a joint statement, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Health Organization urged G20 countries to embrace vaccinated population targets of at least 40% by the end of 2021 and 60% by the first half of 2022.
They also urged the G20 major economies, whose finance leaders meet next week in Italy, to adopt the goal of sharing at least 1 billion vaccine doses with developing countries this year, and to increase financing and eliminate trade barriers in the vaccine supply chain.
New maximum temperature has been recorded in Antarctica
The United Nations World Meteorological Organization has confirmed that Antarctica logged temperatures up to 18.3 degrees Celsius, a new maximum temperature record for the region, on February 6 earlier this year.
With this, Antarctica has now become one of the fastest-warming regions in the world — registering a rise of almost three degrees Celsius in the last 50 years.
According to the UN agency, the high temperatures in Antarctica are a result of a large high-pressure system creating “fohn conditions”, which are downslope winds creating significant surface warming.
The record was established after an extensive review conducted by the WMO’s Weather and Climate Extremes Archive on the weather situation in the Antarctica peninsula.
It, however, debunked reports suggesting that the Antarctic region crossed 20.7 degrees Celsius (69.3 degrees Fahrenheit) on February 9 last year.
Former Indian footballer M Prasannan passed away
Former international footballer M Prasannan passed away at the age of 73 years. He played for Kerala, Maharashtra and Goa in Santosh Trophy National Football Championship.
A gifted midfielder of the 1970s, he shared the dressing room with stalwarts of Indian football like Inder Singh and Doraiswamy Natraj.
Prasannan was part of the Indian team coached by PK Banerjee and captained by Inder Singh in the Merdeka Cup in 1973.
He scored a goal in the fifth-place playoff which India eventually lost to South Vietnam. Like the Brazilian legend Socrates of a later vintage, the bearded Prasannan sported a characteristic headband whenever he stepped onto the field.
Born in Kozhikode in Kerala, Prasannan started his footballing journey at St. Joseph’s School. He got into the Kerala state junior team in 1965 and the senior team three years later.