Daily Current Affairs Quiz 4th July 2024

This genetic condition impacts mental and physical development causing various challenges although individuals with down syndrome share similarities their abilities vary the condition usually arises randomly during early fetal development and is not inherited

” Notes:prime minister narendra modi congratulated dick schoof on becoming the new prime minister of the netherlands and expressed eagerness to strengthen india-netherlands relations. schoof, 67, a former head of the dutch secret service, was sworn in by king willem-alexander. he succeeds mark rutte, who will become nato’s next secretary-general. the new government formation followed seven months of negotiations after far-right leader geert wilders’ electoral victory.”

The environmental protection agency has urged the forest department to maintain transparency in a project to extract senna spectabilis from wayanad wildlife sanctuary senna spectabilis a legume family tree native to south and central america is invasive in india

” Notes:the 16th india-mongolia joint military exercise nomadic elephant started at umroi, meghalaya, running from july 3 to 16, 2024. it involves 45 indian personnel and mongolian army’s 150 quick reaction force battalion. the annual event, alternating between the countries, focuses on counter-insurgency in semi-urban and mountainous terrain. key attendees include mongolian ambassador dambajavyn ganbold and major general prasanna joshi. the exercise enhances interoperability and defense cooperation.”

” Notes:astronomers discovered a new radio galaxy using the low-frequency array (lofar), a pan-european distributed radio interferometer developed by the dutch institute for radio astronomy (astron). lofar observes the universe at low radio frequencies (90-200 mhz) and can simultaneously observe multiple directions. it aims to explore the early universe, solar activity, and the terrestrial atmosphere. lofar’s innovative design includes advanced digital beam-forming for agile, multi-user operations.”

” On 28th june 2024, the telecom regulatory authority of india (trai) under the department of telecommunications (dot), ministry of communications (moc), government of india (goi), has announced that telecommunication mobile number portability (9thamendment) regulations, 2024 issued on 14th march, 2024, will come into force from 1st july, 2024. these new regulations aimed to curb the porting of mobile numbers by way of fraudulent subscriber identity module (sim) swap or replacement by unscrupulous elements. trai has amended the telecommunication mobile number portability regulations, 2009 in exercise of powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 36, read with sub-clauses (i), (iii), and (v) of clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 11, of the telecom regulatory authority of india act, 1997. the new regulations has introduced an additional criterion for rejecting the request for allocation of a unique porting code (upc), the 1st step to changing service providers using mobile number portability (mnp). it further mandates that the upc should not be allocated if the request for upc has been made before the expiry of 7 days (earlier, it was 10 days) from the date of sim swap or replacement of the mobile number.”

” On june 30 2024, lieutenant general upendra dwivedi, the former vice chief of army staff (vcoas) took charge as the 30th chief of the army staff (coas) of the indian army (ia). he succeeded general manoj pande, who took charge as coas in may 2022. manoj pande was superannuated on june 30 2024, after completing four decades of distinguished service in the ia. general upendra dwivedi has been awarded the param vishisht seva medal (pvsm)and ati vishisht seva medals (avsm), as well as three goc-in-c commendation cards for his illustrious service.on june 30 2024, lieutenant general ns raja subramani took charge as the new vice chief of army staff (vcoas) of the ia. he succeeded general upendra dwivedi, who was appointed as vcoas on february 19 2024. he is presently the chief of staff in northern command.”

” On 1st july 2024, japan launched an earth observation satellite named, advanced land observation satellite-4 “daichi-4” (alos-4) on its new flagship third h3 launch vehicle (h3 f3: flight no.3)  from the japan aerospace exploration agency (jaxa) tanegashima space center (tnsc), off the coast of kyushu, japan. the satellite was successfully placed to the lower earth orbit (leo). it is equipped with an infrared sensor developed the defence ministry of japan. it is mainly tasked with earth observation and aimed to collect data for disaster response and mapmaking. h3 rocket was developed by jaxa in partnership with mitsubishi heavy industries limited (mhi).”

” On june 26, 2024, the world bank (wb) released a report titled ‘migration and development brief 40 june 2024: remittances slowed in 2023,expected to grow faster in 2024‘. as per it, india received usd 120 billion in remittances in 2023, a 7.5% increase. the reason behind this increase is lower inflation and strong labor markets in the united states of america (usa) and europe. remittances to india are forecasted to grow 3.7% to usd 124 billion in 2024 and 4% to usd 129 billion in 2025. remittances from the united arab emirates (uae), accounted for 18% of india’s remittances, the second-largest source of india’s remittances after the us.click here to read more”

” The united nations (un) international asteroid day (iad) is a global awareness campaign, annually observed across the globe on 30 june, to raise public awareness about asteroid impact hazards and inform the public about the worldwide crisis communication actions for credible near-earth object (neo) threats. the 1st ever iad was observed on 30 june 2017. june 30th was chosen to commemorate the tunguska impact event, which occurred in siberia, the russian federation, in 1908. it is considered earth’s largest recorded asteroid impact. click here to read more”

” On 30 june 2024, mercedes’ george russell, a british racing driver, won the austrian grand prix (gp), officially known as the formula 1(f1) qatar airways austrian grand prix 2024, at the red bull ring circuit in spielberg, austria. this marks russell’s 2nd career win and first career podium finish at the red bull ring. this also marks mercedes’ first win since russel won the 2022 são paulo grand prix, brazil. mclaren’s oscar piastri, an australian racing driver, finished 2nd, and scuderia ferrari’s carlos sainz, a spanish racing driver, finished 3rd.”

” The ministry of statistics and programme implementation (mospi) has constituted 26-member advisory committee on national accounts statistics (acnas) to revise the base year for gross domestic product (gdp) data.The new committee will be headed by biswanath goldar, former professor of institute of economic growth (ieg), as chairman.Acnas has been tasked to review the existing databases and advise on inclusion of new data sources for enhancing the estimates of national accounts.The committee will have tenure of 5 years or until the completion of the next base year revision, whichever is later.”

The international day of parliamentarism also known as world parliament day is celebrated every year on 30 june across the globe to raise awareness of parliaments globally and their contribution to serving as the foundation of democracies this day marks the anniversary of the foundation of the inter-parliamentary union

” The ministry of statistics and programme implementation (mospi) has launched the esankhyiki portal (https://esankhyiki.mospi.gov.in/), an online platform which will offer real-time data to planners, policy-makers, researchers and the general public.It aims to establish a comprehensive data management and sharing system which will easily disseminate the official statistics in india.The portal was launched by dr. arvind panagariya, chairman, 16th finance commission of india on occasion of national statistics day (on 29th june, 2024) at an event held in new delhi, delhi.Theme of statistics day 2024: ‘use of data for decision making’.”

” Ravi agrawal has been appointed as the new chairman of the central board of direct taxes (cbdt), the administrative body for the income tax department. he is a 1988-batch indian revenue service (irs) officer. he succeeded nitin gupta, whose extended tenure ended on june 30, 2024.Gupta was appointed as the chairman of cbdt in june 2022 and he was scheduled to retire in september 2023, but he was given a nine-month extension till june 2024. the cbdt, headed by a chairman and can have six members of special secretary rank.”