Daily Current Affairs  – 4 October 2022

In News Recently, according to the forecast by the UNCTAD, India’s economic growth is expected to decline to 5.7 per cent this year from 8.2 per cent in 2021.  Major Highlights of the report The country’s growth will further drop to 4.7% in 2023. Reasons being higher financing cost and weaker public expenditures. India experienced […]

In News Recently, the ISRO confirmed that the Mars Orbiter craft has lost communication with ground station, it’s non-recoverable and with this the Mangalyaan mission has attained end-of-life. About Mangalyaan Mission Background The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan is a space probe launched by the Indian Space Research Organization in 2013. Features Mangalyaan was […]

In News : The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for 2022 will be awarded to Yunqing Tang, Assistant Professor with the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. Ms. Yunqing’s works “display a remarkable combination of sophisticated techniques, in which the arithmetic and geometry of modular curves and of Shimura varieties play a central role, and her results and […]

In News Recently published study has found that climate change will aid the spread of Lassa fever to the central and eastern parts of the continent in the next 50 years. About Lassa fever  It is a zoonotic disease endemic to parts of west Africa. Causes : It is caused by the Lassa virus, a […]

In News Recently, the Prime Minister has paid tributes to Shyamji Krishna Varma on his Jayanti.  About Shyamji Krishna Varma  He was born on 4th October, 1857 in Mandvi town of Kachchh district of Gujarat. He was one of the foremost freedom fighters in the history of the freedom movement of India with a high […]

In News Recently, UAE’s visa rules were changed that will now allow visitors to legally enter and stay in the UAE for 60 days, an increase from the previous 30 days.  Also, the job exploration visa, which seeks to easily allow talented professionals find employment in the UAE, will not require a sponsor or host. […]

In Context Recently, the NGT has directed the state government of Odisha to revive Sukapaika River within 6 months. About Sukapaika River Sukapaika is one of the several distributaries of the mighty Mahanadi river in Odisha. It branches away from the Mahanadi at Ayatpur village in Cuttack district and flows for about 40 kilometers (km) […]

In News The government is planning to bring convergence between the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) and the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) to restore degraded land and reverse desertification in India. Key Points Increasing Degraded Land:  According to the Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas 2021, at least 30% of India’s […]

Context The 2022 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo for his research in the field of genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. About: Awarded by: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Awarded for: Dr. Svante Pääbo’s discoveries in developing new and innovative methodologies to […]

In News Recently, according to the data shared by the government over 69% houses constructed under PMAY in rural India are either wholly or jointly owned by women.  About Housing is one of the basic requirements for human survival.  For a normal citizen owning a house provides significant economic and social security and status in […]