Daily Current Affairs Update of 2nd July 2015
1.
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani, in an unprecedented move for
the first time nominated a female to the post of judge in Afghanistan's
Supreme Court. He has appointed Anisa Rasouli to the post of judge.
Anisa Rasouli, the head of the Afghan Women Judges Association and a
former juvenile court judge, is the only female nominated to the
nine-member bench.
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2.
Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Airtel has become the world’s third largest
mobile operator with 303 million subscribers. It operates in 20
countries. According to World Cellular Information Service (WCIS) Bharti
Airtel has moved up one position in the global rankings. China Mobile
is the top mobile operator in the world with 626.27 million subscribers.
Vodafone Group of UK ranks second with 403.08 million subscribers.
3.
The US and Cuba announced the opening of embassies in each other's
capitals, a major step in re-establishing diplomatic ties severed in
1961. Relations had been frozen since the early 1960s when the US broke
links and imposed a trade embargo with the Communist island. But the US
and Cuba agreed to normalise relations at the end of 2014.
4.
Infosys has launched a mobile app, the 'Finacle SME Enable' to help
banks enhance support and service for their small and medium business
enterprise (SME) customers. The mobile-based financial and business
management solution will provide bank’s SME customers real-time access
to their account information and relevant financial management tools to
manage their day-to-day business operations in a self-service mode.
5.
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and JCB International
Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of Japan's JCB Co. Ltd., entered into a
partnership for payment cards issuance and acceptance. Under the pact,
JCB cards will be accepted at all NPCI locations in India. The
partnership will also include the issuance of RuPay/JCB international
cards by NPCI member banks that will be globally accepted through the
JCB network. These cards will be launched in the second half of 2016.
6.
Goa has been selected to host FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017. Goa would be
one of the six centres in the country that are provisionally selected to
host forthcoming FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017 matches. FIFA has
provisionally shortlisted other centres like Guwahati, Kochi, Kolkata,
Navi Mumbai and New Delhi besides Goa as the World Cup venues.
7.
Star shot putter Inderjeet Singh and half-miler Jinson Johnson
clinched their third gold in a row at the third and final leg of Asian
Athletics Grand Prix Series 2015 held in Thailand's Chantaburi. With
this gold, both Inderjeet and Johnson completed their golden hat-trick
as they had bagged the yellow metal in their respective events in the
first and second legs. Johnson led men's 800m final all through with a
timing of 1:50.56 while Inderjeet produced a best effort of 19.83m to
take the top honours.
8.
Cuba has become the first country to eliminate the transmission of
HIV and syphilis from mother to child, according to the World Health
Organisation (WHO). The World Health Organization hailed what it called
‘one of the greatest public health achievements possible. Only two
children in the country were born with HIV and five with syphilis in
2013.
9.
Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was conferred with Peru's one
of the highest awards 'Grand Officer' for social work and mission to
deliver peace through his foundation 'The Art of Living'. Earlier the
government of Colombia honoured him with the country's highest civilian
award for his contribution to peace.
10.
Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta won the
Commonwealth Chess Championship after settling for a quick draw with
Arghyadip Das in the ninth and final round. Gupta made eight points out
of a possible nine. In the women's section, Padmini Rout won gold medal
by defeating S. Vijayalakshmi.
