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2 July Current Affairs 2024 Daliy CA
2 JULY CURRENT AFFAIRS
2 July - World Sports Journalists Day
The day was established in 1994 to mark the 70th anniversary of the International Sports PressAssociation (AIPS).
AIPS Founded on July 2, 1924;during the Summer Olympics held in Paris.
2 July - World UFO Day
✤ to spread awareness about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs).
✤ To commemorate the supposed UFO crash incident in Roswell, New Mexico
in 1947.
parts of the world
BCCI Announces Massive Prize Money Of 125 Crore Rupees
Hurricane Beryl
§ Hurricane Beryl grew to an “extremely dangerous” Category 4
hurricane set to cause massive damage across the Caribbean’s
Windward Islands, which form part of the West Indies and comprise
Barbados, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago.
• A hurricane is a powerful and destructive tropical storm
characterized by strong winds, heavy rainfall, and low atmospheric
pressure.
• Hurricanes are also known as cyclones or typhoons in different
• In the Atlantic Ocean and eastern North Pacific, they are called
hurricanes, while in the
northwestern Pacific, they are referred to
as typhoons, and in the
South Pacific and Indian Ocean, they are
known as cyclones.
BCCI Announces Massive Prize Money Of 125 Crore Rupees
For Team India After Winning T20 World Cup 2024/
What Is Snowblind Malware?
• A new banking malware called ‘Snowblind’ is targeting
Android users to steal banking credentials.
• Snowblind is made to get banking login information, and make
deals without permission.
• They are spread through other platforms or phishing.
• Snowblind is mostly active in Southeast Asia.
• Unlike most Android malware, Snowblind exploits a feature of Linux
kernel and the Android operating system called ‘seccomp’, which
stands for ‘secure computing’ - used to check applications for signs
of tampering.
• Snowblind injects a piece of code that loads before seccomp
initialises the anti-tampering measures.
• Snowblind can also disable biometric and two-factor
authentication, two security features commonly used by banking
apps to thwart unauthorised access.
CS Setty Gets FSIB Approval To Head SBI As Next
Chairman/
as the next chairman of
State Bank of India (SBI) by the Financial
Services Institution Bureau (FSIB)
• will succeed current chairman
Dinesh Khara, whose term ends on
August 28.
Lt Gen Devendra Sharma takes over as new GoC-in-C, ARTRAC,
Shimla
• Lieutenant General Devendra
Sharma took over as the
25th General officer
commanding-in-chief (GoC-in-C)
of the Army Training Command
(ARTRAC) in
Shimla.
IAS officer Sujata Saunik becomes Maharashtra’s first
female Chief Secretary
P. Geetha wins first ever K. Saraswathi Amma Award
• K. Saraswathi Amma Award is instituted by WINGS (Women’s
Integration and Growth Through Sports) Kerala, for feminist studies.
Singareni CMD Balaram receives “Tree Man of Telangan ” award/
• Chairman and Managing Director of Singareni Collieries
Company Ltd (SCCL) N. Balaram has been honoured with “Tree
Man of Telangana” award by the Green Maple Foundation.
• For his efforts of planting over 18,000 samplings individually
and helping develop 35 mini-forests in six districts.
• The Green Maple Foundation presents the award every year to
encourage measures for environmental protection by public.
DEFENCE NEWS
INS Shivalik Joins 29th RIMPAC Exercise In Hawaii/
• The Indian Navy has joined the world's largest naval military
wargame Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) in Hawaii.
• 29 nations, 40 surface ships, three submarines, over 150 aircraft and
more than 25,000 personnel participated
• The Indian Navy has deployed frontline warship INS Shivalik for the
RIMPAC.
• The theme of RIMPAC 2024 is "Partners: Integrated and Prepared”.
• The harbour phase of the exercise is taking place from June 27 to July
7.
• The RIMPAC exercise will run till August 1.
•About: RIMPAC is the largest biennial multilateral naval exercises,
led by the United States of America.
• Background: RIMPAC commenced in 1971 as an annual exercise
involving the US, Australia, and Canada.
• However, starting in 1974, the maritime exercise transitioned to a
biennial event.
• About: INS ‘Shivalik’ is India’s first stealth frigate in the Shivalik
series developed under Project 17.
• It is built at the Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL),Mumbai.
• It was commissioned into the Indian Navy on April 29, 2010.
• Features: Pioneering the use of the CODOG (COmbined Diesel Or
Gas) propulsion system, it marks a first for the Indian Navy.
Rare moth endemic to Western Ghats ‘rediscovered’ in
Nilgiris after 132 years
• Chiretolpis erubescens, a rare moth endemic
to the Western Ghats recorded to have
inhabited the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
(NBR).
• The species, which was “rediscovered” after
132 years.
•it was first recorded by British entomologist
George Francis Hampton in 1891.
Frank Duckworth, co-inventor of Duckworth-Lewis-Stern
(DLS) method, passed away
• His formula is used to determine
results in rain-curtailed cricket
matches.
• The method was first used in
international cricket in 1997 and was
formally adopted by the ICC as the
standard method for setting revised
targets in truncated games in 2001.
• The Duckworth-Lewis (D/L) method is a
formula used in cricket to calculate a fair
target for the second team's innings
when a match is interrupted by bad
weather or other stoppages.
