CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 6th JULY 2022

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF  6^th  JULY 2022

1. World Zoonoses Day is marked annually on 6 July to commemorate the first vaccination administered against  zoonotic disease like influenza, ebola and West Nile virus.
2. Adani Sportsline, the sports arm of the Adani Group, has inked a long-term principal sponsorship deal with the Indian Olympic Association (IOA).
3. Jadavpur University Vice Chancellor Suranjan Das was appointed as the President of the Association of Indian Universities on 5 July, 2022.
4. Gujarat and Karnataka emerged the “best performers” in the third edition of States’ Start-up ranking, 2021. Meghalaya bagged the top honour among Northeastern (NE) states.
5. Four Mathematicians, including Ukrainian Maryna Viazovska, were awarded the prestigious Fields Medal for the year 2022 on 5 July 2022 in Finland.
6. Former India footballer EN Sudhir, who played as a goalkeeper for India in the 1970s, died in Mapusa, Goa.
7. Utilizing Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics (BiSAG-N) app, the Ministry of Steel has joined the PM Gati Shakti Portal and uploaded the geo coordinates of important projects in an effort to detect and address connection gaps in the infrastructure.
8. Indian Navy’s indigenous Frigate INS Satpura and P8I aircraft are taking part in the 28^th edition of the biennial Rim of Pacific (RIMPAC-22) Exercise, the world’s largest international maritime exercise.
9. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully carried out the Maiden flight of Autonomous Flying Wing Technology Demonstrator from Aeronautical Test Range at Chitradurga in Karnataka.
10. The G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (FMM) will be held in Bali, Indonesia, and it will be attended by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar.
11.  New Zealand Cricket (NZC) on 5 July, 2022 announced a ground-breaking agreement, which will see men and women players getting paid the same match fees.
12.  Forest officials in Odisha’s Bonai forest division have named a small patch of a forest after a daily-wager changemaker woman, Sarojini Mohanta.
13.  Odisha has topped the ranking of states for implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA), followed by Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.
14. The eighth-session of the India-Armenia Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological, Cultural and Educational Cooperation was held in Yerevan on 4 July 2022.