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CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 5th AUGUST 2022

Editor1 Aug 6 2022 Current Affairs

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF  5th AUGUST 2022

  1. A floating solar power plant is going to be built in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa. Said to be the world’s largest floating solar plant, it will generate 600 Megawatt power by 2022-23.
  2. Ministry of Culture has released the third comic book on stories on 20 Tribal Freedom Fighters.
  3. India and the US will conduct a fortnight-long mega military exercise in Uttarakhand’s Auli in October 2022.
  4. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of various projects of Shrimad Rajchandra Mission, Dharampur in Gujarat, in August 2022.
  5. With 10 new wetlands added to the list in August 2022, India have 64 wetlands designated as Ramsar Sites covering an area of 12,50,361 hectares in the country.
  6. Fintech startup BharatPe has appointed Nalin Negi, the former chief financial officer of credit cards issuer SBI card, as its CFO.
  7.  Karnataka Chief Minister Basavraj Bommai has announced that Kannada film star Puneeth Rajkumar, who died 2021, will be conferred with the ‘Karnataka Ratna’ award posthumously, on November 1, 2022.
  8. India’s Murali Sreeshankar clinched a silver medal in the men’s long jump event at the Commonwealth Games on 4 August 2022.
  9.  In the Commonwealth Games, Para-powerlifter Sudhir clinched gold medal in the men’s heavyweight final with the best weight of 212 kg.
  10.  International Dairy Federation World Daily Summit (IDF WDS 2022), is scheduled to be held in New Delhi from September 12.
  11. Deepak Punia won his first gold at Commonwealth Games 2022 by defeating two times Commonwealth Games gold medallist Pakistani wrestler Muhammad Inam.
  12. Sakshi Malik won the gold medal in women’s 62kg freestyle wrestling by defeating Canadian wrestler Ana Godinez Gonzales.
  13. Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia bags India’s 7th gold medal in Commonwealth Games 2022 by defeating Canada’s Lachlan McNeil in men’s 65kg category Wrestling in the finals.
  14. Justice Uday U Lalit is set to take over as the 49th Chief Justice of India (CJI) on August 27, 2022 with the incumbent, NV Ramana recommending the former as his successor.

 

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