10 Oct. 2023

Current Affair's 10 Oct. 2023

Current Affair's 10
Oct. 2023

1. Anirban Mukherjee
has been appointed as Global CEO PayU-replaced Amrish Rau

2. Nobel Prize in
Chemistry 2023 awarded to Bawendi, Louis and Alexei

  a. Moungi G Bawendi,

  b. Louis E Brus

  c. Alexei I Ekimov "for the discovery
and synthesis of quantum dots.”

3. Neeraj Chopra bagged
gold in Javelin Throw in Asian Games 2023

Neeraj
Chopra secured the gold medal and Kishore Kumar Jena clinched the
silver in the Men’s Javelin Throw competition at the Asian Games
2023, held at Hangzhou.

Japan’s Roderick
Genki Dean secured the bronze medal 

4. DRI’s ‘Operation
Kachchhap’ Rescues 955 Live Baby Gangetic Turtles

The Directorate
of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) caught 6 persons with 955 live baby Gangetic
turtles of different species at Nagpur, Bhopal, and Chennai.

Intelligence
was developed by the officers of DRI about a syndicate involved in illegal
trafficking and trading of ‘’Turtles of Ganges’’, 

Some
turtles are specified as vulnerable/ near threatened species under the IUCN Red
List and Schedule I and II of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. 6. World teachers day
is observed on 5th October

            World Teachers’ Day is celebrated every year
on October 5 across the globe to recognize and celebrate
educators including teachers and professors’ work.

            Theme 2023: “The teachers we need for the education
we want: The global imperative to reverse the teacher shortage”.

7.RBI appoints Muneesh
Kapur as executive director