2 July 2013 – Daily Current Affairs 1) India’s first dedicated navigation satellite, the IRNSS-1A, developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), was successfully put in orbit on 1 July 2013. The 1,425-kg navigation satellite was sent through which launch vehicle of ISRO? – PSLV-C22 (The IRNSS-1A is the first of the proposed seven navigational satellites to be launched by ISRO and the acronym IRNSS stands for Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. It was launched from the launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh). Apart from India, its benefits would extend to a range of 1,500 km in the region. With a mission life of 10 years, it will deliver applications ranging across terrestrial, aerial and marine navigation, disaster management, tracking of vehicles, guiding hikers and travellers, and visual-voice navigation for drivers. This satellite will offer motion and location information over the sub-continent just as the popular U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, has done across the world for several years) 2) How many applications have been received by the Reserve Bank of India for new banking licenses in the private sector till 1 July 2013, which was the deadline for submission of applications? – 26 (The 26 applicants include players from the corporate sector, govt.- owned institutions, NBFCs (non-banking financial companies) and micro-finance institutions) 3) Which country on 1 July 2013 became the 28th member of the European Union (EU)? – Croatia (Croatia had signed the Treaty of Accession on 9 December 2011 in Brussels and country’s voters gave their go-ahead to EU membership through a national referendum held on 22 January 2012. EU membership is seen as a landmark in Croatia’s around 22 years of existence since it declared independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991. It had applied for an EU membership in 2003. Croatia’s formal entry into the union is the bloc’s first addition since Bulgaria and Romania joined in 2007. European Union’s 28 members include 6 founding members – Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands and 22 other members, which include – Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom) 4) Qatar’s Dahlan Jumaan Al-Hamad defeated Suresh Kalmadi by 20-18 votes in the elections for the post of President of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA) held at Pune on 1 July 2013. Kalmadi was seeking a re-election for which term in this election? – 4th (Suresh Kalmadi has been President of AAA for three terms since 2000. He is out on bail after spending 10 months in jail for his alleged involvement in the Commonwealth Games scam. Al Hamad is the Qatar Athletics Federation President and is also senior vice-president of AAA) 5) Who has been appointed as the new Lt. Governor of Delhi on 1 July 2013? – Najib Jung (Jung will replace Tejinder Khanna. He is presently Vice Chancellor of Delhi’s reputed academic institution, Jamia Milia Islamia. KK Paul, the former Delhi Commissioner, was appointed as the new Governor of Meghalaya) 6) Who was appointed as the interim Chairman of the Railway Board on 30 June 2013? – Arunendra Kumar (He succeeds Vinay Mittal who retired on the same day. Arunendra Kumar’s tenure will be for a period of three months) 7) According to an announcement made by R.K. Sinha (Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission) at Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s International Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Power at St. Petersburg (Russia), the work for construction of India’s first commercial fast breeder reactor is in an advanced stage of completion. Where is this reactor coming up? – Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu (The Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC), Hyderabad, is manufacturing the fuel bundles for the 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR)) 8) The shock element at Wimbledon 2013 continued with the shock defeat of top seed and 5 time Wimbledon Singles Champion Serena Williams on 1 July 2013. Who defeated her in the 4th round? – Sabine Lisicki of Germany (Lisicki defeated Williams by 6-2 1-6 6-4 in the fourth round. Already top seeds of the tournament like Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova are out of this elite among the 4 Grand Slam tennis tournaments)
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