10 May 2022 : Latest Current Affairs 10th May
Important Current Affairs 10th May 2022
In this article, we will discuss all the Current Affairs of 10th May about national, international, banking, finance, sports, awards, and many others. So if you are interested to know about the latest 10th May 2022 current affairs then read this article till the end.
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Current Affairs of 10th May – National
1. The Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh introduced the Ladli Laxmi 2.0 scheme.
◉ On May 8, 2022, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan of Madhya Pradesh introduced the second phase of the Ladli Laxmi plan (Ladli Laxmi scheme-2.0).
◉ The Ladli Laxmi Scheme 2.0 is a novel project aimed at encouraging girls to seek higher education and being self-sufficient.
◉ Since 2007, the government of Madhya Pradesh has undertaken the Ladli Laxmi Scheme to improve the economic and educational standing of girls.
2. Asani, a severe cyclone, is expected to reach Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and West Bengal.
◉ The cyclonic depression over the South Andaman Sea has been dubbed “Asani” by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD).
◉ The cyclone is the first of the year, and Sri Lanka came up with the name, which means “wrath” in Sinhala.
◉ To avoid confusion, cyclones are given names, which aid catastrophe risk awareness, management, and mitigation.
3. Jammu and Kashmir have received a new electoral map.
◉ In a final verdict delivered only a day before its two-year term was to end, a three-member Delimitation Commission redrawing the electoral map of Jammu and Kashmir assigned 47 Assembly seats to the Kashmir division and 43 to the Jammu division.
◉ A gazette announcement was issued after the panel, chaired by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai, endorsed the final judgment, which gave Jammu six additional seats and Kashmir one more. Before the reorganization, Jammu had 37 Assembly constituencies and Kashmir had 46, bringing the total number of Assembly seats in the Union Territory to 90.
4. Manipur’s Poumai Naga area has been designated as a drug-free zone.
◉ The Poumai tribe of Manipur has designated its inhabited territories a Drug-Free Zone in support of the state government’s anti-drug effort.
◉ The Chief Minister praised the Poumai Naga tribe’s decision and stated that the state government will not accept deforestation or poppy cultivation in Manipur’s hill areas.
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International News
5. Hong Kong’s next Chief Executive, John Lee Ka-Chiu, has been chosen.
◉ Hong Kong’s next chief executive, John Lee Ka-Chiu, has been confirmed. Carrie Lam will be replaced by him.
◉ He will be the first security official to serve as Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, following years of political instability and recent crippling pandemic controls.
Banking
6. SEBI formed an Advisory Committee for ESG-related issues, led by Navneet Munot.
◉ The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has formed a committee to advise on ESG-related issues in the securities market.
◉ Navneet Munot, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of HDFC Mutual Fund, will chair the committee.
Business News
7. Reliance became the first Indian firm to reach a revenue of $100 billion.
◉ Reliance Industries has become the first Indian business to surpass $100 billion in yearly revenue. For the quarter ending March 2022, the company’s net profit increased by 22.5 percent.
◉ Retail, internet services, and the oil and gas business have all seen significant growth at Reliance. In addition, the company recorded the highest-ever quarterly EBITDA (profits before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation) of Rs 33,968 crores (up 28 percent) year over year.
Appointment
8. JB Pardiwala and Sudhanshu Dhulia were sworn in as Supreme Court judges by President Ram Nath Kovind.
◉ In November 2008, Justice Dhuliawas was appointed to the Uttarakhand High Court as a judge, and on January 10, 2021, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court. Justice Pardiwala was appointed to the Gujarat High Court as an additional judge and afterwards confirmed as a permanent judge.
9. At the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network, Rajesh Unni was named Vice-Chair.
◉ Captain Rajesh Unni, the founder, and CEO of Synergy Group, one of the world’s premier ship managers and one of India’s largest maritime enterprises, has been chosen Vice-Chair of the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network, based in Denmark (MACN).
◉ MACN is made up of 165 member companies that collectively account for 50% of global tonnage.
Awards
10. For his contribution during the epidemic, Guruswamy Krishnamoorthy was awarded the British honor of ‘MBE’.
◉ At Buckingham Palace in London, the UK, Guruswamy Krishnamoorthy, CEO of Penlon, a world-class British medical technology firm, is set to receive The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) Award 2022 – Honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) recognition from the Queen.
◉ Guruswamy Krishnamoorthy is from Tamil Nadu state India. The British Honorary Awards are given out twice a year, first in January and again in June, on the Queen’s official birthday.
11. Danish Siddiqui was awarded the 2nd Pulitzer Prize for ‘pictures of Covid toll’ after his death.
◉ Danish Siddiqui (Reuters), a late photojournalist, was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize in feature photography in 2022, alongside three other Indian journalists: Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, and Amit Dave.
◉ “Images of COVID’s toll in India that blended intimacy and destruction while delivering viewers a heightened feeling of location” won them the award.
Sports
12. D Gukesh, an Indian grandmaster, won the Sunway Formentera Open chess tournament.
◉ The 1st Chessable Sunway Formentera Open 2022 chess tournament in Punta Prima was won by Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh.
◉ He had previously won the La Roda tournament and the Menorca Open in recent weeks, making it a hat-trick of championships.
Important day
13. 10 May is Argania’s International Day.
◉ On May 10, 2022, the United Nations marked the second International Day of Argania.
◉ The Kingdom of Morocco’s efforts to promote the Argan tree as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity and an ancestral source of resilient and sustainable development have culminated in this event.
14. World Lupus Day is May 10th.
◉ Every year on May 10th, World Lupus Day is commemorated to promote awareness of the Lupus disease, which can affect any region of the body.
◉ An autoimmune disease occurs when the immune system is unable to distinguish between healthy human cells and the foreign ones it is attempting to eliminate.
Obituary
15. Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, a Santoor maestro, died.
◉ Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, an Indian music composer and santoor musician, died in Mumbai. He was 84.
◉ For the previous six months, he had been suffering from kidney problems and was on dialysis. He died as a result of heart arrest.
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