1. Harmanpreet, Rizwan win ICC Player of the Month awards for September
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India women's cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Pakistan wicket-keeper batsman Mohammad Rizwan won the ICC Player of the Month awards for September-2022 in the women's and men's categories.
Important facts
Harmanpreet Kaur became India's first ever winner of the ICC Women's Player of the Month due to her leading role in her team's first ODI series win in England since 1999.
She performed brilliantly during the ODI series, scoring 221 runs in three matches, maintaining a strike rate of 103.47 and getting dismissed only once.
The women cricketers selected for the Women's Cricket Award included Bangladesh's Nigar Sultana and India's captains Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana.
The ICC Men's Player of the Month nominees included Australia's Cameron Green and India's Axar Patel, but Pakistan's Mohammad Rizwan managed to bag the ICC Men's Player of the Month award for the first time.
Rizwan was in terrific form in September, putting up some stellar performances in T20Is.
2. Lucknow's Jagriti Yadav becomes UK high commissioner for a day
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20-year-old Jagriti Yadav of Lucknow has been appointed to the highest post of British High Commission in India for a day under women empowerment after winning a competition on the occasion of International Girl Child Day on 11 October 2022.
Important Facts
Jagriti is the sixth person to receive this honour of becoming the British High Commissioner.
According to the British Embassy, Jagriti is the sixth winner to win the 'High Commissioner for a Day-India Edition' competition held every year since 2017.
Jagriti, who hails from Lucknow, remained Britain's highest diplomat in India for a whole day. She gained experience in many diplomatic activities.
Including holding meetings with various parties and presiding over the meeting. Apart from this, she has been involved in many events throughout the day.
During this, Jagriti met the Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture Meenakshi Lekhi as well as met West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin.
High Commissioner for a Day-India Edition
The High Commissioner for a Day-India Edition competition is open to young girls in the age group of 18-23. Last year's winner was Aditi Maheshwari, 20, from Chittorgarh, Rajasthan.
To celebrate International Girl Child Day, the British High Commission provides a unique opportunity for women across India to experience the life of the UK's top diplomat in the country.
3. Praveen Giri wins silver medal in Water Technology at World Skill Competition 2022
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B.Tech final year student in Mechanical Engineering of C.V. Raman Global University Odisha, Praveen Kumar Giri, won the silver medal for India in Water Technology at the World Skills Competition 2022, held at Stuttgart, Germany on 10 October 2022.
He is the second Indian to win a medal in the world skill competition after Aswastha Narayana won the gold medal in water technology at the 2019 event in Kazan, Russia.
In water technology, a total of 7 countries participated this time including Singapore, Japan, South Africa, Germany, and Korea.”
The Gold Medal was won by Singapore, Silver by India and Bronze was won by Japan.
4. CJI Uday Umesh Lalit recommends Justice ‘DY Chandrachud’ as his successor
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The Chief Justice of India (CJI) Uday Umesh Lalit has recommended the name of Justice DY Chandrachud as his successor to the Union Minister of law and Justice on 11 October 2022. Justice Chandrachud is the senior-most Judge in the Supreme Court after the current Chief Justice of India.
Convention on appointment of next CJI
- On 7 October 2022 the Union Law ministry requested the CJI to recommend the name of his successor as per the convention.
- The Memorandum of Procedure for the appointment of the Chief Justice of India says that the Union Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs will, at an ‘appropriate time,’ seek the recommendation of the outgoing Chief Justice of India for the appointment of the next Chief Justice of India.
- Though there is no specific timeline, as per practice, the Ministry seeks the outgoing CJI’s recommendation a month before the retirement.
- The Judge of the Supreme Court retires at the age of 65 years.
- Chief Justice Lalit, who took charge as CJI on August 27, will retire on November 8 this year. After him, Justice Chandrachud is likely to become the 50th CJI.
Justice D Y Chandrachud
Justice D Y Chandrachud was former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court and was elevated to the Supreme Court in May 2016. He has been part of some key benches that delivered landmark judgments like Ayodhya Ramjanmbhumi and Sabarimala. The Ayodhya verdict was unanimous and Chandrachud was part of the five-judge bench headed by then CJI Ranjan Gogoi.
Justice Chandrachud, who is set to be the 50th Chief Justice of India, would have a tenure of two years. He is due to retire on November 10, 2024.
5. Central government appoints Chief Justices of Rajasthan, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir Ladakh High Court
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The Union Ministry of Law and Justice on 11 October 2022 announced the appointment of the new Chief Justices for the High Courts in Rajasthan, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Union Minister of Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju informed that Justice Pankaj Mithal has been appointed as Chief Justice in the Rajasthan High Court here. He was earlier the Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court.
Justice Prasanna B Varale has been appointed as the Karnataka HC’s Chief Justice. He was the senior most judge of the Bombay High Court.
Justice AM Magrey was elevated as the Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court. Justice AM Magrey was earlier the Judge of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court.
The government has announced the appointment after the Supreme Court collegium had recommended their appointment.
Procedure for the appointment of High Court Chief Justice
- Under article 217 of the Indian constitution the Chief Justice of a High Court is appointed by the President in consultation with the Chief Justice of India.
- The Chief Justice of India consults two senior most Judges of the Supreme Court and other Judges who are conversant with the affairs of the concerned High Court.
- The Chief Justice of India will send the recommendation to the Union Minister of Law, Justice.
- The Union Minister of Law, Justice then obtains the views of the concerned State Government. After receipt of the views of the State Government, the Union Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, will submit proposals to the Prime Minister, who will then advise the President as to the selection.
- As soon as the appointment is approved by the President, the Ministry of Law and Justice announces the appointment and issues necessary notification in the Gazette of India.
High Court | Seat of High Court | Additional Bench | Sanctioned number of Judges |
Karnataka | Bengaluru | Hubballi-Dharawada, Kalaburagi | 62 |
Rajasthan | Jodhpur | Jaipur | 50 |
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh(It is a common High Court of the Union Territory of Jammu And Kashmir and the Union Territory of Ladakh ) | Srinagar and Jammu, | 17 |
6. Home Minister unveil statue of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan at Sitabdiara in Saran district, Bihar
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah presides over a function to mark the birth anniversary of socialist icon Jayaprakash Narayan at Sitabdiara in Bihar's Saran district on October 11, 2022.
Important facts
He addressed a public meeting after unveiling the statue of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan at Sitab Diyara.
The event was organized by the Union Ministry of Art and Culture.
This is Amit Shah's second visit to Bihar after the BJP was ousted from power in the state during the political turmoil in Bihar in August this year.
About Jayaprakash Narayan
On October 11, 2022, the birth anniversary of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan was celebrated across the country.
He was born on 11th October, 1902 in Sitabdiara, Bihar.
He was Influenced by Marxist ideas and Gandhian ideology.
He was educated at universities in the United States where he became a supporter of Marxist ideology.
On his return to India in the year 1929, he joined the Indian National Congress.
In the year 1932, he was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for participating in the civil disobedience movement against British rule in India.
In the year 1948, he left the Congress party along with most of the socialist leaders of the Congress and formed the Praja Socialist Party in the year 1952.
He soon became dissatisfied with politics and announced in 1954 that he would devote his life to the Bhoodan movement which was founded by Vinoba Bhave.
In 1959, he introduced the concept of 'reconstruction of Indian politics' through a four-tier hierarchy of village, district, state and union councils.
In the year 1974, he started a program against corruption for social change which was termed as total revolution.
A total revolution is a combination of political, social, economic, cultural, ideological or intellectual, educational and spiritual revolutions.
Jayaprakash Narayan was posthumously awarded India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna (1999), for his invaluable contribution to the freedom struggle, upliftment of the poor and downtrodden.
He died on October 8, 1979 in Patna.
7. Three American gets Nobel Prize for Economics for their research in preventing bank collapse
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Science has awarded three American economists Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, the Nobel Prize in economics 2022 for their pioneering work on “improving our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises and why avoiding bank collapses is vital.” The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences for 2022 was announced 10th October 2022.
Ben Bernanke
According to the Nobel committee ““Through statistical analysis and historical source research, Bernanke demonstrated how failing banks played a decisive role in the global depression of the 1930s, the worst economic crisis in modern history. The collapse of the banking system explains why the downturn was not only deep, but also long-lasting. It added the importance of well-functioning bank regulation is also understood thanks to this research.
Ben Bernanke was the chairman of the United States Central Bank, Federal Reserve in 2008 when the failure of Lehman Brothers sparked a worldwide financial crisis.
Douglas W Diamond and Philip H Dybvig
Both Diamond and Dybvig worked together to develop theoretical models explaining why banks exist, how their role in society makes them vulnerable to rumours about their impending collapse, and how society can lessen this vulnerability. These insights “form the foundation of modern bank regulation,” said the Academy.
Nobel Prize in Economics
The economics prize is not one of the original five awards created in the 1895 will of industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel.
It was established by Sweden's Central Bank, Sveriges Riksbank in 1968 and the first prize was given in 1969 to Ragnar Frisch of Norway and Jan Tinbergen of Netherlands.
The prize money of 10 million Swedish crown ($885,000) prize money will be distributed between them three.
The prize will be conferred in a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on 10 December which is the death anniversary of Alfred Nobel.
Nobel Prize Winner 2022
Field | Winner 2021 | Winner 2022 |
Medicine or Physiology | David Julius (American) and Ardem Patapoutian(American) | Svante Paabo of Sweden |
Chemistry | Benjamin List (Germany)and David W.C. MacMillan(United Kingdom) | Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless |
Physics | Syukuro Manabe(Japan), Klaus Hasselmann (Germany)and Giorgio Parisi(Italy) | Alain Aspect(France), John Clauser(American) and Anton Zeilinger(Austria) |
Literature | Abdulrazak Gurnah(United Kingdom) | Annie Ernaux of France |
Peace | Maria Ressa(Philippines ) and Dmitry Muratov(Russia) | Ales Byalyatski(Belarus), Memorial Group(Russia) and Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine) |
Economics | David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens (All are Americans) | Ben Bernanke,Douglas Diamond,Philip Dybvig ( All are American) |
8. SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav passes away
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Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav passed away while undergoing treatment at Medanta hospital in Gurugram on 10 October. He was 82.
Important facts
Mulayam Singh Yadav's condition was "very critical" for the past few weeks and he was on life-saving drugs.
Mulayam Singh Yadav born on November 22, 1939 in Etawah, was a senior Indian politician and Samajwadi Party supremo.
He was representing the Azamgarh constituency of Uttar Pradesh.
Presently he was MP from Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat.
He emerged in the politics of Uttar Pradesh during a period of intense social and political upheaval after the 1970s.
He was a three-time Uttar Pradesh chief minister.
He took oath as the 15th CM of UP in 1989, after which the Congress failed to return to power in the state.
After the 1989 UP elections, Mulayam took over as chief minister with the outside support of the BJP as the leader of the Janata Dal.
He became chief minister for the second time as an SP leader in 1993, when the Kanshi Ram-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) became his ally.
He took oath as chief minister for the third time in 2003 as the leader of the SP-led coalition.
He was the Chief Minister for a period of about six years and 9 months during the three terms.
He was first elected MLA from Jaswantnagar in Etawah as a candidate of Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) in 1967 but lost the election in 1969 to Bishambhar Singh Yadav of Congress.
He was elected 10 times as MLA and seven times as MP from Mainpuri and Azamgarh.
9. Pankaj Advani wins his 25th World title at Kuala Lumpur
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Pankaj Advani of India defeated Sourav Kothari in the final of the 2022 IBSF World Billiards Championship, to win his 25th World title.
The final of the 2022 IBSF World Billiards Championship was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 8 October 2022.
Pankaj Advani has won the World Billiards title for five times in a row.
Pankaj Advani has now won 25 world titles. No other Indian sportsperson has won so many world titles in any sport.
Cue Sport
Cue sport is played on a table where a cue (stick) is used to hit the balls. Snooker, Billiards, and pool are some famous cue sports in the world.
10. Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh to lead Indian delegation at the 145th IPU Assembly in Rwanda
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Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha, Harivansh will lead the 12 member Indian Parliamentary delegation to the 145th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to be held in Kigali, Rwanda.
The 145th IPU Assembly is being hosted by the Parliament of Rwanda at Kigali from 11-15 October 2022.
The theme of the 145th IPU Assembly: Gender equality and gender-sensitive parliaments as drivers of change for a more resilient and peaceful world.
Rwanda is the first country in the world with a female majority in Parliament. 61.3% members in the Chamber of Deputies and 36% in the Senate are women.
The Parliament of Rwanda consists of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
The Inter-Parliamentary Union was set up in 1889. It is a global organization of national parliaments dedicated to promoting peace through parliamentary diplomacy and dialogue.
At present it has 178 member Parliaments and 14 Associate members.
Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.
President: Saber Hossain Choudhary of Bangladesh
Every year 30 June is observed as International Day of Parliamentarians .
