Current Affairs 18 May: Nikhat Zareen wins gold in Elorda Cup 2024, Brazil will host FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027

May 18, 2024 Divya Bharat

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Current Affairs Nikhat Zareen Wins Gold At Elorda Cup 2024, Brazil To Host FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027

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Former chairman of ICICI Bank Narayanan Vaghul passed away. NASA begins field testing of Artemis-3 mission. At the same time, Sanjeev Jain became the new COO of Wipro.

Let us have a look at such major current affairs of today, which are important for the students preparing for government jobs…

SPORTS

1. Nikhat Zareen wins gold at Elorda Cup 2024: On May 18, Indian boxer Nikhat Zareen won the gold medal in the Elorda Cup 2024. Nikhat had participated in the women’s 52 kg boxing event.

Two-time world champion Nikhat Zareen was born on 14 June 1996 in Nizamabad.

Nikhat defeated Kazakhstan’s Jazira Urakbayeva 5-0.
27-year-old Nikhat had won the silver medal in the Thailand Open International Boxing Tournament in Bangkok.
In 2011, Nikhat won gold for India in the AIBA Youth and Junior World Championships.
In the Elorda Cup 2024, four boxers from India won bronze medals in the competition.
These include Yaifaba Singh Soibham, Abhishek Yadav, Vishal and Gaurav Chauhan.

2. Brazil to host FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027: The 74th Congress meeting of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was held in Thailand on 17 May. In this, the name of Brazil was announced as the host country of the 10th FIFA Women’s Football World Cup to be held in 2027.

For the first time, Brazil will host the Women’s Football World Cup.

Along with this, this will be the first Women’s Football World Cup to be held in South America.
Brazil won the hosting bid over the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
In April 2024, America and Mexico had pulled themselves out of the race to host the Women’s World Cup.
Brazil previously hosted the Men’s Football World Cup in 1950 and 2014.
Nine editions of the FIFA Women’s Football World Cup have been played since 1991.
Australia and New Zealand jointly hosted the FIFA Women’s Football World Cup 2023.

OBITUARY

3. Former ICICI Bank Chairman Narayanan Vaghul passes away: May 18 Former ICICI Bank Chairman Narayanan Vaghul passed away this afternoon in Chennai, he was 88 years old. His family informed about his demise.

Vaghul, known as the father of modern Indian banking, played an important role in laying the foundation of ICICI Bank.

At the age of 39, he was made the Executive Director of Central Bank of India.
In 1981, at the age of 44, he became the youngest Chairman and Managing Director of Bank of India.
In 1985, Vaghul became the Chairman and Managing Director of ICICI Bank.
Vaghul was awarded the Padma Bhushan award in 2009.
Vaghul was also honored with the Economic Times Lifetime Achievement Award.
Apart from this, Vaghul also worked as a director in many Indian companies including Wipro, Mahindra & Mahindra, Apollo Hospitals and Mittal Steel.

International

4. Field testing of Artemis-3 mission begins in America: On May 17, the US space agency NASA started simulation testing (imitating a process) for the Artemis-3 mission at Volcano Field in the US state of Arizona. Here astronauts are practicing moonwalk.

Astronauts Kate Rubins (left) and Andre Douglas (right) conduct field testing of the Moon mission in the deserts of Arizona.

NASA is going to send astronauts to the moon after 50 years.
Under the Artemis-3 mission, two astronauts will land on the moon in September 2026.
NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Andre Douglas played the roles of astronauts selected for the Artemis-2 mission.
During this, he wore clothes that looked like a spacesuit and examined the hardware.
He also practiced collecting samples from the lunar surface.
Two teams were formed for this simulation testing which lasted for a week.
These will include astronauts, engineers, field experts, flight controllers and scientists.
It will test every aspect of the Moon mission, for which 4 Moonwalks and 6 Advanced Technology Testing have been planned.
The Arizona desert has been used as a training ground for lunar missions since the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

Appointment

5. Sanjeev Jain becomes the new COO of Wipro: On May 17, Wipro appointed Sanjeev Jain as the company’s Chief Operating Officer (COO). Amit Chaudhary has been appointed in place of former COO Amit Chaudhary, who recently resigned from the company.

Sanjeev Jain has over 30 years of experience and is an alumnus of IIM-Mumbai.

Wipro has appointed Sanjeev Jain as the new COO of the company in place of Amit Chaudhary, he will work based in Bengaluru.
Sanjeev Jain joined the company as Global Head of Business Operations of Wipro in 2023.
Sanjeev Jain will report to the company’s MD and CEO Srinivas Palliya and will remain a member of Wipro’s executive committee.
Sanjeev Jain has been leading Wipro’s talent supply chain since joining the firm.
Before joining Wipro, Sanjeev Jain worked at Kindril Holdings (IBM spin-off), IBM, Cognizant and GE.

TODAY’S HISTORY

History of 18th May: On this day in 1974, India’s first underground nuclear test took place in Pokhran, Rajasthan. This test, conducted under the leadership of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was named ‘Smiling Buddha’. The capacity of the atomic bomb in Pokhran was 12 thousand TNT.

Former PM Indira Gandhi had told America to wait…today Buddha is smiling.

Bollywood actress Reema Lagoo passed away in 2017.
In 2007, the tenure of Kazakhstan’s President Nur Sultan Nazar Vayev was extended indefinitely.
In 1991, Britain’s first astronaut Helen Sherman flew to space.
In 1933, the 12th Prime Minister of India, H.D. Deve Gowda was born.
The first Indian feature length film ‘Shri Pundalik’ was released in 1912.
The first National Assembly was inaugurated in Germany in 1848.

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