Current Affairs 27 May: Dipa Karmakar won gold in Tashkent Gymnastics Championship, Army Chief Manoj Pandey got one month extension

May 27, 2024 Divya Bharat

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Dipa Karmakar won gold in Tashkent Gymnastics Championship, Army Chief Manoj Pandey got one month extension

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Army Chief Manoj Pandey got a one-month extension, Cyclone Remal made landfall in Canning, West Bengal. At the same time, Payal Kapadia’s film ‘All We Imagine is Light’ got the Grand Prix Award. Let’s take a look at such important current affairs of today, which are important for students preparing for government jobs…

National
1. Cyclonic storm Ramal made landfall on : Cyclone ‘Remal’ made landfall at 8.30 pm on May 26 at Canning in West Bengal and Mongla in Bangladesh with a wind speed of 135 kmph. The landfall lasted for 4 hours and heavy rains occurred during this period.

According to the Meteorological Department (IMD), severe cyclonic storm ‘Remal’ has weakened into a cyclonic storm on the morning of May 27.

It is moving towards North-East at a speed of 13 km per hour. That means its effect will be visible in Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim bordering Bengal.
Due to the storm, apart from West Bengal, some areas of Odisha, Jharkhand and Bihar will receive rain on 27th and 28th May.
The central government had deployed 12 teams of NDRF in the coastal areas of Bengal. 4 teams were on standby.
Apart from this, Army, Navy and Coast Guard teams along with ships and aircraft were also ready for the emergency.
About 1.10 lakh people were evacuated to safer places from the coastal areas of Bengal.
Cyclone ‘Ramal’ is an Arabic word which means ‘sand’.
The name ‘Remal’ is given by Oman.
These storms occur due to atmospheric disturbances and are formed in low pressure areas.
Such names are given so that the public can easily remember the disasters.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) names storms. A total of 185 countries are members of this UN organization.
In fact, WMO established the Panel on Tropical Cyclones in 1972. When the 27th meeting of the PTC was held in Muscat, the capital of Oman in the year 2000, all the countries decided to name the storms arising in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Ocean.
After this, storms started being named from the year 2004 onwards.

APPOINTMENT
2. Army Chief Manoj Pandey gets one month extension: In the midst of the Lok Sabha elections, the government has extended the tenure of the Army Chief for one month on 26 May. Army Chief General Manoj Pandey was to retire on 31 May. But now according to the new order of the government, General Pandey will retire on 30 June.

General Manoj Pandey became the Army Chief after the retirement of General M.M. Naravane.

General Pandey joined the Corps of Engineers (The Bombay Sappers) in December 1982.
He is a graduate of the Staff College, Camberley (UK).
He also attended the Army War College, Mhow and the Higher Command Course at the National Defence College, Delhi.
Lieutenant General Manoj Pandey has actively participated in ‘Operation Vijay’ and ‘Operation Parakram’ during his 37 years of service.
Nearly five decades before Gen Pandey’s extension, the Army chief was given an extension in service in the 1970s.
At that time, the then Indira Gandhi government had given extension to Army Chief General GG Bewoor.
Before Bevoor, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw was given an extension in service after India’s victory in the 1971 war.
The current Vice Army Chief, Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi is considered a strong contender for the next Army Chief.
Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi is retiring on June 30.
Along with him, Army’s Southern Command chief Lieutenant General AK Singh will also retire on June 30.

AWARD
3. Payal Kapadia’s film ‘All We Imagine is Light’ got the Grand Prix Award: On 25 May, at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia won the second most prestigious award of the festival. Payal’s film ‘All We Imagine is Light’ was awarded the Grand Prix Award.

With this, Payal has become the first Indian filmmaker to win this award.

The film premiered on May 23 under Cannes’ most prestigious category, the ‘Palme d’Or’.
The film is the story of two nurses from Kerala, Prabha and Anu, living in Mumbai.
This was the first Indian film to be selected in this category after 30 years.
Earlier in 1994, the film ‘Swaham’ was nominated in this category.
India registered 4 awards at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
Kannada film ‘Sunflowers: Where the First Ones to Know’ by Chidananda S Nayak of Film and Television Institute of India, FTII, Pune won the Best Film award in ‘La Cinéfaye’ Cinéfondation segment.
Meanwhile, Manasi Maheshwari’s animated film ‘Bunnihood’ bagged the third prize in the same segment.
Apart from this, Anasuya Sengupta got the Best Actress award in the Un Certain Regard segment for her memorable performance in the film ‘The Shameless’.
The Cannes Film Festival is an annual film festival held in the city of Cannes, France.
It was called International Film Festival until 2003.
It previews new films across all genres, including documentaries from around the world.
It was established on 20 September 1946.
This annual festival is held at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès.

Sports
4. Kolkata won the IPL title for the third time: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the final match of IPL-2024 on Sunday, May 26. Batting first, Hyderabad were all out for 113 runs in 18.3 overs.

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have won the IPL title for the third time.

Kolkata achieved the target of 114 runs in 10.3 overs for the loss of 2 wickets. Earlier, the team had also become IPL champion in 2012 and 2014.
Mitchell Starc was named Player of the Match.
Whereas, Virat Kohli got the Orange Cap, Harshal Patel got the Purple Cap, while Sunil Narine was the Player of the Tournament.
The full name of IPL is Indian Premier League.
IPL is played as a cricket league, which is operated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India i.e. BCCI.
IPL was started in 2008 and eight teams participated in its first edition.
These eight teams were Rajasthan Royals, Kings XI Punjab, Chennai Super Kings, Delhi Daredevils, Mumbai Indians, Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Deccan Chargers.
A total of 59 matches were played till the final of the first edition.
The first match of IPL was played on April 18, 2008 between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders, in which Kolkata Knight Riders won by a record margin of 140 runs.
The final of the first edition of the IPL was played on June 1, 2008 between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals, in which Rajasthan won.

5. Dipa Karmakar won gold in Asian Championship: Dipa Karmakar became the first Indian gymnast to win at the Asian Championships. On May 27, Karmakar won the gold medal at the Asian Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Dipa Karmakar became the first Indian gymnast to win gold in an Asian gymnastics event.

Dipa was placed eighth in the qualification stage with a score of 12.650.
Dipa scored a total of 13.566 in her two attempts in the final, followed by two North Koreans, Kim Son Hyang with 13.466 (after a penalty of 0.100) and Jo Kyong Byol with 12.966, finishing second and third.
Deepa did not find a place in the Indian squad for the Asian Games last year.
The Gymnastics Federation of India (GFI) had sent the name of Dipa Karmakar.
However, his name was dropped by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) before the final approval from the Union Sports Ministry.
The star gymnast was dropped due to not participating for a long time.
Dipa Karmakar failed the dope test in February 2023. Due to this, a ban was imposed on her.
The ban on him continued till July 10, 2023.
According to the International Testing Agency (ITA), the sample was found to contain the banned drug Higenamine.

LAUNCH & EVENT
6. DD Kisan channel launched 2 AI anchors: DD Kisan, a channel of Doordarshan, the public broadcaster of the Government of India, has launched two artificial intelligence (AI) anchors on 26 May 2024. One of these is AI Agriculture and the other is AI Bhoomi.

This AI anchor can speak in 50 languages.

These AI anchors will broadcast information related to the latest prices from agricultural markets, weather updates and the latest research done in agriculture in India and abroad.
AI anchors can broadcast news 24 hours a day, 365 days a year without stopping or getting tired.
DD Kisan was launched on 26th May 2015 and is celebrating its 9th year of establishment.
The world’s first AI news anchor was introduced by Chinese state news agency Xinhua in 2018, named Qiu Hao.
Sana, the first AI news anchor in India, was introduced by India Today Group in 2023 on Aaj Tak Hindi news channel.
Sana looks human-like and can read data from a computer using text-to-speech technology, which is used on the channel Aaj Tak to provide news updates multiple times a day.

TODAY’S HISTORY
History of 27 May: On this day in 1964, India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru died. His death was announced in Parliament around 2 pm. On May 26, Nehru returned from Dehradun in the evening. He had gone there on a four-day health leave due to poor health. The Guardian’s report of May 27, 1964 says that at 6.30 am he first had a paralytic attack and then a heart attack. After this, Indira Gandhi immediately called his doctors. Three doctors immediately reached the PM House. They tried their best but Nehru’s body had gone into a coma. There was no response from the body. After several hours of effort, the doctors gave up. At 2 pm, Steel Minister Coimbatore Subramaniam entered the Rajya Sabha. His face was pale. He only said in a dull voice, the light has gone out. The Lok Sabha was immediately adjourned. A few hours later, Gulzari Lal Nanda was announced as the acting Prime Minister.

On this day in 1957, Indian industrialist and senior Bharatiya Janata Party politician Nitin Gadkari was born.
Famous historian Bipin Chandra was also born on this day in 1928.
On this day in 1994, Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned home after ending 20 years of exile in the West.
On this day in 2011, global internet search engine Google started showing pictures of every street and corner of Indian cities on the internet.

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