Current Affairs 29 May: Vijay Khanduja becomes Indian Ambassador to Cameroon, Satyadeep Gupta sets record for double climb of Mount Lhotse and Everest

May 29, 2024 Divya Bharat

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Current Affairs Vijay Khanduja became Indian Ambassador to Cameroon, Satyadeep Gupta set a record of double climbing Mount Lhotse and Everest

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Quantum diamond microchip imager will be manufactured in India. Tata AIA Life Insurance launched instant loan facility. At the same time, Ronaldo made the record of scoring the most goals.

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

APPOINTMENT

1. Vijay Khanduja becomes Indian Ambassador to Cameroon: On May 29, the Ministry of External Affairs appointed Vijay Khanduja as India’s next High Commissioner to Cameroon. He is currently serving as India’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe.

On 9 November 2020 Vijay was appointed as the Indian Ambassador to Zimbabwe.

He was serving as Director (UN Economic and Social) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2017.
He was the Indian Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina on behalf of the Indian Embassy in 2014-17.
He was appointed as Indian Ambassador to Shanghai from 2003-2006.
Also worked in the Indian High Commission in Islamabad from 1997 to 2000.
He was posted at the Indian Embassy in Paris from 1989 to 1992 and 2009-12.

National

2. Satyadeep Gupta created a record by doing double climbing simultaneously: On May 27, Indian mountaineer Satyadeep Gupta created a new record by climbing Mount Everest and Mount Lhotse twice in the same season. He created history by scaling the two peaks in 11 hours and 15 minutes.

Satyadeep Gupta became the first person in the world to complete this double climb.

Satyadeep Gupta scaled the 8,516-metre-high Mount Lhotse in the afternoon.
After this, at 12:45 in the midnight, he completed the climb to the 8,849 meter high Mount Everest.
He was accompanied by mountaineer guides Pestemba Sherpa and Nima Ugandi Sherpa.
Earlier, Satyadeep had climbed Mount Everest on May 21 and Mount Lhotse on May 22.
Satyadeep Gupta is a resident of Pilibhit city of Uttar Pradesh.

BUSINESS

3. Quantum Diamond Microchip Imager to be made in the country: On May 28, Indian company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) signed an agreement with IIT Bombay regarding semiconductor sensing tools. Under this, TCS and IIT Bombay will jointly manufacture the country’s first quantum diamond microchip imager.

This agreement between TCS and IIT Bombay is part of the National Quantum Mission.

The Quantum Diamond Microchip Imager can create images of magnetic fields.
This allows for non-invasive and non-destructive mapping of semiconductor chips.
This will work to reduce the failure of semiconductor chips and improve electronics devices.
It will take 2 years to develop the quantum diamond microchip imager.
The project will be worked on by TCS experts from PiQuest and Dr Kasturi Saha, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay.

4. Tata AIA Life Insurance launches instant loan facility: On May 28, Tata AIA Life Insurance launched a new service through which policy holders can avail instant loan of up to Rs 1 lakh. This service allows customers to avail loan against their insurance policy without losing coverage.

Policy holders will be able to take loans only on selected life insurance policies.

This can be easily availed through MyDigiAccount portal.
Through this, the loan amount will be deposited in the customer’s account within 1 minute.
This service is designed to provide instant loan disbursal with minimum paperwork.
In this, loan will be available at an annual interest rate of 10.80%.
There is no need for any kind of credit check to take a loan.

Sports

5. Ronaldo sets the record for scoring the most goals: The final match of the Saudi Pro League 2024 of football was played in Riyadh city of Saudi Arabia on 27 May. In this, Al Nasser team won the season by defeating Al Ittihad 4-2. Cristiano Ronaldo scored two goals for the Al Nasser team.

With this, Ronaldo completed 35 goals in the season.

Ronaldo became the league’s highest goal scorer in a single season.
He broke the record of Abderazzak Hamdallah.
Abderrazzaq scored 34 goals in the 2018–19 season.
39-year-old Portuguese player Ronaldo is the most expensive player in the world.
Ronaldo has scored more than 128 goals at the international level.
He has played the most number of international football matches (200).

TODAY’S HISTORY

History of May 29: On this day in 1953, Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay conquered the world’s highest mountain peak Mount Everest. Both mountaineers were the first people to do so. The whole world got this news 4 days later i.e. on 2 June 1953.

Hillary of New Zealand (left) and Tenzing of Nepal (right) reached the summit of Everest at 11:30 am.

In 2008, BJP leader VS Yeddyurappa was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka.
In 2007, Riyo Mori of Japan became ‘Miss Universe 2007’.
In 1990, Boris Yeltsin became the President of the Soviet Union.
In 1987, the 5th Prime Minister of India, Chaudhary Charan Singh, died.
India’s famous poet Madan Kashyap was born in 1954.

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