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Vinay Mohan Kwatra has been appointed as the new ambassador of India to the US. Technical services across the world have come to a standstill due to a fault in Microsoft’s server. Meanwhile, the 9th Women’s Cricket Asia Cup is starting from today.
Let us take a look at such important current affairs of today, which are important for students preparing for government jobs…
Appointment
1. Vinay Mohan Kwatra appointed as the new ambassador of India to America: IFS officer Vinay Mohan Kwatra has been appointed as India’s new ambassador to the US. He will take up his post soon. Earlier, Vinay Kwatra was India’s foreign secretary. During this time, he worked to strongly present India’s stand on many international issues.
The Indian Ministry of External Affairs announced Qutra’s appointment on its official website on 19 July.
- The post was vacant since the retirement of Taranjit Singh Sandhu in January.
- After nomination, procedural formalities will be completed in America.
- The Indian Embassy in the USA is located in Washington DC.
- Vinay Kwatra is a 1988 batch Indian Foreign Service officer.
- He will serve as the Foreign Secretary of India from April 2022 to 15 July 2024.
- His diplomatic career spanned more than 32 years.
- Kwatra was Joint Secretary in the PMO between 2015 and 2017.
- He was sent as ambassador to France until February 2020.
- On his return from France he was sent to Nepal as India’s ambassador.
- Qutra is also credited with improving India-Nepal relations.
MISCELLANEOUS
2. Technical services halted due to fault in Microsoft server: Due to a problem in Microsoft’s server, technical services have come to a standstill on Friday, July 19. Work is not being done in IT companies, airlines, medical services companies and banks in more than 20 countries including America, Britain, Germany. Work has also stopped on TV channels, radio, train stations.
The biggest impact of this glitch is on Australia. Here this outage has affected the IT system on a large scale.
- More than 1000 flights have been cancelled in many countries like America, Britain and India. Whereas 3000 flights took off late.
- 6 airlines in India are facing technical problems. Apart from this, some services have stopped at Delhi airport.
- Due to disruption in services, the lives of common people have been affected.
- Microsoft said that the problem started at 5:56 pm in the cloud computing platform and due to this the systems connected to it were affected.
- Cloud computing is a computer facility that provides servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics and intelligence services.
- For these services, customers’ computers are connected to the cloud server via the Internet.
- Customers have to pay in exchange for the services.
- The purpose of these services available through the Internet is to provide facilities in a fast and easy manner.
- Microsoft is a multinational technology company that produces computer software, consumer electronics, and personal computers.
- Its headquarter is in Washington, United States.
- Its most prominent software products are the Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers.
- Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975.
- Satya Nadella of Indian origin is the current CEO of this company.
3. RPF rescued 84,119 children in the last 7 years under Operation Little Angel: Railway Protection Force (RPF) has rescued 84,119 children from danger or in danger at stations and trains in the last 7 years under ‘Operation Nanhe Farishte’. Most of the rescued children had run away from their homes for various reasons. These include both boys and girls. This figure is from the year 2018 to May 2024.
The Railway Ministry gave this information by issuing a press release on July 17.
- RPF had launched Operation Nanhe Farishte in 2018 to take care of children found in danger or at risk within the railway station premises.
- It focuses on rescuing children who have run away from home, been abandoned by their families, are poor, disabled, or are victims of kidnapping.
- RPF rescues these children and hands them over to the District Child Welfare Committee. Then the District Child Welfare Committee finds the parents of these children and hands over the child to them.
- The highest number of children rescued in the last 7 years was in 2022, when 17,756 children were rescued.
- RPF has rescued 17,112 children in 2018, 15,932 children in 2019, 5,011 children in 2020, 11,907 children in 2021, 17,756 children in 2022, 11,794 children in 2023 and 4,607 children in the first five months of 2024.
- The Railway Protection Force was established by the Government of India in 1954.
- The creation of RPF was recommended by the High Power Committee headed by the then Intelligence Bureau Director B N Malik.
- Based on the recommendations of the committee, the Railway Protection Force Act was enacted in 1957.
- In 1985, the Act was amended and the Railway Protection Force was made one of the Central Police Organisations and given the status of an armed force.
SPORT
4. 9th Women’s Cricket Asia Cup starts today: The 9th edition of the Women’s Cricket Asia Cup will begin today i.e. 19th July. The opening match will be between Nepal and the United Arab Emirates women’s team.
The 9th Women’s Cricket Asia Cup will be held in Sri Lanka from 19 to 28 July 2024.
- The first match will be played at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla, Sri Lanka.
- India’s first match will be played with Pakistan today.
- The final match of the 9th Women’s Cricket Asia Cup will be played on 28 July.
- This year eight teams are participating – India, Nepal, UAE, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand.
- The Women’s Cricket Asia Cup is organised by the Asian Cricket Council, the governing body of cricket in Asia.
- The Asian Cricket Council is affiliated to the global cricket governing body i.e. International Cricket Council (ICC).
- Jay Shah, the Secretary General of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), is the current President of the Asian Cricket Council.
- India are the defending champions, having won the 2022 edition by defeating Sri Lanka.
- The Women’s Cricket Asia Cup 2022 final match was played at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium, Bangladesh.
- Seven teams participated in the last 2022 edition and Nepal has been added as the eighth team in the 2024 edition.
LAUNCH & EVENT
5. The 46th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee will be held in India: The 46th meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage will be held in India. It will be held at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi between 21 July and 31 July.
The 46th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee will be held at Bharat Mandapam International Exhibition and Convention Centre (IECC), New Delhi.
- The Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Education, Delhi Government and Ministry of Environment are involved in its organisation.
- The Ministry of Culture and its attached office, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) are the nodal agencies hosting the session this year.
- UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is a specialized agency of the United Nations.
- It strives to establish peace through international cooperation in the fields of education, science and culture.
- UNESCO is headquartered in Paris and has more than 50 regional offices around the world.
- It has 195 member countries and 9 associate members.
- UNESCO was established on November 16, 1945.
- The first session of the General Conference of UNESCO was held in Paris during November–December 1946.
TODAY’S HISTORY
History of July 19: On this day in 1969, there was a major reshuffle in India’s financial sector. The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s government nationalized the country’s 14 largest commercial banks through the ‘Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Ordinance, 1969’ without any warning and discussion with the Planning Commission. Along with this, 14 banks took control of 70 percent of the country’s deposits.
This decision of the Indira government was considered the most important decision related to economic policy after 1947.
- 1827: Mangal Pandey, pioneer of the Indian freedom struggle, was born.
- 1848: First women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York.
- 1870: France declared war on Persia.
- 1900: The first metro train started in Paris, the capital of France. Before this, the world’s first metro service had started in London.
- 1940: Adolf Hitler orders Britain to surrender.
- 1969: Apollo II astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin exited the spacecraft and walked in orbit around the Moon.
- 1974: The ashes of revolutionary Udham Singh were brought from London to New Delhi.
- 2003: Russian astronaut Yuri Male Thanko became the first person to get married in space.
- 2004: After being postponed thrice, Ariane-5 carrying the world’s largest telecommunications satellite took off from Kourou launch centre in French Guiana.
- 2005: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed the US Congress.
- 2021: Lockdown, mask mandates and Covid-related restrictions are lifted in England after a year.
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