current affairs 04 May 2022

Spanish badminton player Carolina Marin won the sixth European badminton title.

• Carolina Marin clinched her sixth European Championship after defeating Scotland's Kirsty Gilmour 21-10, 21-12 in Madrid.
• The 2016 Olympic Champion was making her first appearance since sustaining a left knee injury that kept her on the sidelines for 11 months.
• She was unable to defend her title at the 2020 Tokyo Games because of an injury, which involved a torn ACL (Anterior cruciate ligament) of both menisci in her left knee.
• The last winner in the women's singles category was Tine Baun, who retired almost a decade ago.

Brazil Gets "Largest Christ Statue in the World", Taller Than Rio De Janeiro's Christ The Redeemer.

• A new statue of Jesus Christ, bigger than Rio de Janeiro's famous Christ the Redeemer, has been completed in Brazil.
• The new statue is 43 metres (141 feet) high compared to Rio's statue, which is 38 metres (125 feet).
• It is the largest Christ statue in the world.
• The new statue was sculpted by artist Markus Moura from Brazil's Ceara State.
• Work on the statue began in 2019 and has been funded by local businesses in the region.

Chhattisgarh government opened "C-Mart" store in Raipur to promote local products and also to create awareness about local products.

• With the aim to promote local products and rural entrepreneurship, the Chhattisgarh government has opened the C-Mart store in Raipur.
• C-Mart has been established to provide a marketplace for the local products of Chhattisgarh made by women of self-help groups.
• The store not only provides a platform for selling the products made by the women of self-help groups but also makes people aware of the local products of Chhattisgarh.
• Its outlets will be opened on district levels and a state-level megastore in the coming months.

Suman Beri takes over as Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog replacing Rajiv Kumar.

• Eminent economist Suman Bery took charge as the Vice-Chairman of the government think tank Niti Aayog.
• Bery has previously served as director-general (chief executive) of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and the global chief economist of Royal Dutch Shell.
• He was also a member of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, Statistical Commission and the Reserve Bank of India's Technical Advisory Committee on Monetary Policy.
• An experienced policy economist and research administrator, Bery has replaced Rajiv Kumar as the vice chairman of the government think tank.
• Rajiv kumar took over as vice chairman of Niti Aayog in August 2017.

Indian-origin Nand Moolchandani became the 1st Chief Technology Officer of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

• Indian-American Nand Mulchandani, a Silicon Valley IT veteran who completed his schooling in Delhi, has been named the first-ever Chief Technology Officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
• Nand Moolchandani has been appointed by the Director of the CIA, William J. Burns.
• Mulchandani has over 25 years of experience working in Silicon Valley.
• Mulchandani was most recently the CTO and Acting Director of the Department of Defense's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center before joining the CIA.