current affairs 07 May 2022

RBI board approves Rajiv Ranjan as MPC member after Mridul Saggar retires.

The Reserve Bank of India’s central board approved the nomination of Rajiv Ranjan as a member of the monetary policy committee.
Ranjan replaces Mridul Saggar, who retired last month.
Ranjan was an advisor in-charge in the monetary policy department, before he was elevated as an executive director.
Ranjan has a master’s degree from Delhi School of Economics and a PhD from Mumbai University.
Ranjan will be a part of the monetary policy review meeting next month, scheduled between 6-8 June.

Two Indian student groups from Punjab and Tamil Nadu have won the NASA 2022 Human Exploration Rover Challenge.
The challenge involved as many as 91 teams, including 58 colleges and 33 high schools.
The challenge required US and international student teams to design, engineer, and test a human-powered rover on a course simulating terrain found on rocky bodies in the solar system.
The annual NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge has been going on for over 25 years.

Internet major Google has appointed former joint secretary at Niti Aayog Archana Gulati as head of public policy in India.
Gulati was looking after digital communications policy matters at the government think tank and took voluntary retirement in April last year.
She was an officer on special duty in the telecom secretary office from May 2017 to August 2019.

Olympian discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur has been provisionally suspended by Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for testing positive for a banned substance.
Kamalpreet, who was tested on March 29, was suspended for the presence/use of the prohibited substance stanozolol in her sample.
This is a violation of the World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules.
Kaur had made it to the Tokyo Olympics final, finishing sixth with a throw of 63.7m.

RPF launches Focused effort under Operation Satark from 5th April to 30th April, 2022.
Railway Protection Force has recently started Operation Satark with an objective of taking action against illicit liquor/FICN/illegal tobacco products/unaccounted gold and any other items being transported through railway network for the purpose of tax evasion and smuggling.
Railway Protection Force (RPF) is a security force under the ownership of Indian Railways, Ministry of Railways, Government of India.
It was formed in 1872 under the Railway Protection Force Act, 1957.