current affairs 05 July 2022

PSLV-C53 successfully launched by ISRO.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched the PSLV-C53 with three Singapore Satellites onboard.
The launch was scheduled for 6 PM from the Second Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space, Sriharikota.
This is also the 55th mission of PSLV, often described as ISRO’s trusted workhorse, and the 15th one using the PSLV-Core Alone variant.
PSLV-C53 is the second dedicated commercial mission of NewSpace India Limited (NSIL).
It is designed to orbit the DS-EO satellites along with the two other co-passenger satellites from Singapore. NSIL is the commercial arm of ISRO.

Indian- origin T Raja Kumar has been appointed as President of world’s anti-terrorism financing agency, Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for two years (July 2022 -June 2024).
He succeeded Dr Marcus Pleyer, who served as the chief of the FATF.
He will be responsible for enhancing the effectiveness of global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures.
He has a working experience in home ministry of Singapore and police force.

India’s Rishabh Pant become the youngest wicketkeeper-batter in the history of Test cricket to reach the landmark of 2,000 runs.
Pant, 24, reached this landmark during the fifth and final Test against England at Edgbaston.
Pant also broke the record for the fastest century by an Indian wicket-keeper batsman in England.
He now holds the record for the third-fastest century by an Indian outside Asia.
Pant also became the only Indian wicketkeeper-batsman to score two overseas hundred in a calendar year.
Earlier, W Saha, MS Dhoni and Budhi Kunderan had achieved this feat.

PM Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated the new smart Spark.NXT campus of Bosch India, a leading supplier of technology and services in Bengaluru.
The Spark.NXT campus will provide inspiring working conditions for associates to focus on the development of user-centric innovations for a better quality of life in India.
Bosch first arrived in India as a German corporation a century ago; now, it is equally as Indian as it is German.
This is a fantastic illustration of Indian energy and German engineering.
Soumitra Bhattacharya is the Managing director of Bosch Limited and president of the Bosch Group, India.

ReNew Power has collaborated with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Self-Employed Women’s Association of India (SEWA) to launch Project Surya.
Aim: To train low-income women salt pan workers to work as solar technicians.
Women salt pan workers will be trained as solar panel and solar pump technicians at Dhokavada village in the Patan district of Gujarat.
The programme will be supported by the government’s National Skill Development Corporation.