Current affairs 05 May 2023

3 Imprisoned Iranian Female Journalists Wins Top UN Prize.

Three imprisoned Iranian female journalists have been named as the winners of the United Nations premier prize for press freedom.
The three winners are, Niloufar Hamedi, Elaheh Mohammadi, and Narges Mohammadi.
The U.N. Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization World Press Freedom Prize is named for Guillermo Cano, a Colombian journalism who was assassinated in front of the offices of his newspaper El Espectador in Bogota on Dec. 17, 1986.
UNESCO has awarded the prize to coincide with World Press Freedom Day on May 3 since 1997.

According to Forbes, Soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) has become the highest-paid athlete in the world for 2023, after moving to Saudi Arabia's Al-Nassr.
He has signed a £175 million-a-year contract with Al-Nassr, which will expire in 2025.
He has earned $136m (£108.7m) over the past 12 months.
Lionel Messi (Argentina) ranked second with an earning of $130 million, followed by Kylian Mbappé, LeBron James, and Canelo Álvarez.

UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar has launched the Central University Faculty recruitment portal CU-Chayan.
It is a completely user-friendly portal and caters to the needs of all the stakeholders in the recruitment process.
Aim: To create an enabling environment for both, universities and the applicants with universities driving all the stages of the recruitment independently.
It has been developed after consultations with all the Vice Chancellors of Central Universities.

The World Bank's 25-member executive board has confirmed the appointment of Indian-American Ajay Banga as the new president of the World Bank, effective June 2, 2023.
He was nominated by US President Joe Biden in February 2023.
Presently, he is serving as the vice chairman at US investment firm General Atlantic LP.
Before that, he worked as president and CEO of Mastercard.
In 2016, he was awarded the fourth-highest civilian award, Padma Shri.

The undersea twin tunnels in South Mumbai, which are part of the Rs 12,721-crore Mumbai Coastal Road Project, are nearing completion and are set to open by November 2023, marking India's first undersea tunnel.
The construction of the 2.07-kilometer tunnels near Girgaon, proceeding north under the Arabian Sea, Girgaon Chowpatty, and Malabar Hill, and concluding at Breach Candy's Priyadarshini Park.
The tunnels, which have a diameter of 12.19 meters and stretch 17-20 meters below sea level, will feature six crosswalks, four for pedestrians and two for motorists, and each tunnel will have three 3.2-meter-wide channels.
The tunnels reached their deepest point at 72 metres near Malabar Hill.
The high-speed coastal route aims to reduce the 45-minute peak-time trip from Girgaon to Worli to only 10 minutes.
Construction of tunnels is a part of the Mumbai Coastal Road Project (MCRP) being built by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).