10 October 2022
By GyanOk

Daily Current Affairs Notes for 10 October 2022

Nobel Prize 2022 Winners list: Complete List of Noble Prize Winners Names of 2022

List of Noble Prize Winners: Noble Prize Winners for 2022 were announced on 3rd October 2022 and will continue till 10th October. Nobel Prize is known as the most prestigious award.

Noble Laureates	Category	Awarded For	Image
Professor Svante Pääbo	Noble Prize in Physiology and Medicine 2022	For the discovery of the genetic identity of two of humankind’s earliest ancestors, and opening a new window on the human evolution process.
Annie Ernaux	Noble Prize in Literature 2022	For the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements, and collective restraints of personal memory
Ales Bialiatski Organization memorial and Organization Centre for Civil Liberties	Noble Peace Prize 2022	For promoting the right to criticize power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. For showing outstanding efforts to document war crimes, human rights abuses, and the abuse of power.
Alain Aspect	Noble Prize in Physics 2022	For conducting experiments in quantum mechanics that laid the groundwork for rapidly-developing new applications in computing and cryptography.
John Clauser
Anton Zeilinger
Carolyn Bertozzi	Noble Prize in Chemistry 2022	For the development of click chemistry and bio-orthogonal chemistry
Morten Meldal
Barry Sharpless
To be Announced	Noble Prize in Economics 2022	To be Announced	To be Announced

EAM S Jaishankar launches book “Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery” in Auckland

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar participated in the New Zealand launch of the Book "Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery". Jaishankar has authored one of the chapters of the book.

Overview

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar participated in the New Zealand launch of the Book “Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery”. Jaishankar has authored one of the chapters of the book Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery which was launched on 11th May 2022. He also participated in the Kiwi Indian Hall of Fame Awards 2022.

Key Points related to the Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery

The book Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery was launched on 11th May 2022 at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi by the then Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu.
It is a collection of Twenty chapters written by twenty-two domain dignitaries from Home Minister Amit Shah to National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Sudha Murty and others.
The book highlight minute details about the country’s progression and consist of the journey of that man, who dedicated his whole life to the people of India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed 20 continuous years of the Head of Government-to-Government in 2021.
The book is named after him and consists of Modi Ji’s achievements, the fundamental transformation of Gujarat at the state level, and the development of India.

56 Million Indians may have turned Poor in 2020 due to pandemic: World Bank

About 56 million Indians may have plunged into extreme poverty in 2020 as a result of the pandemic, increasing the global tally by 71 million.

Overview

About 56 million Indians may have plunged into extreme poverty in 2020 as a result of the pandemic, increasing the global tally by 71 million and making it the worst year for poverty reduction since World War II, according to fresh estimates by the World Bank.

What The World Bank Said:

“The global goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 is likely to be missed: By then, about 600 million people will remain in abject poverty. A major course correction is needed,” Indermit Gill, chief economist at the World Bank, tweeted. The World Bank in its latest “Poverty and Shared Prosperity” made fresh estimates of poverty using a new extreme poverty line based on the purchasing power parity (PPP) of $2.15, the earlier one being at $1.9.
For almost 25 years, the number of people living in extreme poverty — on less than $2.15 per person per day — was steadily declining. But the trend was interrupted in 2020, when poverty rose due to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 crisis combined with the effects of conflict and climate change — which had already been slowing poverty reduction.

Data On Poverty:

The multilateral lending institution used data from the Consumer Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS), conducted by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), to estimate poverty for India in the absence of Household Consumer Expenditure Survey data from the government since 2011-12. The report, however, contended that poverty had declined in India since 2011, driven by a larger poverty reduction in rural areas.
“Even though overall poverty has declined, it is by less than what earlier estimates used for global poverty measurement would suggest. Previous estimates suggested a poverty headcount rate at the $1.90 poverty line of 10.4 per cent in 2017. The latest estimate shows that poverty at the $1.90 poverty line was 13.6 per cent in 2017,” the report said. At the new poverty line of $2.15, extreme poverty in India declined to 10.01 per cent in 2019 from 11.09 per cent in 2018 before the pandemic came. For 2020, the World Bank said it was yet to estimate the poverty rate.

MENA region – world’s fastest crypto adopter

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is the fastest growing cryptocurrencies market in the world.

Overview

The 2022 Global Crypto Adoption Index released by the blockchain researcher Chainalysis revealed that the Middle East and the North Africa (MENA) region witnessed 48 per cent increase in the volume of cryptocurrency received – the highest in the world.
Though MENA region is one of the smallest cryptocurrency markets in the world, it received cryptocurrency worth 566 billion between July 2021 and June 2022.
After MENA, Latin America witnessed the second biggest cryptocurrency growth in the world during the same period. It recorded a 40 per cent increase.
It was followed by North America at 36 per cent growth and Central Asia, Southern Asia and Oceania at 35 per cent growth.
The three MENA countries – Turkey, Egypt and Morocco – were among the top 30 in the index.
There is a spike in the volume of cryptocurrencies in these countries because of increased savings and remittance payments.
Turkey currently tops the MENA countries by having highest value of cryptocurrencies received. By the end of June 2022, it had received 192 billion worth of cryptocurrencies. However, it only witnessed a 10.5 per cent year-on-year growth.
According to the report, Saudi Arabia is the third largest crypto market in MENA region, and the United Arab Emirates stands at fifth position.
This is mainly attributed to young, tech-savvy early adopters having large amount of disposable incomes.
Increasing inflation is also playing a major role in the increased adoption of cryptocurrencies.
Its adoption is attractive to institutional investors because of the uncertain economic situation, currency devaluation and inflation.
Afghanistan, which held the 20^th spot in 2021, fell to bottom most spot in the index after Taliban banned cryptocurrencies, which were equated by the extremist group to gambling that goes against the Islamist ideologies.

J&K Tourism department inaugurates Bird Festival at Pahalgam

Jammu and Kashmir have inaugurated Bird Festival 2022 in Pahalgam. It is a first-of-its-kind bird festival in the Union Territory. J&K are all set to welcome tourists from all around the world.

Overview

Jammu and Kashmir have inaugurated Bird Festival 2022 in Pahalgam in South Kashmir. It is a first-of-its-kind bird festival in the Union Territory. Jammu and Kashmir are all set to welcome tourists from all around the world for the Bird Festival 2022. The festival will be organized in collaboration with the Department of Tourism in the Sanctuary Foundation.

Key Points related to the Bird Festival 2022

The Bird Festival will be beneficial for tourism and the local economy of Jammy and Kashmir.
Secretary Tourism J&K, Sarmad Hafeez inaugurated the festival.
The department of tourism with the Sanctuary Foundation will help to promote tourism.
The inaugural ceremony of the six-day Bird Festival was attended by a large number of nature enthusiasts and bird lovers from across the country.
1200 species of birds are found all over India, out of which Kashmir has about 600 species.
Bird Tourism is a new concept in India and Kashmir being a paradise of nature, has much more potential than any other state in India.