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Current Affairs Daily Digest – June 05 2024
1. Siddhalinga Pattanashetti Wins Gudleppa Hallikeri Award 2024
The Gudleppa Hallikeri Memorial Foundation in Hosaritti (Haveri District) has picked poet and playwright Siddhalinga Pattanashetti to receive the well-known Gudleppa Hallikeri Award for 2024.
The top trustee of the Gudleppa Hallikeri Memorial Foundation of Hosaritti, Haveri District, named Veeranna Chekki. This is the 19th award, and it will be given out on June 6, which is Gudleppa Hallikeri’s birthday.
About Guldeppa Hallikeri:
Gudleppa Hallikeri was an Indian freedom fighter who lived from 1906 to 1972.
He was born in Hosaritti, which is in the Haveri area of the state of Karnataka. He opened a private school called the Gandhi Grameena Gurukul in Hosaritti.
Hallikeri worked with many other freedom fighters, such as Mailara Mahadevappa, Sanikoppa, and Mahatma Gandhi, through peaceful protests and rallies.
In Hubli, his last home town, there is a life-size figure of Hallikeri made of iron. Hallikeri and Aluru Venkata Rao worked together to make Karnataka one state.
The Karnatak Lingayat Education Society runs the Gudleppa Hallikeri Arts, Science & Commerce College in Haveri, which is in North Karnataka and bears his name.
2. Haryana Government’s Rs 10,000-Crore Project to Combat Air Pollution
T V S N Prasad, the chief secretary of Haryana, announced the start of a Rs 10,000-crore project to clean up the state’s air. The project will be paid for by the World Bank.
The National Capital Region (NCR) will be the first place where the Haryana Clean Air Project for Sustainable Development is put into action.
Improving the infrastructure for monitoring air quality
The first part of the project is to improve Haryana’s systems for tracking air quality. Setting up a state-of-the-art lab and updating old ones are both parts of this.
A separate unit for program management will also be in charge of execution, and training programs will be set up for people who have a stake in managing air quality.
3. International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
It was suggested by the FAO’s General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean in 2015 that there should be an International Day to fight illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.
The FAO Committee on Fisheries agreed with the idea after a lot of discussion. This led to the UN General Assembly declaring June 5th as “International Day for the Fight Against Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing” in December 2017.
Protecting the world’s fisheries is an absolute must.
Fisheries are very important to people all over the world because they provide food, jobs, fun, trade, and economic well-being.
With the world’s population rising and hunger still a problem, fish has become an important item for making sure there is enough food for everyone.
However, illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing operations make it much harder for the international community to protect fisheries in the long term.
4. Nvidia Unveils Rubin AI Chip Platform: Transforming AI Landscape
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a historic announcement: the company’s next-generation AI chip platform, Rubin, will be available in 2026. The GPUs, CPUs, and networking units that make up the Rubin family are expected to completely change how AI works.
Notably, Nvidia is planning a big switch to releasing new products every year in order to keep up with AI progress and keep its market control.
Strengthening Nvidia’s position as a market leader
With a huge 80% share of the AI chip market, Nvidia solidifies its position as a major player in the creation of AI.
Nvidia’s decision to release chips once a year, as shown by the Rubin platform, shows their dedication to new ideas and being the market leader. This way of doing things is likely to lead to more creativity and use in many AI areas.
5. QS World University Rankings 2025 Announced
The long-awaited QS World University Rankings 2025 are out, and they include 1,500 universities from 105 different higher education systems.
This year’s ranking is the biggest one ever, which shows how committed people around the world are to academic success and new ideas.
Universities at the Top
The top spots in the lists are held by well-known schools that have stayed at the top of higher education for a long time.
The QS World University Rankings 2025 lists these 10 universities as the best in the world:
| Rank | University | Location | Overall Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, United States | 100 |
| 2 | Imperial College London | London, United Kingdom | 98.5 |
| 3 | University of Oxford | Oxford, United Kingdom | 96.9 |
| 4 | Harvard University | Cambridge, United States | 96.8 |
| 5 | University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 96.7 |
| 6 | Stanford University | Stanford, United States | 96.1 |
| 7 | ETH Zurich | Zürich, Switzerland | 93.9 |
| 8 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 93.7 |
| 9 | UCL | London, United Kingdom | 91.6 |
| 10 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | Pasadena, United States | 90.9 |
Top-Ranked Universities-India
| Rank | University | Location | Overall Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 118 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) | Mumbai, India | 56.3 |
| =150 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) | New Delhi, India | 52.1 |
| 211 | Indian Institute of Science | Bangalore, India | 45.0 |
| =222 | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) | Kharagpur, India | 43.7 |
| =227 | Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) | Chennai, India | 43.5 |
| 263 | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) | Kanpur, India | 39.3 |
| =328 | University of Delhi | New Delhi, India | 33.8 |
| 335 | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR) | Roorkee, India | 33.4 |
| =344 | Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) | Guwahati, India | 32.9 |
| 383 | Anna University | Chennai, India | 30.6 |
6. World Environment Day 2024 – June 05
Every year on June 5, people all over the world celebrate World Environment Day (WED), an important worldwide event that aims to make people more aware of the need to protect the environment and encourage them to take action.
This day was created by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in 1972 to bring attention to important environmental problems and encourage people to live in a way that is good for the environment.
The theme for World Environment Day 2024
Earth Day is today, and the theme for this year is “Land restoration, desertification, and drought resilience.”
The motto for the day is “Our land. Our future.” Our name is #GenerationRestoration.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will host the global events for World Environment Day 2024. This is a very important year because it is the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.
7. Volvo to Issue World’s First EV Battery Passport Ahead of EU Rules
Volvo Cars is releasing the world’s first EV battery passport, which carefully tracks the raw materials, parts, recycled content, and carbon footprint of its upcoming top EX90 SUV, even before EU rules become law.
A QR code on the inside of the driver’s door lets Volvo drivers get to a simplified version of the passport.
What the EV Battery Passport Does
Volvo and the UK-based startup Circulor worked together to make the EV battery passport. Circulor uses blockchain technology to map companies’ supply lines.
Circular’s work on battery passports began before the first suggestion for a New Battery Regulation from the European Commission in 2020. For EVs sold in the EU after February 2027, the EU says that these kinds of passports must be offered.
