International Nurses Day: 12 May
International Nurses Day is celebrated every year on 12 May, the day of Florence Nightingale’s birth anniversary.
Theme of International Nurses Day 2021: ‘Nurses: A Voice to Lead – A vision for future healthcare’
Florence Nightingale was born on 12 May 1820.
She is considered the father of the modern nursing movement.
She trained and managed nurses during the Crimean War.
Florence Nightingale, an icon of mercy and service, is famous as “The Lady with the Lamp” (the lady with the lamp).
She was the first woman to be given the Order of Merit in 1907.
International Nurses Day has been celebrated since 1965 by the International Nurses Council.
WHO declared the year 2020 as ‘Year of Nurse and Midwife’ to commemorate the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale.
Sarojini Naidu, the first female governor of India (Uttar Pradesh), is known as the ‘Nightingale of India’.
International Nurses Council established: 1899
Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland
Speaker: Annette Kennedy
SpaceX will launch ‘DOGE-1 Mission to Moon’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s company SpaceX will launch “DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon” in the first quarter of 2022.
In which Elon Musk’s commercial rocket company will accept cryptocurrency DogCoin as a payment, inspired by Mem.
The satellite weighs 40 kg which will be launched on a Falcon 9 rocket.
DogCoin is a type of cryptocurrency that was mockingly created in 2013 by two IBM IBM software engineers, Billy Marcus and Jackson Palmer.
This digital currency was created with inspiration from a viral dog meme.
Now DogCoin has become the fourth largest cryptocurrency.
Establishment of SpaceX: 2002
Headquarters: California, United States
Founder & CEO: Elon Musk
Padmakumar M Nair appointed CEO of National Asset Reconstruction Company
The Central Government appointed Padmakumar M Nair as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the recently formed National Asset Reconstruction Company Limited- NARCL.
Nair is currently the Chief General Manager at State Bank of India.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed the formation of a National Asset Reconstruction Company in the Union Budget 2021, so that banks can get relief from the NPA (Non-Performing Asset).
Shakur Rather’s new book ‘Life in the Clock Tower Valley’
The book ‘Life in the Clock Tower Valley’ is the first book by Shakur Rather, journalist of the Press Trust of India (PTI).
It talks about the beautiful past of Kashmir, the troubled present and the always uncertain future.
Global Prime Residential Index 2021 released by Knight Frank
Property consultancy company Knight Frank has released the Global Prime Residential Index for the first quarter of 2021.
According to the report, Bangalore has slipped four places to 40th globally in terms of annual increase in the prices of residential properties.
While New Delhi and Mumbai are ranked 32nd and 36th respectively.
Three Chinese cities, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Guangzhou topped the index in this quarter.
New York ranked 46th at the bottom of the list during this period.
Prime Residential property means a property located in a location that is the most expensive and most sought after at that location.
Knight Frank founded: 1896
Headquarters: London, UK
Founders: Howard Frank, John Knight, William Rutley
Chairman and Managing Director: Shishir Baijal
Madhya Pradesh launched ‘Mukhyamantri Covid upchaar yojna’
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has launched ‘Mukhyamantri Covid upchaar yojna’ to provide free Covid treatment to economically weaker families.
In this scheme, important decisions have also been taken to provide free Kovid treatment to the families of Ayushman card holders.
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Dr. Tahera Qutbuddin became the first Indian to win the Arab World Nobel Prize
Dr. Tahera Qutubuddin has become the first Indian to win the prestigious 15th Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is known as the Nobel Prize of the Arabic world.
Mumbai-born Dr. Tahera is an American citizen, a professor of Arabic literature at the University of Chicago.
She won the honor for his book ‘Arabic Oration: Art and Function’, which was published by Brill Academic Publishers of Leiden in 2019.
The award was first presented in 2007.
It is one of the richest literary awards in the world, as it carries a cash prize of Dh7,000,000.
Kerala’s leftist leader and oldest MLA KR Gauri Amma passes away
Senior communist leader known as Iron Lady in Kerala politics K.R. Gauri Amma passed away at the age of 102.
She was the first Revenue Minister in the first communist ministry of the state in 1957.
She remained an MLA in Kerala’s first legislature till 1977.
In the year 1994, he said goodbye to CPI (M) and formed his own party Janatipathaya Patraksha Samiti (JSS).
The Taliban captured Afghanistan’s second largest dam, the Dahla Dam.
Taliban militants have captured Dahla Dam, the second largest dam in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province.
This dam is built on the Arghandab River, hence it is also known as Arghandab Dam.
India has signed an agreement with Afghanistan for the construction of the ‘Mulberry Dam’ on the Kabul River.
In addition, the ‘Maitri Dam (Salma Dam)’ was built by India on the Harirud River in Herat province of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan Capital: Kabul
Currency: Afghan Afghani
Speaker: Ashraf Ghani
Jose J Kattur appointed as new executive director of RBI
The Reserve Bank of India has appointed Jose J Kattur as Executive Director (ED).
Establishment of Reserve Bank of India: 1 April 1935
Headquarters: Mumbai
25th Governor of RBI: Shaktikanta Das
