Two businessmen from India, Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, have been included in the list of the world’s top 15 super rich released by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani is ranked 12th in this list with a net worth of $ 110 billion.
Gautam Adani was ranked 14th in this list with a net worth of $ 100 billion.
Sports
2. Nikhat Zareen, who recently won gold medal at Elorda Cup 2024, belongs to which sports? – Boxing
Nikhat Zareen and Minakshi won gold medals for India at the 3rd Elorda Cup 2024 in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Zareen defeated Kazakhstan’s Zhazira Urakbayeva in the 52 kg category, while Minakshi overcame Uzbekistan’s Saidakhon Rakhmonova in the 48 kg category.
India’s 21-member boxing contingent secured a total of 12 medals: 2 gold, 2 silver, and 8 bronze.
3. Which female tennis player won the Italian Open title? – Inga Swiatek
The World Para Athletics Championships – 2024 is being held in Kobe, Japan.
Indian sprinter Deepti Jeevanji won the gold medal in the women’s T20 400m race event.
This was India’s first gold medal at the World Para Athletics Championships – 2024 as well as India’s first gold medal in a track event of the Para World Championships.
5. Who won the men’s doubles title of Badminton Thailand Open – 2024? – Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty
William Lai Ching-te was sworn in as president of Taiwan, accompanied by a 21-gun salute.
He praised Taiwan’s democracy and called on China to end its intimidation.
Lai and Vice President Hsia Bi-khim took their oaths beneath a portrait of Sun Yat-sen, the Republic of China’s founder, in a ceremony at the presidential building in Taipei.
Places in News
8. Archaeologists recently discovered the first evidence of rock art in which city of Karnataka? – Mangaluru
Archaeologists have discovered the first evidence of rock art in Mangaluru city in the form of a pair of human footprints on a natural stone boulder near the Boloor Panne Koteda Babbu Swamy shrine.
The footprints may have been created in the first or second century A.D.
Appointments
9. Who has taken charge as the President of Confederation of Indian Industry? – Sanjeev Puri
Sanjiv Puri, Chairman and Managing Director, ITC Limited, has taken over as the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the term 2024-25.
Puri met R., Chairman, TVS Supply Chain Solutions.
Took over the command of CII from Dinesh.
CII is a non-governmental trade association founded in 1895.
Important Days & Weeks
10. What is the theme of ‘World Bee Day 2024’? – Bee Engaged with Youth
Every year on 21st May, National Anti-Terrorism Day is celebrated across the country.
On this day in 1991, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in a suicide bomb blast.
This day is celebrated to combat the global threat and raise awareness about the importance of unity.
Rajiv Gandhi assumed the post of Prime Minister after the assassination of his mother Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984 and held this post from 1984 to 1989.
Miscellaneous
13. With whom has the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India signed an agreement for vaccine cold chain management? – UNDP
The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD), Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying has signed an MoU with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), India for digitalization of vaccine cold chain management, capacity building and communication planning.
14. Recently a tributary of the Nile River was discovered the Ahramat branch, the Nile River is the main river of which continent? – Africa
