4 October 2023 Current Affairs

 1. Mathematician Ruining Zhang to receive 2023 Sastra Ramanujan Prize Ruixiang Zhang, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA will be awarded with the 2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for his outstanding contributions in mathematics..

The annual cash prize of USD 10,000 will a be given at an international conference in Number Theory during December 20 and December 22 at SASTRA University ina Kumbakonam..

2. Parul Chaudhary, Annu Rani clinch gold; Tejaswin win decathlon silver, Chithravel gets bronze in triple jump @ Asian Games 2022

• India's Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Pravin Ojas Deotale win gold in Compound Archery Mixed Team event.
• Parul haudhary won GOD in Women's 5000m

• Annu Rani, with the best throw of 62.92m to finish on top in the javelin throw.

• Tejaswin Shankar Clinched Silver in Decathlon.

3. IBM Collaborates With Government To Scale Digital Skills Training

• IBM, the Ministry of Education, & the a Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship have tied up to provide curated courses to empower youth in India with future-ready skills. 
• The collaboration will focus on the co-creation of curriculuma and access to IBM's learning platform, a IBM SkillsBuild, for skilling learners across school education, higher education among others.

4. HCLTech, Business Finland team up to drive digital innovation in generative Al, metaverse The collaboration will enable Finnish companies and technology startups to take their solutions to global enterprises through HCLTech's Innovation Network, eSTiPTM, which includes 1,500-plus startups, a 14-plus venture capitalists, 16-plus trade commissions and five academic institutions globally.

5. Uber Launches Uber Sustainovate'Startup Challenge to Drive Sustainable Mobility in India

• Uber has introduced the Uber Sustainovate' Startup Challenge, a dynamic initiative to expedite the adoption of sustainable mobility in India.
• In partnership with Startup India and NASSCOM AI, this competition seeks to reward startups with groundbreaking concepts that can accelerate the transition to sustainable transportation within the nation.

6. Google ropes in former Apple executive Sreenivasa Reddy as India public policy head

• Google has roped in former Samsung anda Apple executive Sreenivasa Reddy to lead a its public policy efforts in India at a time when the internet giant faces mountinga anti-trust challenges and the governmenta works on a broad set of tech regulations..
• The appointment comes a full year after former public policy head, Archana Gulati, resigned just five months into the job.

7. NIIF and JBIC launch $600 million India-Japan Fund to boost investments in environmental sustainability

• The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) jointly launched the India-Japan Fund (IJF). The $600 million fund has the JBIC and Government of India (Gol) as its anchor a investors.
• The joint initiative is focused on increasingn investments in environmental sustainability and low-carbon emission strategies.

8. Army Launches 'Project Udbhav' To Draw Insights From Ancient Indian Texts On Statecraft, Diplomacy And War-Fighting

• The Indian Army, in collaboration with the United Service Institution of India (USI), a a defence think tank, has launched 'Project Udbhav'.
• This initiative aims to rediscover the ancient Indian texts on statecraft, warcraft,a diplomacy, and grand strategy, in order to understand the profound Indic heritage in these areas.

9. Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Introduces Centralised Mechanism To Report Investor's Death

• In accordance with a SEBl circular, an intermediary who receives notification of a an investor's death from a nominee, joint a account holder, or even a family member is required to obtain and verify the investor's death certificate and PAN.
• This should be completed by the next day after receiving the information and can be done througha online or offline modes.

10. Former HDFC Bank chief Aditya Puri joins Deloitte as senior adviser

• Former managing director and CEO of HDFC Bank Aditya Puri joined Deloitte as senior adviser on October 4.
• Puri was appointed as CEO of HDFC Bank in 1994 and retired after 26 years of a service.
• Earlier in June 2023, Deloitte had announced the appointment of Manoja Kohli, former CEO of Bharati Airtel and Softbank India as senior advisor.

11. World Space Week | 4-10 October

• From 4-10 October World Space Week will be celebrated to highlight the contributions of space science and technology.
• The_ World Space Week is the largest annuala space event in the world. The theme for World Space Week 2023, Space and Entrepreneurship.

12. World Animal Welfare Day | 4 October

• October 4, marks World Animal Welfare Day. The day is celebrated with the aima of celebrating animal rights and welfare all throughout the world.
• This day brings the animal welfare movement together, a mobilizing a global force to make the world a better place for all animals.
• The theme fora World Animal Day in 2023 is 'Big or small, we love them all.'

13. Nobel Prize 2023 in Chemistry awarded to Maunai Dauandi Lauia Daa O. Alavai

• The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize ina Chemistry 2023 to,
• Moungi G. Bawendi - Massachusetts Institute of Technologya (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
• Louis E. Brus - Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
• Alexei I. Ekimov - Nanocrystals Technology Inc., New York, NY, USA
• "for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"

14. Amil writer CS Lakshmi receives Tata Literature Lifetime Achievement Award for 2023

• C S Lakshmi, (publishing fiction under her pseudonym Ambai) has been conferred the Tata Literature Lifetime Achievement Award for 2023.
• She is one of India's leading writers and academicians, forging a trailblazing path at a time when education and literary pursuits were not common for women.