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11) The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has permitted telecom service providers (TSPs), including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Vodafone Idea, and MTNL, to conduct 5G trials
The TSPs will also be permitted to use their existing spectrum (800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2500 MHz) for conduct of 5G trials.
12) Four Indian women cricketers Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, and Deepti Sharma have been granted No Objection Certificates (NOCs) by the Indian cricket board to participate in the inaugural Hundred, an eight-team tournament scheduled to start in England on July 21.
Board of Control for Cricket in India:-
President - Sourav Ganguly
Secretary - Jay Shah
Headquarters - Mumbai
Founded - December 1928
13) Elon Musk's SpaceX successfully launched and then landed the latest prototype of its Starship rocket in the fifth high-altitude test flight of the system.
Starship prototype rocket Serial Number 15, or SN15, flew as high as 10 kilometers, or about 33,000 feet
SpaceX :-
Founder: Elon Musk
Founded: 6 May 2002
CEO - Elon Musk
Headquarters - Hawthorne, California, United States
14) Founder leader of All India N R Congress N Rangasamy was sworn-in as the Chief Minister of Puducherry for the fourth time.
Lt Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan administered the oath of office and secrecy to Mr Rangasamy at a function held with COVID-19 protocols on the lawns of Raj Nivas.
Puducherry :-
Chief Minister - N Rangasamy
Lt Governor - Tamilisai Soundararajan
15) An advisory group has been constituted by Reserve Bank of India to assist the second Regulatory Review Authority (RRA 2.0) which was constituted by the central bank earlier this month to streamline regulations and reduce the compliance burden of regulated entities.
Reserve Bank of India:-
Headquarters:- Mumbai, Maharashtra,
Established:- 1 April 1935, 1934 Act.
First Governor - Sir Osborne Smith
First Indian Governor - Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh
Governor:- Shaktikanta Das
16) Former India hockey player and member of the Indian team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Ravinder Pal Singh, died of COVID-19.
Beside winning the gold at 1980 Games, Ravinder also played at 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and 1979 Junior World Cup.
17) The IMD’s Regional Meteorological Centre has started including cities under Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir in its forecasts, a departure from its earlier format.
The IMD has started including Gilgit-Baltistan and Muzaffarabad, which are parts of PoK, under the Jammu and Kashmir meteorological sub-division since May 5
Indian Meteorological Department :-
Headquarters - New Delhi
Director General of Meteorology - Dr. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra
Founder - Government of India
Founded - 1875
18) With increasing demand for face masks to contain transmission of deadly COVID-19 virus, an IIT-Delhi startup has launched an antimicrobial and washable face mask that can be reused upto 50 launderings.
19) The Boxing Federation of India in consultation with Asian Boxing Confederation (ASBC), has decided to conduct the upcoming 2021 edition of the ASBC Asian Elite Men and Women Boxing Championships in Dubai.
20) The Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay set up a demonstration unit to convert nitrogen generators, which are found in all parts of India, into oxygen generators by fine-tuning the existing nitrogen plant set up.
21) Narada Jayanti 2020 is being celebrated on May 8, 2020.
Narada Jayanti is the birth anniversary of Devrishi Narada Muni.
It is a day dedicated to celebrating the birth of Narad Muni, son of Lord Brahma and Goddess Saraswati.
22) The Wipro has also announced its commitment to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040, in line with the objective of the Paris Agreement to cap temperature rise to 1.5 degree Celsius.
