10th November 2023 Daily Current Affairs

Sports

In Chess, R Vaishali defeated Mongolia’s Batkhuyag Munguntuul to win FIDE Women’s Grand Swiss 2023 at the Isle of Man in UK.
Vidit Gujrathi beat Alexandr Predke of Serbia to record his seventh victory in the event and take the top spot in open section.
Vaishali became the first Indian to win the Grand Swiss and will have her task cut out in the Candidates alongside India’s first woman Grandmaster – Koneru Humpy.

National & International Appointments

The National Payments Corporation of India has announced the appointment of actor Pankaj Tripathi as its ‘UPI Safety Ambassador.’
Aim: To strengthen safety awareness on digital payment platforms
This move comes in the wake of ongoing discussions regarding the safety and security of digital payment platforms, particularly United Payments Interface.
NPCI’s initiatives such as UPI, RuPay, and IMPS, reach the farthest corners of India, including cities, and villages.

National & International Appointments

Santosh Kumar Jha is set to be the next Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Konkan Railway Corporation Limited (KRCL), a PSU under the Ministry of Railways.
Jha is an Indian Railway Traffic Services (IRTS) officer of the 1992 batch.
He has rich experience over 28 years of experience in operations, infrastructure planning, and business development. He has hands-on experience as head of operations on major divisions of Indian Railways.

National & International Organizations

The Global Tuberculosis Report 2023, issued by the WHO offered a mixed bag for India.
While India improved case detection for TB and was able to cover the losses made during the pandemic in this regard, it missed major milestones.
India, incidentally, accounts for the highest TB burden across the world contributing 27% of all the TB cases followed by Indonesia (10%) and China (7.1%).
The current report of 2023 gives figures on various indicators of TB for 2022.

National & International Organizations

IT major IBM and Amazon Web Services announced an expansion of their services to facilitate mutual clients operations and derive value from generative artificial intelligence (AI).
As part of this, IBM launched the Innovation Lab, in collaboration with AWS, at the IBM Client Experience Center in Bengaluru.
Objective: To showcase the full potential of the joint value proposition that IBM and AWS offer to our clients from across the world.

National & International Organizations

Kozhikode in Kerala and Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh have made it to the prestigious creative cities list of UNESCO for contributions in the fields of literature and music respectively.
On World Cities Day, 55 cities join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN).
New cities were acknowledged for their strong commitment to harnessing culture and creativity as part of their development strategies, and displaying innovative practices in human-centred urban planning