Daily Current Affairs – 6 October 2022

Scientists Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
They won Nobel for discovering reactions that let molecules snap together to create desired compounds and that offer insight into cell biology.

Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the prize in physics
They won for their advances in quantum mechanics on the behaviour of subatomic particles, opening the door to work on super computers and encryp

Alfred Nobel’s will of 1895 instructs that his fortune must be used as a fund to confer five annual prizes to those people who during the preceding year have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.
The prizes established through his will were for five fields– Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace.
The sixth category, Economic Sciences, was not originally listed in Alfred Nobel’s will.
It was established in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden in memory of Alfred Nobel and was first awarded in 1969.
Post the death of Alfred Nobel, the Nobel Foundation was established to carry out the provisions of his will and to administer the funds.
According to the will, three Swedish and one Norwegian institution must award the prizes.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the prizes for Chemistry, Physics and Economic Sciences, the Karolinska Institute confers the prize for physiology or medicine, and the Swedish Academy confers the prize for literature.
The Nobel Peace Prize is conferred by the Norwegian Nobel Committee based in Oslo.

Selection process of Nobel price

The selection process for the Nobel Prizes begins in the preceding year during Autumn and the winners are announced in October and November.
The aforementioned institutions invite thousands of individuals to nominate the names to be considered for the prestigious prize.
Nominations from each category are filed and the proposals must be submitted on or before January 31 of the award year to the Nobel Committees.

$625 million, the amount of additional military aid the United States is providing Ukraine, a package that includes additional advanced rocket systems credited with helping the country’s military gain momentum in its war with Russia.
President Joe Biden provided details on the latest package in a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

About Ukraine

Ukraine, country located in eastern Europe, the second largest on the continent after Russia. The capital is Kyiv, located on the Dnieper River in north-central Ukraine.
Capital of Ukraine is Kyiv

2 In $, is the amount per share at which Twitter intends to close its transaction with billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
This was in response to Musk proposing to buy the company again, at the originally agreedon price of $44 billion, bringing the tumultuous, months long saga another step closer to a conclusion

About Twitter

Twitter is a microblogging and social networking service owned by American company Twitter, Inc.,
In twitter users post and interact with messages known as “tweets”.
Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, while unregistered users only have a limited ability to read public tweets.
Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs.
Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year.
Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world

The U.S. will carry a Russian to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX ship, in a voyage that carries symbolic significance amid the Ukraine war.
Anna Kikina, the only woman cosmonaut in service, is part of the Crew5 mission, which also includes one Japanese and two American astronauts

Team USA Beats China, Wins 4th Straight FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup Gold Medal
The Americans capped off a dominant run at the 2022 FIBA World Cup with an 83-61 victory over China in the championship game Saturday.
The win marks the fourth consecutive gold medal in this tournament for the U.S. squad.

The Pullumpara village panchayat in the Thiruvananthapuram district achieved the distinction of becoming the first totally digitally literate panchayat in the country.
The announcement was made by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan at a public event held on September 21.
Around 3,100 residents of the panchayat cleared evaluation test held after training program
Government aims to provide affordable internet connection through K-FON

A majestic new Hindu temple that blends Indian and Arabic architecture designs has been inaugurated here in Jebel Ali Village, with a powerful message of tolerance, peace and harmony
Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance & Coexistence & Amb Sunjay Sudhir inaugurated the new Hindu Temple in Dubai.