Friends..Here is the Important Daily
Current Affairs and GK Updates for 06 July 2015 covering National,
International, Sports events etc. Hope you attempted our Daily Current Affairs Quiz for 06 July 2015.
1) Indian scientist Kamal Bawa elected fellow of Royal
Society:
--> Noted Indian conservation biologist
Kamal Bawa will be formally admitted to the prestigious Royal Society as a
fellow on July 10 for his "pioneering contributions to understanding the
population biology of tropical forest trees".
--> India-born Bawa, an internationally
recognised evolutionary ecologist and a distinguished professor of biology at
the University of Massachusetts, Boston, was elected a fellow of the
London-based society in April, according to a university media release.
--> Bawa joins former and current
fellows such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking,
and about 80 Nobel laureates.
2) Controversial Meiji sites in Japan get world heritage
status:
--> Japan’s Meiji-era (1868-1912)
industrial revolution sites have received World Cultural Heritage status from
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
--> Decision in this regard was taken
during the 39th session of the World Heritage Committee chaired by Maria Bohmer
in Bonn, Germany.
--> With this inclusion, the total
Cultural sites with UNESCO World Heritage Status in Japan have increased to 15
along with 4 natural sites.
--> The site was controversial as Korean
forced labourers were used before and during the Second World War for its
construction.
3) Aseel Shaheen is first Arab woman to officiate at
Wimbledon:
--> There are 350 personnel officiating
this year at Wimbledon, but one of them catches attention instantaneously.
--> She's Aseel Shaheen – the first Arab
woman to be appointed as an official for the prestigious Grand Slam.
--> Every year, the All England Club in
London invites 60 overseas officials, and the 41-year-old Shaheen is one of
them but the only one to create history.
4) Brazil unveiled Rio 2016 Olympic flame:
--> Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
has vowed Rio 2016 will be a "historic" event after unveiling the
Olympic torch.
--> The torch relay will begin at the
Games' birthplace in Olympia, Greece, before embarking on its tour of Brazil in
May 2016.
5) Fiji defeated Micronesia 38-0 in Pacific Games football
match:
--> Fiji broke the record for the
biggest win in international football with a 38-0 victory on 5 July 2015 over
the Federated States of Micronesia.
--> Organizers said the result broke the
2001 record when Australia beat American Samoa 31-0 in an Oceania confederation
qualifier for the 2002 World Cup.
6) Australia defeated Belgium 1-0 to win Hockey World League
Semi-Final:
--> World Champions Australia defeated
Belgium by 1-0 in the finals of the Hockey World League (HWL) Semi-Final
tournament.
--> Thus Australia claimed gold medal
while hosts Belgium got the silver medal in the tournament.
--> HWL Semi-final was hosted at the KHC
Dragons Stadium in Antwerp (Belgium).
--> The tournament’s final will be
played in Mohali (India) during December 2015.
--> India finished fourth in the
tournament.
