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Current Affairs 05 May 2019
Last Captive White Tiger ‘Bajirao’ at Sanjay Gandhi National Park Passes Away at 18
- Bajirao, the last surviving White Tiger at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in Borivali, maharashtra passed away at the age of 18.
- He was suffering from chronic ankylosis on left shoulder and chronic senile generalised arthritis for the last four years.
- Bajirao was born at the SGNP in 2001 to Renuka and Sidharth.
Gujarat Assembly Passes Act to Allow Shops & Businesses Remain Open 24X7
- The Gujarat state Assembly has passed a new Act ‘Gujarat Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2019’ that will allow shops and other businesses in the state to operate 24 hours.
- The Act came into force from May 1, 2019.
- It replaces the Gujarat Shops and Establishments Act of 1948 which prohibited shops and other businesses from operating between 12 am to 6 am.
SIPRI Launches Initiative ‘GReVD’ to Measure Violent Deaths Worldwide
- The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has set up a new initiative named Global Registry of Violent Deaths (GReVD) to establish the annual number of violent deaths worldwide.
- GReVD will track the number of deaths caused by all forms of violence and display these in an open-source database which will eventually help researchers, policymakers and the general public to track trends in violence at global, regional, national levels.
- The initiative aims to monitor the progress on the world’s commitment to ‘significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere’ by 2030 as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically Goal 16.
- The first-phase of the project will be funded by the Swedish Postcode Foundation and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development.
- SDG 16 aims to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
Girl from Nepal dances for continuous 126-hour to set Guinness World Records
- Bandana Nepal a girl from Nepal danced continuously for 126 hours to set a Guinness World Records on ‘Longest Dancing Marathon by an Individual’.
- She broke the record of India girl Kalamandalam Hemlatha who danced continuously for 123 hours and 15 minutes in 2011.
Paytm President Bhushan Patil Resigns
- Bhushan Patil, President at Paytm, has quit the company.
- Patil joined Noida-based Paytm in March 2016. Before that he worked as an Executive at Alibaba for around five years.
- Initially he was responsible to look after Paytm’s cross border commerce business.
Pakistan appoints IMF official as new central bank governor
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) economist Reza Baqir has been appointed as the Governor of State Bank of Pakistan. State Bank of Pakistan is the central bank of Pakistan.
- He will replace Tariq Bajwa, who was removed from his post.
International Firefighters’ Day: May 4
International Firefighters’ Day (IFFD) is observed annually on May 4 to commemorate the sacrifices that firefighters make to ensure that their communities and environment are as safe as possible.