who won The the 85th edition of the Masters Tournament 2021 golf championships ?

 who won The   the 85th edition of the Masters Tournament 2021    golf championships ?

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  Justin Rose    
 
Brian Harman    

Hideki Matsuyama

Patrick Reed


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Hideki Matsuyama

2020 Turkish Grand Prix

 2020 Turkish Grand Prix

The 2020 Turkish Grand Prix   was a motor race for Formula One cars which took place on 15 November 2020 at Istanbul Park in Tuzla, Turkey.

The race was the 14th round of the 2020 Formula One World Championship and the eighth running of the Turkish Grand Prix since the event was first held in 2005.

The race was won by Lewis Hamilton ahead of Sergio Pérez and Sebastian Vettel.

With this win Hamilton claimed his seventh World Championship title, equalling the record set by Michael Schumacher.

Hamilton's title also marked the seventh consecutive time a Mercedes driver had won the World Drivers' Championship.

Joe Biden will become 46th US President Kamala Harris will be first woman Vice President

 Joe Biden  will  become 46th US President Kamala Harris will be first woman Vice President

Democrat Joe Biden beat Republican Donald Trump to become the 46th President of the United States.

Biden clinched the race by securing 279 electoral votes.

The winning moment was decided when the Democrats made a lead in the state of Pennsylvania sealing their victory

With the declaration of Joe Biden as the President-Elect based on the projections of the electoral votes, Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris has also secured her position as the first woman to be the Vice President of the USA.

Ms. Harris, is also credited to be the first woman of Indian-American and African-American origin to be a member of the United States Senate.

 

film director Shekhar Kapur has been appointed as the president of the Film and Television Institute of India

 film director Shekhar Kapur has been appointed as the president of the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India (FTII)

Shekhar Kapur is an Indian film director, actor, and producer, known for his works in Hindi cinema and international cinema.

The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India and aided by the Central Government of India.

It is situated on the premises of the erstwhile Prabhat Film Company in Pune.

Since its beginning in 1960, FTII has become India's premier film and television institute, with its alumni becoming technicians, actors and directors in the film and television industry.

FTII is a member of the International Liaison Centre of Schools of Cinema and Television (CILECT), an organisation of the world's leading schools of film and television

2020 Tuscan Grand Prix

 2020 Tuscan Grand Prix

The 2020 Tuscan Grand Prix   was a Formula One motor race held on 13 September 2020 at the Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello in Scarperia e San Piero, Tuscany, Italy.

The race was the ninth round of the 2020 Formula One World Championship.

The race was won by Lewis Hamilton of the Mercedes team, with teammate Valtteri Bottas in second; Mercedes scored their third 1–2 finish of the season.

Alexander Albon of Red Bull Racing-Honda scored his first podium in Formula One with a third place finish, becoming the first Thai driver to do so.

The race was the first race since the 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix to have two red flags

Naturalist, broadcaster David Attenborough will get Indira Gandhi Peace Prize for 2019

Naturalist, broadcaster David Attenborough will get Indira Gandhi Peace Prize for 2019

His name was selected for the prize by an international jury chaired by former president Pranab Mukherjee

Sir David Frederick Attenborough  is an English broadcaster and natural historian.

Sir David’s work has received widespread recognition across the world. Apart from his knighthood, he has received awards from the Royal Geographical Society, UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize, the Micheal Faraday Prize, the Descartes Prize and Fellowship of the Royal Society, and several Emmy and BAFTA awards.

He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series forming the Life collection that together constitute a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth

The Indira Gandhi Prize or the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize or the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development is the prestigious award accorded annually by Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust  to individuals or organisations in recognition of creative efforts toward promoting international peace, development and a new international economic order; ensuring that scientific discoveries are used for the larger good of humanity, and enlarging the scope of freedom.

The prize carries a cash award of 2.5 million Indian rupees and a citation.

2020 Belgian Grand Prix

 2020 Belgian Grand Prix

The 2020 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 30 August 2020 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Stavelot, Belgium.

The race was the seventh round in the 2020 Formula One World Championship.

Hamilton won the race, having led for every lap, followed by Bottas and Verstappen who had also held second and third respectively for the entire race.

Ricciardo completed the fastest lap, a 1:47.483

He finished in fourth, a position he had held the entire race

Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld wins 2020 International Booker prize

 Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld wins 2020 International Booker prize

Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld on Wednesday won the 2020 International Booker prize for debut novel The Discomfort of Evening, a story of childhood grief.

At 29, Rijneveld is the youngest author to win the prestigious prize.

Rijneveld shares the prize of 50,000 pounds, about $66,000, with Michele Hutchison, who translated it from Dutch

The International Booker Prize is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom. The introduction of the International Prize to complement the Man Booker Prize was announced in June 2004.
Ceremony date: 26 August 2020
Established: 2005
Reward(s): £50,000
Awarded for: Best book in English translation
First awarded: 2005

Walter Roger Martos Ruiz appointed as Prime Minister of Peru

 Walter Roger Martos Ruiz is a Peruvian retired military general who is the current Prime Minister of Peru since August 2020, under Martín Vizcarra's administration.

 He previously served as Minister of Defense from October 2019 to August 2020

Peru is a country in South America that's home to a section of Amazon rainforest and Machu Picchu, an ancient Incan city high in the Andes mountains

Capital: Lima
Population: 3.2 crores (2018)
Co-official languages: Quechua; Aymara; Other indigenous languages

Mahinda Rajapaksa won in Sri Lankan Parliamentary elections

 Mahinda Rajapaksa won  in Sri Lankan Parliamentary elections

Lieutenant Colonel Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa, RWP, RSP, psc, GR is a Sri Lankan politician and former military officer currently serving as the 8th President of Sri Lanka since 2019.

Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa commonly known as Mahinda Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan politician serving as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and Minister of Finance since 2019. He previously served as President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015 and was Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2004 and 2018 to 2019.

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean southwest of the Bay of Bengal and southeast of the Arabian Sea.

 It is geographically separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.  

Capitals: Colombo, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Population: 2.17 crores (2018)
Currency: Sri Lankan rupee

William Kirk English

 William Kirk English

William Kirk English was an American computer engineer who contributed to the development of the computer mouse while working for Douglas Engelbart at SRI International's Augmentation Research Center.

He would later work for Xerox PARC and Sun Microsystems.

RBI Approved Sashidhar Jagdishan as Next MD & CEO of HDFC Bank

RBI Approved Sashidhar Jagdishan as Next MD & CEO of HDFC Bank

the Reserve Bank of India has approved the appointment of Sashidhar Jagdishan as Managing Director and CEO of HDFC Bank.

The RBI vide its communication dated August 3, 2020,has approved the appointment of Sashidhar Jagdishan as Managing Director and CEO of the bank for a period of three years with effect from October 27, 2020

Jagdishan, 55, is currently Group Head and Change Agent, HDFC Bank. He has been with the bank for nearly 24 years

Irfaan Ali declared president elect of Guyana

Irfaan Ali declared president elect of Guyana

 The presidential candidate for the main opposition People's Progressive Party/Civic, Mohamed Irfaan Ali, was on Sunday declared president elect of Guyana.

Mohamed Irfaan Ali   is a Guyanese politician who has been the President of Guyana since 2020.

He was previously a Member of Parliament[1] and the Minister of Housing

Guyana, a country on South America’s North Atlantic coast, is defined by its dense rainforest

Capital: Georgetown
Vernacular language: Guyanese Creole

Former Taiwan president, Lee Teng-hui

Former Taiwan president, Lee Teng-hui

Lee Teng-hui   was a Taiwanese politician and economist who was the fourth president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under the 1947 Constitution and chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1988 to 2000.

He was the first president of the Republic of China to be born in Taiwan and the first to be directly elected.

During his presidency, Lee oversaw the end of martial law and the full democratization of the ROC, advocated the Taiwanese localization movement, and led an ambitious foreign policy to gain allies around the world.

Ivory Coast Defence Minister Bakayoko named as prime minister

Ivory Coast Defence Minister Bakayoko named prime minister

Hamed Bakayoko has been named prime minister after acting as interim PM .

Bakayoko, 55, has had the defence portfolio since 2017, after serving as interior minister from 2011.

He has also been mayor of Abobo

Côte d'Ivoire is a West African country with beach resorts, rainforests.

Capital: Yamoussoukro
Currency: West African CFA franc
Population: 2.51 crores (2018)
Official language: French

Somalia's deputy PM says appointed as acting prime minister

Somalia's deputy PM says appointed as acting prime minister

Somalia's Deputy Prime Minister Mahdi Mohammed Gulaid has announced his appointment as the interim prime minister following the vote of no confidence against the previous head of government, Hassan Ali Khaire.

Earlier, the country's parliament ousted Khaire by a vote of no confidence.

Mahdi Mohammed Gulaid  is the Acting Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia and the former Deputy Prime Minister from 21st of March, 2017 to the 25th of July 2020.

Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is a sovereign country in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Guardafui Channel and Somali Sea to the east, and Kenya to the southwest. Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland.

Capital: Mogadishu
Currencies: United States Dollar, Somali shilling
Official language: Somali

Nelson Mandela International Day

Nelson Mandela International Day is an annual international day in honour of Nelson Mandela, celebrated each year on 18 July, Mandela's birthday.

 The day was officially declared by the United Nations in November 2009, with the first UN Mandela Day held on 18 July 2010

Mandela Day is a global call to action that celebrates the idea that each individual has the power to transform the world, the ability to make an impact.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election

Marianna Vardinoyannis, Morissana Kouyate announced laureates of UN Nelson Mandela prize

Marianna Vardinoyannis, Morissana Kouyate announced laureates of UN Nelson Mandela prize

Marianna Vardinoyannis of Greece and Morissana Kouyate of Guinea were announced the laureates of the United Nations 2020 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize by General Assembly President Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Xinhua reported.

Vardinoyannis is a Greek philanthropist and world advocate for human rights and the protection of children's health and welfare.

 The prize was established in 2014 by the General Assembly to recognise the achievements of those who dedicate their lives to the service of humanity by promoting the purposes and principles of the United Nations while honouring and paying homage to Nelson Mandela's extraordinary life and legacy of reconciliation, political transition, and social transformation.

The prize is awarded every five years.
It was first awarded in 2015.

The laureates will be recognised at the General Assembly's annual commemoration of Nelson Mandela International Day, which,is being marked virtually on July 20.

 An in-person award ceremony will take place on a later date at UN Headquarters in New York

Kate Winslet will be honoured with Tribute Actor Award

Kate Winslet will be honoured with Tribute Actor Award

Kate Winslet will be honoured with Tribute Actor Award at Toronto International Film Festival 2020

she will receive the honour during the virtual gala  for her latest film, Francis Lee's Ammonite.

Gabon Appointed its First Woman Prime Minister

Gabon Appointed its First Woman Prime Minister

Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda  is a Gabonese politician who is currently serving as Prime Minister of Gabon since 16 July 2020, making her the first female prime minister of the country.

She previously served as the Mayor of Libreville and later as the country's Defense Minister from February 2019 to July 2020.

Gabon, is a country along the Atlantic coast of Central Africa

Capital: Libreville

Currency: Central African CFA franc
Population: 21.2 lakhs (2018)
Official language: French