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World Test Championship 2023 (cricket)

Final held: 11 June 2023

Venue: The Oval, London

Winner: Australia (first title)

Runner-up: India

Won by: 209 runs

Man of the match: Travis Head (Australia)

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As per ISPR, three army officers, including a lieutenant general, were sacked from their jobs as a part of the military’s “self-accountability process” into the events of May 9, 2023.

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Global Gender Gap Report 2023 released by World Economic Forum

Edition: 17th

Released in June 2023

Total countries: 146

Topper: Iceland

Pakistan: 142

Pakistan gender parity: 57.5 per cent

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About International Nautical Competition 2023

Edition: Fourth

Organizer: Pakistan Navy

Venue: Karachi

Staring date 31 October

Ending date 03 November 2023

Purpose: to promote goodwill among friendly countries

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• Joe Solomon was a Guyanese cricketer who played 27 Test matches for the West Indies from 1958 to 1965.

• Born: 26 August 1930
• Died: 8 December 2023) 

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In February 2023, the Black Galaxy or ‘Invisible galaxy’ was discovered by researchers in Italy.

It was found and characterised using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array.

The Black Galaxy is compact and has a large amount of interstellar dust.

It is forming stars at a rate 1,000 times faster than the Milky Way.

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Global Unicorn index 2023

First position: USA (666 unicorns)

Second position: China (316 unicorns)

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‘Locked Shield’ cyber defence exercise (world’s largest cyber defence exercise) 

Organizer: NATO

2023 edition held in Tallinn Estonia (April 2023)

Participants: 38 countries

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In March 2023, Iran discovered a lithium deposit in the western province of Hamedan.

It is found to contain around 8.5 million metric tons of lithium ore.

Lithium is a soft, silver-white metal belonging to the alkali metal group of elements.