DAILY GK: 9 JAN 2021
1. CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
IN LOGISTICS SKILL
• Flipkart has signed a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) with the Logistics Skill Sector Council (LSC).
• It is LSC’s first-of-its-kind industry
partnership with Flipkart to set up the industry-first Centre of Excellence
(CoE) in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
• LSC is an organisation set up by the
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) through National
Skill Development Corporation of India (NSDC) and Karnataka Skill Development
Centre (KSDC).
• Government of India promulgated a Jammu
and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Ordinance 2021 by amending the J&K
Reorganisation Act, 2019 to merge the Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) cadre of
All India Services Officers like IAS, IPS & Indian Forest Service (IFoS)
with the Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre.
• With this, officers from the Union
Territories & above mentioned States can now be placed in J&K and vice
versa.
• The ordinance was signed by President Ram
Nath Kovind amended section 13 & 88 of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation
Act 2019, it was issued by the Ministry of Law & Justice.
2. INDIA SET TO HEAD 3
IMPORTANT COMMITTEES OF UNSC
• Permanent Representative of India to
United Nations (UN) TS Tirumurti announced that India will head 3 Important
Committees of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) – Counter-Terrorism
Committee (for 2022), Taliban Sanctions Committee (also called the 1988
Sanctions Committee) & Libya Sanctions Committee.
• India began its 8th Term as a
non-permanent member of the UNSC for 2 years(2021-2022).
• Mexico, Kenya, Norway & Ireland also
joined India as non-permanent members.
3. OVERVIEW OF ISRO’S
PLAN FOR THE DECADE 2021-30
• K. Sivan, Chairman of Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) have chalked out the plan for the Decade 2021-30.
• It has listed both Short-term vision &
Long-term visions.
• First Developmental Flight of the Small
Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) planned to be launched in March, 2021.
• Operational Geo-Imaging capability
expected to be launched in 2021.
• Chandrayaan-3 – Third Lunar Mission of
ISRO expected to be launched by late 2021 or early 2022.
• Aditya-L1 – First Solar Mission of ISRO
expected to be launched in 2022.
• Launching of the First Indian Data Relay
Satellite, expected to be launched in early 2021.
• The Gaganyaan Programme India’s First
unmanned flight is set to be launched in 2022.