DAILY GK: 11 SEP 2021

 DAILY GK: 11 SEP 2021

1.NIRF RANKINGS 2021 FOR HEIS

•      Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Ministry of Education (MoE) released the 6th NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Framework) Rankings 2021 of Higher Educational Institutes (HEIs) of India in 11 categories from New Delhi.

•      The ranking has been topped by IIT Madras, Tamil Nadu in the overall category which is followed by IISc Bengaluru, Karnataka at 2nd and IIT Bombay, Maharashtra at 3rdplace.

•      All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi retains top slot in Medical for the 4th consecutive year.

 

2.‘MAIN BHI DIGITAL 3.0’ CAMPAIGN

•      Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) in association with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) launched the “Main Bhi Digital 3.0” -A special Campaign for Digital Onboarding and Training for street vendors under Pradhan Mantri Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) Scheme on the pitot based in 223 cities in the country.

 

3.INDIA PARTICIPATED IN A MILITARY EXERCISE ZAPAD 2021

•      14 days long, Russia’s Multi Nation Exercise Zapad 2021 is conducting from 3rd to 16th September at Nizhniy in Russia.

•      Indian Army took part in ‘ZAPAD 2021’ with 200 personnel mainly from the Naga Regiment participated as an all ‘Arms Combined Task Force’ for the exercise, which is one of the theatre levels exercises of the Russian armed forces.

 

4.ONEWEB & HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEM SIGNED MOU

•      Bharti group backed OneWeb and United States (US) company Hughes Network System has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in a collectively hosted session at Satellite 2021 in Maryland, US for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite service in US and India.

•      It is a strategic agreement for distributing satellite service networks in India to large enterprises, small and medium businesses, government, telecoms and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the rural and remote parts of the country.

 

5.GOVERNORS OF PUNJAB, TAMIL NADU, NAGALAND AND UTTARAKHAND APPOINTED

•      Ram Nath Kovind, President of India has appointed new governors for 4 states – Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Nagaland and Uttarakhand.

•      The following appointments will take effect from the date they assume changes in their respective offices.

•      Banwarilal Purohit, Governor of Tamil Nadu who has been holding the additional charge of Governor of Punjab has been appointed as regular Governor of Punjab.

•      Ravindra Narayan Ravi (RN Ravi), Governor of Nagaland has been appointed as the Governor of Tamil Nadu.

•      Prof. Jagdish Mukhi, Governor of Assam, has been given additional charge to discharge the functions of the Governor of Nagaland in addition to his duties until regular arrangements are made.

•      Lieutenant General (retired) Gurmit Singh, former Deputy Chief of Army Staff has been appointed Governor of Uttarakhand.

 

6.DRDO HANDED OVER MRSAM TO IAF

•      Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) handed over the first deliverable Firing Unit (FU) of Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MRSAM)/”Barak-8″ System to Indian Air Force (IAF) at Air Force Station, Jaisalmer in Rajasthan.

•      MRSAM (IAF) is an advanced network centric combat Air Defence System developed by DRDO in collaboration with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and PPP (Public Private Partnership) in Indian industry.

•      The Union Ministers Rajnath Singh and Nitin Jairam Gadkari inaugurated a 3-km emergency landing strip or Emergency Landing Facility (ELF) at Satta-Gandhav stretch on National Highway 925 in Barmer, Rajasthan for IAF planes.

•      NH-925 is India’s first national highway to be used as ELF of IAF aircraft.

 

7.‘ORCA’- WORLD’S LARGEST PLANT CAPTURING CARBON DIOXIDE FROM AIR

•      The World’s Largest Plant to Capture Carbon Dioxide(CO2) from air, ‘Orca’ Starts Operating in Iceland.

•      The Plant will suck in CO2 and store it underground in the form of rock.

•      It was started by a Swiss startup Climeworks AG in partnership with Icelandic carbon storage firm Carbfix.

•      The plant can capture up to 4,000 tons of CO2 per year.

 

8.WORLD SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY 2021 – SEPTEMBER 10

•      World Suicide Prevention Day(WSPD) is annually observed across the globe on September 10th to create awareness about suicide prevention across the world.

•      The day also aims to address self-harm and suicide through preventative action.

•      The theme of WSPD 2021 is “Creating hope through action”, a reminder that there is an alternative to suicide and aims to inspire confidence and hope in everyone.