DAILY GK: 4 MAY 2021
1.INDIA’S 1ST 3D PRINTED HOUSE AT
IIT-M
• Union Finance Minister, Nirmala
Sitharaman virtually inaugurated India’s 1st 3D printed house at the Indian
Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M), Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
• The single-storey home has been built in
just five days over an area of about 600 sq. ft using ‘Concrete 3D Printing”.
• TVASTA Manufacturing Solutions, a
start-up founded by IIT-M alumni in association with Habitat for Humanity’s
Terwilliger Centre for Innovation in Shelter built the 3D Printed House.
2.MILITARY EXERCISE ‘DEFENDER-EUROPE
21’
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
(NATO) launched the Joint Multinational Military Exercise ‘DEFENDER-Europe 21’ in the port of Durres in
Albania.
• ‘DEFENDER-Europe 21’ is led by the
United States (US).
• It is the 1st such large-scale drills
since World War-II in the Western Balkans region.
3.APPOINTMENT OF 4TH DEPUTY GOVERNOR
OF RBI
• The Appointment Committee of the
Cabinet(ACC) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed T Rabi
Sankar, the Executive Director of RBI as the 4th Deputy Governor of RBI.
• ACC has cleared his appointment for a
period of 3 years or till his date of superannuation.
• He succeeds B P Kanungo, who retired on
2nd April 2021 after serving one year extension period.
4.P C PANT APPOINTED ACTING
CHAIRPERSON OF NHRC
• Justice (retired) Prafulla Chandra Pant,
a Former Supreme Court Judge had been appointed as Acting Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) with effect from April 25.
• Justice H.L. Dattu, a former Chief
Justice of India, who was serving as Chairperson of NHRC completed his tenure
on December 2, 2020.
5.STRATOLAUNCH COMPLETES TEST FLIGHT
• The World’s Largest Aeroplane codenamed
‘Roc’ successfully completed its 2nd
Test Flight.
• The Aeroplane being built by
Stratolaunch, an US based Aerospace Company was tested at Mojave Air and Space
Port in California, US.
• The Aeroplane has 2 flights under its
belt and has a wingspan of 385 feet (117 feet).
6.PORTUGESE GP 2021
• Mercedes’ driver Lewis Hamilton
(Britain) won the Portuguese Grand Prix 2021 of Formula One (F1) held at
Algarve International Circuit in Portimao, Portugal.
• It is Hamilton’s 97th Career Victory.
7.PRANATINAYAK QUALIFIED FOR TOKYO
OLYMPICS
• PranatiNayak, Indian Gymnast from West
Bengal, is set to compete at the Tokyo Olympics.
• She has won the bronze in vault at the
Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championship 2019.
• She has qualified through the Asian
quota.
8.ICC BANNED NUWANZOYSA
• International Cricket Council (ICC)
banned SriLanka’s former cricket player and coach NuwanZoysa for 6 years from
all forms of cricket after found breaching the ICCs anti-corruption code.
9.WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY 2021
• The United Nations(UN)’s World Press
Freedom Day is annually observed across the globe on 3rd May.
• The theme of World Press Freedom Day
2021 is “Information as a Public Good”.
• MariaRessa, Investigative journalist and
media executive from the Philippines has been named the winner of the
UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2021.
10.WORLD TUNA DAY 2021
• The United Nations(UN)’s World Tuna Day
is annually observed across the globe on 2nd May to create awareness about the
importance of Tuna and to promote sustainable fishing practices.
11.WORLD LAUGHTER DAY
• World Laughter Day is celebrated every
year on the first Sunday of May and this
year it falls on 2nd May.
• The day is celebrated to raise awareness
about laughter and its many healing benefits.
12.GOVT SET TARGET OF ROAD
CONSTRUCTION OF WORTH RS 15 LAKH CR
• Road Transport and Highways Minister
Nitin Gadkari said the government has set a target of road construction of
worth 15 lakh crore rupees in next two years.
• Addressing the Indo-U.S. Partnership
Vision Summit through video conferencing, Mr Gadkari exuded confidence that the
Ministry will achieve a target of 40 kilometres per day of highway construction
in the current fiscal.
• He said that the Government is
permitting 100 percent FDI in the road sector.
13.LDF ATTAINS 2ND CONSECUTIVE TERM
IN KERALA
• In Kerala, Left Democratic Front (LDA)
has retained power for the second consecutive term.
• PinarayiVijayan government has become
the first government to get the second successive term in four decades.
14.BJP-LED NDA GETS POWER IN ASSAM
FOR 2ND CONSECUTIVE TERM
• In Assam, BJP-led NDA has retained power
for the second consecutive term.
• The NDA has secured 75 seats in the
126-member assembly.
• While BJP won 60 seats, its allies
AsomGanaParishad bagged 9 seats and UPPL 6 seats.
15.TMC COMEBACK TO POWER IN WEST
BENGAL
• In West Bengal, ruling Trinamool
Congress has retained power for the third term in a row but Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee lost her own Nandigram seat.
• Trinamool Congress has won 209 seats and
leading at 4 seats.
• BJP has won 76 seats and is leading at
one seat.
• BJP’s SuvenduAdhikari defeated Mamata
Banerjee by a margin of 1,956 votes in the key Nandigram constituency.
16.TAMIL NADU ELECTION RESULTS 2021
• After a decade in opposition, the DMK
won a convincing victory over arch-rival AIADMK in Tamil Nadu and the ruling
party managed to emerge as a formidable opposition, overcoming the burden of
ten year anti-incumbency to an extent.