DAILY GK: 08, 09 OCT 2021
1.
EXERCISE JIMEX 2021
• The
5th edition of India-Japan Maritime Bilateral Exercise, ‘JIMEX 2021’ between
Indian Navy (IN) and the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) is being
held in Arabian Sea.
2.
WATER SHORTAGE CAN HIT FIVE BILLION PEOPLE BY 2050
• The
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns that the number of people
affected by water scarcity is expected to rise as climate change increases the
global risk of water-related hazards like floods and droughts.
• According
to the report ‘The State of Climate Services 2021: Water’, 3.6 billion people
had inadequate access to water at least one month per year in 2018.
3.INDIA’S
1ST COF TOKENIZATION SERVICE FOR MERCHANTS
• Global
payments technology firm, Visa in partnership with Juspay launched India’s 1st
Card-on-File tokenization (CoFT) services for e-commerce players such as
Grofers, BigBasket, and MakeMyTrip.
• Tokenization
refers to the process of replacing the card’s actual sensitive information like
card number, expiration date, security code with a unique alternate code called
the ‘token’ to improve the safety and security of the payment system.
4.WORLD
BANK RETAINED INDIA’S GDP GROWTH FORECAST
• World
Bank released its report on South Asia Economic Focus titled ‘Shifting Gears:
Digitization and Services-Led Development’ and has unchanged India’s GDP growth
forecast for FY22 to 8.3 percent from its earlier estimate in June 2021.
5.2021
FIH HOCKEY STAR AWARDS
• For
the first time ever, India swept the eight 2021 International Hockey Federation’s
(FIH) annual Hockey Star Awards with drag-flickers Harmanpreet Singh and Gurjit
Kaur claiming the Player of the Year honours in men and women.
• THE AWARDS
AWARD MEN WOMEN
Player of the Year Award Harmanpreet
Singh Gurjit Kaur
Goalkeeper of the Year Award PR
Sreejesh Savita
Punia
Rising Star of the Year Award Vivek
Sagar Prasad Sharmila Devi
The Best Coach Award Graham
Reid Sjoerd
Marijne
6.2021
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP HUMANITARIAN AWARDS
• The
United States(US)-India Business Council (USIBC) has presented the 2021 Global
Leadership Humanitarian Awards to Julie Sweet, CEO and Chair of Accenture;
Arvind Krishna, Chairman and CEO of IBM; and Brad Smith, President and
Vice-Chair of Microsoft.
7.NOBEL
PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2021
• The
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature to
Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian novelist based in the United Kingdom for his
works on the effects of colonialism and fate of the refugee in the gulf between
cultures and continents.
8.FIRST
UN WORLD COTTON DAY – 7TH OCTOBER 2021
• 7th
October 2021 marks the observance of the first ever official United Nations(UN)
World Cotton Day.
• According
to the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), the event theme for 2021
World Cotton Day is ‘Cotton for Good’.
9.4TH
TIGER RESERVE OF CHHATTISGARH
• The
11th Technical Committee of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)
has approved the proposal of the government of Chhattisgarh to declare the
combined areas of the Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary and the Guru Ghasidas
National Park as the 4th Tiger reserve of Chhattisgarh.
• The
other tiger reserves of Chhattisgarh are Udanti-Sitanadi Tiger Reserve,
Indravati Tiger Reserves, and Amarkantak – Achanakmar Wildlife Sanctuary
10.EXERCISE
AJEYA WARRIOR-2021
• The
6th Edition of India – UK (United Kingdom) Joint Company Level Military
Training exercise Ajeya Warrior-2021 was commenced in Chaubatia, Uttarakhand.
• To
strengthen bilateral defence cooperation between the two countries and develop
inter-operability among them.
11. TEXTILE MINISTRY SIGNS MOU WITH GERMANY
• India’s
Ministry of Textiles (MoT) supported by Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers
Welfare (MoAFW) signed a MoU with Germany’s Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to implement projects on ‘Sustainability
and Value Added in the Cotton Economy’.
• The
agreement was signed on Implementation Agreement of Indo German Technical
Cooperation Project.
• Target
– The partnership targets to increase cotton production on 90,000 hectares of
land in 4 States (Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu) to increase
the yield of Cotton by 10%, thereby supporting 1.5 lakh farmers.
12.TELANGANA
CELEBRATED BATHUKAMMA FESTIVAL
• Bathukamma,
a part of Dasara festivities, is a traditional Hindu festival celebrated
predominantly in the state of Telangana and in some parts of Andhra
Pradesh(AP).
• The
Bathukamma festival celebrates the relationship between earth, water and the
humans.
• Bathukamma
means ‘Goddess of Life’.
13.UNESCO
SOER REPORT 2021
• In
accordance with the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization) report titled ‘The report – 2021 State of the Education Report
(SOER) for India: No Teachers, No Class’, Indian teachers are facing basic
amenities like toilets in northeast and aspirational districts. There are
disparities for the same between urban and rural schools.
14.SBI
EXTENDS PARTNERSHIP WITH TCS
• State
Bank of India (SBI) extended its partnership with Tata Consultancy Services
(TCS) for another five years. Under this partnership, SBI uses TCS BaNCS for
which TCS maintain and enhance SBI’s application for core banking, trade
finance, financial reporting, and financial inclusion.
15.PNB
LAUNCHED ‘6S CAMPAIGN’
• Punjab
National Bank (PNB) launched the “6S Campaign” under customer outreach
programme to offer financial services at a concessional rate during festival season.
• The
campaign encapsulates various schemes such as Swabhiman, Samruddhi, Sampark and
Shikhar, Sankalp and Swagat.
16.TATA
SONS WON BIDS TO ACQUIRE AIR INDIA
• Tata
Sons Private Ltd subsidiary Talace Pvt Ltd has won the final bid for acquiring
national carrier Air India by submitting Rs. 18,000 crore bid. The ministerial
panel led by Union Home Minister Amit Shah approved the bid.
• The
airline Air India was established by industrialist and philanthropist JRD Tata
(India’s 1st licensed pilot) in 1932 as the Tata Airlines and it was sold to
the government in 1953.
• Tata
Power company Ltd has signed a 3-year commercial agreement with BluWave-ai, the
world’s 1st renewable energy AI (Artificial Intelligence) company.
17.NOBEL
PEACE PRIZE 2021
• The
Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 to
Maria Ressa, journalist from Philippines and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov,
journalist from Russia for their efforts to protect the freedom of expression,
the precondition of democracy and lasting peace.
• Maria
Ressa is the 18th woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
18.HAL
DELIVERS ‘SC120-LOX’ TO ISRO
• Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited (HAL) delivered the ‘heaviest’ Semi-Cryogenic Propellant
tank named ‘SC120-LOX’ to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
• It
is a Semi Cryo-liquid Oxygen (LOX) tank, which will be a part of SC120 stage of
ISRO’s GSLV Mark III launch vehicles, replacing the existing L110 stage.
19.89TH
INDIAN AIR FORCE DAY
• Indian
Air Force Day is annually observed across India on 8th October to increase
awareness about the Indian Air Force, an organisation that works towards
strengthening national security.
• The
day marks the establishment of the Indian Air Force on 8th October 1932.
• The
2021 Indian Air Force Day is celebrated as “Swarnim Vijay Varsh”, commemorating
the victory of the 1971 war.
20.INDIA’S
FIRST SMARTPHONE-BASED EVOTING SOLUTION
• Telangana
has developed the country’s first smartphone-based e-voting solution.
• It
will be tested in a dummy election also, and a dry run will be held in the
Khammam district of Telangana.
