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Thursday, November 11, 2021

DAILY GK: 10 , 11 NOV

DAILY GK: 10 , 11 NOV

1.       NATIONAL LEGAL SERVICES DAY 2021 – NOVEMBER 9 

·         National Legal Services Day is annually observed across India on 9th November to commemorate the enactment of the Legal Services Authorities Act 1987 to provide a “statutory base to legal aid programmes” in India on a uniform pattern.


2.       TOP POLICE STATIONS IN INDIA’S

·         1st – Nongpok Sekmai police station in Thoubal district of Manipur .

·         2nd – AWPS-Suramangalam police station in Salem City of Tamil Nadu.

·         3rd – Kharsang police station in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh.

·         The annual ranking of Police Stations across India was first proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015 during the Directors General of Police’s Conference in Kutch, Gujarat.

 

3.       CLIMATE CHANGE PERFORMANCE INDEX 2022

·         India has retained its spot in the top 10 best-performing countries (for the third year after 2020, 2021) and ranked 10th in the global Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2022, which was released by Germanwatch on the sidelines of the COP26 (26th Conference of Parties).

·         The first three overall positions remain empty as no country performs well enough in all index categories to achieve an overall very high rating.

·         Denmark is at 4th Position and Sweden at 5th.

 

4.       META LAUNCHED ‘GROW YOUR BUSINESS HUB’ TO STRENGTHEN SMALL BUSINESS IN INDIA

·         Meta, formerly Facebook has launched ‘Grow Your Business Hub’ & ‘Grow Your Business Playbook’ during the inaugural edition of Grow Your Business Summit, an event focused on the growth agenda of India’s small and medium businesses (SMB).

·         It is a localised business hub for the micro, small and medium business to find relevant information, tools, and resources curated to provide their business goals based on their growth.

·         Grow Your Business Playbook to inspire and equip early-stage businesses to start their journeys on Meta’s apps was also launched during the event.

·         This playbook aims to assist the business to set up an offline to online journey and accelerating online sales for small businesses during the COVID-19 era and beyond.

 

5.       VICE ADMIRAL R. HARI KUMAR IS NEXT CHIEF OF NAVAL STAFF

·         The Defence Ministry appointed Vice Admiral R Hari Kumar, the Chief of Western Naval Command (WNC), as India’s new Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), who will take over the position from the incumbent CNS Admiral Karambir Singh.

·         Hari Kumar is presently serving as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the WNC.

·         He was the 1st Vice Chief of Defence Staff of India.

 

6.       SHEEL VARDHAN SINGH APPOINTED AS CISF DG & ATUL KARWAL AS NDRF DG

·         Special Director in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) Sheel Vardhan Singh has been appointed as the new Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) DG (Director General) and  National Police Academy Director Atul Karwal has been appointed as the  National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) DG .

 

7.       FUMIO KISHIDA REELECTED AS PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN

·         Fumio Kishida leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has been reelected as the Prime Minister (PM) of Japan following the victory of the LDP in the 2021 Parliament election.

·         The LDP  has secured 261 seats in the 465 members lower house exceeding the parliamentary majority of 233 seats.

·         Fumio Kishida will succeed Yoshihide Suga who resigned as PM of Japan in September 2021.

·         The National Diet, the parliament of Japan, is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives, and an upper house, the House of Councillors.

 

8.       WORLD SCIENCE DAY FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT 2021 – NOVEMBER 10 

·         The United Nations (UN)’s World Science Day for Peace and Development is annually observed across the globe on November 10th to highlight the importance of science in society and the need to engage the public in the debates on emerging scientific issues.

·         The theme of World Science Day for Peace and Development 2021 is “Building Climate-Ready Communities”.

 

9.  UNESCO KALINGA PRIZE FOR THE POPULARIZATION OF SCIENCE

·         Jean-Pierre Luminet, astrophysicist and cosmologist from France has been awarded the 2021 UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science for promoting scientific research through a variety of media.

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