DAILY GK: 01 MAR 2022
1.
GOI HAS LAUNCHED “OPERATION
GANGA” TO RESCUE INDIAN CITIZENS FROM UKRAINE
·
The GoI has planned to help nearly 15,000 Indians to
reach India with the help of Air India flights.
·
With the help of International Committee of Red Cross
(ICRC) in Geneva, the GoI have guided the Indian citizens towards the border of
Ukraine.
·
Due to the closing of Ukrainian airspace, the Indian
evacuation flights are operating out of Romanian capital Bucharest and
Hungarian capital Budapest.
·
India is evacuating stranded Indians from Ukraine
through its land border crossings with Romania, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
·
The GoI will bear all the travel cost of the flights
for the Indian citizens.
·
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) also announced a
Twitter handle ‘Op Ganga Helpline’ to assist Indian evacuation.
·
Ukraine President –
Volodymyr Zelenskyy , Capital – Kyiv
2.
INDIA-JAPAN JOINT MILITARY
EXERCISE ‘EX DHARMA GUARDIAN-2022’
·
An annual joint military exercise, ‘EX DHARMA
GUARDIAN-2022’, between India and Japan is being conducted at Foreign Training
Node, Belagavi (Belgaum, Karnataka)
·
Participants India– 15th Battalion the Maratha
Light Infantry Regiment of the Indian Army
·
Participants Japan– 30th Infantry Regiment of
Japanese Ground Self Defence Forces (JGSDF)
·
The exercise is being conducted in India since 2018 to
enhance defence co-operation between Indian Army and JGSDF, and to further
foster the bilateral relations between the two nations.
3.
IIT MADRAS & NIOT
JOINTLY ORGANISED OCEANS 2022 IN CHENNAI, TN
·
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in
Chennai, Tamil Nadu (TN) and the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT),
Chennai, TN jointly hosted, for the first time in India, the OCEANS 2022
conference & Exposition in IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai, TN.
·
‘Inspire-Innovate-Sustain’ was the main theme of the
conference.
·
This event is for global maritime professionals,
technologists and engineers, students, policymakers to learn, innovate,
protect and utilise the world’s largest natural resource – oceans.
4.
GOVT LAUNCHES DOORSTEP CROP
INSURANCE DISTRIBUTION DRIVE ‘MERI POLICY, MERE HATH’
·
Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar
launched the central government’s ‘Meri Policy, Mere Hath’, a doorstep crop
insurance policies distribution drive under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
(PMFBY) in Sanwer tehsil of Indore district, Madhya Pradesh, to deliver crop
insurance policies to farmers.
·
PMFBY was launched on 18th February 2016 with an aim to
provide financial support to farmers suffering crop loss or damage arising out
of natural calamities.
·
The farmer can report crop loss within 72 hours of the
occurrence of any event through the Crop Insurance App, Common Service Centre
(CSC) or the nearest agriculture officer.
·
In Budget 2022-2023 Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
announced the use of drones for crop insurance.
5.
UNION CABINET APPROVES FDI
OF UP TO 20% IN LIC UNDER AUTOMATIC ROUTE
·
The Union Cabinet approved Foreign Direct Investment
(FDI) of up to 20 percent under the ‘automatic route’ in Life Insurance
Corporation (LIC) of India, ahead of the mega initial public offering (IPO)
of the LIC of India in mid-March 2022.
·
IPO – An IPO is the selling of securities (shares of the
company) to the public in the primary market (usually to institutional
investors and retail investors).
·
The current FDI policy which permits 74 percent foreign
investment under the automatic route in the insurance sector does not apply for
the LIC, as it is established and governed under the LIC Act, 1956, and
the law did not have any specific provision for foreign investment in the
insurer.
·
The current FDI policy allows FDI in the insurance
sector but as LIC being a statutory corporation, is not covered under either
“Insurance Company” or “Intermediaries or Insurance Intermediaries”.
·
LIC Chairperson – M R Kumar
6.
IISER’S PROF DEEPAK DHAR
BECAME THE FIRST INDIAN SELECTED FOR BOLTZMANN MEDAL
·
The renowned Indian physicist and Emeritus Professor at
the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
(IISER), Pune, Prof Deepak Dhar will be conferred the prestigious Boltzmann
Medal 2022 for contribution in the field of statistical physics.
·
He became the first Indian to be awarded the
Boltzmann Medal. He will share the medal with John J Hopfield of
Princeton University.
·
The Boltzmann Medal (or Boltzmann Award) is named after the
physicist Ludwig Boltzmann and awarded to physicists for contributing new
results in statistical mechanics and it was instituted in 1975.
7.
MADHABI PURI - 1ST WOMEN TO
BE APPOINTED AS SEBI CHAIRMAN
·
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has
approved the appointment of Madhabi Puri Buch as the Securities and Exchange
Board of India (SEBI) chairman for an initial period of three years from 1st
March 2022.
·
She will be the 1st woman to head the SEBI,
securities market regulator and she is also the 1st person from the private
sector to head SEBI and also 1st non-IAS to be appointed as the SEBI chairman.
·
She succeeds Ajay Tyagi, who served as a chairman for 5
years.
·
SEBI Establishment – 12th
April 1992 ,Headquarters – Mumbai, Maharashtra
8.
TENNIS: MEXICAN OPEN
CHAMPIONSHIP
·
The legendary Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal
defeated Cameron Norris of the United Kingdom in Mexican Open in Acapulco,
Mexico.
·
Nadal became the Youngest and the Oldest champion to
win the Mexican Open ATP.
·
Mexican Open ATP is also called Abierto Mexicano Telcel.
9.
MOSCOW WUSHU STARS
CHAMPIONSHIP 2022
·
Indian Wushu player, Sadia Tariq won a gold medal in
the Junior Tournament at Moscow Wushu Stars Championship 2022. The Wushu Stars
Championship is being held in Moscow, Russia .
·
Sadia Tariq is 15 year old player hails from Srinagar
in Jammu & Kashmir.
10.
WORLD NGO DAY 2022 –
FEBRUARY 27
·
World Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) is dedicated
to recognise, celebrate, and honour all non-governmental and non profit
organizations that contribute to society.
·
The universal concept of World NGO Day is to
‘Celebrate, Commemorate and Collaborate’ the NGOs across the globe.
11.
NATIONAL PROTEIN DAY –
27TH FEBRUARY 2022
·
National Protein Day is annually observed across India
on 27th February to create public awareness and educate India about the health
benefits of protein.
·
The theme of National Protein Day 2022 is “Food
Futurism”.
12.
NATIONAL SCIENCE DAY 2022 –
FEBRUARY 28
·
The National Science Day (NSD) is annually observed
across India on 28th February to commemorate the day (28th February 1928) on
which Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman(CV Raman) discovered the Raman
effect.
·
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1930) for his work
on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him,
‘The Raman effect’.
·
The theme of NSD 2022 is “Integrated Approach in
S&T for Sustainable Future”.
