DAILY GK 20,21 MAY

 DAILY GK 20,21 MAY

1.       POP-UP AIRPORT AIR ONE – WORLD’S FIRST AIRPORT FOR DRONES & FLYING CARS OPENED IN UK

·         The Coventry City Council and Urban-Air Port Limited, United Kingdom (UK) based Start-up parterened to set up the world’s first Urban airport Pop-up Air-One, for electric drones and flying cars in the city of Coventry, England.

·         The Pop up Air-One airport is designed to be fully autonomous and to integrate with electric vehicles to create a completely sustainable public transport network.

 

2.       INDIAN NAVY & DRDO SUCCESSFULLY TEST-FIRES FIRST NAVAL ANTI-SHIP MISSILE

·         The Indian Navy in association with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully test fired the first indigenously developed air launched Naval Anti-ship missile from a Seaking 42B Helicopter at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Balasore, Odisha.

 

3.       HANSA-NG – INDIA’S FIRST INDIGENOUS TRAINER AIRCRAFT

·         The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) designed and developed, ‘HANSA-NG’ the new generation two seater flying trainer aircraft was successfully completed in-flight engine relight test

·         Test held at the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR) facility of Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) at Challakere, Chitradurga district of Karnataka.

 

4.       GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT (GFPR)2022

·         The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) released ‘Global Food Policy Report (GFPR)2022- Climate Change & Food Systems’ stating the number of Indians at risk from hunger is expected to be 73.9 million by 2030 i.e. an increase by 23%; and 45 million by 2050.

·         With Climate Change (CC) effect, this number will change to 90.6 million in 2030, and 44.9 in 2050.

·         Globally 593.3 million people at risk of hunger by 2030 with CC as a factor, and 478.7 million by 2050.

iii.In the 2021 Global Hunger Index, India ranked 101 out of the 116 countries with a score of 27.5 (serious).

 

5.       NATGEO INSTALLED WORLD’S HIGHEST WEATHER STATION ON MT. EVEREST

·         The National Geographic Society has installed the ‘World’s highest weather station’ on Mount Everest at an altitude of 8,830 metres to automatically measure various meteorological phenomena. It was installed a few metres below the Summit point of 8,848.86 metres as the snow and ice on the summit are not suitable for fixing the equipment.

·         NatGeo Installed the World’s Highest Weather Station on Mt. Everest.The weather station is powered by Solar energy.

·         China has flown an airship named Jimu No.1 over Mt Everest at a record height of 9,032 metres in order to study the Atmospheric Composition Data and the Water vapour transporting process from the surface. 

 

6.       WORLD METROLOGY DAY 2022 – 20TH MAY 

·         World Metrology Day (WMD)  is annually observed across the globe on 20th May to create awareness about the Metrology, the science of measurement and its application. The day highlights the use of Metrology in scientific fields, innovation, industries, trading and other fields.

·         The theme for World Metrology Day 2022 is “Metrology in the Digital Era”