DAILY GK:27,28 MAY
1.
INDIAN NAVY – BANGLADESH NAVY BILATERAL EXERCISE BONGOSAGAR
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The 3rd edition of
Indian Navy (IN)-Bangladesh Navy (BN) Bilateral Exercise ‘Bongosagar 2022’ commenced at Port Mongla, Bangladesh.
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It consists of Harbour
Phase, and a Sea Phase in the Northern Bay of Bengal.
2.
ABHILASHA BARAK BECOMES 1ST WOMAN COMBAT AVIATOR IN THE
INDIAN ARMY
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Captain Abhilasha
Barak, (26 years old) from Haryana, has become the first woman combat aviator
to join the Indian Army Aviation Corps as
a helicopter pilot.
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She graduated at a
ceremony held at the Combat Army Aviation Training School in Nashik,
Maharashtra.
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The Army Aviation
Corps, raised in November 1986, operates ALH, Rudra helicopters (an armed
variant of ALH), Chetaks, Cheetahs and Cheetal helicopters
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In 2021, the Indian
Army has decided to allow women officers to opt for its aviation wing.
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Until now, the women
officers were assigned only ground duties in army aviation.
3.
NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT SURVEY (NAS) 2021
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The Department of
School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education has released the National
Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 report assessing the state of the School
education system in India.
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The report provides a
comprehensive evaluation of children’s learning competencies at classes III, V, VIII and X on subjects
such as languages, mathematics, and science with a cycle period of three years.
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The last NAS Survey was
conducted in 2017.
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The Survey saw
participation of about 34 lakh students from 1.18 lakh schools in 720 districts
from both rural and urban areas.
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The National average percentage of students
declined to 59 percent for Class third,
dropping by 10 percent to 49 percent in class fifth, 41.9 percent in class
eight and 37.8 percent in class ten.
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Among the States, Maharashtra scored above average with a
score of 59 percent in class 3 but it consistently dropped to 49 percent, 41
percent and 37.8 percent in class 5, 8 and 10 respectively.
4.
RBI CANCELS REGISTRATION OF 5 NBFCS
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The Reserve Bank of
India (RBI) in exercise of the powers conferred under Section 45-IA (6) (iv) of
the RBI Act, 1934 has cancelled the Certificate of Registration (CoR) issued to
the following five Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs).
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The non-bank lenders
whose registrations were cancelled by RBI on Wednesday include UMB Securities Ltd, Anashri Finvest Ltd, Chadha Finance Private Ltd ,Alexcy Tracon Pvt Ltd and Jhuria Financial Services Pvt Ltd.
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The RBI also revised
the ceiling on loans to individuals
for carrying out repairs/additions/alterations to their homes to Rs 10 lakh in metros from Rs 5 lakh;
and Rs 6 lakh in rural to and semi
urban areas from Rs 2 lakh earlier.
5.
BRICS’S NDB TO OPEN INDIA’S REGIONAL OFFICE IN GUJARAT
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New Development Bank
(NDB) formerly referred to as the BRICS(Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South
Africa) Development Bank, is set to open its regional office in India at the
Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), Gujarat
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Indian Regional
Office(IRO), in coordination with NDB Headquarters(Shanghai), will focus on
initial project preparation and technical assistance, pipeline development,
project implementation and monitoring as well as regional portfolio management.
6.
SBI INTRODUCES XPRESS CREDIT ON YONO
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The State Bank of India
(SBI) has launched the personal loan product ‘Xpress Credit’ for salaried
customers on its digital banking platform “YONO”.
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The eligible customers
can avail of personal loans,
Real-time Xpress Credit (RTXC), up to Rs
35 lakhs through the YONO app, without
any paperwork.
7.
KISHORE JAYARAMAN RECEIVES ORDER OF BRITISH EMPIRE AWARD
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The Officer of the
Order of the British Empire (OBE) was presented by the Queen of England to
Kishore Jayaraman, President of Rolls-Royce for India and South Asia region, for
his services to international trade
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About Kishore Jayaraman: Kishore
Jayaraman is a board member of the UK-India Business Council (UKIBC), a
non-profit organisation which supports setting up UK businesses in India.
8.
ANWAR HUSSAIN SHAIK IS NEW CHAIR OF WTO COMMITTEE
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An Indian Officer,
Anwar HussainShaik would take the role as the chair of the World Trade
Organisation’s Committee on Technical
Barriers on Trade from Elisa
Maria Olmeda de Alejandro from Mexico, after a gap of ten years.
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TBT Committee work involves two broad areas — review of specific measures and strengthening
implementation of the TBT Agreement.
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WTO is a 164-member
multilateral body which formulates rules for global exports and imports and
adjudicates disputes between countries on trade-related issues.
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India has been a member since 1995.
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Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.
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Director-General: NgoziOkonjo-Iweala.
9.
PARAM PORUL SUPERCOMPUTER INAUGURATED AT NIT-TIRUCHIRAPPALLI
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The supercomputer was
built based on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between NIT
Tiruchirappalli and C-DAC in order to establish 838 TeraFlops Supercomputing
Facility under NSM.
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PARAM PORUL is equipped
with a mix of Central Processing Unit (CPU) nodes, Graphics Processing Unit
(GPU) nodes, High Memory nodes, High throughput storage and high performance
Infiniband interconnect
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It works on Direct Contact Liquid Cooling Technology
to obtain a high power usage effectiveness and thereby reducing the operational
cost.
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So far under the National Superconducting Mission, 15
supercomputers have been installed across the nation with compute capacity of
24 petaflops.
10.
GOLF-JUSTIN THOMAS WINS PGA CHAMPIONSHIP 2022
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Justin Thomas, an
American professional golfer, won the 104th PGA Championship (2022) and claimed
his 2nd Wanamaker Trophy, defeating Will Zalatoris (America).
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The 2022 PGA
Championship was held in Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the
United States of America(USA).
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The PGA Championship is
an annual golf tournament conducted by the Professional Golfers’ Association of
America. It is one of the four men’s major championships in professional golf.
11.
PM NARENDRA MODI VISIT TO JAPAN FOR QUAD LEADERS’ MEETING
2022
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The Prime Minister (PM)
of India Narendra Modi visited Japan to participate in the 4th and 2nd
in-person QUAD (Quadrilateral) Leaders’ Meeting 2022 in Tokyo, Japan along with
the United States (US) President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.; and PM of
Australia, Anthony Norman Albanese.
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The QUAD countries are Australia, India, Japan, and the US.
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The meeting saw the
announcement of a Quad Climate Change
Adaptation and Mitigation Package
(Q-CHAMP) with ‘mitigation’ and ‘adaptation’ as its two themes.
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The QUAD nations also
announced the launch of ‘Quad Fellowship
program’ which will be offered by the Quad to students from four countries.
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The Government of India (GoI) and the Government of the US has signed an Investment Incentive Agreement (IIA) in Tokyo.
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QUAD was established
shortly after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004
to coordinate humanitarian assistance.
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The first QUAD Leaders’
Meeting held in March 2021, in-person Summit in Washington D.C., US in
September 2021; and virtual meeting in March 2022.
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It has also established six leader-level working groups
on the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, technology, cybersecurity, space and
infrastructure.
12.
INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
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The 2022 International
Booker Prize for Translated Fiction
was awarded to ‘Tomb of Sand’
written by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell.
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The book was originally published in
Hindi as Ret Samadhi in 2018.
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This is the first book
in any Indian language to win the prestigious International Booker Prize and
this is the first novel translated from Hindi to win the award.
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In 1997, Arundhati Roy
became the first Indian to win the Booker Prize for her novel, “The God of Small Things.”
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The International Booker Prize was instituted in 2005 as the “Man BookerInternational Prize” and is
awarded every year for a single book that is translated into English and
published in the UK or Ireland.
13.
‘INS NIRDESHAK’ INDIAN NAVY’S SURVEY VESSEL LAUNCHED BY
GRSE
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The second of the four
Survey Vessels (Large) (SVL) ‘Nirdeshak’
(Yard 3026), was launched at Kattupalli, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
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The ship was built by
Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) in collaboration with L&T
Shipbuilding Limited for the Indian Navy.
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The first of class ship ‘Sandhayak’ was
launched on 05 December 2021 at GRSE, Kolkata.
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The new SVL ships will
replace the existing Sandhayak Class survey ships with new generation
hydrographic equipment to collect oceanographic data.
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The new vessel takes
its name from a former Indian Naval Survey ship, Nirdeshak, which was
decommissioned in December 2014 after 32 years of glorious service.
14.
INDIAN NAVY SUCCESSFULLY TESTS SURFACE TO AIR MISSILE SYSTEM
FROM WARSHIP
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The Indian Navy
successfully tested its ship-based surface to air missile system by taking down
a low flying target.
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The test fire took
place from Talwar Class Indian Navy warship – INS Teg.
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A surface-to-air missile,
also known as a ground-to-air missile or surface-to-air guided weapon, is a
missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft or other
missiles.
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SAM can be Long Range Surface to Air Missile (LRSAM)
and Medium Range Surface to Air Missile
(MRSAM).
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LRSAM: to defend against
any type of airborne threat including aircraft, helicopters, anti-ship
missiles, and UAVs as well as cruise missiles and combat jets.
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MRSAM: High-response,
quick reaction, vertically launched supersonic missile, designed to neutralize
enemy aerial threats – missiles, aircraft, guided bombs, helicopters.
