Daily Current Affairs 1 September 2021 – Gkseries
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Daily Current Affairs 1 September 2021
National Nutrition Week 2021
National Nutrition Week is observed on September 1 to 7 each year to raise awareness around eating healthy and nutritious.
Nutrition is basic human necessity and a requirement for living a healthy life. A balanced diet is vital for growth, development, and an active life beginning at a young age.
It is the science that deals with all the many components of food and how adequate nutrition is achieved.
The theme of the 2021 National Nutrition Week is “feeding smart right from start”. The government has established a program to provide correct information and raise awareness through seminars and camps.
These help in imparting every child and citizen of India with knowledge on how children may benefit from a good nutritional diet, right from birth.
Airtel’s Rs 21K-crore fundraise key to expansion plan
The board of directors of Bharti Airtel has approved the company’s plan to raise up to Rs 21,000 crore by way of a rights issue.
Under Company Laws, a rights issue is one of the many ways in which a company can raise additional capital when they need it.
A rights issue gives investors the option, or a right to buy new shares of the company at a discount to the current market price.
Only existing shareholders of a company can participate in the rights issue. This means that instead of going to the general public at large, only the existing shareholders of the company can buy additional shares in the company if they so wish to.
Companies also declare a rights entitlement ratio when declaring a rights issue. For example, if a company declares an entitlement ratio of 1:4, it means that for every four shares that a shareholder already has, they can buy one more share in the rights issue.
Army endurance test that left a soldier dead
One soldier died and more than three dozen had to be hospitalised for heat stroke symptoms after taking part in a Corps Level Recce Troop Competition organised by the Army at the Mamum Military Station near Pathankot a week back.
The Mamun-based Infantry Division of the Army had organised a recce troop competition in which all armoured and mechanised units of the Corps were taking part.
The Division falls under Army’s 9 Corps, which is headquartered in Yol, a cantonment town in Kangra district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
The competition was being held to judge the skills and fitness of the soldiers who form part of the recce troop in every armoured regiment and mechanised infantry battalion.
Reconnaissance or recce troop is a section level sub unit in every armoured regiment and mechanised infantry battalion of the Army. A section means that it comprises approximately one officer and 30 jawans.
Latest technology to help utilise ground water for drinking
The latest state-of-the-art technology is being employed by Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) for mapping ground water sources in arid regions and thus help utilise ground water for drinking to supplement Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Har Ghar Nal Se Jal” scheme.
CSIR in collaboration National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) have undertaken High Resolution Aquifer Mapping and Management in Arid Regions of North Western India to augment the groundwater resources.
Heli-borne geophysical mapping technique of CSIR-NGRI provides high resolution 3D image of the sub-surface up to a depth of 500 metres below the ground.
This technique is cost-effective, precise and is useful to map large areas within a short time to map the vast extent of groundwater resources in arid regions of our country.
The entire work will be completed by 2025 with more than 1.5 lakh square kilometers of area with an estimated cost of 141 crore rupees.
The ultimate aim of this project is to map the potential sites for groundwater withdrawal and conservation.
Sumit Antil won F64 Javelin Throw gold medal at Paralympic Games
Sumit Antil set three world records on his way to winning the men’s Javelin Throw F64 gold medal on debut in the Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
He dominated the competition with the four best throws by any competitor, finally writing the world record at 68.55m with his fifth attempt.
India also won a silver and a bronze medal in the F46 Javelin Throw through Devendra Jhajharia (64.35m) and Sundar Singh Gurjar (64.01m) respectively.
Avani Lekhara, 19-year-old para shooter, made history on Monday by winning the elusive Tokyo Paralympic Games gold.
Government Inaugurated 132/33/11 Kv Mohanpur Sub-Station in Tripura
Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated the newly constructed 132/33/11 kV Mohanpur Sub-station in Tripura on 27th August, 2021.
This Sub-station has been constructed by Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID), a Maharatna CPSU under Ministry of Power, Government of India for Tripura under North Eastern Region Power System Improvement Project (NERPSIP).
NERPSIP is a Central sector plan scheme of the Ministry of Power, Government of India, envisioned to drive economic development of the North Eastern region of the country.
The scheme is being implemented through POWERGRID, for six beneficiary North Eastern states namely, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura.
The main objective of the project is Government of India’s commitment for the total economic development of North Eastern Region and to strengthen the Intra-State Transmission & Distribution Infrastructure in the North East region.
Website for round-the-clock accessibility of various online training courses on Earth Sciences
Geological Survey of India Training Institute (GSITI), Hyderabad, the training and capacity building wing of the Geological Survey of India (GSI), under the Ministry of Mines has recently launched its 24×7 website for round-the-clock accessibility of various online training courses on Earth Sciences to its stakeholders.
With the intent of providing induction-level orientation training to the new incumbents of GSI, the Training Institute was established in 1976.
Over the last 45 years, GSITI has expanded to nine (09) training sites of GSITI located at Hyderabad, Nagpur, Lucknow, Kolkata, Shillong, Raipur, Zawar (Rajasthan), Chitradurga (Karnataka), and Kuju (Jharkhand).
Hyderabad Centre, with a full-fledged campus of its own, is designated as headquarters for all other eight centres.
Amit Shah launched nutritious “Laddu Distribution Scheme” in Gandhinagar
Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched nutritious “Laddu Distribution Scheme” for pregnant women in his parliamentary constituency Gandhinagar.
Around 7,000 pregnant womenin Gandhinagar area will be provided 15 nutritious laddu each, free of cost, till birth of their child, through NGOs
There will be no expenditure by the Government, as the responsibility for this will be borne by the NGOs.
Eminent writer Buddhadeb Guha passed away
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed deep grief over the passing away of eminent writer, Shri Buddhadeb Guha.
Buddhadeb Guha (29 June 1936 – 29 August 2021) was an Indian writer of fiction in Bengali language.
His early life is depicted in his Rivu series. Some of the Rivu books are dedicated to friends from his youth.
He was also the creator of Rijuda, an imaginary character who explores jungles with his sidekick Rudra. The jungles that he wrote about were mainly in Eastern India. Guha received Ananda Puraskar in 1976.
China restricts children below 18 years to three hours per week of online gaming
In China, the children below 18 years of age will be restricted to play online video games for three hours per week, as per new regulations passed by the Chinese government.
The rules, published by the National Press and Publication Administration, said users under the age of 18 will only be able to play games from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. local time on those days.
Online gaming companies will be barred from providing gaming services to them in any form outside those hours and need to ensure they have put real name verification systems in place, said the regulator, which oversees the country’s video games market.
Previously, China limited the total length of time minors could access online games to three hours on holiday or 1.5 hours on other days.
The National Press and Publication Administration also told Xinhua it would increase the frequency and intensity of inspections for online gaming companies to ensure they were putting in place time limits and anti-addiction systems.