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Daily Current Affairs 11 June 2021
India commences export of 16 varieties of mangoes to Bahrain
Sixteen varieties of mangoes, including three GI certified Khirsapati and Lakshmanbhog (West Bengal), Zardalu (Bihar) are being exported to Bahrain in a significant boost to mango exports potential from the eastern region.
APEDA has been initiating measures to boost mango exports from non-traditional regions and states. APEDA has been conducting a virtual buyer-seller meet and festival to promote mango exports.
Mango in India is also referred as ‘king of fruits’ and referred as Kalpavriksha (wish granting tree) in ancient scriptures.
While most of the states in India have mango plantations, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh followed by Telangana, Karnataka and Bihar have major share in total production of the fruit.
Alphonso, Kesar, Totapuri and Banganpalli are leading export varieties from India. Mango exports primarily take place in three forms: fresh mango, mango pulp, and mango slice.
For the first time this season, India has shipped a consignment of 2.5 Metric Tonne (MTs) of Geographical Indication (GI) certified Banganapalli and other variety Survarnarekha mangoes sourced from farmers in Krishna and Chittoor districts of Andhra Pradesh to South Korea.
CESL signed MoU with Ladakh to make the Union Territory carbon neutral
Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL) and the Administration of Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to make it a clean and green UT.
Under the MoU, various clean energy and energy efficiency programmes will be implemented such as solar mini and micro grid solutions, energy efficient lighting, energy storage-based solutions, efficient cooking stoves and electric mobility solutions in the UT.
PM Modi, in his Independence Day speech of 2020, said that the Ladakh, Leh and Kargil region will be developed and declared to be a carbon neutral region, a first in the contry.
While the concept of carbon neutral villages have been considered in India in the past and some villages in Kerala and Manipur have adopted it, this will be the first large region to be carbon neutral.
India exports 24 metric tonne of groundnuts to Nepal
A consignment of 24 metric tonnes (MT) of groundnuts was exported to Nepal from West Bengal by opening a window of possibilities of boosting groundnut exports from the eastern region.
According to the third advance estimates of oilseeds production by the ministry of agriculture and farmer welfare, the groundnut production in 2020-21 is estimated at 101.19 lakh tonne against 99.52 lakh tonne estimated in 2019-20.
Gujarat is the largest producer of groundnuts in the country, which is followed by Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Rajasthan.
The crop is grown in both Kharif and Rabi seasons. The Kharif season has a share of more than 75% of the total production.
Traditionally, Gujarat and Rajasthan have a major share in groundnut exports. The groundnut exports from West Bengal would boost exports potential of the crop from the eastern region.
Rengma Nagas demand autonomous district council
The Rengma Nagas in Assam are demanding an autonomous district council amid a decision by the Central and the State governments to upgrade the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) into a territorial council.
Rengma is a Naga tribe found in Nagaland and Assam states of India.
According to the 2011 Population Census of India, Rengma population stands at 62,951.
The harvest festival of the Rengmas is called Ngada. It is an eight-day Ngada festival that marks the end of the agricultural season. Ngadah is celebrated just after the harvest, towards the end of November.
Thousands of fake online pharmacies shut down in INTERPOL operation
The operation coordinated by INTERPOL involved police, customs and health regulatory authorities from 92 countries resulted in 113,020 web links including websites and online marketplaces being closed down or removed, the highest number since the first Operation Pangea in 2008.
Indian agencies also participated in the operation, said an official of the Central Bureau of Investigation that is the nodal body for the Interpol in the country.
It resulted in 1.1 Lakh web links including websites and online marketplaces being closed down or removed, the highest number since the first Operation Pangea in 2008.
Raising public awareness of the potential dangers of buying medicines online was also part of Operation Pangea XIV.
RBI Deputy Governor Mahesh Kumar Jain got 2 years extension
The Reserve Bank has extended the tenure of Deputy Governor Mahesh Kumar Jain for two years.
Jain was appointed as deputy governor for three years in June 2018. Before joining the Reserve Bank of India, he was managing director of IDBI Bank.
The other three serving deputy governors are Michael Patra, M Rajeshwar Rao and T Rabi Sankar.
The Reserve Bank of India was established following the Reserve Bank of India Act of 1934. Though privately owned initially, it was nationalised in 1949 and since then fully owned by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. It’s Headquarters located in Mumbai.
The primary objective of RBI is to undertake consolidated supervision of the financial sector comprising commercial banks, financial institutions, and non-banking finance companies.
M R Kumar has been re-appointed as the chairman of LIC
MR Kumar has been re-appointed as the chairman of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) till March 13, 2022.
Kumar’s reappointment is crucial as the state-owned insurer is eying an IPO (Initial Public Offering) in the current fiscal year.
LIC is India’s 2nd-largest financial services institution with a Rs 31 lakh crore balance sheet, next to the country’s largest bank, State Bank of India (SBI), which has assets of Rs 39.51 lakh crore.
LIC earned Rs 57,958 crore first-year premium and Rs 1,20,317 crore single premium in FY20. Renewal premiums were Rs 2,01,113 crore.
These figures (including investment income) gave it net revenues of Rs 6.15 lakh crore. RIL reported Rs 3.65 lakh crore revenues in FY20. This shows the enormity of the task before LIC’s valuers.
About LIC
- Chairperson: M R Kumar
- MD and CEO: Siddhartha Mohanty
- Headquarters: Mumbai
- Founded: 1 September 1956
Rajasthan Govt approved Mukhyamantri Kisan Mitra Energy Yojana
The draft of the Chief Minister Kisan Mitra Energy Scheme has been approved by the Rajasthan State Government.
Under this scheme, farmers will get benefit in electricity bill and they will be given a grant of one thousand rupees every month in electricity bill.
The benefit of this scheme will be given to the metered agriculture consumers by the state government.
Central and state government employees and income tax payers will not be eligible for the agricultural consumer subsidy amount.
To take advantage of this scheme, the eligible farmers of this scheme will have to link their bank account with Aadhaar.
According to the PTI report, if a farmer consumes less electricity and his bill is less than one thousand rupees, then the difference between the actual bill and the grant amount will be deposited in his bank account.
3 Indian Universities Top in 200 QS World University Rankings
Three Indian Universities named Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, IIT Delhi and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru have been ranked in the top 200 of the QS World University Rankings 2022.
As many as 22 Indian universities featured in the top 1,000 WUR, in comparison to 21 in QS WUR 2021, 23 in 2020, 24 in 2019, and 20 in 2018.
Out of these, four made it to the top-1,000 club for the first time. These were Jawaharlal Nehru University (561-570), Pondicherry University (801-1,000), IIT Bhubaneswar (701-750) and Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (801-1,000).
Five institutions – IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Guwahati and Savitribai Phule Pune University – have achieved their best positions in five years in the latest rankings.
Meanwhile, Aligarh Muslim University, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham dropped from the top 1,000 and now rank between 1,001 and 1,200.
IIT Bombay, at rank 177, continued to be India’s best higher education institution for the fourth consecutive year and IISc remained the world’s top research university, maintaining a perfect score of 100 in the research metric.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) remained the top university for the 10th consecutive year.
The University of Oxford rose to the second rank for the first time since 2006, while Stanford University and the University of Cambridge shared the third spot.
Government announced fixed prices of COVAXIN for private hospitals
The government of India set the maximum price private hospitals can charge for the three COVID-19 vaccines currently available in the country.
The maximum price of Covishield for private COVID-19 Vaccination Centres (CVCs) has been fixed at Rs 780 per dose, while that of Covaxin is Rs 1,410 per dose and Sputnik V Rs 1,145 per dose.
The Serum Institute of India sells its Covishield to private hospitals at Rs 600 per dose (excluding GST) while Bharat Biotech has set the cost of its Covaxin at Rs 1,200 a dose for private establishments. Both vaccines are supplied to the central government at a cost of Rs 150 a dose.
Covishield has been developed by the Oxford-AstraZeneca and is being manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII).
Covaxin is an inactivated viral vaccine. This vaccine is developed with Whole-Virion Inactivated Vero Cell-derived technology.
Sputnik V is an adenovirus viral vector vaccine for COVID-19 developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology.
Allocation of 5 MHz spectrum in 700 MHz frequency band to Indian Railways
The government of India decided to allocate 5 MHz spectrum in the 700 MHz frequency band to the Indian Railways for improving its communication and signalling systems.
Indian Railways has envisaged to provide LTE-based mobile train radio communication on its route.
The Railways currently relies on optical fibre for its communication network but with the allocation of fresh spectrum, it will be able to use high-speed radio on a real-time basis.
Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time. It is also occasionally referred to as temporal frequency to emphasize the contrast to spatial frequency, and ordinary frequency to emphasize the contrast to angular frequency. The SI unit of frequency is hertz (Hz).
El Salvador becomes first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender
El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after the country’s Congress on June 9, 2021.
Cryptocurrency is a digital asset which works as a medium of exchange wherein individual coin ownership records are stored in the form of a computerized database.
It does not exist in physical form and not issued by central authority Bitcoin is the first decentralized cryptocurrency which was released in 2009.
Bitcoin is decentralized digital currency which lacks central bank or single administrator. It is sent from user to user on peer-to-peer bitcoin network.
A satoshi is the smallest unit of a bitcoin, equivalent to 100 millionth of a bitcoin. The Founder of Bitcoin is Satoshi Nakamoto.
El Salvador is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador’s capital and largest city is San Salvador.
Indian Navy conducted 31st edition of CORPAT Exercise with Thailand
The Indian Navy conducted the India-Thailand Coordinated Patrol (Indo-Thai CORPAT) with Royal Thai Navy on June 9.
As per the official statement, the Indian Naval Ship Saryu which is an indigenously built Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel, and His Majesty’s Thailand Ship Krabi which is an offshore patrol vessel, along with the Dornier Maritime Patrol Aircraft from both India and Thai Navy have been participating in the Indo-Thai CORPAT.
List of Exercises conducted by Indian Navy with other countries:
- Malabar Exercise: Naval Exercise between India, US, Japan and Australia
- Sri Lanka: SLINEX
- Russia: INDRA NAVY
- UK: Konkan
- France: Varuna
- Oman: Naseem-AL-Bahr
- Vitenam: Sahyog
- Singapore: SIMBEX
- Myanmar: IMCOR
BharatPe becomes ICC’s official partner till 2023
BharatPe has inked a three-year long deal to become an official partner with International Cricket Council (ICC) to promote the association across broadcast and digital platforms, as well as execute in-venue brand activations at all the ICC events until 2023.
Apart from integrated brand presence for BharatPe across a host of ICC events, this partnership will also enable the digital payments startup to roll out campaigns to engage with cricket fans and shop owners across the country.
Co-founded by Ashneer Grover and Shashvat Nakrani in 2018, BharatPe claims to have over 60 lakh merchants across 100 cities.
The company has facilitated disbursement of loans totalling over ₹1,600 crore to its merchants since launch along with point of sale (PoS) business processes payments of over ₹1,200 crore a month.
The company has raised close to $300 million in equity and debt, from investors, including Coatue Management, Ribbit Capital, Insight Partners, Steadview Capital, Beenext, Amplo and Sequoia Capital.
IIT-Kharagpur develops Early Cyclone Detection Technique
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, researchers developed Early Cyclone Detection Technique to strengthening of tropical cyclones in the atmospheric column prior to satellites over ocean surface in the North Indian Ocean region.
Researchers have devised a novel method using Eddy detection technique to investigate the formative stages and advance detection time of tropical cyclogenesis in the region.
Early detection of tropical cyclones has wide socio-economic implications. So far, remote sensing techniques have detected them the earliest. However, this detection was possible only after system developed as a well-marked low-pressure system over the warm ocean surface.
The method aims to identify initial traces of pre-cyclonic eddy vortices in the atmospheric column and track its spatio-temporal evolution. They used a coarser grid resolution of 27 kilometers for identification and a finer resolution of nine km to evaluate the characteristics of eddy vortices.
The study was conducted with cases of four post-monsoon severe cyclones — Phailin (2013), Vardah (2013), Gaja (2018), Madi (2013), and two pre-monsoon cyclones Mora (2017) and Aila (2009) that developed over North Indian Ocean.
India to install 20 GW of wind energy capacity by 2025
According to the India wind energy market outlook released by Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), India will install 20 GW of wind energy capacity over 2021-25.
Wind power generation capacity in India has increased in recent times. India’s total installed wind power capacity was 38 GW, as of February 2021.
It has fourth largest installed wind power capacity worldwide. Wind power capacity is spread across Southern, Western and Northern regions.
Cost of wind power is decreasing rapidly in India. Levelized tariff of wind power is Rs 2.43 per kWh in India in 2017 though, it increased to ₹2.77 per kWh in March 2021.
GWEC was established in 2005. It provides credible and representative forum for entire wind energy sector at international level.
Its mission is to ensure that, wind power is established as the leading energy sources in world, providing several environmental and economic benefits.
