Daily Current Affairs – 12 & 13 December 2021 | Gkseries
Current Affairs is the most important area in all competitive exams. But the difficulty level is very high. That’s why; many aspirants get confused, how to select Current Affairs for Preparation of Competitive Examination? In this Post, Daily Current Affairs 12 & 13 December 2021, we have tried to cover each and every point and also included all important facts from National/ International news that are useful for upcoming competitive examinations such as UPSC, SSC, Railway, State Govt. etc. Our gkseries team also provides Daily Current Affairs Quiz for these exams.
Daily Current Affairs 12 & 13 December 2021
Bharti Airtel and Invest India, National Investment Promotion and Facilitation Agency jointly launched ‘Airtel India Startup Innovation Challenge’ for Startups to develop solutions in 5G, IoT.
Under the Startup Innovation Challenge, early-stage technology companies are being invited to demonstrate differentiated solutions in areas such as 5G, Cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and digital entertainment.
Important For All Exam 2021:
Airtel Founded: 1995;
Airtel Headquarters: New Delhi, India;
Airtel Chairman: Sunil Bharti;
Airtel MD & CEO: Mittal Gopal Vittal.
Ahmedabad-based Balkrishna Doshi will receive the Royal Gold Medal 2022 by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the world’s highest honour for architecture. At 94, Doshi is being recognised for his career spanning seven decades, with over 100 built projects, across India.
The distinction, approved by Her Majesty The Queen and awarded each year since 1848, is given to architects or practices in recognition of a lifetime’s work and the impact on the evolution of the field and the built environment.
The 9th edition of India Skills Report (ISR) 2022, released by Wheebox, Maharashtra has retained the top position in the list of states with the highest poll of employable talent followed by Uttar Pradesh and Kerala.
The theme of ISR 2022 – ‘Rebuilding and Reinventing the Future of Work’. The India Skills Report is a comprehensive report on the future of work, education, and skills to match the demand and supply of talent in a growing India.
States with maximum hiring activity:
Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu are the 3 states that have a higher job demand.
Pune It is the city with the most employable resources, with 78% of the examinees having scored more than 60 percentile.
Top 5 states with highest employment:
| POST | STATE | EMPLOYABILITY% |
| 1 | MAHARASHTRA | 66.1 |
| 2 | UTTAR PRADESH | 65.2 |
| 3 | KERALA | 64.2 |
| 4 | WEST BENGAL | 63.8 |
| 5 | KARNATAKA | 59.3 |
Federal Bank has joined hands with India’s first standalone health insurance company, Star Health and Allied Insurance Co Ltd as a corporate agent to provide a wide range of innovative health insurance products for the Bank’s 8.90 million customers spread over 1,291 banking outlets across the country.
The Bank’s customers can avail benefits of Star Health’s retail products and group affinity products through the bank’s various distribution channels which help the customers to address their complete financial needs under one roof. It is a partnership between a bank and an insurance company that would enable them to offer insurance products to the bank’s customers.
Important For All Exam 2021:
Federal Bank Establishment: April 23, 1931;
Federal Bank Headquarters: Aluva, Kerala;
Federal Bank Managing Director & CEO: Shyam Srinivasan;
Federal Bank Tagline: Your Perfect Banking Partner.
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day, commemorated each 12 December, is the anniversary of the first unanimous United Nations resolution calling for countries to provide affordable, quality health care to every person, everywhere.
International Universal Health Coverage Day aims to raise awareness of the need for strong and resilient health systems and universal health coverage with multi-stakeholder partners. Each year on 12 December, UHC advocates raise their voices to share the stories of the millions of people still waiting for health, champion what we have achieved so far, call on leaders to make bigger and smarter investments in health, and encourage diverse groups to make commitments to help move the world closer to UHC by 2030.
The theme of the day:
This year theme of International Universal Health Coverage Day is “Leave No One’s Health Behind: Invest in health systems for all.”
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully test-fired Pinaka Extended Range (Pinaka-ER), Area Denial Munitions (ADM), and indigenously developed fuzes. The test was conducted at Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the Odisha coast. A total of 25 enhanced Pinaka rockets were reportedly fired from multi-barrel rocket launchers (MRLs) at several ranges during the test. The range version can destroy the target of up to 45 km. At the same time, the flight path of these missiles was tracked by range instruments including telemetry, radar, and electro-optical tracking system deployed by ITR and Proof and Experimental Establishment (PXE).
The system has been designed by DRDO Laboratory Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE) along with High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL), Pune, the technology has been transferred to the Indian industry.
About the Pinaka-ER
The Pinaka-ER is the upgraded version of the earlier version which has been in service with the Army for the last decade. It has been designed in the light of emerging requirements with advanced technologies.
About ADM:
The ADM variants of munition designed by the Armament Research & Development Establishment (ARDE), Pune for Pinaka and manufactured by the industry partner were also successfully carried out at Pokhran range as part of performance evaluation trials under technology absorption.
Every year on December 12th, the International Day of Neutrality promotes the importance of peaceful, friendly, and mutually beneficial relations between countries. It was officially declared by a UN General Assembly resolution adopted in February 2017 and first observed on December 12, 2017.
History of the Day:
On 2 February 2017, the UN General Assembly adopted without a vote resolution 71/275 — introduced by Turkmenistan, recognized by the UN as a permanently neutral state since 12 December 1995, which noted the link between the preservation of peace and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and declared 12 December as the International Day of Neutrality.
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (Amendment) Bill 2021 – The Rajya Sabha has passed a National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2021.
The Bill declares six additional National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research as Institutions of National Importance. These institutes are located in: (i) Ahmedabad, (ii) Hajipur, (iii) Hyderabad, (iv) Kolkata, (v) Guwahati, and (vi) Raebareli. These institutes will start undergraduate and diploma courses and an advisory council will be created.
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2021
It aims to establish a Council to coordinate institutions’ activities and will also ensure the development of pharmaceutical education and research and maintenance of standards. It was introduced in Lok Sabha on 15 March, 2021 and later, it was thereafter referred to the Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers.
Indian Mathematician Professor Neena Gupta, a mathematician at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Kolkata was awarded the ‘Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries 2021’ for her outstanding work in affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, the Ministry of Science and Technology informed, adding that Professor Neena is the third woman to receive the Ramanujan Prize since its inception in 2004. Professor Neena Gupta, a mathematician at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Kolkata. She is the 3RD woman to receive Ramanujan Prize, which was first awarded in 2005 and is administered by Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics jointly with Dept Science and Technology and International Mathematical Union.
Neena Gupta’s journey as a mathematician: After graduating with mathematics honours from Bethune College, Kolkata, in 2006, Neena Gupta went on to complete her post-graduation from the Indian Statistical Institute.
Following her post-graduation, Professor Gupta pursued her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in algebraic geometry and in the year 2014 went on to publish her first research paper on Zariski’s ‘cancellation problem’. Her paper received an award and was widely recognised by other mathematicians.
Awards and Honours:
In 2014, Professor Neena Gupta had received the ‘Young Scientist award from the Indian National Science Academy, which called her work among one of the best done so far in algebraic geometry in recent years.
In 2019, Professor Gupta became one of the youngest people to receive the ‘Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize’ at the age of 35. She has successfully solved a 70-year-old mathematics puzzle – Zariski’s Cancellation Problem.
NITI Aayog has planned to establish 1,000 Atal Tinkering Laboratories in Jammu and Kashmir. Out of these, 187 will be established by the end of this financial year. It was conveyed at a high-level meeting headed by Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta to take stock of arrangements for opening Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATL) in various educational institutions of Jammu and Kashmir. The remaining 106 labs will be established soon
Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATL)
ATL is a sub-mission under Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) of Central Government in India. It is the flagship initiative of AIM, that seeks to nurture an innovative mindset amongst high school students across India. The main objective of the Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATL) initiative is to boost cognitive development in children where they are given avenues to experiment and widen their understanding of phenomena on scientific ideas.
Components Of The ATL
- Atal Tinkering Labs
- Atal Incubation Centres
- Atal New India Challenge
- Mentor of Change Program
- Atal Community Innovation Centre
- Atal Research & Innovation for Small Enterprises (ARISE)
Karnataka Bank has been awarded Two DigiDhan Awards established by the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The awards were given during the Digital Payments Festival in New Delhi.
The award recognized banks for achieving the target with the highest percentage in BHIM-UPI transactions under the private sector bank category consecutively for two years 2019-20 and 2020-21. Karnataka Bank has always been at the forefront of adopting the latest digital technology for its products so as to provide the best service to our customers.
Important facts for all competitive exams:
- Karnataka Bank Ltd Chairman: Pradeep Kumar Panja;
- Karnataka Bank Headquarters: Mangalore;
- Establishment of Karnataka Bank: 18 February 1924.