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Daily Current Affairs 23 November 2021
Andhra Pradesh has been named as the best marine state in the country by the Department of Fisheries. Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying Parshottam Rupala announced the awards at a programme to celebrate World Fisheries Day in Bhubaneswar.
The Department of Fisheries under the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying awarded best performing States for 2021-22 on 21 November 2021 on the occasion of the ‘World Fisheries Day, to recognize their accomplishments in the field and their contribution into the growth of the sector. The awards were announced by the Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying Parshottam Rupala in Bhubaneswar.
List of Awards
Top States
- Marine states – Andhra Pradesh
- Inland states – Telangana
- Hilly and NE states – Tripura
Top Districts
- Best Marine District – Balasore in Odisha
- Best Inland District – Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh
- Best Hilly and NE District – Bongaigaon in Assam
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on November 21 inaugurated two new centres at IIT Guwahati. The new centres are the Centre for Nanotechnology (CNT) and the Centre for Indian Knowledge System (CIKS). The Minister also launched two hostels at the campus. Along with Union Education Minister, Assam Education Minister Ranoj Pegu and Member of Parliament Queen Oja marked their presence.
The CNT will work towards meeting future challenges and augmenting academic partnerships with industry in Nanotechnology. The Centre for Indian Knowledge System (CIKS) will focus on preserving, documenting and sustaining the knowledge that is unique to India, IIT Guwahati said. The top priorities include Indian classical music, Yoga, Sanskrit, traditional medicines, temple architecture, ceramic tradition and special agricultural practices of North-East India, among other things. The funding for the Centre came from Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
Chennai: The 20th edition of CONNECT 2021, the flagship event of the Confederation of Indian Industry with an aim to take the state’s GDP to US$ 1 trillion by 2030, will be held in Chennai from November 26 to 27. Connect is an international conference and exhibition on information & communication technology (ICT).
CII Tamil Nadu President S Chandrakumar said Chief Minister MK Stalin would inaugurate the event on November 26 and the theme would be “Building a Sustainable Deep Technology”.
This year’s CII Connect aims at deliberating on the theme of “Building a Sustainable Deep T’ech’N’ology Ecosystem”.
The event will be inaugurated by the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on November 26, 2021. Australia and the United Kingdom are the partner countries for the event. The flagship event of CII is hosted by the Government of Tamil Nadu and co-hosted by Software Technology Parks of India and the Union Ministry of Electronics and Telecommunications.
El Salvador is mulling to build the world’s first ‘Bitcoin City.’ Making an official announcement in this regard, President Nayib Bukele said that El Salvador’s ‘Bitcoin City’ plan will be funded initially by bitcoin bonds. doubling down on the country’s bet on the cryptocurrency.
It would get geothermal power from a volcano. Bitcoin City will not levy any taxes except for value-added tax (VAT). One-half of this VAT levied will be used to fund the bonds issued to build the city and the next half would be used to pay for services such as garbage collection.
The Russian military carried out another successful test of its Zircon hypersonic cruise missile, one of the latest additions to the country’s arsenal of weapons called “invincible” by President Vladimir Putin. The missile was launched from the Admiral Gorshkov warship towards a test target set in Arctic waters of the White Sea in northern Russia.
The missile eliminated its target with a direct hit. Hypersonics can travel more than five times the speed of sound and are much harder to track and intercept.
Venezuela’s National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras – known as “El Sistema” – has set a new Guinness record for the world’s largest orchestra with 8,573 musicians playing together for more than five minutes.
The record was set by the country’s National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras, known as “El Sistema”. The previous record for an orchestra was made by Russia when 8,097 musicians played together in St. Petersburg.
Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), its the meeting of its Central Board of Trustees (CBT), has approved measures to invest up to 5 % of its annual deposits in infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs) and other alternative funds. This investment will offer diversification to the EPFO’s investment basket.
The CBT empowered Finance Investment and Audit Committee (FIAC) to decide upon the investment options, on a case-to-case basis, for investment in asset classes included in the Pattern of Investment notified by the Centre. However, the board has also decided to focus only on government-backed alternatives, which are category one funds like public sector InvITs and bonds. The AIFs are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
SBI Research has revised upwards India’s GDP growth projection to a range of 9.3%-9.6% for FY 22 (2021-22) as the country recorded only an 11% increase in Covid cases during July-September (Q3) 2021 period, second-lowest among the top 15 most affected countries.
Earlier this was estimated in the range of 8.5%-9%. The reason for the upward revision is the decline in the number of COVID cases.
Anita Desai has been awarded the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award for 2021 to recognize her long literary career which spans over 50 years.
Meanwhile, the Poet Laureate award for 2021 has been conferred upon Indian poet Adil Jussawala. Anita Desai is India’s one of the best-selling authors. Both these awards are presented to recognize exceptional work which has made a significant impact in the Indian literary field.
The Twelfth Edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest was organized from November 18th to 21st 2021.
The winners of the Tata Literature Live! Literary Awards
Tata Literature Live! First Book Award – Fiction
A Death in Shonagachhi by Rijula Das (Pan Macmillan)
Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award – Fiction
Asoca: A Sutra by Irwin Allan Sealy (Penguin Random House)
Tata Literature Live! First Book Award – Non-Fiction
Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought by Kavitha Iyer (HarperCollins)
Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award – Non-Fiction
Born A Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India by Ghazala Wahab (Aleph)
Tata Literature Live! Business Book of the Year Award
Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy by Tamal Bandyopadhyay (Roli Books)
Tata Literature Live! Publisher of the Year Award
HarperCollins
Books by Anita Desai
- The Artist of Disappearance (2011), Mariner Books
- The Zigzag Way (2004), Random House India
- Diamond Dust and Other Stories (2000), Vintage Books
- Fasting, Feasting (1999), Random House India
- Scholar and Gipsey (1996), Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Journey to Ithaca (1995), Random House India
- Baumgartner’s Bombay (1988)
- In Custody (1984)
Anita Desai Awards
| Awards | When |
| Padma Bhushan | 2014 |
| Sahitya Akademi Fellowship | 2007 |
| Benson Medal of Royal Society of Literature | 2003 |
| Alberto Moravia Prize for Literature (Italy) | 2000 |
| Shortlisted, Booker Prize for Fiction: Fasting, Feasting | 1999 |
| Neil Gunn Prize | 1993 |
| Shortlisted, Booker Prize for Fiction – In Custody | 1984 |
| Sahitya Akademi Award (National Academy of Letters Award) – Fire on the Mountain | 1978 |
| Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize – Fire on the Mountain | 1978 |
Japanese top-seeded Kento Momota has won the men’s singles title at the 2021 Indonesia Masters Super 750 badminton tournament. In the final match, Momota beat Anders Antonsen of Denmark by 21-17, 21-11 points. The US$600,000 tournament was held at Bali in Indonesia from November 16 to 21, 2021.
On the other hand, fourth-seeded An Seyoung of South Korea defeated top-seed Akane Yamaguchi of Japan 21-17, 21-19 and has won the title in women’s single category.
List of winners of 2021 Indonesia Masters
Men’s Single – Kento Momota (Japan)
Women’s Single – An Seyoung (South Korea)
Men’s Double – Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi (both of Japan)
Women’s Double – Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida (both of Japan)
Mixed Double – Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai (both of Thailand)
A working group constituted by the Reserve Bank of India on digital lending through online platforms and mobile apps has submitted its report. RBI had set a WG on Digital Lending including Lending through Online Platforms and Mobile Apps, with Jayant Kumar Dash, Executive Director, RBI, as the Chairman to study all aspects of digital lending activities in the regulated financial sector as well as by unregulated players.
The working group (WG) was set up on January 13, 2021, with Jayant Kumar Dash, Executive Director, RBI as the Chairman. In the near term, the WG suggested setting up a nodal agency in consultation with stakeholders to verify the technological credentials of the Digital Lending Apps (DLAs) of the balance sheet lenders and Lending Service Providers (LSPs) operating in the digital lending ecosystem.