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Daily Current Affairs 26 & 27 December 2021
M Venkaiah Naidu released a book titled “The Turnover Wizard – Saviour Of Thousands”
Vice-President of India M Venkaiah Naidu released the book titled “The Turnover Wizard – Saviour Of Thousands”, an autobiography of Arup Roy Choudhury, the former Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited and NBCC (India) Limited.
The book consolidates Arup Roy Choudhury’s learnings from life and brings out the management lesson from his life. The book is also endorsed by E Sreedharan, The Metro Man of India.
Aanchal Thakur won a bronze medal at FIS Alpine Skiing Competition 2021
Indian skier Anchal Thakur won her second international medal in alpine skiing at the FIS Alpine Ski Competition in Kolasin in Montenegro. She finished 3rd with an overall timing of 1:54:30. With this, Aanchal has become the first Indian Ski athlete to win two medals at the international level. Aanchal had earlier scripted history by winning India’s fi rst international medal in skiing in the 2018 Alpine Ejder 3200 Cup.
Croatia’s Dora Ljutic (1:50.61) won the gold medal while Cyprus skier Georgia Epiphaniou (1:52.71) clinched silver.
Malayalam Director KS Sethumadhavan passes away
Legendary Malayalam filmmaker K S Sethumadhavan, who created many classic movies based on established literary works passed away at his residence at Kodambakam Directors’ Colony on December 24, 2021, at the age of 90.
He directed over 60 movies in five languages including Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi during his career. He directed popular movies such as Odayil Ninnu, Anubhavangal Palichakal, Oppol, Aranazhikaneeram, Achanum Bappayum, etc. He has won 10 National Film Awards, 9 Kerala State Awards among others.
Paytm Payments Bank tie-up with MoneyGram to enable international fund transfer
Paytm Payments Bank has partnered with MoneyGram, a peer-to-peer remittance company to enable international fund transfer directly to Paytm Wallet.
With this partnership, MoneyGram users abroad can now transfer money to any full KYC-compliant Paytm Wallet. This is MoneyGram’s first mobile wallet partnership in India. MoneyGram transactions received digitally in India currently represent about 50% of all transactions received in the country. This is MoneyGram’s first mobile wallet partnership in India.
About the MoneyGram:
MoneyGram transactions in India received digitally currently represent nearly 50 % of all transactions received in the country. The number of transactions sent directly to bank accounts is up about six times from just under 10 % two short years ago.
ASIGMA: Indian Army launched in-house messaging app
Indian Army has launched a WhatsApp-like instant messaging application called ASIGMA (Army Secure IndiGeneous Messaging Application). A state-of-the-art, new-generation web-based application offers robust security measures to protect the chats. It is a new generation web-based application developed entirely in-house by a team of officers of the Corps of Signals of the Army. ASIGMA is being rolled out as a replacement for the Army Wide Area Network messaging application that has been used for the last 15 years. The application has been sent out on Army-owned hardware and will cater to the army from this time forward, lending itself to lifetime support with future upgrades.
Why Indian Army launch this app?
The messaging application is designed to meet all futuristic requirements for the army and boasts of an enhanced user experience. It comes with a variety of contemporary features including multi-level security, dynamic global address book, message prioritization, and tracking, and options to meet the requirements of the army at present. This future-ready messaging application will meet the real-time data transfer and messaging requirements of the Army, especially in the backdrop of the current geopolitical security environment. ASIGMA has been developed in line with the Government of India’s, Make in India initiative.
International Day of Epidemic Preparedness: 27 December
The United Nations and World Health Organization marked December 27 as the International day for Epidemic Preparedness. The Covid-19 pandemic brought to light the need for communities at local, national, and global levels to have systems in place to effectively deal with epidemics when they occur, but to also work towards preventing future epidemics.
Significance:
As per a WHO statement, the need of the hour is to invest in systems that can help detect, prevent and respond to outbreaks that have the ability to disrupt health systems, supply chains and livelihood of especially the poorest countries. The UN also aims at popularising the One Health approach that fosters the integration of plant health, human health and animal health along with other relevant sectors.
Indian Navy decommissioned INS Khukri after 32 years
India’s first indigenously built missile corvettes, INS Khukri (P49), was decommissioned after 32 years of service at Visakhapatnam on December 24, 2021.
INS Khukri was built by the Mazagon Dock shipbuilders on August 23, 1989. The ship was commissioned in Mumbai by Shri Krishna Chandra Pant, the then Raksha Mantri and Mrs Sudha Mulla, wife of late Capt Mahendra Nath Mulla. Commander (now Retired Vice Admiral) Sanjeev Bhasin was the first Commanding Officer.In her service to Indian Navy, the ship was commanded by 28 commanding officers. It traversed a distance of more than 6, 44,897 nautical miles, equivalent to navigating across the world 30 times or three times the distance between the Moon and the Earth. The ship was affiliated with the Gorkha Brigade of the Indian Army.
Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh announced retirement from cricket
Veteran off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who became the first Indian bowler to grab a Test hat-trick in a memorable international career, announced retirement from all forms of cricket, saying that he is finally communicating what has been on his mind for the past few years.
He took 417 wickets in 103 Tests and is the 4th highest wicket-taker for India in Test cricket. He made his debut to the national cricket team, during an ODI (One Day International) against New Zealand at Sharjah in 1998 and lastly represented India in 2016 during a T20 against the UAE at Dhaka, Bangladesh.
NASA’s launched world’s largest telescope named James Webb Space
NASA’s $10 billion telescopes James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope developed by NASA with contributions from the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The revolutionary world’s first-of-its-kind space-science observatory of the next decade will capture the earliest galaxies believed to have formed during the early universe’s formation. The new telescope will help scientists to probe the structures and origins of our universe and our place in it.
Dimensions of the telescope:
To discern the universe’s first, faint stars, Webb requires the largest mirror ever launched for astronomy. The mirror spans more than 21 feet (6.5 meters), yet is lighter than Hubble’s, which is 8 feet (2.4 meters) across. It is so large that it had to be folded to fit into the rocket.
Key Facts:
- Webb will be the premier space observatory for astronomers worldwide to extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the largest telescope ever placed in space and 100 times more powerful than Hubble.
- The telescope will peer back in time over 13.5 billion years to see the first galaxies born after the Big Bang. It will be the biggest telescope ever launched into space with a total mass of 6200 kg.
- Webb can see water vapour in extrasolar planet atmospheres.
- They detect the heat signature of a bumblebee at the distance of the moon and can see details of the size of a US penny at the distance of about 24 miles (40 km).
