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Daily Current Affairs 26 July 2021
Kargil Vijay Diwas 2021
Kargil Day is celebrated on 26 July each year in India to commemorate the sacrifices made by Army personnel during the 1999 Kargil War.
The conflict, dubbed as ‘Operation Vijay’, was waged by India and Pakistan in the Kargil area of Jammu & Kashmir.
The Indian Army proclaimed a victorious conclusion to Operation Vijay on July 26, 1999, claiming victory after nearly three months of fighting on the snowy heights of Kargil. They retook the heights held by the Pakistan Army and raised the tricolour over the high-altitude area.
After the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war, the two nations rarely participated in direct armed confrontations, despite the fact that both countries have constantly attempted to control the Siachen Glacier by establishing military outposts on surrounding mountain peaks. This culminated in military clashes in the 1980s, which grew worse in the 1990s.
The nuclear tests undertaken by both India and Pakistan in 1998 exacerbated the situation. Just when it appeared that all was lost, both nations signed the Lahore Declaration in February 1999 to find a diplomatic resolution to the Kashmir dispute.
Bala Devi named winner of AIFF Women’s Footballer of the Year 2020-21
Bala Devi has been named as the AIFF Women’s Footballer of the Year 2020-21, with young gun Manisha Kalyan winning the AIFF Women’s Emerging Footballer of the Year 2020-21 Award.
This marks the third time that the mercurial forward has won this prestigious award, having previously won it two years in a row in 2014 and 2015.
Currently playing for Rangers Women’s FC in Scotland, Bala made her debut for the team in February last year and created history as she scored her first competitive goal for the team in December.
She remains the first Indian woman footballer to sign a professional contract in Europe.
Scientists developed materials that Self-Repair Mechanical Damages
Indian Scientists have developed piezoelectric molecular crystals that repair their own mechanical damage without the need for any external intervention.
Piezoelectric crystals are a class of materials that generate electricity when it undergoes a mechanical impact.
Devices that are used daily often break down due to mechanical damage, forcing users either to repair or replace them.
This decreases the life of the equipment and increases maintenance costs. In many cases, like in a spacecraft, human intervention for restoration is not possible.
The piezoelectric molecules developed by the scientists called bipyrazole organic crystals recombine following mechanical fracture without any external intervention, autonomously self-healing in milliseconds with crystallographic precision.
In these molecular solids, due to the unique property of generating electrical charges on mechanical impact, the broken pieces acquire electrical charges at the crack junction, leading to attraction by damaged parts and precise autonomous repair.
Tripura Agarwood Policy 2021
Agarwood based industry, its plantation, it’s sustainable harvesting, the Tripura government released the ‘Tripura AgarWood Policy 2021’, in order to promote Agar tree.
Tripura AgarWood Policy 2021 aims to double agarwood plantation by the year 2025. The policy attempts to make Rs.20 billion industry in the next 5 years.
Agarwood is an economically important and fast-growing evergreen tree species native to North East India. Apart from India, the Agar tree’s distribution ranges from the foothills of the Himalayas to Papua New Guinea.
The most expensive raw material in the world, fragrant Agarwood is formed due to complex biotic, abiotic and stress-induced resin on the Aquilaria trees. In the formation of oils, the wood of the tree must first become infected with mold named Phialophora Parasitica.
This fragrant dark resinous wood, Agarwood is used in incense, perfume, and small carvings.
It is said that the state capital of Tripura, Agartala has derived its name from Agarwood. Agarwood is described as a fragrant product of wealth and luxury in one of the world’s oldest written texts of Vedas.
Centre to connect all capitals of north eastern states with railway
Home Minister of India Amit Shah inaugurated the Inter State Bus Terminus at Mawiong located in the outskirts of Shillong city.
Mawiong is a Village in East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya. It falls under Shella Bholaganj Block.
The ISBT will be centre for economy. The ISBT was constructed with an estimated cost of about 48 crore rupees funded by the North Eastern Council under the DoNER Ministry at 90/10 pattern with the State Government.
The Central Government will connect all the capitals of the north eastern states with railway and air connectivity by 2023- 2024.
Bangladesh to develop alternative social media platform for Facebook
The government of Bangladesh is working to develop a social media platform named ‘Jogajog’ as an alternative to Facebook.
The ICT Ministry has taken the initiative in this direction to make the country self-reliant.
The platform will help the local entrepreneurs to create their own marketplace for sharing information and data without depending on any foreign platform.
The government is working to enhance the capacity of the video conferencing system ‘Boithak’ from 100 persons to 300 persons. The Surokha app for corona vaccination registration is being used successfully in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh’s folk singer Fakir Alamgir passed away
Fakir Alamgir, Bangladesh’s legendary folk singer has passed away at the age of 71. After the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, he emerged as a Gono Sangeet singer.
The singer was a key member of cultural organisations ‘Kranti Shilpi Gosthi’ and ‘Gana Shilpi Gosthi’ and played an important role during Bangladesh’s 1969 uprising.
During Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War, Alamgir joined the ‘Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra’ and performed frequently to inspire freedom fighters.
He also founded the cultural organization ‘Wrishiz Shilpi Gosthi’ in 1976, and also served as the president of Gono Sangeet Shamanya Parishad (GSSP).
Renowned Marathi poet Satish Kalsekar passed away
Renowned Marathi poet Satish Kalsekar passed away at the age of 78 following a heart attack.
He was mostly known for his work as a poet. His popular collections of poems are ‘Indriyopnishad’, ‘Sakshat’ and ‘Vilambit’.
Kalsekar was awarded with Sahitya Akademi Award in 2014 for his collection of essays ‘Vachanaryachi Rojanishee’.
Ganga heavily polluted with microplastics
The ‘Quantitative analysis of Microplastics along River Ganga’, a new study by Toxics Link has found heavy concentration of microplastics in the Ganga.
Among the range of plastic debris that is found in water bodies, microplastics are the most notorious because of their small size, on average microplastics are less than 5 mm in length or roughly equal to five pinheads.
Apart from humans, microplastics are harmful to marine species as well. More than 663 marine species are affected by marine debris and 11 percent of them are said to be related to microplastic ingestion, the study says.
Because microplastics are so small, they are ingested by marine habitants including fish, corals, planktons and sea mammals and are then carried further into the food chain.
In the case of humans, most of the microplastics can be found in food, water and food containers and their ingestion can cause health problems.
97th Amendment dealing with co-operative societies
The Supreme Court struck down certain provisions of the Constitution (97th Amendment) Act, 2011 in so far as it introduced clauses dealing with the working of cooperative societies working within a state.
Recognising that ‘cooperative societies’ came under Entry 32 of the State List in the Seventh Schedule, the Amendment proposed to create a framework for the functioning of cooperative societies.
It introduced Part IXB in the Constitution so that the concept of cooperative societies gains constitutional recognition.
The idea was to empower Parliament to frame laws for cooperative societies that function across States (multi-State cooperative societies) and State legislatures to make laws for all other cooperative societies falling under their jurisdiction.
The Amendment set out basic rules such as
- a maximum of 21 directors in a society,
- a fixed term of five years for elected members,
- a six-month cap on the time limit for which a society’s board of directors can be kept under supersession or suspension, and
- reservation of one seat for the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes, and two seats for women on the board of every cooperative society, that is, every society that has members from these sections.
262 Taliban Terrorists Killed in Afghanistan in 24 Hours
The Afghan security forces killed 262 Taliban terrorists in a span of 24 hours. 176 Taliban terrorists were injured during the operations by Afghan forces and 21 IED bombs were defused.
The Taliban who refer to themselves as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), is a Deobandi Islamist movement and military organization in Afghanistan, currently waging war within the country.
From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban held power over roughly three-quarters of Afghanistan, and enforced a strict interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law.
The Taliban emerged in 1994 as one of the prominent factions in the Afghan Civil War and largely consisted of students from the Pashtun areas of eastern and southern Afghanistan who had been educated in traditional Islamic schools, and fought during the Soviet–Afghan War.
Under the leadership of Mohammed Omar, the movement spread throughout most of Afghanistan, sequestering power from the Mujahideen warlords.
PM Modi’s ‘Mann ki Baat’ generated over Rs 30.80 crore revenue since 2014
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ has fetched over Rs 30.80 crore as revenue since it began in 2014.
The ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme is broadcast through various channels of the All India Radio and Doordarshan.
This programme is also broadcast by approximately 91 private satellite TV channels on Cable and DTH platforms across the country.
According to data shared by the ministry in its reply, the programme fetched Rs 1.16 crore as revenue in 2014-15, Rs 2.81 crore in 2015-16, over Rs 5.14 crore in 2016-17, and over Rs 10.64 crore in 2017-18.
It generated Rs 7.47 crore revenue in 2018-19, Rs 2.56 crore in 2019-20, and Rs 1.02 crore in 2020-21.
India gets its 39th World Heritage Site
India’s nomination of Rudreswara Temple, at Palampet, Mulugu district, near Warangal in the state of Telangana has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list.
The decision was taken at the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO.
The Rudreswara temple was constructed in 1213 AD during the reign of the Kakatiya Empire by RecharlaRudra, a general of Kakatiya king Ganapati Deva.
The presiding deity here is RamalingeswaraSwamy. It is also knownas the Ramappa temple, after the sculptor who executed the work in the temple for 40 years.
The temple complexes of Kakatiyas have a distinct style, technology and decoration exhibiting the influence of the Kakatiyan sculptor.
The Ramappa Temple is a manifestation of this andoften stands as a testimonial to the Kakatiyan creative genius.
The temple stands on a 6 feet high star-shaped platform with walls, pillars and ceilings adorned with intricate carvings that attest to the unique skill of the Kakatiyan sculptors.
Tap Water Supply Reached 66% Schools & 60% Anganwadi Centres
The tap water has been made in 6.85 lakh (66%) schools, 6.80 lakh (60%) anganwadi centres (AWCs)and 2.36 lakh (69%) Gram Panchayats and Community Healthcare Centres (CHCs) in villages across India.
To ensure clean tap water supply to children in schools, anganwadi centres and ashramshalas for their wellbeing and better health as envisioned by Prime Minister Modi, a campaign was launched to make provision of tap water supply in these institutions.
In Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Punjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, and UT of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, provision of clean tap water supply in all schools, ashramshalas and anganwadi centres have been made, despite Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown resulting into repeated disruptions.
Once schools and ashramshalas open, safetap water to children will greatly contribute in their better health, improved sanitation and improved hygiene.
Amit Shah launched the Green Sohra Afforestation Campaign at Sohra
Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched the Green Sohra Afforestation Campaign at Sohra (Cherrapunji), Meghalaya.
He gave the slogan “Evergreen Northeast”, underlining the importance of afforestation and tree plantation.
This afforestation campaign will be run by the Meghalaya Government with the help of Assam Rifles, this will greatly benefit eco-tourism and will also boost tourism in the state
The country is intact due to the paramilitary forces deployed to protect the borders of the country, since last two years they are also shouldering the responsibility of improving the environment
With the proposed action plan of Shri Modi at the Paris Agreement, the whole world is fighting against global warming and carbon emissions.
The history of Assam Rifles has been to complete whatever work has been given to them in 180 years, in time with full dedication.
