Daily Current Affairs – 29 October 2021 | Gkseries

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Daily Current Affairs 29 October 2021

Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya has released Krishi UDAN 2.0, laying out the vision of improving value realization through better integration and optimization of Agri-harvesting and air transportation and contributing to agri-value chain sustainability and resilience under different and dynamic conditions.

The scheme proposes facilitating and incentivizing the movement of agri-produce by air transportation. It will open up new avenues of growth for the agriculture sector and help attain the goal of doubling farmers’ income.

Krishi UDAN 2.0 will be implemented at 53 airports.

Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) of the Department of Expenditure has approved the Rs 2,117 crore Nag River revitalization project in Nagpur, Maharashtra It was conceptualized by Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari.

This ambitious project includes the construction of three STP projects, a 500-kilometer sewerage network, a pumping station, and community toilets will be constructed. This project is proposed to be completed in 8 years.

The government has reconstituted the economic advisory council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) for a period of two years with Bibek Debroy as the head.

Other part-time members:

• Rakesh Mohan (Former deputy governor of RBI)
• Poonam Gupta
• TT Ram Mohan
• J P Morgan
• Sajjid Chenoy
• Neelkanth Mishra
• CEO Nilesh Shah

Council will analyses any issue, economic or otherwise, referred to it by PM, along with issues of macroeconomic importance.

EAC-PM: independent body, set up in September 2017 with a term of 2 years.

Ministry of Education has notified Four Year Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP). MoE notified about the dual-major holistic bachelor’s degree offering BA-Bed and BSc-Bed, which is one of the major important points of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 which is related to teacher education.

As per NEP, 2020, teacher engagement will be only through ITEP. It will be offered in pilot mode initially in about 50 selected multidisciplinary institutions across the country.

Supreme Court has appointed a three-member committee to look into allegations of unauthorized surveillance using Pegasus, spyware developed by Israeli firm NSO Group.

The three-member expert panel, supervised by a retired SC judge, will also ascertain details of people targeted by the military-grade Israeli spyware. Committee members: Naveen Kumar Chaudhary, Prabaharan P, Ashwin Anil Gumaste.

It will be supervised by retired judge Justice R V Raveendran. Justice Raveendran was part of the R M Lodha Committee appointed by the SC in 2015 to reform the BCCI.

Raksha Rajya Mantri Shri Ajay Bhatt flagged off the upcoming National Institute of Mountaineering & Allied Sports (NIMAS) multidimensional adventure sports expedition to Europe, in New Delhi on October 27, 2021.

NIMAS will conduct this expedition in Chamonix, France in November 2021, which is considered the adventure capital of Europe. Locations for the expedition are Alps Mountains; Chamonix; Normandy, English Channel. There will be hoisting/unfurling/displaying of Tricolour during in all these activities.

The government has reconstituted the seven-member Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) by inducting three new members while dropping economist V. Anantha Nageswaran from the council.  Bibek Debroy continues to be the Chairman of the Council.

EAC-PM has been reconstituted for a period of 2 years. Rakesh Mohan, Poonam Gupta, TT Ram Mohan, Sajid Chenoy, Neelkanth Mishra and Nilesh Shah are the other six members of EAC-PM apart from the Chairman (Bibek Debroy). EAC-PM was set up in September 2017 with a term of two years and it replaced the erstwhile Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (PMEAC).

The Indian Coast Guard received a shot in the arm with the commissioning and dedication of ICGS Sarthak– a 105 m long offshore patrol vessel (OPV) that was dedicated to the nation at the Goa Shipyard Ltd on October 28, 2021. It will be based at Porbandar in Gujarat.

The indigenously built ship was commissioned by the Director-General of Indian Coast Guard, K Natarajan, at Goa. ICGS Sarthak is fourth in the series of five Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) being built by Goa Shipyard Limited for the ICG, to boost maritime safety and security of India.

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya addressed the inaugural session of the CII Asia Health 2021 summit on October 28, 2021. The theme of the summit is ‘Transforming Healthcare for a better tomorrow‘.

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has organised the summit to provide a centralized forum to deliberate on the most critical challenges that India and the world face in delivering healthcare, with a focus on the digital transformations that result in improved patient outcomes and experience. The event was also attended by Dr. Vinod K Paul, Member, NITI Aayog, Dr. R.S. Sharma, CEO, National Health Authority along with the key officials of CII.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved the candidature of Baldev Prakash as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Jammu and Kashmir Bank for a period of 3 years from the date of taking charge or April 10, 2022, whichever is earlier, the bank said, reported Kashmir Reader.

The actual date of appointment of Baldev Prakash as MD & CEO of J&K Bank will be announced by the bank subsequently. Rajesh Kumar Chhibber is the present Chairman and Managing Director of J&K Bank. He assumed charge of the bank in June 2019.

The government of Jammu & Kashmir holds a majority shareholding of 68.18% in the bank. The headquarters of J&K Bank is located in Srinagar.

The finance ministry appointed veteran banker K.V. Kamath as the chairman of the newly constituted development finance institution National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID). Kamath is a well-known banker in India and is the first head of the New Development Bank (NDB).

NaBFID is a newly set up development financial institution (DFIs) in India. It has been set up for infrastructure financing as per the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID) Act 2021. The authorized share capital of the NaBFID is Rs one lakh crore. The initial paid-up capital of NaBFID is Rs 20,000 crore.

The headquarters of NaBFID is in Mumbai.

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has been re-elected for a second five-year term, winning 80.1% of the vote in Sunday’s poll which Western observers said was not truly competitive despite improvements brought by recent reforms.

Mirziyoyev took the office of President in 2016 following the death of longtime President Islam Karimov, Prior to being appointed as the President, Mirziyoyev served as the Prime Minister of Uzbekistan from 2003 to 2016.

Anita Anand, a Canadian politician of Indian origin, was appointed as the defence minister of the country on October 26, 2021, in Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet following a reshuffle, reported PTI.

She is only the second women to be appointed as Canada’s National Defence Minister, after Kim Campbell in the 1990s. The 54-year-old Anita Anand replaces long-time Indian-origin Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan. Anand is the second woman to serve as Canada’s defence minister, reported The Guardian. She previously held the portfolio of the procurement minister.

France successfully launched a military communication satellite, named Syracuse 4A, into orbit recently from Kourou, in French Guiana. The state-of-the-art satellite was launched on Ariane 5 rocket.

The satellite “is designed to resist military aggression from the ground and in space, as well as interference,” French air and space force spokesman Colonel Stephane Spet told AFP. The new satellite will allow the armed forces of France across the globe to communicate swiftly and securely. It is the first in the series of three Syracuse IV communication satellite being developed to improve French military satellite communications.

International Internet Day is celebrated globally on October 29 every year. International Internet Day is celebrated to commemorate a momentous day in the history of telecommunications and technology.

The ​day marks the sending of the first electronic message which was transferred from one computer to another in 1969. Charley Kline, a student programmer at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), transmitted the first-ever electronic message ‘LO’ on October 29, 1969. At that time the Internet was known as ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network).

Kline, who was working under the supervision of Professor Leonard Kleinrock, transmitted a message from the computer housed at UCLA to Bill Duvall who was using a computer positioned at the Stanford Research Institute’s computer.

The first International Internet Day was celebrated on October 29, 2005, to celebrate this momentous event in the history of telecommunications and technology.

World Psoriasis Day, observed on October 29, shines a light on challenges faced by those suffering from psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. The theme for 2021 World Psoriasis Day is “Uniting for action”. 

Throughout the world, 125 million people have psoriasis. In the United States, more than 8 million Americans have the disease. Up to 30 per cent of people who have psoriasis get psoriatic arthritis.