📖 Exam Related Current Affairs with Static Gk : 10 April 2021
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1) The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday launched its Artificial Intelligence portal: SUPACE (Supreme Court Portal for Assistance in Courts Efficiency).
👉Through this portal, the SC intends to leverage machine learning to deal with the vast amounts of data received at the time of filing of cases.

2) Four sailors from the country will compete at this year's Olympics after Vishnu Saravanan and the pair of Ganapathy Chengappa and Varun Thakkar made the cut for Tokyo at the Asian Qualifiers in Oman.
👉It is also the first time that India will compete in three sailing events in the Olympics.

3) India has the third highest number of billionaires in the world after the US and China, according to a new list by the prestigious Forbes magazine, which said Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani reclaimed his spot as Asia’s richest person, dethroning Chinese business tycoon Jack Ma who was the richest person in the region a year ago.

👉Forbes' 35th annual list of the world’s billionaires is topped by Amazon CEO and Founder Jeff Bezos for the fourth year in a row. His net worth is USD 177 billion, up USD 64 billion from a year ago as a result of surging Amazon shares.

4) Alfred V. Aho has won the AM Turing Award 2020 for his research and influential text books on fundamental algorithms and theory underlying programming language implementation.

👉 His books have educated generations of computer scientists.
👉The AM Turing Award is informally known as the "Nobel Prize of computing.

5) In a bid to give a fillip to digital payments banks, the Reserve Bank of India has hiked the maximum end of day balance for payment banks to Rs 2 lakh from Rs 1 lakh.
◾️Reserve Bank of India:-
👉Headquarters:- Mumbai, Maharashtra, 
👉Established:- 1 April 1935, 1934 Act.
👉 First Governor - Sir Osborne Smith
👉 First Indian Governor - Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh
👉Governor:- Shaktikanta Das

6) India hosted a Meeting of BRICS Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors virtually.
👉 The meeting was jointly Chaired by Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman and Governor, Reserve Bank of India, Shri. Shaktikanta Das. Participants included Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the BRICS countries.

👉 BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
👉 Russia hosted the most recent 12th BRICS summit on 17 November 2020 virtually due to COVID-19 pandemic outbreak

7) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to put in place a secondary market Government Security Acquisition Programme (G-SAP) 1.0 for orderly evolution of the yield curve amid comfortable liquidity.

👉The first auction under G-SAP aggregating ₹25,000 crore will be conducted on April 15, 2021.

8) Government appointed economic affairs secretary Tarun Bajaj as revenue secretary and brought in Bangalore Metro chief Ajay Seth as the new secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA).

👉 Bajaj, a 1988-batch Haryana-cadre IAS officer who has served in the PMO, has played a big role in the government’s ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ package.

▪️Ministry of Finance :-
Founded - 29 October 1946
Headquarters - New Delhi
Cabinet Minister - Nirmala Sitharaman

9) Bharti Enterprises Ltd and consumer durable manufacturer Dixon Technologies (India) Ltd have inked a pact to form a joint venture for availing the government's production-linked incentive (PLI) on manufacturing of telecom and networking products.

10) The Uttar Pradesh cabinet has approved the decision to bring in the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy (second) Ordinance 2021.
▪️Uttar Pradesh :-
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister - Yogi Adityanath
👉Chandraprabha Wildlife Sanctuary
👉Dudhwa National Park
👉National Chambal Sanctuary

11) Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha launched JK Public Works- Online Management, Monitoring and Accounting System (JKPW-OMMAS), besides two apps- 'Hamari Sadak' & 'Tameer Taraqqi' of J&K Public Works (R&B) department.

👉The online initiatives have been developed through the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and J&K e-Governance agency.
▪️Jammu and Kashmir :-
👉Rajparian Wildlife Sanctuary
👉Hirapora Wildlife Sanctuary
👉Dachigam National Park
👉Salim Ali National Park

12) INS Sarvekshak, a hydrographic survey ship, is on a deployment to Mauritius for undertaking joint hydrographic surveys along with their Mauritian counterparts. During the deployment, training of Mauritian personnel on advanced hydrographic equipment and practices will also be undertaken.

13) North Korea would not be participating in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics due to concerns over Covid-19.

👉This is the first time that North Korea will miss the Olympics since it boycotted the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.

👉 Tokyo Olympics are slated to be held from July 23rd to August 8th, 2021.

14) The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister is apprised of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL), Dept of Space, Government of India and Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan for Academic and Research Cooperation and Exchange on November 4, 2020 and November 11, 2020 at respective institutes and exchanged by post.
▪️Japan :-
Capital :- Tokyo
National language :- Japanese
Currency :- Japanese yen
Prime minister :- Yoshihide Suga

15) Ali Raza Rizvi will be the new Secretary in Department of Public Enterprises and Jatindra Nath Swain has been appointed Secretary, Department of Fisheries.
👉 Anjali Bhawra will be the Secretary, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities and Anil Kumar Jha will be Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

16) The centre has named S Ramann as Chairman and Managing Director of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI).
👉 The appointment is made for the tenure of three years from the date he assumes the charge of the new post until further orders.
▪️Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) :-
Founded - 2 April 1990
Headquarters - Lucknow

🧿 Important points on Buddhism 🧿
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🔹 Gautam Buddha attained enlightenment at Bodh Gaya in Magadha (Bihar).

🔹 Gautam Buddha delivered his first sermon at Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh. His first sermon is called Dharmachakrapravartan or Turning of the Wheel of Law.

🔹 Gautam Buddha preached most of his sermons at Sravasti.

🔹 Gautam Buddha attained Mahaparinirvana in 483 B.C. at Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh at the age of 80.

🔹 Five disciples of Gautam Buddha were Upali, Asvajit, Mogallana, Ananda and Sariputra.

🔹 Gautam Buddha was the founder of Buddhism.

🔹 Real name of Gautam Buddha was Siddhartha. He was also known as Sakyamuni or Tathagata.

🔹 Gautam Buddha was born in 563 BC at Lumbini (near Kapilvastu) in Nepal.

🔹 Gautam Buddha belonged to the Sakya clan of Kshatriya.

🔹 His father Suddhodana was the king of Kapilvastu.

🔹 His mother name was Mahamaya. She belong to Kosala dynasty. She died after 7 days of his birth.

🔹 Gautam Buddha was married to Yasodhara at the age of 16. He had a son named Rahula.

🔹 Gautam Buddha after seeing the "Four Passing Sights": an old crippled man, a sick man, a dead man, and a holy man with no home, decided to become a holy man and look for the answer to the problem of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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