📖 Exam Related Current Affairs with Static Gk : 10 February 2022
#English
1) Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) Chairman, Vinai Kumar Saxena has launched the country’s first Mobile Honey Processing Van at Village Sirora in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.
▪️Uttar Pradesh :-
Governor - Smt. Anandiben Patel
➨Chandraprabha Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Dudhwa National Park
➨National Chambal Sanctuary
➨Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar Lake
➨Kashi Vishwanath Temple
2) Indian documentary “Writing With Fire” has been nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category at the 94th edition of the Academy Awards.
3) An Alliance Air flight from Mumbai to Gujarat's Bhuj with 70 on board flew without its engine cover, which was later retrieved from the runway. The Alliance Air ATR 72-600 aircraft landed safely at Bhuj in Gujarat.
4) The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has bagged the prestigious SKOCH Silver Award in the "Power & Energy" category.
➨Instituted in 2003, SKOCH Award salutes people, projects and institutions that go the extra mile to make India a better nation.
5) Jammu & Kashmir has become the first Union Territory to be onboarded on the National Single Window System (NSWS), a digital platform that helps investors get government approvals for projects.
➨ NSWS is linked with India Industrial Land Bank (IILB), which hosts 45 industrial parks of J&K.
▪️Jammu and Kashmir :-
➨L. Governor of J&K - Manoj Sinha
➨Rajparian Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Hirapora Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Gulmarg Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Dachigam National Park
➨Salim Ali National Park
6) The Union Cabinet approved phase 2 of the green energy corridor under an intra-state transmission system to facilitate grid integration and power evacuation of approximately 20 gigawatts of renewable energy projects in 7 states.
➨The scheme is expected to help achieve the target of 450 GW installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 and contribute to the long term energy security of the country.
7) Senior IPS officer Viresh Kumar Bhawra has been appointed as the new director-general of Punjab police.
➨Bhawra, who was the DGP of Punjab Home Guards, replaced officiating DGP Siddharth Chattopadhyaya.
8) The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the signing of Agreement between India and Spain on Cooperation and Mutual Assistance in Customs Matters.
9) India is among the six Indo-Pacific nations participating in a multi-lateral anti-submarine warfare exercise in the Pacific Ocean.
➨ The Sea Dragon 22 exercise began in which the navies of US, India, Australia, Canada, Japan and South Korea are participating.
10) The Kerala-based lender South Indian Bank has won the UiPath Automation Excellence Awards 2021 for Best Automation under Crisis for Business Continuity.
11) Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi inaugurated the 9th edition of the North East Festival (NEF).
▪️Assam
CM - Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma
Governor - Prof Jagdish Mukhi
➨Dibru Saikhowa National Park
➨Kaziranga National Park
➨Nameri National Park
➨Manas National Park
12) Uttar Pradesh has been awarded the first prize in Third National Water Awards-2020 in the best state category, followed by Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu.
▪️ Rajasthan:-
Governor - Kalraj Mishra
➭Amber Palace
➭Hawa Mahal
➭Ranthambore National Park
➭City Palace
➭Keoladeo Ghana National Park
➭Sariska National Park.
➭ Kumbhalgarh Fort
▪️Tamil Nadu :-
➨ CM - M K Stalin
➨Sathyamangalam tiger reserve (STR)
➨Kalakkad Mundanthurai tiger reserve (KMTR)
#English
1) Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) Chairman, Vinai Kumar Saxena has launched the country’s first Mobile Honey Processing Van at Village Sirora in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.
▪️Uttar Pradesh :-
Governor - Smt. Anandiben Patel
➨Chandraprabha Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Dudhwa National Park
➨National Chambal Sanctuary
➨Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar Lake
➨Kashi Vishwanath Temple
2) Indian documentary “Writing With Fire” has been nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category at the 94th edition of the Academy Awards.
3) An Alliance Air flight from Mumbai to Gujarat's Bhuj with 70 on board flew without its engine cover, which was later retrieved from the runway. The Alliance Air ATR 72-600 aircraft landed safely at Bhuj in Gujarat.
4) The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has bagged the prestigious SKOCH Silver Award in the "Power & Energy" category.
➨Instituted in 2003, SKOCH Award salutes people, projects and institutions that go the extra mile to make India a better nation.
5) Jammu & Kashmir has become the first Union Territory to be onboarded on the National Single Window System (NSWS), a digital platform that helps investors get government approvals for projects.
➨ NSWS is linked with India Industrial Land Bank (IILB), which hosts 45 industrial parks of J&K.
▪️Jammu and Kashmir :-
➨L. Governor of J&K - Manoj Sinha
➨Rajparian Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Hirapora Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Gulmarg Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Dachigam National Park
➨Salim Ali National Park
6) The Union Cabinet approved phase 2 of the green energy corridor under an intra-state transmission system to facilitate grid integration and power evacuation of approximately 20 gigawatts of renewable energy projects in 7 states.
➨The scheme is expected to help achieve the target of 450 GW installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 and contribute to the long term energy security of the country.
7) Senior IPS officer Viresh Kumar Bhawra has been appointed as the new director-general of Punjab police.
➨Bhawra, who was the DGP of Punjab Home Guards, replaced officiating DGP Siddharth Chattopadhyaya.
8) The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the signing of Agreement between India and Spain on Cooperation and Mutual Assistance in Customs Matters.
9) India is among the six Indo-Pacific nations participating in a multi-lateral anti-submarine warfare exercise in the Pacific Ocean.
➨ The Sea Dragon 22 exercise began in which the navies of US, India, Australia, Canada, Japan and South Korea are participating.
10) The Kerala-based lender South Indian Bank has won the UiPath Automation Excellence Awards 2021 for Best Automation under Crisis for Business Continuity.
11) Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi inaugurated the 9th edition of the North East Festival (NEF).
▪️Assam
CM - Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma
Governor - Prof Jagdish Mukhi
➨Dibru Saikhowa National Park
➨Kaziranga National Park
➨Nameri National Park
➨Manas National Park
12) Uttar Pradesh has been awarded the first prize in Third National Water Awards-2020 in the best state category, followed by Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu.
▪️ Rajasthan:-
Governor - Kalraj Mishra
➭Amber Palace
➭Hawa Mahal
➭Ranthambore National Park
➭City Palace
➭Keoladeo Ghana National Park
➭Sariska National Park.
➭ Kumbhalgarh Fort
▪️Tamil Nadu :-
➨ CM - M K Stalin
➨Sathyamangalam tiger reserve (STR)
➨Kalakkad Mundanthurai tiger reserve (KMTR)
📖 Exam Related Current Affairs with Static Gk : 13 February 2022
#English
1) In a historic first, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) space observatory has detected the highest-energy light ever emerging from Jupiter.
➨ The light detected by the telescope is X-ray radiation and is also the highest-energy light ever detected from a solar system planet other than Earth.
▪️NASA :-
➨Headquarters - Washington, D.C.
➨Formed - July 29, 1958
➨Preceding agency - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
2) National Monuments Authority held the first ever global webinar on monuments protection.
➨ The webinar was organised in collaboration with Indian Council for Cultural Relations, on ‘Protection of the Monuments and their significance for the Preservation of National Heritage’.
3) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has asserted that the government’s inflation management is robust and the inflation rate stands at 6.2 percent despite the challenges posed by the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic.
4) Bharti-backed OneWeb announced the successful deployment of 34 satellites by Arianespace from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.
5) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) proposed to extend the term-liquidity facility of Rs 50,000 crore offered to emergency health services by three months till June 30, 2022.
◾️Reserve Bank of India:-
➨Headquarters:- Mumbai, Maharashtra,
➨Established:- 1 April 1935, 1934 Act.
➨ First Governor - Sir Osborne Smith
➨ First Indian Governor - Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh
➨Present Governor:- Shaktikanta Das
6) Tata Sons board has approved the re-appointment of Executive Chairman N Chandrasekaran for another five years.
➨He was appointed as the additional director of the company in 2016, a day after Cyrus Mistry was removed from the position of chairman.
7) World Radio Day is observed every year on February 13 to underline the importance of radio in modern world.
➨The Theme of World Radio Day 2022 is "Radio and Trust".
8) The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index 2021 was released. As per the index, India was ranked at 46th position with a score of 6.91 out of 165 countries.
➨ The ranking list was topped by Norway with the highest score of 9.75.
9) Minister for State for Education Dr Subhas Sarkar presented 5th National Award for Innovations and Good Practices in Educational Administration virtually.
➨The National Award or Certificate of Appreciation were presented to the selected District and Block level education officers from 29 states/ UTs of the country. This year, more than hundred officers received Award or Certificate of Appreciation.
10) Scientists in the United Kingdom have achieved a new milestone in producing nuclear fusion energy, or imitating the way energy is produced in the Sun.
➨The energy was produced in a machine called a tokamak, a doughnut-shaped apparatus, and the JET site is the largest operational one of its kind in the world.
11) Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari has been facilitated for the first time with the 18th late Madhavrao Limaye award in the category of Karyakram Khaasdar (Efficient Member of Parliament) for the year 2020-21.
12) Eminent industrialist and former chairman of the Bajaj group Rahul Bajaj passed away.
➨Bajaj was recipient of many awards, including the Padma Bhushan and honorary doctorates from many universities.
➨One of the most successful business leaders of India, Bajaj was elected to Rajya Sabha in June 2006 and remained a member till 2010.
13) According to the Law Ministry, Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari has been appointed Chief Justice of the Madras High Court.
➨ A communication to this effect was signed by the President of India and issued.
▪️Tamil Nadu :-
➨ CM - M K Stalin
➨Sathyamangalam tiger reserve (STR)
➨Kalakkad Mundanthurai tiger reserve (KMTR)
#English
1) In a historic first, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) space observatory has detected the highest-energy light ever emerging from Jupiter.
➨ The light detected by the telescope is X-ray radiation and is also the highest-energy light ever detected from a solar system planet other than Earth.
▪️NASA :-
➨Headquarters - Washington, D.C.
➨Formed - July 29, 1958
➨Preceding agency - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
2) National Monuments Authority held the first ever global webinar on monuments protection.
➨ The webinar was organised in collaboration with Indian Council for Cultural Relations, on ‘Protection of the Monuments and their significance for the Preservation of National Heritage’.
3) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has asserted that the government’s inflation management is robust and the inflation rate stands at 6.2 percent despite the challenges posed by the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic.
4) Bharti-backed OneWeb announced the successful deployment of 34 satellites by Arianespace from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.
5) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) proposed to extend the term-liquidity facility of Rs 50,000 crore offered to emergency health services by three months till June 30, 2022.
◾️Reserve Bank of India:-
➨Headquarters:- Mumbai, Maharashtra,
➨Established:- 1 April 1935, 1934 Act.
➨ First Governor - Sir Osborne Smith
➨ First Indian Governor - Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh
➨Present Governor:- Shaktikanta Das
6) Tata Sons board has approved the re-appointment of Executive Chairman N Chandrasekaran for another five years.
➨He was appointed as the additional director of the company in 2016, a day after Cyrus Mistry was removed from the position of chairman.
7) World Radio Day is observed every year on February 13 to underline the importance of radio in modern world.
➨The Theme of World Radio Day 2022 is "Radio and Trust".
8) The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index 2021 was released. As per the index, India was ranked at 46th position with a score of 6.91 out of 165 countries.
➨ The ranking list was topped by Norway with the highest score of 9.75.
9) Minister for State for Education Dr Subhas Sarkar presented 5th National Award for Innovations and Good Practices in Educational Administration virtually.
➨The National Award or Certificate of Appreciation were presented to the selected District and Block level education officers from 29 states/ UTs of the country. This year, more than hundred officers received Award or Certificate of Appreciation.
10) Scientists in the United Kingdom have achieved a new milestone in producing nuclear fusion energy, or imitating the way energy is produced in the Sun.
➨The energy was produced in a machine called a tokamak, a doughnut-shaped apparatus, and the JET site is the largest operational one of its kind in the world.
11) Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari has been facilitated for the first time with the 18th late Madhavrao Limaye award in the category of Karyakram Khaasdar (Efficient Member of Parliament) for the year 2020-21.
12) Eminent industrialist and former chairman of the Bajaj group Rahul Bajaj passed away.
➨Bajaj was recipient of many awards, including the Padma Bhushan and honorary doctorates from many universities.
➨One of the most successful business leaders of India, Bajaj was elected to Rajya Sabha in June 2006 and remained a member till 2010.
13) According to the Law Ministry, Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari has been appointed Chief Justice of the Madras High Court.
➨ A communication to this effect was signed by the President of India and issued.
▪️Tamil Nadu :-
➨ CM - M K Stalin
➨Sathyamangalam tiger reserve (STR)
➨Kalakkad Mundanthurai tiger reserve (KMTR)