Daily Current Affairs- 10 And 11 October 2021

Daily Current Affairs- 10th And 11th October 2021

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Headlines 1) Telangana Develops India’s first Smartphone-based eVoting Solution

2) Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary & Guru Ghasidas National Park Declared as

Chhattisgarh’s 4th Tiger Reserve

3) AirAsia India has become the first Airbus operator in the world to start Taxibot

services

4) Cyclone Gulab resurrected as Cyclone Shaheen

5) Assam Launched India’s First e-Fish Market app ‘Fishwaale’

6) Govt Launched Web Portal to Find Solutions to India’s Waste Problems

7) PM Modi inaugurates Azadi@75 Conference

8) Tata Power Signed Agreement with BluWave-ai

9) NTPC & Électricité de France Signed MoU

10) EaseMyTrip partners with Indian Pavilion to send 50k Indian to Dubai Expo

11) Telangana Celebrated Bathukamma festival

12) SBI Extends Partnership with TCS for 5 years

13) Tata Sons Acquired Air India

14) World Bank estimated India’s GDP Growth Forecast for FY22 at 8.3%

15) World’s Children Mental Health

16) India-UK Military Exercise Ajeya Warrior-2021

17) USIBC Presented 2021 Global Leadership Humanitarian Awards

18) UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award

19) FIH Hockey Star Awards

20) Mohamed Béavogui appointed as new PM of Guinea

21) Novel- “Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth”







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National News

Telangana Develops India’s first Smartphone-based eVoting Solution

• Telangana has developed the country’s first

smartphone-based e-voting solution.

• It will be tested in a dummy election in the

Khammam district of Telangana.

• An ‘expert committee’ formed under

Professor Rajat Moona, Director of IIT Bhilai

and Technical advisor to Election

Commission of India, and professors from IIT

Bombay and IIT Delhi.

Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary & Guru Ghasidas National Park

Declared as Chhattisgarh’s 4th Tiger Reserve

• Technical Committee of the National Tiger

Conservation Authority has declared the combined areas

of the Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary (Surajpur district)

and the Guru Ghasidas National Park (Koriya district) as

the 4th Tiger reserve of Chhattisgarh.

• The proposal was approved under Section 38V(1)

of The Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972

• The new tiger reserve covers an area of 1440 sq km

of Guru Ghasidas National Park and 608.5 sq km of Tamor

Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary.

• The Guru Ghasidas National Park is the last known habitat of the Asiatic cheetah in India. It was a part of

the Sanjay Dubri National Park was created as a separate entity in the Sarguja region of Chhattisgarh after

the formation of the state in 2001.

• The other tiger reserves of Chhattisgarh are Udanti-Sitanadi Tiger Reserve, Indravati Tiger Reserves, and

Amarkantak – Achanakmar Wildlife Sanctuary.

• Recently, Chhattisgarh recognized Community Forest Resource Rights in an urban area, making it the first







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state in India to do so. In this regard, certificates for the same were distributed during a program in

Raipur. The state has recognized forest rights of three wards in Nagari nagar panchayat of Dhamtari

district. The other area is Sitanadi Udanti Tiger Reserve across Dhamtari and Gariyaband districts.

AirAsia India has become the first Airbus operator in the world to

start Taxibot services

• AirAsia India has become the first Airbus operator in

the world to start Taxibot services with passengers on

board with a modified Airbus fleet.

• The airline has tied up with KSU Aviation

• Delhi International Airport Limited was the first

airport in the world that introduced Taxibot

• The Taxibot is a semi-robotic towbarless aircraft

movement device developed by Israel Aerospace Industries. It can tow an aircraft from the terminal gate

to the take-off point (taxi-out phase) and return it to the gate after landing (taxi-in phase) without utilizing

the aircraft engines.

AirAsia India

• MD & CEO-Sunil Bhaskaran

• Headquarters– Bengaluru

Cyclone Gulab resurrected as Cyclone Shaheen

• The Cyclonic Storm Gulab, which started in the

Bay of Bengal and affected the Eastern coast of

India (Odisha and Andhra Pradesh) made

landfall near Kalingapatnam town in Srikakulam

district of Andhra Pradesh.

• Cyclone Gulab re-emerged as Cyclone Shaheen

• The cyclone Shaheen affected the parts of

oman and Iran.

• Cyclone Gulab was named by Pakistan and the Cyclone Shaheen was named by Qatar.







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• Shaheen means ‘Royal white falcon’. Gulab means rose in Urdu/Hindi.

• The cyclones are named from the list of cyclone names that is maintained by the World Meteorological

Organisation/United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (WMO/ESCAP)

Panel on Tropical Cyclones (PTC).

Schemes And Portals

Assam Launched India’s First e-Fish Market app ‘Fishwaale’ • Assam Fisheries Minister Parimal Suklabaidya

launched India’s first e-Fish market application named

‘Fishwaale’.

• The app was developed by Aqua Blue Global

Aquaculture Solutions Pvt Ltd, in collaboration with the

Assam fisheries department.

• The app will facilitate the buyers and sellers to

place orders and sell fish online.

Govt Launched Web Portal to Find Solutions to India’s Waste Problems

• Government has launched a web portal named ‘Waste to Wealth’ to bring together technology providers, government stakeholders, urban local bodies and users on the platform to seek solutions for the waste problems of the country.

• The Mission is one of the 9 scientific missions of the Prime Minister’s Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisory Council

• The 9 missions of PMSTIAC include Natural Language Translation, Quantum Frontier, Artificial Intelligence (AI), National Biodiversity Mission, Electric Vehicles (EVs), BioScience for Human Health, Waste to Wealth, Deep Ocean Exploration, and AGNIi (Accelerating Growth of New India’s Innovations).

• The mission is headed by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA), Shailja Vaidya Gupta.

• Recently, The Ministry of Jal Shakti has launched a 100 Days campaign – ‘SUJALAM’ as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations to achieve Open Defecation Free Plus Status in villages across the country by undertaking waste water management at the village level.







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• The United Nations Development Programme, HDFC Bank and the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority signed an agreement to provide facilities to manage up to 300 metric tonnes of dry waste in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

Visit, Meetings And Conferences

PM Modi inaugurates Azadi@75 Conference

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated ‘Azadi@75

– New Urban India: Transforming Urban Landscape’ Conference-cum-Expo in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

• During the expo, the Prime Minister virtually handed over keys of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban houses to 75,000 beneficiaries in 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh.

• He laid the foundation stone of 75 Urban Development Projects of Uttar Pradesh under Smart Cities Mission and AMRUT.

• He also flagged off 75 buses under FAME-II for seven cities including Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Prayagraj, Gorakhpur, Jhansi and Ghaziabad.

Mou And Partnership

Tata Power Signed Agreement with BluWave-ai

• Tata Power company Ltd has signed a 3-year commercial agreement with BluWave-ai, the world’s 1st renewable energy Artificial Intelligence company.

• Through the agreement, Tata Power will work with the BluWave-ai cloud platform to generate intra-day and day-ahead dispatches for use in its day to day power scheduling operations.

Recent News:

• Tata Power Solar has received projects worth Rs.386 crore to build a 50MWp Solar Photovoltaic Plant and 50 Mwh Battery Energy Storage System project in Phyang village of Leh.

• IndusInd Bank has partnered with the TP Central Odisha Distribution Limited (TPCODL), a joint venture of







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TATA Power and the Government of Odisha, to introduce a fully digital network to enable digital payment of electricity bills across 300 semi-urban and rural regions of Odisha.

NTPC & Électricité de France Signed MoU

• NTPC Limited, formerly known as National Thermal Power Corporation Limited, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Électricité de France for cooperation in the development of International Power Projects in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and Africa.

EaseMyTrip partners with Indian Pavilion to send 50k Indian to

Dubai Expo

• Online travel firm EaseMyTrip has partnered with the Indian Pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020 to send across 50,000 people to the events there from India.

• Dubai Expo 2020 hosted by Dubai in the United Arab Emirates from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022.

• Recently, Ministry of Tourism has signed an MoU with Easemytrip, Clear Trip and Yatra.com to promote the tourism industry all over India.







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Festivals

Telangana Celebrated Bathukamma festival

• Bathukamma, a traditional Hindu festival celebrated in

the state of Telangana and in some parts of Andhra

Pradesh. Bathukamma means ‘Goddess of Life’.

• The Bathukamma festival celebrates the relationship

between earth, water and the humans.

• The festival is annually celebrated as per

Shathavahana calendar for nine days starting on

Bhadrapada Pournami also known as Mahalaya

Amavasya and concludes on Durgashtami.

• Day 1: Engili Pula Bathukamma

• Day 2: Atkula Bathukamma

• Day 3: Muddapappu Bathukamma

• Day 4: Nanabiyyam Bathukamma

• Day 5: Atla Bathukamma

• Day 6: Aligina Bathukamma

• Day 7: Vepakayala Bathukamma

• Day 8: Vennamuddala Bathukamma

• Day 9: Saddula Bathukamma







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Banking And Financial News

SBI Extends Partnership with TCS for 5 years

• State Bank of India extended its partnership with Tata Consultancy Services for another five years for TCS BaNCS which was launched in 2001.

• TCS is helping build Bharat Craft– an omnichannel, online B2B (Business to Business) e-commerce platform which would serve as a marketplace for MSMEs (Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises), jointly driven by SBI and the Government of India.

• CMD– Rajesh Gopinathan • Headquarter– Mumbai

• State Bank of India has raised Rs 4000 crores through the Basel Compliant Additional Tier 1 bonds at a

coupon rate of 7.72%, the lowest pricing ever offered on such debt, issued by an Indian bank since the implementation of Basel III capital rules in 2013.

• BLS International Services Ltd was selected as the National Business Correspondent the State Bank of India (SBI) to deliver banking services in urban, semi-urban and rural areas across India.

• State Bank of India has launched a ‘SIM Binding’ feature in its digital banking platform YONO & YONO Lite.

• State Bank of India selected Paisalo Digital as National Corporate Business Correspondent of the Bank. It has been selected to ensure greater financial inclusion and to increase the delivery of its financial services.

Tata Sons Acquired Air India

• Tata Sons Private Ltd subsidiary Talace Pvt Ltd has won

the final bid for acquiring national carrier Air India by submitting ₹18,000 crore bid.

• The airline Air India was established by industrialist and philanthropist JRD Tata (India’s 1st licensed pilot) in 1932 as the Tata Airlines and it was sold to the government in 1953.

• Air India is under a debt of over Rs 60,000 crore







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Tata Sons Private Ltd:

• Executive Chairman – N Chandrasekaran • Headquarters – Mumbai

GDP Forecasts

World Bank estimated India’s GDP Growth Forecast for FY22 at 8.3%

• World Bank released its report on South Asia Economic Focus titled ‘Shifting Gears: Digitization and Services- Led Development’ and has unchanged India’s GDP growth forecast for FY22 to 8.3 percent from its earlier estimate in June 2021.

Reports And Indices

World’s Children Mental Health

• Mansukh Mandaviya, the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare released UNICEF’s global flagship publication – ‘The State of the World’s Children 2021; On My Mind: promoting, protecting and caring for children’s mental health’.

• Around 14 percent of 15 to 24-year-olds (or 1 in 7) in India were reported feeling depressed or having little interest in doing things.

• The report was based on the survey conducted by UNICEF and Gallup in 21 countries (including India) in the first half of 2021.

• It is estimated that more than 13 percent of adolescents aged 10–19 live with a diagnosed mental disorder

• Anxiety and depression make up about 40 percent of the diagnosed mental disorders







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• Every year, almost 45,800 children and adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 die from suicide which is about 1 person every 11 minutes.

• As per the report the Under-5 Mortality Rate of India in 2019 was 34 and the Annual number of under–5 deaths in 2019 was around 824,448.

Defence News

India-UK Military Exercise Ajeya Warrior-2021

• India – UK Joint Company Level Military Training exercise Ajeya Warrior- 2021 was commenced in Chaubatia, Uttarakhand United Kingdom:

• Prime minister – Boris Johnson • Capital – London • Currency – Pound sterling

Awards

USIBC Presented 2021 Global Leadership Humanitarian Awards

• The United States -India Business Council has

presented the 2021 Global Leadership

Humanitarian Awards to Julie Sweet, CEO

and Chair of Accenture; Arvind Krishna,

Chairman and CEO of IBM; and Brad Smith,

President and Vice-Chair of Microsoft.

• Shiv Nadar, founder and chairman emeritus,

HCL Technologies and Mallika Srinivasan

Chairman & Managing Director of Tractors

and Farm Equipment Limited has been

named the recipient of the USIBC 2021 Global Leadership Award.







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UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award

• Jeel Albena Association for Humanitarian

Development a Yemeni humanitarian organization, has

been declared the winner of the 2021 UNHCR Nansen

Refugee Award.

• JAAHD is a humanitarian organisation that

provides emergency services to internally displaced

people in northern Yemen.

• UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award was established

in 1954 to honour the individuals, groups and

organizations who protect the refugees as well as displaced and stateless people.

• The award is named after Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian scientist, polar explorer, diplomat and first High

Commissioner for Refugees for the League of Nations.He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922.

• The award carries a cash prize of 150000 USD.

2021 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award Regional Winners:

• Africa : Roukiatou Maiga, President of Women’s Association Djam Weli, Burkina Faso. Diambendi

Madiega, farmer and practitioner of traditional medicine in Kaya, Burkina Faso.

• Asia: Dr Saleema Rehman, obstetrician and gynaecologist, is an Afghan refugee in Pakistan.

• Americas : Santiago Ávila, Director General of Jóvenes contra la violencia, Honduras.

• Europe: Nikola Kovačević, Human rights lawyer, Serbia.

FIH Hockey Star Awards

• The voting process consists of around 50 %

of the votes from national associations—

represented by captains and coaches, 25 %

by the media and the final 25 % by fans and

players.

• Only 79 of the 138 national associations

voted

• A record number of 3,00,000 fans cast their







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votes

Award Men Women

Player of the Year Award Harmanpreet Singh Gurjit Kaur

Goalkeeper of the Year Award PR Sreejesh Savita Punia

Rising Star of the Year Award Vivek Sagar Prasad Sharmila Devi

The Best Coach Award Graham Reid Sjoerd Marijne

Appointments And Resignations

Mohamed Béavogui appointed as new PM of Guinea

• The Interim Government of Guinea led by Colonel

Mamady Doumbouya has appointed Mohamed Béavogui a

former civil servant and expert in agricultural finance as

the New Prime Minister of Guinea.

• He replaces Ibrahima Kassory Fofana,

• Capital– Conakry

• Currency– Guinean Franc

Books And Authors

Novel- “Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth”

• African writer Wole Soyinka has authored a new

novel titled “Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest

People on Earth”.

• The novel is a political and social satire based on

the Nigerian elite political class.







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• He was awared Nobel Prize in Literature 1986

• He was the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize.

• The Interpreters, The Man Died: Prison Notes, Season of Anomy

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