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Daily G.K. - Top Stories

15 Sep 2021

DAILY G.K. TEST

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Japan, US, South Korea Urge North Korea to Return to Talks

  • Senior diplomats from Japan, the United States and South Korea urged North Korea to return to talks over its missile and nuclear development, a day after it announced it successfully tested new long-range cruise missiles, indicating an advancement of its military capabilities.
  • The three-way meeting in Tokyo was attended by U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Sung Kim, South Korea's Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Noh Kyu-duk and Japanese Director-General for Asian and Oceanian affairs Takehiro Funakoshi.
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ENVIRONMENT

India's Largest Open Air Fernery in Ranikhet

  • The country's largest open air fernery was inaugurated at Ranikhet in Uttarakhand's Almora district by well-known expert on ferns Nilambar Kunetha.
  • The fernery has been developed by the research wing of Uttarakhand Forest Department over a period of three years under the Centre's compensatory afforestation scheme CAMPA.
  • It has a collection of 120 different types of fern with only Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanical Garden and Research Institute (TBGRI), Thiruvananthapuram having a larger number of fern species.
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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

HCL, HANCOM Collaborate to Share Advanced Software Technology Solutions

  • HCL Technologies signed a pact with South Korean software company HANCOM Inc to share advanced software technology solutions and establish a mutual bridgehead for overseas expansion.
  • HCL Technologies will support training for software development at HANCOM's research and development (R&D) centre in India, which was established in 2016.
  • HCL will also share its development studio and provide HR support to meet demand and development capacity at the R&D centre.
  • The two companies also plan to cooperate on global market expansion.
  • This includes HANCOM's entry into Southeast Asian countries such as Taiwan, Vietnam and Bangladesh, Middle Eastern countries, and HCL Technologies' business expansion into the South Korean market.

HAL, Rolls-Royce Sign Pact for Make-in-India Adour Engine Parts

  • Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and Rolls-Royce signed an agreement for Make-in-India Adour engine parts to support the latter's international defence customer base.
  • Through this partnership, Rolls-Royce aims to strengthen the ecosystem for Adour engines in India by building on HAL's existing capabilities for manufacturing and supporting the Adour engines for Indian customers over several decades.
  • This follows the MoU signed by Rolls-Royce and HAL during the Aero India 2021 to establish an authorised maintenance centre for Adour at HAL to support international military customers and operators.

Tata Steel Commissions Carbon Capture Plant at Jamshedpur

  • Tata Steel has commissioned a 5-tonne-per-day (TPD) carbon capture plant at its Jamshedpur Works, making it the country's first steel company to adopt such a carbon capture technology that extracts carbon-di-oxide directly from blast furnace gas.
  • Tata Steel will reuse the captured CO2 on-site to promote the circular carbon economy. The project has been executed with technological support from Carbon Clean, a global leader in low-cost CO2 capture technology.
  • The carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) facility uses amine-based technology and makes the captured carbon available for onsite reuse.
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

ISRO's New Series of Heavy-lift Rockets

  • To attain total self-reliance in the launch of heavy satellites (weighing above 4 tons) and to meet future demands, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is working on a fleet of five new rockets. According to a senior official, the five Heavy-lift Launch Vehicles (HLV) are in their project report stage and in terms of design and appearance, these new fleet of rockets would be quite similar to the existing SSLV, PSLV and GSLV and GSLV Mk3 rockets, but they would be powered by even more capable, powerful and technologically advanced engines.
  • Presently, India pays and utilizes the services of Ariane-5, a foreign rocket, to launch satellites that weigh over 4 tons.
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SPORTS

Lanka Fast Bowler Malinga Announces Retirement

  • Sri Lanka pace veteran Lasith Malinga, who terrorised the world's best batsmen with his toe-crushing yorkers announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.
  • Malinga who was captain of Sri Lanka's 2014 T20 World Cup winning team, posted a message on his social media account announcing his decision.
  • Malinga had retired from Test and ODI cricket in January 2021 but was yet to call it quits from T20 internationals.

Joe Root, Eimear Richardson Named ICC Players of the Month for August

  • England Test skipper Joe Root and Ireland's Eimear Richardson were voted as the winners of the ICC Players of the Month for August 2021. Root was voted the ICC Men's Player of the Month for August for his consistent performances in the Test series against India that was part of the next cycle of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC).
  • In women's cricket, Ireland's Eimear Richardson has had a sensational August as well and was adjudged the ICC Women's Player of the Month for August 2021. During the ICC Women's T20 World Cup Europe qualifier, Richardson won the Player of the Tournament award for her superb performance with the bat and the ball, starting off against Germany, she returned figures of 2/6, as the Irish cruised home to a comfortable 164-run victory.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS

Sushmita Dev Nominated to Rajya Sabha

  • The TMC nominated Sushmita Dev, who recently joined the party after quitting the Congress, to the Upper House of Parliament.
  • Dev, who was one of the national spokespersons of the grand-old party and its women's wing chief, switched over to the Mamata Banerjee-led camp last month.
  • She has been assigned the job of looking after the party's functioning in Assam and Tripura.

PMK Walks out of AIADMK-led Alliance

  • The PMK exited the AIADMK-led front, announcing unilaterally that it would go alone in the rural local bodies elections, scheduled for October, in nine districts. It allied with the AIADMK for the 2019 Lok Sabha election and the 2021 Assembly election.
  • The elections will be held in Chengalpattu, Kancheepuram, Villupuram, Kallakurichi, Vellore, Ranipet, Tirupattur, Tirunelveli and Tenkasi.

West Bengal Advocate General Resigns

  • Citing personal reasons, West Bengal Advocate General (AG) Kishore Datta put in his papers abruptly.
  • He has been replaced by senior advocate of Calcutta High Court Gopal Mukherjee. Now, Mukherjee will represent the state government in various high-profile cases in the Calcutta HC, such as the post poll violence cases, Narada sting video case involving heavyweight Trinamool Congress politicians, the case over making Mukul Roy chairman of the PAC and so on.
  • The job of Advocate General is turning out to be an extremely slippery one for incumbents with four AGs stepping down from the office, one after another, midway through their terms.
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DEFENCE

India to Test Agni-V with Tech to Deliver Multiple Nukes to Different Targets

  • India is set to conduct the first user trial of nuke capable intercontinental-range ballistic missile (ICBM) Agni-V signalling its early induction in the armed forces. Elaborate preparation has started at a defence facility off Odisha coast for the mission by the Strategic Forces Command of Indian Army. As per the schedule the 5,000 km range missile is likely to be flight-tested on September 23.
  • Developed by DRDO, the missile is capable of hitting targets in all Asian countries and parts of Africa and Europe. With a wiring of around seven-km, the 17-metre long, 2-metre wide, three-stage, solid-fuelled missile can carry a payload of 1.5 tonne and weighs around 50 tonne. India is the eighth country to have intercontinental ballistic missiles after the US, UK, Russia, China, France, Israel and North Korea.
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PERSONS IN NEWS

Two Times Olympic Gold Medalist Yuriy Sedykh Passes Away

  • Double Olympic hammer throw gold medallist Yuriy Sedykh, a Ukrainian track and field athlete who represented the Soviet Union until 1991, has passed away. He set the world record for the hammer throw with a throw of 86.74 metres at the European Championships in Stuttgart in 1986 which is still not broken. He won his first gold medal at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and his second gold at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
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DAYS AND EVENTS

International Day of Democracy

  • September 15 is celebrated as International Day of Democracy after being established in 2007 through a resolution passed by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). In the words of the United Nations, International Day of Democracy provides an opportunity to review the state of democracy in the world. Democracy is as much a process as a goal, and only with the full participation of the international community, can the ideal of democracy be made into a reality.
  • In September 1997 the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) adopted a Universal Declaration on Democracy. That Declaration affirms the principles of democracy, the elements and exercise of democratic government, and the international scope of democracy.

Engineer's Day: India Celebrates M. Visvesvaraya's 160th Birthday

  • Every year on September 15, India along with Sri Lanka and Tanzania celebrates National Engineer's Day to recognise and honour the achievements of the great engineer M. Visvesvaraya.
  • This year marks the 160th birth anniversary of M. Visvesvaraya who was born on September 15, 1861, in the Muddenahalli village of Karnataka.
  • Popularly known as Sir MV, Visvesvaraya undertook many complex projects and delivered remarkable infrastructural results during his career. He patented and installed an irrigation system with water floodgates at the Khadakvasla reservoir near Pune to raise the food supply level and storage to the highest levels know as 'block system' in 1903.
  • An expert in irrigation techniques and flood disaster management, MV was not just a great civil engineer but also served as the 19th Diwan of Mysore from 1912 to 1919. While serving as the Diwan of Mysore, in 1915 he was awarded 'Knight' as a commander of the British Indian Empire by King George V.
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AWARDS AND HONOURS

Booker Prize Shortlist Unveiled

  • The 2021 Booker Prize shortlist, unveiled at a virtual event in London, includes six finalists for the prestigious award for works of fiction, with an equal male-female author split.
  • Indian-origin British novelist Sunjeev Sahota, who had made the longlist with his acclaimed immigrant tale 'China Room', missed out in the final running.
  • Sri Lankan Tamil author Anuk Arudpragasam made the cut with 'A Passage North'; South African author Damon Galgut for 'The Promise'; Americans Patricia Lockdwood for 'No One is Talking About this', Richard Powers for 'Bewilderment', and Maggie Shipstead for 'Great Circle'; and British-Somali author Nadifa Mohamed 'The Fortune Men'.
  • The shortlist was chosen from 158 novels published in the UK or Ireland between October 2020 and September 2021.
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GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND SCHEMES

Chhattisgarh Govt. Launches 'Millet Mission'

  • Chhattisgarh government launched the "Millet Mission" with the objective of making the state a millet hub of India.
  • Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel highlighted that, "like minor forest produce, the state wants to make small grain crops its strength.
  • To implement this mission, an MoU was signed between Indian Institute of Millet Research, Hyderabad and collectors of 14 Chhattisgarh districts under "Millet Mission".
  • Millet Mission initiative was launched with the aim of giving the farmers right price for small cereal crops and to provide them input assistance, procurement arrangements and processing. This mission also seeks to ensure that the farmers get benefit from the expertise of experts.
  • The districts in the state of Chhattisgarh that have been included under the mission include: Bastar, Kanker, Kondagaon, Sukma, Dantewada, Bijapur, Narayanpur, Balrampur, Rajnandgaon, Kawardha, Jashpur, Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi, Koriya and Surajpur.

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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION

IIT-Bombay Launches 'Project Udaan'

  • IIT-Bombay launched its "Project Udaan" on the occasion of Hindi Diwas.
  • Project Udaan was launched with the aim of breaking the language barrier that many students face while joining the institutes of higher education.
  • Project Udaan enables the translation of textbooks and other study material of the engineering and other streams from English to Hindi and other Indian languages. This project was envisaged by Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan from Department of Computer Science & Engineering in IIT Bombay. It is a donation based and Artificial Intelligence-based translation ecosystem. It helps in translating engineering textbooks and learning materials in one-sixth the time as compared to manual tasking. This machine translation will be aided by human effort.
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BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Manohar Lal Khattar Releases Book Titled 'Haryana Environment and Pollution Code'

  • Haryana Chief Minister, Manohar Lal released the book 'Haryana Environment and Pollution Code' compiled by former IAS officer and famous poet Smt. Dheera Khandelwal. The book will prove useful to the entrepreneurs, who were deprived of complete knowledge of laws and regulations related to the environment for setting up new ventures. Students, law researchers and practitioners will also benefit from this book.
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TOURISM AND HOTEL INDUSTRY AWARENESS

Egypt Opens Ancient Tomb of King Djoser

  • Egypt showcased an ancient tomb structure belonging to the cemetery complex of King Djoser, a pharaoh who lived more than 4,500 years ago, following extensive restorations of the site.
  • The structure, known as the Southern Tomb, is largely underground and includes a labyrinth of corridors, decorated with hieroglyphic carvings and tiles. A central funeral shaft houses a massive granite-clad sarcophagus from Egypt's Third Dynasty.
  • However, the pharaoh was not actually buried there but in the famed Step Pyramid nearby. The two structures make up part of the Saqqara complex near Cairo, one of the country's richest archaeological sites.
  • The Step Pyramid is the oldest known pyramid and one of the first examples of monumental architecture from the ancient world, according to UNESCO. It is believed to have been the inspiration for the Pyramids at Giza.
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