DAILY GK : 23 JAN 2021
1. KHELO INDIA ZANSKAR
WINTER SPORTS
• Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State
(Independent Charge) of Youth Affairs and Sports inaugurated the 1st ever Khelo
India Zanskar Winter Sports & Youth Festival 2021 at Padum in Zanskar of
Kargil, Ladakh UT.
• The Festival is the 1st of its kind to be
organized in Zanskar Valley, Ladakh.To
promote Zanskar as a winter Tourists destination.
2. NSDC PARTNERS WITH
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY
• National Skill Development
Corporation(NSDC) partnered with California State University, Long Beach
(CSULB) to fulfill the increasing demand for a digitally skilled workforce in
India.
• The initiative is led by eSkillIndia, the
digital skilling unit of NSDC.
• Under this partnership ,the platform of
CSULB – SkillsCommons and Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online
Teaching (MERLOT) will be integrated with NSDC’s eSkillindia.org, to encourage
e-learning among the youths of India.
3. IAF S-400 MISSILE
SYSTEM TRAINING IN MOSCOW
• India is set to send the first group of
Military specialists to Russia to train on operating the S-400 air Defence
system in Moscow.
• India will receive the first batch of the
S-400 by the end of 2021.
• In October 2018, India signed a 5.43
billion USD deal with Russia to procure five S-400, long-range air Defence
systems.
• S-400 was developed by Almaz Central
Design Bureau of Russia.
• It is an upgrade of the S-300 family of
surface-to-air missile systems.
• The all five s-400 delivery is expected to
be completed by 2025.
4. GOI INCREASED
AUTHORIZED SHARE CAPITAL OF PUNJAB & SIND BANK
• Government of India has increased the
authorised share capital of Punjab & Sind bank to Rs 10,000 crore from Rs
3,000 crore.
• The government in 2020 had approved to
infuse Rs 5,500 crore capital into the bank by preferential allotment of
shares.
• The fund was approved from Rs 20,000 crore
cleared by the Parliament in September 2020 to infuse capital in Public Sector
Banks (PSBs) as part of the 1st batch of Supplementary Demands for
Grants for 2020-21.
5. MONGOLIAN PM RESIGNS
OVER PROTESTS
• Ukhnaa Khurelsukh, Prime Minister of
Mongolia resigned following the public protest against the COVID-19 control
measures of the Government.
• The mongolian parliament dominated by
Ukhnaa Khurelsukh’s Mongolian People’s Party voted to accept the resignation.
6. HAL SUCCESSFULLY
TEST FIRES SAAW
• Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)
successfully Test Fired the Indigenous
Smart Anti Airfield Weapon (SAAW) from the Hawk-i aircraft close to the
coast of Odisha.
• It is the 1st Smart Weapon to be fired
from an Indian Hawk-Mk132.
• It has been developed by Research Centre Imarat (RCI), Hyderabad of
Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) under HAL’s Hawk-i
Program.
• SAAW is a precision strike weapon of 125
kg category and has a range of 100 kms
