DAILY GK : 24, 25 JAN 2021
1. PLI SCHEME
• Central Government gave its consent for
first set of five pharma projects with the total committed Investment of Rs
3,761.17 crore.
• It was approved under the Production
Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for promoting domestic manufacture of bulk drugs
and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).
• The projects are related to the four
fermentation-based key starting materials which are all entirely imported now.
2. INDIA LARGEST
MULTI-MODEL LOGISTIC PARK
• A MoU was signed between the Gujarat
Government and Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) in the
presence of Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani in Gandhinagar to set up
India’s largest multi-model logistic park at Virochan Nagar near Sanand in
Ahmedabad district of Gujarat.
• The park to be developed in 1450 acre with
an estimated investment of Rs 50,000 crore will be completed in 3 years i.e. by
2023.
3. INDIA DIGITAL SUMMIT
2021
• 15th Edition of India Digital Summit 2021
(IDS 2021) organized by Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) took
place.
• It was inaugurated by Ravi Shankar Prasad.
• Theme – ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat – Start of
New Decade’.
• During the event, the 11th India Digital
Awards 2021 were also announced.
• Digital Person of the year – Sanjeev
Bikhchandani
• Digital Startup of the year – Khatabook
• Digital Agency of the Year: Gold –
Wunderman Thompson, Silver – Kinnect, Bronze – WATConsult
• Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing
Federation Limited (AMUL) bagged 4 awards in the event.
4. TREATY FOR
PROHIBITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMES INTO FORCE
• ‘Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons (TPNW) adopted by the United Nations
(UN) General Assembly came into force it is the First ever International
agreement which prohibits Nuclear Weapons.
• The Treaty was Adopted in 2017 by the
United Nations General Assembly
• Development, Testing, Production,
Stocking, Transferring, using & threat of using Nuclear weapons.
• If any Nuclear armed states are joining
the treaty, a time-bound framework which leads to verified and irreversible
elimination of its nuclear weapons programme is provided.
• Until now 86 Nations have signed TPNW
& 52 have ratified it.
5. WORLD’S LARGEST
DERIVATIVES EXCHANGE TITLE
• In accordance with the Futures Industry
Association (FIA), National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE) remained the
world’s largest derivatives exchange for the second consecutive year in 2020 in
terms of number of contracts traded.
• On the other hand, World Federation of
Exchanges (WFE) has ranked it 4th in terms of cash equities by number of trades
for calendar year 2020.
6. MICHAEL AND SHEILA
HELD PRIZE 2021
• Indian mathematician Nikhil Srivastava has
been named as winner of Michael And Sheila Held Prize 2021 along with 2 other
mathematicians namely Adam W. Marcus(American)and Daniel Alan Spielman(US).
• The National Academy of Science(NAS) will
award the USD 100,000 prize at 158th NAS Annual Meeting.
• Reason for the Prize
• They solved the long standing questions on the Kadison-Singer
problem and on Ramanujan graphs.
• Papers on these questions were published
in 2015.
7. 1ST WOMAN
CHAIRPERSON OF BCCC
• Justice Geeta Mittal has been appointed as
the new chairperson of Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC) and
becomes the 1st woman chairperson of this council.
• She succeeds Justice Vikramajit Sen. She
served as the 1st woman Chief Justice(CJ) of Jammu & Kashmir HIgh Court.
• BCCC is the independent self-regulatory
body set up by the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) in June 2011 to examine
content related complaints of all non-news general entertainment channels in
India.
8. “SHRAMSHAKTI” DIGITAL DATA SOLUTION FOR
MIGRANT WORKERS
• Union Minister Arjun Munda, Ministry of
Tribal Affairs (MoTA) virtually launched a National Migration Support Portal
namely “Shramshakti” from New Delhi.
• Originally, the launch programme was held
at Panjim, Goa.
• The focus of the portal is the smooth
formulation of state and national level programs for migrant workers.
• The minister also launched a tribal
migration cell, a tribal museum at Goa and “ShramSaathi”, a training manual for
migrant workers.
9. BOOK -‘FLYING BLIND:
INDIA’S QUEST FOR GLOBAL LEADERSHIP’
• The book titled ‘Flying Blind: India’s
Quest for Global Leadership’ is authored by Mohamed Zeeshan, a foreign affairs
columnist, consultant and the editor-in-chief of Freedom Gazette.
• The book is published by Penguin Random
House.
10. BOOK -“TEN LESSONS
FOR A POST–PANDEMIC WORLD”
• Fareed Zakaria, a CNN host and one of the
“top 10 global thinkers of the last decade” (Foreign Policy), authored the book
titled “Ten Lessons for a Post–Pandemic World”.
• The book with 10 lessons includes the
acceleration of natural and biological risk, datedness of the political
categories, the rise of digital life, globalization and the developing world
order split between US and China.
11. DOOR DELIVERY OF
RATIONS UNDER PDS
• Andhra Pradesh(AP) became the first state
to launch door-delivery of rations under the Public Distribution System(PDS).
• The scheme will benefit 26,39,363
cardholders throughout the state.
• The scheme will cost an additional Rs. 830
crore per annum.
